The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1868, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Ail business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hgratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- Volume XXXIII. eee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Psani or Savor. SIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Wars Faw. PIKK'S OPERA HOUSE.—Nonua. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and ib «ireet.— Sux Stv0rs to Conqosn. ag BROADWAY THEaTRE, Broadway.—Sam, oe THEATRE, Bowery.—Eouuany—Nuw Foor. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Nosovr's Davcurer. FRENCH THBATRE.— Rano Dvcurss. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad way and 0th ot.—East Lynne. 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Mr. Forster, M, P., is to bring the naturalization laws ation to the notice of the British Houso of Commons on the 28th inst «A violent gale swept over the west coast of Great Britain yesierday. Holyhead Break- ‘water was carried away and the lights extinguished by the storm, War preparations continued at all points of France, General Dix's ministerial fore in Paris wase brilliant affair. Admiral Farragut enjoyed a fine recep- Hon in Venice and will visit Milan, Genoa and Rome, Five-twenties were at 75 in Frankfort, MISCELLANEOUS, The excitement in Wu singtom over the War Office imbrogiio continues unabated. The President on Sat- urday sent into the Senate the nomination of Thomas Ewing, of Obio, as Secretary of War. Our correspond. nt believes that there is no reason to anticipate any conflict more sanguinary than that of opposing lawyers ju a litigation, as the Presideot, it ts probable, will wake no effort to eject Mr. Stanton by force, but will @ matter to the Supreme Court for adjustment. r Geary, of Peunsylvania, telegraphed to Henator Cameron on Saturday that troops were rapidly tender- ing bim their services to sustain Congress in the Stanton trouble, The Grand Armies of the Republicia the West have geverally tendered their services to Con- gross, and it 18 reported that Mary/iand has tendered the services of her militia to the President, General George H, Thomas is reported to have deciined his proffered Promotion, There appears to be little or no doubt that the Impeactiment resolution wiil be passed In the House. Our special telegrams from Havana contain late intel- ligence from that city and the islands of St. Domingo ‘and Porte Rico. The military commissions for tho tria! of crimes were very active io Haran, A murderer who committed his crimne op the 6:h inst. was tried and garroted on the 13th, Sante Anos aad the other Mexi- ean notables had addressed the Pope, congratulating um on the safety of his See and asking his ble Goneral Baez had not yet arrived in St. Dominga. Tho people were extremely discontented. Orders bad been received in Porto Rico to suspend adv ertising for tenders to lay a cable to St, Thomas. The attendance in the various churches yesterday was at unfavorably affected by the cold weather, At the Madison avenue Baptist church, op the corner of ‘Thirty-first sireot, a sermon was preached for the benefit of young men by the Kev. W. A. Scott, At St. Patrick's cathedral Rey. Dr. McSweeney preached « sermon rela- sive to the observance of the coming season of Lent, In the New Jerusalom (Swedenborgian) church, Rev. Ohauncey Giles officiated, and discoursed om the decline of the soul from its original perfection. Rev, Dr. Prime delivered asermon at the Forty-second street NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 24 1868. onienenereaiiraes New York for Antigua, was lost at seaon the 9th inst, and the captain, mate and a seaman were lost. | _ The livery stables 610 Sixth avenue were destroyed | by freyesterday morning, and twenty-three horses were consumed. Ao insane woman in the Insane Asylum at Augusta, Me., yesterday beat another woman to death. Two fires occurred in Toledo, Obto, on Saturday night, constitution. Still the crisis calls for some em- phatic expressions of the will of the people, and so let New York at once speak out Let the people speak. The News from Washington. The special telegraphic despatch which we by which four blocks were burned, involving a loss of | publish this morning from Washington de- $160,000, The steamship City of Washington, Captain Tibbits, of the Inman line, will sail from pier 45 North river, at one scribes the excitement in the capital as una- bated. It may be inferred, however, from its o'clock to-day, for Halifax, Queenstown and Liverpool. | transcript of the speculations which are rife ‘The mails for the British Provinces and Europe will close | there that on “a second, sober thought” cool ‘at the Post effice at twelve M. ‘The sidewheel steamship Charleston, Captain Berry, will leave pier No, 3 North river, at twelve M. to-day for Charleston, & ©, heads are beginning to discover that this excitement is, after all, altogether dispropor- tioned to the actual grounds which exist for it. No doubs it is alarming to hear men who The Impenchment of President Johnson— | are usually considered judicious