The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. enn BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXUIT.... ee eececeeeteeeesseeess NOe @MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Maay Srvant, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ccavox Dovat—Jemxr Lun. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel,— Unver rae Gasuicat, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Fra Diavoro THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street.—Manim An- Tomerre, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. — Pat roadway.—A MIpscMmeR WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Ouivar Twist. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AN} si - way and Tutieth street Groat Pago. OM NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteent! ol RNEW,YORE CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, —Granastios, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Hantow Comat. mation THours, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. —Sonas, Dances, Eccenteicitixs, Burvesques, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad way.—Etmto- rian Entertainments, SinGinG, Dancing ann BURLESQUES, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocatisa, NegRo MINSTRELSY, Ac. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bauurr, Fance, Pantomine, &c. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tue Pieris. e HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklya.—Eraiortan INSTRELSY, BALLADS AND BORLESQUES, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bciance anv A New York, Monday, Jnnuary 6, 1S6S. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes. terday, January 5. The opening of the Italian Parliament bas been post- poned to the 11th instant, a heavy snow storm prevent- ing many of the mombers from reaching the capital on the day named for the assemblage, A Paris journal states that France and Italy are on amicabie terms, but the situation is endangered by “mischievous rumors” from Florence, It is denied that Napoleon urged the passage of the new army bill in his New Year’s speech to the members of the French legislature, A new Cabi- net has been formed in Portugal. Reports in London state that the British army in Abyssinia remained in camp at Senafo, awaiting General Napier. No movement had beon made, The men were in good health, but the beasts of burden were dying in numbers {rom the heat, By the steamship Hammonia at this port yesterday, we have a highly important mail report detailing the European news to the 25th of December, JAPAN AND CHINA. By special telegram through the Adantic cable dated in London yesterday, wo have advices from Shanzhav, Chine, to the 7th of December. The news of tho politi- eal revolution in Japan, ending in tho resignation of the Tyooon, reported in our telegraph letters from Yoko- ‘hama, by way of San Francisco, and published in the Henavp op the 2d inst., had b en received in Shanghae, and was forwarded to London by way of India and Marseilles, the same intellixence thus travelling round the globe in different directions, but reaching New York ‘Orst. Press telegrams from San Francisco, dated in that city January 2, report items of news from Japan and China, received by the steamship China, additional in etail to the telegraph letters of the HxRaw from both countries published on the 2d instant, Tho United States squadron on the coast of Japan was to proceed to Osaka to be preaont at the opening of the port on the Ist of January. An American Consul (acting) had been appointed to the piace. Forty piratical war juoks had been destroyed at Formosa by a Chinese war vessel, The United states ‘war steamor Afoostook took the lady of the late Lieu- tenant Mackenzie from Formosa to Hong Kong. Three new submarine cables are to be jaid in China, Extensive gold mines have, it Is said, been discovered in Termination Isiand, Russian Siberia, Foreigners from Chiua were refused permission to work ia them by the Russians, MISCELLANEOUS. Our spocial telegrams by the Gult cable contain news from Mexico City to the Slst ult. General Alatorre had sailed for Yucatan with fifteen hundred troops. Presi- dent Juarez was inaugurated on Christmas dav. The English Legation had left the capital for Vera Croz, where the gunboat Jason awaited thom, Cther advices state ihat the revoluuion in Yucatan was increasing, The proposed expedi- tion under Genera! Diaz bad been abandoned on the representation of the General ihat it was better to lot the people of Yucatan fight it out among themselves and that @ national force would cortainly be defeated, A general outbreak against Juarez wos probable, The In- dians on the frontier were depredating again. Claims wore being made out against the United States tor in- demnity for damages incurred by the raids of savages over the nort tn line, Kumor at Guaymas has it that war had broken out with the Uniied States and thas troops were on the march from Arizona for Sonora, Our matl advices from Havana are received. The Oficial Gazette of the 26th ult. contains a royal order according the same privileges to the transient lines ot American steamers at Havana as to the regular mail lines, including the transshipment of merchandise from one steamer to another, always, of course, under the cus- tomary surveillance of the Custom House officers and in accordance with the regulations in force. In Matanzas an association ts being formed for the Prevention of crueity to animals, Mr, Augustus P. Muage, of No, 9 Chambers street, New York, who arrived at Havana in the Morro Case, died December 30 at Garcini’s sapitary establishment, The United States Consul has taken cbarge of his remains. General Hancock has issued another conservative order, in which he cautions petitioners who allude to special considerations as likely to influence him in the ise of arbitrary authoriiy that they