The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1868, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —EE_ Volume XXXIII.... saniteaantiensainersoes te OE RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY, cHuRCH OF OUB SAVIOUR.—Rav, Moruing. CHURCH OF THB PURITANS.—Rev. Caanuas B. =, ON “ReconstRUCTION 1X CuuRCM AND Stats. Af. ternoon and evening. OHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Reyv. Dr. Desus. Morning and evening. CHUROH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rev. Asnote Brown. Morn ng and evening. Cc, H. Far. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH.—Raev. Ww. H. jorummer, on “Tae Crosing Events ov Tag Canistian Dursxsation.” Evening. Pe dag y oF oun LAGEE APOSTLES.—Ray. 8, H. Wasron, D. D. CHURCH OP THE RESURRECTION, Rutgers Col- lege.—Rav. E, 0. Fiaca, D. D. Morning and afternoon. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rev, Davip Miroust, on “Cavett to Amumais.”” Morning and evening. Cou CHURCH. evening. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, Brooklyn—Ruv. Gao. B. Harwortu, of Boston, Morning and evening, per J. 8, Laman. Morning DODWORTH HALL.— tng—Warnen Cnase, £ ety or Spmirvauists, Morn- g—Dk, Hauieck. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rey, W. A. scott, D. D. Morning and evening, NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,—Rey. E, PF. Hate rin, D. D. Evening. NEW JERUSALEM HOUSE OF WORSIIP.—Ray. Cuauncry Gites, Morning aud evening. ST, MATTHEW'S CHURCH.—Morning and evening. §T. ANN’S FREE ¢ —Morning, afternoon and evening. ST. MABK’S CHURCH.—Avoensses. Evening. NITY CHAPEL.—Musicat Senvice ann SxRvon. ware. —Rey, Joun 5, LoNe, ening. HURCH OF “iti Washington square —Brstior Sow ox 1k GueaT HAILSTORM OF THE Day OF Gov,” Afternoon. CHURCH, Ble "3 O1 Wonxs.”’ New York, Sanday, Mares THA NBWS. EUROPE, Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evoning, February 29. ‘Tuo King of Buvaria died in Munich, Tho King of Prussia closed the legislative session with a speech from the throne, in which he congratulated tho mem- bers on the result of their labors in matntaintog peace, Mr. Georgo & Booth, M. P., is appointed Under Secro- tary of the Treasury of England, ‘he Fenian treason | trials are progressing in Sligo, Ireland, A “mixed jury”? was awarded in General Nagle’s case; but six Americans could not be found in the town, and us the court refused to send the prisoner for trial to ancther place, the au- thor.ties were forced to take six Prussians; but tue aliens Tan away almost immediately. Despatches from Abyssinia state that the British Advance is satis(actory snd that the captives are still safe. Conesols, 93 a 9334., Five-twenties 7 London, ang 7474 a 75 in Frankfort. Paris, Cotton dull and inactive, fous Orm. By special mail telegrams and writtea correspondence wo have intoresting details of our cable despatches to the 15th of February. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced and re- ferred to abolish the office of Adjutant General of the army, aud to provide for the hoidiag of United states Courts in the Territories. The Senate then proceeded to consider the report of the select commitres on im- peachment, Assubstitute that the Senate should not 40 71% io Rentes heavy in Breadstu(fs quiet. Provis- act until all the States are represented was debated and lost, there being but two voles in its favor, The rules of procedure on the impeachment trial were then takeo up section by section, and after an extended discussion on the third, fourth, sixth, eighth and twelfth ru the siath being ded to authorize the Sergeant-at-Arms ¢ all necersary assistance in carrying {nto eflect orders of the Couri—the Senate, in antic!p: lengthy debate on the remaining rules, adjourned, The Louse resumed consideration of the bili to prow vide a jail for the Diswriet of Columbia, which was discussed at some length and finally passed. Petitions of typo founders and printers of Philadelphia against go internationa: copyright law, aud of editors of Phila. deiphia weekly newspapers im relation to (ax on circula- tion were presented, Soveral bills of a private character wore presented aod appropriately referred. The solocs commities then presented articles of impeactimont against the President, which wero read by the Clork. Along aud rambiing debate was then entered upon, and, without taking action, the House, at half-pass five, adjourved until Monday. A caucus of republican members of Congress was held at the Capitol last night, at which ferenty-live were presont, to select managers to conduct the proposed trial, aud Messrs, Thad Stevens, B. ¥, Butler, Binguam, Boutwetl, Wilsom of lowa, Williams of Pennsy!vania and Logan . ‘The debate in the House will be continu Monday, and ttie vote will be taken at four o’olock in tho afternoon. THE LEGISLATURE. ‘The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the Assembly biils to incorporate the New York Fiduciary Company, the Home Savings Bank, the