leaders of Fregress of the Revolution at Washing- ten—Let People Spenk. The House of Representatives will, it is ex- public opinion discussing the relative re- sources of the Executive and of Congress in onse these two branches of the government pected, pass to-day by 9 party division the | should he driven to resort to physical force. resolution reported b; Johnson, President of tion will doubtless y Mr. Stevens from the | But it is manifest that P. t Reconstruction Committee impeaching Andrew a mes least, exhibits a forbearance equal to his firm- the United States, of | ness in this pre spor liao Bota ls 2h trying juncture, and that unless goaded to extremes by an attempt to suspend be followed by an indict- | his functions as soon as he is presented for ment from the House, as from the Grand Jury impeachment he will confine himself to mod- of the nation, resting upon the charge and specifications of Mr. the Tenure of Office law in his official orders embracing the removal of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War and the appointment in his place of General Lorenzo Thomas. This in- dictment will be presented to the Senate, and the Senate then, as the bigh court of impeach- ment (Chief Justice Chase presiding) will be called upon to proceed to the trial of Andrew Johnson’s violations of | tion of erate and legal means of attaining a solu- the difficulty. Two of these means he has already used—first, the removal of Mr. Stanton, with the appoint- ment of General Thomas as Secretary of War ad interim, and, secondly, the nomination of Mr. Thomas Ewing, Senior, of Ohio, as Secre- tary of War. This nomination was made in the message which arrived too late on Satur- day, but will be sent in again to-day. Mr. Jobnson and the determination of his guilt or Ewing, itis alleged, has signified his willing innocence upon the charges preferred, found guilty he will cease to be Preaident of the United States, and the President pro fem. of the Senate, Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, (who may now be called also Vice President of the United States), will take the chair in the White House. The temptations, nay, the necessities which urge this revolutionary Congress to this ex- treme measure, are so pressing that with tho case upon which they are now proceeding it is not certain that this impeachment move- meat will end, as the two attempts hereto- fore made ended, in a signal failure. In the House debate on Saturday there were no doubts or misgivings expressed from the republican side. On the contrary, the whole party camp betrayed the wild ex- citement of a momentous crisis and a fixed purpose of speedy and decisive action. Com- bustibles, too, {rom the outside were brought in to increase the fire. A despatch, for in- stance, from the Governor of Illinois was read to this effect :—“The usurpations of Andrew Johnson have created 8 profound sensation in the State. His last act is the act of a traitor. His treason must be checked, The people of Mlinois, attached to the Union, I firmly believe will demand his impeachment, and will heartily sustain such action by Congress, The peace ofthe country is not to be trified with by that presumptuous demagogue,” &c. Thus en- couraged, Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, that terrible radical, declared that he “should be grievously disappointed if within ten days from this time Old Ben Wade would not be performing the functions of President of the United States.” “There was but one single issue to be tried, and upon this the President himself had fur- nished all the evidence necessary to his con- viction.” The impeachment, then, is to be hurried through ; but we shall be “very much disap- pointed” if Mr. Ingersoll’s expectations are realized. Stanton bimself stands committed asa constitutional adviser of the President against this T-nure of Office law as an uncon- stitutional act. Some of the clearest heads of the Senate on the republican side have expressed their doubts concerning it. But before this impending indictment from the House can be pushed through the Senate the people will be apt to enter into the general argument before the court. The New Hampshire election (10th of March) is too far off. There is no time to be lost, and from the visible and universal commotion among the people of this metropo- lis the public mind is fully impressed with the dangers of the crisis and the necessity of immediate action. How? Through the only available constitutional method left the people, of immense muss meetings, bere, there and everywhere, and of earnest and emphatic reso- lutions against this impeachment and all the otber revolutionary measures and tendencies of this radical Congress. The city otf New York, which gave, in her memorable Union square mass meeting of April, 1861, the grand impulse to the war for the Union which saved Baptist church on “Evang the City."” A meting of the committee of the convention of Irish societies appointed somo short time since to pro- ceed to Washington and deliver to the President certain resolations adopted by the convention touching the vexed question of the