The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw York Herato, 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 » BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Pave o' Dar. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Tax Guaxv Docuxss. BOWERY THEATRE, Nowery.—Dogs or tae Oup Tout Hovse—Two Buzzanps. K THX Newsnor. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 4 st., corner Bighth ay.— La Traviata. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposito New York Hotel.— ‘Unprr tux Gascicnt, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Nigue's Darran. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar Broadway.—A Minsuuwen Wurte Faw. WALLA Tux Wonper. MEATRE, Broadway and 13th stroct. — BANVAnD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirielh sirec.—Frost King. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Nos, 2 and 4 West 2th street. Kaui or BeaMat, gbopworra HALIs No. 806 Broadway. —Vanpexiorr's KAD NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—Grasastica, Fuss M, &C. THEATRE COMIQUR, 514 Broadway,—Haxtox Coxst- Nanion THOUPE KELLY & LRON’S MINSTRELS, 70 Broadway.—Sonas, Dances, Eoountncrries, Buntusquas, &0. SAN FRAD vias Exrecer TONY PAS Vovatasy,.N RICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— » &e, Pica. Mati PLYMOUTH cuURCH, Rrapings. Brooklyn.—Cwanies Diexenst PARE THEATRE, Bro HOOLEY'S OPERA HO Minstemisy, Baviavs asp Bui K Cane. Brooklya.—Erarortan aves. TM OF ANATOMY, G18 Broadway.— TH NaoWs. EUROPE. The nows report Ly the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evon'ng, January 19, George Francis Train protests against his arrest at Cork through the United States Consul, No mattor of Apparent justification for his detention was found. Tho egms and ammunition for eale in the city of Limerick were taken in charge by the police to prevent their failing into the hands of the Fenians. Important arrests of alleged Fonians were made in Glasgow, Dublin and London, A Fenian manifesto was posted on the Van- sion Howse, London, and a general uneasiness prevailed im England. Tho Emperor of Austria has appointed a new Minister of War, Maximi'lan’s remains wer» ro- sived by his family et the palace in Vieuna and con- signed to their place of burial with much pomp. The 81, Thomas annexation voto was promulgated in Copen- hagen, Five twenties were at 7636 a 76% in Frankfort. Paris Bourss was heavy, with reates dechuing. MISCALLANEOUS. Oor Havana specials furnish news from Jamaica, New Providence and st, Thomas. Responsible offices in Jamaica are henceforth to be filled by appoiatment from England. The United States steamer Minnesota had beep engaged sounding for the cable to counet with the line lo New ¥ The ship Coronet was lost at Barebnsh. The Legislature of New Providence was to assemble on the 14th prox., when it was thought tho vote of taxation would be increased, A diver haa Commereed operations at St, Thomas in search of the Specie lest on the steamer Rhone. General Hancock, in answer to a communication from Judge Cady on the subject, declares that he would not consider vaild an ordinance of the Reconstruction Con vention of Louisiana stayiag executions on judgments by State courts until 1870. He argues that the Conven- tion's bustuess is to form a conelitution and not to des! with subjects ary logistation. In communication from the Auditor settin that the tax levied by the ention to pa Penses cannot be collected as those taxed refuse to pay, be answers that coercive The ate measures should be used after pexceadle ones are exhautiod and that the military will sustsin the sapremacy of the law if forcible resistance be mada. Gur Washington correspondence says that tho politi- mato and f . at the capital, will prove too much for Grant, is not very deeply versed in poll tics, and has already lost much cast, Stanton and Chase aro both making use of him to secure the nomi. Bation of tho later for the Presidency, The lady polt- ticians of the completion have agreed upon Chase, and are actively at work In his favor, It is now stated that the radical membors of Congress | are trying to fores the President into some outragoo flagrant act towards Secretary Stanton ino second game of hment, With that aro hoidtog gr nsultations at the War Department daily, trying to bring about a deadlock in the business Of (he department through the President's refural to hold any oficial communieation with Mr. Stanton, Five members of a German family namo’ Stang, in Chicago, the head of which is reported to be one of th Wealthicat Germans in the city, were poisoned, although not fatally, ou Saturday. A young daughter of the family, aged eixteen, was arrested as the polsoner on the statement of one of tho ehildren that gho put the Poison into the cokes, The young prigoner charges her Mother with the deed, and siates that hor paronts wore ‘fo avaricious and grasping (hat they ill treated her when ‘she did not earn suMciont money to suit them. Rev. Charles B. Smyth preached at Bunyan Hall yee- terday afternoon on the Pope and Protestantiam. The firet aervies was performed in the new church on Madi- @on avenue and Forty.seventh street, Dr. Fingg, the reotor, officiating, and.two young candidates for the min- istry were ordained. A meoting under tho direction of the Sunday schovl was held at the Allon street Proabyterian church last night, when the subject of meglected childron was discussed. It was generally ‘agreed that more Sunday school teachers sre needed, it