The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1867, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHEET. aes York, ‘Thursday, March 28. 1867, EUROPE. ; ‘The news reported by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, March 27. ‘The Derby Reform bill has been passed to a second reading in the House of Commons, the debate, vital to ‘the measure, to commence on the Sth of April, North Germany has adopted a constitution agreeing, in its main features, with that drafted by Count Bismarek. Jhe Prince of Servia is about to visit the Sultan of Purkey. Fighting has been suspended in Candia. Consols closed at 9144 for money in London, United Ptates five-twentios were at 74% in London, 777; in Frankfort, and 843; in Paris. ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet, with’ mid- @log uplands at 134d. Breadstuffs aod provisions dull. By mail we have interesting details of our cable Gespatches to the 16th of March. ‘Tne Londom Times publishesa very sharp editorial analysis of the speech of the Duke de Persigay on con- Stitutional government in France, Encland and the United States, In reply to the Duke's charge that England wished for the permanent disruption of the American Union by means of the Jeff Davis rebellion, the writer says ‘England shrank from aiding France to break up the United States by supporting the Southern- ere and by establishing a Mexican empire.” The special letter of our Londom coriespondent on the progress of the reform revolution in Great Britain And the attitude of the democracy towards the aristocracy ‘and Parliament embraces matter of much importance in its report of the situation of the parties and their pros- pects of success. ‘The Frevoh exposition of Fenianism, its origin, char- ‘acter and intent, as set forth in the Jowrnal Débats of Paris, is published in our columns, with interesting Rowspaper reports of the war situation in Ireland and Liverpool on the 15th of March. CONGRESS. In the Senate yosterday the annual report of the New ‘York Bank of Commerce for 1865 was introduced, charg- tng that Mr, Thomas, whose credontials as Senator from Marylaod are before the Judiciary Committee, withdrew . & large amount of money {rom New York city in Docem- Der, 1860, at which time he was Secretary of the Treas- ury, the money being intended for the payment of in- toreat on United states stocks, The report was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill from the Finavce Committee guaranteeing to Louisiana the sum of $6,000,- 000, for the construction of levees, was ordered to be printed. The bills to prohibit the removal of Indian tribes and other perposes and relative to the settioment Of the accounts of army officers were passed. The bill to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the contin- gout fund of the House was amended and passed, One ment appropriates $51,000 for ths expenses of the dolegations on their recent visit to Washington. report of the Judiciary Commities on the House Patimony relative to the connection of Senator Doollt- Jo and Pattorson with the New York Custom House Jroubles was read. It exonerates both Senators from any fmplication whatever therein. Pending consideration of a motion to print the testimony the Senate adjourned. In the House the Sonate bill to incorporate the Lincoln ‘Monument Association was passed. A resolution for ‘the reappointment of a special committee on Southern railroads was adopted. The Senate amendments to the resolution relative to the claims of certain Northero ereditors, introduced by Mr. Butler, were laid upon the table, which is e virtual defeat of the bill, The adjourn. ment question came up on the receipt of the message of tho Senate regarding its action thereon. Mr. Schenck Offered an amondment to the Senate amendment, ad- Journing until the first Wednesday in June and the first ‘Wednesday in September, which was adopted, and the Benate amendment, which provides for an adjournment at noon to-day, was concurred in as amended. Reso- Jutions relative to claims of foreign governments for Property destroyed by tho army of tho United States; Protesting against the confederation of the British North American provinces; and expressing sympathy for the people of Ireland and Candia were adopted, the latter unanimously, Mr, Washburne offered an atmendment declaring the Fontan movemnt inoperative, but it was rejected, A reaoltion declaring it to be the sense of the House that Henry A. Smythe ought to be removed from his position a8 Collector of the Port ot Now York was aciopted by yous 68, nays 38, After some (further busi- 1es3 of minor importance the House adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the Metropolitan Transit or ‘Three Tier Raitirond bill was reported adversely, and de. feated, Bille to incorporate the Now York cross town yuilrond and for the better regulation of the power jot brokers and others wore introduced. Bills amend. ling the act for the incorporating of religious societies; \to complete the high service water works at Carmans- |ville; relative