The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1868, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Waits Pavey. ALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadoay and Min street. = Carian oF THe Watea—Woopcocn's Litrtz Gans, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Pexe O Dar. VRENGH THEATRE, Fourteonth street.—Marte AN TOINETTE ‘ACADEMY OF MUSIC, F enth atreet.—Mantaa, BOWERY THEATR ery. —NAncissc—Wan DERING ANSTREL—Roven Mac. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 234 st., corner Eighth av.— Lvcaetia Borata. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotele UxpeR ine Gaaricut. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A = Minscamen Nocut's Dicaw. PLYMOUTIL CHURCH, Brooklyn.—Caances Diccens® Reavings. BANYARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirlieth street.—Frost Kina. FIFTA AVENUE THEA’ slree.—FAxin OF Braman, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street,—Gruxasries, Equestrian, &6, TAEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway,.—laxtox Coxst. NaTion Trours. Matinee at 3)4. TRE, Nos 3 aad 4 Wes! 21h KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, Sonos, Dances, Eecentaicrtizs, BOniesques, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermo- riaw ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUE. TONY PASTORS OPERA TOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coxto ‘Vocanist, Nagao MinstKELsy, Ac. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Bauer, Fancy, Pantomime, &e, BUNYAN NALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stree.—Tar Pirenia, Matiace at 2. DODWORTI HALL, No. 806 Broadway.—Vaxoexuorr's Reapees. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Ampitioy, OPERA MOUSE, Brooklya,—Eraroras BALLADS AND Buaixsques, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. = any An. New York, Frida " January 17, 1868. an NOWS, EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cablo is dal . yeator- day evening, Janury 16. Tho Turkish government was greatly alarmed by tho Rusaian policy on the Eastern question, England and #rance hayo, it is said, advised the sultan to make extensive um and naval preparations in the Medi- ferrancan. Lirds Clarendon and Bloomfeld have gone to Rome on, it 15 alleged, an English mission to the Pope requesting his aid for tho suppression of Fenian- ism in Ireland. Arrests of Fenians continued active im England. Captain Deasy, who was rescued tn Man- chester, is to have beon captured in Ireland. Maz- imilian'’s body was received by the Austrian Archdukes at Trieste, whero extensive preparations were being de for the funeral. Tbe French government will be sued at law, 1 is said, for debts due on tho Mexican bonds, Consolr, 929{ a 927% for money in London. Five- twonties, 714{ a 7154 in London and 7544 in Frankfort, Cotton frm in Liverpool, with middling uplands at Breadstulls steady. Provisions and produce thout marked chanze. By the French steamship Periere, at this port, wo have interestiag ma’! details of our cablo despatches to the 4th of January. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a communication from Seere- tory Stanton, with a list of volunteer officera In the ser- ‘vice, was received and referred. Tho Finance Commit Yeo reported a bil! re-enacting the Legal Tonder act, und providing for contracts payable» gold. A bill to reor- ganize the Treasury Departmont was referred to the Finance Commities. Tho Deficiency bill, presented by the House, was thon discussed and with numerous amendments was passed. Tho Senate then went into executive session, the bill for the gradual reduction of the army being a special order for the next mocting and soon after adjourned until Monday. In tho House two communications wero presented from Secretary Stauton and ordored to be printed. The Bow Reconstruction bill was again considered and a long d@obate ensued, which was continued in an evening ser- gion, Numcrous amusing cross-question!ngs oc*urrod between the opposite sides, and the House adjourned without @ yote at ton o'clock. THE LEGISLATURE. 0 Sonate yesterday notice was given of a bill to tho proceedings of the Constitutional Conven- tiot Bills amending tho Military Code and relative to the duties of the Recorder were introduced, In tho Assombly the bill to extend the time for the Collection of license fees in tho Metropolitan district was paseed. Bills to regulate the forrios and to provide froo floating bath houses tn Now York wero introduced, A resolation relative to the pay of members of the Con- atitutional Convention, which, among other things, Aeharsa mombor of the Logisiature from drawing pay ‘sa member of the Convention after the 7th ist, was laid over under the rulo, THE CITY. ‘Tho Board of Councilmen beld a speeial meeting yea. terday afternoon andeoncurred with the Aldermen in Adopting a series of resolutions oulogistic of the late Councilinan James Long. A joint committee of both Boards was appointed to make the necessary arrange. qmoents for the funeral of the deceased. Fifteen thousand dollars in bonds were stolen from off the aiscount clerk's desk in the Bank of the Republic yosterday afternoon, No cluo whatever to the thicf is kaown. ‘The case of Fisk and Bolden against the company and Girectors of tho Chicago, Rock Isiand and Pacific Rail- fond, came up yesterday, pursuant to adiournment, before Judge Cardozo, The testimony