having been found necessary to refuse children admis sion to the echools on account of this deficiency. The American Christian Commission met at the Dutch Reformed church in Brooklyn yesterday, whea addressea Were delivered by Dr. Buddington and others, Arch- Dishop MeClorkey preached at St. Petor’s church, Barolay street, ia the morning, for the benefit of the poor visited by tho members of the St. Vincent do Paul Sosiety, fity cents apiece being charged for ad. ‘mission. Rare old documents, some of them bearing the seal of King George, have in their time been stored away in the vaults of the County ‘k's office; but it is now in mated that many of them have beou made away with Or destroyed, as of no value, and it is oven assorted (hat foads of them have been sold to the giue manufacturers, Our present County Clerk has dotormined to index and file away in some order those that yet remain. As article in another column exposing the extortions herd city gas monopolies will be found of interest, Re- jaule ostimates go to prove that the gas wh ch costs the cons: from twenty-five to thirty-five cenis por hundred manufycturgd ang distributed by the companies 6 4 acludl doat of twelve counts per hundred. The total amount of gas annui distributed NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, JANUARY 20 1868. part of Congress. They never expected the | Conaress and the People—The Evil and the | Of the discugtion the case will give rise to 2,602,170,000 oudic feet, exclusive of wastage, from which the profits accruing may be easily estimated. ‘Tho bankruptcy petitions lodged ip the United States Court for this district number 689, fifty of which are compulsory. From eighty to ninety of these petitioners have received their final discharge from the court. Going into bankruptcy as managed under our law |s somewhat expensive, the costs and foes for a voluntary petitioner amounting to some $180 to $225, and for compulaory bankrupt to botwoen $300 and $500. Tho steamor Artisan, which was aground at Hallett's Point, near Hell Gate, was got off on Friday, but the propeller Glaucus remains hard and fast upon the Grid- iron, where she has settled down, six or eight tugs having been at work unsuccossfully on Saturday to get her off, The British steam corvette Jason, from Vera Cruz, arrived at this port yesterday with the British Legation from Mex ico on board. a: Acollision oceurred on the Erie Railway on Friday morning by one freight train dashing into the rear of another during the prevalence or a fog. A conductor was instantly killed and a flagman was fatally Injured. A blind girl in Brooklyn was burned ao severely on Saturday night that her recovery is considered doubtful. While alone in ber mother’s room sho approached too near the stove and her clothes took fire. General Humphreys, tho alleged confidence man, who victimized several citizens of Pittsfield, Mass , last sum- mer and eloped with a Miss Kenyon, has been sentenced to ten yonrs’ imprisonment, ‘The Wisconsin Legislature has passed resolutions as- sorting the right of expatriation and demanding protec. tion for American citizens, whether foreign or native born, A Bill to D'ssolve Civil Society and Abolish, the Executive. The new Reconstruction bill, so called, re- ported by Mr. Bingham from the Committee on Reconstruction and now pending before Con- gress, shows how language can be perverted in its application to partisan measures. This bill has a title the very reverse of its character and object. [ts proper title would be, “A bill to dissolve civil society and to abolish the Executive.” First, it declares that In the Southern States “there are no civil State governments, and that the so-called civil governments in said States respectively shall not be recognized as valid or legal State governments either by the exec- utive or judicial power or authority of the United States.” This sweeping revolutionary measure dissolves all civil society, makes all laws invalid and inoperative, abolishes the right of property, leaves the people without pal or local laws for the protection of worse than thatof the barbarian tribes of Africa or the Soa! slands. What chaos! what a frightful condition for the South and Southern people to be placed in! But the Southerners will not be tho only sufferera. Northern debtors, Northern merchants and capitalists who have invested in the South or who have debts owing to them there, are cut off from all legal means of recovering their property. It is virtual repudiation ona large scale. Contracts are rendered void and abrogated. All business must be suspended, confidence will be de- stroyed and the whole South, already at the point of starvation, will be turned into a wil- derness, Such is the infamous bill which a radical Congress has the hardihood to call a reconstruction law. It is the grimest joke and most cruel sarcasm ever attempted. The authority of the President, which the people of the United States, from the founda- tion of the government, have regarded as con- stitutionally vested in him, is abolished. Con- gress presumes to say that he shall not be Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army, though the con- stitution says he shall. This is what this infa- mous act declares:—“The General of the Army of the United States (Grant) is hereby author- ized and requirod to enjoin, by special orders, upon all officers in command within the several military departments within said several States, the performance of all acts authorized by said several