The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. 4AMES GORDUN BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR —_-— {ne additional tax om the goods was levied, and it was to recover this excess the action was Lrought, The Court ordered @ verdict for the plaintif. The Ferry Investigating Committee held another meet- ing yesterday at the City Hall, Brooklyn, when evidence for and against the present managemont of the ferry companies was heard. 4 A lecture was dolivered last evening in one of the rooms of the Cooper Iostitute om Equal Righta asd Re- construction, Tho particular theory advanced by the lecturer, Mr. J. K. H. Willoox, was a general reconstruc. tion of all existing forms, laws and governments. Inspector Dilks has instructed the detective force to arrest every thief they ean lay hands upon, no matter where they are, the bigger the thief the better, and to closely scrutinize the conduct of several conductors who aro supposed to be in complicity with pickpockets. An interesting case was tried in the Court of Com mon Pleas yesterday, before Judge Cardozo, involving the right ef « person holding a fire insurance policy to keop combustible articles on his premises, which are forbid- den by an ondinance of the city, without violating his contract, and rendering the policy void. Louis Kloman, young German, living with his sister, died yesterday from the effects ef a blow on the head With ap.axe; resolved, it ie alleged, ot the hands of his sister, who hae disappeared, Thé matior will.be inves tigated to-day. they stood as States before the war. But ad- } maitting all this, fallacious as it Is; the question next recurs, was it the Executive or Congress which possessed the anthority to reorganize ‘said States upon the issues settled by the war? Mr. Johnson has answered this question him- self in a despatch through his Secretary of State (September, 1865) to bis Provisional Governor Marvin, of Florida, in which he says that all these procesdings of reconstruction on his part are merely provisional and subject to the approval of.Congress, A similar despatch te his Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mis- sissippi, reminds him of the same important fact. How, then, is the Executive to prove that these Southern State governments of his making are legal, although rejected by Con- gress? Upon this test Mr. Johnson must either hold or abandon his present position. He is probably expected not only to hold it, but to commit himself beyond any remedy but re- moval in justifying his own course and. in ar OFFIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENNU. EATRE, Broadway, near Broome ee Robes, yan Woxmearun” SCixp—CuDeRetis, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bew York Hotel. —Bino or Pakaviss. GERMAN OPERA, Olympic Theatre, Broadway.—Wu.- tam Tait. » ODWORTH’S HALL, 80§ Broadway.—Provasson Hants wu Panvoux His Minactus—Tug Heap uf tae Aia— Tur Inpiay Basxat Trick—PRorxos. SAN FRANCISCO MINSI'RELY. 585 Browtway, opoosita @e Metropoliian Hovel—Iw taeie Ermoriay Bxreeracts mers, Sinatra, Dancuna 4ND Buxuesques.—Coxmitrae ow LmrRachMRNT. PIFTH AVENUE OPERA bt Noa 2 Cod 4 West etreet.—Guirriy RISTE'® “MINS RELI — Brmortan MINsTRBLSY, Ba..aps, 3, 6¢.—Mepe 41, HTODRNT, see Tene Hoteles cena Rowen Darien teher, | Martin Allen’and Johe Grady, two of tho Adems x-{ tAlgning Congress, In this view the bill in Zo tees So ‘to Enbe-sumpuataon~ | prege aubbers. who recently sscaped. from Danbury, | question may be considered as a device for the |. " (BONY PASTOR'S OFERA HOUSE, 3 Revers. Comis'| "The splondid naomtaip Cy 0 rans, Ceptale J, Ken. eo See a eee g 2 iver at nine A M te-morrow (Saturday) morning for Liverpool via Queenstown. Tho mails will close at the Post Office at half-past seven A. M. The stock market was duli yesterday. Gold was ex- cited, and, after selling at 139, closed firm at 137%. ‘There was some !rregularity in the merchandise mar- kets—the natural consequence of the “backing and fill- Ing”’ policy of Congress rogerding the tariff and revenuo questions—and prices of both forelgn and domestic produce were nominal to a greater or less degree, Im- ported goods were Guite gonerally hold firm, while do- tmestic were irregular. Breadetuffs were dull, but not quotably lower, though round lots of flour, esp:cially of Western, could have been purchased at a concession. Cotton is going forward to Liverpool in considerable quantities, but shipments are restricted to somo extent by the limited amount of disongaged tonnage on the berth. Coffee was modorately active and firm. Freights were steady. Whiskey dull and nominal. Petroleum remained dull, though steady. Naval storos rated dull MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican news is up to the 2d of February. Ortega is to be tried by court martial, Miramon and Mejia were said to be marching on San Luis Potoa: with seven thou- sand men, with instructions from Maximilian to risk a battle as soon as possible. If the imperialists were vie- torious he would immodiately call an election, if not, ho woul quit the couatry. Toe French soldiers on the ‘march to the coast are committing every species of out- rage. Matamoras was quict under the administration of Berriozabal. Cortina and Canalca were both quiet, the former at Mier and tho latter at Victoria, From St. Domingo news to the 28th ult. is received. President Cabral had pardoned. all political prisoners, Tobacco promised to yield a good crop. All kinds of provisions were scarce, The health of the Island was jeohassion” Hal way.