The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1868, Page 4

Neen sissc is mua mamma cm iia naa i NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, * NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume X XXIII. AMUSBMENTS THIS EVENING. onymric THEATRE, Broadway.-4 Minsuwmer Nicur’s Dawax, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Wurrs Paws. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Lith street, ~ Ouns. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Lirtix Newt. an ‘THe MAROULONESS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Tie Jara. Nae BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.~Canrovcu—Tax Fiaur wea Yanaex, Ac. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street. —ifxmways. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotal— ‘Tum Pickwick Pavers. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSR AND MISRUM, Broad. way aud Thirvieth streel,—Nonovy's Davaursa, NBW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sireet,—Gromastics, Equustuiantsy, Ac. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway —Haxtoy Cont. NATION TROUPE. DODWORTH HALL, No, 606 Broatway.—Vanorsnorr's Reapinas. STEINWAY Concer. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTR 78) Broadway. ~Sones, Danas, Bocenrnicrries, BURLESQUES, £0. HALL.-Sxvenrr-yiue Tacoenr Basp SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58% Broadway. riaN LNYERIAINMENTS, SINGING, Daxorsc anv Bun: THe auEs. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2l Bow! Comte ‘Vovaitsat, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, AC. Broadway. — BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEA’ Bauer, Pance, Panto! Ae, RUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Mifteenth Pian. Matinee at 2. street —Tux BROOKLYN ACADEMY © MUS C.. 2OLEITO, MR3, F. B, CONWAY'S = ARK TILE, Dora. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklya,—Ennorian Muvsraeisr, Batiads aND Burisques. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad Scuncx aND Aur. , E, Brooklya.— ‘Tye news report by the Atlantic cabie is dated yester- day evening, January 27. The sow Freach Army bill is rogarded with disfavor by the people all over the country, The Minister of Yimance reports the condition of the finances of the French empire as in a perplexed and burdened cond!- tien, The pew imperial loan of France } to be placed on the market to-day. Burke, the Fenian, confined in the Clerkenwell prison, disclaims any knowledge of the conspiracy. The city of Edinburg, Scotland, was visited by a severe and fatal wind storm. The lenians plundered a gupshop in Dubiin, Sir Culliog Nardley was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to imprisoument, the court holding that the marriage in New York was a valid contract. By the stoamship Siberia we have special corre-pond- ence and mail reports in detail of our cable despatches so tho 1th of January. * CONGRESS. In the Semate yosterday the bill to remove the dis. abilities of Governor Patton, of Alabama, was tiken up, but ita discussion was interrupted by the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, offered a resolution rociting that fongress onght to abaudon its war ow the President, the supreme Court and the white people of the South, which was Inid on the table, The supplemeniary Reconstruction bilt the question being om Mr, Doollitle’s mo t the Jadiciary Committee to report bes amendment, Speeches were made by Mersrs. Wilson and Jobnaon, when the bill removing disabilities from Governor Pat- ton was again taken up and passed. Mr. Davis opposed the bill, on the ground that Mr, Patton war only seek- ing for office. io the House the usual number of bills and joint resolatione were introduced and referred under the Monday cali of States, Among them was a bill pro- viding that in case a Senator becomes Vic» Presidént by reason of being President of the Senate pro tempore, and his term of off expires before the Presidential ter he shall pae m office til the end of the Vreeidoutial the offic of alone becoming This was refe the Committee on the Judiciary. A reeolution of inquiry into the facts of an alleged report of Montana hid passed a bill res: while citizens was adopted. The oi payment of certain claims arising ovt . was passed by veas 86, nays 53. The naturalized citizens abroad was rep cou! term, vacant to 2 pr tne the rebellion I concerning " the righis of from the Comm on Foreign AMairs and recom- mitted. The bill, im addition to its provisions already pull excepts all aaturalzod citizens from its benefits who bave lived for five consecutive years 0 the Limits of the United states. or who have failed to make annual retarna of (heir revenue. The bill authorizing au addi- tional issue of $45,000,000 in legal tender notes was introduced and referred, A revolution was adopted under a suspension of the rules authorizing the Com. mittee on Reconstruction to inquire whether combina- sions bave been made to obstruct the execution of the laws, with power to send for persona aud papers, ‘0 ex- ao ituesses under oath apd to report at any time. * THE LEGISLATURE. To the Senate yestordey the vill fixing White Plains as the place for holding the Cireult Court and the Courts of (ver and Torminer in Westebester county, for 1868 and 1269, was passed. A bill was introduced authorizing the erection of wharves and piers on Harlem rivor below Second avenue {a the Avembly bills were introduced (0 create a Twenty-firet ward iu Brooklyn; to prowots the iuterests f smal! stockholders in raitroada, and to enable the State to monufacture boots and shoes at the Auburn Yraou. The estimate of expenses for heads of