of Pavid Dows, which will be found elsewhere in our columns, was Baken and the caso adjourned. In tho United States Dis trict Court, Admiralty branch, yesterday, before Judzo Blatchford, an important ques- tion was raised consequent upon the trial of a collision ase on the North river, in which Moit and others, . la . Owners of the ship Talismnn, suc tho ferryboat D, & Grogoty for damages resulting from o collision, Tho Question at tssue to the right claimed by the forry Company over the waters of the North river, in what thoy call their course or lino of transit between New York and the Jorsey shore. Judge Blatchford has re- swerved his decision on the point, The case of William ©. Hasbrouck against tho steam. ‘Doat St. Joha was also on trial yesterday before Judge Blatchford, Damages to the amount of $4,000 are Claimed. Decision reserved, Ip the matter of the bankruptcy of Asa Craft for com Duleory adjadication of bankruptcy, the testimony taken ‘Defore the Commissioner to whom the case wi fed was concluded yesterday, The question now awaits the decision of the court, + Om motion of counsel, Judge Blatchford yesterday ranted an ordor to bond the distillery and certain prop- erty therein, the spirits only excepted, sitaated in Wost Forty-eighth street ; also the roctifying disttllery in Weet ‘Twenty-soventh street, . &n the Superior Vourt, Part 1, yesterday, before Judge Movunn, the guardians of Thomas Thurig brought an ection against the Broadway and Soventh Avenue Rall- 6nd Company to recover the sum of $20,000 for Injuries alleged to have been sustained by him through the neg. Gigence of the defendants’ servants, The case hes aot ‘Doon concluded. # Ga the Court of Common Pleas, General Term, yoster- Gay, before Judges raty and Bargett, the caso of Power va Battershal! camo on for bearing. It was an 4 from the decision of the Marine Court In favor of defendant, holding that he did not sign a certain promissory note individually, but as President of the '4evilio Marble Company, The Judgment of the court amt ta" eretns have hoop mado in the OfGeb Deputy, Dongis Moria -- , NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1868. mara; Hloonsiag Thomas Ennis; asulstant clerks, Thomas Ryan, Francis J, Markey, James & Wilsou. ‘The Inman line eteamsbip City of Baltimore, Captaia Leitch, will leave pier 45 North river at one o'clovk to- morrow (Saturday) for Quecustown Liverpool, The European matis, which go by this steamer, will close at tho Post Office at tweive a,, 18th inst. ‘The Anchor line steamship Hibernia, Captain Muaro, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Lon- dondorry to land passengers, &o, ‘The Cromwell line steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, will leave pier No. 9 North ri at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans dircot, The Empire line eidewhee) and favorite steamship Sau Jacinto, Capisin Ating, will sail punctuatly at three P.M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Savannab, Ga., con- necting with steamer for Florida ports, &o. ‘Tho stock market was dull and unsettled yesterday morning, but closed strong at advancing pricea (ov- ernment securities were strong, Gold elosed at 13934 #15914, Business im almost all departmonts of trade in commercial circles was very generally quict, but values were gouerally unchanged. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telegrams from St. Thomas by the Gulf cable confirm the news of the acceptance of annexation by the inhabitants, Only twenty-two votes were cast against the proposition, A Danish corvetto is waiting at Santiago de Cubs to carry back the report of Secretary Seward’s roception of this news, The Baez revolution in St. Domingo is stil! progress- ing. Puerto Plata had beon taken by the revolutionists, and they were awailing tho arrival of Baez to attack the opie in the Constitutional Convention yesterday, the re- Porton charitios and charitable institutions was c sidered in Committee of the Whole, and on rising the whole subject was laid on the table, Pending discussion ‘on the powers and duties of the Logislature the Conven- ton adjourned, In the South Carolina Convention yesterday a colored ‘sergeant-at-arms, who was elected tho day before, was induced to resign on account of incompotency. In tho North Carolina Convention yesterday tho tadicals took umbrage ata newspaper which calied the black delegates “‘negroos” and passed a resolution ro~ quiring more respect from reporters in future. There is said to bo nolther meat, bread nor money onough in Wilkinson county, Miss., to support tho in- habitants three months. As anticipated, the Military Treasurer of Georgia, on taking possession of the strong boxes, found no money, Four hundrod inmates of the Deer Island Iustitusion, near Boston, have been poisonod by arsenic, it is sup- posed, in tho food or water, Most of thom will probably recover. Earthquake shocks wore felt at St, Andrew's and Mon- (real, Canada, at midnight of tho 14th inst, The billabolishing the State constabulary is consid- ered cortain to pass the Massachusetts Logislature, and todications aro that all restrictions on liquor dealing will be abolished. The Kansas Legislature orgavizod yesterday and the Governor's Meszage was received. Ho recommends the nization of a small militia force for protection against Indians, Miss Emma Hunt was elected enroll- ing clerk of tho Lower House, ‘Tho