The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1868, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. The Crivis at Washington—Rovival of tho Lupeac! Hin ytiersainaveeAfrican Fetfobiem, gzess has at longth reachod a crisis which | H.yti roturning $0 the fotich worship of their must be fatal to one or the other of the | barbarian ancestors and kindred in Africa. ‘The belligerents, if not to both, Tho Grant-j negrophobisis and negro worshippes of this Jounson imbroglio, it appears, is but the | country have pretended to doubt these stato- development of a deeply laid scheme to | ments, because they conflicted with the theory Ail busivess or news letters and telegraphic | reach the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. | of the political and social equality of the negro despatches must be addressed New Yorx It is represented asa cunningly devised trap, | race with the while race and of the negro’s that the sly fox ef the White House has un- Arran. mn eapacity for a high state of civilization: There Letters and packages should be properly wittingly put his foot in it, and that conse- | is no doubt, however, as to the facts of thoso tea 2 quently his skin will go to the furrier, Accord- | Africans relapsing into barbarism, both in soaled. , s é ing to our Washingion advices tho initiation | Hayti and elsewhere, whenever they are oman- Rejected communications will not be- re- | of. the Grant-Jobnson correspondence was ar- | cipated from the restraints and guidance of turned. ranged by the radical sappers and miners for & | white people. We see now that President Sal- twofold purpose : first, to give the opportunity | nave, of Hayti, who it must be presumed is to Gencral Grant as a rajical to define his po- | one of the most intellectual and civilized mon sition, the time having come ; and, seconily, to | of his race, hag beon excommunicated by tho beguile the President into committing bimself | Christian Church for fetichism. When a ruler in black and white to sometiing which would | or chief of a people like Salnave abandons a serve as a sufficient pretext upon which to | religion or adopts a superstition wé may be make # plausible case of impeachment. The | sure that the mass of tho people have gone or endorsement of the President on the back of | are tending the same way; and this relapso of General Grant’s letter, requesting written | Salnave to African fetichiam is confirmatory of orders not to obey Stanton as Secretary of War, | what we have heard frequentiy about tho is regarded by Old Thad Stevens, they say, Volume XXXIM * WALLACK’S THEATRS, Broadway and 13th streot. — ‘Ours. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Lrrrix Neue axp ae Marcwionnss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Annisan or Lrons— Doves Beppsp Roem. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite Now York HotelL— Sewers or New York. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Fancuow, | tux negroes in Hayti returning to thoir uormal Cavoxxr. with supreme satisfaction, as a “high crime” | state of barbarism. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broalway.—Tox Wire Faw, | or “ misdemeanor,” an overt act of official in- The negroes in the United States, taking fidelity, a clear case which will serve the pur- pose of bringing the offender to the bow- string. | elsewhere, Of course we mean the mass of In the suspicion which we expressed with | that people, and de not eonsider such rare in- the promulgation of this Grant-Johnson corre- | dividual exceptions a those of Toussaint spondence, that it covered the design of im- | Overture aad other negroes of superior den eked eng osm peachment, it seoms wo hit the true solution of | ability as controverting the general fact. 3, Dancing avo Buncesquas, | this otherwise inexplicable mystery. There is | These cases are entirely exceptional and are A HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Couic a chain of connecting facts and circumstances | very rare, The negroes here made this pro- = which, if we follow, will carry us directly from | gress toward civilization beoause they were the “Headquarters of the Army” near the | in immediate contact with and under the guid- White House to the headquartera of the | ance and control of the highost race of man- impeachment committoo in the Capitol. This | hood, the Caucasian. Perhaps we might say, is the radical case. The constitution, among | also, because they were under the highest typo the duties it enjoins upon the President, says, | of the Caucasian race, the Anglo-Saxon or “He shall take caro that the laws be faithfully | Anglo-American ; for it is known that the no- executed.” The Tenure of Office law provided | groes under the Spaniards and other European that if the reasons given by the President for | nations have not made sueh advances toward his suspension of» subordinate civil officer aro | civilization. But even here, where large bodies decided by the Senate as insufiicient the sus- | of them live ebiefly among themselves and.are pended officer shall be reinstated in his office. | isolated in a great degree from the white Instead, however, of taking care to have this | people, they bégin to relapse into barbarism. law “faithfully executed” in the case of Stanton, | This fact has been known to many Southerners this Grant-Johnson correspondence, it is | and to thoso who have travelled and studied them in mass, have attained a degree of civili- zation which the race never reached before or PK CIRCUS, Fourtoeath atreet,—Granastics, My &C. