The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. > NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDIIOR AND PROPRIEIOR OPFION N. J CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, THE DAILY HERALD, pudiished every day im heyear, Founcents per copy. Annual subscription price, @14. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We donot return rejected communicationa, JOB PRINTING @ every description, @leo Stereotyp- rg end Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the — = AMUSEMENTS Tili2 AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THRATRE, Broadway, street. —ALADDIN, THB near Broome Wowprerce Scamp—Cuvparutis. NRW YORK THEA‘ roadway, opposi' York + wolel_Bine OF Eamaae! ‘ Sci GERMAN OPERA, ic Theatre, Broadway.-Tax Figaro. aie bp: Manzo oF DOPWORTH'S HALL, 695 Broadway.—Prornsson, Hants wie Pees He Waster tue cas te teem Tus Invi ‘Tnio: KOS. Collaniinn Mosteis tums ktmorae Meceeae PO] Joret —! PA’ CRP AL: Srera, Binonwa, Daxouo an> ea. —Comurrre om Iupeacumenr. 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Fighth street—Dr. Hxsnarn's Iutusteatep Lrorures on likautu, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway. = Fear avo Riont Anw oF Vaoust—tie Wasnixerox ‘Twins—Wonpers 1x Naronat Tistory, ScueNce AND ART, Lecroays Daicx, Open from 8 A, di, till WP, M. DERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 845 Rroadway.—Graxp Exuimtion or Parxmixcs.—Rosa’ Bonueon’s Hower Fain, New York, Thursday, February 7, 1867. Tan NSW Ss. UROPE, By special telegram through the Atlautic cable, dated in London on the bth instant, we have @ description of ‘the scene which was presented in the House of Lords on the occasion of the opening of Parlinment by Queen Victoria, witha report of the unusual if sot ominous manner in which the royal cortege was received by the peoplo om its route from’ and return to Buckingham Palace. There wasnotacheor given for the Queen or Prince of Wales, but loud ones for roform. Tho military and police were chaffed and bantered by a crowd “ripe for mischief,” and i} was said that on the 11th instant tie Keformers would show the Queen a procession “worth seeing." Great preparations were being made fop thin important reform demonstration, Tho affmrs of the East are said to be more complica- ted, pacticularly in Servia, Constantinople and Egypt. Consols were at 90 11-16 in London on the Sth inst, in she evening, which is the latest date reported by the cable, w the New/oundland telegraph lines were ‘‘not working’”’ yesterday. United States Ave-twenties were at 72 7-16 in Loadon. Tho Liverpool cotton market closed irregu- tar and inactive. Breadstuifs were downward, * Pro- visions dull and quiet. | By mail we have very interesting details of our cable despatches to the $34 of January. The compilation showing forth the comments of the leading journals of Hrance aud England on Napoleon's reform measure, containg matter of much importance, CONGRESS. Yu @e Senate yesterday the Military Cominittes se- ported Mr, Wilson's bill for the temporary increase of (he pay et army officers. Bills wore introduced amend- ‘ng the act granting lands to the State of Kansas, fixing tue salaries of the Jadges of tho Suprems Courta in the Territories, and the time for choosing electors of President and Vice President, Mr. Dixon, of Connect ‘amt, offered @ bill which he intended as an amendment so Mr. Wade's constitutional amendment. The bill to sngulate the tenure of office was then called up, and, ater constderable discussion, the House amev@ment m- steding Cabinet officers among those whe cannot he re- ‘moved without the advice and consent of the Senate was disagreed to, The Senate soon after adjourned. in the House the bill amendatory of the acte respect - (og copyrights was passed. The Indian Appropriation Dall came up as unfinished business, and, after some iis- cussion, waa recommitiod, with instructions te exclude 8 appropriations not necessary to carry out treaty stipulations, or maintain Indians now in the custody of ‘the United States, Various executive documents were pmesouted. A large number of biila, reported irom the Committee on Military Adhirs, were disposed of, being mustly of a private or personal character, The bill to reguiate the civil service of the United States wes then taken under consideration, and, after species on the subject froma Messrs, Hubbard, Woodbridge, Jeuckes and otuers, it was laid upon the table, by @ vote of 72 yens to 66 vaya Mr. Stevens, from the Joint Committee on Re- construction, reported the dill to provide for the more etichent government of tue insurrectionary Statoa, whch roots each State into military district, to be com- manded by a brigadier general, A synopsis of the bill was givon several days ago. Mr. Stevens intimated that be woold probably demand a vote on it to-day, and the House soon after adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. tm tae “emate, yesterday, a dill fora raitroad in Chrsiophor and other strecta was reporied. Numerous bili of a private or local character were introducnd, and (he v1 amending the law relative to savings banks was paved The bill raising the salaries of the Taz Com- missioners was ordered toa third reating, and the bill creating the Commission on piers and wharves ta New York was referred back toe special committer. Tue Senate (non