to the Croton Aqueduct land extending the powers ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. missionsre were passog, Pending disougpion bil requiring the Harlem Railroad Company to ‘wp the Yorkville owt the Senate took a recess, On renasem- bling the bill relative to the Harlem Railroad cut at York- ville was advavced to a third reading. The report of the Conference Committee on the Constitutional Con- Vention bill was agreed to and the bill paseed. In the Assembly, bills to establish « legal gazette in New York; to amend the act regulating pilotage in the ort of New York; to incorporate the Long Isiand and New York company for the construction of a bridge over East river, and making eight hours of labor a legal day’s work were passed, the latter by a vote of 73 to 41. The report of the Conference Committee on the Constitutional Convention was edopted, and thus the bill has passed both houses, It provides for an election by Senatorial districts and the preseat system of suffrage of a convention to revise the constitution, the election to take place on the 234 of April, THE CITY. ‘Mar. John Savage last evening delivered a lestere to a large assemblage of people in the Cooper Institute, under the auspices of the Fenian Brotherhood. Subject— “Theobald Wolfe Tone and the Cause of Ireland.’’ Acommunication from Coroner Wildey says that the cortificate given by him of the death of Mra, Noble, sup- posed to have beon the result of an attempt at abortion, is the same that he usually gives in cases where a ver- ict has not been rendered. Aaron Jones has challenged Michael McCoole, of St. Louia, to fight within two or three months for $1,000. Rumor has {t that Joe Coburn and John C, Heenan are to fight for $10,000 and the championship of America. Mrs, Delia Lanergan, an Irish woman, was found dead in her bed in the tenemont house No. 135% Washlagton street, on Tuesday night. Her busband, Dennis Laner- gan, was arrested, and a Coroner's inquest is being held on the body. ‘The Court of Appeats nas now fairly commenced its functions in the new Court House, and a number of ap- peals from various State courts were yesterday argued and submitted, In the Court of Common Pleas an action was brought yesterday by Eliza Bogort vs, James Bogert for limited divorce, on the ground of alleged crue! treatment, Case still on, In the Superior Court, Part 2, in the case of Burns vs GnMo, an action for assault and battery, laying damages at $2,500, the jury awarded a verdict of six and @ quarter cents. An important Custom House case was commenced yesterday in the Waited States District Court, before Judge Benedict, It is au action for forfeiture of certain goods alleged to have been withdrawn from the Custom House on an under valuation entry. It is reported that the hearing of the case will occupy the court tor the ro- mainder of the week. The examination of Dr. George Beakley and Mrs, Nancy Cole, in the Kimball abortion cas», was continued yesterday at the Tombs, before Judge Dowling. The concluding testimony on the part of the prosecation was taken, and the case adjourned until two o'clock to-day. The railroad share market was dull yesterday. The steamships and one or two miscellaneous shares were actively dealt im. Gold closed at 134 There was a moderate business transacted im com- mercial ciroles yesterday, and prices favored the pur- chaser generally, especially of domestic produce, Im- Ported merchandise was without docided change. Cot- ton was lower, while coffee was steady. On ‘Change flour declined 5c. a 10c., wheat 2c. a 3c., and corn 1c. a 2c., white oats ruled steady. Pork opened firm, but closed heavy. Beef was unchanged. Lard was active, though scarcely as firm. Freights were quict. ‘aval stores were firm, though the demand was light. Powo- Jeum remained firm. Whiskey was steady. MISCELLANEOUS. Our letter from Matamoros, Mexico, is dated Marth 16, and is mainly confirmatory of the newa recently tele- graphed to the Hxraxp from that section. Maximilian, Miramon dnd other rmperial chiefs bad disappeared from Querétaro. The reports of Escobedo’s dofest are again authoritatively denied, Our correspondent in Kentucky gives an account of a trip through the Green river country recently visited by the flood, and also some taformation relative to the pre- vailing political sentiments entertained by the people. Several prominent merchants of Chafieston visited General Sickles on Tuesday, and assured him they would beartily co-operate with him im the work of reorganiza- tion. Goneral Sickles replied that the militery would not interfere in political movements as partizans. A G. Brown, of Mississippi, urges the acceptance of the condi- tions imposed in the Sherman bill on the people, on the plea thata conquered people have no rights which the conquerors are bound to respect. General Sheridan issued his order yosterday, remov- ing the Attorney Goneral of Louisiana, tho Mayor of New Orleans, and Judge Abell, of the First District Court of that city from office, and appointing others to take their