laws above recited, and to remove by his orter from command any or all of said commanders, and detail other officers of the United States army, not below the rank of colonel, to perform all the duties and exercise all the powers authorized by said several acts.” Thus Grant is made Com- mander-in-Chicf in place of the President, and the constitutional functions of the Presi- dent are abolished. But this is not all. The third section of the bill says that “the Genegal of the Army may regiove any or all civil officers and appoint others to discharge the duties.” Here | the military power is placed strictly over the | civil and execut e power of the President both in the matter of removal from and appointment to purely civil offices. This is going further even than the Jacobin Conven- tion of France in the assumption of despotic authorify and snbjugation of every other branch of government. Indeed, the conduct | of Congress is more criminal, for it pretends to be acting within the limits of its legislative capacity, while tue Fronch Convention was honest enough to avow primary powers above all constitutions. To cap ‘the climax of this revolutionary meusure, it is made unlawful for the President of the United States to enforce the civil law, and it is provided that “any Interference by any person (by the President) with intent to | prevent by force the execution of the orders of the General of the Army shall be held to | be a high misdemeanor, and the party guilty thereof shall, upon conviction, be -fiued not exceeding five thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than two years.” A penalty is im- posed upon the President, as upon some bur- | slar or other vile criminal, for any attempt to | execute his constitutional functions as the Executive and Commander-in-Chief. Usurpa- tion and revolution cannot go further short of arresting and deposing the President and declaring the office absolutely abolished. The radicals in Congress have reached that limit, and the next step is a Directory, after the model of the French Directory, and a military despotism over the whole country, North as wellas South. This would be exactly suited to the ideas of Ben Wade, Thad Stevens and others of the Mountain faction who boldly declare the constitution is destroyed. The Tenure of Office bill and the proposed control over the action of the Supreme Court by Congress are paris of the same general plan to destroy the government and the liber- ties of the peopic. A great deal is said about the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of (hese measures. Whether they be regarded constitutional or not according to the strict lotter, they are certainly unconstitutional or super-constitutional in principle and according to the practice of ‘tho gov- ernment from its foundation. It is possible there may be a defect in the letier of the con- stitution with regard to this matter, for the founders of the government could hardly have by Qo four prigeipal companion in this oily is anticipated such atrocious usurpation on the counterpart of the Long Parliament in Eng- land or the Convention in France would exist in this free country. It is o use discussing the constitutional point on these or any other measures, when Congress is acting all slong outside of the constitution, This Puritan and negro faction will certainly not be restrained by constitutional arguments, They have got the power for a time, and will uso it. The only appeal left is to the people at the polls. We shall bave that to resort to before the year is out if the revolutionists do not utterly destroy the government in the meantime, There ls, however, some shaking among the dry bones. There are some signs of conster- nation among the radicals, We sce it in their anxiety about the national f~ances, national credit and the bonds they hold. Few of the bonds are in the hands of democrats, and a great many ore held by the New England radi- cals, who take care to keep the gold paying ones, though they have some of the more doubtful bonds also. Most of these latter, however, they have sent to England. No people love the almighty dollar better; they love it far more than they do the negro, and it would bea fortunate thing if they were to get so frightened about their securities as to become more rational and conservative, We advise them to think seriously about their bonds before they plunge the country into further and inextricable trouble. The New French Army Bill. The new army reconstruction bill has at last reached that stage at which it may be said it has substantially passed into law. When the provisions of this bill shall be ac ted upon the Emperor Napoleon will have un der his con- trol perhaps the largest, certainly te most ho- mogeneous, best equipped, best officered army in the world. According to Marshal Niel, the present French army, including the reserve, consists of six hundred thousand men. This we consider a low estimate, but we accept it for the sake of illustration. The new bill wil! add to the army one hundred and fifiy thousand, or say one hundred thousand to the battle fold. This wil! make the regular army to consist, at the lowest estimate, of seven hun- dred and fitty thousand men. , This, however, is not all. The Dill provides for the reor- ganization of the Garde Nationale Mobile, a species of militia, which is to be henceforward four hundred thousand strong. This puts at the command of the government an available force of one million one hundred and fifty thousand. The