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6 NEW Y BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIIT BELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY, ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Rar. Dz. Mont couner. Evening. BSTHANY MISSION.—Ray. J. V. Osranmavr. After- noon. BLETCKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Rav, Dax K. Lam, Afternoon and evening. BLOOMINGDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, Forty-second s\oot. Morning and evening, POSTOLIC CHURCH.—Rev. Wa. H. CLOSING EVENTS OF THe CHRISTIAN ening. CATHOL Quranser, Disvmysaty CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .—Rev, Davin’ Miromgt, on “Omen aND tHe CHILDLIKE.” Moralag and evening. CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.—Morning and afternoon. ONUROH OF THE PURITANS.—Rev. Burrs, on “Buwran's Picgria Progress.” evening CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rey. Annorr Vuows, Morn ng and afternoon. Cuanies B. Morning and CRURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Rev. Dr. Deas. Morning and evening, CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION. —Rev. Dr. F.any. Morning and afternoom. DR. CHEEVER'S CHURCH, Union square,—Revy. Cras, &. 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Nevor was a party so bewildered as the radi- cals are, or more perplexed as to the means of escape from the false position in which they have been caught with such adroit audacity. ‘They beat the air with a wild fury, they fume frightfully, and in all their attempts to be terrible they mutter and mumble with imbe- cile persistency, Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment—as if that word, so fearful to themselves, must be equally fearful to all others. It is their one weapon, and they dare not use it. In fact, in face of the President’s bold playing the republican leaders find them- selves reduced to the necessity of considering what course they may choose with least harm to themselves, conscious that however they may determine, and whatever step they tuke, their acts must inevitably result in an advan- tage to him whom they would ruin, Generals with gallant armies are sometimes pushed into positions for whose difficulties even victory has no solution—positions in which the battle gained or the battle lost are alike in value; in which the fight is not the hopeful, glorious struggle to win, but only the depressing effort to escape. And it is in such a position that the radicals now stand, partly through their own blunders and partly through the bold and pushing political strategy of Mr. Johnson. His position has the advantage that however his moves turn out they secure something in his favor, and, whether winning or losing, ip the popular sense, are sure to help his game ; while the position of the radicals is such that they can neither stand still nor fight nor fly without doing for him all he could desire. If the Senate refuse the proposed honor to McClellan itis another blow against soldiers, not radi- cals; if they refuse that to Thomas they do o thousandfold worse in the same way ; while if they confirm either the President's game will be the stronger, since he will have handsomely provided for an opposition favorite in McClellan, and in Thomas have honored and exalted the only man combining in his single person all the elements necessary for a candidate to divide the national voice with Grant. If Congress attempt to save Stanton without impeachment it can only do so by a revolutionary appeal to force, which must prove a terrible error. If it attempt impeach- ment, that fact will fall like another apple of discord and will lead to personal struggles in the party that will demoralize and destroy it. On either hand, therefore, iis adherence to Stanton is ruinous; and it cannot abandon New York, Sundny, Febrnary 23, 1868 tab NEW 3S. IUROFE. ‘Toe vows report by the Atlantic cable .* cuted yester- tay ovening, February 22. The debate on the French Press Law bill continued, government opposing the prominent liberal amendments with offect, ‘Two ‘seditious’ Irish editors have been nontenced to prison, A man who was ehot by a Fenian captain died in Cork, General Dix gave # grand Wash- ington birthday fete in Consols 98 a 9334 in 1 1% in London and firm. Covton declined, closing with middling uplands at 10 pence, Brandstufs quiet and steady, Provisions ad- vanced Five-twenties French rentes ou: a decline, 76 in Frankfort. CONGRESS. 