must apply al here, He acknowledges the existence of no arbi- trary authority on his part conferred by the Reconstruc. tion acts, Out says be is restrained in mauy particulars by the constitution. Charles Wolcott Brooks, of San Francisco, has been appointed Consul Genoral to the United Stares by the government of Japan. His letter of instructions con- veys a bigh compliment to the United States as the first Power to conclude a treaty with Japan and open that country to foreign commerce, The Virginia Reconstruction Convention is believed to favor Chase for the next rresidency. Slight earthquake shocks were felt in Macomb, De- peyster, Lisbon, Hervelton and other little towns in Northern New York on the 31st ultimo, & B, Dickinson, United “tates Minis‘er to Nicararua, in wlettor to the Secretary of State describes the recent voloanic oruption near Leon, The regular eruption of fire continued for sixteen days, when it was followed by an eruption of sand whicn was ralaed down all over the country from the volcano to the Pacific, a distance of fifty-eight miles, This sand is composed so richly of fertilizing materials tuat afew days after its fail cora, cotton and grass commenced to grow more rapidly than the writor had ever seen plants grow before, ‘The party of spiritualists who have been making nudo demonstrations im Newark are all declared to be par. tially insume by the doctors. The chief of them, aman Hamed vckwoen, declared himself to bo Jesus Christ, and demands to pe crucified, while Mrs Reoves, the oldest woman of the party, believes herself to be either Live or the Virgin Mary, They were in the habit of haranguiog multitudes om the doctrine of spiritualism from their door seps while in a nade state, ‘They are all At prosout to the station house, In the Church of the Strangers, im University place, yeserday Dr. Deems preached on a text from the frst chaptor of St. Joun, Rev, Henry Ward Beocher Preacbed in Plymouth cbirch, Brooklya, from bebind bis Wow romding desk, wi s made of wood brought Gem we Mount & Olives by ie Quaker Cuy exeur. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1868. sionisia, The rites of baptism wero administered to a number of candidates at the Bedford street Baptist ebureh by Dr, Dowling, At Dr, Adams’ Presbyterian church, in Madison square, meeting for prayer acd confefence on the subject of the union of the Old and New §chool Presbyterians was held last evening. A cproner’s inquest was held yesterday on the body of Wiliam Connell, who died of wounds received by & pistol shot at the hands of Richard Casey, on the corner of Bayard street and the Bowery, on Saturday morn- ing, Evidence weat to show that Casey knocked Con- nell’s bat into the gutter and shot him as he stooped to Pick it up. The verdict rendered was in accordance with that fact, and the prisoner was arraigned, He Claims that the act was committed in self-defence. About midnight on Saturday a fracas occurred in & Jager beer saloon in Williamsburg among a party of in- toxicated Germans, im which Otto Schade stabbed right and Jeft with a pocketknife and killed Henry Shear, the owner of the saloon. Schade, still intoxicated, went home And to bed, where he was arrested, being utterly astonished to hear that he had killed any one, Shear at the time of receiving his wound was trying to rescue Schade from parties who were assailing him. Charles Jacobs, who was stabbed at 262 First avenue on Saturday, by, it 1s alleged, aman named Kelly, died at Bellevue Hospital yesterday, atter making @ state- ment charging Kelly with the deed, The latter has not yet bepm arrested, Patrick Grannin, the policeman who committed so many insane freaks on New Year's Day, such as shoot- ing, clubbing, knocking down and firing pistols at such Peaceful citizens as came in his way, has been com- mitted on Ave complaints, without bail. The various steamship lines plying between New York and European ports, of which there are nine, trans. ported during the past year 222,031 passengers, 1,018,276 tons of cargo and $43,136,734 in specie. ‘The new city municipal boards are required by law to organize to-day at noon. There happens to be two Boards of Councilmen claiming the right to organize, and it isfair to presume that the contest in the City Hall will be interesting, to say the least. The National Convention of the Grand Army of the Republic will meet at the Assombly Bujldings, corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia,on the 15th inst. John K, Porter, a Judge of the Court of Appeals at Albany, has resigned. The Important Question Before the Coun- try and Its Solution. Shall this great and proud republic be gov- erned by a negro balance of power? That is the important question now before the country. Shall thirty-five millions of the Caucasian race— the highest type of mankind—be ruled by a few millions of ignorant negroes, who are the lowest in the order of human beings, and who are scarcely removed from barbarism? Such ® proposition would seem incredible were it not supported by facts. Some may doubt even whether such a monstrous idea would be seri- ously entertained by any party or faction, and may think that we state the case too broadly. There is, however, no exaggeration; it is the well known purpose of the radicals to perpetu- ate their power, if possible, through the votes of the Southern negroes. This bas been their policy all along. The reconstruction acts of Congress, disfranchising a large number of whites and enfranchising the blacks of the South, were passed for this purpose. The bit- ter feeling to the President, the threats of im- peaching him, the scurrilous abuse of him, and all the legislation to humiliate him and his office and to take away his power, grew out of his opposition to this atrocious policy of the radicals, The brutal and benighted Africans, Just emancipated from slavery, and not knowing their right hands from their left, not