actual number will probably not be less than one million two hundred thou- sand. In the event of war breaking out it will be possible for the government to garrison all France with the Garde Mobile, excepting per- haps Algeria, Paris, Strasbourg, Meiz and one or two of the northern fortresses. But with the aid of the Garde Mobile one hundred and fifty thousand regulars will probably be suffi- cient for this purpose, The government will therefore have six hundred thousand trained soldiers ready for foreign service at a mo- ment’s notice. Ii is the avowed object of this bill to maintain what is called the “legitimate influence and dignity of France.” It remains to be seen to what immediate use this vast military force is to be put. Napoleon, it has oozed out in the course of the debates on the bill, did not intervene in the late German war, did not lay hold of the Rhine pro- vinces, because he could not at the moment get together one hundred thousand men for an army of the Rhine. Such was the semi-official statement of M. Greasier, the reporter on tho bill, and M. Rouher did not contradict it. If Baden does not effect a union with the North German Confederation speedily it will not be easily effected after this bill shall have com> into practical operation. It is not neccasary to have the gift of prophecy to foresee that at no distant day we shall have stirring times on the Rhine, It is acommon saying that when France is tranquil Hurope is at rest. If this be true the reverse ought to be no less true. Now, therefore, that France is about to be armed to the teeth and revealing anything but contentment it becomes Europe to look out. If life and health are granted to Napoleon we may expect stirring times. Hell Gate Again, When will this standing evil and disgrace to our American enterprise be removed? During the last week we have had a series of disasters which forees Hell Gate again into public notice. The Cily of Lawrence narrowly escaped ruin on the rocks. Two steamors—tho Artisan and the Glaucus—got fixed upon them. On the afternoon of Saturday the Artisan was towed off very much injured. The Giaucus while we write is siill fixed on the Gridiron, and {t is extremely doubtful whether she can be saved. The ice, of course, at present aggravates the obstruction of the passage; but | Hell Gate can only be spoken of as a standing disgrace. In the interosts of American ship- ping, it is the duty of Congress to appropriate the necessary funds. The complete removal of the obstruction is a simple question of dol- lars. To the science of engineering it pre- sents no difficulties. Nor would the expense, after all, be so formidable. It is not too much to say that if the expense were undertaken by the underwriters alone it would in a very short space of time turn ont a profitable spec- ulation. But itis not the duty of the under- writers to undertake such expense. It is the duty of Congress. If not done by Congress, it ought to be done by the State; and if not done by the State, the city of New York alono should assume the responsibility. It is an evil which cannot be allowed to continue, by whomsoever it should be removed. Opsrrvctions AND CONVENIENCES IN THE Srarets.—There is a straightforward, manly way in which men may do their duty, and there is a sorehoaded way. The sorcheaded way is the one generally chosen by those who do their duty reluctantly ond under pressure, They strive to do their duty spitefully and in some way that will entail disagreeable consequences on thoze who complain that they have neglected it. We have just now a notable instance of this. There was a clock at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street that was really a great public convenience. It was supported by an upright scarcely larger than & lamppost. It has been removed by our vigilant officials as an obstruction to the street, and the triumphant worthies who have thus shown what it cosia to compel them to do their duty magnificently close their eyes as they pass the ten thousand apple stands that really oncumber the sidewalks of the city, Remedy. What is the remedy? This is the real word of tho hour. Congress is naturally and under the constitution ‘the favored depository of political power in a government organized around the idea of popular sovereignty, It is, indeed, the real fountain of power, and power placed elsewhere is placed to restrain an undue exercise or abuse of its authority by Congress, For the reason that it has this power it follows that when there is no division in its councils— when both houses are in the hands of majority 80 absolute that it does not even feel called upon to respect legislative decency in its course, and when this majority is so dominated by a fanatical idea that it can appreciate no restraint founded on reason—then the Congress iwelf menaces public liberty and popular rights with a danger greater than could flow from any other source. Does the constitution, in its many restraints upon power—in its many provisions wisely planned for popular safety—turnish any refuge against this danger? Does it put in the hands of the people any ade- quate remedy against those who openly scorn its control—we mean any remedy that might not be in itself more - destructive to order and society than the Congressional usurpation? For we might argue that Congress, so soon as it clearly acts outside the constitution, is no longer Congress, and that its acts are without force of law; but this would set up opposing powers iu every city, and