adjourned. Ia tho Assembiy a dill was reported to supply Brook- iyo with water, Bills were introduced to regulate the storage of petroleum; to suppress obscene literature, aud lo prevent obstractions im the streeta The resolu- tune appointing @ committee to investigate the manage- ment of the canals were adopted The bit! for tne better protection of female employés in New York was passed The Assembly soon after adjourned. THE CITY. At the regular meeting of the Board of Education fen, evening, the Finanes Commpitteo roported that the appropriations for school purposes for the eurrent year, socording to thelr estimate, will be $2,216,000. Tbe re- ort wae adopted. Tho comtuanication of the Police Commiseioners, in reply to interrogatories of the Legislature regarding the mest effective manner of preventing in this city, enpocially those of an incendiary origin, is published in our columns this Morning. The main suggestion te for S change io th® present mode of appointing w fire marshal award BR. Anthony bas resigned his position ar Vice Prosident of the San Insurance Compauy. The scrip. holders cuntond that ibe company shinld go inte imines diate liqnidation. Work was commenced on the Broadway actin) bridee yesterday, at the corner of Fulton street. lt will ve completed in about four weeks, The Rev. J, C. Fletcher last evening delivered an interesting teoture at the Detch Reformed chore Twoniy-aixth street, on “Two Thousand Miles Up the Atwanoo.”” There wae & large and appreciative andience present, ‘tho Legisiative commitioe charged with investigating the ferry systom beld their first mecting at the Brook. lyn Clty Hali yoatertay, when several prominent citizens made known thoir complaints against the ferry com- panion pCR NM Bee * my we ° The sevoud ars0d \omnporan se mosting of the Plymouth weather continued boisterous all the Inst week up to Sunday morning, when we had copious showers of rain. Since then it hag been moderate, The list of vessels haying sought thege istands within the past seven daye for supplies and repairs ar» more numerous than wo ever before gave for the same period of time The weather to the north and west of us has been of longer church, Brooklyn. Messts George Hal!, Lasisiag. Tay- lor, and others addressed the meoting. ‘The Coroner's inquest on the body of Ana McGlennon, A white. woman whose pose was bitten off by a nogro, and who diod under the infuence of chloroform while & Rew nose was being filted to her face, at Belloyuc Hospital, op Tucsday, has resulted ina verdict tm ac- cordance with the above facta, no blame being attache to the hospital surgeons, The evidence for tho prosecution and the defenco bas Closed in the case of Brown, Steele and Mills, who have been charged before Commissioner Osborn with forging certain papers relating to the pension of Mrs. Bridget McArdle, The summing tp of the testimony by counsel on both sides Will take place on Saturday next. Willtam Brown was chargod before Commissioner Stilwell yestefday with having sold counterfeit fifty cent stamps tothe amount of $100. The evidence against the defendant was that of = detective to whom the former disposed of the forged money. The further hearing of the case was adjourned til! the 14th instant Yesterday Commissioner Osbora discharged Joha Bar. rett, of Fulton street, who bad been accuced of retaining and opening a letter addressed to Johm F. Barrett, of 29 Bookman street, and loft at the former addrese through the negligence of the letter carrier im the absence of the defendant The Commissioner said be had mo jurisdic. tion tn the case. Judge sat for a short time yesterday im the Court ‘of Oyer and Torminer. Several prisoners were ar- Taigned for different offences, The Court will sit to-day for the trial of criminal cases. A motion was made yostorday in the Court of Com- mon Pleas, Chainbers, before Judge Daly, for a new trial in the caso of David M. Freeman vs. Zadok Street, which was decided adversely to the plaintiff at the last trial term of this court. The readers of the Herarp will recol- lect that this suit was brought to recover the sum of $10,000 from tho defendant for the alleged enticoment of plaintifl”s wife from his care and protection. The stock market was heavy yesterday morning, but afterwards became firm, Gold was excited, and closed on the street at five P, M. at 13814 bid. ‘Tho lowor price of gold: yesterday as compared with the day before rather disturbed the views of somo of tho holders of merchandise, and the markets were not so firm as a general thing, The fact that we are to bave a good stiff Tariff bil! enables holders of imported merchan- dise to obtain full prices, however, and most of the busi- ness Was at about the same prices that were paid on Tuesday. Breadstuffs wore quiet and heavy. Corn was firmer. Groceries were moderately active and firm, MISCELLANEOS. ‘We bave advices from Jamaica, dated at Kingston on the 18th of January, The Kingston Gleany, of tho 17th ultimo, says:—We have beun informed that several of the crew of the United states steamer of war Gettysburg, now coalng at Port Royal, have deserted thejr ship and that they have stolen a large quantity of money from the vessel, The police are using every exertion to assist in capturing them. The military court martial was adjourned ‘until Saturday, the 19th of January, {tm consequence of