The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1868, Page 4

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bolsvcs aND ART. ieaceees = New York, Monday, January 27. 1856S. oes EUROPE. ‘Tho nows report by the Atlantic cable is dated yeater+ day, January 26, The West India transfer tvoaty |+ progressing to com- plete approval in tho Danish Legislature. The Alabama claims correspondence is said to be closed, The British Government officially denies having wuthorized the urreat of G. F. Train, ‘The British captives tn Abyasinia are closely guarded ‘a view of tho advance of the Queen's army. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special’ telegrams by the Gulf cable contain in- titigence from Cuba, Jamaica and Guiaua, A thanks. & ving holiday was celebrated in Havana yesterday aud ‘oo ceremonies at the churches were peculiarly impos- Ang. The Dominican Commissionor to J Meen disappointed in bis object. Conviote fre ‘wore becoming so plenty in Gulana that thoy « ent back at the expense of the Frescd covornmont, four hundred coolles from China had arrived at “rovelyan. ‘Bho King of tho Feejso Islands has forwarded a treaty Yo the President of the United States which he bopes Wit bo ratifed. It consivis of a whale's tooth attached Do 4 grass string and enclosed in @ ploce of bark, The futerpretation whieh the King places tpon this simple document is that be mortgages his entire pe dno payment of certain indemniiio wucit for the lives of throe Americaus whom the K wubjocts Lad eaten. fo the case of the conissted sicction between tho Aientile and Mormon delegates to Co: 3 from Uian, do Goatile candidate, {t is sald, has brought testimony Jo show that bis opponent, the Mormon, mwas elacted as ®@ reprosentative of tho forsign Slots of Deseret, and that on his endowment by (he church he was comp wo take an oath of hostility to the United States, * Colona! Rose, the uficor who wae tried and acquitted Woy a court of Inquiry at Richmond, Va, some time ago, Mot alleged tmiseouduet in the super f the elections, was attacked at his quarters ou Thursday by a soldier of Dis own regiment, who fired his musket at him, making me allot bole througd his cost sleeve, The Colonel itm — clinehed with the man asd struck him on the th the gun stock, breaking bir skull so that it is probable be wil! aot recover. 4 The (rial of George W. Cole for te murder of & wis Hiscock, » member of the Constitutional Cony #2 Stanwix Hall, Albany, {2 June Iast, will bs com- fnspeod in the Albany Court of Over aud Termiuer to. ow. : ‘The charches yesterday wore g wiended, Father Hecker deliv discourse on Popirivwation at St. Teresa's church on Rutgers streat, Dr. Archibald proached om the subject of the “Dangers and Datiey of the Times’ at Westminster Churoh, in Twentieth street, las} evening. Ho declared yehe governments! inud speculations indulged in by Booretary Seward, (he prevent system of emigration and Phe widespreading growth of Romanism to bo danaer- us to the peace of the country, Gambling, gift od ally very wel Dotterios, int nastioual Lteratdre and int orance were also characterized a® dangerous, In Ply- Peouth church, Brooklyn, Rev. H. W, Beecher |n bis permon said that Genoral nan be swith more enthusiasm than any other ar, The spiritualive han thorr usual force aepited him yal of the Avsociations were out in more { Cangford Brown iy now on wial at Gorken, Orange wounty, Now York, for the murder of Mary Bike whose body wae fonnd, wich the skull arod, iu ® wovine noar Corawall Landing » tathe Supreme Cour! Chambors, to Judge Care #570, on Batarday, a motion # he Chicago od Rock Island Railroad caso t lesers Tracy, Towa, Dows, Ma mpsvor nortions ta the 0 produc Janis, oks of the 0 on the mo longth of al Priuitod States at the clowe of the mile, Lhe aggrega’ t fice $1,654,000,799. Over 11866 this hows au increase in the niy es of 1,709.65. pnd on the aost of $01 580,714 and retail desiers, au: oneers b New York Stace during the t to $4,110,981,120, of ich alos Pomounting to $9,919,015,055 were offecied iu Now York ” ‘The report (hat Captain De Peysier's yhas bee0 Bound proves untrue. A man gamed Coogrove has been arronted at Mounph ‘stomeat of Malone, charging him ®\ murder in @ court room in boat pried the late actemp: ty. cn Congresiona! ‘omperance Boeloty hold Its Arat erg thie seseion in the Hall of Representa’ vos geet ee Harvey, senior e4itor of the ta taal city ye NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1868, The aapsenauadl Presidential What ts the Prospect t Tho approaching Presidential contest, from all tho indications around us, will bo botly con- tested. The