9 proceedings in executive session of the Senate on Friday were longthy and the debate animated, occupy- jng nearly six hours, although principally confined to tho republican mombers, the removal of Mr Stanton Doing tho principal topic, involving debate om the con- stitutionality of tho Tenure of Office bill. At the close a resolution was adopted by a vote of twenty-olght to six, docluring that the President has no power under the vnatitution to remove the Secretary of War and des! nate any other officer to perform the duties of the office aa iverim, The Sonate, after a very brief session, it being Washington's birthday, adjoarned til Monday, ‘Tho galleries of the House wore crowded yesterday. A rogolution that the Clerk read Washington's Farewell Addre-s ied to debate and an appeal from the decision af tho Speaker, and the yeas and nays being ordered it waa vejeciod by @ strict party vote, as was a resolution io adjourn in honor of Washington, Bills wore passed ) provent and punish the unlawful use of public moaoy by United States oflicers or other persons, aud for rotection of persons making disclosures as parties tostity.ng ag witnesses in English courts in suits for onfederate prop A resolution was in- troduced to impeach the President, debate on which 24 tho afternoon and evening sessions, and was atod in by a large number of the members, With iho understanding that debate shall continue on Monday sada taken at five o'clock in the afternoon of uat day, the House took a recess until Monday morning. MISCELLANE9US. Muoh 9xcitemont exists in Washington over the John. nou-Bianton di Mew Seoretary Stanton refuses to Jor the War Oitice to the new appointee, Adjutant { Thomas, The Istter was arrested by order of ustoe Cartter, om Mr, Stanton’s affidavit, but was quently released and called ou the President, celebration of the anniversary of Woshington’s though unim- In this city a salute was fired at sunrise on tery, and thero was the usual display of bunting, e snd business was suspended ssoera’ly. Religious services were bed in some 93, balls, concerts, &c., were given, and the day idod with grand displays of fireworks in several of the most prominent localities, In Brooklyn aud Wil. Viamsbueg the day was not so generally celebrated, aud a Jorsey City a ealuce and flag display alone distin. qviahed the day from others, In Augusta, Me., @ large waa be'd, at which on oration was qred god The day was observed in Raltimore, New ston, Boston and other places Dernocratic Committee yesterday ad- die, after deciding to hold the National atlon at New York on the 4th day of Ths thday seems to have been general, tent hu a yoom read. telegram over the Gulf enable we t m Mexico to the 18th inst, The revolutions ia and Yucatan were etiil in progress, and affairs omplicated in the forrer, the rebel force bo- ag \Xrge and active, Reaforcements had been gent to General Corova General Diary was seriously wounded by the iting of his coach, A fight 1s reported be- tween ad at Huacras, in which twonty of tho Inttor were Killed, Tho Cunadian corps of Papal Zounres, which errived a this ety om Thursday, left yostorday afternoon for warops, after participating im religious services held in tomor of their departure at St, Peter's church, Addresses “we delivered by Archbishop M Quin, and mass was celebrated, Hod in the various exercises, (aaos of Fisk and Fanshawe, being two of the six faite BOW pending in the supremo Court against the Pa Chicago, Rock Island an came before Judge Car tho three main motions, o'clook P. M., was occupied de, ta the cases. Oa the eleventh page of this morning's Herarn te mM accurate roview of the shipping interest of the States and of thefcomnmerce of this metropolis, as as (he extent and value of the pi pal trades, the ity of the veerels employed, and 19 Pages paid soamen, ‘Tuo Mississippi Convention yesterday passed resolu. toad to appoiwt a committee to visit Washington, and @aliung Lor & lovn of $100,000 to defray its expenses, ‘Wo Republican State Convention of Missour: met goeerday at Jetferson City, Mo, A Goliition occurred yesterday morning en the Erie © Railroad Company, erday at Chambers on 1 tuo entire day, until five 1 feeding the affidavits, him, for that would be an admission fatal to all confidence in it. It cannot give Stanton up now. He is chained round the neck of his party, and they must go to the depths together. Such is the actual position which has re- sulted from that strange piece of infatuation wilh the republican party—-that most fruitful of radical blunders, the adoption of the case of Mr. Stanton and the attempt to hold him in office by force of a law that its very tramers declare, with all possible emphasis, was never made for the purpose. Here is a man who ought to goout of the place he holds, as it is agreed on all hands and for all reasons, He is a constant offence to the dignity of the na- tion, and the people feel hourly degraded in the thought that the tone of high political life is down to the kicking out level. Because he keeps this point so unpleasantly conspicuous is the first great reason why Mr. Stanton should retire. Another is, that itis the intent of the constitution that the President should be the Executive, and- of all laws in relation to departments that the Presi- dent should chooso their hends in so far as they are to be his advisers. He should retire, also, because as the President cannot be supposed to transact business