Sev- enteesth Ward Savings Bank, \ho Manbat Deposit and the People's Safe Deporit companies, o: York and for other purposes, were reported favorably. Bilis were tmtroduced for the bower protection of emi- Grants, to incorporate the New York Cab Company, for the relief of the soldiers of 1812, avd for railroads im Nassau and Broad streeis—to covuect railroads con verging at City Hali with South terry—and ta Third and other streets of New York. A reaolution was adopted to adjourn to Monday evening next and providing that the House shall meet at ten o'ciuck on the morning of each day boresfier, An exom/inetion was ordered lato the amount of salt manufactured by the Yalt Springs, the amount of revenue derived therefrom and the ex« pedionoy of termin contracts for their ure Toe select cominittee was authorized to investigate enarges Of traudulent use of surplus cana! waters, THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen yesterday pacred a resolution to pave a large number of streets with Nicolson pave- Ment; toappoint an assistant librarian; directing the clerk to procure copies of bills before the Logislature eoncerning the eity of New York. The report of tho committee io favor of widening asd oxtending Laurens Street was received and made the special order for next Baturday ; a series of resolutions charging Governor Fen- ton with “high crimes and misdemeanors," and calling upon the Legisiature to impeach bim was introduced and iaid over and the resolution to remove “Loew city railroads to remove the ice and snow along and debated, but was not fied, Resolutions in favor of paving a number of streets with the Nicolson pavement were passed over the Mayor's Votoes, We publish thie morning an oxtended articio on the past, present and future growth and prospects of New York, its commercial importance, tables of populat on tn various years, and of the population of the adjoining cities, as Woil as the comparative percentage of increase, And vorious other important and interesting statistics of bow parks aod jstroeis and avenues, their grading, \ ASCENSION.~-Morning | NEW YORK H¥FRALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. elevation and importance in the future extonston of the mo!ropolis northward, In the Supreme Court Chambers, yesterday, judg- ments were rendered on frivolous answers in the cases of Ben Wood va, Tae Mayor and Commonalty, a claim of $6,000 for corporation advertising, and Hagh O'Brien vs, the same defendants, to recover $2,500, a year's salary as a member of the Common Council. The stock market was dull but nearly steady yester- day. Government securities were heavy. Gold closed at 14156 a 14134, In most departments of trado in commercial circies yesterday the amount of businoss coosummated was light, and prices of the leading commodities generally favored the purchaser, Grocories were quiet, but quite steady in value, Cotton opened quiet and weak, but subsequently became in active demand from speculators and exporters, and closed one cent higher, On 'Change flour was dull and heavy. Wheat was almost inactive and a shade lower, while corn and oats were lower and only moderately active, Pork, though in fair demand, was a shade easier, Beef was steady, an lard quiet, but steady, ‘Whiskey was dull and nominal, Freightg wore quict at unchanged rates, Petroleum was spar- ingly dealt in, but firmly hold, | MISCELLANEOUS. Our Washington despatches state that business of an official character will probably be suspended between the President and the Senate until the conclusion of his trial By a telegram from Havana we have late news from Hayti, Tne French Admiral was at Port au Prince, Salnavo had lost heavily in his campaign against the Cacos rebels, By way of China and Paris we have very interesting mail reports from Jupan, embracing detatis of the revo- Jutionary change in the government and some exceed- ingly important facts relative to the trade of the west coast of the ompire and the commercial value of the opening of the new ports of Hioga and Osaka to for. eigners. ‘The latter facts are in official form from the pen of Mr, Locock, the representative of the Queen of Great Britain, who states that there 1s already an im- mense demand for forcign imports there, ‘The Conservative Executive Committee of Alabama met yesterday at Montgomery, and adopted resolutions calling for a State Convention, to moet in Montgomery, on the first Monday of June, for the appointment of a committee to proceed to Washington to represent the Jater of Alabama and alliliating with the Northern democracy, ‘The Georgia Convention yesterday passed a resolution asking Congress fur an appropriation for the construction of an airline railroad from Atlanta to Charieston, 8. C, ‘The Convention will probably adjourn on March 17, ‘ine chem cal manufactory of Powers & Weightman, in Phitadelphia, t’a., tho largest in the United States, was dostroyed by fire yesterday. General Gillem, commanding the Fourth Military De partment, bas