last fall elections broke the charm of tho invincibility of the republican party, and from the depths of despair lifted again to their foet the forlorn democracy and changed their weeds of mourning into garments ofjoy. They are so far exalted that they believe, or affect to believe, that against any republican candi- date except General Grant they can walk over the course, and that they can distance even General Grant as tho standard bearer of tho radicals and their policy of universal negro suffrage and Southern negro reconstruction. ‘The leaders and trumpeters of the democratic forces, however, it would appear, have learned nothing from their long catalogue of disastrous defeats; for they manifest no disposition to cast off thetr exploded fallacies or their incompetent and obnoxious copperhead man- agers and leaders. The copperheads of the West, by a sort of spontaneous combustion, are whirling their hats in the sir and shouting the name of George H. Pendleton as their Presidential candidate against all comors, From West Virginia to Wisconsin Pendleton is thelr man, and from their enthusiasm over him it would appear that they have found in him another Andrew Jackson, or at least another Andrew John- son, ® host in himself, and more than as match for the radicala. But who is this Pen- dleton? He is the very man who ran for Vice President on the McClellan democratic ticket of 1864, and who, next to the Vallandigham Chicago platform, was, with his copperhead antecedents and principles, the deadweight that broke down McClellan. How is it, then, that these Western copperheads are so enthu- siasticover Pendleton? They build upon the results of the last Ohio Ootober election, in which universal negro suffrage was rejected by @ popular majority of filty thousand, in which a democratic majority was returned to each branch of the Legislature, thus super- seding “Old Ben Wade” in tho United States Senale, and in which the democracy came very near the election of their civilian candi- date for Governor against a very popular Union soldier. Mr. Pendleton was the chief democratic stumper in that canvass, and all these results in Ohio are considered as mark- ing @ popular endorsement of Pendleton and ® political revolution in favor of the copper- head principles of which ho is the favorite ex- pounder. Hence this copperhead enthusiasm in the West over this man Pendleton. “Bray a fool in @ mortar,” says Solomon, “and his folly will not depart from him.” It may appear strange that Pendleton and his followers should forget the democratlo victories of 1862, from the Hudson to the Mississippi, and bow they were gained on the plattorm of tho Union war democracy, and how, in 1863, they were all lost on the plat- form of Pendleton and the copperhead peace democracy. But ao it is, These Western copperheads think that their principles and their policy carried Ohlo last fall, when tho result was brought about through the aban- donment by ths radicals of their pledges and professions of 1866, and their substitution of the policy of negro supremacy in the South and universal negro suffrage, Mr. Pendleton secured some notoriety in this late Ohio can- vass from his advooacy of the plan of paying of tho national bondholders in greenbacks when not otherwise named in the bonds; but General Ben Butler and “Old Thad Stevens” have each as good @ olaim to this thunder as Pendleton, The truth is that, oxcepting his peace record during the war, Mr. Pendleton has nothing particular to recommend him to the support of the opposition elements, and this peace record, if tried, will swamp him in 1868, as it swampod him ta 1964; for the “boys in bluo” and tho “boys In gray” have not yet died out of the memy of tho twonty-five m'llions of poople of the loyal Statos, Against the revolntionary nied o3 and tendencies of the radicals there is, however, a manifest recoil tn the public mind; but to bring It into a fall and effective an op’ on candidate is called for whose record during ‘ar a3 a Uniontat is nation the enemy's on that question. Some such man as General Shorman will serve this The co s', thon, boing reduced to the living political issues of the day, the oppo- sition forces will havo a prospect of success, The republican party, which began some three months ago to betray sirong symptoms of a disruption between the so-called conser- yatives and radicals, is now as evidently closing up its rauks. Its personnel, rank and file, seem now to be drifting, as by common consent, to the standard of General Grant There is reason to apprehend, however, that in saddling him with the dospotic powers of their uew reconstruction