place. The changes wore to take place immediately. The Indian delegations in Washington were to have had a war dance for their own amusement in the Sev- eoth Street Park last evening, but Secretary Browning interfered and prevented it, on the ground that the red men would probably consume too mach ‘fire water’ and engage in a free fight. General H. W. Slocum was nominated to the office of Naval Officer of the port of New York by the President yosterday. General Sherman has ordered that all steamboats ply- ing the Missouri river above Sioux City shall be fur- nished with two pieces of artillery and twenty muskets, General Sweeny, the post commander at Augusta, Ga, has forbidden all elections until Goneral Pope assumes command of the district, The Maryland radical Republican Convention, elected some time ago, assembled in Baltimore yesterday and memorialized Congress for a republican form of gov- ernment for the State. They passed resolutions in op- position to the convention recently called by the Legisla- ture, and in case of the assembling of such convention they propose to hold convention of their own and form a constitution on the basis of manhood suffrage. A special session of the Vermont Legislatare convened yesterday. ‘The town elections in Westchester county havo re- sulted in some cases in victories for the democrats and fm others for the republicans, In Yonkers the republi- can candidate for Saporvisor gained the day by a close vote over his democratic opponent, In White Plains the democratic candidate was elected, and in East Chester the republican candidate for Supervisor and the demo- cratic candidates for the other offices were elected. ‘A mass’ meeting of negroes was held last night in Macon, Ga, at which resolutions wore adopted return- ing thanks to Congress for emancipation and suffrage and endorsing the policy of Governor Brown in recom. mending the people to accept the terms proposed, The reported discovery of the body of a Miss Goode- nough, in hor father’s cellar in Brandon, Vermont, and the arrest of her father on saspicion of having mur- dored hor, turns out to be antrue, Tho girt is still miss- ing and Mr, Goodenough has not been arrested. An express mail train on the Erie Rallway ran off the track near Mount Hope, N. Y., yesterday morning about two o'clock, by which the engineer was killed and the fireman badly scalded. A fow passengors wore slightly injured, The levees above Now Orleans are roported to be giving way, and it was probable that all the lower portion of the country would be inundated. ‘Two of the negroes engaged in a demonstration agai nat the street cara in Charteston were arrested yesterday and fined. They declared that they wore drank and incited to do the mischief by other persons. Lamirande, the Forger. The British government has virtually aban- doned its claim for the return of Lamirande, the French forger, who was illegally taken from Canada under the Extradition treaty. It reserves, however, its undoubted right to renew the demand if it shall hereafter decide so to do, The reappearance of Lamirando’s name reminds us that the Poitiers judge and M. Lachaud, the brilliant Parisian jury lawyer, who, on no better testimony than a convict’s lies, brought slanderous accusations against two highly respectable lawyers of this city, and even against the entire New York bar, have never made the amende honorable for their gross violation of professional courtesy. Yet those accusations were at once and thoronghly refuted by Messrs. Coudert fréres, counsel for the Bank of France. It might not be amiss for some ot our eminent lawyers to call apon their French brethren for the reparation of this Department of the Contral Park Oom- | Offence. Miewe vaut tard que jamale, The Fatare of the United States—A Hint te | of it for the consequences of accidents, for { Shall Chief Justice Chase be Impoached? the Republican Party. When in the yet distant future, time having rolled away the mists of prejudice through which we are too apt to contemplate the things of the present, the history of these United States comes to be wisely and impartially written, the crisis through which the nation has passed and the crisis on which she has entered will form two of its most interesting and most instructive sections. In treating of the first of these crises it will devolve upon the historian to trace to their roots the various causes which at last exploded in @ gigantic civil war; to relate bow, for a time, that war threatoned to rend the great republic in twain, and how, contrary to almost universal ex- pectation, and after almost unexampled sacri- fice and suffering, the rebellion was finally and effectually suppressed. Nor will it be possible for him in summing up the resulte of that fearful struggle not to speak in terms. of lofty eulogy of that political party to whose wisdom and energy and self-sacrifice and in- domitable perseverance we mainly owe it that the republic has been preserved entire, and that never at any former period was its flag | more respected or its destiny