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Manrua. THKATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Haxtoy Compt Manion ‘Teourr. KEL Dance ¥ & LEON’S MINSTR&LS, 740 Broadway.—Soxas, WeNTHICITIES, &0.—Guann Dutcu ‘3,"" SAN PRANCISCO MINSTREL riAN EWOARTALNMESTS, SINGING, TONY PASTOR'S OF! Yovatisa, NeGRo MINsTRI BUTLER'S AMPRICAN THEATRE, ai Bavver, Fac, Pantomime salle Ania cars STEINWAY HALL.—Ma. J. 68 BE, Morvocu’s Reaprnas BUNYAN ITALL, Broadw ny _ ee ee ay and Fifteenth street.—Tar WAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— BRALDA, MRS, F. Many Rreane HOOLEV'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Erarortax Mussenvtsy, BALLADS aND Boreusquas, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Senence asp ART. New York, » February 10, 1868. THE NEWS. Seeeeeaanae acrameemaaeaed EUROPE. charged, shows that the President tried to get | thesubject in the South for along time. But = tons peed ll Atlantio cable is dated yester- | and thought he had secured an understanding | latterly it has come to our knowledge through with General Grant, ax Secretary of War dd | tho most reliahle authgrity that in certain interim, that he would resist the execution of | parts of North Carolina, of Louisiana and. of said law in refusing, when called upon in pur- | other Southern States, the negroes.are going suance of the judgment of the Senate, to give | back to a sort of fetich worship. Even thera, back tho office to the suspended Stanton, and | where they have been taught Chris- had next disregarded the law in instructing | tianity from chjldhood and soe its wor- General Grant to ignore said Stanton after bis | ship ‘and influences atl’ around them, reinsiatement as Secretary of War. they are tending, to idol worship. and to: Now, however flagrantly in violation of the | the grossest superstition and practices regard- constitution this Tenure of Office law may | ing witchcraft, There are cases where untor- invade the domains of the Executive depart- | tunate negroes have beon nearly beaten to ment, the law, as General Grant says, is the | death by their fellows for the purpose of pum- law till declared invalid by the Judicial | melling the witches or evil spiriis out of them, war was immanent between that country and Mexico. depariment. In his conversations with and | justas the barbarous tribes of Africa do,.as Our Litaa, Pery, correspondence is dated January 22, | instructions to General Grant the President | described by M. Du Chaillu. This universal Affairs wero trangail, Canseco, was on bis way to the | designed, we will say, to bring this law before | tendency of the negroes everywhere to- fetich- vapital with (he victoriovs army of Arequipa. Balta | 4,4 court for a final decision ; but the process | ism—a sort of undefined mixture of witcheraft uad already arrived and announced his determination to . 2 suppors Genoral Canseoo as the legal rvier, One hun- | M@y be held as rosistance to the Jaw, | and idol worship—is remarkable, and is a Ex-Miaister Adams will, it is said, leave England in April. France consents to expel the Hanoverian politt- cal refugoor from her soil. Tho debate on the French press iaw bill continues, government refusing an amendment to accord trial by jury to persons charged with offences against its provisions, Count Bismarck ropeats, we are told, his assurances of the most friendly feoling of the King of Prussia towards the people of the United States. It is in\umated that the King of Prussia would act as umpire between the United States and Kogiand in auy matier of pending difliculty. MISCELLANEQDUS. Our Panama correspondence is dated February 1. Late datos from Guatemala contain av official denial on the part of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of reports that a ied of Canseco’ men bad been kilied by the explosion | and upon this process in black and | subject for the study of philosophers, Mf Prado’s powder magazine, ‘Ihe United Staios steamer | white the radicals, it is understood, Speaking of the capacity of tho negro for os, with General Prado on board, bound for Vale | intend to try again the test of im- | civilization and of his tendency to relapse into rgiang =n se pean gtaoms hia ‘ouch | peachment. They are already at it, hammer | barbarism, that indefatigable traveller, Du Our bite Chile, correspondence 18 dated Janu-| and tongs, On Saturday morning last the | Chaillu,saysin bis “Jouraey to Asbango Land,” ary 10. Tho Dakota and Powhstan were in port. The | Reconstruction Commitice had an extraordi- | “I believe that the negro may become a more Japanese rama vail arrived on the 6th ult. nary session, in which Messrs. Stevens and | useful member of mankind ‘than ho is