the indisposition of the prisoner, Staff Assixiant Surgeon Morris, The Protestant congregation worshipping under the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Bradshaw, rector of Port Royal, havo determinod upon proving themselves equal to the-crisis which threatens the Kpivcopal churches of the fsland, and made arrangements for maintaining the church by voluntary contributions, The Governor has appointed Major General Luke Smyth O'Connor, ©. B., President of the Privy Council of Jamaica We have (ies from Antigua, West Indies, to tho 29th of December, but tho aows itoms of the papors are quite unieportant. The Bermuda Gazete of January 29 reports:—The continned severity this winter than it has been fera number of years, ‘Wo have files from Turks Island dated op the 19th of January. The Royal Siandard of that day reports: —The weather coutinues fine; the salt ponds ate improving. Some twenty or twenty-five cargoes of about ten thon- sand bushels, yet remain on hand; but as more than two months must elapse before the new crop can commence, the probability is that a greater portion of this quantity will bave been shipped. Price twelve conta, ’ Our Belize, Honduras, advices are to the 10th of Janu- ary. The Indians were still committing dopredations with impunity, although there were three or four hun- dred British troops in the barracks. Sir Poter Graut had arrived with reinforcements, and had consulted with the Legislative Assembly on the state of aTairs. An article ou the Eastern question in our columns this morning goes to the bottom of the causes for the Orctaa revolt, and maintains that the fear of destroying the batance of power entertained by the Christian natious of Europe has prevented the release of the Greek Chris- tians from the tyranny of the Mussulman. The statement of the public debt for January shows the total det to be $2,585,773.589, and the amount of cash in the Treasury to be $142,423, 701. General Gravt's reception in Washington last evening was the most brilltant of the series. Chief Juatice Chase also gave a reception which was very brilliant. ‘The express train from Windsor, C, W., was halted at Suspension Bridge on Tuesday night, and not perimitted to cross to the American side, because it was beliind time, the custome officer stating that he had instructtons not to pass any which were not on time. It is stated by the government authorities at Montreal that Engiand has not demanded the rendition of Lamt- rande, the forger, bat only an explanation from France, which was promptly given, ‘The Democratic State Convention aseembled in Hart- ford yesterday and pat in nomination James K. English for Governor und E, P. Hyde for Lieutonant Governor, and candidates for the other State offices. A platform was also adopted embracing a seriovof resolutions de- nouncing the present attitude of Congress towards the Southern States and endorsing the President in bis policy. ‘The lower house of the Maine Legislaturs has refused to amend the laws 0 as to permit white persons to inter- marty with negroes, mulattoss or Indians. The Senate bad previously agreed to the amendment. In the Kansas Legislature yesterday the amendment disfranchising disloyatists and swindlers of the govern- mont was adopted by the House, The Senate amended the State suifrage bill by striking out the word ‘ male.”” ‘Tho Nevada Legislature has under consideration « Joint memorial asking that the jurisdiction of the Btate be extended over the Territory of Utah. ‘Tho lower House of the Louisiana Logistature unanim- ously rejected the constitutional amendment yesterday, and passed a Dill calling @ state Constitutional Convon- tion. ‘The Negro Suffrage bill was advanced to a third read- {ng in the lower House of the Tennessee Legislature yesterday, and will probably be passed at an early day, ay well as the Loyal Militia bill. The returned rebels of the State are greatly exasperated, and it is surmised that bloodsped will follow the first assembling of the militia, Tho Pennsylvania Legislatare bas ratified the copsti- tutional amendment. Charles V, Culver, Congressman from Pennsylvania, and James S Austin, cachier of the Venango (Pa.) Na- tional Bank, were acquitted in the Court of Quarter Ses- sour, at Franklin, Pennsylvania, yesterday, of con- apiracy to defrand. The Bribery bill was passed over the Governor's veto in the New Jersoy Legislature yesterday. Hhempbrey Marshall, Magruder, Dake and haifa dozen other ex-rebel generals are in secret convention at Louis+ ville. Vigitance Committers in the Interior counties of Ken- tuoky are sald to be making short work of horse thieves ‘and bad characters genorally, A desperado was hung by 4 mob at Danville on Tacetay. Joxeph Haddopp was exeented at Norristown, Pa, yesterday for the murder of Julius Worbele, in No- vember, 1865, He declared bis innocence to tho last. The ted States war steamers Gettysburg and Lan- caster were at Naseau, New Providenee, on the 20th of January, The Gettysburg landed Vice Admiral Porter, USN, and Mr. F, W. Seward and wife, the object of thelr visi remaining a subject of anXioas canvass to the people of the Bahamas. The Lancaster was repairing. A nogro tan has beon arrosted in Auburn, Me., forthe murder of two old women there gome time ago. He confesred the deod and implicated a white man as an accomplice. A horricane visited Pine