The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. XML. ..crccrreerecceescnerereree Ne. 56 aMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Pasa: ov Bavor. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Tas Waite Fawn. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourieenth street.—Noae WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Lith sireet.— Panne. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau, BOWERE THEATRE. Bowery.—Rowuanv~New Foor. man. NEW YORK THEATRE, ovposite New York Hlotel.= Mosopr's Daccuter., FRENCH THBATR! BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. Broad. way and WL st.—Kounumaps anv Cavateens. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtocath atrect,~Gruxastics, Rquastaianise, ac. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Hroidway.—Haxioy Comat: MATION TKOUPE AND Miniarone Cincus. KELLY & LEON’ Dancys, Ecoentaicsn 720 Broadway, Sones, Doren "3. S Broadway. —Ermro- SAN FRANCISCO MINSPRELS, DANeiNa ax BURLasQuES, rian ExTextainMents, 54. TONY PASTOR": O. MOUSE, 201 Bowory.—Cosio VocaLism, Neano Mins &c. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, Baier, Fance, Pantowime, ac. 673 Broadway.— BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fiftoenth streot.—Traa Piromm. DODWORTH BALL. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooktyn.— Littis Barcroor. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Willameburg.—Insaa- voous—Janxy Lixp, NEW 1 YORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— axp Ant. New York, Tiesday, February 25, 1868. THE NEWS. EUROPE. By epecial telegram dated in St. Petersburg on the 234 of Febt y we learn that the Kuasian Admiral serving in the Grecian Archipelago demanded the Porte government to authenticate or disavow ceriain news- paper reporiz circulated in Turkey to the effect that the off cors of the Czar bad afforded aid to (he Crotan iusur- gents, The Graud Vizier replied that the oilicial de- “patches of the Turkwh Admiral contained no such hi nd that the mewspap2re were to blame, The news report by tue Alleatic cable is dated tom o'clock last night, February 24, Earls Russell aod Grey advocated a fravchise and Charch reform tor Ireiaud during the baveas eorpus suspension debate, Rev, Mr. Spoke, the “missing cler- eymao,"’ has been found in Jondon, 1): reited debate on the ch presa law the of the Legisiative body deciared 1! siting clo The iberais refused to rotire, and were finally expelled from the hall by the officers, Console, 92% a 93 In London, London and 75 in Frankfort, Five-twentios, 715 in Cotton dull, with middiing uplands at 93,4, Breads stuffs quiet’ Provisions umchaaged. Produce geuerally dull, By the steamship Hausa, at this port, wo have au tatorosting tail report in detail of our esble despatches to the 1isv of February. CONGRESS. In tho Senate yestorday the bill to reg the pre- sentation of Dilis to ihe Pres tand the returu there. of was debated, but wilhuut voting was tail anide to permit of dixcussion on the Reconsirvction bill, Mr. Doolittle made bis speech upon the latter moasura, A communication was received from the President reia- tive to the resolution declaring it illegal for him to re. move Secretary S.anton. It will be found iu full else. ¢ Honse the session of Saturday wos continued untii noon, The impeachment resolution presented by the committee on Saturday afternoon was Clecussed ab great temcth and very generally, Mr. Sievene closing de- bate. The vote was then taken and the resolution was adopted by 120 yeas to 47 nave, Revolutions were also adopted appointing 2 commitiee of tro to wait on tho Senate and formally impouch the Previgont, and a com- mittee of seven to prepare ariicles o: impeachment, The committees wore appuinted. The Grst consis! of Mr. Stevens and Mr. Hingham and the Iatter of Boutwell, Bingham, Stevens, Wilson, Logan, Julian and Ward THE CITY. In the Hoard of Councilmen yesterday # commanica- low war received irom the Mayor vetoing tho resolution for printing 15,000 copies of the Corporation Manual. The Legisiative cominittee concluded taking testimony Yolative (o the mangement of affairs iw the city Fire Department yesterday avd edjourned, Superintendent MeGregor yesterday served no on alarge number of tenement house owners to provido fire escapes to their buildings end comply with otner Tegulations in referenc® to that class of dwelling houses An explosion occurred in @ distillery on East Twelfin street yesterday, forcing out the side of the buildiog and knocking down tue front A tevement house in the rear was demolied by the Dut alibough thore were us in the building at the time wo one was ihjuret Argument was to have Deviin cave fora nev trial, im the Unit Court, -outhera Dasiricl, yesterday, ¢ for Lcwring ©» Scturday moxt. An application wns made at gonoral term of the Su preme Court yesterday for an order to alow case au appeal should aot be allowed from the order of Judge Baroard, at special term, sustatning the verification, on