might be a remedy worse that the evil. But we believe that the constitution furnishes a better remedy--one less questionable than this, and one amply suffi- cient for the occasion. Revolution is harnessed into our political system. This is the guarantee of our safety. Regularly recurring, organized, acknowledged revolution is the ultimate provision made by the constitution for preserving the freedom of the people. Revolution is always an assertion of the conservative principle in governments; but in all governments that antedate ours it has been regarded as a wild, destructive power—a power to be kept down—whoso operation was to be guarded against by all the possible devices of statecraft. It has been re- garded as a combination of al the untamed so- cial powers that governments have to fear. It is the glory of our system that it accepts this popular power as one of its primary elements, and, providing for it a mode of expression and regular periods of recurrence, secures all its salutary influences and escapes all ils dangers. It is this normal revolution of the ballot box that we must now count upon as the remedy against Congress. It isin this, its grand, ulli- mate provision, that the constitution is now on trial. It has been satisfactorily shown that our system can outride the wear and tear, the wrestling and wrangling of a great civil war; but it is possible to see that law may have a sevorer test? War draws definite lines, and government generally goes on, whoever pre- vails; for a party strong enough to wage war is strong enough to enforce order. But there is a civil strife that is worse, because it induces anarchy; because often of the very doubt that is in men’s minds as to which side they are on. The people hesitate; they do not give a deter- mining weight to either side, and factious fi- natics meanwhile reduce the nation to the last extremity of terrorism and disorder. We have nothing Jeft, then, to secure us but this revolutionary function of the national will. Congress is lost to every other restraint, “Every man cries out for liberty,” said Crom- well, “and when he hath it he denies it toevery other to the extent of his pow-r.” Thus our radicals, in the full cry tor liberty, are tram- pling liberty under foot. Our first device to restrain a too energetic majority was the Supreme Court. But that tribunal exercises a control that, as opposed to Congress, is purely moral ; and party passion, influenced only by the “higher law” of its own existence, never heeds any merely moral foree inconsistent with its supremacy. Congrees thus stonds just where the leaders of the Confederacy did when they repudiated ‘he moral force of the consti tution in 1861 and brought on the appeal to arms, Against Congress thove will be no appeal to arms, but the appeal to the ballot box. The reference of all this bitterness to the great calm common sense of the people will determine the dispute against fanaticiam— egainst those who defy the law and who would disorganize and destroy the nation, more tre- mendously than the war decided the case against armed rebellion, Andrew Johnson is the head and front of this civil strife, os the people already fecl, and around him they must organize and wage the final battle tor thoir liberties that the constitution ilself has pro- vided for. The President's Advisers. During the tongh fight which the President is having with Congress and the radical politi- cians the White Hons is preity closely watebed to see who goes in and out, who is there most frequently, and who has the longest conferences with Mr. Johnson. The politicians want to know who are the President's advisors, it appears Judge Black, familiarly known as Jerry Biack, goes in and out of the White House frequently and is in the habit of staying a long time there. Of gourso there is a great deal of speculation and comment on this clreufistance. Some endeavor to make it out that Judge Black’s conferences have a political significance, and that, as this ex- Attorney General of Buchanan is one of the hardest of the hatd shell democr*cy, Mr. John- son is turning copperhead. Now, this is all fudce. Judge Black cannot teach Mr. Jobnson politics, and Mr. Johnson wants no advisers on that subject. He makes his own politics. The fact is, Judge Black {s one of the best constitu- tional lawyers,and one of the best lawyers every way, in the country, and the President, not being much of @ lawyer, has the good sense, probably, to consult the Judge on the dificult questions which press upon him. That is all there is in it—nothing more, Mr. Johnson makes his own politics. Tratw ARRESTED In ENGLAND—Wuere fs THs American Eacue?—George Francis Train is in 4 “British bastile.”” Here is a dreadful piece of business—an awful complication for Mr. Adams and tho bird of freedom, and the other machinery of our government—something worso, if possible, than the Alabama claims. Train is charged with being an active momber of the American wing of the Fenian organiza- tlon—charged with the crime of having said some things in New York, Boston and on the Rocky Mountains thatthe British lion does not ‘like. Doubtless we shall loarn in the course when and how her Majesty’s government ao- quired the right to dictate what language an American citizen should use or what societies he should join in the United States, The Liberal Party tn Hungary. The sudden accession of power and progress of the liberals in Hungary can in many points be paralleled with that of the radicals in the United