through him an important department of the government fs crippled on his account; for, although he cannot actually be Secretary of War to any practical purpose—though he barri- cade hims-If in the War Office and hold its archives till eternity—ihe President, acting over his head, is supreme for all disposition of the army; yet, as he interteres with the ordinary routine of duty in the department, he is a nuisance and an evil. It is for this reason that General Grant declares that “for the good of the service and of the country he ought to resign ;” and for this reason, no doubt, General Sherman holds that if he will not resign “altorior measures” should be “contrived” to get rid of him. There is not aman in the United States Senate with a healthy brain who does not think that Mr. Stanton should go out of office, and the best republicans in he Senate have declared in no moderate terms that the Tenure of Office bill would never have become a law if it could have beon im igined that a Cabinet officer would descend so low as to avail himself of it to hold his place against the will of the President. Well, then, the President is clearly right in the effort to rid the Cubinet of such a man. He is in agree- ment with the Senate, with General Grant, with General Sherman, and with the common sense of the whole country. Aad it is on such a point—on a point in which the Président bas \ him all considerations of law, pro- even good taste, and all opinions aot ical—that the radicals chose to fight him; and tov this fight they tortured to their purpose a statute never meant to cover it. How tre- mendously they blundered is seen in the fact tha! they cannot win in this fight without pur- rtain to destroy them even- Nor can they admit their blunder and retire, for that would give the President on course cclat through which they could not live, Since il is the Presidency that is at stake in this contesi—since it is that glittering prize of all political maneavres that is to be lost or won-there is abundant motive for the issue to be fought out with spirit, and it is not strange that Mr. Jobnson follows up his case with a olear sighted tenacity. He ean do all that the occasion requires and come out with clean he does no} do all that the occasion requires — delinquent before the law and before public sentiment. As itis the general will that Mr. Stanton should not ve Secretary, the President acts in. sympathy with that will in removing him, and has the full constitutional power to do it; nor can it ever be advanced agaiust him that he did it in defiance of any law, since he bas the positive declaration made on the floor of the Senate that it was not intended by the fromors of the Tenure of Office Isw to cover such a case, He hae, there Rainy eer Hinghamion, Rh engines were badly Aameced and a brakomaa injured, tore, freedom of action, with right on his aide, | aud bis adversaries pave peituer, Bound hands; he will even be held ak delinquent if | hand and foot, in doubt at every step whether to turn to the right or- left, the step, however taken, both involyes them in violation of the law and damages them in public opinion. Indeed, it is the essence of this lust coup that Mr, Johnson forces the country to see more clearly what radicalism has done. He shows what the acts of the radicals are by showing their logical consequence. In developing the position of the republican party he shows it to be such that men who have hitherto felt them- selves In sympathy with that party find they can no longer adhere to it. He has caught the party in a false position, and as it is driven from point to point by his forcing it, finds that at every advance it loses by defection of the vast masses that will not see the interests of the country sacrificed to make the fortune of 8 political coterie or to save a mischievous and fanatical idea, In this fight ho bids tair to waste the radicals away to.an uncertain and insignificant faction, and thus destroy that com- pact majority that bas ruled the country with such arrogance and tyranny. In this effort he will have the sympathy of the whole people. Important News from Germany=The Rights of American Citlzens Ackuowledged by the Bund. The long vexed and perplexing international question existing between the people of the United States and the Kings, Kaiser, Grand Dukes, Electors and other potentates of Ger- many on the subject of the citizen rights and home allegiance and duties entailed by birth on German emigrants adopted by naturaliza- tion under the American flag is at an end. By special telegram dated in Berlin yesterday, and forwarded through the Atlantic cable we have the very important intelligence that the North German Bund fully acknowledges the rights of Germans naturalized in the United States after a residence of five years in the territory of the republic, and that the German federal authorities will receive such persons in future in the same manner as they now receive native