information aad belief, of the petition tor the resuowal of Daniel Drew. The case will be heard on Friday. Under a decision of the Supreme Court, general teria, rendered yesterday, Duff, the receiver of the Olympio theatre, is required to give bonas in the sum of $100,000 \tuful performance of his duties and furaish He was formorly under bia own recog. vizance in the cura of $50,000, The Hamburg American Packet Company’ s steamship Cimbria, Captain Trautwann, will leave Hoboken to-day (Tuesday) at two P. M. for Hamburg, via Southampton, The European mails will ciose at the Post Office at twelve M. The Anchor Mne steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, will sail from pier 20 North river, on Wednesday, 20th inst, at twelve M, with passengers for Liverpool and Glasgow. ‘The stock market was weak and unsettied yesterday, ment securities were hoary, Gold fuctuated 144 to 14344, closing at 1425. MISCELLANEOUS. The excitement in Washingtom over the War Oitice difficulty was increased, ossible, by the patsage of the itnpenchment rea yesterday, General Thomas again demanded the surrender of the office by Secretary Stanton, but was again refueed and in turn ordered to his duties ju the Adjutant General's Department. This ho refused to obey. No writ of quo warrants bas yes deen issued. The somination of Mr, Ewing to bo Sec. retary of War was referred by the Sen to the Com. mittee on M litary Affairs, The President bold a levee during the day, which was more iargely attended than any previous ove, Bur special telegrams by the Gulf cable contain news from Mexico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, 8!. Domingo and Cuba Another battiehad bee fought in Yucatan in which the rebels were defeated. The people of st Croix ‘were ac xious lor aQUORAHOD (9 HO United Siates, ands Fevolulom wee (hreatened if they falled in their object. An editor Lad veen arrested for circulating @ petition for annexation. The Monongahela again on the Ist The Rio Janeiro mail steamer Morrimac was over duo, President Cabral, of et. Do+ minyo, bad fled to Venegu with bis Cabicet, The southern forces had entered the capital, Thirty deatha # Uay Wore caused by cholers in S, Domingo city, tdown _———————— 1 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1868.~TRIPLE SHEET. Te the Constitutional Comvention yesterday Judge Harris was appointed President pro tem. in the absence of Mr Wheeler, The jourmal of Friday was read, and the Convention adjourned. 1s she Mississippi Convention yesterday the negro deorkoeper charged a white member with attacking him ene attempting to rob bim. ‘Tbe new constitution was adopted by the Florida Coa- Veution yesterday, @nd will be submitted to the people on the 6th, 7b and 8th of April, The New lutions bw difica:ty with Stant Congress. 4 demooratie meeting was held in tho Fourth ward ia Philadelphia yesterday, anda resolution was offered to proceed under arms to Wasbington im bohaif of the Pre sident, Dut it produced considerable confusion and the meeting dispersed. in Dunkirk on Sunday night which Cestroyed twenty-three butldiogs, The loss is estimated ‘1 $50 000. The confederation repeal resolutions were adopted tn the Nova Scotia Parlamont and sent to the Governor for transmission to the Queen. The Quebeo Parliament was prorogued yesterday. Ado: ent Resolution Congress. At five o’clock yesterday afternoon the reso- lution impeaching the President of the United Slates for certain high crimes and misde- meanors (which were declared by Old Thad Stevens to be of a purely political character) was adopted in the House of Represe.tatives by @ party vote of 126 to 47. Our despatches | state that there was no excitement nor demon- strations whatsocver in the House when the vote was declared, although the floor and gal- leries were crowded, In the hotcls and bar- room: of Washington, however, gossip ran high; “revolution” was rampant; wars and rumors of wars ran over the brim of every glass. ‘The Grand Army of the Republic, a hundred thousand stronz, and the militia of Mairylan}, ten thousand strong, were prepared to march up the hill and then—march down again. Andrew Johnaon, we are assured, was the most | complacent and smiling gentlema in Wask- ington upon receiving the news. If reyolu- tion, bloodshed and violence were likely to follow this action of the radical majority it would be serious matter; but as it is only one of the preliminaries of the Presidential campaign overybody can afford to amile as The only parties who appear to be really alarmed broadly as Andrew Johnson is said to do. about the matter are the radicals themselves. They have raised a ghost and are fearfully perplexed about how they are to liy him. Thad Stevens introduced two resolutions involving the programme of indictment, one appointing a committee of two to notify the Senate, “in the name of the House and the American people, that they impeach Audrew Johnson of high crimes aud misdemeanors,” and another appointing a commiites of seven