Legislature of Maryland continued voting for United States Senator yesterday, without coming to a choice, Governor Swann fell off considorably, and Ham. ilton is now ahead, ‘Tho Grand Army of the Republic mot at Philadelphia yesterday and elected John A. Logan, of Iltinows, Com- mander-in-Chiof, The Reign of the Jacobins=<Progress of the Revolution in Congress. “Liberty, equality and fraternity” formed the tripod of the first French republic. That monstrous abortion, however, proved such a hideous outrage upon liberty, such a shocking burlesque of equality, and such a bloody mockery of fraternity, that France was only too glad to escape from it in seeking the pro- tection of a military despotism. The transition wasfrom a reign of terror and anarchy toa reign of law and order; but the law was tho will of Napoleon, and the order was that of the bayonet. The Jacobins of Congress, with their “amis des noirs” and their dogma of “ equal rights to all men,” which is equivalent to the French tripod of “liberty, equality and fraternity,” are now actively employed in the work of transforming our republic into an oli- garchy as the next step toanempire. We may say that we have passed through the stages of the French National Assembly and the Conven- tion, and that we have arrived at the epoch of the Directory, in connection with the two chambers known as tbe Council of Ancients and the Council ot Five Hundred, wish our Bonaparte behind the scenes, only awaiting bis call upon tho stage. “Old Thad Stevens,” in the frank and fear- less declaration that “of course we are logis- lating outside the constitution,” has warned the couniry that the rule of the consti tution has gone by, and that the will of the party in power is “the suprome law of the land.” The experiment of the five Southern military districts, with their five military dic- tators, negro suffrage, &c., was based upon the plea of necessity, The civil Tenure of Office bill’ was another necessity. Now, afier the fuilure of the Council of Five Hundred to impeach and remove President Johnson, it has becowe necessary to put him bebind the Gon- eral «; the Army, and the Directory (which is Old Thad’s joint committee on reconstruction) have accordingly framed and brought in their bill for that purpose. At tho same time the Council of Ancients, in their reinstatement of See: Stanton, have assumed the power of appointing the Cabinet, and the bill before them from the other House for the practical removal of the stumbling block of the Supreme Court will doubtless recelve their approval and become a law. All these startling revolutionary measures are directed to the special object of rushing through without further interruption the reconstruc- tion of the ten outside Southern States on the basis of negro suffrage and negro supremacy, in order that said States may bo hurried into Congross and that their electoral votes, through patched up negro radical majorities, may be secured to the radical candidate for the Presi- dency. But supposo the President and the Supreme Court assumo the responsibility and “apply tho brakes hard dowa” upon theso unconstitutional doings of Congress, what then? Unquestionably, wo think, at this desperate stage of the contest, if either the Executive or the Supreme Court shall afford a plausible pre- text for impeachment, this last resort will be adopted; for in tho removal of Androw Johnson, and in the setting up of “Old Ben Wade” in his place, the administration will not only be reconstructed upon the radical pro- gramme, but the Supremo Court likewise, Tho President has the eppointmont of the judges. Thatis the presont diMculty, But let “Old Ben Wade” be put in the place of Johnson, and a bill for the appointmont of four or five now Supreme judges will bo the noxt thing in order. The radicals in Congress have the power—thoy have the will, too—and only want S convenient pretext to get Andrew Jobnaon out of their way. They aro in a critical situa- tion. They have gone too far to retroat, and their only chance is te hurry in tho rebel States on their present negro supremacy status at all hazards and without farther loss of time, President Jobnson, tigd hand and foot, oan HU do something ta embarcnnd the tadioals to this revolutionary scheme in the interval to next November, when the people will have something to say that will settle all these vexed questions. If Mr. Jobnson, however, should be impeached and removed meantime, bis removal will be to him an imperishable crown of glory; for it will make bim, by the spontaneous concentration around him of all the conservative elements of the country, our next President, even against General Grant as the radical candidate. We saw in 1852 how amall was tue influence of General Scott’s military achievoments against the popular ideas of that day on the slavery question; but the issues of univeraal negro suffrage, negro politi- caland social equality, Southern negro su- premacy and a Southern negro political balance of power will, in 1868, have a much greater influence on the public mind than the idea of peace on the slavery question in 1862. ‘The radicals of Congress have some appre- hensions of this sort. They are fighting a des- perate battle for the perpetuation of their power. Their purpose is, with the negro vote, to add the olectoral votes of the ten out- side Southern States to the vote of the North for thoir Presidential ticket ; for they think that these ten Southern States will more than neutralize all their Northern losses. They must be defeated in this game, or this election of 1868 may be the last under the constitution of the United States. With Grant fairly in their toils, the radical Directory at Washington will henceforth be bolder than ever in pushing forward their designs. Upon whom can the opposition Union and constitutional elements of the country successfully combine to defeat tho radical ticket? Can they have a better rallying cry than Johnson and the constitu- tion? Fernando Wood as a Parliamentary Martyr. Fernando Wood certainly gave good occasion for the official reprimand he received in the House on Wednesday, ‘ihere can be no doubt that the language he used was unpar- liamentary. He is to blame in the premises more deeply than the House blamed him. Ho is to blame before his constituents for furfeit- ing, through tho use of intemperato language, the opportunity to criticise and denounce in his placo an outrageous bill. It is said that half the money spent in litigation is wasted through the ignorance of lawyers who give bad advice aud fail to improve proper oppor- tunities; and it is at loast equally true that half the harm done in violent legislation is done through default of vigorous, intelligent, clear-sighted and ready opposition. Mr. Wood could have denounced this traly infamous Re- construction law, could have characterized it in terms as forcible as he chose and been right ; but in going aside from that legilimate course to denounce the body of which he was a member he lost sight of the common propriety of his position, and radicalism naturally seized the first opportunity to smother hostile ex- pression ; for the bill is 80 objectionable, 50 open to denunciation, that iis friends wisely fear every adverse breath. Mr. Wood is a type of the average Congrosa- man in his jgnorance of the proprieties of de- bate, and this case only illustrates the result of sending to Congress mon utterly worthless through inefliciency resulting from the want of the right intellectual training. Constiiuencies that send this class of men to Congress practi- cally deprive themselves of representation. But in another view it is no wonder that Mr. Wood did not deem it necessary in this Con- gress to confine himself to the use of proper and respectful language. It is not strange if ho and others have grown into the habit of thinking that there is a general licenso for the coarsest blackguardism of which our speech is capable. It has been a common practice for members in debate to indulge in the use of words not only disrespectful, but sneering, con- temptuous, coarse, toward a co-ordinate branch of the government, and for such words Speaker Colfax never had any rebuke, They wero never out of order. Thus tho proper regard for tho proprioties of speech was lost in the House, and the language of reference to othors became demoralized, all through the direct culpable neglect of his plain duty on the part of Mr. Colfix, who, if not the most incompe- tent man for bis place ever known, must cer- tainly be the meanest spirited partisan that ever breathed air, Congress and the Supremo Court. The bill to modify the power that the consti- tution gives to the Supreme Conrt has passed the House and gono to the Senate, which, no doubt, it will also pass by the usual party vole. It provides that no law of Congress shall bo set aside for unconstitutionality unless two- thirds of the judges pronounce against it, No proposed law was ever more positively at issue with the constitution. There are certain cases in which tho Supreme Court has jaris- diction only “with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” Thoy are cases of appellate jurisdiction, and the constitution itself specifies what they are, But in all cases “in which» State shall be a party,” asin these reconstruction laws, original jurisdiction, without qualification, is given simply and distinetly to “the Supreme Court.” To tho court; not to any given number of judges, nor in any required way, but plainly to the court, These words are to be taken, of course, in their ancient, well understood, com- mon law sense—in which the “court” means a majority of the judges; and in this sense, in which those words have been understood ever since the Supreme Court bad aon existence, that court will undoubtedly still understand them, and therefore will certainly pronounce tho law unconstitutional and refuso to bo governed by it, But thero is one way in which Congress can get at the Supreme Court. Although the constitution established tho court and declared fis powers, it left its or- ganization to Congress, and this was fixed by the statuto of 1789. That law organizing the Supreme Court Congress can repeal, and, making another, ean reorganize the court to sult ite views, The constitution reqnifes that there shall be @ chief justice, which implies, of course, that there shall be some associates ; but as no number is called for tho court may be 80 organized that @ majority would be two- thirds. Here would bo an act quite in the revolutionaty spirit that prevails; but there would be of0 diMoylty. Tho President would havo the sppointmopt of tho judgés, whloh would not gult Congress so well, ynloss, in- dood, having gono #6 far, Cong¥ods doit ndt he stopped by ono more constitutional -pto- vision, and should by another la®, gol