knowing what a vote meant or what they vote for, have been given power with a view to deciding the Presidential election and the destiny of the republic. The intelligent white people of our own blood and race in the South have been placed under these barbarians, and the fairest and richest portion of the country is turned over to desolation, with the prospect of fright- ful starvation, demoralization and a war of races, And this is all done for no other motive or object than to keep the radical party in con- trol ot the government. The spouting of radical orators and emis- saries about equality, the rights of man, the poor negro, and all that, is sheer hypocrisy and clap-trap. These radicals have refused to give the suffrage to the few negroes in those Northern States where they had the power to do so, and where the negro vote would be of little consequence comparatively, while they are doing the utmost to make the ignorant and degraded blacks of the South a controlling political element in the republic. Who ever heard of anything more inconsistent or mon- strous? Such conduct seems like insanity, and could hardly be credited were there not examples in history of a similar character. The Jacobins in France shed rivers of blood in the name of humanity and equality, and the Puri- tan ancestors of our Jacobins of the present time were not less crucl and proscriptive in the name of religion and truth. The radical revolutionists of France set up a strum- pet as representing the Goddess of Reason and committed the foulest deeds under the preten- tion of progress and higher philosophy. It is the same in all countries and ages under revolutionary radicalism, whatever form it may take. It is so now with our nigger worship- pers and radical revolutionists. Passion, fanati- cism and political ambition have subverted reason. Everything must give way before their intolerant dogmas. Let the glorious institutions handed down to us by the fathers, this white man’s governmént, so full of glory and happi- ness in the past and the future of our grand republic, perish for the sake of an irrational and impracticable theory. That is the policy of the radical republicans. That is the cause of the trouble between the President and Con- gress. That is the great issue before the coun- try—the issue to be decided in the next Presi- dential election. The issue is clearly defined. There is no possibility of smothering it up or dodging it. There is the patriotism and conservatism of the President on one hand and the selfish and destructive policy of the radicals on the other. Mr. Johnson, while he proposes to secure the freedom of the emancipated negroes and to give them every chance to raise themselves in the scale of civilization, desires tho early restoration of the South through the action of the intelligent avhite people, The radicals would only restore the South on the basis of nogro barbarism for the sake of perpetuating their power through negro votes. The people everywhere are taking sides on this great issue, and by next November it will be so well understood thal the election will turn upon it and it alone. Mr. Johnson’s policy, as shown in his messages to Congress and in bis firm zesigtance to negro suproniey, fii ‘ plattor <— o— and must be the platform on one side, and negro supremacy, with a negro balance of power as provided for in the re- construction acts and course of a radical Congress, will be the platform on the other. The election cannot be contested on any other ground. The popular name of Grant or of weight against the great principle involved. Should Grant take # nomination on the radical platfornr he will be defeated, as anothe? popular general, Scott, was. Men or sames will amount to little in the coming contejt; prin- ciples will be everything. Nor can bh} or any other candidate succeed by ignoring {he prin- ciples at issue aud by standing upon personal Popularity only. Mr. Johnson stands alone at present a3 the representalive of the conservative side, for he has madefhe issue and the solution of it depends upon his action. He is, as has been said before, master of the situation, He cannot be set aside, He must either be the conservative candidate, or must name one to take his place. Mr. Chise Is the representative of the other side—of raicalism, of negro supremacy, of a negro bglance of power, and of all the other extremes of the radical party. Should he and Mr. Johnson be the opposing candidates, they would represent fully and clearly the principles involved. It is possible, however, that the radicals may wish to use Grant or some other popular general with a view of extricating themselves from the dilemma they are in. But no one can bring them salvation. The President has broken their. party to pieces; they have nothing to stand upon, and next November will seat their fate forever. The reaction which set in powerfully through the elections last fall will now be followed by a political revolution that will utterly destroy them. Napoleon and the Two Pepes. The close of Napoleon’s reign promises, in certain important respects, to be more glorious than its commencement. The glory of kings and emperors has, in a mysterious way, been associated almost as much with religion as with politics or war. Constantine, Charle- magne, Charles the Fifth, Philip the Second, Henry the Fourth, Henry the Eighth, one and all owe their reputation more to the connection which they sustained to the religious move- ments of the time than io any other cause. Na- poleon commenced his career as raler of France by throwing the mantle of his protec- tion over the Holy Father. As the protector of the Pope, quite as much as the chief of France or the friend ot Italy, he has been known for the last fifteen years. After a brief suspension of the functions o* his office in the first of these capacities he has resumed them, and his second protectorate of Rome and of