appointed E, G. Peyton, Thomes Shack- ford and E. Jetfords to be judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals for the State of Mississippi, to fill existing vacancies, Tho Impenchment and the Presidential Question=The Eust and the West. The impeachment of President Johnson by the Ifouse of Representatives has called the aitention of the politicians to the fact that, in the event of his conviction and removal from office, the President pro tem. of the Senate, «“ Old Ben Wade,” will become President of the United States for-the remnant of Mr. John- son’s term. Some oj our radica! conemporaries out West, in view of this inevitable contin- gency, as they regard it, are already, with an eye to the spoils, berinning to pay their de- votions to the rising radical sun. As General Grant, however, has distanced all competitors for the republican nomination for the Presi- dency, the best that these Western worshippers of Mr. Wade can do for him is to proclaim him their first choice for the Vice Presidency. When it is considered, too, that the excessive negro worshipping ideas of Mr. Wade resulted last October in Obio in the election of a demo- cratic Legislature, which has chosen a demo- cratic United States Senator to take the place of said Wade on the 4th of March, 1869, this pro- posed compensation to him of the Presidency of the Senate, as Vice-President of the United States, must be very flattering to the old gen- tleman. There are, however, some very serious diff- culties in the way of this pleasant little scheme. First of all, upon the charges preferred, we suspect that Andrew Jobnson will not be removed; and if not removed the expected glory of “Old Ben” as lord, for even a month or two, of the White Hous, will not be realized. In the next place, the republicans cannot afford to run the risk of breaking down the popularity of Grant by coupling him with this decidedly unpopular Ohio radical, Wade. They want a eecond who will be a support to their principai on the ticket, and not a deadweight upon bis shoulders. Indiana for Vice President proposes Speaker Colfax ; Tennessee proposes Parson Brownlow ; Pennsylvania offers ex-Governor Curtin, Gover- nor Geary, tor Cameron, Secretary Stanton -w York bas pronounced for Governor Fenton and Connecticut for ex- Governor Buckingham ; and any one of this catalogue except Brownlow is a more avail- able man than Wade. Moreover, if General Grant is to be the first on the republican ticket, the West will have to yield tue second, if domanded by the East; and the demand will be made. Who, then, will be the man? The New York delegation will insist upon Fenton as necessary to save the Empire State. Universal negro suffrage, we may safely say, has done the business for the republican party in this Commonwealth, and Fenton, who assisted in rolling up last November the democratic majority of fifly thousand, is not the man to recall those republican deserters who deserted on his account. Still, his friends may humbug the Western men at Chi- cago with the delusion that Fenton can recover New York. But Pennsylvania will alao claim the Vice President, and it would not be @ matter of astonishment if Secretary Stanton, in a certain event, were to cut out all bis rivals and carry off the prize in consideration of his great, patriotic and dis- interested services, and all that, in working up this impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The whole case of Stanton, however, depends upon his success in this impeachment. With its failure he fails and will be plucked of all bis fine feathers, Even if successful in the removal of Johnson, these questions will be suggested to the calculating managers of the party :— “What can we do with this man Stanton if we elect him Vice President! Would he not, should any misfortune advance him to the White House, be ten times more difficult to manage than Johnson himself? Johnson is self-willed and obstinate, but slow to act; Stanton is remorseless, quick and decisive. Would he not, as President, be our master in- stead of our servant?” But till, if Pennsyl- vania says Stanton, he will not take a denial from the Chicago Convention. So munch for the republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. Stanton’s chances hinge upon the impeachment of Johnson, A failure to remove Johnson kills off Stanton and brings Fenton into the foreground, and vice versa, Leaving the isaue to be settled by the Senate, we turn to the more perplexing question of the, democratic Presidential candidate. From West Virginia to Wisconsin, including Kentucky and Tennessee, Pendiecton has absolute possession of the Gelegations west of the mountains He will doubtless haye a majority of the National Convention on the first ballot; but this does not secure him, because the democratic rule of a two-thirds vote to make & nomination is still in force. Marlin Van Buren, in the Baltimore Convention of 1844, had 9 majority of the delegates ; but the South- ern