Bla, Ark., aad that vicinity on Friday, causing groat destruction of property and lows Of lite. The people bad to (ake refuge in the epem olde sate. The security of the constitulion against Temperance Society was hold tast evening ia Plymouth | The High Court of Luvpeackment, Under the Properties might be mode known to an as- Constitation. “But for all that,” eaid Galileo, “the world does move;” and this is the key mote, the great idea upon which this journal was founded and the secret of its suesess, When, looking carefully at the drift of events, the pressure of public opinion and the necessities of the age, we first boldly struck out for # @onstitution! amendment abolishing slavery the proposition was pooh-poohed in somé quarters, denounced in others as involving an overthrow of the constitution, an@ was generally classed with “the Pope’s bull against the comet.” But public opinion was brought to bear by the discussion of that it until it was fixed in the supreme law of the land. In the seme way the doubts, the incredulity and ap- P which prevailed when we first broached the gaving alternative of Andrew Johnson's impeachment are rapidly disnppear- ing. Journals of all parties and all sections are joining in the discussion. The great body of the people, in having their attention drawn to the constitution, the precedents established and the teachings of history, are already diss- bused of the fallacy that there is something of that divinity about our President which “hedges in a king,” and they realize the fact that uader the powers of the two houses of Congress his impeachment ‘and displacement are as plain a case as the removal of a village postmaster. It is a necessity ma constitutional govern- ment thatin some department the ultimate sovercignty over all the others shall exist, Ex- perience in England esiablished this authority in the Parliament over the King, after mony bloody conflicts, from 1625. to 1688, when, under the Prince of Orange, the subordination of the King, through his Cabinet, to the Com-- mons, was established. Thus even tht great and powerlul Duke of Wellington, as Prime Minister, in coming into,conflict with the Com- mons on the Reform bill of his day, found bim- | sulf as poworless a3 the weakest of bis prede- j cessors, His resignation involved*the submis- sion of the King to the Commons, tie law mak- ing representatives of the people, Our cousti- tution, framed upon the English model, em- braces the Euglish system in the matter of im- peachments; but ours is moro direct and ex- plicit in subordinating the President himeclf to the wil! of tho two houses. An adverse vote of the Commons displaces the English Minis- try, and the King or Queen appoints a new set ot ministers, in accordance with the vote, and this ends the conflict With us the Cabinet is not disiurbed by an adverse mojoxity in the Commons or House of Representatives; but the President and Cabinet, in pushing their hostility to a usurpation of the exclusive powers of Congress, may be impeitched by the House and removed on conviction by the Sen- Congress is im the people and in their-elestion every iwo years of a new Honse.of Represent atives, with one-third of the Senate, by tho State Legistatures. Hence the safety of. the sovereign power of the government» in Congress. Nor does this sovereign power over the President depend upon his conviction by the Senet, An opinion of Madizon is quoted by a copperhead contem- porary to prove that Mr. Jobnson cannot be suspended; but we think it proves, it anything, that he can be. ‘We have had, however, enough of the constitutional opinions of both Madison and Jefferson in their State rights heresies aud their disastrous consequences, as devéloped ia the State rights of sovereignty, sevession and rebeltion. A terrible war has washed out all those old heresies in the blood of half a million of men. We live in a new age, too, of common schools, common sense, railroads, steamships and telegraphs, We have safely passed the first and severest ordeal of « great poliiical revolution. Certain @reat issues have been decided by that final appeal to the bayonet, and these issues must now be estabiished in the government, or the party charged with this responsibility must go to pieces. Andrew Johnson blocks the way. He must be removed or Congress, in the surrender of its rightful authority, will ‘all into disgrace, and the Execu- tive, as he pe aes till the people can reach him, may be Fresident or King, as prophesied by Mr. Seward. » When brought before the Senate for trial Mr. Johnson, as the prisoner at the bar before that high court, may be suspended or be per- mitted nominally to hold his office, as on his parole of honor. Ho will probably be allowed his parole, in view of a short trial and speedy, conviction. His case need not ocenpy more: than ten or fifieen days. The broad charge of usurpation and the specifications in reference to his assumptions of the law making power over the rebel States will be ample enougit for all purposes. There will be no necessity to lengthen the case by lugging in his famous off-band inangural address in the Senate, or the stump speeches of his Chicugo pilgrimage, or his excuses for the New Orleans massacre, er his appointment of rebels and copperheads to office, or his revocation of certain orders of General Sickles, thereby reviving