to report articles of impeachment against the said Andrew Johnson and clothed with power to take testimony on oath, send for persons and pap2ra, and so forth. How long it will tako to frame this bill of indictment it is im- possible to say. The Impeachment Comumi'- tee may have all the materiul ready, and the Senate may find no obstacle in their way to the completion of the business except it be the will and judgment of an_ intelligent people—a rather serious obatacle—which they will not probably feel it advisable to oppose. Unsettied Condition of Affairs All Around. The condition of things in every quarter and every department of this terrestrial molg hill of ours is becoming terribly muddled and un- settled. In fact, the globe has tat ‘ly been re- duced to the condition of the witches’ caul- dron in “ Macbeth :”— Double, doudle, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron buchio, Earthquakes, cyclones, inundations, voleanic eruptions and other alarming sigus and won- ders convulse the physical, political, relicious and operatic worlds, Here @ hurvicane and an earthquake bold grand juoilee over the unfortunate island of St. Thomas, and perplex not only the biped natives bu even the rais, which find it impos sible to keep the bearings of their own holes. On the other side of the Now World the bears and tawny natives of our new Rus- sian purchase, Alaska, have experiencd the t nder mercies of @ fearful cyclone that swepi up the Pacific Ocean iuto the region of ice- bergs; and on the Asiatic coast the anavol monggon, increased to the propordons of a eyclone, devastated city, village and country, Inundations in India and China have swept away erowds of the luckless inhabitants, and | on the Mediterranean Vesuvius has been boi!- ing over, like released champagne, ia the most unseemly manner. Tho latest phase of this unsettled condition | of nature is tho complete destraction and dis- appearance of the great breakwater at Holy- head, ina tremendous gale that prevailod on the coast of Eagland and Wales on Sunday last. A storm that could sweep away o mas- sive stone pier nine hundred fect lony may well be clacsed with those that devastated the West Indies, Alaska, India, Clina and Japan. The political Armament is also clouded, aad, as far us noisy words go, war, pestilence, earti- quakes and cyclones are around the War De- partment in Washing'on. In the religious world (he Tyngs are at loggerbeads with cer- tain dign.taries of the Church, and the contest ig at its height, But the greatest trouble at presont with us {a in the operatic world. A complete revolu- tion haa taken place. Maretzek has forsaken the old Bourbon dynasty of the Academy and espoused the cause of the now ove at Pike's, | | # 10 be Isunched | on either side meet at the French ¢ and Strakosch may be found, with al! hiv forces, in Irving place. ‘Ihe feelings and tasies of the public towards opera have also been revolu- tioniged. Formerly whey listened to fifth rate singers, and scemed to like them; now they want the genuine art cle and will have no other. This week will be eventful in the history of opera on Manbatiau Island, On one side Pike and Harrison advaace heir mellifiuous legions to the conflict, and on the other § stations Le Grange, Vbillips, b landini in the post of honor, Tho aahereats «te, 98 on state of excitement, and the rival strongholds of Pike and the ono hundred and ninety-nine anda half stockbolders are bristling with Verdi, Donizstti, B-Mini and Gounod batteries. Between St. Thomas, Tyng, Johnson, Stanton, Alaska, Vesuvius, Pike and the Academy, affairs at present are considerabiy muddied and no one can complain of ennui. Deposition of the Provident of the United States—Usurpation of Executive Power by a Revolutionary Directory, Happily for the country, the radical party drives furiously onward to the inevitable goal of self-destruction, Already it has gone so far in appeals to higher law and so-called acces- sity, in deflance of the established order of our government, ag to set aside the President of the United Stutes and turn over his powers to a revolutionary junia, or directory, of which Mr. Stanton is th: uaserapulous bead, In open and consvious difiance of the fact that the President, under the constitution, is the su- preme comminder of our armies, it hag been directed, as if by General Grant, that no part of the army shail respect the President’s order ; and Mr, Stanton holds an executive depart- ment in deflance of the Executive, while obe- dience to the Pxesidon’’s command in the discharge of nocessary duties is become an offence and a cause of incarceration in a jail. Ant this is neither more nor less than usurpa- tion of tho power that resides only in the President under the supreme law, that the supreme law intended should reside in the President, wna of which oniy a certain speci- fie process not yet takea caa deprive bin. And how ant way are these desiructive and dangerous measures of precedent taken? Ta carrying on a couiest