born Americans. The Hon. George Bancroft has been engaged for some time past—as already repored in the special written correspondence of the Hzratp from Berlin—in his capacity of United States Minister at the Prussian Court, in negotiating this interesting subject with King William and his ministers. Mr. Bancroft’s efforts have been crowned with success, and on Saturday last he signed a treaty with the representative of the Nurth German Confederation to the above effect. By this act the advance of modern progress takes a most important stride. The musty theories and interlaced and entangling law points, precedents, ordimances and quirks with which jurists, royalists and red tape men have so long obscured and clouded the mind of the Old World on the subject of voluntary expa- triation and its consequences, and under which they have sought to hold the poor man to some poverty-stricken soil, for the reason that he was born there in poverty and under a system of government the action of which hopelessly prevented his parents from growing rich, are swept away with one stroke of the pen of the American Minister. North Germany in her the Premier my tako our assurance he will then have more liishmen at home—when there is uo English law to fight against—get rid of Fenianism at once, and leave scarcely an account due to us by Great Britain except the Alabama claims bill. Tyng-a-Ling-Ling—The Second Triat of Mr, Pickwick. The summing up in the case of Bardell against Pickwick, otherwise Boggs and Stubbs against Tyng, has taken place, and the judges have retired with pockets well stuffed with canons and precedents to deliberate upon the terms of their decision. St. Stephen’s was crammed on the august occasion with the exceedingly whipped cream of fashion and the exceedingly whipped buttermilk of grave judges, graver president and counsel, all sleek with gravity and a full diet, The great Tyng was there, and, anon, he shook his shaggy ecclesiastical mane and uttered his clerical roar; the little Tyng was there, meek and mild-mannered as o lamb about to be led to the slaughter, The array was a valiant one. On the one hand sat the noble seignors, Drs. Boggs and Stubbs, frowning haughtily and with lowering eye- brows, a8 Jove sometimes gloared on the lying Juno; on the other was the martial array of the firm of Tyng and Son, defeated yet triumphant. Little Tyng had spoken without the especial permission of Boggs and Stubbs, keepers of the canons—had spoken in New Jersey, where an opportunity is never lot slip to hang, and within the jurisdiction of Boggs and Stubbs. Now, Boggs and Stubbs have a monopoly of the Gospel in New Brunswick— whom they will they elect unto salvation, and whom they will they elect unto something else less pleasant—in short, whom they will they elect, and elect him just as suits tho whim of Boggs and Stubbs, or, more par- ticularly, according to the amount of his subscription. New’ Brunswick got on swimminely under the administration of Boggs and Stubbs, or Stubbs and Boggs—for who was senior partner has never been satisfactorily settled—at least so declared under oath both partners of the illustrious firm. True, the Jer- seymen sometimes found fault that they did not get sufficient Gospel for their money ; and it was once or twice whispered that Boggs and Stubbs were evangelical in small doses ; though both Mr. Stubbs, D. D., and Mr. Boggs, D. D., declare that if any fault was found, it was found without reason, and it has been satis- factorily proved on trial that the Jerseymen would not even hear the gospel of Boggs and Stubbs when they could, and were exceedingly unremunerative when they did hear it, They were always a stiff-necked race, those New Brunswickians, and have been known to take a great deal more delight in- playing deputy sheriff at an execution than in Mstening to either Dr. Boggs or Dr. Stubbs. The Rey. S. H. Tyng, junior of the illustrious Tyng senior, surnamed The Thunderer, had heard of this distaste of the Jerseymen for tie monopoly of Bogs and Stubbs; and the Rev. S. H. Tyag, yunior of the senior, had a sort of fancy for playing the apostle, and tramping first moments of Liberation and consolidation gracefully acknowledges that mind can- not be fettered, and that men will and must pursue happiness where and in what manner seems best to themselves. The Bund guarantees by solemn treaty that it will not seize and demand the hand of a soldier for service and war where he cannot give his heart, and acquiesces in the long contested point that after five years residence in the United States and the attainment of a legal American naturalization paper the born German becomes a free American, and will be respected and treated accordingly. This treaty will produce very beneficial re- sults—beneficial to Germany and useful to the United States. German emigration will, in the first place, flow on a more healthy basis to this country, while the communication by letter and personal