ig juist o (igo further than the Tenure of Offod 1aq, plage the eppolating potret somatwhe ‘The Surrender of General Grant. The great captain of the age—the man who whipped Lee and finished the rebellion—bas sur rendered at last; yes, ingloriously surrendered to another rebel force equally aa destructive tothe constitution agd government as that of the South. He has surrendered to the radical revolutionists. So remarkable and surprising was this event that the newaboys in the streets of Washington were heard shouting “The sur- render of General Grant!” as they ran about with the papers containing the nows, just as these sharp-witted fellows shouted the sur- render of Lee when he gave up. They instinc- tively seized the very expression, which forcibly showed the conduct of Grant in giving up the War Depariment at the demand of Stanton and the radicals without consulting or referring to the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of tho army. The glorious and deserved fame of General Grant in conquering the rebellion is tarnished by this surprising conduct. Our Napoleon has not shown the skill of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Talleyrand of our War Office, backed by the Jacobins in Congress, has outwitted the great American General. Napoleon Bonaparte on the 18th Brumaire proved himself superior to all tho Jacobins and plotters, The fact is General Grant has little knowledge of politics or poli- ticlans, or ofanything else outside of his mili- tary profession, and he has permitted his am- bition and the clamor of the dominant party to overrule a sense of duty and respectful be- havior to his superior, the President of the United States. em General Grant received his appointment from the President, The office was purely executive and under the Chief Executive of the republic, the President. He had nothing to do with Congress and should have received no orders from that body. He should have known nothing about what Congress did with regard to the War Department or his duties in it except through the President. Congress is not the Executive. The mere resolution of the Senate that it did not approve of the suspen- sion of Stanton was not an order for Grant to vacate the War Dopartment, and it it had been he should not have recog- nized it; he should have received no orders but from the President But the manner of vacating the position to which the President had appointed him without consult- ing with or referring the matter to the decision of his chief was discreditable. It shows plainly that General Grant did not understand his duty and the respect due to the Prosident. It is not to the individual Mr. Johnson that this wrong is done, but to the President of tho United States and to the people as represented by him in that high office. There was something so unworthy of Grant—wo might almost say tricky—in his slipping out of the back door to let Stanton come in at tho front, without noli- fying the Perasident, that it cannot fail to damage him seriously in the estimation of the American people. All the rigmarole, trashy arguments and special pleading about his previous conversations with Mr. Johnson on the subject of Stanton’s position amount to nothing in vlow of the great fact that in his conduct he ignored the Executive of the na- tion, did not act with proper respect to him and neglected the plain dictates of duty toward him. . All this looks as if the General had thrown himself into the arms of the Jacobin radicals and is ready to go with them in their revolutionary courso of destroying the consti- tution and government, What a change must have como over him! Ho was democrat in formor times; he exhibited great liberality and broad views in his treatment of the rebels when they surrendered, and he has been re- garded as conservative all along up to within ® recent period. What has turned his head and thrown him among the revolutionists ? Wo still believe his heart is right and that he is a sincere patriot, but evidently he has been under baneful influences. The politicians have befogged him, either to kill him off or to make use of him for their own purposes. If he would keep his hold on the esteem and affection of the American poople he will re- trace his steps at onco as far as he can, show that he is conservative at heart and give tho cold shoulder to his radical advisors. Nothing olso--no, not even his great military fame—can save him from ruin as a public man, . Tho Latest Enterprise In Italian Opera, The latest attempt to establish Italian opera in this city, inaugurated at Pike’s Opera House by Strakosch, has been very successful so far, and the magnificent Opera House and the great artist—La Grange—have atiracted many’ ad- mirers every night. The manager, with such a good start, should win In the grand race for public favor in which every placo of amuse- ment is entered for the season. Te should remember, howevor, that nothing short of per- petual noveliy—and that always ofa first class standard—can insure tho success of bis enter- prise. Tho troupe engaged at presont at the new Opera House is an excellent one and will do very well for this season. But for subse- quent seasons tho flat of the public is novelty either in artists or operas. Tho non-observ- anco of this general order of the amusement public of the metropolis was the rock on which Maretack was wrocked. In compliance with the wishes of the