more promising. ‘The character of the other crisis lies as yet hidden in the womb of the future; but it will be well for the lasting reputation of the republi- can party if at the close of this second period their record shall prove to be as illus- trious as it was at the close of the first. It cannot be said that the course which events have taken since the suppression of the rebel- lion has exclusively encouraged such a hope. The history of the dominant republican party since the close of the war bas untortunately in too many particulars resembled the history of dominant and successful parties in all ages and in all nations. United, vigorous, patriotic so long as they are beset by a common enemy, they have too often become a prey to division, to weakness, to selfishness, the moment the enemy has ceased to resist. It was when the energies of the nation combined and success- fully repelled a powertul foreign invasion that the French republic revealed its greatest vitality, It was directly when that enemy was gone that the republic revealed ils greatest weakness. The passions and preju- dices and petty rivalries of sections and individuals which were stifled and restrained 80 long as France was threatened by a foe from without burst forth with destructive vio- lence as soon as the foe disappeared, and the French republic was ruined by enemies trom within, If the republic of the United States is free from such danger and can look forward with hope and confidence to a prosperous and glorious future, it cannot be said that we are indebted for our security and hopefulness to the lofty wisdom, the unfailing good sense, the noble and undivided aims of those in whese hands the government of the nation has been vested since the close of the war. The debt under whieh we are laid to the republicen party should not blind us to their fantts, ‘The general course of American politics, the ssy- ings and doings of American statesmen, the unseemly exhibitions which are daily made within the halls of Congress and the demoralization which has set in with powertul current, and which . is characteristic in a greater or lesser degree of both of our great political parties, are in the eyes of the world in the last degree dishonor- ing to the American Union and to those noble institutions of which we have so much cause to be proud. It is-impossible, indeed, for any one interested in the honor and welfare of his country to contemplate the present aspect of things but with feelings of pain. There is one section of politicians to whom the nation is beginoing to turn its eyes with a hopeful confidence. The more conservative ot the republican party, who have long been in the minority, are already making their influence felt. Now is their opportunity. If they would give new tone to and take the lead of the party with whom they have been acting, or if they would organize a new party on a broader and nobler basis, they never can have a more fitting opportunity. The nation is sick of strife and division. Wiser and more temperate counsels are needed. The change of fecling which has taken place in the South seems to have be- gotten a corresponding change in the North. Restoration cannot be more anxiously longed for in the one case than it wiil be heartily wel- comed in the other. By dint of skilful manage- ment North and South may soon be knit together in the bonds of a happy Union. But the crisis is delicate, Extreme mea- sures may mar and ruin the whole. Wisdom and caution are in the highest de- gree necessary, There is no pgrty whose counsels are more suited to the occasion than those of the conservative republicans. Theirs is the opportunity if they will only embrace it. If they fail to-take advantage of it it is impossible to predict into what disorganization the repub- lican party may be thrown, or what may be the parties and measures of the future. If they seize it aad prove themselves worthy of the occasion they shall have the honor, not only of restoring the Union, and thus of wiping out the last trace of our unhappy domestic divisions, but of building up a great and powertul party which shall control the destinies of this nation and guide her in her onward and upward pathway of prosperity and glory for at least the next half century. Meanness of Railroad Companies. There are no commercial associations which make larger profits than the railroad compa- nies. There are none certainly which are more avaricious or which are harder on their em ployés, The trouble on the Coney Island line has been brought about entirely by this spirit. The directors first removed all their old conductors on the assumption by a new superintendent that the men were dishonest. A wholesale charge of this kind is, in the first place, incapable of proof, and, in the second, its assertion by a man new to the affairs of the company should have suggested doubts as toits being true evenina measure, But what follows shows that this person was utterly unfitted for his post. He introduced a new regulation, which was that the drivers should sign a