depart- ments in New York city was revotved from the Mayor. A resolution was introduced, but laid om the table, di- recting the Attorney General to inquire whether the tution of the board of directors of any railroad im the Stale violates the section of the law of 1846 requir. ing a majority of the railroad company to live in the counties wherein the ratiroad ts constrected, and uot to be directors \n any other railroad in the State. THE CITY The Mayor has approved the tax and city ae reported by tho Board of supers tue Board of Aldermon, ‘Vhe Hoard of Aldermen yesterday adopted a rosotue tion urging upon the members of the Legislature from this city to secure a modification of the proseut Registry law, by which thoes who are nee the city daring the time allotted for registering may be allowed to vote at the election upon giving sat tory proofs of their absence baving boon necessary, The Board of Audit yesterday announced that tho T, Valentine for $5, a for $10,536 66, A, T. Campbell for $5,000 Haggerty for $ and $250, were divaliowed bec the claimants were receiving, at the times there « are alloged to Linve been created, stipulated compensa. tious a public officials, d not entitled to any extra allowance for rervioes or work of auy kind. Apervant girl nomed Mary Ana Fibs, aged sixteen, was brought before Justice Manstiold yertorday ona charge of attempting to poison the two littiech\ldren of Mre, Ham fiton, of No, 25 Suffolk street, with whom she was liv. ing. The deed, it was alleged, was intonded in revenge for a chastisomopt received at (he hands of her mis- trou, Tho charge was withdrawn atthe request of the (07's father, and she wag sent to the House of the Good Shepherd tor six months, The steamship Siberia, sixteen days ont from Livers pool, arrived ot this port yesterday, after » stormy pas. cage, with Div, Tuornton, the mew British Minister, oa ard In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Fudge Cardozo, (he cave of tho Chicago and Kook Island Haitroad Company came up on motion submitted on waturday last to Compel the Presidon! aad other officers ‘avies for aad claime of D. Of the Executive Committes te answer certain questions on affidavit, with reference te the disposition made of $4,900,000, and to produce the books of the company. Judge Cardozo rendered bis decision om the various points of law involved in the case, which will be found ip another column, In the Supreme Court, Ojrcuit, Brooklyn, yesterday, before Judge Tappan, the arguments in the case to which Theophilus C. Cailicot is the platatif and the New York Times dofpndant were heard at some length, The suit is brought to recover $60,000 for an alioged libel. The Court reserved decision, In the case of Calvin P. Batley, Receiver of the Croton National Bank, against John F.. Rathbun, Judge Car- dozo decided yesterday that defendant's answor aver- ring that a promissory note for $20,000, on which tbe action is based, was mado for ‘‘a particular parpoee,”” should be. amended go us to desigaate more particularly the purpose referred to, The Hamburg American Packet Company’s steamship Germania, Captain Schwensen, will leave Hoboken at two o'clock P. M. to-day (Tuesday) for Hamburg via Southampton, The Furopean mails will close at tho Post Office at twolve M. The stock morket, including government securities, was strong and exoited yosterday, Gold was also strong, end closed at 14134 a 1415, The offerings of beef cattle at the National brove Yards yesterday were large, comprising 1,800 head, The demand was only moderately activo and prices were 340, @ lc. lower than they were a week ago, Extras sold at 1740, a 8c, prime, 16%¢, » 1714¢.; first quality, 15%. a 163;0.; fair to good, 15c, a 1534c,; ordinary, 3c, a M4c., and inferior, Llc. a 1233c. Milch cows were slow of salo, but without material change in value. In- ferior to extra were held at $40.0 $120. Veul calves Wore in moderate demand and @toady, at 120, 8 150, for Prime and extra and 9c, a 11+¢, for inferior and com- mon. Sheep and Iamba, were moderately active and stoady, at 7340, a7 gc, for extra, 61gc, @ Yo, for prime, and 43;c, a 6c, for inferior to ¢ Swine wore in light demand and 3{¢, per tb. lower than last Monday, heavy prime being obtainable at 7%c. a 7'40,, fair to geod Tic, a 73y¢e, and common 70. a 740, ‘The total receipts for the week were 6,907 beoves, 61 milch cows, 654 veal calves, 19,977 sheep and tambs and 15,465 ‘swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telograms by the Gulf cable contain intel- ligence from Mexico, St, Thomas, Porto Rico and Cuba. ‘Tho Mexican news is to the 22d instant Romero had been appointed Minister of the Trgasury. A revolt had taken place in Sonora, Congress is to close its session on the 7th of March. Marquez, who escaped from Mexico city at the time ‘of its surrender to Diaz, isin Havana under an assumed name. The reports of cholera in St. Thomas are officiatiy contradicted. A fatal disease has attacked the sheep in Porto Rico. Karthquake shocks continue to visit that island. Thore have been four hundred and forty since November. ‘The Constitutional Convention met yesterday ovoning, and after reading the journal of Friday adjourned. ‘Tue North Carolina Convention yesterday discussed a proposed change in the State system of government by which @ Iieutenant Governor and two other offictils wall be added to the present list, The State Treasuror sent in acommunication declining to pay the per diem of the members, General Hayden, commanding the district of Alabama, has iasued an order for the election for the ratification of the new constitution, The polls are to be open four days, ing with the 4th of February. In the