at pre- Our Havana special telegrams state that the powder | poutwell spoke earnestly in favor of immediate | sent; that he may be raised toa higher stand- sinh Set ae sar fata ee action. The sub-committee meantime were and | ard; but that if left to bimself he will soon mafia te duty it pit and the custom of requiring | are actively engaged in collecting testimony. | fall back into barbarism, for wo have no ex- soourity therefor bas been abolished. The feeling is very sirong in the republican | ample to the contrary. In his own country tho Our special telegrams contain intelligence from Ca- | camp in favor of impeachment, and in having | efforts of the missionaries for hundreds of Maas . gs boty herd Pic sh isin was | General Grant fully committed to their cause | years have had no effect; the missionary goes By haves ees 1G a “| the hitherto doubting radicals no longer doubt | away and the people relapse into barbarism. We dave mail advices from Hagti to the 16th Instant, | the feasibility, expedioncy and perfect safety | Though a people may be taught the arts end ‘Yhe: news has been yery yencraily anticipated by our) of impeachment. The case was different and | sciences known by more gifted nations, unless | despaccnes, Salnave was in the field agaiust | involved in a great cloud of dangers while | they have the power of progression in them- eo", and was believed to have met some reverses. | (.t the active head of the army, was sus- | selves they must inevitably relapse in the course Hite pres ect a canon aca Resales, pected to be with the administration. of time into their formor state.” This agrees of the gov t who were sent to arrest him. Some That there was in"advance a plot to involve | with what is taking place in Hayti, with what he prospect of a rotugn of General 4 to the Presidency on account on to destroy all the colored Mr. Johnson fatally in this correspondence with | we see in this country to o limited extent, Grant we think is evident from the recent | with all experience, and with what we shall sl. 30 Bowe, introduction in the Senate by Mr. Edmunds, of probably seo generally in the Southern States prmit apy more Wrench ¢ Vermont, of a. bill to provide for the suspen- | unless the government takes the place of tho t 1, sion of any civil officer from the functions of | old masters of the negroos in providing for and ieay Ward Beecher proached at Mymouth | his office on being arraigned before the Senate | controiling them. We do not say that negro F okiyn, yestonlay, 10.8 large congeegetiom, | On articles of impoachment, This shot was un- | slavery was best for either or both the races or rm at fae _ ee questionably aimed at President Jobngon ; and | that we should retura to it. It is abolisied ‘ wary's aharob; Jersey City, | a8 impeachment bad failed on all the old | and should nover be revived. But unless there of the poor ot that city. charges against him, Mr. Edmunds doubtless | be some sort of guardianship or control over saad of New York,” an association composed of promi- | gyticipated some new charge, and here it is, | this interior race by the superior it will inev- nant morelsants aud basiuess men, couducied the se | Ww. jay infer, too, from this bill that the de- | itably fall back to barbarism and die out. es oh pw hin posi 28 Ses begrcntecs tea sign is to make ita lew, and then, on an im- In face of these facts, demonstrated by his davetiede con sisting of alleroate singing, prayers and | peachment indictment from tho House, to send | tory, experience and ethnology, what @ mon- up President Wade, of the Senate, at once to | strous policy is that of our radical Congress in take the place of Andrew Johnson. Under | placing the politigal power of the South in this programme they think the reconsiruction | the hands of such barbarians! What an of the South and of the Supreme Court will | atrocious attempt to subvert the laws of God become simple and easy, aa Grant no longer | and nature! What o crime againat society, stands a lion in the way, but a lion, if needed, | decency, order and good government to put to open the way. our own highly civilized race—the people ot Mr. Johnson is evidently aware that Grant | our own fiesh and blood—under the heel of has entangled him as in a spider’s web; for we | savages! How infamous to create a negro are told that the revival of the impeachment | barbarian balance of power te control the scheme has induced the President to refrain | destinies of this mighty republic! Yet that is for the time being from sending his final reply | what our ininmous radical Congress is doing— to General Grant, Couched in strong ifnot bitter | that is what it is determined to do—unlese the terms, il is said to be a clincher ; but as tho | people of the North rise In their might and question of veracity involved is a trifling mat- | deteat its atrocious purpose. Radical recon- ter compared with the palpable design of im- | struction means negro eupremacy in the South peachment, Mr. Johnson is wise, perhaps, in | and a negro balance of power ia the republic ; reserving his fire, He would have beon wiser | and if that be carried out