schemes the radicals intend to kill and will kill bim off Formally adopted as their Presidential Ucket by the republicans of New Hampshire and Connecti- cut, tho result in the coming elections In those States will go far to settle the question for him or against bim. If the democrats carry those States against the name of Grant tho claims ot Chase will come again into the fore- ground. But it does not follow that with his nomination the opposition elements will obtaln saion of the field; for while Mr, Chase, on ioa, is probably the favorite of is on the money question the great body of all those oon- luments whose fortunes and hopes re tied up in our national tinancial system and the redemption of the debt. ssidential candidate he will 6 of substantial strength Contest— action 60 clear that i be 4y purpose. lear deld and some posse favors ervative publio Hlerein as a command which will makes his defeat doubsful by the strongest opposition ticket, and bly success cer. tain nd @ vgaiost any such crippling ¥ opposition forces copp aa Pe Wenpets. Pur tidions oracle pera, Wend bg! p oved to a # of General Grant It will n r Grant may be a ve 's 06 tadigal, can, BASS Pili r ded ad 9 and bis reti § evidently re; Andrew Trojan horsa, Noxt to Johnson Nips seems to distrust Grant, and next to (Ue distrusts (he honeaty of (his radionl Congress fa referonce to the rl \glts of the hogro. PYylilipa, perbaps, means to bring ont An independent radical abolition Hoket for the > on. nintoas be General Qraal, san shelve General Van Wyck and the Gottysbure Soldiors? Home, General Van Wyck, who has been Iiboring xealously in Congross to destroy the enterprise for giving a homo to our disabled veterans, la an excellent type of that destructive class who may pull down but are unable to suggest the first idea for erecting a better structure. He is displeased with tho Gettysburg plan for building the needed asylum, but gives no bint of any bettor manner In which the desired end can be reached. He says the diamonds in the project are worthless stones—though the groatest diamond dealers in the country say the reverse—the farm a delusion, the yacht Henrietta not worth an old song, and that the several large purses of greenbacks will prove mere “fairy money” to the fortunate captora— glittering enough over night, but turning to dried leaves before the morning. He does not say, howover, that the charter of incorporation for tho enterprise, sald to have been granted by the Pennsylvania Logislature last year, is not a binding and valid charter; and failing to aay this, all the rest of his objections are mere leather and prunells, Hore we have a charter for ralsing money to bulld « Soldiers’ Home on the battle fleld of Gettysburg; and to accomplish this authority is given for the distribution of prizes in tho manner now proposed by Gene- rats Beaver, Sickel and the other directors. It is against the manner, therefore, and not against the matter of this movement that Gen- eral Van Wyck, if at all, should direct his wrath. Ifho finds any of the prizss worthless, let him urge that they be thrown overboard and others substituted. If the diamonds are only paste, kick them into the gutter and let “gems of purest ray serene’”’—pure and apark- ling as Van Wyck's own virtue—take their place. If the money prizes aro not enough, let them be doubled or trebled. If the yacht Henrietta should only be rated at 0 muoh old junk, let her be goutiled wherover she may now lie, and let the finest steamer afloat bo purohased to occupy her pesition. All this can be dono within the limits of the incor- porating charter, and the people will not gradge the inoreased expense that gives. as- surance our disabled soldiers will be taken care of; but when Genoral Van Wyck assails the charter itself, instead of the prizes now offered under its provisions, ho {s striking at tho only practical plan now before the coun- try through whioh the people may express their gratitude to those who were orippled in defence of the flag. If the United States were a monarchy or empire the matter of oreating a0 Soldiers’ Home would be extremely almple, taking the form of an edict directing 40 much money to be raised by tax for that purpose; but hore this cannot be dono, owing to State jealousies, local rivalries and the inveterate spirit of corrupt jobbing which now infects every public work. Every delegation tn Congress would only consent to tho measure provided its own State should be assigned as the location for the new asylum ; or oven if the bill were to pass with the requi- site appropriation, the apirit of job' ery would interpose such delays that all t') suiferors would be dead before the promise. ‘lief could reach them. What private enterpr. + can ac- complish in @ year public jobbers w. ‘ld take twenty years and twenty times {.