—Ik 4 Vaniery or Legur agp Lavenarte Ewrerainmusts, Oours be Matear, ac, Sewoa.nors' FROuos. MRS, P. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— bs Rose Or Amiexs—Taz OckAN Yaows ‘Racx—Goon roe Nomnna. COOPER INSTITUTE. Eighth etrest.—Dn, Hxsnsa's Tugvsreatko Lxorunss on Hcaurm, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rroadway.— Heap axp Ricat ARM OF aon tae Wasitnron Twrne—Wornens IN NATURAL Pa, SCIENCE anv Agr. Axcrones Dux. Open from 6 A.M. WOR, M. .DFERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 5 Broadwoy.—Graxv Xamon ov Paunrrxas,—Rosa ' Roxuzun’s Hour Fain. Obv FELLOWS’ HALL. Hoboken.—Panera’s Gaaxp Vocat AND INSTRUMENTAL CoNcE. surrender to the sovereign authority of Con- gress. The democratic party, or what there is lef: of it, is now fairly committed to the cause of Mr. Jobnson, and he is as fully committed to that party and all the outside elements op- posed to the dominant party in Congress. This party is as broadly committed against him. The lines are sharply and distinctly drawn. The democrats are fighting to retain Mr. Johnson In his place, because he is their ally; the repub- licans are bent upon his capture or removal, because he blocks their way. They have the authority, and in each house the majority, to remove him; but still a gracious surrender to Congress may save him. Otherwise, as the republican party must be demoralized and demolished with the submission of Congress, he will be removed. With his removal the party in Congress which suppressed the rebel- lion may finish the work of reconstruction and then we shall have a new organization of par- ties, With his retention in office the republi- cans, disheartened and disgusted with the weak- ness of Congress, may be cut to pieces in the next fall elections, They must go on and push through their appointed work, or they will dis- gracefully fail with the game in their hands, Of this they are aware, as we see in this de- cisive bill for the absolute wiping out, root and branch, of the reconstruction system of Mr. Jobnson. « Fridays Bebruary 8, 181 Tas NAW 3s. ‘UROPE. By the cable we have a news report dated yesterday, February 7. Ear! Derby stated to Parliament that Secretary Seward has been officially requested by England to state “piaiaty’’ the points of the American claims on which our government desires an arbitration adjustment, The Lord Chancellor of England read the speech at the open- ing @f Parliament, by order of the Qucon—not the Queen horsel{, as erroneously stated by the cable, The English const hag been visited by another severe storm. Napo- leon Bas completed @ commercial treaty with Peru by which France gains valuable export privileges. The Pope thinks of ordering the @anonizatiomef Christopher Columbus. The Russians have gaine@ anothor important victory in Central Asia, The Bank of England has reduced its gate of discount to threo per cent. Consols closed at 90 11-16 for money to London. Uaited States five-twentice were at 725;. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was irregular, with middling opiauds at from 143 t0143 fence, Breadstufls duit. - CONGRESS. du the Senate, yesterday, # bill wag Introduced xelative. to eppeels and writa of error to the Supreme Court. Hille amd esoolutiona suspending the payment of claims of toyal owners for slaves, and to prevent corporeal punish- mont ia the rebel States wore reporte@ from the com- mittees. The bill increasing the componsation of clerks and civil employés of the civil government at Washing ton was discussed. The Legislative, Executive and Ju- dieial Appropriation bill was then called up, and the amendment appropriating fifty thousand dollars to pay temporary ¢lerks in the Treasury Department was adopted after considerable discussion on the propriety of stlowing Secretary MoCulioch to classify the clorks as be pleased. Debate on the bill was continued in Committee of the Whole during an evening eession, and fivatly re- ported to the Sonate, which soon after adjourned. in the House, a joint resolution continuing the nse of government vessels at New Yerk two years loucer for quarautiae® purposes was passed. The bil! reported oa Wednesday from the Reconstructiow Committee for the guverfmont of the rebel States, which constitutes each one of shose States a military distriet, was taken up, and 1t was decided to devote an evening a@ssion to de- bate upon it, Mr, Ashley made a personal explanation regarding @ nowspaper report of the circumstances con- aecled with his impeachment resolutions, Messrs. Stevens, Brandegee, Le Biond, Pike and Rogors severally «pote sa the Reconstruction bill, the tatter saying that ‘he hoped that the President would resist amd use al! the wuilitery power which the constitution had given him to compet iraHtors and disunionists to obey the law, In the evening the debate was resumed, and Mr. Bingham te his speech said that the general purposes of this bill eet bis boarty approval, but he desired that tho le; on of Congress should conform to the constitution. Tho House adjourned at a late hour with probabiilty of voling on the measure to-day. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yesterday the bill providieg for a con- vention t reviso aod amend the constitution was re- picied from the Judiciary Committee. The bill allows elored men to vote for delegates, Billa wer€ introduced to precerve the people of this State from tévoluntady servitede, and authorizing the Manbattam Railway Com pang lt construct cortain railways and tunpels in New - York. Tho bill Sxing the term of office @f the New York Tax Commissioners was passed, and alter come fusther Desincar the Sonate adjourned. In the Assembly @ resolution geqhiring an’ opinion Trom tho Judiciary Committee as to the liability of the State in eperating the canals was adoplied A bill was reported to provide for a convention to revise the State cons@tation, It differs from the Senate bill in not allgwing colored men to rote for delegates. Numerous bills of @ looal oF private character word introduced and acted upon. After an evening session, in which the ‘q cation of a protective tariff was discussed, the Assem biy eljourned. THE CITY. Tha Chamber of Commerce held a reguiar monthly feoting yesterday. Resolutions urging the immediate conveyance of certain portions of the Battery to the general government were adopted. A resolution remon- strating against the passage of the Tariff bill and for- warding s memorial to that effect ta Comgroes was unani- rously agreed to, and the Board soon after adjourned. ‘Tho Board of Heolth met yesterday a@flernoon, when the canttary Committee sent in thet report on prostita , ton tm this city, The Board ef Excise, @ quorum not being present did bot meet yesterday ; bat Superintendent Kennedy moved before President Schultz for the revocation of the licenses of @ large number of Iquor dealers who, it ia ailoged, have violated their licenses, aad that civil suits be instituted against them. Two officers arrested Mr. Gregan, whe bas a bar at the corner of “econd avenue nnd Forty-second street, on Saturday, and om Sunday morning he was discharged. He has since made com- piaint against the officers who arrested him, charging thom with assault and dattery, and they were yesterday committed by Justice Connolly, having refused to give Sail, in obedience, they sald, to instructions from their anporior officer, The steamship Atlantic, bound fer Bremen, went ashore yesterday morning in the lower bay. Tug boats wore sont to her assistance, and it is provable she will be got off without sustaining any eerious injury. The vowel had been Hbelled, amd a United States marshal and two deputies were placed aboard to provent her sail- fing. The captain got up steam, however, and was fairly under way for Barope, with tho marshals on board, wien sho met with the accident referred to above. ‘An important case, involving the question as to when duttos upon fmported goods accrue, whether on the arri.. vel of the the importation in port, or on the passing of the entry at the Custom House, was tried yesterday bo- fore Jadgo Smally, in tho United States Circuit Coart, ‘The piavatiff ie the ease fenported goods on the 30th of Jnue, 1864, dutiable up to that date at goven and « half coals per pound, By ‘8 moro recent act the taxon the same goods wes raised from the ist of July, the day aficr the importation, to ten conte The plaintiffs pro- venied their involee and entry for liquidation om the 20th, bat ihe Custom House officers refused to pass the ouley 0 the veanel ind not boon offcially royorted, TRE pmonded tarift coming into effect on the foliowima dar 00d : Advices from St, Thomas to the 29th of January state that the cholera had complctely abated. Over cight hun- dred apd fifty persons, mostly negroes, Lad died of the epidemic. Commerc! matters wero unchanged. William Kelty was killed at a wake in Camdon county, N. 5., on Wednaday night,-and his body was allowed to romiain inthe middle of the floor while the festivities ‘wore going.on. - The murderer was arrested. ‘The Tollmau Howse and peveral adjotwng promises in Marble row, Ogdensburg, MW. ¥., were destroyed by-fire yesterday, involving a loss of $260,000. Wiltam 8. Hillyer:has been appointed Internal Reve- nue Agent for the city of New York. Marine Disneters and Mariue insurnnce. From a carefully prepared list published in last Tuesday’s Herato it appears that am average of twenty-two: large steamships, owned by ‘parties at or hailing from ‘the port of New York, havo been lost at sea annually for the past ten years. This is independent of the large number of smaller steamboats and sailing vessels wrecked within the same period, and makes, ® very startling exhibit of marine disasters, When the value of one large boat and its cargo is considered, it is not to be wondered at that those of our