we may expét to had he declined to be drawn into this ticklish | have Salnaves in Congress and perhaps in the correspondence, “Ah! me,” says Hudibras— | White House. Are we coming to that, or sball Ali! me, what perils do onviron wo preserve the good old, government which Beeapprige sts sg me ti has made usa mighty nation? We await the But greater, fa many conditions of things, are ‘ # verdict of the people in the approaching the perils of pen, ink and paper. To Henry Clay, éldolioiis. Martin Von Buren, General Scott and a host . of others, as illustrations of this fixed fact, we vonbucks were firet introduced, has boon ex. | may now add Andrew Johnson and Geuveral ivgly \mited, Two serious obstacles have never | Grant, for Grant has likewise made o great tempi — ated by the counterfeiter, the | migiake in this unfortinate correspondence. | vested with raore or less of the ridiculous. we Des hoth eateia tvcd br fin aetna sats Tt gives occasion to his enemies, right or wrong, | Communilics, os a general rule, pay Little at work of the National Bunk Nove Company to charge against him that in the confidential | teation to what ® coroner's Jury, hastily got Our Alaska correspondence is dated at Sitka, Decem. | position ofa Cabinet Minister he bas stooped | together and not always compose! of intelli- bor M1, The news bas Leen gonoratly anticipated by | to the ignoble office of « double-dealing con- | gent elements, mag “tind: but thera ARS OOM our tolegrama, The —— vas plosssat for that lati< | fodera'e in a plot to entrap his euperior | sionsily instgng 9 of goo resulting fois eot0- yon hep ib ion (ee pre a ° aot hed | officer. t aap {nvasiigations However, the late in- aovting at four, | We cate Dothing for the individual griewanoes | quest on the yonny man iiacie, the “love eui- The statement of Sergoant-nt-arms Ordway, of money | in this matter. They we mere bagatelles. The | cide” of Brooklyn, is certainly not one of pete = for paren 50 ised wit exhibits some | main design involved in Andrew Jobnson’s | these instances. Ii was sworn by reliable es wes: tear eel ss iat ntnetiere fap Leg ; impeachment, howover, and tho radical pro- | witnesses, the fiaae’+ of the vietim and her Way drimneit received $12,000 for subparnecing witnesses | gesmme lying behind it, embracing Southefhn | mother, nat the young ian bad repeatedly in- fwd for otber (ransuctions, rocousituetion, & Téconsiruction of the Supreme | formed them of his intention to shoot himself Wd ‘bel Goth TRugeiroet was at General Geany's | Court and the gtme for the succession, will | with a certata weapon and on a certain desig- coe tha srprgnse | probably make this Grant-Jobnson correspond- | nated spot—namely, the lady’s doorstep. APMP OD etobus of bis rs Peper dbse gee wm ence the beginning of oho of tho most im- | Well, ho ia shot with this very pistol by his [ portant, momentous and revolutionary epochs ' Tue @lection ia Ali Was ooachalad yesterday. Up Movile thie vote woo. BY eriiton to 4,010 binvks, in American history. . exhortation, the object of the association being to en- courage simple forms of prayer and praise ta chureh service, Dr, Adems lectured at hie church on Madison square (o physicians and medical students. Captain baldwin, of the brig James Crosby, which acrived at this port yesterday from Santa Martha De. combor 12 and Carthagena January 6, reports that white sve was lying at avanilia General Mosquera was taken on board of the British steamer Carribean, woder guard of one hundred Colombian soldiers, Ho wae to bo takon to Aspinwail, thence to Callao, ‘The Colombien war steamer Rayo was at Carthagenn, watched by two Spanish men-of-war, who sapposed ber to be bound to Cmte, The crew of the Rayo bad all doserted, except a few marines. Tho packet sbips Columbia and Neptune arrived at this port on Saturday from Liverpool, The Columbia sailed {ow that port on the 26th of November and the Neptuno on the 28th of December, and both experienced most (errore of along and stormy passage, in ther perils, not extraordinary in a sea- , the Colambia during a thunder storm was struck by a ball of fire from the heavens on Christmas Day and lost @ scaman overboard, Subsequently four persvps died or were killed. On board the Neptune the porils wore almost as great and one man died from bucating a blood ressel, An foteresting article will be found elsewhore in our volumns this morning on our National Currency and its Countert The number of counterfeit legal tonder rary to the fearial anticipation of the country “Crawnor’s *Quest Law.’ Ever sings the days of the immortal Dog- berry “crowner’s "quest law” has been tn- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, #HBRUARY 10, 1868. a ee oatiig bis bewoth.