pro-slavery oligarchy, on the Texas issue, had resolved to shelve him, and they therefore insisted upon the adoption of the two-thirds Tule, and it was adopted, and so they shelved him. Now, Mr. Pendleton may have a ma- Jority of the Convention; but the East is against him on the question of those bonds ; and Mr, Belmont, anti-Pendleton, has gained the advantages, first, of New York as the place, and next, of the Fourth of July as the time for the meeting of tho Convention. In the interval he may perfect a plan of operations which will throw out Pendleton and secure the nomination of a gold paying democratic candidate, or a ian which will break the party into two sections, divided by the line of the Alleghany Mountains, Both parties West are for grecnbacks to the bondholders, and both parties East are mainly the other way. The republicans may evade the difficulty in this fight; but the Western democrats will have nothing but greenbacks, and so, afier all, with the failure of the impeachment the New York Convention may be compelled to full back upon Andrew Jobnson and a diversion of the main battle to the negro question. Disraeli’s Ancestry—The Premier nnd the Peerage. * The English journalists accept Mr. Disraeli’s elevation to the Premiership of Great Britain in’a tone of agreeable complacency, and pay avery full measure of justice to the talents, industry, tact and political pluck of the right honorable gentleman when conveying their announcements of the will of her Majesty Queen Victoria in his regard to the people. The completeness of their acknowledgments, as well as the value of their public compli- ments, are marred considerably, however, by the assertion of a very prominent but errone- ous statement, and the insinuation of a covert and most probably damaging inference, applying to him in the past and fature ; the one that he is a man of no lineage or ancestry, or, as it is expressed at the Carlton Club, “a man without a father;” and the other, thathe will be gazetted to and accept a British peerage. In this the London edi- tors betray either a wonderful ignorance of history, or a confession of the fact that they are not heartily reconciled to the rule of a sclf-made man—in truth, that the majority of them, like the publisher of that daily record of the sayings and doings of the home aristocracy, the London Post,.regret ils advent. This is all wrong In point of fact, however excusable it may be in point of feeling. Mr. Disracli comes of a race and can boast of a lineage more ancient, illustrious, persistent, courageous and universal than can any baron of Britain; for when we remember the foundation of his house by the just and God-fearing father Abraham in Mesopotamia— himself a descendant of the patriarch Shem— it certainly must appear to a plain and truth- loving people like ourselves that in the matter of ancestral comparison with him the posterity of the Conqueror are very litde older than parvenus, while in the material essentials of physical power and intellect they appear posi- tively decrepit in contrast with the iniestruc- tibility of race presented by Disracli and his people. It appears but yesterday— we can almost imugine, indeed, that we hear his call to “ boot and eaddle ”—since William led his spearmen from the vineyards of Nor- mandy on his grand filibustering expedition to Britain ; but we have to revert far into the venerable past to behold Abraham, “ who be- lieved the word of God,” taking bis departure from his country and journeying, a pitysim and stranger, to the promised land. ‘Thus in the matters of lineage and ancestral history Mr. Disraeli takes the lead of every earl and lord in the united kinggom—a fact which must have made itself apparent to the most exalted nobleman in their ranks, the Prince of Wales, during his recent visit to the field of Machpelah, near Hebron, when he looked into the cave in which are enshrined the ashes and banner of the patriarch and warrior. From such source comes Premicr Disraeli; and as the stream flowed on from his foretathers towards his father it was made gloriously brilliant by the production of kings, lawgivers, sol- diers, poets, priests and writers to an extent which renders the coniributions of the Norman, the Plantagene's, the Tudors, the Lancasters, the Stuarts, the Guelphs and the others very unfruitful indeed. Do the English writers forget Moses, Solomon, David, Joseph, Ben- jomin, Esau, Judith and Deborah? Or do they intend "to compare with them in splendor, royalty, valor, disinterestedness of purpose and wisdom William the Conqueror, Richard the Lion-Hearted, the Black Prince, Burleigh, Blackstone, Elizabeth, Anne, or even Victoria? We certainly hope not. Why, the young widow Judith, on the maternal side of Mr. Disracli’s house, exhibited quite as mach nerve as Richard or the Black Prince, and more promptitude of execution than did the Duke of Wellington; for she not only killed the first captain of her day, but she cut his head clean off at