presence between the exiles and the land of their birth will be much more uncon- strained, liberalizing and propagandist. The North German Bund obtains a release trom the necessity of futile attempts to enforce local rules and laws easy of assertion but extremely diffi- cult in execution, and by receiving the returned German-American citizen as an enfranchised denizen of the world—not tied down to any particular State or principality of fataerland— the federation gaing much by the obliteration of little marginal landmarks which remain merely as so many blotches on the face of her new map of a homogencous, united country and which it will be mposssble for the South German government to retain. Commerce between Germany and the United States will be vastly increased by the more free intercommunion of the countries, and when the wants and wishes of the two peoples can be more readily made known and easily carried into effect. The social fabric will also feel the influence of the new treaty, the Ui still more German emigrants in what may be called the homespun, while Ga@many will be be glad to return for a few weeks to the scenes of their youth, to spend a portion of their man- fully acquired gains in genuine enjoyment, in the promotion of industry and the diffusion of useful ideas, in the teaching of a correct knowledge of our institutions and the setting down to a glass of native lager on the banks frown of K. “« . yn ord ’ t now on ’ of Superintendent Kennedy. rematne for England to iy | adopt the precedent of the German Bund. | Let Lord Derby resolve not to read another | letter of “Historicus” iv the London Times, | but at once set himself to prepare a bill, to be submitied to the present Parliament, setting ont with ® short preamble of thanks to the | United Siat all we have done and are | doing for the millions of triehmen whom Hag- land could not employ or feed, and for the millions of pounds sterling which they have forwarded to that poverty-siricken land, Let for ve fe and Scotchman now on the “old sod” can go of when and where he pleases, ‘that every Irishman may vole at often as he wishes at every that takes place in New York, enlist and fight in any regiment or wherever he can see a skull, and return and drink whiskey in Dablin, Cork or Belfast when it evils hie convenience, provided he has “return ticket” for America by the same j tteamer stuck in his hathand, and promises 1 aut ty sing the “ Wearmg of (ue Green,” end election ted States receiving | visited every season by thousands—for each one , heretofore of our adopted citizens—who will | of the Rhine; ® freeman, unintimidated by ! nd never once think{ng of the | it be declared (ual every Irishiuaan, Kaglishman | from city unto city, making himself a martyr that he might save some souls among the Jer- seymen at New Brunswick, which souls it was the especial business of the firm of Boggs and Stubbs tg save, if they were to be saved at all, which was not, in the majority of cases, ex- pected. Tyng, therefore, with an especial view to martyrdom—for somo people like martyr- dom, though it is vastly uncomfortable—went thither unto Jersey and spake unto the people in a new tongue, not well understood by either Boges or Stubbs. He was placarded and paragraphed in the county paper—so de- poses the firm—as a Fifth avenue clergyman, though it is not proved that he proposed any easier method of getting saved than that which had been adopted by the illustrious clerical firm in question, viz, to hear the Gospel and pay liberally for hearing—the latter being a means of grace especially in vogue on Fifth avenue, whence emanated the junior Typg. Drs. Boggs and Stubbs were offended—not that they particularly objected to the young apostle saving «soul if be could, but that they objected to his being paragraphed as a Fifth avenue clergyman. Both Boggs and Stubbs were older men, and neither Boggs nor Stubbs had ever been so paragraphed. Besides, Mr. Tyng had broken the canons—first, in assuming to ape the apostle at all, and, secondly, in assuming to ape the apostle within their juris- diction or cure. This was the case as laid before the august court by Boggs and Stubbs, the accusers. The counsel for the young man demurred —not on the ground that his client was an apostle and ihe son of an apostle, as he should haye done and settled the matter—tor it has heen proved that latter-day apostles are not altogether re- sponsiole beings—but on the ground that tveryhody was in the habit of breaking the canons, and therefore the canons were obso- | lete—mere dead lions, which had no earthly | business to wake up and roar at an aposile, however they might be pricked and goaded by | Boggs and Stubbs, Ifthe younger Tyng had violated the canons so had the elder—here the elder Tyng bristled—so bad Dr. Muhlen- berg, so had Dr. Canfield, so had Dr. Smith, so had «whole host of double Ds, whose names, fo enumerate would he as long as Homer's cata- logue of ships. Tt was admitted, wens én “fhe wigged counsel, that ii. ty aa not the permission of either Bogge or Stubbs or gf the firm jointly considered. Now it was necessary to bave the permission of a majority of the firm, according to canon: but in a firm of two there could be no majority. Dogar did not constitute a majority of the frm of Boggs and Stubbs; neither did Stubbs const tute a majority ; ne and Stubbs cons selves, where In the world should anybody look for the minoriiy? There could be majority in the case, therefore, and Mf. 