rights of materslized citizens was yesterday afternoon preiiminary to proceeding to carry out this onject; but, upon the suggestion of the chairroap, Judge Michael Connolly, adjourned, i of the Union from dissolution—this imperial city, we say, should, as she doubtless will in thia crisis, lead off in another initial popular upris- ing in behalf of the constitution againat » consolidated despotism. United States government to-day? Is it the she important events mow transpiring, of a nature ao momentous as would reasonably be supposed to engross the entire time of the Executive. When quiet ts re- stored the committee will discbarge its mission. A Gorman who was committed to the Fourth District Court Prison op Saturday, for alleged petty larceny, at- tompted to cominit avicide in his cell during the night so a fit of despondency disgrace, He was for- tunately provented by the keepor. ‘fhe Missourt Radical State Convention held its session at St, Louis on Saturday and elected delegates to ibe Republican Presidential Convention, Resotutions were adopted deciaring Congress to be vestod with sovereign political pow the representative of the poop noaveing , on doctrine of the European Powers and ng the nomination of Ge: Resolutions expressing sympathy and co-operation with Congross, stanton and Grant in the preset \mbroglio were telegraphed to Secretary Stanton, A grand democratic banquet was given at the South orn Hotel, in St Louis, on Saturday in commemora- twa of Washington's Birthday, ‘the horse Empire State, which was ¢riveo from xhton to Worcester, Mass., on Saturday In two ho ui bwouty-four minutes, died op Saturday night. to Rhode Island Republican Convention met st Providence yesterday, and nominated @ State ticket with Barneide for Governor at the head. General Fiancock, having beon officially Informed by the Governor and Treasurer of Lousiana that the Onan. oes of the St © so completely exhausted that the kept rum hing, yestorday istucd an order directing that Nconse and revenue dues and taxes be hereafter paid in United States loge! tender notes, the revenues thus collected to Presidential office of Washington, or Jackson, or Lincoln? No! down by Congress almost to nothing. The Prexident is snubbed by his military subordi- nates, his orders are openly defied and resisted by one of his Cabinet “officers, forced upon him by the Senate, and his military inferiors, through his civil iuferiors, ignoring him as @ nonentity, communicate directly their official proceedings to the two houses of Congress. Various bills are pending to make the Supreme Court equally powerless against any law of Congress, however fla- grantly unconstitutional, or to make this depar'- went 8 convenient instrument of the dominant party in Congress, With these things before us surely we have notbing to expect bul revolutionary measures of a bolder character with the removal of President Johnson; for then ® bare majority of each house will be sufficient for the radical programme of Presi: dent Wade and Senator Sumner—a programme which unquestionably involves the extension | of universal negro suffrage over all the United | States by act of Congress. Yet, again, if the friends of General Grant desire to agsist in shelving bim as a Presiden- tial candidate, and in the substitution of Mr. Chase for the succewion, they have only to ‘ve applied to the payment of Stale ollicers and for other purposes, A large meeting was held in St, Jobos, on the 6th inst, to protest against confoederi Cavada A fire occurred at Albany yesterday, invelving « loss estimated at $146,000, The Kentucky Democratic Convention met at Frank- fort on Saturaay and renom 4 J, W. Stevenson for Governor, Mesolations opted favoring George A, Poudieton for next Pi assist in thia radical design of the removal of President Johnson. in this view of the sub- ject there fs still ® prospect in the Senate for the defeat of this design. In-any event, as Andrew Johnson will come out of this conflict with the constitution upon his side, we do not look for the consammation of the projected radical revolution, but for another revolution What is the Executive Department of the | It has been already cus | If | ness to accept the appointment if it shall be confirmed by the Senate. The Senate, however, in its present mood is unlikely to confirm any appointment unless Mr. Stanton himself shall have the grace to cut the Gordian knot by resigning. Numerous visitors at the White House and at the War Office, as well as numerous telegrams from all parts of the country, encourage and exhort the President on the one hand and Mr. Stanton on the other, in the suggestive lan- guage of Mr. Sumner, to “ stick.” Mr. Stanton was yesterday still entrenched at the War Office, but it was thought he might be tempted to pass Sunday evening quietly at home. Mr. Johnson appears to be steadfast in his purpose of bringing the questions at issue to a peaceable decision before the courts, by which decision he wishes to abide. Meanwhile the impeachment programme— thanks to the unanimity of the republican Representatives in Congress—bids fair to be entered upon at once. But who can