contract with the company agreeing that they should pay for all damages occurring to their cars and horses, their per diem wages for ® day’s labor of fourteen hours and @ half being only $1 80. We all know that fn times like these it ig « dificult thing for @ working man, burdened with @ family, to make both ends meet on such pag. How, thom, is It possible for bim to provide out which, in the majority of instances, he is really notresponsiblet In the history of the struggles between labor and capital we must say that we have never read of anything so unreasonable or heartleas, First Class Theatre Wasted. Ground must be seventy-five to one hundred feet front ‘and rear, and one hundred and -five to two bun- cation ‘# corner preterred, and loosted not lower down than Union equare ha tpaiaig sy Ove apriania lines of Wovsth aad. Fifth avenues. The owner Mdobest bor’ U5, Now York Pos Ofte. ‘This advertisement seems to mean business. It is @ bold proposition, and we give it a place in our editorial columns on account of its originality and its radical deviation from the old-fashioned way of doing these things. It will be seen that Mr. Hackett does not propose ® subscription to buy a lot and build a theatre, as is the usyal custom, although no doubt, had he done s0, there could be readily found sev- eral gentlemen of the first class in society to contribute three or four hundred thousand dol- lars for the purpose. He goes upon the prin- ciple of first catching his hare and then cook- ‘ing it. ‘Now, if there is one ¢rait in the character of the American people more distinctive than another it is the vigor with which they go into supplying their wants as soon as they are felt. Thore seems to be something which inspires to energy in the fresh keen air of our climate, coming to us, as it does, from the bold open prairies of the West—sometbing so different from the effect of the damp cloudy atmosphere of European countries. No matter what we undertake to do, from building iron-clads to building theatres, it is done quickly. In Europe committees sit for years pondering over the idea of an iron-clad war vessel, wasting moun- tains of foolscap and rivera of ink upon a structure that generally turns out to be of no use; but when our war broke out we had a whole navy of iron-clads afloat in a few months. It is the same with our theatres. Ifa theatre 1s burned down in England it may be years be- fore andther is constructed in its place. It is but a few days since we lost a theatrical land- mark by the destruction of Winter Garden, by which it is said the managers lost some hun- dred thousand dollars or more. We heard something of a subscription being raised for them to set them on their legs again, but we do not know whether such is the case or not. However, here is Mr. Hackett—who is not exactly in the bloom of youth, although he looks as young as he did twenty-five years ago, and indeed somo _ ill-natured people say that he looks younger than his son; but he rather enjoys a Fal- staffian age as well as a Falstaffan reputa- tion—entering the field at once with a substan- tial proposal to build a aew theatre up town. Ho has hit upon a good location in selecting a spat above Union square, and between Pourth and Fifth avenues, Mr. Haokett is ®represen- tative of the legitimate -drama, and we may hope to see that class of performances, devel- oped by himself and Forrest and Booth, in- ‘stead of the blue smoke, blue light drama, in which we only see the Fourth of July re- ee Ee ee ae of tin pans, bells other melodious ingtru- ments that remind one of a parcel of Chinese onthe war path. We may oxpect, too, to get some original plays on the boards instead of the revamped foreign trash with which we have 80 long been surfeited. For these reasons we wish Mr. Hackett success in his enterprise. ‘We hope he will get that lot seventy-five feet by two bundred. Signe of a Breakap Among Our City Railroad Jobs at Albany. Governor Fenton’s facts and arguments against the Christopher street or Crosstown Railroad bill, as presented in his veto message to the State Senate, which we published yes- terday, have doubtless opened the eyes of many of our previously unsuspecting tellow citizens to the bold and presuming enormities of these railway combinations. This grand crosstown job, as it appears trom the Governor’s exposures, oomprehends three distinct street railroad lines and the transfer of a stage line to anew route; no amount of capital is men- tioned in the bill and no provisions tor its pay- ment; no security to the creditors of the com- pany; no ways and moans for collecting the five per cent of the net receipts, which the bill proposes to givé to the city, while the powers proposed to be given the company over the streets and over the publio right of way and the private rights of property concerned aro without limit. ‘That such a bill should be vetoed by an honest Governor is not surprising ; but the passage of such a scheme by a vote of twenty-two to six in the Senate and of ninoty- four to five in the Assembly is past