'Tyng no wae without justification in breaking the cenons, since, wader ihe circumsiances, the | canons could not be ensily kept. Thus concluded the counsel, and, wiping his forchead very carefully—for mental effort bad cansed great beode o. per | spiration to break out thereupon. quite con- trary to the canoms of gentility him consciously, and sat down with the air ofa mean who has done bis duty. The reverend president, ov the other hand, looked puzzled and winked several times, a8 if he would say, “Thave caught an idea ;” and as to Bo, I Stubbs, they were simply astounded. They opened their eyes; they rolled them over In $b Cheit meade; they yawned ne if they capeuwa looked about t did both ; for if Bogys | ituted a majority of them: | the great | T. somebody to step inside; in shart, they were in the predicament of Poe’s man, wl was used up. Then the president, and Boggs and Stubbs, and Nash, their counsel, opeued their mouths simultaneously, and gave utterance to an | oracular “ Ahem,” The profundity ot the gen- tleman who had gone before had dumbfounded them with a new theory of majorities, and there was silence of all the court, during which ladies hissed and giggled as best suited them. There seemed to be no doubt that the young apostle must be triumphantly acquitted. As between Boggs and Stubbs it was obvious that there could be no m»jority with either or both of them. Out of two a majority was a logical impossibility, Thus seemed matters until Mr. Nash rose from his seat with great dignity. Mr. Nash first read the canons, then Mr. Nash proved that if no majority of Boggs and Stubbs was aitainable, then it was quite impossible that Mr. Tyng should have spoken at all, with the permission of both of them, without breaking the canons. And thus was logic demolished—the logic of the defence. The president brightened and a grave smile flickered over his venerable face ; Borgs and Stubbs smirked; Tyng, senior, looked blank and mentioned that he should argue the matter from his own pulpit, and, with an audible titter, the ladies made their way out of court, The affair was adjourned, but Tyng, the younger, not yet acquitted, walks the lamb in the midst of lions, himself thg lion of the ladies. The Tenure of Office Law and Mr. John. son—The Impeachment Remedy—Signiil- cant Proceedings, Tho arrest and holding subject to bail of General Lorenzo Thomas, appointed by the President to fill the office of Secretary ot War, in the place of Stanton, removed, Is explained by the fifth section of the Tenure of Office law, which is as follows:— Sxcrioy 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, contrary to the provisions of this act, ‘accept any appuintment to or employment in any oflice, or shall hold or exercise or’ attempt to hold or éxercise any such office or employment, he shail be deemed, aod is hereby dectared to be, guilty ot a high misde- meanor, and, upon trial aud conviction thereof he shall be punished therefor by a fine not exceeding ten thou. sand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both said punishments, in tho discretion of the cour . This carries the case of General Thomas into the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, we suppose; but when the trial will come off and be brought to a judgment it is difficult to conjecture, Tn the next plice, it appears that the Recon- struction Commitee have resolved by a strict party division—seven to two—to recommend to the House the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and their case, doubtless, rests upon the sixth section of the Tenure of Office law, which is as follows :-— Section 6, And be it further enacted, That every re- moval, appointment or employment ‘made, had or exercised contrary to the provisions of this act, and the making, signing, sealing, countersigning or issuing of any comission or letter of authority for or in respect to any such appointment or employment, shall be deemed. and aro hereby declared to bo, high misde- menoors, and upon trial and conviction thereof every person guilty thervof shall be punished by a fine not exceoding ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both said punishments, in the discrotion of the cuurt, Provided that the President shall hive power to make Out and deiiver aitor tho ad- journment of tho Senate commissions for ali officers : Ie, mee whose appointment shai! have bowen advised and cun- sented to by the Senate, Now, when in