foretell when or how it will end? It is said that the President will be detended by Attorney General Staubery, Judge Black and Charles O'Conor. Notwithstanding all the excitement in Wash- ington and throughout (he country on account of the events of the past few days, there need be little apprehension that the conflict of au- thority at the capital will result in anything but 8 mere legal struggle. Tho Latest News frem Mexico. The special telegram from Havana which we published yesterday, and which brought us our latest news from Mexico (up to the 16th instan() mentions the purchase by tho Mcexicafi | government of one bundred and seventy thou- | sand dollars’ worth of English convention bonds and three hundred and seventeen thou- sand dollars of the debt at thirteen cents; the upsetting of the coach of General Porfirio Diag “by some heartless scamp,” the General being seriously wounded by the fall; the arrival of General Sanchez Ochoa at the capital and the departure of General Sturm for New York ; the funeral of ex-President Comontfort on the 10th instant at the city of Mexico; the report on the finances by Minister Romero ; the pay- ment of three hundred dollars apiece to the members of the American Legion of Honor, “who are leaving the capital singly,” after long and patiently waiting to be compensated for fighting in behalf of Juarez, like the old Crom- wellian legion in the French army ; the discus- sion in Congress about the punishment of traitors; the serious proportions assumed by the revolution in the State of Sinaloa, where the rebels number two thousand five hundred ; the expected alliance between Placido Vega and the Indian General Lozada ; the rumors that General Negrete is quiet, but that General Noriega is rampant ; and, last, but by no means lenst, the sensation excited for a week by “false reports, originated at the capital, that the New Yore Hexaup advocated the partial annexation of Mexico to the United States.” Now, we have not advocated the annexation of Mexico, partial or entire, or any other line of policy of that kind. We have only taken the pains to collect and publish all the facts that Indicate the drift of events, and to fore- shadow the probable consequences ; and we | have not hesitated to say, in view of these facts, that if the Mexicans, atter forty years of revolutionary confusion, fail to take care of themselves, they must be taken care of And as wo have evinced our determination to resist all European interference with their affairs, their failure, after full and fair opportunity to make the experiment of self- | government, must involve the necessity of interference qo our own part. If the Mexican Congress persist in wasting time in duscussing | | | | the question of punishing traitors, and if it sur | pass oar own Congress in delaying reconstrac- | tion—it the Mexican people utterly fail to | suppress the revolutions which are “rampant” j at half adozen points within their territory, | and to develop the incalculable resources with which nature has endowed il, we cannot seo what is to prevent the ultimate necessity of | their submission to “manifest destiny,” for their own rake and for the sake of public opinion and civilization throughout the world, But, aa wo have repeatedly said, wo desira that Mexico should enjoy a fall and fair opportunity of trying the experiment of self-government. If, unhappily, the experiment should prove un- successful—end the prospect of success does not at present appear flattering—annexation, partial or entire, to the United States might eventually prove as advantageous to the Mexican people as to ourselves, their nearest neighbors, A Drewat. Day ror Tire Wats, Srnemt Game pisns.—Last Saturday, being a national holi- day, and no opportunity offering for gambling, shystering and speculating on the strength of the exciting news from Washington, was » most rt at the ballot boxes im the fall elections, which | dismal day for the Wall street people, How (he souooner Lizae ¥, Choate, of Gloucester, from | will demolish the radical faction and suve the | fervently they must have blessed the momory | solf-expatriation. of Washington, the anniversary of whose birth spoiled all their chances for making a good thing out of the rumors of revolution and all kinds of trouble in the national capital! It was a distressing day never to be forgotten— a dies non in kiteflying, gambling and all the other ups gnd downs of Wall street life. While flags were flaunting in the winter air from the tops of public and private buildings, and people were keeping the festival with patriotic ardor, all was blank in the Wall street lottery. Not a dollar changed bands there, ‘The Horse Dinoer in London. In another place in this day’s Hzratp we print a letter from the pen of our special cor respondent in London. The letter contains many interesting items of intelligence To most of our readers it will be interesting from the account which it gives of the fumous horse dinner which was given at the Langham Hotel, London, on Thursday, the 6th instant. It is, after the fuss at Washington, the latest and most startling novelty. For 4 full account of