initiated to secure the supremacy of a faction Mr. Simnton is the cenire and seed of all the evil, os the tool of the meaner purpos?s of his party. He, tiourh hostile to the policy of the Executive, was deputed to hold his place in the Cabiuct as a spy. Suspended by the Presilent, the Sonite, exercising a doubiful authority, restored him to his place, and tne President, taking higher ground, removed him and appointed his suc- cessor. And now th) President is nol only ignored, but is to be impeached, they sey. Impeachment, a great constitutional process, is to be dragged in as the weapon of tie fuc- tion. Impeachment is invoked, not as a purg- ing process to purify power, not as a means of ass_rting the preservative vitality of tho law, but asa political manceuvre ; for im this case itis nothing else. It is merely the next atep against the President in the fight over Stanton. No offence is charged save one committed unler the Tenure of Offse law against Mr. Stanton, which that law says sha!l be “a high crime.” Is; should be remembered at this moment thit Congress casnot make gen- eral principles. Tho fact that the Tenure ot Office law declares a ceriain thing shall be a high crime does not make it @ high ernne. The high crimes for which tae constitution provides that the Presi- dent shall be impeached are to be ascertained irom the cons iiutional standpo nt; and for Congress to pass laws pretending to define what the constitution means is to ridiculously mistake its place, Cong‘ess might as well declare that to (o3s a copper in the air shall be murder as to svy that to remove a secretary shall be a bigh crime, But it is otherwise said that the President will be impeached for proceeding in violation of a law which comminds him to leave Stan- ton alone. 1: ts declared on all handa, and it is the fashion to deciare, that the President must obey and execute every law that Con- gress passes until the Supreme Court has de- elired it unconstitutionol ; but a notable point against this view is the position lately taken by the repuiican party itself, thit the Supreme Court has no power to declare a law unconstitutio ral, on'y to decide special poiuts in cases, If the Supreme Court has no powr to review a law, a3 republicans declare, then there can be no necessity for the President to wait for the cour! to exercise such power. Hereupon the question will arise whether or not the presumption is in truth always in tavor of the law Is there not ia lawmaking @ cerisin point going beyond which the presumption is (he other way? Aud must not the President, from the nature of his office, be for himself the juige which way the presumption falls? Tuis notion that the Pres:- dent must accept all laws stands on the consti- tutional requirement that he “shall see that sho laws are faithfully executed.” This would equire him to find out what acta are laws; and | it is absolutely and unchangeably true that an sci no! made in conformity with the constitu- don—=Fiib the organic, original principles ofthe government—is not a law, and never becomes & law, and all pro ngs that may be takeu under such an ac are void fro:a the commence- ment. No dovibi is entertained of this by the highest author tie. There remain, thore‘ore, the fact that to remove a Secretary is not and cannot be made a high crime and the high probability that the President has no! done wrong ia obeying the organic law rather than certun act of Con- gress where the iwo wero in conflict No one, in view of our recent history, can supposo that any other than the power of party passion moved the Hous. in its action yesterday. Bul how ia itwith the Senate? I: may not be so widely different ; and thers is no great contl- dence in the country that even that body will raise itself above tl itical tumult and judge the great topic on its morita, Bat beyond thes» loom the masses of the people watching and waiting tor the hour when the bailot boxes shall open. And the ultimate ides in impeach- ment is just this—that from the moment the process really begins it will not he so much Andrew Joknson ov his trial before the high court as the high court on its trial before the people. Ifthe judge is condemned when the criminal is set free, not less does he record the sentence against himself when be finds the in- nocent guilty. Should Congress impeach and remove the Prosideat in only s vindictive and party spirit, shaking the foundation of govern- ment without grandly sufficion’ moral and legal reason shown, its verdict azaiust him will be his glorification and Its own death warrant; for the nation will Snally end this cage at tho polis In a decision neiiber warped nor guided vy the Judgment ond reasoning of this or that Is, but determined by the subtle politienl uct of an int lligent people. Waxtkd at Wasnixotoy kene, to dress neutral ground, and discuss the ola'in: of their | up once more bia improssors of the President reapeciive parties, The “Grand Duchess,’ | and of the Howse of Representatives for bis sandwiched