Coie-H ck murder trial at the Ciroutt Court and Court of Oyer ana ‘Torminer in Albany yestorday a writ of ceriordri was filed by counsel tor the detence, praying for the removai of the case to the Supreme Court, General John Reatty has been ele from the Eighth Ohio district to Homilton, deceased. Bills were introduced m buh houses of the Penn sylvania Legislature last night to repeal tuo Gottysburg Asylum bill, but no action was taken on (hem. General Meade has removed the Secrotary of State of Georgia, and ordered the Comptroller Goneral, an array er, to discharge the duties of Laat office. The Attorney General of Maryland has rendered an opinion on the constitutionatity of the Civil Rights bil aud the Maryland Neyro Apprenticeship law, which is in direct opposition to the decision rendered by Coie? Jus- hase in weuse recently tried before nim in that ed to Congress succeed Coraelius A gang of negroes waylaid a constuble's parse in Jasper county, Miss. a Sunday, and killed two and wounded six of them, Andrew Johnavon and the Presidencys—low the Radical Game May Hlecu Him, The desperate game which the radicals of Congress are playing for the Presidential suc- cession is admirably calculated to bring about their complele overthrow in the triumphant election of Andrew Johnson. The avowed object of the new Reconstruction bill (which with the endorsement of the solid republican vote of the House is now before the Senate) is the immediate vestoration of the ten excluded rebel States on the basis of universal negro suff ‘Those States thus restored will give an immense addilion of str ais in both houses, ind may wield the balance of power in the nd negro snpremacy. th to the ultra adic g Presidential contest and decide But the radieat faetion, in this reconstruction scheme, and in’ their several bills for the regulation of the Supreme Court, and in their reinstatement of Stanton in approach the elee new ion. the War Office, ure evidently aiming also at the impeachment and. removal of President Jounson. They expect, tor example, this new Recon: siruction bill to be passed over the Executive veto; that then under this law Mr. Johovon will not consent to be overshadowed, in the South by the provisional dictatorship invested in General Grant, but that the Presi. dent, a8 constitutional ~Commander-in- Ubief of the army, will manifest his contempt for this law by — ordering General Grant to some other service, and by taking into his own hands this recon- struction business. This, or some equivalent proceeding in opposition to this bill, it is be- | lieved, will furnish a case upon which Andrew dobnson can and will be indicted by the House | as guilty of a “high crime and misdemeanor ” calling for his removal, and upon whi Senate will, in short order (1h ease), convict and remove him, and thus put thot most radical of the radicals, President Wade, of the Senate, in the White House, to work out the remnant of Jolnson’s term of office. That done, the whole radical programme of reconstruction, in’ all its parts, would be epeedily consummated, including sncha recon- struction of the Supreme Court as would make it as radical as (he Commitive of Reconstruc- tion itself. ‘This is the yaine of the radical Directory, and we are sorry to sny that Mr. Johnson seems to Ve afraid of i. His policy of opposition evi- dently rests upon a cautious avoidance of any- thing like an overt act upon which the im- peachers may fairly entangle him. According to the old maxim that “« bird in the hand is worth two iv the bush,’ this may be the course of safety; butin view of another wise old saw, “nothing venture, nothing gain,” a half-way plan of opposition is not, in this crisis, the course ofs bold, daring and saga- cious man in the position of Mr. Johnson. we wait till the river runs by we shall never get over. If Mr. Jobnson fights hia battle with one eye upon the constitution and the other upon the impeachment committee of Congress, be will only be serving his own cause and the opposition with one hand while serving the radicals with the other, With the passage over bis veto of this aew Reconstruc- House, that require “a good deal of mighty nice considera- tion,” and they may be eventually returned to the House so shorn of their claws and fangs as less. The conservative friends of . General Grant, moreover, do not care to have him sacrificed by any insidious radical flank move- ments, and go, in their efforts to save him, thoy may cut off the opportunity for that decisive coup d'état on the part of Mr. Johnson at which we have been hinting. tion bill, his true polloy isto attack it from the ramparts of the constitution, and to give such orders to General Grant as will leave the radi- cals of the two houses of Congress no alterna- tive but that of impeachment. But why should Mr. Johnson court this extreme penalty of re- moval from his office? Because, from his im- peachment and removal, upon this issue of the constitution against this radical Congress, he would only have to state his case and appeal to the country in order to rally the country to ® rescue from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thus standing before the people, all the conserva- tive elements of the land, including the demo- cracy em masse, would spontaneously gather under the banner of Jobnson and the constitu- tion and elect him by acclamation. It is. possible that this Presidential conflict may yet assume this definite and docisive shape, and culminate in this astonishing result. The republicans of the Senate, it would ap- pear, have some apprehensions of this sort, for they seem to be in no hurry with any of these new radical reconstruction sohemes from