the negro whipping post and cat-o’-nine-tafls of the old North Carolina slave code. On tho broad issue of executive usurpation he may be impeached, tried, convicted and removed within the limit of ten days. Nor will his removal stir up another civil war or set the Potomac on fire. He will go off as quietly as John Tyler went off from the White House, only to find at the dock that even the steamboat had left him. Our belligerent copperhead organs, there- fore, may stop their senseless clamor; the Man-, hattan Club may suspend their boxing up of rifles and baskets of champagne and crackers and cheese fora military trip 1o Washington; the Hon. James Brooks may hang up his Chinese war gong; the Hon. Horace Greeley and the Hon. Mr. Raymond, poor, quibbling, timid, trembling political leaders on great oc- casions, may feel easy; the Millerites may get on their white cotton robes for the day of judgment; but the Angel Gabriel will not for some time yet wake up old Oliver Cromwell. With Andrew Johnson’s removal a substitute will be provided; for there are perhaps twenty-five, yea, fifty thousand men in the United States ready, if called upon, and com- petent to take his place. Take off the official mantle of Lincoln, and the people gee that it is only “Andy Johnson.” ‘The Recont Southern Panacea for Sale Choap. A great fuss is being mado over the pre- tended promniure disclosmre of the recent splendid Sonthern panacea, which wae Intended to be kept @ profound secret until the time atould arrive whon its virtues ag@ wonderfal } has never witnessed. Neither the winds nor cwere professors Of univerailica, eminent in and everything else would fall; but the ae ois o-any want antes only a bundred thousand dollars in coin, would suddenly find himself worth ever thirty thousand dollars more, because be would be able to realize that much additional in the market. One might suppose that this is so plain s mat- ter, such a simple fact, that a schoolboy could understand it; but we question if our obtuse and shoddy contemporary can. tonished world. Dr. Andrew Johnson and those able consulting physiciaus, Sharkey, Orr and Parsons, having met and duly considered the case of the patient and agreed upon their course of treatment, were anxious that it should be submitted to some “prominent Southern gentlemen” for their consideration before being publicly advertised. This is the state- ment of the proprieters of the wonderful now trum. ‘The fact is that their great Southern panacea was for sale, cheap, some time before it was published. We were offered the “origi- nal” for one hundred dollars, but, not being disposed to invest in quack medicines, refused tobecome a purchaser. It went begging at that price and was eventually sold, probably at a heavy discount from the original figare. As many cents would Rave been more than {ts in- trinsic valye. a Grand Spectacle Premised—The Latest Novelty. Spring is coming, the morning of the year, when we sit among the renewing flowers end speculate.on what the long eventfal dey may bring us, Everything starts afresi. The opera season prepares its reopening, theatre man- agers cast about for novelties, tailors.end mil- liners rack their brains and new fashions come in, young ladies fresh from school and new to society “come out,” new Congressmen make their first speeches, crowds rush to new spectacles, and poels, in concert with the songs of birds and newly flowing rivers, make new verses about the newness of everything. But the spring of 1867 is destined tv be par- ticularly memorable. Heretofore a new opera or a new siar, imported at vast expense, was an event which stirred society and roused that innate love of display and excitement which has ever been characteristic of human nature. The period knownas the ides of March—a time full of significance and fatal portent once—is to present a spectacle such as this country Our Relations With Esginnd. ‘The speech from the throne in Great Britain always and necessarily commands attention. From the violently excited condition of the political world generally, and from the un- settled condition of the United Kingdomytself, the Queen’s speech has commanded this year more than usual attention and been read with more than ordinary interest. The American public ean scarcely fnil to be gratified with the prominence which is given to the relations of Great Britain with this country ; and we be- lieve We but give expression tos feeling which is general when we say that the spirit in which the British government seems now disposed to deal with the Alabama claims wi!l meet om this side with a hearty response. This ques- tion may now in fact be considered as vir- tually settled. There can be no serious ob- jection to the appointment of an international jury; nor can there be much doubt as to how that jury will decide. Besides the compensa- tion which eannot be withheld, the jury, it may be taken for granted, will agree upon certain general principles which will permanently secure the freedom of the seas. The Derby Ministry are justly entitled to praise for the course they have pursued in thie matter, Their conduct from first to last has stood out in striking contrast to that of the would-be liberal Ministry of Earl Russell. Exrl Russell, in truth, belongs to a past age. His ideas do not harmonize with the swift marching events of the