marine insurance companies that have been engaged in doing an inflated business, pressing up their dividends and rapidly redeeming their scrip, should find themselves driven to the wall. Tasurance is a business in which none but experts can hope to profitably engage. Yet an insurance company is the most common refuge for broken-down merchants. Whena prominent man fails in business, unless he becomes a wine merchant or a coal dealer, his friends set him up as president of an insurance company, and he receives a liberal salary, secures @ large amount of premiums, makes a few imposing annual reports and ends by golng into liquidation. The marine insurance business, in especial, requires prudence and experience to insure success. The well known “Joe Hoxie,” many years ago, was agent for a number of marine insurance companies started in Kentucky to do business at this port. Before long one of these companies went overboard and was soon followed by another and another. A friend meeting Hoxie on the street inquired of him the cause of the trouble. “Oh,” suid Hoxie, “these Kentucky fellows are paying a pretty high premium for teaching me the busi- ness of underwriting; that’s all.” A marine insurance company in the hands of inexpe- rienced managers is very unlikely té secure peymanent succeas, Tho modern plan of uniting the fire and marine insurance business in one is also an undesirable innovation. A marine insurance company should be festricted from taking fire risks, The main cause of the heavy losses these companies have experienced, however, is to be found in their recklessness in taking risks. The Sun Mutual, which is now in so much trouble, is said to have been in the habit of insuring vessels that had been retused by other companies. There would be no such exbibit of marine disasters as we published on Tuesday if the insur- ance companies should refuse to insure any but seaworthy and safe vessels. Tho compa- nies have the whole matter under their own control. If they would refuse to take any risks on the old, unseaworthy, rotten tubs which are now readily insured and started on sea voyages, we should have no bankrupt insurance compa- nies and no such large annual sacrifice of property and life as at present. No merchant or shipper would intrust his cargo on a vessel which was refused insurance by the under- writers, and the reckless spirit exhibited in ‘sending unsafe and half-equipped vessels to sea would be effectually checked. The rivalry between companies, the desire to make large exhibits on the part of many new concerns, and, above all, the brokerage system, lie at the foundation of the evil. No well estab- lished company will pay commissions at all, and no company doing « legitimate business can afford to allow ten or fifteen per cent to a broker. The brokers, as « general thing, will not be too particular in the sort of risks they accept when their commission is at stake. If onr marine {insurance companies generally will profit by the lessons taught by the dis asters of the past season and the consequent difficulties of the shaky companies, it will bo well for themselves, tor commerce and for human life. They have it in their power to stop these fearful exbibits of marine disasters and the terrible sacrifice of life that follows in their train; by refusing to insure any doubtful ls; and for their own protection, as well foe tho public good, they should reform Present system of doing business at ‘The New Bill for the Excluded States—The Final Test with President Johnson. In “Fox's Book of Martyrs,” wo think, it is recorded that in those “good old times” when heretics were roasted alive it sometimes hap- pened that a ‘full pardon was offered a con- demned prisoner upon a recantation of his ob- noxious faith, only to sharpen his dying ago- nies with the remorse of a double apostacy. We cannot believe, however, that this savage refinoment of cruelty is contemplated by “Old Thad Stevens” egainst Mr. Johnson in the new bill of the House of Representatives providing for the temporary estab] ent of martial law over the ten excluded rebel States ; but such a bill at this crisis in the conflict between Con- gress and the Executive evidently covers some other design than the mere revocation of the legislative experiments of the Executive in the States concerned. What, then, is the special object of this ex- traordinary measure—extraordinary in coming at this juncture as a report from the joint com- mittee ‘of the two houses on reconstruction? This gives it the importance of a measure de- cided upon by the dominant party, and as therefore morally certain to be submitted to the President for bis signature. But how can he be expected to sign this bill, with its preamble denouncing “the pretended government of the late so-called Confederate States’’—govern- ments “set up without the. suthority of Con- gress and without the sanction of the people,’ and as “pretended governments,” affording “no protection for life or property,” but which “countenance and enconrage lawlessness and crime,” thus necessitating the enforcement un- der martial law of “peace and good order” in the “so-called States until loyal and republican governments can be legally established” there. in? The signing of such a bill by President Jobuson would involve his condemnation by himself as the basest of Executive usurpers; for these “pretended governments” are his own handiwork. Of course, then, his approval is not expected, and a yeto is the object contem- plated by Congress. But why a veto? Is it the purpose of the two hanses to pass this bill over the Presi- dent’s head and to bring him to the test of its enforcement or @ resignation? If driven to’ this extremity will he not get up an appeal to the Supreme Court on the plea that this bill is wneonstitutional in suspending the habeas corpus in @ time of peace, though not so de- clared by Congreast And upon such an ap- peal will not the court, following the trail of the Milligan decision, decide against Congress? Perhaps so. But we apprehend that the framers of this measure have another object in view and more directly to the purpose, The bill utterty denounces, repudtates snd super- sedes the reconstruction policy of Mr. John- son as illegal and vold. If placed before bim so that the ten days’ consideration to which he is entitled shall be within the limits of this Congress, which expires on the 4th of March, he must sign or send back the bill to the House, with his reasons for declining to sign it, or with the expiration of sald ten days it will be a law the same as if approved by him. The bill, if submitted to him as suggested, will call for a veto message, It will put Mr. Johnson squarely upon his defence, and he must make out his case, It involves the charge of usurpa- tion in the broadest terms, and he must meet it, or surrender or resign. se What defence can he make? The constitu- tion ag he understands it. He will plead the plea that tho robe! States were never out of the; Union, and that with the surrender of ti, rebel armios thoy returned—certain idence @\’ the war exoented—to tho condifion in removed, or as tho last chance for a graceful | NEW “YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FeBRUARY 6, 1867. Fansity Quarrel Over the Tarif Bill. The great and dominant republican party, which is so overwhelmingly powerful in Con- greas and in the several State governments, and which is united upon general political carry Bgiong or? Why, vas. & § soeess INTELLIGENCE. miasion? ‘And why way the word “purchase” ever used in connection with an affair which "could have been done for nvthing? But once the word was used the Dominicans and Smith for been commenced at the idely divided u the tariff ; on board the questions, is widely pon knew their cue. The strong box Fonte tad that the fe of ealishonic exercises ha question. In truth we may say the two sec- tions of that party, the high tariff protectionists of New England and the low tariff or free trade republicans of the West, are bitterly op- posed to each other on this subject. The radi- cal organ of the West, the Chicago Tribune, 1s the champion of the latter, and its namesake, the organ of the radicals, published in this city, is the advocate of the former. The press | of the party throughout the West and the East Gettysburg was smelt. Its conten# were as a most savory odor in their nostrils~-what old King Solomon would have called “s bade of sweet myrrh.” Smith may have shown pim- self too eager. Very likely he got intoxicated with the perfume of the specie, as a cat loses her head over s handful of catnip, showed his hand, excited suspicion, and lost the job. We are rather sorry for Smith, having always had & great respect for the name. But the failure is generally divided in the same way and fol- pof the mission is not of the slightest conse- A” pol = goal talene lows in the wake of these two papers, It may | quence, On the contrary, it is rather a good wes hemes vi faried on. | During the ovo be said that this is “a pretty quarrel as it stands ;” but we might say, judging from the thing, in view of the money saved. If we want the bay of Samana in St Dontinge we strong language used and the warnings and | can.get it for nothing; atleast we could have eocletion, im. parte threatenings thrown out by both sides, that | got it before a secret mission, which was rial "rgng “a anowsa -it is destined to bring before long serious dis- | trumpeted to the world, was sent to purchase. had” been — Among the cord. ¢ it The difficulty aow is that Don Pizerrinctum- The material interests of a community or Seppression of Lotteries aud Gambling. On Tuesday last a petition was presented to the Legislature by Mr. Wilber, of Dutchess county, praying that stringent measures be passed to put down gambling hells and lottery offices, The petition is signed by Moses Taylor and others of our leading citizens. These gen- tlemen do not seem to be aware that the exist- ing statutes in rexard to the offences com- plained of are as specific and rigorous as they can well be made. In the article which we published yesterday on the subject of lotieries we showed that the law covered all the evasions that could be attempted under the title of gift enterprises or otherwise. It is