™ {> low his braing out, fifty oom! ; to Cleveland, from $1 95 to $1; to | tate the Canadwn teapot ever so violently ; We have published from time to (imo, on | aud, of course, being peremptory refused Pittsburg, frog: $1 25 lo forly-five conis; to ‘The bitter fond botween President and Con- | good authorily, aecounts of the negroes ia | thal favor,’ Wh those fact? in evidends, tho Louisvilie, com $1 95 to $1, and so on ia pro- threats of commiting sol’Satruction in thfs | portion to every point reachod by tho indo- deliberate way proven, “crowner’s "quest law” finds that the young man died by tho “accidental” discharge of a p%stol in his own hands, and the Corouer accepted fe verdict All the Dogberrys are not dead yet, Tho italian CompilcationsThe DiMculty and Dangor of Nap The information which the cable brought you terday conccrning tie sudden change of fecling which Napoleon has experienced towards the Pope would indicat» a growing complication in Italian affairs that moy perplex the Emperor considerably, He cannot carry water on both shoulders and preserve wn equal: entente with Rone and Italy. Be cannot serve both Pius the Ninth and Victor Emanuel, for their in- terests aro too girongly aniagonistic, It ts quite probablo tha! tho agents of the legitimist party are busy enough hatching plots against the Napoleon dynasty in Roms as well os in other places throughout Europe, ead no doubt they are active everywhere, in view of a pos- sible restoration of the Bourbon family upon the demiso of tho Emperor; and this might be good reason for the coldness towards the Holy Father and the sudden cordiality to thy King of Italy. The objection said to be exprassed to Spain, at tho same jrncture, to sending the Spanish contingent to Rome, lookslike a deter mined design to change his: policy with regard to the Pope. The policies‘ of all Europe just now are like shifting sands, and one hardly knows where they may sottle:down. The story of Bourbon intrigues, after sll,,may have less to do witli Napoleon’s unfriendliness towards the Pope than a conviction that 9 charge in plans with regard to Italy has become neces- sary. Tho Tolegropl end the Prese-Impotency of Monopoly. The attempt of a single company to buy up all the telegraph‘lines in the country, and by this means to create a monopoly in the business of telegraphing all over the United States, would probably never have been mado but for tho erroneeus supposition. that the newspaper press is wholly dependent: upon its telegraphic news for its success, and asa conse- quence could be influenced, if not. entirely controlled, by any association that might succeed in getting this means of commanica- tion into ils own hands. A more fallacious idea never misled men of ordinary bus:ness intelligence. The telegcaphic news published in the columns of the daily journals is simply one, and by no means the greatest, of the many features that go ‘o’ make up the interest and importance of a newspaper. Money articles, stock quotativns, local news, the intelligent discussion of. the political issues of the day, court proceedings and many other topics, combine to make the daily press a necessity to the community. Abovar all, a widely circulated journal.-is most valuable as an advertising medium. It. brings buyers and sellers of all descriptions of property into direct communication: with- out the intervention of agents or third-parties; it enables thousands of persons to obtain em- ployment without the slow process of seeking it through personal application ; and it affords everybody who is in want of help,.of houses, of goods or property of any kind, to procure just what he requires without difficulty or delay. A paper with large advertising patron- age and oxtensive circulation is the. greatest conceivable boon to a business community, and would be of priceless value even though no single item of telegraphic news should ever appear in its columas. , Ic is true the telegraph is valuable when tho enterprise and capital of journalism employ itaga means of laying the latest and most important intelligonce before its renders ; but there is no more reason on. this account for supposing that the telegraph possesses the ability to control and coeree the press than there is for imagining thet the Stock Exchange, from which. quotations are ebtained, or the cour!s, from which law aews engynates, possess a similar power. A telegraphic monopoly may impose upon the newspapers as well ag upon the general public by adopting an exorbitant tariff; but the press could readily remedy this evil, should it grow to an unbearable magnitude, by investing a portion. of its vast capiial in constructing lines of its own from one end.of the Union to the other,, Thus, the Western Union Telegraph Com, pany, in supposing that it was the mastez,of the press, has shut is eyes and rum its stupid head againgt # stone wall. It imagined that because it had secured a monopoly of. the telegraphic business over a great portion of the coantry it could, therefore, contro} all the newspapers of tho United States and impose upon the public without fear of exposure or rebuke. But it now begins to discover its error and to find that the press is independent of its influence. The enormeus amount of capilal represonied by the company, in conse- quence of its purchase of all manner of worth- loss lines and broken down speculations, has necessitated a tariff exoxbitantly high; and this has so restricted the business of telegraph- ing that, even at its extravagant charges, the line bas not been made to