+ same amount of money for completing ; an. It is eminently proper that ina work of ni onal gratitude such as this the people slonld dave the matter left entirely in their own | nds, every member of the community being a 16 to make a personal assessment of from one dollar upward, just as each may see fit, according to his or her means and wishes. Lottories, like everything else, are not good per s¢, nor bad per se, but must be judged in connection with their object. Spain, Austria and Prussia aiill raise a large portion of their revenuo in this manner, and scarcely a civilized government on earth but has at one time or other resorted to this means of raising monsy for its necessities or grander charitles—finding It by all odds the least odious manner in which taxation can be imposed. It makes every man his own taxing master, go that whethor « dollar sball be given or ten thonsand can be deoided by no other decree than that of the individual donor, Looking at home also, is there to- day a charity fair or fair for building o church in which, under the sanction of the clergy and with the fairest and most plous of the gentler sex acting as ministering angela, the visliors are not requested to take chances in some very extravagant “raffles” for the sake of promoting some plous object? “It is the cause, my soul, It is tho cause,” that gives its complexion to everything; and while we earnosily applaud the activity of the postal and police authorities in breaking up the swindling lottery and policy schemes con- ducted by sharpers for their personal profit, we cannot {n any manner divine how a be- navolent project, regularly chartered and con- ducted under- responsible auspices for build- ing a soldiers’ home at tysburg, can come to be olaased under the same condemnation. Turning back to our files we see that on the 20th of January last an enterprise precisely similar to this Gettysburg project, but less than one-fourth of its size, was drawn at the Cooper Institute in this olty, the net proceeds being devoted to founding a home for soldiers’ orphans, The distribution was made under the personal guperrision of Major Gederala Van Vilet afd Barlow, the latte® then Secro- tary of State; Judge Charles P. Daly, tren- suret of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Fund; Natbaniei Jarvis, Jr, and others of equally high character, whilo the business manager of that enterprise was the same who is now manager of the project which General Van Wyck condemns, From that enter- prise olnety-nine thousand and odd bun- dred dollars were realized and duly paid over | into the hands of Judge Daly mm treasurer for | the soldiers’ orphans; so thet here, a@ that cheme was leas than one-fourth the aize of this, { ye haye fair Aagsutance that pergainly not lose than four or five hundred thodgand dollars, healdes the Iand already purchased, will be | turned over to the ¢ evs for bnilding the Gettysburg Asstum. Porhaps the eum may he yot larger ; but with « ove ry aitick made fipon tir ia Congress, or by the regular lotiery and poilcy dealers, with whose profits it interferes, the expensés, of course Jacreased and the diffeulties magnified, @ people, however, appear to, have taken bold of it with @ will; and until General Van Wyck can offer them some boltor moans of raising @ Soldiers’ }lome It would be much wiser and more de~ qont foe the gallaul Geuecal do hold bis longus, But whatever may be his course can make little difference, for tho asylum project is in the hands of mon with whom there is no such word as fail, and with the sympathies of the people once onlisted our disabled veterans may rest secure that the Gettysburg Asylum will be built, and that right quickly. Politica! Assnssination and Massacre. From one of those democratic organs that can see no halting place for the people between radical rule and tho anti-war democracy ruin we take this reference to the recent revolu- tionary acts of Congress :— These monsures, which strike at the very foundations of civil liberty, aro well calculated to exasporate the people and provoke on the part of those im- mediately effected by them violent resistance, which, though justifiable, is not nocessary. But for the means of correction afforded by the approaching Presidential and Conzres- sional elections they would {novitably excite @ oivil war, which would end in leas than sixty days with the conversion of the city of Wash- ington into a gallows yard, wherein