between tho rival “Normay,’ stirs | next issue of Awerican Notes, Where up the emtire operatic publig into au uuwgated | Dickons? The Genscless Sensation and Nolse and Confusion at Washington. There {s « frightful sensation at Washington. All the old women there are hiding their spoons, The very air over that hotbed of political panics seems to be full of “gorgons, bydras and chimeras dire.” Never, since the demoralized tragments of General McDowell's army, like roughs from a prize fight pursued by the police, came streaming over the Long Bridge from the frat Bull Run, with “Bull Rup Russell” at the head of them—never has there been such a commotion as this among the Washington politicians, Comparative quiet pre- vailed when, in 1864, the rebel General Early was thuodering at the very gates of the capi- tal, and comparative calmness on Peanaylvania avenue followed the startling event of Presi- dent Lincoin’s assassination, A great war, with its severe lessons, momentous events and responsibilities, had trained the minds of men for great emergencies; but three years of uneasy peace have placed us again, lo some extent, at the mercy of panic and mischiet making spoils and plunder politicians. And so it appears we are on the brink of another civil war, like that between King and Parlia- ment, and mustering regiments aud squadrons, and camps and fort:fications, and Bomby, guns, drums and batteries, and moving armies ond bloody battles and burning cities, are to be again the order of the day as the final setilemant of this scandalous conflict between President and Coagréss. x But wherefore? The Hous: of Representa- tives has pissed a resolution for the impeach- meat of Andrew Johnson. The Senste wiil probably convict him and remove him upon the charges preferred by the House, and accordingly we are to have a Mexican pronun- ciamicnto and revolution, The Hon, James Brooks his warned the radicals of the dangers involved in this impeachment business in a democratic speech smelling strongly of villa- nous gunpowder. Governor Geary, of Pennu- sylvania, on the other hand, tells Congress to stand firm and not to be frightened, tor, sya he, volunteers for the good cause are coming forward; but still the radicals of the two afraid that Andrew Johnson means to try tho réle of “Oid Noli,” by walking first into the Tfouse and then into the Senate, and turning them all out of doors. Supposing, however, that this terrible Johnson has been dreaming of some such folly, how is he to go about it— this dreadful usurper, Who never led a equadron to the field, Nor the divisions of a battle knows * He must have a general to lead his forces. Where ishe? Grant has disgusted and flouts his superior officer; Sherman declines his honors, and Thomas—not the inoffensive old man badgering Stanton, but th» fighting Thomas—snubs him ; Sheridan is a tearing radi- cal, and Meade has proved a little worse than Pop’. Hancock is left, but it is doubtless teo late evon for Hancock. The President, then, has no fighting general to back him. Where, next, are his soldiers? All bis orders to the regular army must pass through the hands of General Grant. Such is the Jaw. The President, then, has only the men in buckram ot Mr. Brooks to rely upon, and by the time they cau be mustered they Will be no longer wanted. If Mr. Johnson, therefore, with sulphur and saltpetre, were disposed to fight, he is in no position to fight ; and 6o there can oe uo fight with sulphur and saltpetre, But, again, woat is thers to figut about in this needlessly ala ming scramble of the poli- ticians for the next Presidency? Lot us aup- pose that Mr. Johnson is not only impeached by the House, but adjudged guilty and re- moved by the Senate —is there any causy or in- ducement for civil war in this? None wuat- ever. The two houses of Congress are empow- ered in plan ierms by tho constitution to do this thing, and there is uo appeal. Suppose, then, that “Old Ben Wade,” that implacable radicai, is installed in the Wiite House in the place of Andrew Johnson, and th.t under Wade’s administration the whole radical pro- gtamme of revolutionary reconstruction, in all its length and breadch, is carried out, will theve be any otber rescue for the country and constitulion than an appeal to arms? Yes; and right at hand. The constitution has pro- vided the remedy in proviling that, fresh from the people, the House of Representatives shall be clected every two years—the term of each Congress; and has eo arranged it that for each Congress one-third of the Senate shall be elected. In the State elections of next uutumn (with a few exceptious) the members of the House of Ropreseniatives for the Forty-first Congress are io be elected, and tho Legis- latures from which will coms the one-third infusion of new members intuy the Senate, exclusive of the additions to come in from the late rebel Slates. The Senate, under the first two yoars at least of thd next ndminuistration, will doubtless bo radical; but the House of Representatives may be revolutionized in the elections of next tall. Here is the remedy of the people againal the usurpations of Congress. Under this wise precaution of .