the first section of this act it is declared substantially that the members of the Cabinet shall hold their offices respectively during the President’s term of office and one month thereafter, unless removed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, it will be perceived, with the recorded refusal of the Senate to consent to this removal of Stanton, that here is a case which may enable the im- peachment committee to carry their scheme through the House, The Reconstruction Com- mittee is composed of Messrs. Stevens, of Pean- sylvania (chairman); Boutwell, of Massachu- setts; Bingbam, of Ohio; Farnsworth, of Illinois; Hulburd, of New York; Beaman, of Michigan ; Paine, of Wisconsin, republicans ; and Brooks, of New York, and Bezk, of Ken- tucky, democrats—seven to two. The Prenching Expeditions of Young. * The Mormons of Utah have in Brigham Young a wonderfully sagacious and industri- ous leader and ruler, temporal and spiritual, He superintends their politics, their business and social and family aftvirs, their religious obli- gations and observances, their charitable enter- prises, their amusemenis, and nothing escapes him. Under his remarkably efficient manage- | ment cyery available valley, every little oasis 4n the deseris of Utah has its prosperous settle. ment of thrifty Moriaons, and they have literally in these settlements among the plains and mountain valleys made “the desert blossom like the rose.” [t is his practice, among other things, to make frequent exeursions or preach- ing expeditions among these setilements from two days’ to six or elght weeks’ | duration, and always to the advantage of the vettlements visited, and especially con- ducive to their material prosperity, in telling his people what to do and how to do it, from the excavation of an irrigating canal to the enclosing of corn or cotson fields, or the open- ing of a mine, or the building of 9 factory. His lates reported preaching visit was to a two days’ religious festival of the Saints at the town of Provo. He generally goes in state, Brigham accompanied by a large body of aposiles, d&c., and at most of church mééting? 6h sfich occasions there are several speakers who prepare the way for the great event of the ceunion—a familiar talk from President Young, as they aifection- ately call him. Tn thie manner, with a round of discourses two or three times a day, this (wo days’ meeting at Prove (Saturday and Sunday) was conducted, and oa Monday mérn- | ing th ipal election came off, when, there heing but one ticket in the field, it was nously elected. The religious exercises of Saturday were diversified in the evening ttondance of the President and party | tre. The programme was “Aurora ; with “Jemima” a the afterpiece. The rep of the Salt Lake Evening } aye “ihe theatre very convenient, scenery very tasteful, ond the want of skill in the playing wae made up in the universal | good humor of the people.” Where they have no theatre for these grand occasions they have fn ball, and what with heir plurality of wives and their amusements, to the meu of Mormon- dom, at leust, President Young knows bow to make his religion attractive, Ie it any wonder | Wot this man ie regarded by his, Tollowers as | the anointed prophet of the ied, their aove- reign iter, guide and fig wd? And in this fingle fact ie not the waydienrly pointed ont, mi un) Young—for a peacexble abolition of Mormon polygamy in the United’ States in the peaceable removal of the Mormons * The Fashioas. It is only now that the startl'ng features of the winter fashions in Europe sre becoming fully developed in this city, We hawe laughed over the caricatures of the prevailing fashions of Europe in Punch and Charivari as something that was invented only for the burlesque stage; but those caricatures have met us on Broadway for the last few days, The cactus and other thorny kinds of dress, the ornithological, entomological and conchological styles of toi- lets are offensively conspicuous on our great thoroughfare latterly, and some of our most beautiful pedestriennes are clad in raiment that would astonish their grandmothers and other respected progonitors. Yet there is a pleasing exception to the rule of absurdity and ill taste. Many of the recognized leaders of fashion on Manhattan Island have ventured to wear in public toilets that exactly corre- sponded with their particular style of beauty in form, height, complexion and manner. Next month the great opening day of the year will take place, and our metropolitan modistes are closeted at present, stulying over the latest phases of fashion and devising startling novelties for their customers, Our sparkling correspondence from Paris this week informs us of many interesting facts. First, the modern Viking, Farragut, gave a grand ball on his flogship at Nice, which was garnered with rich toilets and pretty women. Then the third official ball at the Tuileries brought forward in the most resplendent man- ner several American