the trees would be plentifully loaded with pendent Senators and Representatives, while General Grant would bang from the neck of tho colos- aal copperhead that surmounts the Capitol.” This is one kind of politloal philosophy, and a kind that bas found favor In the world before now. It assumes that when wrong is done by ® party the true remedy is for an épposing party to do s greater wrong, and so strike a balance; that the way for a nation to give greater security to ita threatened liberties is for the factions to follow all the bad examples that each is able to set the othet, until it is fully demonstrated which has the greater capacity for evil. Then it is supposed the party outdone will take to moderate and virtuous courses, and the whole nation will yagrea to stand on ite good behavior, satisfied that the violation of law faa game that a great many may play at. However rational all this may seem to phi- losophers “bemusod in beer,” the historical occasions on which the plan has been tried give a strong verdict against its general adop- tion. It is as clear as countless examples can make facta that so soon as the agitation of political questions takes the form of mob vio- lence or massacre—so soon as a “reign of terror” succeeds to discussion—the cause of the people is for the time being irretrievably lost ; while it is equally true that isolated po- litical murder, as of a prominent leader in any great crisis, is the greatest of blunders and always secures an exactly opposite result to that it proposes. Arid it is quite in acoordance with the natural relations of things that this should be so. It at first glance seems reason- able enough that ina general revolutionary turmoil, when all the restraint of order and law is thrown away, and physical power must rule, that the victory should rest simply and inevitably with the masses; and it is this idea no doubt that always leads to such appeals to bruto force. In fact, however, it is at that very crisis when the thoughts and purposes of the people are supposed to rule with supreme power that the people are most easily made subject to ambition and tyranny. The mass Is never so helpless as when it is left to the government of its own instincts and the use of its own roason. If it throw away law, which 1s merely the larger reason of the universal intellect applied to guide its acts—if it throw away such aguide and presume to depend upon its own perceptions, it is fooled by every cunning knave, and its vast power becomes the tool of any ambitious adventurer in securing his own elevation. What is worse, the horrors that onsue from the popular appeal to force justify tyranny before the world when it puts the people in chains, for chains at loast imply some sort oforder. For the truth of all this we need not go beyond the history of France in our own century. As to political murder defeating its own alm, we have soen it terribly exemplified at home. It was in sympathy with the spirit of the Southern people that President Lincoln was slain; but nostroke given by any soldier of the North, no campaign of « Northern army, hardly any series of victories gained by & Northern general, laid on the South such a bur- den of misery as did the blow of that single murderer. Had Mr. Lincoln lived reconstruc- tion would have been ere this an accomplished fact, and the South would have been going for- ward, side by side with the North, in the race for materlal prosperity. No Congress could have stood at issue with aman so strong be- fore the people, and we should have escaped all this bitterness of dispute in which the South is the real victim, and all the cruel laws that attempt to crash her beneath the heel of the slave. That one crime gave a new power to the fanatical spirit that had fairly lost its Impulse as the war drew to a close, and may be charged with these three horrible years of the torture of reconstruction. Let the people beware of leaders who teach that the appeal to murder and massacre can possibly be » reme- dy for any of onr political evils. The Southern Reconstruction Convemionus, Our latest reports from the Southern negro radical reconstruction conventions inform us that in the Virginia Convention they are drag- ging slong M4 slowly; thatin the North Caro- Yaa Coaven ion, in sodsion two weeks already, no report has yet been made of » skeleton of # constitution, and that the discussion of a new Bill of Rights iv the order of the day; that in the South Carolina Convention even the negroes are running into the most incompre- hensible South Carolina constitutional abstrac- tions; that the Georgia Convention Is absorbed in the