present times, The course of policy to be adopted in regard to this country, as well as other lines of policy indi- cated in the speech from the throne, encourage the belief that the British people may find in the much maligned tories more genuine bene- foctors than they could hope to find in their more pretentious rivals, the whie. It is impossible, however, to dissociate the sensible and conciliatory course adopted by the British government in regard to the Alabama claims from those violent reform agitations which are convulsing the land from one end to the other. Itis manifestly not convenient for Great Beitain, with so much work on hand aris- ing from the internal affairs of the country, to involve herself ‘in serious complications with foreign Powers, The intelligence which we print to-day relating to the behavior of the London, populace en-the occasion of the storms of rain or snow shall be able to hinder the gethering of the audience. From the north, southpeast and wesi people will pour into the strange theatre where Law hes her temp!e and ber throne and where Justice sits bandaged beside her altar, A man who for two years pas borne aloft the wgis of this great republic is there to. be placed on trial. We have bad great trials, but none like this, A Vice President of the United States has been arraigned. Belore the ordinary tribunals of the couutry mona of jearning apd social posi- tion have stoed as criminala, The records of some Siates contain the names of fen who science, doctors of medicine and of divinity, tried for crimes the most foul and abominable. In clerical scandal Boston and Chicago are ahead of the-world. Tbe. attempts made: by other cities'to compete with them inthis species of reputation (have felled. We have every-. where. exciting divorce cases, daring. bur-"| glaries, awindling ind robberied by the hand- souest, most polished and most unblushing Tan; miirders of fascinating interest ani diabolical cruelty, such 03 make up the Sunday reading of a large portion of our population, while crowds ‘flock to the court room duting the trial, happy if they can catch the frintest glimpso of the criminal. The simple fact is that any kind’ of spectacle * draws,” and in this reapect our nature is incorrigible. For this reason, then, the extraordinary spectacle in preparation at Washington will attract en immense crowd aud hold the entire outside world breatbless and spellbound. The accused is no ordinary man. He is the Executive of the will of over thirty miHions of free pcople. Whether, if he shoald appear be- fore the court which will Suramon him, he shall bend the knee i acknowledgment of a greater earthly power than his own--us did upon a like memorable occasion in thé old Hall of Westminster the famous Warren Hastings— how he shall look and bear himself, how he will be dressed and what words may fall from him, ahall all be matiers for the historian, Then the court, at once judge and accuser, resem- bling so nearly the Freach Convention, with its Girondista and Juacobins, ils fierce Dansons, its pitiless Maratea, its Mirabeaus and Barritres, its Isabesus and Anncharsis Clootzs—those types which have their coun- parts im uli revolutionary epochs—times when fanaticism and common sense meet face to face and contend for empire. All these and a thousand other considerations make up the interest of a scene anprecedented in the annals of this country. But the chiei point in this impeachment scene ia that it will be nothing but a spectacle, differ. ing only in kind trom that of a new opera or drama. Should a stranger from beyond the vea press through the throng that will crowd the avennes to the Capitol next month and wit- ness the President's trial, he will be struck by nothing so much as the ease and qnietness with which the affair will be managed. The au- dience, embracing represeutatives of every profession, art and science, the very flower of our population in wealth, intellect and refine- ment, will assemble to hear the intellectual contest of finished orators, na did the dames and Senators of ancient Greece to hear poets contend ; nothing more. Whatever of national trouble may be in store for us, whatever revo- lutions we may have to face hereafter, the im- peachment, trial and removal of President Johnson shall never be set down asa cause, but, on the contrary, will astound from its noiseless simplicity, because in accordance with law and the popular will, A Blanderiog Financier Corrected, A shoddy eventng contemporary pretends to put us right in our views of the effects of a forced tesumption of specie payments. We maintain that the only people to be benefited by resumption are the bondholders, and that their property would be enhanced in value over thirty percent. This blundering finan- cier argues that it would make no difference to the bondholders, because they “have always received their interest and the principal of their bonds when due, in coin.” Now, there is only « little more than half the national debt— that is, one thousand three hundred and thirty- three millions—which hears a coin Interest. The property of the rest, therefore, would be vastly increased. But the argument, if it is worthy to be called so, is not sound in respect to the holders of bonds bearing coin interest not being benefited. Why, the merest tyro in financial matters knows that the five-twentles