the Holy Father promises to be quite as illustrious, if not so protracted, as his first. It would seem, however, if we may judge from our most recent cable de- spatches, as if the closing years of the Em- peror’s reign were to be rendered illustrious by another religious connection. Russia, wo are told, becomes more and more menacing towards Turkey. Russian sgents are busy in their endeavors to incite revolt among the Christian subjects of the Porte, In these cir- cumstances the government of the Sultan ad- dresses an urgent note to Napoleon pro- testing against the conduct of Russia. A similar note is addressed to the govern- ment of Quepn Victoria. Strange! some may feel disposed to say. Not so strange, after all. Napoleon, allied with England and Sar- dinia, saved the Mohammedan empire from Russian oppression by the Crimean war of 1854-6. It is natural in the hour of difficulty to remember an old friend. But this is not all. The Sultan, in calling to tue French govern- ment for help, remembers not only that Na- poleon is an old friend, but that he has special likings for as well as experience in Papal protection. Wherein does he differ from the Pope? Is not he to the Mohammedan world very much what Pope Pius the Ninth is to the Catholic world? Are they not each of them embodi- ments of the highest idea of sovereignty— rulers spiritual and temporal, vicegerents of ‘God, both? Are they not both Popes? If, therefore, there is any reason why Napoleon should feel himself bound to protect Pope Pius, should not the same reason induce him to pro- tect Pope Abdul Aziz? It will be difficult for Napoleon to resist the Sultan’s entreaties. In our opinion he is quite as sincere in his desire to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman domin- ions as he is to maintain the temporal power of the Pope. If Russia persists in encouraging disaffection among the Christian subjects ot the Porte it will not surprise us to learn that France bas entered her protest against such conduct. If the designs of Russia be- come more visible as well as more menacing it will as little surprise us if France feels herself bound to draw the sword. The results of the Crimean war cannot be undone with grace during the lifetime of Napoleon. On this point France and Napoleon may be supposed to be of one mind. Meanwhile, our attention is called to the fact that while the Emperor is saddled with the protectorate of Pope Pius against growling Italy he is likely soon to be saddled with the protectorate of Pope Abdul Aziz against growling Russia and Greece, That the Emperor is able to protect both in de- fiance of the world we by no means believe. That he is able to protect one by dropping the other is possible. But which can he drop with dignity and honor? Evidently Europe, with her German, her Italian and her Eastern questions, is approaching a crisis; and Napoleon, if he has not undertaken the impossible, may be expected to shed a halo of glory around the closing years of his reign. Rumored Conference on Cabinet Matters=— What Does it Meant We learn that several prominent gentlemen from New York had a sort of conference—and that by invitation—with the President at the White House yesterday on the subject of a reconstruction of his Cabinet. From this there is some reason to believe that Mr. Johnson is seriously contemplating a change, and it is reasonable to suppose that the consultation with gentlemen from this great business centre indicates a change in the Treasury Department. We hope the President has come to the sen- sible conclusion at last to remove Mr. McCul- loch, whatever he may do with regard to other members of the Cabinet, Both the interests of the country and tho reputation of the Presi- dent’s administration call for another and a more efficient Secretary of the Treasury. The time has arrived when Mr. Johnson can safely take bold and decisive measures, and among the first should be those rejative to his Cabinet. Hé wants able and strong men as constitutional advisers, who will be in perfect accord with his policy and who can give him efficient aid, personally and politically, in the great work of | ony other bero of the war will have little { regrgauizing (Lo couniry end iis figaaces, Small Men Great Opportunttios “T° wi of History. When an epoch of great opportuntties is ate? an epoch of small men, mousing politicians, brawling demagogues, reckless faratios and fac- tious diaturbers of the public peace, the most dis- astrous consequences are apt to follow fo the people thus afflicted. From Moses down to Abraham Lincoln biatory abounds with shining examples of great opportunities skilfully seized and bravely appropriated to glorious achieve- ments by great mon; but in tho vicissitudes of nations we also find numerous opportunities for grand results disregarded, misdirected or weakly frittered away by small men in power. How tull of such illustrations are the ups and downs of the whirligig of American politics during the last half century—yea, of the last sixteen years—and how ominous are tho les- sons thus given to the party now in power a very brief recital will enable us to show. Poor Pierce, on the platform of Henry Clay's satisfactory compromise measures of 1850, was elocted President in 1852 by an overwhelming majority of the people of the States, North and South, against our greatest soldier of that day, General Scott, fresh from his conquest of Mexico. What asplendid opportunity was thus offered to Pierce for tho glory of the country, for the perpetuation of the democratic party in power and fora greatname! But poor Pierce was a small man, and his splendid opportunity was thown away. Deluded by his supposed personal popularity and the apparent strength of his party, he became the willing victim of bold conspirators, and so, with his repeal of the Missouri compromise, he opened, in the border rufflan war of Kansas, the dismal over- ture of