the ‘The Senate, in fact, has discovered these violent revolutionary measures to be comparatively © harm- The best thing for the country, however, would probably be the prosecution of the radical game to this point of a collision with the President which would bring about his impeachment and removal ; for with this pro- ceeding there would at once be a clear under- standing, ® common cause and a common point of harmony among all the opposition elements, under the banner of Andrew John- son. such obnoxious candidates as Pendleton and the Seymours, seem disposed to ignore the ser- vices of Mr. Johnson, and thus they are serving the radicals in leuving him to help himself. His policy, to win, is clearly the policy of an issue with tho revolutionary faction of this Congress so broad and distinct as to admit of only two pariies ia the country—tho party ad- hering to Congress and the party of Andrew Johnson and the constitution. At present the democrats, in drifting to er Hugo's * Hernan was the first great gun in the v “Hernani battle between the champions of the classic and of the romantic schools in France. Paris “events” of more or leas importance, but the first representation of “ Hornani,” on the 26th of February, 1830, was pre-eminently an event, as Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier and all other theatrical chroniclers have duly attested, that were then 30 hoi, but no survivor has for- goiten the fierce delights of that memorable evoning. the new school over the old. protesting ag especially AL “first representations” are always The hoads are now frosted with age It proved to be a decisive victory of The new school, the restric'ed range and the al “unities” of the French stage, offered something entirely dis- iinet trom comedy and tragedy, combine both after the Shakspearian model, ard thus formed the drawe, of which “ Wernani ” was the first triumphant example. Insregarding the unities and other peculiarities of the classic form, it introduced the irregular in contrast to the regular as an element of art, It moreover widened the circle of poetical creations and léft the confined track of ancient history and mythology, drawing at will on the Middle Ages for heroes and bringing national history on the sha; ina tradi ng to It must be aditied’ that this reaction, healthy as ii was to @ certain extent against conventional rigidity, has been accompanied by abuses on the part of both Victor tlago and his successors, Modern have too often, as it the has bi "a averred, con- irregularity into a erything grotesque and horrible, The prefacea of Victor Hugo promise more than most of bis dramas perform to entitle him strued license nse for of dramatic reformer. But “Hernani” is unquestionably a work of im- mense power and enduring influence.. It is also doubly historical, for it not only indicated in 1830 ¢, crisis in the intellectual movement in France, but it afforded on its reprise in 1867 # signal opportunity for the manifestation of political sympathies and antipathies, Not only all the advanced republicans to whom the name of the exiled Victor Hugo is a rally- ing cry, bul Frenchinen of every party opposed to the imperial despotism restored by Napoleon IIL, eagerly seized this opportunity of protest- ing against it by crowding the Théatre Fran- oais night after night for months and enthusi- astically applanding the reproduction of “Her- nani.” This remarkable demonstration of republican and aati-imperial feeling was the more significant in view of the congress of European sovereigns who had more fully than ever recognized the empire by visiting Paris last summer during the great Exposition. The firet representation of “Hernani” in New York, while it cannot appeal to the same motives for excitement which existed in Paris either in 30 or in 1867, is nevertheless deeply interesting to all students of French literature. Mr. Bateman and his excellent company have not before ventured to bring out so important a French drama. Tt will be produced this evening on occasion of the benefit of Mile. Deborah, who will have, in the to the lofty positio’ rite of Doin Sol, o tine opportunity of display- ing the capabilities with which some of the beat French ities have accredived her ceptional talent, The inspiration of “Hernani” Victor Hugo’s study of Spanish history and poetry. [is derived from Calderon and the old romanceros. ‘The play is full of the romaa- tic spirit of Spanish life. tw picture of manners is accurate and The whole piece hinges on the exalted principle of Castilian honor. The classicists reproach it with violations of both dramatic and grammatical lews; and what- over we may think of their criticisms in these respecte, we must concede that another charge which they bring against it—that of flagrant deviations frow historical truth—is not wholly unfounded. “The character of Charles V., as represented in ‘Hernani,’ is opposed to all received impressions and to our conceptions of the probable,” says an unprejudiced French critic; and it is really diMoult to conosive that this monarch, who has beon wnjversally oan have figured as @ wild, reckless gallant, | despotism. Western democratic papers in the risking his life in a midnight adventure out of | Pendletos interest are looking jealously upon ® pretty damsel at the very time | this Southern movement in favor of Johnson. ® cautious, prudent aspirant to throne, and when ambition had heart to the exclusion, we should any more tender passion. His love of Doila Sol and his fury against Her- i—his moro favored rival—both subside, however, afver the third act of the play and his election as Emperor of Germany. All the five acts abound in impressive dramatic sltua- tions and effects; and tho success of “Herouni” wiil be a test of the interest whioh refined and intelligent New Yorkers actually tako in praiseworthy efforts to establish the Fronch theatre here on a permanent basis, The Chicago and Rock Isined Ruilread Suit—Mismanagoment ef Corporations. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Bail- road cage is atill before the courts, It is the old story—railroad directors looking to. their own interests before those ot their constitu- ents, the stockholdora, and using the capital of the company for private purposea. In this country we have “rings” ofall kinda. Whether it be in Wall street, Albany or Washington, in railroad, canal or municipal corporations, in building a bridge or a court house, opening a street or a sewer, the inevitable “ring” may be seen and felt. A groat fuss was made three months ago about the Pacitio Mail stock, and some unprincipled speculators endeavored to “bear” it down so that they might obtain the control over it, Tho matter was bushed up ia the most unaccountable manner, although no just reason could be assigned why auch excel- lent stock should be depreciated. It often happens that the stock of a company in the market is run down to such an oxtent by sharpers that the stockholders outside the “ring” are only too glad to sell ont at any price. When the sharpers get all the stock, or the greater portion of it, in their hands, its market value rises at once to its legitimate standard. Another glaring evil in railroad, canal aad other corporations is, that the directors are sometimes indirectly interested in the supply of materials for the company. One rajlroad director has @ car manufactory, iron works or some other establishment of his own, and en- deavors to obtain the monopoly of supplying the railroad in matarial trom this source. Tho principal profiis of the railroad, therefore, find thoir way into his pockets instead of the trea- sury of the company. A formidable oppenent of this system of swindling has arisen in the person of Commodore Vanlerbilt, who has taken vigorous measures to repress the evil, It any money be made on tho railroads over which he has control it must come into tie hands of the stockholders, for Vanderbilt is a stockholder as well as a director. The couse pursued by railroad directors horstotore has been to endeavor to monopoliz2 the eftire supply of materials to the company in their own hands. The Chicago and Rock Island suit ia buts single example of what is constantly occurring in the stock market, and it is high time for Congress to put a stop to ths pranks of the directors of a company, whether it be rail- ‘road, steamboat, canal or other corporation. By holding directors criminally responsible for the iNegitimate use of the stook of their con- stituents the evil will be offectually checked. There is little chance of accomplishing auy- thing definite or satisfactory in the courts without @ special provision made by Congreas regulating tho duties of directors. the Spirit “Hriends of Humanity.” Yesterday our pages were enriched by tho genius and learning of such divines as Henry Ward Beecher, Father Hecker, Dr. Archibald, David Mi ll, &. 5. Weed, De, J. B. Taomas, hy Spiritualists, by fanaties, ef hoc geaus omne, The djscourses as reported were aome of them good, some of them tolerable, some of them nonsense. Of Mr. Beect only fair to vay that if the o of General Sherman occupied the game prominence in the actual aermon that it does ia the printed report the preacher was dragging polities into the pulpit with somewhat of a vengeance. We have little doubt that Beecher had o political object iu view. This political preaching, we are woll snot uncommon in Plymouth church; cannot commend it, If the puipit has @ mission at all it has a higher mission than that of aiding the schemes of & party or the interests of an individual. Father Hecker— convert or pervert, from the point of view he is looked at— waa cloquent on Spiritualism, and claimed that the Catholic Church alone bad correct knowledge of this latest of the isms, Spiritualism, according to Father Heckor, was well known to the old pagans, formed an integral part of Judaism, and had actually been reduced to # science in the Catholic Church. Angois had appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Javob, to the Virgin Mary and (0 others, and his familiar spirit had been seen and conversed with by Socrates, and Dr. Johnson would aot say the dead were seen no more; therefore there wero angola and familiar spirits, and communion with these was not impossible. We should have been more satisfied if Father Hecker had told us that ho bimself had seen angels and held cenvorse with his familiar, Aa it was, considering even the eloquence and learning of the good father, the hearer no doubt felt that the actual information received was somewhat dearly purchased at fifty centa. The didcourses of the other clergymen named above were somewhat old fashioned in their style, but the instruction communicated was jinin aud che “n'a qeemon i sound and wholesome and worthy to be followed. In Dodworth Hall one Spirit ualist uttered the romarkable expression, “Mankind is Jike sn ocean,” and waxed eloquent on the privileges of “ weak- knecd” men and women, At a meeting of “Friends of Humanity’—some Fou- rierite relic, no doubt—there was a dix course by a colored lady and then a collection. Ifwe are notin need of a new gospel, we certainly need something to give life to the old. The Church is losing ita hold upon the masses, and if we are to judge from the cou- duct of the masses they are like “infants erying in the dark, and with no language but a cry.” Pexsment Jounson iN tHe Sovra.