pay. Hence the attempt gn the part of the “outs’’ among tho stockholders to sell the company to tho gov- ernment of the United States, turn adrift the present management and put a nice ‘plum’ "into their own pockels. But this is not all. The press has very properly exposed from time to time the impositions of the Western Union monopoly, and this has had the effect to strengthen and oxtend the opposition lines until they now reach the most important points throughout the United States. The benef which the public have derived already from the establishment of those independent lines may be gathored {rom @ comparison of the tariff tg 9 fow Jeading places under tho faonopoly of tho Westerd Union and at the present moment. To Boston the monopoly rave from New York was sixty cents, while the present rate is thirty cents. The opposition has reduced the tariff from this city to Bangor, Maine, from $1 20 to sixty-five cents ; to Port- land, from ninety cents to fifty cents ; to Puila- deiphia, from forty cents to twenty-five cents ; to Baltimore, from seventy cents to thirty-five cents; to Washington, from seventy-five cents to forty cents; to Augusta, from $1 20 to sixty conts; to Cincinnati, from $1 90 to $1; to Albany, from fifty-five cents to forty cents ; stracting our navy, until we now own the most | Pnot the heads of bureaus, would: them reap the ‘fruits of whatever of good that might come poadeat lines, These facts show the pubis »2nelt of oppo- sition and {s¢ evils of monopoly, 884 prove satisfactorily that ¢elegraph lines, ecy.20Imically built and properly managed, can be m.'4e to pay ata tariff fifty or a*xty per cen! lower Mn has boon charged by the Western Union Gom- pany. Tie Progosed Naval Board of Sarvey- Our 7 M& is universally conceded, must be the rig’ arnt of the republic in case of a war with any forefga Power, In tho last con- test with Great Britaix, and indeed during our Revolutionary struggle, our little navy per- formed its share of the hanl work most credit- ably and efficiently. During the rebellion, where for the first time’ it wax’ called upon to act since the adoption of steam a8 @ motive Power, its services were of incalen |able benefit to the country, although ite duties were prin- cipally confined to blockading service. With the exception of the Kearsarge and \\labama fight there was not an open’ sea cont ot that we ona recall in which tho best qualifies of 9 man-of-war were called out, But ina strag, gle with a great maritime Power wo should sett le the contest on the ocean, and for’ that evem‘ we should poyseas an efficient, serviceable and powerful navy. Many innocent people who read over tho inyposing list of war vessels that figures'so grandly im the annual Naval Register may believe that we really have a poriect bul- | wark of defence’ and a poweyful engine of |; offence im’ our extensive navy ; but they. are teadly mistaken; Tt iss humiliating and‘pain- fal truth that it is: mot at all what it purports tobe. We have lavished immense sums of nioney in building 2 new fleet, and the result is our yards are fillod with enormous balks, crowded with massive’ machinery, which are neither valuable as men‘ of-war nor serviceable in amy way which tho most ingenious ad- mirer'of the builders could suggest. The cruisezs of the Wampanong claas are wretched failures, They are neither fast, seaworthy nor efficient. They cannot carry coal, ammunition: or suppties for a' sixty days’ cruise. Their batteries'are weak an@ their fighting qualities bad. It is‘even dowbtfal whether they could ran away if caught out of sight of land. In short, they are everything but what we have a right to expect frony: the immense sums of money they have cost us. The costly and stupid: policy which has caused this humiliating result is still adbered to by the naval administrations, and unless changed is suro:topreduce failures in the future, as it bas.in the past.. The cause of all this is the want of harmony in the administra- tion of naval affairs. ‘ifere aro too many heads designing our ships and: engines and no one controlling influence to bring abou! har- mony in the plaas, “Old established principles are ignored, and the wild vagaries of theorists are adopted, at the peopie’s.expense, in con- costly, extraordinary and worthless lot of non- descripts that. eyer nation was cursed with. We must change all this or we shall be some day or other. caught ins the most disastrous plight when it is too late to rectify the errors of the past. The proposed naval board of survey now before Congress is a grand step in the right direction.. There: sre many argu- ments in its favor. First, it will fix and deter- mine the responsibility. for all acts of naval administra‘fon, and witi' pince all the bureaus and departments of the service under one board of intelligent. aad professional controi; Thus it will save usin. the future from such a& class of vessels as have-recently been added to the navy; for no intelligent or experienced board of officers: would dream of approving plans of such wertbless ships as now om cumber our yards., A wise control of expon- ditures would effect a needed