stockholders of the old opera house the short-sighted impresario persisted in thrusting forward third rate artists before the public, and he met the fate that every one who adopts the same course must suffer. Tho present manager has now everything in his favor—a splendid house, an appreciative public, with plenty of money and no stockholders, It is unjust to charge # want of taste on the part of the New York public because Itallan opera has bad so many disastrous failures, Wo sond away fine artists to Europe every year who rise to the highest positions in art among the magnates of the Old World, A taste for music has, of late years, increased among us to such an extent that there are fow if any families who do not claim an artist or an amateur as one of their mombers. All that is necossary for the success of Italian opora ia to present first class talent, good operas, constant novel- ties, and to keop cloar of all cliques and monopolies. By steadily pireuing this course the pFesont home of the opera on Twenty-third attéet will be 4 pormanent one. FORTUNATE St, TagagseStill troubled with earthquakes, thig un! lortudate and é five oFAk On ile Wis tetgna ie aes be ‘oth pestilnos -Ptiont follo Cholera oid a want of provisions, Seven mtillions in gold for such @ place is surely a waste of money, especially when we can get the spacious land- locked, deep and beautiful bay of Samana, in Dominica, for, as we understand, leas than half the money. Aaa naval station, where these unpleasant upliftings of the sea roll huge ships of war over the town, St. Thomas is too shaky. The Revolutionary Conduct of Congreas=Ite Effect on Our Trade and Finances. Congress might as well spare ita time upon the various financial measures that have been brought forward during the sesslon—first, becauae hardly one of them bas any practical value, and next, because the best that could be -devised would do no good while the country is kept in a disturbed and revolu- tionary condition. How is {t possible for the people to have any confidence in the future? How can capitalists and the business com- munity venture to do anything whéR they know not what disasters “to-morrow may bring? The Jacobins of the French Convention did not’ march with more rapid strides than ourradical Congress in the way ef revolution. They did not break down more rapidly, one after another, all the landmarks of civilization, law and order. Their violent measures did not involve such a radical change in the political and social condition of society. There is no parallel in history to the atrocious and destructive conduct of Congress. Though the world looks with horror on the frightful orgies and bloody des- potism of the French Jacobins, perpetrated in the name of liberty, equality and fraternity, these insane monsters of destruction had some excuse for their conduct in the monarchical and aristocratical tyranny which had in 9 measure goaded them to excess. But with us there is not the least shadow ofexcuse for tho revolu- tionary conduct of Congress. We have the best government in the world. Our constitution, with its admirable chocks and balances, is incomparable, Thero is no public enemy in or out of tho country to en- danger our institutions. Every man’s liberty, properly and rights—those of the black man as well as of the white—are secure beyond all danger if Congress will let them alone. Yet the infamous Jacobin party in power aro re- solved to practically abolish the Executive and the Supreme Court and to make the barbarian nogro race a controlling element in the gov- ernment. The voice of the pzople, as emphati- cally expressed in the late elections, common sense, decency, justice, the memories of tho glorious past and the work of the great found- ers of our government, and patriotism—all are ignored and treated with contempt by these Congressional revolutionists. Nothing, how- ever sacred or good, is permitted to stand in the way of their ambition and party pur- poses, They have destroyel the fuirest por- tion of our country in order to put the white man under the barbarous nogro, for no other object than to perpetuate their power; thoy have created a military despotism that endan- gors the liberties of the Northern people as well as makes slaves of the Southerners; thoy have put us on tho high road to Cesarism ; they have violated the constitution so far that wo hardly know whether we have one left; they have usurped the constitutional powers of the President and virtually abolished the Executive, making him inferior and subordinate to the officials under him, and they have resolved seomingly to make the Supremo Court of the United States a mere political machine to do their bidding. At the rate these rabid revolutlonists are going on there will not be left ina few months a vestige of tho glorious government handed down to us by the fathers. It may be nominally a republic, but actually a despotism, a8 fully ag the government of France was under the Con- vention. Under such o foarful state of things tho national finances must remain disorganizod, taxation oppressive and the public credit shaken. Business of all kinds must ‘cel tho paralyzing effect. Capital will take alarm and enterprise will cense, In fact, the prospect before us is truly alarming if the radical parly in power continuo their destructive course and the people do not rise up as one man in their might to check this tide of Jacobinism. “Un- happily, these radicals will be in power for some time to come, as they boast of being, to defy public opinion, and they may do a vast deal of evil before another gencral election takes place. To hold them in chock, then, tho people everywhero should riso and denounco theirconduct. In all tho cities and towns—yes, even in every litile villnge—there should be public meetings for this purpose. Tho country is in a terrible crisis, and the univorsal voice of the nation should be raised to save the constitution and government from tho sacrilegious hands that now threaten to destroy both. Tor New Wutskey Law.