which are now selling at a hundred and five to © hundred and six would ve warth in effect at the present currency standard thirty per cent more. Property of every description, wages of great cause for alarm. Making even‘ largé allowanbe for. the’. chilling offpota’ of fluence of a perfect deluge of rain, the entire absence ‘of enthusiasm on the part of the peo ple, who have ever been in the habit of greot- ing the appearance of her Majesty with de- ‘monstrations of delight, must be otherwise accounted for. It indicates a state of obronic discontent, which many have been, slow to be- lieve in. On ghis her first'appearance of the kind, after a great sorrow and s somewhat protracted retirement, the Queen herself must have been impressed with the change. It is fmpossible, indced, to exaggerate the excite- ment which prevails. The old ties which bound the people to the throne and to the aristocracy are one by one giving way, end it is daily becoming more apparent that, peace- fally or otherwise, changes are about to be inaugurated in Kagland which will work s new era in ber history. It is well, indeed, for Eng- land’s haughty and exclusive oligarchy that their destinies are to a large extent in the hands of a man who isnot bound up in the narrow prejudices of their order. Obstruction, there is reason to bolieve, would have been persisted in but for him; and obstruction would have been their ruin. ‘Disraeli cleurty perceives that the arisiocracy of birth, even in England, must give place to the aristocracy of talent and of worty. Nay, more; he has the courage to prepare the way for the new @nd better order of things. Strange, indeed, it is that the proudcat of England's nobility should follow the lead of son of Israel, But so it is. The aristocracy of birth is already yielding jo the aristocracy of talent. A descendant of the tribe of Juda is one of England’s ablest finan- ciors. A descendant of the tribe of Benjamin is her wealthiest citizen, Greater changes will follow. Meanwhile let us be thankful that the Ainbama claims are at last about to be satis factorily settled. in too Much of a Harry. Some of the republican papers begin to complain of Street Commissioner McLean, because he does not at once’ remove one of the Big Indians of Tammany, who holds the office of Deputy, out of the way. Wehave no particular liking for the Big Indians generally nor for this one in par- ticular; but we are not ignorant of the fact that they know how to run the machinery of ® city department very well and make pretty efficient officers, apart from their jobbing propensities and political iniquities, We are very willing that the new Street Commissioner and the new Comptroller shall retain the old hands in office, always keeping a sharp eye upon them, until they have themselves become familiar with the working and the duties of thetr departments. ‘When they have gathered all the information necessary from the old employds and deputies they are welcome to throw them aside, like sucked oranges. But we are not so nnreasona- ble as to require the new heads of the depari- ments, who are anxious to do their duty aod to do ft well, to cast off in a moment all those who are familiar with the business and to ran their ships without rudder or compase. The Radienis ina Flurry, There ap; from our Wosbington corre- spondence to be considerable trouble and flurry in the radical camp on the subject of the im- peachment of the President. Some desire his impeachment and trial at once, so that the ob- straction in the way of recousiruction and a final settlement of our national troubles may be romoved as speedily as possible. Others are hesitating and doubting and are not will- ing to go on with the Impeachment unless they can be sure of retaining theit own man in the office until the next regular Presidential elec- tion. They are unwilling that General Grant should be made President and are afraid to ing of Parttament shows tat there is indeed.|. unusually dismal dy and for the cooling in- | * \ - - h. trust the election of Andy Johnson's successor for the unexpired texm to the people, “> > The radicals, in thes’ bickerings and divi- dons, are only re-onacting history, Tt was the ’ same with the Girondist#. and Jacobins in France, with the Independents and Prosby- * terians in England, and back inthe Roman re- public from the days of the Gracchf down to Augustus. But this higgling and\pettifogging will not do at this time, The radicals cannot back out of the impeachment after the violent charges they have made, and the people will demand that the tial of the President shal? be proceeded with at once and a decision arrived at without delay. If the gerdict should be “guilty,” as there appears no doubt it must be, they will elect s successor in accordance with the constitution, and that succemor will in all probability be General Grant. No radi- cal squabbling can prevent this result. Lotteries and Gift Enterprises. In the remarks which we made the other day on this subject we took merely = cursory view of it, and that in the desire to favor es much as possible the interests of our publie charities, The observations of Judge Ingra- ham, in his charge to the Grand Jury fm the Court of Oyer and Terminer on Tuesday last, have induced us to look more closely into the matter, and we are now satisfied that theopin- * ions to