economy in naval. administration, The bureau systems as now constituted, which has proved so iyade- quate to the requirements of the service, and so expensive: to the: mation, would act_under the control. of a evmpetent and proirssional hoad, which could direct their energies to one point—tho efficieney of the service, not to the exploitalion 0} privato schemes and: ihe grati- fication of personal ambition. The. country, ‘out af these departmonts, It would work a marvellous change if the board could give us one good eysiem, where each burean, especially that of steam, feels compelled to give us @ dozea bad ones. The working of the hoard of survey would be of benefit in other ways. it could aid the Secretary of the Navy in his decisions, for it would embody the best experience and professional ability in our service. It would be free. from bureau infiu- ence, and could give ‘its advice impassionately and unbiased, with a single eye to the public welfare, Being constituted of admirals who have reached tho highest rank they court attain, and who enjoy a breadth of view and a knowl- edge of the wants of the service only obtained by experionce, i would be unswayed by the petty prejudices, jealousies and affeciions of young aspirants, and would have no interest to serve save that of the country. So there would be no danger of its londing tis aid to one bureau in its efforts to overtop another. Each barean would have its jast position and weight, and the harmonious efforts of all would be combined to work out tho best results. Altogether, the plan of the board isa good one. It will be supported by # vast majority of the officers of the navy, and by the people, when its object is fully known. Of course there will be a great outery on the part of con- tractors and seedy engineers, but as they have had thoir day they must submit to mani- feat destiny. With threatening clouds rising in the Ea- ropean horizon, with Alabama claims unsot- fled and nataralization laws in angry dis- pute, we noed to look well to our navy, As it is now constituted we are in no condition to meet a naval Power on the ocoan, and it we wish to make our position good let us have an able, energetic board of survey to put our navy in effictent fighting condition. A Temrrst tm Tum Canaan Tearot— We learn from Montreal that an important crisis in the Cabinet isimminent. Tho Premier, Macdonald, it is whispoted, is going to be put out and Mr. Cartior put in, because tho former stands in the way of a class of logis) y. tion which will ronder confederation le un- own hand on the very grouad which he had | to Syracuse, from geventy-fve cents to fifty | palatable. Is will be a ma:tes of Mutts ime ir moss be advaited that, naval ae appointed for tbe commission of the daed, after. cents; to Buffalo, from soventy-ve couty t poriagos to the world should this 2mpost agi- cinbie wouaes ond teeee for the confederation of the. provinocs ts not Complete, despite the Union act, and ts much move likely to culminax’ in annexation to tho United States than in the porpetuity of the new Dominion, No cabinct crisis cam’ steve off that result very long. Nova Scotia is already in revolt, and bas gone to England to protest against tho union. The other provinces aro in & ferment of goxiflicting inter- ests that keep the teapot Doiling. Tho Chinese Rebveliion—Whetesalo Siasxhtor: According to our lateat adytces from Ohina (Homg Kong, December 10) “ihs war ig the north between the imperial and rebel furces is being vigorously waged.” To show liow vigor- ously we ere told that a great battle at Sham tang promontory resulted in the defeat of the rebel army, wAich lost cighty thousand’ men, But subsequently the imperialists were deféutod in their turn “in several severe engagements, with heavy loss.” A loss thet may be deseribsd as “heavy” in comparison to that of eighty thousand men, which seems fot to amount te much in Chinn, must have been hoavy indeed: Perhaps it is safe to put it at five times eighty ~ thousand, more or less, or four hundred thou- sand. This Chinese rebellion has been going on for somewhat more than cighteen years, during which it has been estimated that-from thirty to forty million lives have been sacrificed. If it continues for twenty years longer-~and there ~8eems to be no special roason why it should m0, unless foreign intervention puts a stop te it—even the five hundred millions of Cla ‘ese population will begin to be percepti- bly Q@'inned out Should the Chiness persist in’ dea troying each other on such a scale of whiolega le slaughter as in the recent battle at Shantumg promontory, the Russian Czar may bo’constra, ‘ned, if only by motives of humanity, to etep om t the “Great Wall” erected a8 & protection a ‘ainst Tartar incursions, to over- ran the emph ‘e and sack Pekin, like Genghiy Khan in 1215, Oar City Dea oracy on the Prosidentint Issues. Wo publisiod ya sterday: a» graphic picturo of the “confusion wos? confounded” into whic ‘the Tammany. red a\'n, the Mozarters and all} our city democracy ha\\ve been thrown in view of the approaching Pn »sjdential contest. This- chaotic state: of things\ is aggravated by tho fact that tha° Mozarten\’ persist in regarding the quarrel between fi cmselves and the big chiefs of Tammany‘as‘not| having been settled by ‘the last December cles tions. he old Aight may be renewed -at. ang ma oment. Meanwhile, the democratic: leaders: go, nerally seem to be cll. at sea, dtidting they \-now not. whither. Constrained, however; to: lo. 2k upon Seymour, Pendleton, Vallandighany and others of that ill as well nigh “played owt,!” the'y begix:to man- ifest a kin ly leaning: towards Androw) John- + son. . Doubtless they would. ral ly round him at once were it not. for the: disha wrtening reflec- tion that a radical ‘Congress hai) shorehim of the strength of Presidentia! patronage 30 eom- pletely as to deprive them of tho sulstantial aid which may usually be relied upon ia simi- lar circumstences.. They cannot court upon such a convenient. distribution of “the spoils” as might immediately supply sinews of war for tho Presidential campaign. They have no party patronage wherewith to oil the wheels ef party machinery; and they fear that this lack of party patronage and the persevering Y opposition of Congress may prove fatelito the prospects of the “man of their choice,’’*unleas the great mass of the people should resolve to elect Johnson ang: fully endorse hid resist- ance to the despotic tendencies of tho-radical faction. Now that'Goneral Grant has faller:into the hands of. the Philistines, the dry goods party who had.made him their favorite candidate are, -it is said, turning towards Commotgre Van- derbilt as their second choice. Should the Commedore consent to become the dry goods candidate as well:as a steamboat sad railroad ; candidate for the next Prosidency, be would... have a fine chance to come down with tho dust . handsomely and, help his brother miltionnaires to pay the piper. But should he-trast too la» - plicitly to the.promises of politicians, it is not’ unlikely that be may be treated by his frieada , pretty muchas “Live Oak George” was by bie when it came to a pinch. BOOK NOTICES. Manen’s Prooress. A Novel, By the Au‘hor.of “Aunt Margaret's Troubles.” ‘ Mr, Dickens has positivoly contradicted tha, roporse’ vhat bis daughter is the author of cither “A.ent Mare garot's Troubles’ or ““Mabel’s Vrogrosg."” But. althoug! the latter 13 far superior to the former, Mics Dicken ) might not have been ashamed of the reputed authur- . ship of either, The Iaat work, particularly, entitles.i@ authoress, whoever sho way be, to an honorable rin » 1m the front rank of Living British novelists, A novalé of English life, it faithfully presents typea of chara! ior which can be found nowhere else in the world, aar in the “British Isies'” Lady Popham, indca® hag ‘been more or less “domoralized”. by long resides co on the Continent, But the Chariewoods, ag well 5% Aifrea Preecott and hie sister, Corda, who is in some, ¥ capects ® countecpart of Dickens’ Little Neil, and the “Kyag. gelical” Flukes (caricatured as the Flukes may be) are ail theroughly English, Mabel, in opposition: to the wishes of hor family, has become an actrass, and is om the point of setieving success beyond byst most san. guine hopes, when Ciement Charlowood, tovine diagust of Mr, Alaire Allen, the manager, induces higr to leave the atage and become his wife. Penslope Gharleweod mar- ries Mr. McCulloch, '‘a thoroughly good fellow,” as Pene- lope describes him; the reprobate Walter Charlewood saila for Rio Jancito, with many soloma promises of emondment; good old Jerry Shaw, the strolling player, turas out to bo Gerald O'Shaughnessy, the hetr, ot tho Rev, Malachi Dawson, Miss Fluke remains Fluke still, and Alfred Tresoott becomes a wretchad, gambler at a German watering place, The con#denuns, And almost autobiographical obaracter of this néwet ham’ been censured by somo of the Pebes, whe are stop: ugh not to geo Phat this very or, al stitutes its principal charm, / Evon Ecouwsta. An Essay, showing the casey. tial identity of the Church in all ages. New York; Blelock & Co. ! Hero is another of the numerane religions tronives against which we bave been constrained to bring the charge of anonymouspess as prima farie susploious. “Ecos Homa,” ‘icce Dens,’ “¥oee Deus-Homo,” snd we cannot recall Low many more, aro open 4 the samo objection. If tha authors of these and similar works sre sincera, as eq doubt they are in their convictions, why should wey honitate to sign the exprossion of these Convictions with their own names? Perhaps, however, they wis\, the world to Judge their opinions independently of avy pres. tigo oF prejudice which their names might hava or pro. voke The anonymous author of this volume, aima to Correct ‘what he deems the popwsar error thes there is a difference, even an antagoniam, between the Judaism of the Old Testament and the Christianity ef the New as ‘aparece systems of religioe. He hopes 10 show tha, Proper, natural identity of Judaism and Christian’ cy, ‘and ‘also that (he Jews, upon whom, asa ace, Decome fashionable ve bestow eo much Ae Song perbaps a full balf of them, the most { i ristians that ever lived: Tieeel trends oad propagators 3 Oheataniy ina 18 ¥.ows may a SEUMH.ts of no