accounting for except upon a lobby fund of a few hundred thousands of the net profits of the job. The bill will most probably be carried over the veto; but it is to be hoped that at least the principal objections of the Governor will re- sult in some améndments for the protection of public interests and private rights. The defeat of the Three-tier Railroad bil! in the Senate, in the next place, is a matter which will give this community some satisfaction; for it indicates that there is a screw loose in tho machinery of the lobby which may possibly result in the breaking up of some of their rail- way schemes for enriching the jobbers in- terested at the expense of our city treasury, taxpayers, property holders and citizens gen- erally. Unquestionably, from the public acts and record of the two men, Governor Fenton is a better guardian of public interests and private rights in this city than Mayor Hoffman. ‘Tho New Post Office Site. The committee of the Common Council have very properly reported against locating the new Post Office in the City Hall Park. We have already cited many reasons why it should not be placed there, and these reasons are strengthened by the experience of every day. With the amount of business at present con- contrated at that point and the constant ob- struction of travel, the life of any one attempt- ing to cross Broadway from John street to Bar- clay street is not safe. What would the con- dition of things be if the Post Office business were to be added, with all its mail wagons end dense crowd of people depositing and calling for letters? The Post Office business itself could not be carried on there, because people could not obtain access to the building; and this is objection enough to the location, even if there wore no other, Foxxy—To hear the pious Independent call- ing the opponents of Barnum tn Connecticut “unsorupulows.” _ If a high public functionary, like the Presi- Gent or the Chief Justice, refuses to execute the laws or obstructs their execution, that undoubt- edly is good ground for impeachment. Should the President be found derelict in this respect Congress certainly will not fail to impeach him. That, in fact, is the sword now banging over his head, and Congress is waiting to see whether he will do his duty in carrying out the laws which are known to be obnoxious to him. From the light we have upon the matter we believe Mr. Johnson intends to do his duty, and will thus escape impeachment. But, strange to say, one of the most promi- nent men of the radical faction that clamor for the impeachment of the President, the very man who is their candidate for the Presidency, has committed the impeachable offence of refusing to execute the laws and obstructing their execution. We refer to Chief Justice Chase. It t well known that, under the merest pretext, he has refused to hold ® court for the trial of Jeff Davis, who is charged with the highest crimes. It was Mr. Ghaae’s duty to have the eccused tried. Davis has been a prisoner nearly two years ; there was no accessity to wait for evidence; for ail the evidence that could be obtained was obtainable, and Mr. Chase was officially aoti- Ged long ago that the prisoner would be sur- rendered any moment to the jurisdiction of his court. Yet the Chief Justice would not carry out the law and have justice done. There is, however, a stronger case for impeaching Mr. Chase than this. By the Bank- rupt law, passed last Congress, in the third section the duty of nominating the registers in bankruptcy {s imposed upon the Chief Justice, Mr. Chase has not nominated them, and it is understood he declines to nominate them. The law was to take effect as to the appointment of officers immediately after its approval on the the 2d of March, and on the Ist day of June next proceedings under the act should be com- menced. Efforts have been made by the friends of Mr. Chase to relieve him from the duty imposed by Congress. As late as Tuesday last Mr. Sprague, his son-in-law, made a motion in the Senate to amend the Bankrupt bill, by striking ont the Ist of June and inserting the 1st of January. This would extend the time for the law to go into effect six months. There can be no doubt as to the object of this motion. Mr. Sprague evi- dently wanted to relieve his father-in-law from a dilemma.. There conld be no other reason for wishing to defer the execution of the law. The Senator thought, perhaps, that by post- poning the operation of the law till after Con- gress should mect in December there would be a chance of amending it so as to relieve the Chief Jus‘ice from performing a duty he has «ap to this time declined to perform. The ‘action of Mr. Sprague goes far to confirm the’ statement that Mr. Chase réfases to nominste the registers in bankruptcy. ‘The question arises here, why whould the Chief Justice wish te defeat or obstruct the execution of this law? To most people such conduct must appear inexplicable. We have heard reasons given, and on examining the Bankrupt act closely we. helieve we discover. what they are, The ‘Inw: places partnerships. ‘and business corporations or associations on the same footing as individuals. Those pet institations of Mr. Ohase and his friends, the national banks, can be put into involuntary bankruptcy and closed up just as readily, if they be not sound, as individuals. Section thirty.seven of the act says :—“The provisions of this act shall apply to all moneyed business or commercial corporations and joint stock companies,” and that “upon the petition of any creditor or creditors of such corporation or company, made and presented in the man- ner hereinafter provided in respeot to debtors, the like proceedings shall be had and taken as are hereinafter provided in the case of debtors.” It will be within the power of individual credi- tors to bring the national bank corporations to the test of soundness or bankruptcy, just as well as other corporations and companies or persons can be brought to that test. This is where the shoe pinches ; doubtless im this may be found the secret of Mr. Chase’s hostility to the Bankrupt law. Looking at the rotten con- dition which some of these banks have exhibit- ed, and the probable unsoundness of many more, the operation of the bill may well be feared. Mr. Chase, as the father of tho national banks, has naturally a paternal regard for them. But he is more solicitous about them for other reasons, They are a mighty power in the country; and apart from the wealth he and his friends may have made and are making through them, he expects to be carried into the White House by their in- fluence. No man knows better than he, pro- bably, the unsound condition of many of these associations, and he may be afraid that the new Bankrupt law will make such an exposure of their affairs as to cause s demagd for the abolishment of the whole system. He does not want this, because the eyes of the people would be opened to all the enormities and dangers of a monstrous and unscrupulous mo- nopoly, and because he might lose the lever by which he expects to be raised to the Presidency. Should the people be led to de- mand the repeal of the National Bank act, as it is to be hoped they will, he would both lose his reputation as a statesman and fail im his ambition. Here, then, we may see a sufficient motive for Mr. Chase being hostile to the Bankrupt law and for his refusal to perform his duty in put- ting it into operation. Will Congress permit the Chief Justice to frustrate its mandate and obstruct the execution of the laws? This isa grave question, and one that his radical friends in Congress will not be able to ignore. Should he persist in his present course it will be as clear ® case for impeachment as ever was brought before a national legislature. What do Butler and the other radical members who are ao intent on impeaching the President say to this? It would be better for them to drop Mr, Jobnson, at least until they have a case against him, and turn their attention to Chief Justice Chase. aeacepelgeenpepenipanentin Tho Now York Collecter. Under the whip and spur of the ranting radicals, headed by Mr. Hulburd, the House of Representatives yesterday, by s vote of sixty-eight to thirty-eight, passed a resolution to the effect that Mr. Henry A. Smythe should be removed from the office of Collector of the Port of New York. Upon what new grounds or charges this action was taken does not appear ; but if no farther evidence has been adduced than that contained in the recent one-sided report of the Committee on Public Expend!- tures we question whether the President will foe] that sufficient cause exists to warrant him in obeying the requirements of the resolulion. At all events, Mr. Smythe has returned to the city fully satisfied that he will not be disturbed for the present. The New Route te Ubian. We published yesterday an interesting letter from our special correspondent, a passenger on the Colorado, the pioneer ship of the Chins line of the Pacific Mail Company. The round trip of this steamer—from San Francisco to Yokohama and Hong Kong and back again— inaugurates, as we have already shown, a revolution in commerce. With railways and telegraphic lines stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, and steamship lines and ocean cables from California to the Sandwich Islands and the shores of Eastern Asia, news will be transmitted instantaneously around the globe, exchanges will be equalized everywhere, the manufac- tures of Europe, the productions of North and | South America and the silks, cashmeres, teas and spices of the East will be transported across the United States, and this Western voe- Ynent will become the ‘highway for the car- tying trade of the-world. Cotumbus was right ‘Bfter all in sailing westward ‘with the expecta- tion of Gnding the gate and pathway to the Indies. Buglish travellers. will, of course, preter ¢he new route by way of New York and San Francisco to the tedious voyage round the Cape of Good Hope or the overland mail to India. By the latter it takes about forty-eight days to reach Hong Kong from London, and at present it is nearly as