« new House of Representatives at the cad of every two years he unconstitulional legislation of this Congress may be repevel or rendered inoperative by the nex!; for President and Senate have been and may be largely controlled by an opposi- houses are badly scared. They are evidently | tion majorily, and even by @ strong oppositio: minority in .be Mouse. And yet, again, if ‘in the popular judgment there slali appear an goous degraditioa of the Presidential office by the party in power, the people will have the remedy iu the election in November of the nex! President. We shall have, then, no English civil war nor « Roman social war from this impeachment hubbub—first, because there is and will be no provocation und no necessity for it; secondly, because it takes two parties to make a fight as it takes two to muke @ bargain; and, thirdly, because the remedies aro still in the hands of the people for all revolutionary radical usur- pations of power. Amonz tho reckless dema- gogues and juggling politicians at Washington and elsewhere, among the excited gold gim- blers and stock jobbers of Wall street, and among unscrupulous aud desperate adventa- rers of @ military turn of mind, war may be an iavibing hue ani cry, but lo tho great masy of our internal revenus taxpayers the bucden of twenty-five hundred iittions of national ou | debt, with all its accessories, is quite enougi: for the prevent generation. 80 mugh, thea, for this senseless sensation and noise aud con- fusion at Washington. A Frantic Taumreten—The Chevalier For- is | noy oa the trayk of another Maryland invasion. | with ao rattling accompaniment 1 —— European Affatre—Our Latest News. In the Herato of yesterday we publisted a despatch to the effect that the Indépendance Beige, a paper generally reliable in its viewe of European affaire, is got at all satisfied that the new army arrangements in France are deatgned merely for purposes of national detence. {n the Herato of to-day we publish e epecial cable despatch which tnforms us that the Russian commander in Greek waters bas demanded expl. nations from the Grand Vizier as to the report now prevailing in Turkey, and printed in the Levant Herald, that be was using the Russian fleet for the purpose of aid-' ing the insurgents in Candia, and that the reply has been that no auch complaint has been made by tho Turkish officials ; in other words, that the papers alone are to blame for euch report, At the same time we have it reporied that the le.ter of the Com e de Paris, the head of the house of Orleans and heir presumptive of all the pretensions of the Bourbons, older end younger, in which the relations of France to reconsiructed Germany are canvasacd in a general and truly liberal spirit, is creating quite a sensation taroughout Hurope, but par- ticularly in Frane2 and Germany. 1. is not to be denied that Europe is in a quieter mood at the present moment than she has revealed for the last two or tures years. Sa calm and reassuring, indeed, has been all our recent intelligence that we have had no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that war was not to be dreamed of in the immo- diate future. We do uot say thit our convic- tions are changed; bat when we are told thas one Bourbon is agitating in Rom? for the re- vival of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, that another Bourbon is feeling the pulse of France and endeavoring in a skilful way to set himself and France right before Europe and the world, and that Russia and Turkey are mutually explaining their conduct, we may not ra:hly conclude that dangerous complica- tions, European in the range of their i flu- ence, are impossible. We only state facts when we say that trouble exists in both sec- tions of the Iberian peninaula, that conspiracy is busy in Rome, and that France, with her new army plans, with her new loan, with her new Press law, and with a liberal an! intell:- gent pretender discussing the situation, is in rather a ticklish condition, antl that the E.stern question is not yet sctiled, Combustible ma- terial exisia in sufficient abundance. The application of the match either in the East or in the West or in the South of Exrope would be certain to beget a general conf igra- tion. We cannot, however, say that war is an early probability; but we can as litile say, looking at all the difficulties of the situation, that Europe has settled down into a condivion of permanent repose, Th2 socia: questions, the dynastic ques ions, the internation.sl quea- tions, are at once.too numerous and too serious to warrant this latter conclusion. Sound and Fary, The Chines rely very much upon an ingenious varicty of methods of intimidating the foes whom they aro abou! to encounter 10 battle. They paint their faces in a style that would astonish, if not terrify, evon Indian braves. They turn the most