—l’romi- nentand influential papers in the South aro coming out in favor of the democrats nominat- ing Andrew Johnson as their candidate tor President. They alloge that he ia tho only true ropresentative of the democratic idea, the equality of all the States in the Union and JANUARY 28, 1868. hosfility to negro supremacy aad military But if Johnson’s friends stick to him as they Ought the demoerats are bound to aominate him. They cannot help themselves. ‘The Now Steam N: Thore ia widespread dissatisfaction through- out the navy on account of the inefficiency of the steam machinery with which the vessels are supplied, and which wad planned by the Bu- reau of Steam Kogineering at Washington. On looking into the matter wo find these com- plaints to reat on @ very firm foundation, In general tefms the whole matter may be thus summed up :—For the past five or six years the Chief of the Steam Bureau has been carry- ing on experiments which consisted in lashing naval vessels to docks, grinding away with their ongines and stirring up the mud in the Navy Yard slips for weeks on a atretch- This sort of experiments may be counted by the hundred, and the money that bas been squandered on them is, in round numbers, more than sufficient to found a first class na- sional polytechnic. school, equip it with the most extravagant set of apparatus and endow it with afund fully ample (o furnish the sala- ries of a full corps of professors. The coal alone that haa been wasted would keop a first class steam squadron going for a couple of years at least. This is certainly bad enough, but it is by 20 means the worst, On tho basis of these mauila hemp races the Bureau Chief claims to have made important discoveries in steam engineer- ing, and he has been as busy as a bee in put ting these “discoveries” into practice in the construction of the machinery of our national vessels. We do not care to go into the theory of these new-fangled doctrines, for the appli- cation of which we are being heartily ridiculed by foreign Powers; but we can give facts, so that any one can see into what a mess the En- gineer-in-Chief has put our would-be “Alaba- mas.” There are four or five ships of the Wampanoag class, the finest and sharpest models ever built for thia or any other navy. These ships are three hundred and forty-five feet long, forty-six feet beam and are of about four thousand tonsdisplacement. The duty put upon the steam machinery was to propel those 4 yacht-lhke models at a “maximum speed of fifteen knots per hour.” And in order to achieve this extremely easily attained result we find that some two hundred feet of the hold of these ships are jammed full of machinery con- structed in accordance with the néw doctrines; they are, in fact, so full of eagines and boilers that thero ia no room in the hold for coal, and consequently a great part of their ecanty allowance has to be varriod on the berth deck, the apace usually allotted to the officers and crew. Again, there is 30 Jittie room for provi- sions that only about forty days’ supply can be oarried, and this, too, in vessela intended for ccuisers, Further, this new-fangled ma- chinery weighs in round numbers the enormous amount of upwards of twelve hundred toas, which is moro by 4 great deal than is carried by any screw steamer in the world. Take, for instance, the screw steamships Ville de Paris and Pereire, plyiag beiwoen here and Havre. Their machinery takes up vbout one-half the space in the vessel which is oceupiod by that of this uew fleet of ours, and it only weighs about six hundved tonsa, or about half that of our vessels; yet it drives these shipa (which are a thousand tons larger than the Wampanoag class), as every- body Knows, fifteon knots per hour. Their machinery, too, it is almost needless to state, is constructed on the old fogy principles, which our engineering Mahomet pretends to have overthrown by his experimenial hocus poeus. Wo migbt sive many other simtlar examples, unt this we think is suthi ation some idea of what sort ot work is going on ia the navy. Silt worse, the Wampanoag, the first of this s short trial trip, and bad as are nbodied ia ie eugines the sia their construction are without precedent. After this short prelimi- nary trip, during whiea the vessel encountered no bad weather, the eagines were seriously fractured, and experts do not hesitate to say that in a heavy gale they would stand a good chance of being rendered wholly useless. Thia is indeed a preity state of affairs to exist in tbe navy of 4 nation making such » row about the Alabama claims ; and were it not for the fact that our foreiga corrsspondents inform us that these radical defects in our new vessela— the ones built to prey on British commerce— are fully understood by naval authorities abroad, we should certainly not allude to this matter. Ag it is, we bave merely touched on the surface, and we oan safvly inform the country that the deeper the blunders of our naval steam department are proved the more serious do ila mistakes appear bo be. at to give th batch, has mad the principles c mechanical mistak The Feeico Trenty. The King of the Feejee Islands has sent to the President of the United States a treaty ia the strange shape of an immense tooth of a whale, nicely variegated in color, at the ends of which is attached a strongly-twisted grass cord, which serves asa handle, It the Presi- dent takes bold of (his cord and accepts the tooth the King will rogard the treaty as binding, and will renew his promise to pay the indemnity due tor three American sailors whom his sub- jecta ate soveral years ago. The Feejee Island- ers are ticnlariy fond of short pork, or awine’s flesh, and of tong pork, or “ mission- ary.” Probably they mistook the sailors for missionaries, What reams of paper Mr. Soward might ave if be would borrow a bint from the tooth treaty of the Feejee Islanders! Me might return to the wampum of our American fn- dians, and if toreign nations shonld imitate bim and the King of the Feejee Islands diplomacy might bo simplified throughout the world. Judging by the dread of Feniavism which pre- vails in Great Britain, we cannot tell how long it will be ere ¢he Irish republic will send Goeorgo Francis Train to Washington with a blackthorn stick ied in the centre with « bay rope. If the @resident should grasp the cope firmly would not the British lion roar? Jourwatueric Ewrerrnme.