the same in regard to the other offences referred to by the petitioners. No amendments that could be introduced could more effectually guard against them than they are guarded against at presont, The fact is that the defect does not lie in the law, but in its manner of enforcement. Corruption so pervades every branch of our municipal government that it is easy fo evade the penalties provided by it. We occasionally see small gambling concerns broken up by the police, when under their very noses large gaming establishments are carried on with the most perfect mpunity. The law does not recognize any distinction be- tween. gamblers who happen to be members of Congress or newspaper proprietors and those who are less favored; but the police do. It is made worth their while to keep their eyea shut in the one case, while in the pther there is no called, the Tariff bill, now before Congress. It is, as the papers of that section say, economi- cally a blunder, and fraught with extreme danger, and that political and commercial ruin will follow in its train, It is estimated that the average of the present tariff is fifty-cight per cent, in gold, on all dutiable goods, or near eighty per cent in currency ; that is, the people are paying about a dollar and eighty cents for every dollar’s worth of imported goods they use. Yet the Eastern manufac- turers are not satisfied with the protection ‘thus afforded. They demand more protection, and are moving heaven and earth to get it. Though there are not more than six members of the Senate, as one of the Western radical’ journalisis asserts, who believe that the bill ia right, yot Congress is goaded on to passing it “by an importunate and merciless lobby” which that body bas not tbe courage to resist. Well may the Western people cry out lustily against such one-sided, partial and sectional legislation. Not only are they made to pay near eighty per cent more than the market value of what they consume, and threatened with heavier burdens, for the benefit of a few Eastern manufacturers, but they are deprived at the same time and by the same high tariff from markets for their produce. . It is a two- fold evil—a double oppression. The New England protectionists open their eyes at this resistance from the West. They, Crry Mrsion.—The fortieth report of the New York City Missionary and Tract Society has just been issued. It 1s a dooument of much interest, and contains informa- tion of importance to those who have at heart the mo rality of the city. A detailed history of the operations of the society during tho last is given, sh the measure of success with which its labors have been forty-cight missionaries, who are assisted in their work by 639 voluntary visitora, Through these instramentali- ties during the year 1968 more thap a million tracts bave been distributed, 118,277 visits made, 3,722 children m- duced to attend Sunday schools, and 756 enabled to se- cure the advantages of daily instruction. Five thousan@ services have been held, at which ten thousand new at- tendants have been secured, while 904 persons were induced to pledge themselves to total abstinence from intoxicating drinks, Late Lerarxat Revasve Case rm Wart Sreeer.—Phe distraint put upon the house of Nicholas, Bowen & Co., banker by the revenue officers, has beem withdrawn. The complaint against them was withous cause, and originated from a person who endeavored to extort money by malicious threats. Mxerwa op tHe Umiox Rurvniicax Gxwrnat, Com- srrtxx.—The Union Republican General Committee held their regular monthly mecting last evening, at No. 435 Fourth avenue, (in consequence of the headquarters being lot for an exhibition), with Mr. E. DolaGuld Smitts in. the chair, both the president and vice president bei absent. The minutes of the last meeting were read approved, when, after the announcement of the stand- ing committees for the current year, the meeting ad- Journed. > ew Yorx Yacer Civs.—Tho first general meeting of sthe above club was held Inst evening at Delmonice’s. n 4 |. @, | Stebbins, to rn the meeting pretend to think itatrango that men of their | Obi¢ct ia thelr negleoting their duty, Again'| Wools at the oe iloa et whch time it is. ex. own political stripe should look. moro to aelf- | it is not always-the police who are in, fatilt: 4 pected the Commodore will have arrived from nrope. pomp Jewien Evgcarionas, Corum. ron ‘Sane Yora.