frightful somer- sets, But they chiefly aim at alarming the enemy by a crash of blows on ihe lo, or gong, of small drums and a crackling symphony of shrill notes from the clarionei and cymbal, and a chorus of vocal music wh'ch is described as “on a falsotto key, somewhere between a squeal anda scream.” If we listen to all the noisy threa's of military resistance to Pvresi- dent Johnson’s exercise of his constitutionn! light to choose his Cabinet advieers we are stunned with something very like the martial music of the Chinese. Senator Sumner’s “voice is still for war.” and his shrill war cry, “Stick!” reach:s ths ear of Stanton, who is listening to tho iramp of the guard (not without a suspicion that they have been sent to arrest instead of to protect him), and to the invoca tions of radical Congressmen, and to the ciick of such telographic messages’ as Governor Oglesby, of Iliinois, and Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, hasien to sead over the wires to Washington, and to the din of preperation for war on tie part of the “Grand Army of the Republic” aud other secret organ zat ong whch have succeeied the “Wide Awakes,” the “Avengers,” tio “Wolf Tamers” and the “Fire Zouaves,’’ who sprang up like mushrooms on tho eve of the war all over the North, just as “Minute Mon” and “Home Guards” and “Black Horse Cavalry” sprang up simulia- neously all over the South, It is true that all these organizations, both North and .Souib, proved eqnally ineflicient when “came the tu; of war.” But they all vied with each other in Chiuese noise aad demonstrations; and now the butternut militia of Maryland, together with the valorous Peansylvania militia and Mr. Brooks’ one million mep, uniformed, like Fal- staff's meo, “in buckram,” and a host of “Loyal Leaguers,” black and white, and the entire “Army of the Constitution,” who adver- tised yesterday morning in the Hearn, and for aught we know, the “Knights of the Golden Circle,” marshalling in battle array, with similar Chinese noise and demonstrations, But who is afraid on cither side? Even if we hear that General Boura and General Fritz have boih been ordercd to Washington, the one by President Johnson and the other by Secretary Sianton, we shall try not to lose our cqua- nimity. The real military question at issue is definitively settled by tho order, said to have been issued by General Grant on the 221 instan!, reminding the commanders of posts thas according to the recent act of Congress all orders to the army must pass throu.h his hands, that bia headquarters aro in Wasbing- ton, and that orders emanating from any otLer source must not be obeyed. It is also decided by the avowed intention of the President, the Commande:-in-Chief of the army, to call upon the courts to pat an end, if possible, to ihe un- happy conflict of authority between the Execu- tive and Congress, So that we cannot be mistaken in regarding all the noisy rumors of war aa “ound and fury, signifying nothing.” ‘The necessity of railroad companies adopt- ing the cab system for the benefit of the travelling public is daily becoming more urgent, and there is every reason to hope tac Vanderbilt, who has got his four railroad team weil ia hand now, will be the first to starts Hae ofegnveyances from each depot The present accommodations are wretched in the exireme, and subject travellers to the Keates’ aanoyagge and inconvenience, Oa a ee their arrival in this city they are compelled lo entrust themselves to the care of irresponsible, insolent and exorbitant people, who frequent railroad depots, and over whom neither the company uor, we might say, the police authori- ties exercise any control. By establishing lino of cabs from each depot, in connection with the railroads, the directors of our linvs would both serve their own intercats and thoae ofthe public, This system has given universnl satisfaction in Europe and would produce the most benefical results bere. Let its adoption, sthen, be noo longer delayed, and ratlrosd directors will receive the thanks of the travel- ling community, Du Chaillu’e Lectures=The Wonders of Ate ricn—Negro Tribes and Races et Men. We notice that the famous African explorer, Du Chaillu, will deliver a lecture, the second of a courae of three leciures, at Sieinway Hall to-morrow (Wednesiay) evening, on “A Jour- ney to the Cannibal Country” of equatorial Africa, in which he will give an account of his extraordinary adventures in that previously unknown region, with descriptions of the country, people and animal:, elephant hunting, serpents, slave baracoons and so forth, Oa Friday afternoon next bis concluding lecture atthe same place will b- on the negro tribes he found there, on their habits and mode of worship, and on the races and types 0: man- kind, Though bis first lecture was specially on the gorilla, his audience will hear doubtless more about that wonderful animal, which he was ihe first to discover, in the course of ihe adventures he will reiate. All those things will be illustrated by a