the great rebellion. The leaders and managers of the Northern wing of the demo- cracy of that day, however, were also small men of what John Randolph called the dough- face species, like Pierce, and so the ignomini- ous blunders of his administration must be divided among them. Buchanan, the immediate successor of Pierce, was, however, still weaker earthern vessel from the pottery. The daring Southern conspiracy, actively commenced under Pierce, ripened into a hostile, fighting Southern con- federacy under Buchanan. To a great man like Jackson such an opportunity would have been seized and used in snuffing out the rebel- lion at once, as be snuffed out the nullification candle of Calhoun; but to small man like Buchanan there was no power in the consti- tution to save the government, And so, as ho rode up from the White House to the Capitol on the 4th of March, 1861, in the same oarriage with his successor elect, the legacy of Buchanan to Lincoln was a Southern confederacy in full blast under Jeff Davis and vigorously arming for war. In consequence of the rollies of Pierc2 and Buchanan thé Southern slaveholding oligarchy had lost the government of the United States, and had, therefore, under the wing of Buchanan, set up King Cotton on his throne of Afri- can slavery in their separate establishment of the “so-called Confederate States.” Abraham Lincoln, had he been a small man, as a weak, corrupt or vain man, migh: have left to his successor the United States bounded on the south by Mason and Dixon’s line and the Ohio river and a Southern confederacy resting firmly on the corner stone of negro slavery by treaty stipulations. ‘Fortunately, however, in Lincoln we had a diamond, though a rough diamond. In adopting the policy of carefully following the forward movements of public opinion instead of attempting to hasten or rashly to anticipate them, he carried the government safely through the Red Sea of the rebellion and to the very borders of the prom- ised land of universal liberty. Had he lived we dare say that all the rebel States, on some basis of qualified negro suffrage, would have been represented in Congress within twelve months from Lee’s surrender. As the question now stands the admission of the ten outside States is a more perplexing puzzle to-day than ever before. But while the war revealed to us in Lincoln man equal to his opportunities, it disclosed a number of men who fell below the mark. Horatio Seymour cast away his great opportu- nities of 1862; General McClellan, at the head of the army, permitted his to slip through his fingers; and the same may be said of many others, But neither the suicidal follies of poor Pierce, nor the shocking blunders of Buchanan, nor the fatal mistakes of McClellan, nor the blindness of Seymour, will compare with the stupidity and folly of the radical managers of the republican party since the November elections of 1866. We have here a degree of rashness and self-conceit for which we can find a parallel only in the late domineering South- ern oligarchy. Inthe Northern elections of 1866 the consti- tutional amendment, providing, among other things, that suffrage and representaiion shall go together as each State for itself may elect, was sustained by popular majorities which marked the path of duty and of power to the republicans so distinctly that a blind man might walk it In departing from this, the people’s highway, the radicals have diverged into the downhill road to swift destruction, Their kingdom is turned over to the Medes and Persians. The man Andrew Jobnson, who was supposed by enemies and friends to be dead as Julius Cesar, has recovered his feet, and no man since the time of poor Pierce has had @ broader and brighter opportunity to shape the issues and the results of the con- test for the succession than is now possessed by this same Androw Johnson. A Heratp correspondent, writing from Buffalo last sum- mer some account of an interview with ex- President Fillmore, said that !n Mr. Fillmore’s opinion Francis P. Blair (the old gentleman) was the greatest man that God ever created. We shall not undertake to say as much for An- drew Johnson. We only say that he has now & great opportunity to prove himself great man, and with the trump cards which he holds in his hand he is evidently master of tho game. Tho Case of Secretary Stanton and the Tenure of Office Bill. It seems probable that the case of Mr. Stan- ton is not to be permitted to fall into obscurity, and that the President's Message giving his reasons for the suspension of that functfonary is likely to be taken up by rampant radicalism for a fresh iseue with the Executive. We are told that the President’s arguments, having been. subjected to the radical microscope, are oil seen to be defective or actually founded on falsehood, snd that Mr. Stanton’g case will be proven so strong that his reinstatement must be inevitable. On the other hand comes the assur- ance thet in the eyent of Senatorial actlog in bullding, This is another form of the phenome ibitions continued {rom the yest 1867 to that of 1! T ‘also learn irom a correspondent in Northern New Xork thas overs! violent shocks of earthquake have bean repeatedly and distinctly felt om and at of December, 1867, at ine Dekalb, Lisboa region. On the 31st ultimo this corres; cally, assorte thas he, om that day, fel town of Hewveiton, 4 by persons with whom he had met 1c Mentioned above, who likewise bad 08 ailecied by the shocks, Seen BROOKLYN CITY. c Moy MET A large number of the resl- ‘Tan Gaast. ard assomdied at No, 93 Boorum favor of the Secretary thi President will push the struggle to pry by. santas Oe Tenure of Office bill in the Supreme , art ¥ i bellove neither, Political expediency—» mon wf that great, silent, uncertain quantity, the” pecple—will much modify the violent temper of those who some time since were the savage advocates of Mr. Stanton’y reinstatement. Thea? Men see now and feel that the nation will ne longer have patience with agitation that imperils the national welfare in merely seeking thg sdvantage of party and par- tisans, Hence we believe that they will ventilate the Secretary’s case with utaved gv Organised Dy the ap- AGr.