the dinner we refer the reader to the letter of our correspondent. Covers were laid for one hundred and fifty persons, Three horses had been slaughtered for the occasion. One of the animals was an old white cart horse, aged twenty-two years. The second was @ young brown cart horse, aged four years. The third had been a cele- brity, had run ina brougham, had been reck- oned the best stepper in LonJon, and had at one time changed hands for seven hundred guineas. These, as will be soen from the bill of fare which we print elsewhere, wore cooked aft-r the most approved fashion, and served up in great variety of style. It is not recorded that any of the one hundred and fifty guests were enthusiastic in their admiration of the horse flesh ; but neither is it recorded that any of them were particu- larly disgusted. On tho whole, judging from the opinions expressed in the London papers, the experiment was reasonably successful. We are not convinced that horse flesh is at all likely at an early day to becom» popular as an article of food in London ; but it is something that prejudice against it hus so tar been suc- cessfully overcome. It isa noteworthy fact that there are now in Paris twenty-three butchers’ shops at which nothing but horse flesh is sold. There is no reason known to us why horse flesh should not be as much in demand in Lon- don or New York asin Paris. It is sold, of course, at a price much below that of beef, and if on fair trial it be found to be a» nutri- tious and palatable article of food prejudice must yield in its favor. It is rather a curious circumstance--to ex- plain it we pretend not—that the flesh of the twenty-two year old horse was quite as pala- table as that of its younger rival. Twenty- two years of service, backed up by so many pounds avoirdupois of good, wholesome meat, ig an economical reason not to be lightly esteemed. In the evont of horse flesh becoming popular it will not be necessary to Go more than convert to food that which is annually destroyad. Strong sus- picion has long existed that horse has been @ common article of food in some of the very best restaurants in Paris. The suspicion is not discouraged by the fact that at the London dinner the feeling was gene-al that the meat had a singularly Parisian flavor. On the whole, perhaps, we ought to be thankful for this fresh att-mpt to increase the luxuries of life. It is quite possible that by yielding to absurd prejudices we are depriving ourselves of much that is really valuable in the shape of animal food. The Chinese have a liking for dog flesh and do not despise a well cooked rat. Some of our readers w.ll remen- ber bow happily Fremont dined on the summit of the Sierra Nevada on mule and dog soup. It is by no means certain that we are fully aware ofall the good ®iat exists around us. We published yesterday a full and accurate review of the shipping interest of ths United States, and particularly of New York, its Southern, Californian, European, East Indian and Australian trade, with statistics as to the articles of exportation, the wages of seamen, the number and nationality of vessels em- ployed, &c. The salient point of this review is the startling proof which it furnishes of the fact repeatedly presen‘ed by the Hsratp, that unless the United States are willing to yield the supremacy of the seas to foreign nations, efforts, combined and decisive, must at once be made by American merchants and capitalists to resist the monopoly by those nations of the ocean trade. Similar proof is lik-wise sup- plied incidentally by the sad picture of the decay of American commercial interests in the Levant exhibited in the letters which we yes- terday published from our special correspond- ent at Constantinople. The American marine flag is described as being actively superseded by the English. “The trim, rakish American barks that formerly gladdened the eyes of the Yankee wanderer ia the Levant are now super- seded by the huge British screw steamer.” Is itnot high time that we should organize well equipped lines of screw steamers of our own and compete again with foreign nations for the supremacy of the seas? Press AND THe Ricuts or American Crri- zens.—President Johnson’s administration will be historically memorable tor a decisive diplo- matic victory which deeply concerns the mil- lions of our naturalized American citizens. The special Berlin telegram to the Hrratp which we published yesterday proclaimed this victory as the result of negotiations with which the Hon. George Bancroft, United States Minister to Prussia, has lately been occupied. Bismarck has given fresh proof of his bigh qualities as a statesman by hastening the ac- ceptance by the authorities of Prussia and the North German Bund of a treaty which secures the full recognition of the rights claimed by the government at Washington in behalf of sll Germans who havo beon duly naturalized and who have resided five years in the territory of our great republic, We yesterday dwelt at length upon the immense advantages of thie treaty and upon the fact that it must neces- sarily induce all other foreign governments to follow the example of Prussia