States, but probably in no feature so strikingly as that either country will be bene- fited by the equally rapid fall of tho ob- noxious party. In Hungary, as in America, the dominant party, carried away by the flush of success, and unsatisfied with results only a short while ago deemed impossible, are vainly reaching for an object unattainable, or which if attained cannot otherwise but prove delete- rious to the interests of their country. Very few could have foreseen a twelve month ago the course of events which have so rapidly succeeded one another in Hungary. It is dif ficult to follow or credit the extraordinary changes which have taken place in that king- dom. In every instance but one or two the wishes of the people have been granted. Their old constitution is restored almost un- altered ; their King has been crowned; they have their own ministers, their own system of taxation and revenus, their own custom duties, Parliament, internal government and laws; a general amnesty has been proclaimed to all political offenders; their exiles. have returned. Count Andrassy, twenty years ago sentenced to be hanged for treason, and ten years an outlaw, is their Prime Minister, Kossuth, twice imprisoned, and also an out law, is at liberty to return, and has indoed been elected to a place in the Diet, which he will not accept. They have been granted four times as much as was offered them in 1862, and double what they then demanded. Indeed, they have no real grievance to complain of, but the liberals have gained so much that they now want more. They now desire complete autonomy, power lo send their own repre- sentatives to foreign couniries (a privilege they never enjoyed), their own separate army, and the acceptance of their estimate of their share of tho public debt. Those desires, it must be understood, are those of the extreme left of the liberals, who during the King’s coronation evinced their disapproval of the act by a studied refusal to join in the festivities, and by dining together on black bread, black meat, black sowp and black coffee. Fortunately, they are far from being in the majority Still, they are sufficiently numerous and active to retard considerably the reconeiliation and amicable relation which the ministers of both countries vainly try to establish, In the matter of finances is this particularly observable. Four months ago a committze, chosen equally from jhe Ministers of Austria and Hungary, met at Vienna for the purpose of a \jasting the proportion each of the two countries should contribute annually towards tho interest and redemption of the public debt, ft was aa understood matter that their decision should be binding on the Reichs- rath and Piet, and accordingly they decided that Austria should bear seventy and Hungary thirly per cent of the burden. Andrassy, as Primo Minister and President of the Commii- tee, accepted the arrangement and signed the deed. But now thet the Austriam Reichsrath has legalizod the transaction the Hungarian Diet, carriod away by the activity of the liberals, refuses to do so or to sanction any larger proportion than twenty-eight for Huv- gary to Austria’s seventy-iwo. No doubt the better sense of the nation will prevail in the end, butin the meantime both countries are suffering from the delay. Austria, who during the past twenty years has not succeeded in collecting more than fifleen per cent of the taxes due by Hungary, has shown much for- bearance in the matter ; while Hungary, who has had so oxtravagantly bountifnl a harvest that the railroads do not suffice for the trans. portation of grain, which 1s consequently shipped to France and England, shows an un- necessarily obstinate spirit of opposition. This difficulty and the few others whieh prevent perfect cordiality between the two countries are fomented and kept up entirely by the liberal parity. The liberal conservatives, led by Deak, desire complete amity and reconcilia- tion, which, however, can only be gained by the fall of the radicals of the extreme left. It may be looked for. Tae Prestpenrran PLorr~as and Scorers IN Wasrieton.—We learn from our special Wash- ington correspondence, published to-day, that the politicians at the capital, both male and female, black and white, are at work earnostly to make tho next President. Mr. Chase is in the ascendant on the radical side. The poli- ticians of all grades and colors flock around him. They gather at his house, and his charm- ing daughter is the centre of attraction. Tho fashionable women are as busy at work as the men in improving the Chief Justice’s chances for the Presidential race and in disposing of rival canditatos. Grant is losing ground fast, and the Chase party think they have a splendid foundation to begin upon in the Africanized States of the South and the universal negro vote being for thelr candidate. Reconstruc- tion, the war upon the President, the Stanton- Grant affair in the War Dopartment, financial questions and everything else, whatever is done or left undone, all turn upon the Presi- dential question. The conflict has commenced In earnest, and a desperate one it will be. At present Chase and the negro are uppermost; the white man is down. We shall see whether this state of things will be reversed next November. ALONG THE HUDSON. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, Hudson River Raii Skutes at Powghi: e Fovguxesreta, Jan. 18, 1963, The Cincinnati express train on the Hudeon River Raflroad, waioh left here at twenty-three minutes past four o'clock this morning, met with an accident a fow iles south of the city. Atthe point where the affair occurred some workmen were ongugad in putting ry pew rails, Seeing the train approaching, a rod light was it out aa a dan, signal, seoing which the ineer Whietied down bakes This tal red light - then 3 Accident o1 Hurdle Race Withdrawn anda white one. put | which is ® signal that ali 8 rigbt. Tho brakes of the wero then toesenes, and the engineer ee ingine steam and (he cars on tilt they reached a tooge rail, when the lovomotive and baggage njurede car wore thrown from the track. The train slowly at tho time, and consequently no one ‘The train was delayed soveral hours, A hurdle race on skates took pl Park thie afternoon. There were it jeu, Clark, Jillson, Winslow and Davig. Four burdies wero jumped. In going over tho second Winslow foll heavily, Coming in to the hurdlo Davis was ahead, but just ag he got ready to jump be fell, when Ciark rushed to the etvance, and, clearing the last hurdle, easily woo tho raco aud tge prigo, a pair of Now Xark Club skatos, BROOKLYN CITY. A Bump Grat. Bantry Borwsp,—A blind girl, fiftesa yéars of age, named Mary Gafney, was severely burned om Saturday night et her residence, No. 6 Talmam street, Is appears her mother left her alone in het ies eects ahaa noes BrOUaR ee the fire, The poor girl was so severely burned about ber hands, faco and breast that her recovery ia considered ‘doubiful. A Suriovs ¥aLt.—Michael Bowe, residing at No. 16 Little street, fell apon some ice on the sidewalk in John street, on Saturday night, and sustained acom- pened factere of the leg. He was taken to the City pital, Atgcep Farss Pexrexces.—Catharine Blackwoll, a servant girl, was arrested by officer Ryan, of the Forty- first precinet, on Saturday night, on the complaint of G. Schlucter, who acouses ber of having obtained a quantity of goods from him @ader false pretences. She was locked up to await exam:natioa. Aggancumanrs ror St. Parrick’s.—The convention of Trish Societies was held yesterday afternoon at their hall in Fulton street for the purpose of making arrange- ments for the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. A com- mittee of five was appointed to report a plan of organi- zation for the procession, and the meeting adjoarned, Park Tagatne Temperance Meerixc,—Another loemper- anco meeting under the auspices of the Kings County Cen- ral Temporance Association was held last evening at the Park theatre, Dr, George J. Bennet presided. Addresses were delivered by Messrs, E. Z, C, Judson, E. A. Bradley and James Morton of the usual character, A viva voce vote being taken as to the continuance or ropeal of the Excise law, the audience wore found to be unant- moualy in favor of tho law as it now is, NEW JERSEY. Jersey City. Tus Faracor ayp Porter Arsociatiox,—Mayor Gopsill has received a letter from Congressman Halsey, in which that gentleman promises to use his influence in seouring a proper adjustment of the claims made by this assooim- tion, At the same time Wr. Halsey is in favor of a more rigid economy in the State departments and deplores tho reckless oxtravaganco of some mon {a high placoa, Hoboken. Ayoraer Swaan-up on tux Erm Raicway.—Following closely on tho Ridgwood casualty comes another colli- sion attended with loss of life on the Erio railway, On Friday morning about threo o'clock a thick fog arose, during the prevalence of which a freight train dashed up at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, boand for Now York, The engineer anticipated no dolay, as the so-called “reguiar’’ freight train had an fiour'’s start ahoad of him and by this timo it was supposed to bavo reached Jersey City, He was first convinced of his mis- take by the appearance in front of nim of a red light. The whistle to put on brokas was at once sounded, and the engine was reversed; but tho velocity was too great to admit of any such check, Tho locomotive dashed into the rear car, killing the conductor, Isaac Hoppor, instantly, and fatally injuring the flagman who stood on the rear car. The fireman jumped off and was badly hurt, The locomotive being backed uv by 4 heavy train Aly off, struck the east track, and dashing h opparently unchecked speed. tumbled down an embankinent and was totally emashed., Previous to this the engineer in roversiag broke one of the rods, As usual, there was a bush over the affair at the depot and the matter “amounted to nothing." Had this been a passenger train the loss of life would have been fear- ful. Newark, The police report shows that duriag ne arrests were mado by the forco— Pouce Reoconp. the past week fort a remarkable decrease when compared with the arrests - of the previous week, This decrease 18 accounted for by the sitting of the Grand Jury, Onskavancs or tux Suypay Law.—In tho central part of the city yesterday the Sunday law was gencraily observod, but in the enburbs, especially in East Newark tho saloons were crowded and moro intoxication was visible upon the public thoroughfares than on previous Sundays, There is a growing dissatisfaction among all classes of citizens in relation to the forward step the Mayor has taken, Especially is this the case among the republican party leaders, and their complaints are loud. and frequent, Although there was more intoxication yestorday, the day was far more orderly. But six arrests wore made by the polico during the day, and the utmoat quictude provailed everywhere, Elizabeth, Fine.