\at Club, The meeting o™ OTga need hale eet mone: Nor do we believe fan Rear were " mady by several is von a at the President, in any event, would carry wen ne [St ~ ent dtdate for the Pree the Tenure of Office bill to the Supreme Court on this particular point, for the very good rea- son that he must know he would have no case when he got there. Over the office of the an inviiatioD Was extended ude , af SF which yen tettiee aes the roll, The Demhed of naany to those pres tat to sign one bundred 1,260 were enrolled at onc? An election for permanent «“llcers of the organization #48 thea eld, wyich resuited a follows:—Vresident, Mv. Hcwes; Vice Presi vers Richard H. Coiten.'¢! Secretary of War Congress bas full power. | ‘ry, Joseph Mo ireasurer, George Thom ates 7 . qi Much has been said apropos to this matter of ape, Nm Hall” “ine ote <p ad- legislation that transcended the constitutional | Jouraed until Friday evcuaing, ‘the 10th inst., at ball- vast limit by trenching on the Executive power; but it has been mistakenly said, for the constitution is not involved at all, Cabinet officers are not of constitutional origin, for constitutionally the Senate comprises the President’s advisers ; and the War Department, with all the parts of it, are absolutely the creatures of Congress. That department was first established by law of Congress in 1785, and by that statute the Secretary reported directly to Congress, not through the President. He was authorized to “carry into effect all ordinances and resolves of Congress.” In the statute of 1789 the Secre- tary conducts his department ‘as the President shall from time to time order and instruct.” Here the change was doubtless made in ac- cordance with the spirit of the constitutional requirements in regard to the unity of Execu- tive power; but the court that investigates as to where the power to modify an office rests must be guided by the consideration of what power first created the office. Congress may change what it made. Commenoixa Youra,—James Brown, a boy clever years of age, and whom the ,*Olice record asa was arrested by Sergeant bre.vnan, the Fiftieth pre clnct, on Saturday nigut, on a cia ff stealing a coat from’ Dennis Greeney. He was lacked up to auswer. A Dishongst Ssevant,—Jane Jourden was arrested and locked up in the Forty-second precinct station house om Saturday night, to answer & charge of larceny preferred by her employer, Mr, Cougrove. Insuctina Femates.—Two men, namod Bernard Evors and Philip Clark, were arrested by officer Reliban, of the Forty-first precinct, on Saturday night, ‘on a ch: of inaulting females on Atlantic street. The complains was made by a young lady named Sarah Gallagher, The accused was locked up to answer. Fr.omovs Assav.t.—Thomas Barton, a mason, was arrested on Saturday night by officer Kirby, of the Forty-first precinct, on acharge of having commited @ felonious assault on Matilda Low. The accused was locked up to auswer tue charge, ALLEGED OuTRAGE—A young man named John Waters was arrested on Saturday night by ollicer Curran, of the Forty-tirat precinct, on the compiaiut of Mra, Catharine Dalton, who accuses him with baving commited an outrage on her at her residence, No. 16 State street. He was held to answer, ‘Tue Temrgxance Caust.—There was a very large audience, amoag whom wore sevoral ladies, assembled atthe Park theatre last evoning, the attraction being tho customary Sabbath temperance meeting which bas been heid there weekly for some months past, under the auspices of the Kings County Central Temperance Assocation, Dr. George I. Bennett presided, and m- troduced Rev, Calvin Fairbank, of Massachusctts, who proceeded to enlighten bis hearers on tho subject of the progress and bonoiicial.result of the anti-liquor law in that tate, He contended, as an instance of the good effect of the probwitory statute, that the sales of liquor were reduced three-fourths since the enforcement of the PROSPECT OF A RIOT IN THE CITY HALL TO-DAY. The City Fathers at Loxgerhends—The Fruits of Albany Radical Legixintion. ‘The City Hall this morning will bo the grand centre law, To-day there aro, notwithstanding, howev point of interest to our citizens, To-day inaugurates | *%* 119° Yivonsed ilquor dealers Im Boston, «hile the beginning of the political year, Tho municipal | there are 731 persons selling without ’ license. Sul there is no law in the State balf so well enforced as this, nor is there one so geuerally fraught with beneticial results, Mr. 8. A. Hains was next speaker, and entertained the assemblage with ral amusing anecdoles condemuatory of the license m and favoring its probibition by law. A glee club ng au appropriate air, set to words for the occasion, and acollection was taken up, with fair receipts, to defray the expense of the bail. Before the termination of the exercises Mr. Z. ©. C. Judson (Ned Bunun) was intro~ duced, and as soon a3 the applause bad subsided spoko in strong language in support of the cause of tem- perauce. Rososry oF A Watcn anp Monsy.