ladies, whose toilets and beauty were the theme of all the fashion- able wiseacres on the other side. The Pru- cess Metternich presided over a German ball at the Grand Hotel, which was characterized by a superabundance of dreamy eyes, fair chignons, interminable waltzing and Teutonic bodices. A clergyman’s wife in London wants all servant girls to wear uniforms ; but the ob- stinate “help” refuse to agree with her sug- gestions, The dvcolletées of Paris are fast ap- proaching Eve-like simplicity. If their style of dressing be adopted there will be little of the bodice of a dress leit for us to speak about at the opening day in March. We agree with our correspondent in saying that there is no use in preaching to servant girls as long as their mistresses indulge in every kind of toilet extravagance. Music Publishers and American Composers. It isa very singular feature in the musio trade that the parties engaged in it adopt an entirely different system from those of other branches of business. The difference consists in the transactions which take place between the proprictor of a music publishing house and the perscns who supply him with the materials to carry on his business. In other branches of business the merchant cannot procure a stock of goods for his establishment without giving a sufficient guarantee that he will pay tho full amount agreed upon between him and the per- son from whom he buys his goods, In the music publishing trade, however, the case is different. A composer brings a work to the publisher, and as he never can obtain anything like the prospective value for it in ready cash on the spot, he agrees to receive only a certain percentage on the sale of bis composition. The only guarantee he has for knowing the number of copies sold, and consequently the percentage he should receive, is the word of the publisher. The composer calls in a tew months to ascer- tain what success has attended his work. He may hear on all sides that it has become popular and a household word, that every person sings or plays it and that it has reached every part of tho country. On applying to the publisher, how- ever, for his share in the proceeds, the unfortu- nate composer is coolly Informed that the work is unsalable and that the house experienced considerable difficulty in disposing of a few copies. The composer, has no redress. He cannot accuse the publisher of falsehood, although be may be sure that he is being shamelessly cheated; for there are no means of ascertaining the truth of the case. The conse- quence is that songs and piano pieces which netted thousands of dollars to the publisher have hardly brought a dollar to the composer. This ia a singular mode of transacting business. The only parallel we can find for it is the system on which the poor seamstresses of this city are paid for their work, lives, health and happiness. No wholesale merchant would dream of supplying his retail customers with the materials for catrying on their business without receiving some other guarantee for payment besides their word of honor. Yet such is the case with music publishers: and composers, The only equitable sysiem is the London one, in which every copy of a work + is siamped with the comporer’s own seal, It is very easy then to ascertain the exact number of copies sold without any reference whatever to the “word of honor” business, We have repeatedly characterized as trash cer- tain compositions which the publishers on- deavored to foist upon the public in a most elegant dress as far a the engraving and illus- tration went. The term nity be a harsh one, but there is no other which can suitably and justly edpress fhe merits of the compositions after which it is placed. It is often the case that this trash is concocled by some relative or wealthy friend of the publisher, or some person who brings some strong influence be- sides that of merit to bear on the case. Other- wine, why should real gems of melody and harmony be set ina wretched frame and this trash got up in superb style? The entire sys- tem of music publishing must be changed in this city, or it may happen that an association willbe started like the Musical Bouquet Asso- ciation, in London, to break down a monopoly thatrobs composers, discourages native talent and charges exorbitant rates for masic. It often happens that @ piece of music which costs the publisher only ten cents is sold by bim fora dollar. Here is profit with a ven- geance. And yet the poor compoecr is refused bis scanty pittance. * Tax Trovete ww Wasmxeroyx—Wuere Lins ane Responstriiry’?—The conflict between the Executive and Congress has become very exciting. Under that our republican institn- tions and the government are undergoing a strain such as they have never been subjected to before. We are in a condition when a spark might create a conflagration throughout the whole country. There is the most bitter and aba Wwe duly Way tory Mek Dencinn « dvorupod Was Leven lho Ceccative and