once, instead of pacts him to pine to death on a desert ‘island. Wsau, the first financier and commercial man of the line, became rich and powerful and created his sons dukes and gave kings to Eom before the merchant princes of England wero dreamed of. So that, in every point of pedigree, we think Mr. Disracli stands fully equal, if not superior, to the nobles and aristo- crates who surround him. The subject matter of a peerage for Mr. Disraeli is easily disposed of. It will not be proposed, for the very good reason that he would not accept it, The day after he was gazetted as Lord Hughenden, or some other equally unpronounceable title, he would cease to be Benjamin Disraeli; and although envious ond jealous politicians may perhaps wish to “kill him off” in that way, tho Premier is too well versed in their peculiar strategy to permit its accomplishment. Lord Hughenden ! why Disraeli would become un- known to his people in Europe, Asia, Africa and America under such o name at once, and the very newest Councilman, MacSwiggan or suoh, recorded in the Corporation Manual of New York would have a much better chance of reaching a democratic posterity with @ com rest spelling than would tho grout liltérateur and statesman. Mr. Disraeli just now, with the Red Box of the treasury of England under his right arm, the Cap of Maintenance of the crown in bis left hand, and the Great Seal of State dangling from his watch chain, and with all Lombard street looking on, stands a peer above peers, self-reliant, erect, untram- melled and alone. The Articles of Impeachment. Ten articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson were submitted to the House of Rep- resentatives yesterday as the result of the tremendous labors of the Impeachment Com- mittee, They are as pelty specimens of the sweet smoke of political rhetoric as ever were seen, The first article is that Andrew Johnson did on a ‘certain day “issue an order” for the removal of Mr. Stanton from the War Depart- ment; the second, that he did “issue an order” appointing Lorenzo Thomas Secretary ad interim—in all this violating the constitu- tion of the United States and the Tenure of Office act. Articles third, fourth and fifth rest on the same facta, only declaring that they were the result of a conspiracy. Articles sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth ring the changes on this notion of conspiracy—con- spiracy to seize government property, to hinder operation of the are of Office act, and so on. Article ten®charges that the President conspired with General Emory to resist the operation of the laws of Congress. This tenth charge seems at first glance to have a serous look ; but the testimony of Gen- eral Emory, which we give, and on which the article was founded, puts the thing in its pro- perly® ridiculous ligut. The Prosident, it ap- pears, bad asked General Emory if any change had been made in the garrison of Washington, naturally feeling the necessity to watch a man so unscrupulous as Stanton. General Emory told what changes had been made, and by what authority ; and this brought in ques- tion the order that no troops should obey any command that had not gone through General Grant’s hands, This order was produced and read, and the President said to General Emory that such an order was not in accordance with the constitution. And that is the conspiracy with Emory—almost as terrible a thing as poor old Kennedy’s Guy Fawkes story. All the rest relates sirictly and actually to the case of Stanton, and so little has the inge- nuity of the committee been able to make of it that there is some indication that Congress is already ashamed of its grand attempt—already feels that impeachment is the most contempti- ble of all official efforts to be awtul. These articles reported by the commitiee have yet to be adopted by the House, and if we did not know that party spirit rather than respect for its own character ruled in that body, there would be reason to hope that it would never rest its position before the country on such a tarrago of puerility and that impeachment would die from inanition in the very House in which It began its miserable career. Tho Fashions. The modistes of this city are closeted at present, devising new and unknown styles of raiment for their fair customers. They observe a religious silence about all their plans for the spring ; but there is one thing of which we can assure the ladies, The bonnets for the coming season will not be increased in size, although the trimming may be more elaborate and costly than their predecessors. The charming, convenient and coquettish little street dresses will be tashioned in a still more attractive style, and the cloaks will undergo many and material changes. In Paris, according to the sprightly letier of our correspondent, Prince Carnival, at last accounts, was shaking his merry bells and had set all heads in that gay city thinking of fun and jollity. The carnival season saves Paris from many disagreeable