—Some time Satur- day night the residence of Mr. Michal Eagan, 63 Prest- dent street, was entered and a silver watch valued at $50 and a wallet containing $130 wore stolen from the panta- loons pockeis of Mr. Kagan, while the latter was asleep Boards are required by the laws of our State to organize at noon, The city, State and national flags will be hoisted early and wave throughout the day. Let us hope that no disturbance will occur to disgrace them, no inkstands be thrown to soil their bright colors, no ‘bad English” mduiged ta to show tue degeneracy of our political race, Yot we fear we hope too much. Let us look at the facts as they appear and bo warned by the stormy muttorings of the municipal contostants, Let Superintendent Kennedy be warned also; let bim have his sturdy bluo coats prosent to preserve the peace, ‘What ia all tois about? What is the trouble? Itis this:— A year ago the Board of Councilmen caused to be In- serted in the tax levy ior 1867, by the Legislature at Albany, the following provision:— Section 8, The terms of office of the persons now constituting the Board of Councilmen of the city of New York are hereby extented to the first Monday of January, 1869, and heroatter the term of Counciimen eiected shail be for the full period of two years, &c. It bas been frequently stated that these few lines cost the incumbeats $400 each, or $10,000 for thy whole Board. Now, $400 is @ prety large discount on a salary of $2,500, but if $2,600 can be doubled by the sacrifice of sum like $400 the matter is worth look- ing at, Things went smoothly wll the time for calling tho charter election, when a number of outsiders pressed upon Mr. Valentine, the Clerk of the Common Council, the necessity of ordering an election for Coun- cilmen.’ Tbe Aldermen, or some of them, informed Mr. Valentine if ho calied the election thus he would be re- moved af the organization of ihe next Board, But this was an unnecessary throat, as Mr. Valentine bad no power whatever to order an election, and bad the opinion ‘of the Corporation Counsel to that effect, asthe Legisla- ture, the year pravious, had taken the whole matter out of his hands by creating the Police Bureau of Elections, and transferring all the details of elections to that buroad, except tue official canvassing of tho votes after the etection was over. Efforts were then made to get the erection ordered through Supermtendent Kennedy, Dut that officer denied the power of the Police Board or Bureau of Elections to ordor or call an election, ‘The next move of the outsiders wasa call by the democratic Union party for the wolding of pri pomiuate candidates for Councilmen, ‘This was q) foilowed by a speciai call from the Tammany Geseral Committee for a like object. Both parties nominated their candit but there was still an obstacte in thoir way. By the statutes the charter ticket must contain the names of both Aldermen and Councilmeh, Now, in the odd numerically numbered Aldermanic districts the Aldermen tieid over by taw and benee in the wards of those aistricts—about half the ciiy—there was to be no election for Aldermen, and consequently no char- ter box set up for the reception of votes, Just before election the outsiuers obtained a mandamus requiring the Bureau of Eiectior charter boxes in those districts, and thusa way was made for depositing the votes The readers of the Hegaato all know that this voto was very light, and that the Tammany candidates wore all elected, The repuo- Jicans made no nominations, Tne old Board is composed Of the following members :— Four'h Discrict—Hugh O'Brien, Brvan Reilly, Corne- fius Flynn, James Long, John siacom. Fjh District—Wi lam Lamb, James G, MeVeany, Peter Culkin, William Ternune, Patrick Gibney. ‘Sixth District—Tuomas f, Daly, Anthony Hartman, Nicholas Segar, James E, Brinkman, Bernard Kenuey, Seventh Disiric—Joun S Gilmore, Thomas Murray, John Webber, Hugh Turner, Waiter B, Roberts, Eighth Jrsiriei—Heuty ‘Murray, Stephen Roberts, Francis A. Thomas, John Hart, George W. Cregier. Of the above fourteen are democrais and eleven pubiicans. The newiy clected members who claim their right to office aro as follows: Furth District—William Piggott, Jeremiah O’Brien, John Stacom, Bryan Keilly and James A. Monaghan. Distrit—Verer Culkin, Patrick Gibaey, Jobn Hampson, Thomas Canary and John Mack. Surth District—Kdwara Welsh, Thomas F. Daley, Hulet Odell, Bernard Keaney and George A, Heiarich. Sev-nth District—Bernard K, Murphy, Edward Bi Michaet Fay, Florence Scannel and James fhompson. Eighth District Jona Reynolds, Charies Feitner, Ber- nard Galligan, James Cunni and John Hart, ‘The charter requires o ion at noon to-day. Both parties will ciaim seats, and the old Board, to make sere of theirs, have agreed to meot in the room at ten iu bis bedroom. Yesterday morning he discovered the pants lying in the huliway, where they bad evidently been thrown by the thief, and the door open. AN ORpERLY Suxpay.—The police telegraph returas , received at the Central office Inst night show tbat there wore but three arrests made ia Brooklyn up to nine o’cloci Iast night, Joseph Fitzpatrick, liquor deal- er, corner of Hoyt and Butler streets, was ar- rested in the afternoon on a charge of vivlating the Excise law by seliing liquor on Su He was taken before Justice Delmar and admitied to bail, Another individual was taken into cusiody for being ‘drunk and disorderly,” and @ third for ‘carrying concealed weapons.” This is @ good record and ove which for brevity is almost without @ paraliel in the police returns of Brooklyn, HOMICIDE IN WILLIAMSBURG, < Beer Saloon of the Perpes The Proprietor of a Near midnight Saturday a fracas occurred in the lager beer saloon of Henry Shear, corner of Grabam avenue and Richardson street, Williamsburg, between @ party of half-intoxicated Germans, during which shear was fatally stabbed by one Otto Schade, Is appears that Schade, who was intoxicated at the time, visited the saloon at a late hour and indulged freely indager beer, While in a hilarious stato ho under- took to show some persons in the saloon various tricks by cards, and while so performing one of the knocked the cards from bis hauds and a row resull during which Schade was rather roughiy bandied, ches endeavored to preserve peuco, and used every effore to allay the angry passions of the belliorents, and woile endeavoring to rescue Schade from his aseail- ants the latter drew a common jackkuife and plunged it into the upper part of his left shoulder, probably not knowing of caring at whom ho struck. Scaade