money queation—tbe question of raleing the wind for the. pay of the members, The Convention had made ralao, bow » of ten thonsand dollara, which wa promptly dis- posed of by appropriating fifly dollars each to tho membete and the balance for contingent and had called upon General expenses, Grant to help them with # loo, In Missia- sippi the Convention was engaged on the que tion of (axes and in the appointment of county collectors. In the Arkansas Conyention a resoly ation had beon adopted fixing the com- pentallin of members wt eight dollars per day, and thirty cents mileage for travelling expen tation memorializing Congress for some enlargowent of the benefits of the Bank« tn the Louisiana Convention they were discussing article ninety-eight of thelr wow constitution on disfranchivoment, In Morida the Convention was hardly yet under hoxdway, and in Texas the Convention remains ‘Tho ouly oue ef the ven Gon also @ ty rapt law, to Le alevied, ventions that has finished iis work iy that of Alabama, tho consiltution of whiob is shortly to he voted upon by the people. Mr. Schenck and his Congressional committee will have to hurry up these other Conventions, or ib is feared all their labors will be scattered to the winds by the Presidential election. Sorlous Tro in Hayti-The Nearo a Dis- turbing Element Everywhere. A special telegram to the Henaup dis- closed yesterday the anarchy which con- tinues to prevail in Hayfi. Popular disaffection af Aux Cayes, mourning on account of immense losses on both sides in a terrifio fight on the frontiors, stores closed and business suspended, Salnave demanding moro conscripts, Goffrard refusing to return to Hayti, deploring the wretched state of the country, upraiding the government and ox- pressing his sorrow and disappointment at the violent death of General Loon Montes, whose brother is awaiting in close confinement asimilar fate—these ara the malu features of the news from Hayti Thismogro anarchy is but the inevitable result of having at the head of affairs one who, fn acts as in personal ap- pearance, is a thoroughgoing Afiloan bar- barian, Itivnot improbable that in bis turn Salnave will be displaced by some o:her revolutionist, who will also come to grief, and his successors after him, until some foroign Power will be constrained to put an end to strife and confusion, and renew tho experl- mont of a white man’s government, Meantime, Salnave, the President of Hayti, is making great proparaiions to carry off the war against the Caco rebels and to pre- vent the United States from acquiring Samana, on the eastern peninsula of St. Domingo. ‘the pulssant negroes of St, Domingo, seeing this great republic has been morally and politically subjugated by their own race, and that their race is likely to be the balance of power and the controlling element in our government, have resolved to show their importance by Seard- ing the “Yankees.” Thoy uacd to be quite re- apectful, but now they despise us, Well. we cannot complain. Have we not declared the negro the superior of the white man in the Southern States? Is there not good reason for these St. Domingo negroes looking down upon the white “Yankees?” What will Mr. Seward do under the oircumstancest Ho thought he had this business about the Bay of Saman4 nicely fixed, and that our navy would ride proudly there with the Stars and Stripes flying from the forts ashore; but the black man is mighty uncertain. The negro caused our olvil war ; thousands of millions of debt have been piled up and hun- dreds of thousands of lives have been sacri- ficed on his account; the country is suffering the throes of revolution, and the ruin of the fairest portion of the Continent is threatened for his sake, and now we are elther to have a war with him in a forelgn country or permit ourselves to be snubbed and thwarted in this matter of Samana. Truly, these Africans are ® costly and very troublesome people to have anything to do with, But it is not only to us or with us that thoy are troublesome, At the same time we re- ceived this telegram about Salnave and the St. Domingo negroes we received another from Venezuela informing us that the rebellion there was increasing, with little prospect of peace. The present rebellion, as, in fact, the numerous preceding rebellions and disturb- ances in that country, arose from mak- ing the negroes an element of politi- cal power. Tadio and Gregorio Monagas overturned the governmont and made them- selves dictators by giving the negroes politi- cal power and by creating an army oomposed chiefly of that race, Venezucla has been in continual revolution ever since. As to Hayti and