eruptions ; for it diverts the minds of the fickle people from the contemplation and investiga- tion of more serious subjects. The ladies there have converted themselves into animated flowers, and the most attractive is the daisy, with petal basques of silver cloth and skirts of green satin leaves, and the fan, with pointed satin folds and perle de coque ornaments, The skirt of promise is azure blue gauze, sprinkled over with buds and burst- ing woodland flowerets. The black swan fur- nishes the newest costume, although there is little to recommend it in either a fashionable or ornithological point of view. The imperial family will be religiously inclined this month, as the Prince Imperial enters on his thirteenth year and will be entirely under the direction of hisreligious preceptor. The Parisian belles are returning to the era of edifices of false hair, which we hope will not find favor in America. Tt is a cheering sign of the taste and independ- ence of ladies on this side of the Ailantic to find that all the imported fashions have to be con- siderably modified before they will be accepted. The opening of the spring season will un- doubtedly show @ great revolution in regard to Paris fashions. The time is not far distant when American fashions will rule in this city among the ladies instead of the oulré extrava- gances of Paris. French Army Movemeuts—What Mean ¢ By cable despatch of yesterday we are made aware of the fact that all officers of the French army absent on furlough have been ordered to report at their headquarters before the Sist of March. On that day, it is added, all furloughs are to terminate, When ‘we remember that this forms part of the new military arrangements of France, we may con- clude that it is all quite natural. When we remember the peculiarly unsettled condition of Europe, we are just as liable to conclude that this is seriously ominous. There is at the present moment a vague and ill-defined feeling all over Europe that war in the spring is more than a possibility, Who are to be the com- batants nobody can tell. Tho feeling is encouraged by this and other movements in France. How France can engage in war on a large scale and yet allow the Emperor, as he intends to do, to visit Vienna and Constan- tinople, it is somewhat difficult to understand. It is to be borne in mind that Napoleon is in the habit of having two strings to. his bow. The rumored visit to Francis Josephand Abdul Aziz encourages the idea of peace ; but if war becomes necessary or is’ deemed convenient reasons will easily bo found to postpone the visit, This last piece of news may mean little or it may mean a great deal. De They Russian Army fecruitmente—The Results, Numerical and Educational, The Rassian army is being rapidly reorulted at all points of the empire by order from the War Office in St. Petersburg, and the latdat results of the movement, as reporied by the officers engaged in the duty to the authorities, are significant to « degree of coming war in Europe, and quite novel in the military history of the empire. It appears that the regimon are in this instance being filled according to a plan approaching to a voluntary enlistment, conducted in manner almost similar to that observed in Great Britain, and not by an im- perious conscription ukase promulgated for the occasion, as in years past, when the Czars wished to put forth their strength in battle ; so that it progrosses in a most satis- factory manner, members of every class of society and men of every creed and nation- ality being brought forward in large numbers to the standard. Our advices from St. Petersburg state that ninety-two thousand one hundred and four re- eruits were enrolled during the month of January. Of these twenty-eight thousand two hundred and eighty-three were over twenty and under twenty-five years of age, and thir- teen thousand eight hundred and thirty-one between twenty-five and thirty years—facts which, taken alone, set forth in a very promi- nent manner the vast war power of the nation. ‘the morale of the recruits, judged by an edu- cational percentage, as well as their social status before joining the army, are still more encouraging of progress, and afford a con- vincing reply in contradiction to the assertion that the middle classes of Russia scarcely evor go forward to army life except under the com- pulsion of the draft, or in seasons of severe distress from pauperism, when forced to accept the rations of the barracks in agreeable ex- change for still shorter commons at home—in fact, to become soldiers and rug the chance of being killed in battle in order to escape a death much wore certain from hunger, or its consequent disease. Of the gross number of recruits—including ten thousand one hundred and ninety-six from Poland—eight thousand eight hundred and eighty, or very near ten per cent of the whole, are able to read and write, a most pleasing, almost astonishing fact, and one which will cause the Russian armies to compare favorably