—The radical organ of this city yeaterday morning publohed Maxi- milian’s decree ordering the execution of trailors to hia government ia Mexico, under the heading of “Discovery of Importent Papers.” The readers of the Herat dis covered this dooument in its columns about 4 ‘ yoar aga or nen POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. New Hampshire. At @ regent meoting held ta Littleton twenty sre men of positon and character, who had horctofore acted with the meptblicans, consented to serve as of+ floors of the meeting, aud boidiy came forward and re nounced all connection arith the republican organia- tion, At Henniken Colonel Jahn H. George addromed a large assemblage, On the same day » mass mesing was bald at Hopkington, The issues presenied by democratic speakers are @ returm to a strict adherence to the constitution, and they declare, among shor things, that the people demand equal taxation and pro- teat against the extravagunce and dishonesty by whiitr the public treasury is being dopleted. President Johnson and the Southern Domo racy—An Ageses for Hie Nomination. (From the Macon (Ga.) Journal and dan. 23 ¢ * © In Andrew pee President of the Re | States, the South recognizes her staunchest friend sines the fatal issue of war ieft her prostrate at the feet of tor foes. In him ahe recognizes @ champion of her ngiws under the constitution, who bas never turned back nue looked to the right or the loft since he sot his taco to~ wards @ wise and just restoration of tbe Union. in him she recognizes a defender who, no matter what the odds, never farled to plead her cause, an@ amid the clamors aud denunciations of an ‘over wholtaing majority, drunk wiih rage and thirstiog ior blood, bas spoken for the truth and defied them te their worst, In him she recognizes a ruler who, with every inducement to pander to the wicked will and monstrous behests of the leaders of the that pu him in power, thrust aside the tempia~ tion without a moment's hesitation and renewed strom his vows and_ obligations ag a good citizen, a friend te the constitution and faithful sorvant of the peopie. in him recognizes an iron will and a sot detor- with 4 majority against bim in vearty every Northern State in 1866, has never wavered aud blenched, and in 1868 is preeted with the triumphant scclamadoas of those to whom he polptod out the pate of victory. He has been steadfast, true and loyal. Ae has been ciear in his high office, He bas steadied the column ip defeat aud cheered it on to victory. He bas made more sacrifices for the right and the imporilied liberties of bis feilow citizens of the South than were either oxpected or asked of him, or tho bistory of whe country from its earliest '§ down to the at Cam show, This is his record. fe chalienge denial of tt. How shall we, who have benefited go much from it, testity our appreciation? The answer can be given im the convention that will nominate the next democratie for President. We beg our people to peader ‘tho matter well before that convention meets, In next President, subject to the decision of the National Democratic Conventicn, Andrew Johnson, of Tennesses, and for his support we beg the 0o-operm~ fon of all good and true men everywhere. Political Miscellany. ‘The Cincionati Enquirer is growling at the Deme- cratic National Exeoutive Committee for prosuming to wolect delegates from the Southern proscribed Btules ie attecd the National Democratic Convention, ft inaiate tha: the Southern democrats are not children, and thas they are selecting their own delecates, ‘The announcement of the official vote of Maine shows that the democratic gain in that State Inst year was 16,248. The same gain the present yoar will give the Bate to the democrats, Morgan U, Hamilton, at the oall of some forty nograce and ten whites, annobnces himsolf a caudidate for Cou- gross from exas against his brother, the notorious A. J, Hamilton, The Radical State Convention of Arkansas has mate. tho following nomiuations;—For Governor, General Powell Clayton; Lioutenant Governor, James M. Jona- aon; Auditor, Jamos K. Berry; Secretary of Stato, T, J, Whito; Treasurer, Hoary Page; Supremo Judges, Lafayotte Gregg, Joun McClure, James Thomas BMiot, saboo! Commissioner, Rev, W. IL Gillam, A writer iu the Anuapulis (Md.) Republican recom. mends Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, for President, aud Governor Swana, of Maryland, for Vice-Vresiteut of the United States. The York (Pa) Tres auggoste the namoa of Judge Biack, Hon, soverdy Jonngon and Hon. George H VPordieton for the democratic nomina- tien for the presidency, One ef the North Carotiue papers astacs Major Goneral Rancock. NEW JERSEY. Jersey City. Aworage FacaL AccpENT oN Tax Tene Ramway Yostorday morning about eight o'clock a switchmam named James Coxe was run over by a locomotive at the Erie Railway dopot, aud had bott Nis logs taken of. He was conveyed to bis home, 5 Gregory sireot, but al- though be survived rday the hours remuining him arefew. The accident occurred withia one bu dred yards of tho spot where Mary Hartigan mot « aimilar fate om Sunday, from which sho died, Coxe was about flity yoara old, and bad been in the omptoy ofothe company about tweaty-live years, Newark. Trac or McKwes,—he trial of J. McEwon, ono of of the spiritualists, commenced in the Quartor Seasions yesterday morning. ¢. 