St. Domingo, we oan hardly keep up with the revolutions and {nsurrections there. It is the chronic odndition of the whole island. In Central America, South America, and evory- where else whore the negroes have beon made an eloment of political power, tho same condition of affairs exists to a greater or losser extent, according to tho qumber of negroes and the use which parties and revolutlonists can make of them, Evon whore they aro comparatively few in number they are ofien used a3 a bal- ance of power for the worst purposes, This, too, is the state of things to which we are being brought by the radical party and by tho infamous legislation of a radical Congress. Surely, these facts relative to St. Domingo, Venezuela and other Africanized or partially Afrloanized countries should be s warning, and arouse tho people of the United States against the atrocious negro supremacy policy of our radi- onl Congress. NaPoteon axp THe Pansy Pagss.—Seventeen Paris editors wero summarily arrested ot Now Yoar’s on the charge of violating the constitu- tion of the Frenoh empire by publishing an- authorized reports of Parliamentary proceed- ings. A spectal telegram to the Heratp an- nounced yesterday that, after a tedious exami- nation before the Correctional Court, ten of these editors were sentenced toa fine of one thousand france each, with oosts, and alx months imprisonment, Napoleon seems to be holding the reins of power with even a tighter band than usual, This freab restriction upon the freedom of the press oes fot tndloate « Apeedy' fulfilment of the Emperor's old pro- miso to crown with liberty his expensive im- perial edifice. On the contrary it suggests s suspicion that this imposing structure a0 shaky and tophaavy as to be ia danger of top- pling over ot any moment. The breath of public opinion must not be suffered to blow against it too roughly, lent it full, Meanwhilo, an immense loan end armaments on @ vast scale must serve to divert the attention alike of the French people and of other European nations from the perilous condition of the emplre athome, The old Romaa polley of hiding intornai disaffection, distress ond danger beneath “the pomp and circumstance” of foreign wars {a very tempting to all modéra Cmsare. Pesxpteron and Jounsoy.— While the copper heads out Weat are raising ® prodiglous clamor over George H, Pendleton as thoir favorite for the Presidency against the feld tho drummers and fifera of Tammany Hall are said fo bo earnestly debating the advantages of rallying under tho genuine old Jacksonian demooratte banner of Andrew Jobneon. They have, ft, appears, taken Seymour mt his word and dropped him; and they have concluded that the prestige of MeClellan ts that of defeat ; and they don’t ike Pendleton for the same foason ; _ ee wiring to the wise advice of John Ven Buroa in furning to Andrew Jounson. Very well. Hf Tammany will only aot upon this idea she thay stand ia tho front of the battle. ear a aeaeenceaeeey Goneral Grant and the Peabedy Fund, At the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Trvat Fund in Richmond on Wednesday Last a resolution was offered by General Grant and unanimovely adopted, that in view of the present destitution prevailing in the Southern and Southwostora States itis, In the opinion of the Board, expe@jent that tho executive com- mittee and general agont be authorized, in oon- formity with the povnission granted by Mr, Peabody, to expond forty per cent of the pria- olpal of the fund in addition to the accrued in- terest, and that as largo a portion of said sum, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, bo expended during the current year as in thelr judgment can be advantageously used In promoting tho object of the trust. Food for the soul is good, and this was the main object of Mr. Poabody’s liberal provision for oducational purposes, ‘‘Irrespective of color,” in the South ; but food for the body ts indispensable, and General Grant and the other trustees of the Peabody Fund show good senso abd a knowledge of the actual condition of things by resolving to carry out Mr, Pea- body's benevolent {intentions in such a way that both whites and pra may ives. diately profit’ by thom, may be useful, ‘but the ae mg y one : physical necessities of the Southern * racine more urgently “the order of the day” than any arrangement, however laudablo it may be, for their ispallena! wants, oe th Tho Ferry Question tn the Logtelusute, | ‘The Commlttoe on Commerce and Navigation in tho Aseombly at Albany have had undet consideration for some days past the question of protection tor life and the rates of fare the ferryvoats plying between