—Thoro is weeping and gnashing of teeth among the. whiskey rings, and the fraudulent bondholders refuse to be comforted. A legislative bombshell, in the shape of the new Warchouso law, has fallen in their midst and scattered to the winds all their ingeniously contrived plans of de- frauding the revenue, This Whiskey law will affect capital to the extent of one hundred millions of dollars, and will inflict incalculable injury on the myriad cliques that combine against the revenues of the government, Al- ready the whiskey interest is up in arms and fulminates threats and remonstrances in many on Jndignation meeting. The manufactured article is kept in tho Western warehouses, and the convenient transfer business is suspended until the legal taxis pald. This law will ro- move the necessity of resorting to violont and obnoxious measures to punish frauds on the revenue. It will enable the offlcers of the government to distinguish between those who obey the law and the real transgressors. It will increase the revenue accraing to the na- tional Treasury from this source, and in break- ing up the whiskoy rings it will benefit legiti- mate dealers toa lergo oxtent A nitro-gly- corine explosion could scarcely produce more dismay than tho now Whiskey law has dono among the sharp praotitioners of the whiskey interest. “Uxper Waicn Kiva?’ —Tho leading Soward organ of this city Is fighting the radicals of Congross with the unotion of « “Veteran Ob- rvor”’ who bas a heavy account against them ; ut what does it say of Genoral Grant? Sup- ig Johnson and Grant as on tho samo gordo. If Grant is with me tin will no lot Bye talon whord ths orana of Jobason Waypet Pumurs ise perfect Mra Caudle, In his last lecture he saya that the “1werisan people are drunk with Grant and monty bage.” ‘What sort of @ liquor is that? \ Senet eto Sri. ANorner.—S, 8, Cox, familiarly called Sunset Cox, from his graphic description of a wonderful copper colored sunset some- where over in Jersey, has been nominated to ihe Austrian mission. Of course, asa cam- paigning democrat agalnat Old Ben Wade ia Ohio last fall, he is put up by the President to be knocked down by the radical hammer of Old Ben Wado in the Senate. One good turm deserves another. This makes the baker's dozea of unfortunates set pp and knocked down or resigned on the Austrian mission. Who comes next? ‘Motley is the only wear.’* Avorngr Anna Dickixson.—Miss Sallie Bronson Goodrich lectures the newsboys te night at 128 Fulton street. Boys, behave. AMUSEMENTS. Pie's Orrra Hoyse—‘Don Giovanst.”—The entire effective strongth of Strakosch’s troupe was cast in ‘Dom Giovanni” last night. This opera seems to have lost a good deal of its power of attraction in New York, for latterly the houses that attond its representation are smaller than those of any other opera, Madame La Grange achioved a success in the réte of Donna Anns and in the passionate aria “Or sai chi I’ onoro,”’ ber un- rivalled dramatic powers of voice and action wore dis- played to the best advantage. Miss Adolaide Phillips mado a charming Zerlina, full of inimitable graco and vivacity, and in the “La ci darem'’ with Don Giovannt (Orlandini) she drow a well deserved encore, Susiot acted the part of Leporello very well, but his hoarseness marred the effect of his singing to a considerable extent. Miss McCulloch was a passable Donna Elvira, and Coletti made the most of the Com: fore, “‘Lucreais Borgia” will be givon to-night, Tux Ware Fawn at Nip1o's,—To-night positively the sugcesaor of the Black Crook will tako possession of tho boards at Niblo’s, The play is divided into a proe logue and threo acts, and is set with scenery, ballet, pan- tomime, &c., in such magnificont stylo that it bids fale to eclipse its predecessor, Fanny Stockton, Mark Smite and Vining Bowers ore tho principal charactors tm the cast, and Bonfanti, Soblke and Billon in tho ballet® ‘The music is of a superior character to what wo gene rally have in spectacles, tho principal morceaur being by Offenbach and Mollenhauer, A dcoublo malo quartet has been selectod for the chorus. ‘be transformation scene is from the spectacle of tho "Forty Thieves,” whic was brought out at Covent Garden, London, and the en- tire scenery and appointments of the ‘Biche aux Bols’® from (he Porte St, Martin theatre, Paris, will be used im tho “White Fawn,” Tho number of people engaged im this spectacle is over threo hundred, Dovwonta Hatt,—Mr, George Vandenhof was Breeted last night by a crowded house to bear bim read selections from “As You Like It,’ Soott’s poem of “phe Lady of the Lake,’? and Dickens’ humorous de- scription of Mr, Pickwick's adventures at the Greas White Horge Tavern. Mr, Vandenhofl’s clocutionary powers are too well knowa and havo becn too oftem ed in these columns to require a detailed