1. ©. Gilford, counsel Cor ds fendant, moved that the indictment be quashed on ac- count of certain flaws therein, Judgo Teese staid, afler listonimg to the arguments of counsel, that he Deliewed the point to bs Weil taken, and that yours ago the indictinont would have been unquestionably incor. rect; now, howover, tha court had become more hberat tn tts rulings, and, as the flaws were mere techui ones, would refuso to grant the motion. The Court « dered the trfal of the causo, but gave defendant« co in vage of MeEwon's conviction, peemission to movo stay of judgment on the grounds of an incorrect sndicument, The Court further stated that if the indict- ment should ve quasied wen would bo held for ap- pearance at the noxt term of the court. The flaws referred to are that no particular public place is mentioned in the :adictment whore tho crime was committed, nor is it alleged that “nil” citizens were affected shoreby. Meoliwen sat by the side of his counset during the pro- of Wie (tal, now and then whispering to bim ana avionaily smiling at the expressions of witpowes. He seemed but littio coucorned in the trial, evidently deeming i a Ligh privilege to “suffer for the truth’s sake,’ as ho and his associates term their incarceration The trial had not been concluded at the adjournment of the court yesterday afternoon. Miss Althea Meoves retracted her former plea and pleaded non vult con'enact+ to a cuargo of lowdness, ARRIVAL OF THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES. ‘The steamship Siberia, for whove arrival much anr- joty has Deen manifested on account of her long pasiage out, arrived at her dock in Jorsey City about two P. M. yosterday. Tho Siberia left Liverpool at half-past ten o'clock A. M. of the 11th, with fourteon passengers ang a good freight, arrived at Queenstown on the 12th at half-past eight A. M,, and eaited for New York at foriy minutes past three P, M. of the samo day, On the 1ith the vessel encountered a hard galo, with high head sea, which continued througn tne night. On the 14th astrong jo, with a high cross was encountered, which ip- france in wiorence anil the 16ih, in latitude 49 42, longitude 24 67, when a terrific gale was experienced. ‘This gale continued with unabated fury from the 16h to tho 2tst, the ship in the moantime laboring heavily. Op the afternoon of the 2ist the gale increased to e hurricane from the northwest, which carried away the ship's foresail. On the 22d the gale began to subside, and gradually moderated until B page Gl ‘The cat re passage was one of hurricanos and gales, the sea muck of the time breaking over the sbip, which fortunately resisted the angry elements and made ber haven ia safety. A the passengers by this steamship is Mr. Thora- ton, whe. succgeds the ihe Sur Frederick Bruce as the representative of her Britannic Majesty's government at Washington. He is accompanied by his servants oalg and brings outwith bim no new attachés bf the eo ‘The appearance of Mr. Thornton is not English. is someth:ng in his easy carriage, courteous address and ‘entire absence of ‘style’ and aitectauion that at once Cavorably impreasos those with whom he is brought ia contact, Uf Mr. Thornton's early life but little is known im the United States. He comos to this country with po dis- tinguished titles as credentials, but with a reputation aw 2 diptomatist of which many might ‘be proud, His Gre appointinent was that of am attaché of the British Le- gation at turin, im 1842, where he so distinguished bim- ‘self that in 1845, turee years after, he was Promoted as paid attaché to Mexico, and subsequently, in 1851, to the position of Secretary of Legation at the Mexican To the following year he was the secretary to ion to the River capital, sir Carles Hotham, on tas special viata, So satisfactory to his gover vices of Mr. Thornton that im 1554 he hosen Charges a'AMaires and Consul General in Uraguay. Five yoars after, sn 1359. Mr, T, was accredited as Minister to tu ne Confederation, and in 1365 promoted to asin jar position in Brazil, For twenty-three yoars M: Thornton has filled various diplomatic positions in the isphere, and during that time has oequired knowedge that @ residence in kurope would not have permitted, Wr, Thornton's fathor was in the service of the Portuguese government, which conferred upon him distinguished honors, the Utie of Conwt and a grant of land in thas country. Mr. Thornton landed about haif-past three, and at once aedad to the Clarenden Hotel, Fourth avenue, whore Pe wilt raroain untn tonight, and then proceed to Wash. ingion, FIRES IN THE CITY. Yeo ty Towrit Avavor.— About tye o'clock: yesterday afternoon a (ire broke ovt in the building No, 204 renti avenue, occupied by Henry Fry as a grocery, The flames extended to the adjoining building, occupied by damoa Parker as a porter house, nnd iso to No. Sut Wost Seventeenth strort, occupied by Mr& Burns, The futidings were daraaged to the extent of $1,000 and About thosAIne AMoUNt to stock, Insutance not asco tained, Fran in Wastivoron Simteer. About five o'clock yas. torday evening a fire oneurred om the Uiird floor of Nov ATS Washington street, oocuplod by Mrs. a, Daly, canaee by beat of stovepipo passing through ® window saws sting Geo to the onving, Vamnaga $50; tovurad,