—It is proposed to establish an elucational eol- “lege or university for the Jows in the United Staten to be erected in Now York, The proposition ts prometes BER? sorts, ‘eu hy the lodiog. ssdmiers at She Hebrew body in’ this city, Philedelphia ‘and elsewhere. Meetings bave lately been held for the purpose. ‘Tue Gewmrat Teansatiantio SreaMsHir Company. —This company have now nearly completed their now building at plier No. 560 North rivor, for their extended trausis Ja. onsos where-they have shown vigilance we have frequently knowa_of-their- action being disapproved of and frowned apon by the city} authorities, The remedy does .not lie in frash enactments, but in the selection of men of decent character for the police force, as well as for the magistracy. Will Mr. Moses Taylor and -the other influential citiaong who have signed the petition be pleased to take note of this fact? If they would take some little in- terest in our local elections they would find the evils of which they complain susceptible of a remedy. interest than party considerations or tes of. former relationship. The ‘Jeading politicians and journalists of the West “who are now de- claiming {n the strongest language against the tariff were from New England ; bat in moving to the West their interests are in that section ‘Tho original nature remains, there is tho samo restless and dégge@ perseverance in looking afler the main chance—their own peculiar in- terests. The affections of the New Englander are always transferred to where he believes his material welfare lios. We had a striking il:us- tration of ‘this when our late war com- menesd. Many of the most determined pro-slavery men and rebels of the South wore those born and educated in New England, but who had acquired property in the slave States and become identitied with that part ofthe country. The colony of Eastern people who lately went to Palestine would in all probability, if they should remain there, soon become thorough Asiatics. It is known that numbers of them who settled in the Sand- ‘the approaching Paris Exposition. ane. of two stories, five Rundred ops and other conven! dock is six hundred and thity-two feet long by si feet Ethene Fhe ie = Hit with a eee. Tho Europe ts sow loadiag at the dock for the 'rench Exposition, and one vessel, with the mails, wilt leave regularly overy week. j Tex Umtow Reropracan Qrvera. Commrtrm—The regular monthly meeting of the General Committee of ‘The Connectiont Democrary. The Connecticut democracy have resolved upon discarding all the lessons of the last fall elections and to run their machine in the old rut of rebel sympathy, State rights and. Andy Johnson. They met at Hartford on Wednes- day to make their nominations for the April State election, and then and thero laid down the platform upon which they aro determined to fight the campaign. Its planks are, first, ‘Rew commissions and amending old ones for the goverm- — be Relining, The Kxcise law was rou: vaased, Commissioners soverety rated nad ized ag men of “no brains,” wich Islands have become regular monarchists | the unconditional admission of the old rebel | tion of the harsh features ee eee ‘emphati- under the sable dynasty there. Self-interest is | yoagers to Congress, wi t it ly rejected, a resolution fav the plan of impartial the ruling principle with them everywhere, and | ~ a ae Se Nfs ona ional Conran. against future rebollion. Second, the abolish- ment of the loyal Congress as a “mutilated” and unconstitutional concern, and “manly re- sistance” to its “nnautborized legislation.” Third, the Chicago platform, the war a failure, the Union as it was, State rights and Andy Johnson generaliy. With such « platform itis easy to predict tho fate ef the Connecticut copperhead Southern flunky democracy. After the Aprit election they will be ae dead as Andy Johnson. they make everything else subservient to that. So it is with the tariff war now raging between the East and the West. It is mainly a war be- tween the New Englanders at home and the New Englanders who have found another home. It is @ rivalry of conflicting interests among the same people. Many years will not pass before the conflict ing interests of the great agricultural West and Now England on the question of protection or was arrested Railroad depot by W. Detective Police A, early hour on Tuesday morning last the United States bonded warchouse Wos, 616 and 618 tod iu clieping the tariff will assume larger proportions. It ts oy was entered ey bu¥yiars,whe stteceeded in in the nature of things that this should be so. FIRES IN NEW YORK. inane camen ens castes oe This conflict will be a powerful wedge in dividing ‘the present dominant political party and in reforming other parties. We cannot doubt as to what will be the result, The ex- traordinary growth of the West must give that section a preponderating power in the country. ‘New England, with its selfish protection dogmas, Fran cy Povrow Strert.—A fire broke out very sud- — * denly, about one o'clock this merning, im the stores 162, |) 154, 166 and 158 Fulton street, The policoman im |. making his rounds a short time before could discover nothing unusual; but he had bardly reached tho corner of Nassan street before a bright binge threw ite rofiec- tion tn alt directions. The storovon Fulton stroet were occupiod by David Close, clothier; Joseph Marsh, arti- ~~ WAND ON. THIEVES. Tho entire Wetective force of tho various Ppotice pre- cincts of the city was assembled at police helitgharters yesterday efternoon by spepial order; when Inspector Dilks informed the officers that'the thieves whe infested the city hed of Iate become so troublesome that he had thought 1 advisable to cill them together thas will be left in the background, and the more ficial limb and truss maker; J, H. Tingo, book- | they a receive epecial instructions as te how pickpockets and others of