long by way of San Francisco; but when the Pacific Railroad shall have been completed the time will.be shortened by at least a week. It may be a good while yet before this railroad will be finished, and even then it is probable that steamship lines will be preferred for freight and passage. The English already dread the competition of the Pacific Mail Company, and well they may ; for although we might wish that its actual pros- perity looked as bright at home as it looks abroad, distance lending, perhaps, enchant- ment to the view, yet there can be no doubt as to the ultimate success of such an enter- prise. We must, however, advise the company to substitute propellers for sidewheel steamers, as the French transatlantic steamship com- panies have done and as the British companies are about to do. A propeller can carry a heavier cargo ; it can be full rigged, which ie impossible with a sidewheel steamer; it is sater and cheaper, and, although the slip of » sidewheel is leas than that of a screw, the dif- ference in speed is amply compensated for by other decided advantages. England has always fostered . her meroaatile | marine, and France, with unequal: steps and not without difficulty, has lately bean’ following | her example, Bet the United States, the youthful giant nation of the West, begins te ‘see its manifest ddptiny in the.opening ‘direst trade with Eastern. and promises hence- forth to “rule tho waves” in & way ‘that will astonish Britannia and the world. Tolographs, Expresses and Newspapers. During the war/of the late Southern rebel- lion our Northern’ telegraph lines made money, our express companies made money, and most of, our established newspapers made monoy. | Profitable enterprises attract competition and capital, and so, since the return of peace, there is no end to the new schemes and companies that have sprung up for new telegraph lines by land and sea, The war profits of the leading express companies of this city have in the same way attracted the attention of speculators and capitalists. First a combination of men, chiefly without capital, get up their scheme for a grand opposition express company, and next, mem who have more money than they know what to do with are induced to subscribe, and once im | for it they go ahead until their new express | establishment flies its banner in triumph from one of the costliest and loftiest buildings ef Broadway. So far ao good. But as experience, development and a thorough understanding and adaptation of the ways and means, agents and machinery, to the business in band are es- sential to success, the important question re- mains to be determined whether this new en- terprise is to be a hitor « failure, All the requisites indicated are established in the pros- perity of the old line. The new one is an ex- periment involving « vast amount of capital to start it, while the public confidence in it must depend upon the test of experience. ' In the next place, the success of various newspaper establishments, that have grada- ally and steadily grown up from small begin- nings to great institutions of moral power and financial prosperity, have attracted various outside parties to similarundertakings. Thus, we hear that in this metropolis several new dailies and weeklies are contemplated, while at the same time old newspaper doctors, upon the principle of “no cure no pay,” are ready to take in hand any sickly journal that offers © chance of recuperation. From time to time, like the gholera, we have a newspaper epi- demic of this sort ; but from all such epidemics, while the wrecks are numerous, the successful ventures are few and far between. In tele- graphs, expresses, newspapers or anything else, however, “the more the merrier.” We like to see capital actively employed. This or that scheme in which money and Isbor are risked may fail, but still the oapital thus put Into circulation is an advantage to the whole community, And so, “as money makes the mare go,” and as “competition is the life of trade,” let not enterprising mon and men of money be deterred from this or that line of business because others are already in posses- sion ‘of the field. In new public. journals, if we have nine failures to one success, there is still one chance in ten. Mr. Bergh and Cruelty te Animals. We hear a great deal of noise made through / police reports and other channels of cruelty to | animals, much of which is entirely unneces. ) sary. For instance, if an Irishman who may ( happen to be enjoying his St Patrick's Day } should hit his horse a little too hard he is im- mediately pounced upon by Mr. Bergh or some philanthropic policeman, just.asif it wore tho man, and not the whiskey, that hurt the horse, Some time ago Mr. Bergh was sorely distressed because some ship captains followed the old custom, which has existed since turtles wore edible, of packing these amphibious creatures on the decks of their vessels, on their backs. Now we would give Mr. Bergh somo advice, If instead of disturbing himself aboat tre ~ uncomfortable attitude of turtles or soving,