New York Brooklyn. There are fow subjects before the Logislature upon which a greater number our citizens are interested, or which are mi In need of prompt and rigorous legislation. I is said the committee aro impréssed wi th the, idea that some change is required in the inan- agement of the Brooklyn ferries. We can at sure them that a very radical change is neces- sary In order to insure safe transit for passen- gers, to say nothing at all of comfort or hoaltb. Tho firat néoessity isa gate, beyond which people cannot pass except when the boat ig securely fastoned to the bridge; and this tho company should be compelled to pup up without 9 day’sdolay. Thonoxt isa secure barrier botween the side footways on the bridge and the wagon way In the centre, Had there been even a chain or a rope there at the time of the late Mr. Kempston’s melancholy death at Fulton ferry he would not have been sacrificed. Proper materials for relief in case of accident, such as boathooks, Jaddors, ropes and life preservers, and plenty of them, should be kept in readiness on the docks. The few now there are not always available and are rarely serviceable. Thon the company should be compolled te run an extra boat on each ferry botwoen the hours of seven and nine in the morning and five and seven In the afternoon. Fully thirty thou- sand people cross tho ferries during thege Inter vals, and, with tho present number of boats, the crowd is so immonse as to render the very contemplation of an accident appalling. Ifeg extra boat would be a causo of ombarrassmenit to navigation, as we believe the compaay allege—at Fulton ferry, at least—then let the boats be run slower and with more oautioa, There are few passengers who would not pre- fer safety to spceod in such emorgonoles as ariso every morning and evening on the ferries. As to tho rate of fare, this ia not a matter of such vital consequence as the protection of life and limb. No one doubts, however, that foot passengors could be taken across the rivge for one cent instead oftwo, and yet leave a fale profit fo the company; and such o reform would be hailed with genoral satisfaction, We throw ou! these suggestions to the committe of the Assembly in order that they may under- stand whaf changes aro most urgently do. manded in tho management of the Brooklya ferries, It thoy do not oorteot those evils hy rocommending some sound law to ragniate ferry management, the committee cannot plead ignorance as to their dutles, Thad Stevens on Congressional Station ery-Are Pantal Stationery 9 During the debate In the House of Repre- sentatives on the Deficlonoy Dill the subject of allowance for stationery to mombers of Com gress came up, whon Mr. Maynazd, of Tension see, proposed that all members should be allowed to draw whatever stetionory they needed, Mr, Stevens objected to this, He daid tust plan bad been trled and had to be changed because some members procured under the name of stationery paataloons and shirts and shaving soap on to last thems for yours. Some mombors had run up thole account for stationery to nosrly # thor dollars. Tho conclusion that pantalodiis shirts and shaving soap are stationefy, which some of our saptont Cotgfedsmon dame, ig about ag sensible and honest as the conolu- sion they have como to that tho negro should be made the superior of the white man. We think if Mr. Stovens had reflected upon the value of Mr. Maynard’s proposition to some of hia future colleagues he would not havo op. posed it, A law that would allow the breoctt; less nogroos that are coming to Congtoss to furnish themselves with pantaloons, shirts, stockings and boots under -the head of ata- tlonéry would be very usoful to Mr. Ste yons’ colored friends and colleagues, Wo recommend Old Thad to reconsider his sotion under this now point of view. Canavan Emioration ro ran) UNiteo Stares.—It appoars that the Canadian Housd of Assembly Introduced on Saturday a motion to take iato consideration what is called “the Inmentable omigration of tho province of Quobec to the United States, and to dovisa means for the arrest of the same.’ The moat expeditious and effectual means which we cart rocommend to the Honse of Assembly for the, prevention of emigration ts the annexatloa of Canada to the United States. All temptatlom to omigrate would thus be cut off at ono, form Canadians would then be oltiaens of tho United Statos, in full possession of ouk Mimiteble op portunitles for the Aovolopment of all posstbie agricultural, social and pollttoal aquroed of prosperity, Annexation would bo the tofaltt, and Wax dow't kaow Unncoak, aad eo'thur axe , ble comedy (or Gamadion gualarniious _