mention 0 but we may remark that ho displayed last night & happy conception of the varied characters be repre- sented and a thoroughly artistic interpretation of the same. Tho embarrassiag position of the retiring Pick= wick in the strange room to whic’. bo had retired after his memorable interview with Mr, Peter Magnus, the confiding, was brought out by Mr. Vandenhoff with a clearness and distinctness that kept the audieaco atten- tivo and uproariousiy amused. If the public dosire to see Dickens’ characters strony outlined, with the lights and shades carefully handlod, they must seo Mr, Vandenhoff at Dodworth Hall. be ‘Tug Anion Sooistr,—This musical soclety, pre-eminent in solos and their introduction to the wintor fertivities of the season in New York, bogs’ to submit the follow- ing:—President, Mr. Baedor; Secretary of State, Henry Richard; Adjutant General, .F. Beringer; Sccretary of ‘Treasury, J. Kk. Schuitz; Sccrotary of Interior, A. Kuckel; Secretary of Public Works, P. Schultze; Editor-in-Chief, Reuben Leister, Thus the suciety, to encourage Ariom affairs, submit tho above as their exbibit, with all the music Imaginabie, and, with their ladios, make night af brilliant a3 mora. AQUATICS, pe Columbia Bont Club. At the regular anaual mecting of the Columbia Boat Club, held January 14, 1968, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, H. G, Hash- hagen; Vice President, J. A, Morodith ; Secretary, Woorge M, Young; Treasuror, W. A. Martin, Hudson Amateur Rowing Association. At tbo regular aunual moeting of the Hudson Amt. tour Rowing Association, held on Wednesday, 16th inst, at the Atalanta Boat House, the follow. ing officers were elected for {ho ensuing year:. President, David Banks, Jr., of the Atalanta Club; First Vice President, J, @. P. Holden, of tho Paltsade Club; Second Vice President, A. G, Graves, Jr., of the Mutual Ciub; Recording Secretary, H. G. Hasbagen, of the Columbia Clup; Corr nding Secretary, R. C. Eitiott, of tho Vesper Club asurer, Theo, Tuttle, of the Allautic Club, Nereid Bont Club. This rowing association was first started In June, 1867, with about Aftecn members, and having thelg headquarters at the foot of Court street, South Brooke lyn. The founders of thie club were tho Vandorbdiis brothers, Frederick M. Wheeler and tho Kyto brotaerm, to whose exertions much honer is due, Tho association hold a mocting on last Wodnesday evening at thefr rooms in Court street, South Brooklyn, when tho following gentlemen wore elocted officers for the cnsuing year:—President, Thomas B. Atkins; Vice Prosidont, Goorga E, Bleecker; Secrotary, Edward A. Willard; Treasurer, George H, Wicks; Captain, A, Van- dorbilt; Lieutenant, E. A, Willard, The club now own one boat, an outrigger barge, thirty-sevon fect bh vory fast and easy tv pull, whch they purcoased of tha Yale College students, Tho active membership of the ciub is now twenty-seven, It is growing tu favor and popularity rapidly, and of tho spring expocts to open the season with a number of fine new boats, now buildings THE BRIOKLAYERS? NATIONAL CONVENTION, panne Fourth Day's Procecdings. Tho Convention reassomblod yosterday at nino o'clock A. M, Various communications aod@ petitions from local unions were handed in and read, asking an oxtem- sion of the appronticeship system, 60 that journcymem having sons might bo allowed to instruct thom in the trado without prejudico to the right of bosses to have two apprentices; also roquet that some action be takon by the National Union upon the matter of the eight hour law, Tn the aftornoon session new business boing declared {n order, a motion was mado to appoint a committee of two to visit tho officers of the Operative Plastorers’ See ciety in this city and ascortain their fecling in the mat- ter of tho bricklayers sending dologates to the Pias- terors’ National Convention, and effecting a union of both trades. A motion prevailed to lay the whole mattor on the tavio, ‘Tho following new articles wero proposed: — ho charters of Unions not sending delegates or re. for two successive annual seasona to tue Interna two or more months tm Of a connection with the cr {iternauonal Union. Thoso soveral amendments wore referred to the Come mittee on the Constitution. A motion made by Mr. Blackburn, of No, 1 Union of section 1 of Hartford, that 1 ‘ticle 17 of the constitution: ‘be amended eo as to permit local Unions to reguinte ap Union. MPs as without status in: tho Convention and aot entitled to the pri of the ion uestion, The neces onalderat ot Wea vation oa. Tle oxtject wa nly of ecutinving tnelr organt. sant get im that respect, The Ittee of the Whole, deci wane eure “Sraklaying i hn wouse of the (the Convention adjourned te meet this morning as nine o'clock, ‘YOUNG MENS’ ASSOCIATION BALL. Last evening the Academy of Music wasthe scons of ‘ono of the most popular and successful reunions of the season, The ocossion was the eleventh annual ballet the above society for the benefit of the Roman Catholie Orphan Asylum of New York, ‘Tho arrangements were of the most complete kind, and the Committee of Man- 4 soomed to have left nothing undone to insure t 6 aurccess of the praisoworthy undertakt For tne: time being the millionnaire and the mec! together on & common — _ oily Goren COfRe deiamteGocity turned fut en may, with. stperd Llletm, and by thotr Mie cee et like Denslng Ooms / eeced tea olock, & wid ws ‘ap enti I fs wg The Sat at !