the I persistently it urges its tariff notions the more | ‘yer ent mrt Blcoks Aeeras occupied uy | Angered entre should be dealt wish in tate, will it basten its own isolation. In contemplat- ' aie hee name coufd not om pope 4 oy beg = pon Ce! = this result we cannot help reflecting on | otfice party. unk: . that many of the conduc- ing : vd The hee doors above laine tava Cae entrance ia league with the thieves, an@ what will be the fate of the radical protectionist organs, and particularly the fate of the chief one in this city. Greeley’s occupation, like Othello’s, will be gone. He will be left out in the cold. Even his present protection friends will abandon him for having pushed them to a fatal extremity. The balance sheet of his paper, which now shows such slim assets, will run down to nothing. That, however, may not at 206 Broad were ocoupiod by a large number of PE BG “ eet seer , dre enretoped the Whole Getd- ing 80 quickly that the cause of it could not be ascer. ta ‘The upper floors were, as were also the storos, fally insured, and the loss will probably reach $10,600. Fine 1x East Sextm Sreaet.—At about half-past one o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the basement of the building 14 Bast Sixth street, occupicd by Thomas H. Chambers as ® pianoforte tactory. The sheds in the rear, and im of dreaming about high Goon os eee the pullding. In which the fire origi: Pilcity to bim, when he would eee to it that the citizemm ae raring tariffs and “ours oul Lore bey} be from. thi protection. Like all men of one idea he will Fo Ma we on promuslonel or teene whe wore a onieaster ane Fee ie West Forrimrm Srezet.—Shortly after eignt o'clock last evening @ fire ecourred im « frame building rear of No. 260 West Fortieth street, owned and ocoupted by a blind man named Richard Cala, a manufacturer of tow mats. be tatarnet 60) ee runy 200, teriher woh probably die in bis faith, Against all the in- fluence of New England and the “importunate and merciless lobby” of which our Chicago contemporary speaks, .we still hope Congress may throw out the monstrous and ui several looms and stock, were pretty mucl ed, greeted Tariff bill now pending. oo averainn Sa lagort 9900. | Tnecred for $2, in srt yng arctan fe ding es fire is raid to have been enuned jockey en a gentle slope han- cureton of ove of the workmen smoking. brine | ared ‘the race course, Plans have penne) oni or The West Indian Mission—Statesman Ap- prenticeship. Our Washington correspondence of yester- day contains a positive statement that the mission of Mr. F. W. Seward meant the pur- (USICAL. The fourth night ef the German opere season at the Olympic was signalized by the production of Mozart's comic opora, The Marriage of Figaro. If the nuptials of the sorely tried valot wore a true forctaste of what a chase of “naval privileges” in the island of ‘man has tow before he succeeds in i bnne indorgo hy montzing Mexerox, i St. Domingo, and thot said mission proved a | hirovelf, thon we fear that bridal veil, white glovon ani een, econ Fase take ta Weep, failure. Of course it did. It appears from | cards would become less numerous in the world, Chan. the main deck. She was a boat, sunk to don, aa Figaro, was an Othello in his jealousy, the | valued at $24,000, and owned by Daniel Able & Co. hering part excepted; Madame Johannsen’ and jer wore sprightly representatives of Sueanna and Cherubino, and called ferth morited applaage, and Wilhelm Formes made a sefficiently aria- tocratic gort of Count. Madame Frederict was unexcep- tionable aa the Countess, and the other charactors were well We were sorry to notice a falling off in the eo wm) 4 pmo company, sich operas: laced ty ein such @ manner deworve the hearty support ot the another source that Mr. Seward had with him “a strong box filled with specie’—a thing which the islanders have never seen in all their lives, Then there was a man by the name of Smith— One of the fow, the immortal nam: That were not born to die— ‘New Orteans, Feb, 7, 1967. steamer top hence for ia one’ the rapids at Hip gag oo rocks ioe condition. olin tater Nason, ‘with 100 tales of cotton to the boiler deck, thirty upon whom is cast all the blame, Smith, who | Grover's attempt XB moe pd ot a | hi Ne lives ‘were Tout by otther of the above disaster, had the management of the affair on the part bm Wiltiam Tell, Martha aad th Morey of POISONED *ARAMOUR. of St. Domingo, is charged with incompe- | Windsor ought to fil'the house ‘esol remaining nigut 4 4 NEGRO GIAL BY WER WHITE Pi during the week, a8 overy moans in adopted to place Feb. 1, 1867. tency. We do not believe it Incompetency | thom on the stage in a propor manner. Botte 1 & “iikely’ colored girl, was poisoned is not one of the characteristios of the great ra gp oo CO mCRR this morning by @ white man who had keeping hor Smith family, That there was incompetency NOMINATION Fon CONGRESSMAN OV THE UTAH GENTILES. incaminrn, te ‘strand, thes would’ tot is ae somewhere wo do not doubt, but not on the Drever, EPoltatpe ty that che wae with obild by Ho was sart of Smith, Why did the scoret mission end aptton ot pre ae oF ‘ ify ri i a