then lett the saloon and went to his home, 14 Sanford street, and Shear was removed to a drug store at the corner of Gra- ham avenue and Ainslio street, when several surgeons were called to his assistance, but the wound proved fatat and he died between three aud four o’cluck in the morn- ing. His body was removed to the Morrell street station house, where it was viewed by Coroner Smith, who sub- sequently sent it to the temporary deadhouse in Union ‘avenue to await interment, Officers Lewis and Gates, of the Forty-sixth precinct, hearing of the tragedy shortly atter its occurrence, pro- ceeded to the residence of Scoade and arrested him. He was in bed when the officers found’ him, and the flicted the fatal wound was lying by bis bedside, b: from his pocket. The prisoner w: of liquor, and his face bore evidence of recent basiering. He was removed to tho station house and locked up. Schade is # native of Germany, thirty-five years of a, ae Oe en cara He came to this country in 1861, and during war served three years and five months as — private in the Fitty ninth New York Volunteers, He is powerfully built man, with a countenanee rather attractive than repellant, heis represenied to be & man when under the influence of liquor. His vicum, Shea, was ek ore of ago, and was generally ant my xs ination varwene, made by mn examina’ Creamer, the Pereehe' which will be given at evening, when lice, to be very much aston! when told of it, c. only remarked, “I couldn’ help it’ o'clock, er the new members will anticipate | Accordi ‘story, he struck the biow wildly while’ the y through the windows by the aid of iad- detonding himself from the combined onslaught of ders or down the chimneys, is ® question yet tobe | three or four ns, but all the facts will ve elicited determined. at the 's inquest. The Las required to beam ET the Com- mon Council on is organi a zg parties he will recognize. It is NEW JERSEY. rn that the enactment extendin; a the term of office ia wnconstitutional,- and all ‘good lawyors admit this fact, while on the other Newark. hand aimed that it stands om the stature book ‘Tan Gint Fanete Suitm,—It will be remembered by unrepealed, and with no judicial construction adverse to its constitulionality and 19 therefore the law, Another complication existe in the tact that seven of the mem- bers of the old Board are clected as momboers of the new Board, Of course they bave been pulled and button- boled and worried on each side, and were in a fearful ot hag as wo which they would abide with, vainiy thinking the readers of tho Henatn that about three months ago agiri named Fannie Smith, about nineteen years of age, was drugged and outraged in Plane street, where sho was found. “he lay for thirty-six hours in a stupor, but gradually recovered, 4 afterwards was sent to the county jall to be & witness, Much sym- pathy was manifested for the unfortunate girl, The warden of the jail reports the conduct of the since her imearccration as grossly indecoat, cted = in sendin: How happy could I be with either Were Vother dear charmer away. But as policy dictated, most of the seven lean a little of the favor of either, when girl Sho bas been to both sides, to be su the matter shall be sottied. Efforts were made & week ay 4 Ay ad om} fron gad Ago to submit the matter quiotly to the courts, but rere says that she is, without a since then distrust has arisen, jo\her com~ r fost Character ‘who has been promise be made betore noon nd perhaps at confined in that prison since bis connection with it ‘anowina Sroxes at Cans,—Last evening as the eight o'clock Washington train was passing over the caual bridge at the foot of Market street a half brick was thrown through one of the a neg ‘& passenger by striking him in the head. The 8 a i ark, of the police, wha gave orders to ti) o that hereafter ‘an officer be detaxed to perform duty gin that locality, Pater, Co-operative Movemext.—A number of Germans of this place have recently organized a co-operative soci sty, It us proposed to include Afteen or more families in the association, with a capital of $15,000, and with this amouat parchase land in Kansas, and there found Acolony, Agricultural implements are also to be por. Atter working th the ed among tho member ord= ares beld by them and the tabor OXciting spectacio will be witnessed in the, Hall to-day, GALES AND EARTHQUAKES, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, Destructive Effects of the Recent Gale tn Vermont and New York=Earthquake Shocks Si December 31. ‘Troy, Jan. 5, 1868, ‘Tho strong gale of wind which blew the Harlem rait- way train from the track near Hudson on the ‘Ist instant was, I lonrm, felt severely and destructively in somo portions of Rensselaer county, Now York; in the lower part of the county wherein Rutland, Vermont, is ‘Bituated North Dorset and Mount Tabor, in that State, long lines of fences being blown down fand a considerabio number of houses unroofed, At Mount fabor the Rutland and Bennington line of railway was largely and completely blockaded by the uptorn f Piles of railroad wood disiodged by the force of the blown cpon the track impeding up train some hours, The gale was lik wise very forcibly folt im Bennington county a vilingo, feveliing substantial buildings as well as shes, and dismanti ng the Congrogational church of its meeps | and chimneys. A man named Koily, a resident of Ren. ington, parronly escaped with bia life (rom a felling chased by the association. Profits ore bo be distribut ing to the numbor of rendeved, Communipaw. Yar Stock Yano Axycan Rerorss, fro the receipts at the stock yards for the past yoar:— 79,928 cattle, 439,739 hogs, 172,022 sheep and 12,308 horses, Staughtered during the same period—15,704 cattle, 403,355 nogs and 137,807 sheop The returns for the past week are 111 ears, contaluing 872 cattle, 5,723 hos, 967 sheen and 84 horses; slangatered, 390 Cattle, 6,140 bows and 1, (40 enece: