The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herav. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14, Volume XXXIIL.....-cecsecesesereeereeees NOe IL ANUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Favsr, NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite Now York Hotel. mE Gasiicut, inee at 2, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Rutt Deeaw Mancoat ign Mipscxcxae WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadi - Outen Twist. Matinee at age nn"ay Ant 1th strect THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth streot.—Tix Testa- ‘MENTE De Cesak Grnovor, &c. Matinoe—Marie ANTOINETTE. BROADWAY ‘Matinee at 1). BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Hanpsoxs Jacx—Fir- we DuTcuman ‘ PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 284 st, corner Eighth av. Matinoo at 1-1, Trovaronn, i eae gt THEATRE, Broadway.—Mary Srvarr. 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By epectal telezram, dated in Aloxandria, Egypt, Janu- ary 9, and forwardea by way of London through the Atlantic cablo, we have late news from the British ox- peditiopary force in Abyssinia, It appears that a num. bor of natives were ‘prowling’ around the forcign eamp at Senafe, and, as if alarmed by tho demonstration, orders had been given for all the European troops to March from the coast line and join the headquarters division, The important intelligence from Abyssinia convered im our special cabie tolegram is illustrated by the pub- lication of some very interesting matter detailing the Position of tho English encampment, and affording an @xbibit of the army force of King Theodorus, its equip- ment and mode of attack. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the cable is dated yesterday eve ning, January 10. Arrests and prosecutions for Fenian- ism continued in Ireland and a number of tolegraph clerks in Belfast were committed, charged with the. treason. The Italian Cabinet proposes heavy additional taxes and a very large loan to mect the deficiencies in the Budget, The bullion in the Bank of France de- Greased in the weck. Consols, 9234 a in London, Five-twenties, 7155 im London and 76 10 Frankfort, French rentes ad- In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands Closed at 734d. Breadstuffs dull. Provisions more firm, By the steamship Persia, at this port, we have inter- esting mail advices in detail of our cable despatches to bbe 28th of December, » CONGRESS. é * To the Senate yesterday a resolut®on was introduced directing the Fivance Committee % report a bill consoli- dating the national debt ito nds of Jong date, bearing fot more than three ap. » half per cent interest, and also toconsider t8® propriety of creating a Financial Board. The bifi to prevent the further contractton of the curren’. was taken up at the expiration of the morning F our, and, pending its consideration, the Sen- ate ed ened. . tho House consideration of the joint rosoiution in ference to whiskey metros was resumed, The debate took a wide range, Mr. Schenck being the only gentle. man who had anything to say aboud whiskey metros, and at the giose the resolution was passed. Communi Cations from the Prerident were received containing a list of the Sistes which have ratified the fourteenth article, and in reference to the seizure of a Spanish ves- fel during the war, It was agreed that to-day should be devoted to general debate and the House adjourned. MISCZELLANEOSS. A foreign born citizen of Cincinnati writes to Secretary Boward, stating that his name has been published tn the papers of his native country as a deserter from tho army, although he Lad left that country when he wos onty five years old, eighteen years ago. He now inquires fn case he chould make a visit to bis Beward answers that he may be subject to some deten- tion and trouble, to which the government cannot | fecommend him to expore himself. ‘Tne Mississippi Keconstraction Convention yerterday | Qppointed as printer the ediior of a newspaper which | Bas only beon published since the Convention assembled. | In the Georgia Convention yesterday a letter from | Benator Sherman was road, stating thet if any additional | Jegisiation is needod Congress will furnish it, General Meade addresed the Convention, saying that their legis. (ation was not valid until ratified by the people, bat in Bis descretionary power be would enforce any of their ordinances that Le thought proper. Ex-Gorernor Brown, of Georgia, mate a espoech at Atlanta yesterday, favoring the reconstruction acts and supporting General Pope. He salll the reconstruction acts bad given the negro suffrage, but not the right to vote. Ex-Secretary of tho Troasury Tuomas Ewing ha written a letter on tho financial issues of the day, op- posing a forced resumption of specie payments and suggesting & new issue of bonds, payablo in forty or fifty years and bearing four per cont interest, payable eeml-anaually. ‘The Gravt block, containing the Young Men’s Chris- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY Il, 1868. In the Superior Court yesterday, at Trial Term, Part 1, Julia Murphy, aged eighty-six years, sued Henry Gent- zen for damages in $5,000 for injuries inflicted upom her by being run over by defendant’s carriage in the Bowery in April last. The jury gave a verdiet for $325. In the Court of General Sessions, before Judge Russel, Benjamin Yorks was yesterday found guilty of grand larceny in feloniously carrying off from rooms in v house in Ninth street a trank containing a quantity of ladies’ apparel, the property of Mrz, Julia Sprague, Sentence was deferred to give the accused an opportue nity of sestoring the property. Thomas Evans (colored), was charged with a felonious assault and battery upon Louis Marshal, It was satisfactorily shown that Mar- shal was the first assailant and that the accused had simply acted tn self-defence; acquitted. Robert John- son pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degroe; ane Penitentiary for twelve months and fined In the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, bofore Judge Benedict, the case of John C. Braino, the alleged Chesepeake pirate, was again called up. Motion was made to admit the accused to ball, which was refused, and the caso was set down for the 29th inst. In the United States Commissioners’ Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, G, F. Dusenbury, a late employs in the General Post Office, was put on bis examination oa a charge of purloining letters from the Mice, Tho case stands adjourned till Tuesday next, The Inman line steamship City of Washington, Cap- tain Tibbitts, will leave pier$45 North river at one o'clock to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for Groat Britain, Ireland and the Continent will close at the Post Office at twelve M, ‘The Goneral Transatlantic Company’s steamer Napo- leon IIL, Captain Roussan, will leave pier 50 North river at three P, M. to-day for Brest and Havre, The mails for France will close at twelve M, at the Post Oflice, The fine steamship Denmark, Captain Thompson, of the National line, will leave pier 47 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to land passongers. ‘Tho Anchor ne steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, will sail from pier No, 6 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land Passengers, Ko, The steamship General Grant, Captain Holmes, of the Cromwell line, will leave pier No.9 North river at three o'clock P. M, to-day for New Orleans direct. The Empire line side-wheel steamship San Salvator, Captain Nickerson, will leave pier No. 13 North river punctually at three o'clock P, M. to-day for Savannah, Gcorgia, The popular steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Arthur Leary’s line, will sail from pjer No, 14 East river, foot of Wall street, at three o'clock P, M. today for Charleston, connecting with steamer for the Florida ports. Tho stock market was stong and excited yesterday. Government sccurities wore buoyant, Gold closed at 187% a 13734. Tho Pennsylvania Assembly mot yesterday morning but adjourned, the boiters voting with the republicans to carry an adjournment The Currency Question In and Out of Con- ares, While the Senate exhibits great weakness and incapacity in treating the currency ques- tion and other questions pertaining to the national finances, the people are taking them up with earnestness and boldness. While the bill which passed the House of Representa- tives by an overwholming majority to prevent any further contraction of the currency has beon hanging in the Senate, three State con- ventions of the conservative or democratic party in Obio, Indiana and West Virginia have spoken in the strongest terms against contrac- tion and forcing specie payments, There can be no doubt that these conventions represented the sentiments of the mass of the people; tor this was shown in the late elections in the States named. From the language of the press and from other sources of information we learn that the people of the great West everywhere are almost unanimous in condemning the ruinous financial policy of Mr. McCulloch, Mr. Chase and those members of »Con- gress who favor coniraction, the national bank swindle and the bondholders, to the injury of the community at large. The indus- trious masses will not have the Chase-McCul- loch policy of gold for the bondholders, green- backs for the officeholders and national bank rags for the people. The Senate may twaddle over the currency, resist popular opinion or pass the absurd Sherman Funding bill, but a mighty revolution in public sentiment has set in that will soon sweep its crude and im- practicable measures away. Having confi- dence in the common sense of the American people, we foresaw what must come to pass. Several years ago, evea when we stood almost alone, and all through, we have denounced the insane policy of the on-to-specie-payment theorists, the infamous national bank mo- nopoly and all the other rainous measures of McCulloch and his supporters. We see the fruit of this now, for the financial platform of the conventions referred to is that of the Heraxp ; and, unquestionably, this will be the platform of the mass of the people from one end of the couniry to the other. Bat the President, who has done so admir- ably on the great political issue of the time in successtully resisting the monstrous negro su- premacy policy of the radicals, has something to do here also, The subject of the national finances is vastly important, and second only for the time to the restoration of the South on a constitutional basis. Indeed, it will soon become the absorbing subject before the country. The conventions in fndiana, Onio and West Virginia have given it great promi- nence in their platforms, and it will be the | same in the other States. Mr. Johnson sees that conservative party and the conserva- tive masses utterly repudiate Mr. McCulloch and his course, This incapable Secretary of the Treasury represents nobody but the Jay Cooke money speculators, the bondholders and the national bankers. Congress even has repudiated his ridiculous financial policy. His removal isnecessary. If he has not the delicacy or self-respect to resign the President should serve him as he did Stanton, No finance minister in any country ever oceupied such an anomalous posi He does not, as we said, represent public sentiment, and he neither represents Congross nor the President. His incapacity has cost the country handreds of millions, and it will cost still more every day he remains in offive. Mr. Johnson should lose no time in demanding his resignation or in tian Association rooms and the First National Bank, in Oswego, was destroyed by fre on Thursday night. The Joss ip estimated at $100,000, Ono of the steam fire engines barst her boiler while working at the fire, During the past year there wore forcign imports re- @vived at Ban Francisco amounting to $15,000,000, on ‘whieh $7,600,000 were paid as dution, Of shipments there were $40,500,000 in treasure and $12,500,000 in merchandise, , ‘Tho military guards over the Pariiament and other Public buildings in Ottawa, Canada, have boon trebled uring the part fow days, ‘Tho British Legation arrived at Hifvana from Mexico yesterday in the war etoamor Jason, They will proceed in the Jason to Now York. ‘The court for tho trial of Rov. Dr, Tyng, Jr, on the charge of preaching in « Methodist church in Now Jer- Bey, in violation of ® canon of the Episeopal Church, onvened yesterday in this city. Mr. Tyng, through his @ounsel, refused to enter & pier, and the court ad- foursed wntil February 10 to enable counsel to prepare dhe defence, : ‘removing him. It may be said there are difficulties in the way of removing Mr. McCulloch or of getting his successor confirmed by the Senate. There are none, we believe, the President cannot overcome, and that easicr than in the case of Stanton. He need not appoint a politician of any party whose ambition might come in conflict with the ambitious views of Senators. The, country requires for Secretary of the Treasury a thoroughly fpracti- cal man of business, and the less such an one is idontified with party politics the better, The Senate could hardly object to an appoint- mont of this sort, There are such men in this great metropolis (the commersial and fluancial centre of the country), and it is eminently proper tho Secretary of the Treasury should be taken from New York. For instance, should the President appoint Collector Smythe, # man Our Latest News from Europe. In yesterday’s Hznarp we printed a.tele- well fitted for the position, who could doubt of | gram from Berlin to the effect that Count his confirmation? If we rightly remember he was confirmed for the post of Collector, a post of great importance and value, by a unan- | imous vote of the Senate. It is said, too, that &@ majority of the Senators are favorable to him. We can understand very well that this may be s0, for he could not be obnoxious per- sonally or in @ party sense. But it matters little who the man might be if he should make an efficient Secretary. That is what the coun- try wants. At all events, Mr. McCulloch should be displaced and the financial affairs of the republic be placed on a good footing. Mr. McCulloch is a positive weakness to Mr. Johnson’s administration at a time when it should be strengthened in every possible way. Mr. Well Orat on the Taxpaying Capacity of the American People. Pericles made a fine and famous oration at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian : war in the ceremony of publio mourning for all those who had been slain in that first year. It was the official summary over the bones of the victims. He improved the occasion to sketch the Athenian history; to expound the Athenian political system; to give his hearers a glimpse of the philosophy of existence, and show them individually what they were living for; what the whole muddle of human life and activity, toil and struggle and vexation finally meant a8 he understood it. Well, Mr. Special Commissioner of the Revenue Wells has done pretty much’ this for the American people in an oration equally sublime, equally astonishing from all points of view, and one that will no doubt be equally famous. Human life, as Wells understands it, is simply taxes. What man lives for is to pay taxes ; what he struggles for, worries his brain, ‘wears his intestinal economy to fiddle strings for, is simply to meet the taxgatherer when pay day comes. Why he dies is no longer a mystery. It is because he forgets that there are taxes to pay. If Wells were asked to de- fine death he would certainly say it is a state in which aman is unconscious that there are taxes, Man that is born of a woman hath buta few days and full of misery ; but if he pays his tax—if the taxing machinery hath drawn from him all that he is capable of yielding—let him die; he has fulfilled his destiny. Such is the philosophy of Wells. With him there is no such nonsensical formula as cogito, ergo sum. His intellectual theories start from another fact—man pays taxes, therefore ho lives. Here are cause and consequence in one comprehen- sive glance; and it will immensely simplify sotial studies to have this definite starting point. Voltaire considered the uses to which a man might be put, and thought the worst was hanging. Wells will have nothing of this sort. There is no better nor worse, only one use, and that has regard to taxes. Nor is there but one division of the buman race, and this is into those who gather taxes and those who pay them. Governments are instituted merely to lay taxes ; people exist only to afford govern- ments tais occasion. Beyond this there is nothing, or Wells is wrong. At the very outset in this grand oration— which has been sneeringly called “a report” — we come upon a gratifying array of figures tending to show the wonderful material pros- perity of our people. We are pointed to our increased wealth in all the great channels of effort: more tonnage en the lakes; more activity in the railroads ; commerce recovering on the ocean; more houses built than ever in any year before; more manufactured articles bought; nay, even four million pounds more coffee exhaling its delicious aroma over the breakfast tables of 1867 than over those of 1866. We begin to feel a patriotic joy in the national prosperily. We are delighted that Wells should have noted all these facis to Bismarek, at a conservative dinner in that city, had pronounced war between France and Prussia a phantom. Some few hours before we had learned that Napoleon’s address on New Year's Day was “accepted by all the governments of Europe as a pledge of peace.” We have been so often cheated with the words “pledges of peace” in the mouths of European rulers, that we have come to consider such pledges as “assurances of war.” The tele- grams of a previous day have about them more the air of truth, for the simple reason that they are more warlike. Lord Sianley, we are told, is opposed to Russian policy in the East, The Ottoman Porte has addressed notes to France and England protesting against Russian intrigue in provinces forming integral parts of the Turkish empire. What France intends to do wo know not as yet The English government, it appears, sees its duty and is prepared to discharge it. It is undeniable that the policy of Russia at the present mo- ment in regard to the affairs of the Turkish empire Is meddling, unkind and unjust in the extreme. Since the close of the Crimean war, in 1856, the Porte has tried to act an honorable part, and to the extent of its ability has sought to discharge its pecuniary obligations. This much cannot be said for Greece, which has notoriously failed in both these particu- lors, It has neither paid its debts nor tried to be honorable. The natural and proper rogult is that Turkey has the sym- pathy of the Western Powers and that Russia clings to Greece, The reason is obvious. The Western Powers have no reason to wish Russia dominant in the Dardanelles and the Adriatic, but they have a wish to be reasonable to an honorable though weak ally. Russia, under the pretence of being the friend of the Chris- tian population in the East, pursues a most selfish policy. The Western Powers see this and they wilt stand by Turkey to the last. France, it may be taken for granted, will agree with England in this matter. Both Powers are prepared to oppose Russia in any aggressive policy she may pursue in the Easi, Austria is cortain to join them. it is in the power of Napoleon to ar- range matters in regard to the LIialo- Roman question in such a manner that Italy will be compelled to join the Wostern alliance. Ti Russia remains doggedly and stupidly per- severant another Crimean war is certain, and the humiliation of Russia for at least another time is inevilable. Russia is totally unfit for another straggle with the Western Powers. Meanwhile she is full of seléconfidence, and we cannot help saying that another Russian war is not improbable. Peter Cooper and the Board of Education. | Peter Cooper is out again with a protest against alleged excessive expemlitures. This time the chairman of the Citizens’ Association denounces the Board of Educatiom for what he charges as thei dishonest manner of estimating the amount necessary for the support of the public schools, Without going imto the de- tails of his indistment, we may mention that the main point in itis the statement in the estimate of the Board that the whole number of pupils taught in our public schools in 1867 was 207,849, and, consequently, the sum of nearly three million dollars is required for 1868; whereas, in faet, avers Mr. Cooper, the number of pupils: was only about ninety thousand. Even at the annual per capifa allow- ance of ten doilara,. to which figure for each pupil the amount has risen from four dollars in 1862, three millions would, of course, be an excessive estimate for ninety thousand pupils. “I{,” Mr. Cooper says, “the expense of public instruction is to increase in the same ratio in the noxt five years as it has increased in the past—namely, from $1,500,000 to $2,900,000— make us happy in the recital, Alas, we aro going too fast! We are enjoying a morsel that leaves a bitter taste. It is not as a friend who congratulates us on our good condition that Wells tells all this. He thumps his sta- tistical finger against the public ribs not in jolly good fellowship, but inquisitively, to see how much fat is there. He gloats over our prime condition as a Feejee. chieftain might gloat over the fine condition of a newly caught missionary. “What a roast for the tax on sales! What a fry under incomes! What a stow for promisenous returns!” These are his ejaculations. This is the way he looks at his country. He sees in our success the justifica- tion of fresh taxes. He sees in the fact that taxation has killed some industries a reason why we should tax them no more. He goes patiently, ploddingly, with the persistency and minuteness of a hungry fly, over every little fact in our social system, and considers it with a view to its taxes; and he fiads a proud joy in concluding that we are able to bear more tax- ation than any other people, ancient or modern, Vith the sublimily of devotion to bis one idea he regards our very political disoases with no other thought than as they affect the taxes, He cites two revenue districts with officers of ability at the head of each and very even returns. Political reasons made a change in one ¢ t,and immediately the returns fell off three hundred thousand doilara, Therefore, reasons this philosopher of taxes, never change your exporie! taxgatherer, for by that means your public animal is nothing like so cleanly plucked as it may be, For a new sensation to the American people we commend this document, in whi they may see them- selves relentlessly surveyed with a single view to the burdens they may be made to endure. New Gorn 8 iN Swerm.—Gold fields made California. Gold fields made Australia. The Ural Mountains have long been a source of strength to Russia, It is a curious and noteworthy circumstance that gold should have been discovered in Russia at-a time when Russia, particularly sick of paper, desires, even prays for a gold currency. We shall be glad to learn that the gold fields pay; for the discovery of gold is a worldwide bless- ing. The Amoor river, however, is pretty far north. Gold in that quarter might give us some hopes in Alaska, Gold in Alaska and in Russian Siberia might beget an interest in northern regions which would be somewhat novel in the world’s history. It be strange to find China, Japan, Australia and California emptyIng themselves for the sake of gold and for the, benefit of the north, Grant us gold far enough north and we slmll soon discover the North Pole. Assure us that there is gold in the moon, and why should not we get itt the expense, which woull then be about $6,000,000, will be very difficult to be borne.” We have strongly advocated the most liberal provisions for public school insiruction, but taxpayers of all classes are deeply interested in knowing whether the increased demand upon the Treasury for educational purposes is based on false estimates or not. The striking discrepancy between 207,849 pupils, according to the Board of Education, and ninety thou- sand, according to Peter Cooper, certainly justifies us in calling upon the Board for a full and explicit answer to the serious charges brought against them by the Citizens’ Asso- ciation. A Learned Debate on Whiskey Meters. A great portion of the time of Congress was occupied on Thursday upon the important ques- tion of whiskey meters. A good deal of elo- quence was expended, and some very extraor- dinary charges were made against the Pr dent and Secretary of tho Treasury, the mildest of which were that thioves and scoundrels had been appointed to the Dep¢rtment of the In- ternal Revenue and would not be removed upon the application of Mr. Logan and other vituperant members. We do not observe that this very demonstrative discussion amounted to much except more assertion—not exactly fortified by proof—although we suppose that very few people doubt the fact that frauds and the perpetrators of frauds abound in the In- ternal Revenue Department. Commissioner Rollins, we notice, comes in for a good ham- mering from one side of the House and is vigorously defended from the other side, It is manifest, however, that the best way to stop all these frauds in the whiskey business is to reduce the taxation on the material itself, and thus remove the temptation to which frail bu- man nature is exposed. The government’ has lost more than it has,gained by the attempt to colledt this tax, and that portion of the In- ternal Revenue law bearing upon the whiskey tax has proved a failure. It is, therefore, not worth the time wasted upon its‘discussion in Congress. A Call Upon the Now York Assembly, For the first time for a good many years the democrats have a handsome working majority in the Assembly at Albany. They procured it on the Southern reconstruction platform of President Johnson against the,universal negro suffrage and Southern negrosupremacy platform of the radicals of Congross, The lamentod John Van Buron in 1865 with a wonderfal sagacity foresaw the consequences of tho rupture, at that timo’ foroshadowed but not déclared, between President and Congress, and so he boldly proclaimed Andrew Johnson as his nominee for the democratic party for the Presidential succession. The remarkable Political events of the last six months have fully vindicated the sagacity of Mr. Van Buren; and now the New York democracy, through their representatives in our present Legislature, owing their election to Andrew Johnson’s persistent opposition to the radicals, ought to show their hands. To Mr. Johnson they are indebted for everything that has been done to break down the power of the radicals ; and, looking to the Presidential succession, the New York democracy, in our Legislature, can- not do better than to ratify the nomination made in 1865 by the sagacious Jobn Van Buren. The Albany Assembly should at once pronounce in favor of Mr. Johnson, and in the name of the democracy of the Empire State. Progress of Civilization in Texnessees Tennessee, under the Governorship of Parson Brownlow, seems to be progressing towards civilization in a very crab-like fashion. Tho violence which used to mark the bitter family feuds in our bordgr States was aggravated by our late civil war; and although the war has been extinguished its “wonted fires” still burn beneath the embers and burst forth once ina while with lurid glare. Thus a special tele- gram to the Hzraup gave yesterday the details of a terrible afuir at Dyersburg, in East Ten- nessee, which Corsica itself could scarcely surpass, A sheriff attempted last Tucsday to arrest an old man named Duncan in the street. The old man drew a pistol and fired, shooting off the thumb of the sheriff. A son of the latter then fired a pistol, killing the old man, whose son, coming up at the moment, fired, instantly killing the son of the sheriff, who at once shot young Duncan through the heart, As all ihe parties engaged in this murderous affray bave numerous relatives still further trouble is apprehended. The same telegram which brought this news announced that in Memphis on Tuesday night Jim Burns, a noto- rious thief, who was arrested while breaking into a store and was conveyed to jail, fell upon another prisoner named McCarthy, lying asleep in his cell, and nearly strangled him. Aroused by this attack and frenzied with pain, McCarthy assaulted Burns in return, and before the guards could interfere “gouged his eyes out of their sockets.” When Parson Brownlow preaches again in favor of sending mission- aries to foreign countries would it not be well for him to recommend also the cause of home missions? A Drcipey Movement on. Amurican Crrizen- eaxp.—The action taken by Congress in passing the joint resolutions unanimously in favor of the interposition of the President of the United States in behalf of certain American citizens, native born and naturalized, now undergoing penalties, according to British law, in Canada and England, shows that all parties here have an appreciation of the question, and are desirous to test it in a fair and legitimate way, without prejudise: or favor. We have before noticed the advoeacy of the English press of the views enteriaiaed and expressed by public meetings and resolutions here and embedied in the President’s: late message. It iz evident that the time has. come when the rights which an American citizen is entitled to must be settled upon @ permanent basis, and we presume that the recent action of Congress tends very pointedly to that end. AUCIION SALES YESTERDAY, Slight Descent in Prices—Hanover Square and the Foot of Wall Street. The auction tranefers of yesiorday were: not heavy, and small lots werethe order of the day. In fact, sav- ing in tho new crop of New Orleans sugar and molasses, - less business was tramsacted yesterday than has been the case om any stated auction day during the winter season, Some mall transfers of cotion, mostly damaged and pickings up, took place at Hamover squaro, but even in this exoveding quictude of demand pre- vatied. Gerard Betta & Co., of No. 7 Old slip, sold in small lots a heavy consigument of misceliansous atti- cles, consisiing of whiskey, cigars, rum and braudy and groceries, Bidding was nui very spirited, and prices, though frm, manifested no disposition to the ascending scale. The sargest sales of the day weg made inthe new crop of molasses, of which ¥. J. Parker & Co, solid 238 barrels, at prices ranging from 740. for B. H. M. to 850. for the D diamond, ‘The following ts a schedule of the day’s sales:-— Brand. Da Bus, . Brand, iamond . 16 12 5 -108 744 10 85 130 sold one at oment of es (wenty only were sold, bid- the staple bomg heid ‘at a Turee boxes 0} 10%c., and the se 2e7 hogsheads of ding being very dull, highor figure by the fered. The foliowit 25 45 to 62 —the- great sugar and city—one may walk a ion of: Broadway, aud, 5 it From ‘the foot ot Wail street Molasses auction mart of couple of bic i turnine the corner himself in Hanov another block, Th d, ns one rally quite it { the triangle, 1 18 geno: le to decide whether the stree: is es or with the traditional s\on0, 4 at every, breath, oe | be , to one's coat aud insinuates itself to © coughiay- and sneezing ; and ads and wastes of execranie f square ono smells novbing yut coulen, breathes nothing atod with cocton, walks on meral oath of Hanover anybody who should taik ely to De immediately and A fow steps from Walt ho ealy words in the at You fud yourself cooped up in a dingy pera everybody mutters “cotton,” seconds, from nine o’ctock im the on tuo very pa cotton, In sli at I bat cotton, eats noth morning uote in the afternoce. An odd sot of Imaatics they geom to be at first glance, bat there is mothod in their “eottomings,” and they make money thereby. houses which bound the three aides have Ris a Coitonish aspect, Cotton hangs sastios, has been was bas alighted upon ro white network, bas And crevice, ax if to eva iteelf every nd over everything, from freight cart to coat of y auctioneer. You may note, if you will, that the sidewalk s9 jioed with carts, most of which are waiting to be loaded with cotton; and you may note further that drivers hove a habit of ornamenting thou In brief, reat, balk at ory and Hitle wool ”” is tho provord of groat ory and little Cotiou" is juet now urpose, Row England ; the proverb of Hanover square. —— FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL FLASHES FROM THE WEST. {From the Evening Telegram of yesteraay.) Cincuaxati, Jan, 10, 1868, H. Markell & Co., bankers, of Dubuque, lowa, bave fai ities, $60,000, The assets will probably edness in fall. cover ind: Goorge N. Peudioton has boon ondorsed by the No- Draska Convention at Nebraska City as their choice for Prosidentiat candidate, ‘The Groat Kepubtic, the Great Eastern of the lo Sippl waters, will srrive tomorrow. Her progr 1s marked by almost ag much curiosity and excite! among tho poople ag the first boat might have cr among the aborigines, The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of the Skier poy Aap 4 ‘ednesday, aro instructed to voto io eld on in s for General M. B, Walker aa Grand Commander of the United Statoa, The flood in the Ohio is necked from Lycopene the nipping cold, Ita hi point was attained to-day at noon, but no damage ae, a8 in but few places it overflowed jw bans Pendleton tn Ohlo—Pendleton’s Speech. ‘The following were the proceedings ia the Ohio Deme- cratic Convention the nomination of Mr, Pendlet. 0 &8 & candi*'st for the Presidency :— Colonet George Vi. Badoee, of Steubenville, moved that the del. ‘alee from te sho National Democratic Convention b @ instructed to their votes as a unit for Hon. George H. Pendleton for The Conveut!0@ Cesiring that the motion of Colonel MeUook be reduc.*@ to the of @ resolution, the fol- lowing was offered by Judge Tarbill, of Brown:— Resolved, That the Uon. George H. Pendleton ts min cboige of the 1ecuooracy of Olio for next Presidedt of the United States, Kesolved, That the delegates to the National Convention are hereby insirncted to cna the vote of Obloas@ unit and Wo use all ble mesos so #eCure tke Bomimation of Mn jon. ‘Resolved, That the greeting of Oblo be sent to ner sister Staves in the West and tue Northwest, to-day im State Com Fenton assembled, aud that tho J eealdent Of thls Goaven- ti be directed to foi d by wlegra; Fesolutions teiue Courertions now (a session. at Indiane polis. 1nd.; Whecliag, West Va., aud Nebraska Oity, Net ras A motion to amend one of the resolut so as to instruct the delegates to vote for Mr. Pe on first, last and all the time, was met with many cries of “No, no,” and it was withdrawn, Some oue wished to bave the resolution doferrec until the report of the Committee on Resolutions was "aede. ‘To this it was objected that before that hour several otber States that were holding conventions would bave nominated Mr. Peudieton, and Olio, bis own State, eps at oare ee honor of iirgt placing him in tho eld, ‘So the question was put and carried with a tremen- dous aye, which was followed by tumultuous cheers, Then cries for “Pondieton,” “Veudleton” rang from all sides of the theatre, and a committee, cousizting of Mr. Tarbiil and Colonel dicCook, was appointed to bring Mr. Pendicton to the Convention at once, which was done. In about five minutes the commitive appoared with their candidate, ‘The chairman presented Mr, Pendleton by saying:— Allow me, gentlemen, to present, what you all know is about to be done, Onio’s candidate for the Presidency of the United Siates; him who, by the suifrages of an in- dependent and patriotic people, will af the expiration of the next canvass bear ino tho Presidential chair the Democratic banner. The gentleman was received with tumultuous and continuous cheers. MR, PENDLETON'S SPSBCH: Mx. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION— Language falls me to express tao emoiiongef my heart a; this moment, I thank you for the compliment thas you have done me, I thank you for the approval of My Cvpvictions, aud character and conduct, Bat, gentlemen, I thank you still more because this compliment comes from the tried, the true and ‘rumphant democracy of my netive stae—(great cheers)—the democracy which, by its paviemt faith, its devoted courage, {ts heroic elfort, {ts unswerve ing fidelity to sound principle, has achieved-within tho last year aa upparalieled success, and in the short space of five years brought us irom a minority of = bundred thousand toa inajority in the State, (Cheers) The issues that were presented last year were weil worthy” the struggle. They Were to maintain the supremacy of our white race; they were to prevent the, Afrivanization of ten States in the Union aad the hybridization of our own State of Obio, (Great cheers.) Thoy were to-raise from the shoulders of a long suleriug and over taxed and oppressed people the burdeus that were about-to be vent to the energies and life to a new cureer of prose same issues are to be put upon them, and to giv which are aboui to lead U perity aad progress, Aus settied in tue coming ov! , nt only in our Siate but in’the Union; and if the peopie of Obio shall dy their duty in the future, as I know they will, as they have doue m the past, whomsoever shall be selected by the people of the United States as their standard bearer will have the pleasure aud honor of placing it in victory upon the seats of national power, (Caccrs.) General Grant and the Republican Platform. Acorrespondent of the Chicago 7ribune—Grant rad- ical—is in no laste to accept General Grant as the staa- dard bearer ef the republican party. He asks:— Are our priuciples at the mercy of success? Falling to carry triumphantly every plauk in ali your platforms through the late campaiga, are we to sit down in dismay aud say heuceiorth we have none? When asked for the political principles of the great party and our great cane didate, can wo do no better than point to his military record? Surely this were even worse than to give ® stone to a hungry child asking for bread. Our vete:ans inC ongress can die under the of principle, but cam never retrent. Sooner than “go ono jot or titthe on our great measures to secure justice and liberty blie from the convention of the |. to the humblest citizen, these warriora, with miitions of citizens in the samo army, will perish on the batle field. * * If, then, General Grant ls prepared to com- prebend and heartily indorse the great measures an& principles, we as citizens and statesmen are prepared to comprebend aud tmdorse him as our next President; if ‘not, then we will fing some nan who has been steering by the chart and compass through our eight year storm. for our heimsman, Commenting upom the above tho Zribune editorially Ye should not be williag to support Genera! Grant for the Presidenc; we had safficient conhdence in him, apart from any platiorm. Nevertheless we do not expect to support him in that way. Political parties. exist to carry ferward certain principles, The American poopie are in the habit of inquiring what they are to vote for a3 woll as whom, It will be a sorry day when they fall into the babit of elocting Presidents or Congres- ses without aay particular principles or idea to be tmoted by thelr suffrages. 1s would be not only a example, but a fatal policy for the republican party to nomiuate anybody for tho Presidency witnout deciaring distinctly and truthfully the position of the party and ite candidates on the vital questions of the hour. To come short co oags would be cowardly, and all cowardly acta are unwise. Tho Vice Presidency. Some newspapers having ventured to propose the name of General Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Ohio, for Vice President on tho Grant ticket, the Cleveland Leader (Grant radical) whips out as follows:— The old whig party were once sold by Vice President Jobn Tyler, and again by Millard Fillmore. The Union arty wos betrayed by Vice President Andrew Johnson. Joder no circumstances will tnat party run the risk of being betrayed again by nominating for the now im- Line’ ottice of Vice Prosident such a vile trimmer as Fenoral Thomas Ewing, Jr, the chief cook, bottle washer aot toady of the Clovolaud Brevet Convention that Convention which cieered over tho receipt of ®& telegram from the rebel butcher General Forrest, the. hero of the Fort Pillow massacre, where be ordered the. burial alive of wounded Union prisoners, {From the Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser—domocratic.}- - Tho nomination of ex-Governor Buckingham as ® candidate for Vice President is, we observe, very hand. eomoty received by the radical press of the State and by acousiderable number out of the State. The «reat trouble in the cuse, we opine, wil! be the multiphcity of candidates presented in the same connection, There ure at least a dozen or more names being pressed by their respective friends and localities for the Vice Prosi mbracing Colfax of Indiana; Morton of Ilin: and Motyan of Now York, Curuin and Grow. Pennsylvania, Wilsoa of Maewachusetts, and some Maino paper oven nominaies “tho Hon, Hanzite Hamlin of Maine, who was so unwisely sot aside in 1884." A National Demeoeratic Oxganization in the South. A number of the Mississippi papers are out strongly im favor of the organisation of a national democratic party in that State and throughout the proscribed States, It is proposed by tho Vicksburg 7imes, Jackson Clarionand other conservative papers to form democratic orzapiza- tions composed of ail the elemonts of opposition to. radi- calism, wuere they have destroyed or suspended in the proseribed States, cas has alroady mosed in that direction, and will halt hor first regula: Domo- cratic State Convention since the elose of ths war im Little Rock om the 27th inst. The “Grand Army ef the Republic’ and vat. Bing Post—anti-Graat radi- van, 6} At the firat annwal m of tho Grand Army of the Repubtic, to be boid ‘tule city January 16, it is ex- pected that Gonoral Grant will be nominated for the Presidency. Ii, a8 wo aro informed, such acvion 6 not une we hope those i their views, of Grant are to the republican party, with Army is in sympathy, and neod to be. [From the Phitadeiphia ¢ of extreme im, which the G fully debated, Pol’icn! Miscotiany. Tho Stato Execasive Committee of the conservative party f% Alabama is called to meet im Montgomery om the 14:h inst, Tho Missesipp! Index proposes ae a “romody for existing evils the removal and colonization of the broke, Tae radical Constitutional Consention meote in. the ‘tazne place on tho 14th inst. , Hon, Reverty Johnson has written @ letter to Hon, John Lee Carroll, of Howard, Md., in whioh he ‘oxplaips hie vote in favor of the original Congrocsionat Roeonstruction bill, He says in no instaace did be prow nounco the veto of the President upon that bill encon~ stitutional, Referring to the Convention of the ‘Boys in Biue,”* which mot in Philadelphia on the 8th inst, the Port of that city— Grant—says the Convention was ‘‘calied for the exprose purpose of astrongthening tho Grant movemont, and therefore nono but the eoldiers in favor of Grant's nomination” wore delegates, It ware political convention, organized for that specific pun pose, and we do not therefore attach importance to it as an indication of tho opmions of our veteran soldiers,"” It is reported t» Richmond that Hunnieutt fs about to stump the State ae o candidate for next Governor of Virginia, AGrant Clab, Profossor Francia Warland, prosident, hag been formed in Connecticut, and the political cam. Paign for the yoar generally opened. The Buffalo Commerctal (repablicnn) is beginning to | Count the clouds that darken the horizon of tho ropube licag party, Most of them have an ebony linipg,