as a leading European Power. That Great Britain may be the first to do this is perhaps foreshadowed by the notice, which, according to the cable tele- gram to-day, has been given by Mr. William Fouster, of Bradford, that on the 28th inst. he will bring forward in Parliament the queation of the naturalization laws and the rights of The National Democratic Convention and the ‘Black Crook.” The National Democratic Committee which has recently been sitting in Washington de- cided to hold the nominating convention on the Fourth of July in the city of New York. The democratic candidate for the Presidency will, therefore, be chosen in the metropolis of the country, to the exclusion of Philadelphia, Cincinnati and all the other small towns that aspired to that privilege, This is well. New York is just the place for the convention. The “Black Crook,” the Park and the negro min- strels, to say nothing of tho rival operas, will attract people from the four quarters of the Continent who would not go to any other city to attend a political convention. Thousands of folks will flock here, not so much to make a nomination as to indulge, under the pretext of political business, in the pleasures and dissipa- tions of the city, The theatres will be swarmed, the Park fairly overflowed with visitors, and even the station houses may reap their share of patronage. Not less than half a million of dollars will be expended among the hotel keepers, saloons, dry goods merchants, illustrated “Black Crook” newspapers and managers during the halcyon days when the convention is in session, and there will be good tim: generally both for the metropolis and its country visitors, We commend the National Democratic Com- mittee for their wisdom both in the selection of locality and time. No doubt the inspira- tion of the Fourth of July will guide the con- ventionists in their choice of a candidate, and the seductions of city life will wean even the Western delegates from their Pendletonian propensities, and they will probably go with the tide ot general popular feeling in the con- vention, wha‘ever that may be, as gently as sucking doves, What with the Democratic Convention, the military display and the fire- works, we shall have an explosive time on the next glorious Fourth in the city. The Removal of the Nationn! Capital—Sig- nificant Vote in Congress. A resolution to remove the seat of govern- ment from Washington to the valley of the Mississippi was recently submitted to the House of Representatives by Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin. It was voted on and rejected; but it is a significant fact that seventy-seven mem- bers voted for it and that it was lost only by majority of twenty against it. The Western people and their representatives in Congress have for some time past manifested a desire to remove the capital to their section of country. They believe, with good reason, that the star of empire tends westward, and that the vast and rich valley of the Mississippi must become the seat of our republican empire. Their pride and ambition as well as thoir con- venience have inspired the wish to have the seat of government where the majorily of the population and power will be located. There is, too, a manifest purpose to oarry out this object. This is seen plainly in the seventy- seven votes for the removal of the capital: The question is, then, looking at this significant vote and at the rapid growth of the West, bow long will it be before’ that section of the country will have members and Senators enough in Congress to pass a bill for this pur- pose? Not many years, certainly, if the West be resolved to have it so and other consider- ations should not influence Western members.- Some might think that the cogt and value of the public buildings in Washington will have weight in preventing the removal of the capi- tal. A hundred millions have been spent from first to last, probably, on the public buildings and improvements in Washington. But what is that to a great and rich nation? It is hardly & fifth of one year’s income of the govera- ment at the present time. In forty years or less there will be in all probability a hundred millions of people in the United States, and sixty millions of these in the valley of the Mississippi. Of what consequence will be a hundred millions of dollars to such a nation? Still it might seem to be a pity to abandon the magnificent structures at Washington to the bats and owls and to turn the city over to desolation; for that would be the end, as Washington has nothing to sustain it but the government. Asa people, too, we have little veneration for the past or ‘historical associa- tions. Washington will not be retained as the seat of government because of its name, because it was established by the fathers or because of its historical associations, But the question arises, what necessity is there or will there be for removing the seat of government? Railroads and telegraphs have annihilated space. It takes but two days to go from St Louis to Washington, and it will not be long before we sball be able to cross the Continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific in four or five days. Then the government, wherever located—at Washington or in the valley of the Mississippi— will be in instant communication with every part of the republic by means of the magnetio telegraph. Besides, the States on the Atlantio side of the Alleghanies will always be popu- lous and of great importance. New York is and must continue to be the commercial and financial metropolis, and it, with the other mighty cities skirting the Atlantic are inter- ested in baving the capital near them. The trade, ideas and civilization of Europe pass through us, and it is of some importance to the government to be in convenient coniact with the rest of the civilized world. Looking at the matter in every point of view, then, we see no necessity for the removal of the seat of government to the valley of the Mississippi, but rather an in- convenience or injury by its comparative iso- lation in that section. It was placed where it is with a view partly to keep Congress and the administration away from the influences and excitements of a great or turbulent popu- lation ; and if this idea be abandoned in our pro- gress toward centralization and arbitrary rale, let New York, the motropolis of the country, be also the seat of government, But we think the Western Congresemen had better let the capital alone, and confine themselves to pre- serving the constitution, and to giving as a good and cheap government. Tur Rist or Gorv.—Wall sireet, of course, shared and io a certain degree indicated the general ‘excitement of last week’s nows from Washlagton. The rise of gold, however, was notso considerable as might have been teipated. In fact, the fluctuations of the monoy inarket are nowadays so dependent on the wholly speculative natura of its transac- tions as no longer to offer an woerring test of Public sentiment, Wall street is not now the pulse of the body politic. The rise of gold Portends no very serious immediate results from the crisis at Washington. The fresh fuss among the politicians is but part and parcel of the scramble for the glittering Presidential prize. The slight rise of gold is only spas- modic. It merely betokens the eagerness of speculators to profit by the confusion and fury of partisan strife, and honest citizens need not be alarmed. Politicians and speculators are, after all, but buzzing flies on the wheel; they can neither turn nor stop it, Our na- tional prosperity wil! roll on independently of them all. Tue Rivat Oreras.—To-night the new Pike- Harrison combination management reopens Pike’s Opera House with “Norma,” and to-morrow night the La Grange-Brignoli- Strakosch troupe will present the same grand work at the Academy of Music. While wo are intent upon this operatic battle of the frogs and mice, and may be as indiffer- ent to the result as the woman whose husband and the bear were engaged in deadly conflict, we must not forget the Young America Opera Company, whose ambition soars like the Amer- ican eagle on Murray Hill. It is unfortunate that this aspiring company is somewhat nipped for want of funds to pay their license. If we are to train prime donne tor all the world it will never do to let our young singers, who are really ciever artists and gifted with super- fine voices, pine in solitude for want of the paltry sum required to pay for a license. Tho generos'ty of the city should come to the res- cue. If we are able to support two grand rival opera houses why should we not give a lift to a third one with much more modest pretensions? BROCKL’ INTELLIGENCE, ANNUAL Meettvo or THs BROOKLYN Ixstrrota—There was a numerous attendence of persons at the Brooklya Institute on Saturday evening, the occasion being tbe annual meeting and distribution of premiums to the pupils of the free classes of the Academy of Design Mr, P. G. Taylor presided and introduced the Rev. A. M, Gallaver, who delivered » glowing elogium on the life and character uf Sa johnson. Upon the con- clusion of tho oration the annual report of the managers of the Imsututo was read, showing that there were 638 readers in atuendance during the past year, Of tte number there were 370 boys and 258 girls, “Two ban~ dred aod tov volumes bave been added to tho library ‘and the number is continually increasing. There have been 83 pupils in aitevdance in the elementary class of drawing and 18 in the «rcaitectural class, in both of which classes marked improvement bas been made by thom. Tue institution tas an endowment fund of $32,000, the incume of which is devoted to the mainte- naoce of the drawing school and library, During the past year $20,000 nas been expended on improvements wo the building Master H. G. Hart was thea called tor- ward to the rostrum and presented with a bandsome gold medal for his proficieacy ta art. Hovorable menuoa waa made of Miss Lizzie Eider, Miss Amanda Pruyn, &. S. Hammond, P. G. Tayior, W. D. Judue, F. Poni, pupils, for their respective attainments in t! tary aud arcuitectural classes, The audience then pro- Ceéded up stairs, where the paintings and drawings of the Academy of Design were exaibited, AStreat Row.