—On Friday night a fire occurred in the tannery of Mr, Hagar, situated in Elizabeth avonue, The fire burnedrapidiy, and a loss of about $5,000 was ooca- sioned; fally insured, An adjoining building was soma- what burned, but was saved from destruction through the offorts of the fire department, Union Hitt. Ronnentms.—On Saturday night a gang of thieves forced an entrance into a hotel and carried away money and valuable articles valued at $200. The thieves thon then smashed the Windows of two dry goods stores and atole all the property they could reach from the windows, but fortunately were unable to make an on- trance, The robbers, as usual, escaped with their booty. SKATING AT THE PARK. Tho skating mania that seema to pervade ail clazses this winter, displaying more exhibitions of grace than.the most confirmed votarios of the pastime over dreamed was possible to combino in the artistic sports of the ice, drew together yesterday, aided by the tempting at- moaphero, thousands at the ponds of tho Park. Hardly had the metropolis yawned and taken its breakfast be- fore the cars of tho several routes leading to this resort wero Milod, and a thousand mysterious bundles carried by a thousand individuals of both soxes and of every age gavo evidence that thoy had accepted the kindly invitation of the Ice King, and were determined to bave at least one day's enjoyment of tho exhilarating pleas- ures of skating. While these were out, in a ma- jority of cases, for the first time, and lament- ing that thor avocations precluded ‘the possiblity 0: attending the ploasurable carnivals that have recoatly boon held on the many skating parks of this city and suburban retroats, later in the day came the many who, by their eager eves and bright faces, told in eloquent tones of the joy they had already experienced, and ans Ucrpated tho recurrence of the happy hours thus passed. The sight from eleven o'clock until night upon the lakes was ono of greater brilliavey than during Sunday of the previous week, There wasa rogeneou gregation upon the frozen surfaces, while upon the sides of the ponds—positions excoliently designed to witness the kaleidoscopic spectacle below—were thousands of interested spectators, assembled to view the graceful and artistic evolutions of experts on the one band, and the awkward movemonts of beginners on the other, Amor the groups: tmany ladies, who by the execution dificult figu inced their superiority im the skatortal art. At times the scone was reaily enchanting. A promi- Dent position near the retiring rooms, surrounded by clusters moving to and fro, some in the act of mitt skates to their fect and others in taking thom off, wil a throng of active, wriggling youngsters, soliciting a job and five pence at the same time, encirciing the whole, and looking upon the panorama of flitting figures, bright eyes and brighter faces that — like glided by as a harmonious mass, one ha conception of ecene.- It soemed like fairy cireie, where createres of another sphere were disporting. ‘True, ot times the clumsy movementa of some and the collisions of othors, reauiting in unpleasant tumbling, partook decidedly of the real, yet with a stretch of the tmag'nation one could conceive there waa laid befor» him an enchanted realm. Thore was po oment in the pursuit of pleasure npon tho gloamiag steel during tho afternoon and even- ing, In shor, the attentiveness of the day at the Park can bo summed up in this sentence, uttered by a mild and aged lady, who, gazing intently panorama for several minutes, turn muttering, ‘“Woll, The likes o” this beats all I thought I'd seen time!” HARD AND FAST ON HELL GATE. Hell Gate still continues to be tho terror of our merchant marine, With the exercise of all necessary precaution vossels will get drawn into its embraco, and thousands of dollars must be spent to get them again afloat. On Friday the rtoamer Artisan, which was aground at Hallet's Point for some ti jas towed off, after much offort, by tho tags Joba Fuller and Louis, sho leaked so badiy from injuries sustained that steam | onl were employed, and she was rua ad at Poor louse flats, where the night was spent in keeping her free of water, On Saturday she towed to the dry dock for repairs, She received much damage, and the of getting her off will bo no inconsiderabie I 5 to mako ber way throug! chaonel by Hallett’s Point, encountered a ett m of ico, and was compelled td put back for the main ship chapnel, but by some means, probably the toy obstruce tions she oncountered, was unable to make the chan. ‘nel, and ran hard and upon the Cig settiod down aud the water rashed in. cargo, SS, valuable one, was removed by tho wrecking vesse! and tho tugs bave vainly worked upon her to got h On Saturday #x tugs wore attached to her, faiied to move. Yesterday the tug A. Winants and smaller ones were at work at high tide, but they wore unsuccessful in moving her from her ition, The Glavews protected, by Mill Rock from may possibly be gotten of by the im dericks to raise hor, as it ig she has settled? fast uy) ry There wae much ice floating yesterday in the river—so much tt tho tugs could only move about with diMouity—and was utterly impossible to board her in asmail boat to learn hor exact condition. There are various rumors afloat as to the cause of the disaster—among others that the Glaucus (ook this channel for the purpose of hauling off some other vos. Soh and that one of the of the vessel wae drowned. Investigation showed tho latter report to be false, and it is possible that (he Oret mentioned, too may bo unipue '