which we gave expression are not con- sistent with a strict interpretation of the law. Curiously enough we were ourselves the means of eliciting the decision in the case of the Art Union, on which Judge Ingraham’s re- marks are based, though having been im Europe at the time it was pronounced it did not occur to our recollection. We give in our issue of to-day the judgment itself, in order that all doubt on the subject may be set at rest, A brief statement of the proceedings anfecedent to it is, however, necessary, in order that our readers may have a clear understand- ing of the points raised, In December, 1851, an article appeared in the New York Bxrratp declaring the charter of the Art Union uncénstitutional, the prac- tices of its managers fmmoral end their di- version of iis funds from their professed objecta to abolition purposes illegal. On this an indictment for libel was preferred against us‘in the Court of General Sessions, and ona motion made te quash it Recorder Tillon do- livered an elaborate judgment, in which he set aside the indictment-on the ground that the provision in the constitution of the association for the distribution of works of art by lottery was contrary to law, and that consequently the complainants bad no legal standing. We then commenced a suit in the Superior Court againat the managers.of the associationas = sharcholder in a ticket assigned to ps for the praying tha: the mansgors m! it bo enjoined from distributing the. , by lottery, and that they aboatd’ be competied te | divide. it equally among the contributors. Judge Duer refused the’ permanent injunction asked, on'tho ground that if the distribution of the pictures om the, plan.erranged was not a lottery (@ point which had not been raised be- fore him and on which he was not called upom to pronounce ‘an Opinion) then the agreement was lawful and valid and furnished them no ground of complaint. ‘If, on the otlier hand, the annual distribution was a lottery, then the egrecment was illegal and void; ‘but this ille- gality, though it might enable the subscribers to reclaim the money they had paid, didnot render them the owners as tenants in common of the works of art that the essociation might have purchased, nor authorize a court of justice to seizo and confiscate the property tor their benefit. If it could be held to be a lottery, however, under the Revised Statutes, the pro- perty became vested in the State, to be by it distributed for the benefit of the poor. .The matter then into the bands of the Dis- trict Attorney, who commeneed proceedings om behalf of the State for the possession of the prizes. A decision was given in his favor and the case was then carried up to the Court of Appesis, Obief Justice Ruggles, in giving Judgment, declaréd that it was the intention of the framers of the statute to prohibit every species of lottery (whatever its object) that “The constitution,” it says, “took away from the Legislature the power of determining whejher this or any other lottery was of good or evil tendency, and certainly did not Intend to confor that power on the judicial tribunals. Tf {t were to be admitted that the scheme is entirely harmless in its consequences it would form no ground for making it by judicial con- struction an exception, to the general and ab- solute constitutional prohibition.” The court, therefore, affirmed the Ggpision transferring the property to the State, “ Nothing can be clearer or more absolute in its terms than this decisfon. Ii is surprising that those who have conscientious scruples against lotteries should not have availed them- selves of it to defeat the schemes that have recenily been before the public. Some of them, we are afraid, while professing charitable ob- jects, have been got up principally in the interest of individuals. We have heard of enormous percentages being paid to agents, which swallowed up «a large portion of the receipis. However this may be, the whole system must at once be put an end to. Now that the police are in-> structed as to the positivencas of the law on the subject it becomes their duty to arrest every one selling lottery tickets, whether it be for the benefit of individuals or of public insti- tutions, We must have no evasions of the statute under the Jesuitical plea that the end jnatities the means. Charity is said to cover = multijude of sine; but the axiom becomes dan- gerous when it is employed to defeat the objects of @ legisiation based on such sound moral principles. es) |i) CASUALTY IM BALTIMORE. ‘Twe Mon Crushed to Death and Several In. Jured by Failing Walls. Bartiwornr, Feb. 6, 1367. ‘This morning while some workinen were engaged tm the demolition of the building lately occupied by George G, Neal, for the purpose of opening Holiday etzeet, the third floor, on which was piled an immouse quantity of , k and © Way, causing a large portion of ~ the walle 40 fall ine, The gtash crested intone excite- Two men, named Patrick mont ia the neigh! ings and Pasriek were Killed, and sx othe con oa three CJ phy Po soriousig. Abeut thes sane two years m the work of extending Holiday ib street, three mon The contractors, it is thought, are to biame MYSTERIOUS CONVENTION OF REBEL GENERALS. Lovr Feb. 5 A jous convention of ro gobi ores pA NS ES ai ¥ soven or claht others, ratty ‘ Py ‘ . » was caloulated to promote a taste for gambling. . ¥ cY