—The quiet of the night was disturbed, between two and three o'clock, by an altercation which occurred between two young mea in Fulton street, near Sands, The dispufants were William J. Boll and Ricbare Cahill, the former bating struck, as alleged, Cahill, who drew @ pistol and fired two ebots into the air, tor the purpose midating bis antagonist. ihe report of the firearms vrougbt olficer Smith, of the Forty-second pteciuct, to the scene of the encounter aud led to the ho were taken to and battery, and ( al the city ordinances. ARRgst on Sosriciox.—A new building in Warren street, near Fourth avenue, was robbed of carpenters’ tools valued at $80 on Friday night last, and om Satur- day a young man named James Gallagher was arrested jag stolen the property iu question. ignod before Justice Buckiey and amnation, ALLEGED: EZZLEMENT.—Two men, named Samuel M. Bowen and Isaac D. Bowen, father and eon, were ar- rested by detectives Corwin and Van Waguor yesterday Their mode of opera- on suspicion of private residence and inquire 7 clocks in need of repair, and if they wore permitted to set them in order they would execute the work im such &@ manner as to require their early attention to regulate the works. A day or two subsequently one or either of the men would call again and bring away the clock te completo the repairs necessary. [hs would be the ii seen of the clock by those who entrusted it to the keep- ing of the clockmakers in question. Severai of those missing articles have been recovered, one of which is worth $75, and parties who been duped in this fice of Police Inspector y identify the prisoners. The actual extent of these operations is, of course, unknown. ¥xeoug Tas Poor,—The Eastern District Young Men's Christian Association yesterday morning furnished soventy.five destitute persons with breakfast at Hamil- Fifth and Fourth streets, E. D. Many’ of those entertained lodged at houses during the night previous, Unrro > AssauLt.—Mr. Charles B. Smith, of 64 South treet, E. D., was assaulted while about entering bis residence at an carly hour yesterday mora- ing by three mep, who were stan there, and beates: © ucliy tor no assign d reason. His cries brought efoer Fiske, of the Forty-Gtth precinct, to nie asst aod two of bis assailants were arrested and locked up. Their names are fhomas and Jobo Sewall, brothers, Ur, Smith was severely beaten about the head. Darowsino Cascatry.—Jobo Stapleton, while going on board a sloop at the foot of North Sixth atreet, E D., about two o'clock yesterday morning, accidentally felt inte the river and was drowned, The body was shorty afterwards recovered and the Coroner notified. De coased was a resident of Hudsos, N. Y. BOOK NOTICE. Urren Mrssissirrt; on, Historicat Sxercrss or tas Mounp Buitpexs, THK INDIAN TRIBES AND Tae Prooasss oF Civitization 1x TeR Nogtu- wxst rxom 1600 ro THE Puesent Time, B George Gale. - Chicage: Clarke & Co., and Oakiey & Mason, New York. ‘The country which was known to the Catholic Mis. sionaries and Freveb traders two hendred years ago as Upper Louisiana we now call the Upper Mississippi, or, im more common parlance, the great Northwest, With the exception of the Indians of Fiorida and Texas, per. haps, the tribes of red men most hostile and difficult to manage, as they were decidedly most numerous, fobabited this vast region of country, and have descended to us a2 & Very unweicome leracy, which, like the sacred elephant of Siam, we are mot permitted to destroy and are not able. to take care of. At the present day we aro more occupied with considering what we shall de wih the In- dians—how govern them, satisfy thom, civil speculative pbilosopay or maudlin philaathrophy coa- cerning this mysterious and troublesome race, Romance bas linked thom ip the chain ef interest which holds us te the past of our country, and sentimentaliem still the imaginary hero of the forest. Our grostest ist hag woven #0 delic & tissue of postio fiction about the red man that break through it; but the Indism Bureau and its agents bare demonstrated that Cningachook could steal blankets and drink whiskey, avd that Uncas, last of the Moaicana,’’ was probably not at young maa, As to “Laatherstock in, be abie to show that he was & contractor nt contraband engaged in supplying “fre water’? to the worshippers of Mantwo, as tho rascaily traderm do im our day, and keep our goverament ia perpotund about thece Indian ‘This book gives us a very detail Indian tribes for the past two centuries, Catholic and Protestant missions unde f Christianvaing and clvilizing thom. It reverte 10 the curious hisory of & race anterior to the red beads, and stone axes aud h gaily Saished pr a other evidences of the existence of a community oa (hia continent long before the present f pied their beoting grounds. Those temples of worshiv or burial places, t most hkety, and are very numerous. Ob te ant Wiscom hoy Humber ten thour each State, @hile they ettil more lorgety found in ihe Souttern portion of the contineut The stud, Gian tribes is not exhausced, and this isaieaippi’” ie appropriately com origin and progress of (he State in, Wiscomnia ‘ilinois, and the etbor slates aad Territories of recemt birte, *