numer of beautiful diagrams, many of which were photographed on the spot, and all of which have been caro- fully prepared, to give a truthful impreasion of the wonders of equator.al Africa. There seems to be im tho course of Provi- dence, or of the accidental occurrences of life, whichever people may choos: to call it, a re- markable fitness in the discoveries of science to the existing and growing necossiiies of mau- kind. When population in the civilized coun- tries of the world began to increase and spread greaily, and when the earth began to groan under tie weigut of agricultural and mechanical productions, demand.ng the means ot more general and rapid communication and diffusion, the locomotive and the railway..were invented. When the intellect of the age throbped to find an ou let in the rapid trans- mission from city to ci.y aud country to coun- try, t ¢ myst.rious power oi the magnetic tele- graph was discovered. So might be noticed many oiher inventions and discoveries coming in the fulness of tims to an.wer the purpose ot @ growing civil.zalion. And now, when people everywhere, ani particularly in this country, are profoundly considering the races and types of mankind and their relative ca- pacity ior advancement in the scale of civili- zation, with their guap.abiliy or not to amal- gamate with each olhur, Mr. Du Chailiu contéa w.th his discoveries among the negro tribes of @ part of Africa not knowa before. This question of the racos and typos of mankind 48 eminently the philosopny of the day, and in tho true sensg of that term, which 13 to ascertain facis or truth, with the causes of things and their phenomena, Mr. Du Chaillu is pre-emmently one of th» patlosophers of the time. He shows us the nature, condition and habits of a race in the centre of the oldest continent of the globs and under the burning sun of the equator—of many tribes of that race wh.ch are entirely primitive and which had never cowe in contact with civilized mea before. Ho shows us that the negroes, though perhaps the oldest race of mankind, have never in their own country been able to emerge trom’ barbarism, and that even whea they have becom» partly civilized in other countries under the guardianship of the white man they relapse in.o barbarism again when lett to themselves, In Africa he discovered, too, the gorilla and other apes wuich approach nearvst to man, and is enabled, consequently, after studying for years their habits and structure, to inform us what afflaity they have to min. Ii will be interesting to the proud Caucasian race--to our beautiful ladies especially, who are l.tile less than divine, or only a little lower than the ungcls—to know whether their ancostors were woolly-neaded negroes, gorillas or chimpanzoed, r thing is certain, ns the philosoper Du Caaillu dis- covered, the ladies of the present day have copied the fashion of wearing chignous from the barbarian belles of interior Africa. . This, at least, shows 9 decided offi sity. But, as we intimated befors, Mr. Du Chaillu’s explorations and etuties among the negro tribea may not only prove interesting to us just now in a historical or an othnoiogtcal point of view, but useful also a3 we are endene voring to elevate the nogrovs aa equality with ourselves and to give thefa a political power to control our own destiny. It is an astounding expcriment—such on experiment, in fact, as no nation or civilized people ever dreamed oi before. It is well to learn as much a3 we can, thereiore, of the piimitive nature and the intellectual capacity of a people who are to wield the balance of power in this great republic. Du Chiillu can enlighten us, pro- bably, on tho affinity or want of affinity between ourselves and a people who are to be made, according to the radical Congressional policy, our equals both politically and so- cially. As this is the important question of the tims, the learned and interesting African explorer should be invited to lecture in every city and town throughout the country. There is a great difference in the opinions enter- tained of the negro by our forefathers and ourselves. It will be well to study the subject thoroughly and ascertain whother they were or we are right. Nor Exactty tae Tainc—'ihe despatch of General George H. Thoinas to President Wade, of the Sonate, earnestly requesting the rejec- tion of his nomination ot Lieutenant General and General by brovet. Whatever may be tho supposed motive, somothing of respectful con- sideration is always due to a compliment from @ superior to subordinate officer, A Hew ov « Hot Gripptz—Tho venerable General Lorenzo Thomas in his ridiculous bobbinga in and out of tho War Office. Great Firo in Hudson, Munsox, Feb, 24, 1868, great fire is now raging here, It commencod oppo. Bite the telegraph offices in the shoe storo of Wm. Wolf, No, 150 Warren street, aud extended to the office of Dr ‘Smith and other buildings. The prospect is that a lorge amoumt of property will be destroyed It is lwpossibie 40 bredict Where it will @6@, «