in the future with the troops of any of the other great Powers of Europe. Indeed, we doubt not but that in point of education those newly made soldiers of the Czar will be found supe- rior to those of Napoleon, equal to thosesof Queen Victoria, and inferior only to the men of the North German Confederation. Classified according to previous callings in life, the statistics set forth that six thousand three hundred and fourteen were “citizens,” forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty- seven agricultural laborcrs and peasant pro- prietors, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety peasants and cottiers of the crown domains, nine hundred and eighty-seven “an- recognized noblemen,” and one hundred and eighty-one of the “privileged classes.” The sociai status of the men illustrated thus affords an explanation of the high percentage of education prevailing among them. It proves also that the solid worth of the country will come forward in the ranks. in support of the Crown—a condition almost unknown in England, except in time of groat emergency ; for we question if the register at the Horse Guards ever sets forth the designation “citi- gen” or nohleman—recognized or unrecog- nized—or even “peasant of the royal forests,” after the name of a private soldier. Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Jews, Estho- neans, Tartars, Circassians, Moldavians, Vol- tiacks, Russians proper, with men from Minor Russia and White Russia, are counted in thou- sands and by hundreds under the head of “na- tionality,” while in the column marked “ re- ligious denomination” are members of the Greek Church, Roman Catholics, Luther- ans, Mobammedans, Dissenters and Jews, footed up with “twenty-six heathens ;” an extraordinary medley of form of creed, but which, even as & medley, shows forth the won- derful power of combination andconsolidation which the Russian government possesses. This Russian military exbibit will attract a large amount of attention at this particular moment. The war Powers of Europe have been for some time past playing # great game of military bluff, eacli, with tho exception éf England, arming still more than the other; or, in other words, squaring off like the big school boy, exclaiming, “I can lick you with one hand tied bebind my back.” Napoleon appeared to have carried this system to its most complete extent without actual action by his new French army bill and the recent cir- cular of Marshal Niel; but just then comes out the Czar with his War Office tables, showing by a full return of one month’s work what he can accomplish in the line of soldiers, and thus saying to the Paris boy, last on top of the heap, “If one month gives ninety-two thousand such men without a new army bill what would three or four months give, under my present plan, with a Russian conscription afterwards?” This query, founded on facts, will perhaps cause the French Emperor to stroke his mustache, light another cigar, and exclaim with real feeling, “The ompire is peace.” Frightfal State of the Streets. It must have been some benevolent person, interested in the comfort of the unfortunate people obliged to cross Broadway, who stole the nitro-glycerine which Kennedy supposed was to send sky-high all the radical Congress, for the purpose of blasting the ice rocks that the street cleaning official has permitted to accumulate on that thoroughfare. It requires all the ekill and daring of an Alpine guide to conduct a lady over these frozen mountains. This task is pretty well performed by the favored Broadway police squad, bat when it comes to nntangling the mass of carts, omni- buses, butchers’ wagons and stroct cara, in Fulton street and other narrow high- ways, then the tact and muscle of the poor policemen aro strained to their uttermost. We do not believe that there is a city in the world, from St. Petersburg to the enpital of Theodorus, the sovereign of Abyssinia, in which such « con- dition of the streets would be permitted to exist fora day. It is all very well to set this affliction down to the weather. ‘I'he weather isnot worse here than elsewhere, and in no one of our own cities, north, east, or west, can any such sight be seen of struggling horses, terrified pedestrians, and genoral obstruction as is witnessed hourly on the great i, thoroughfare of the great metropolis, The fault lies with the party entrusted with the du'y of keeping the streets clean, and there is ao excuse for not having them in such com paratively decent order that at least a crossing here and there would be possible. The First Sunday in Lent. The penitential season of the Christian Church commenced on Wednesday last. To- day is, therefore, the first Sunday in Lent. Ash Wednesday inaugurated the period of annual penance as Easter Sunday will conclude it with bymns of joy and all such brilliant devo- tional exercises as become the time when, ac- cording to the ecclesiastical calendar univere sally accepted in all Christian communities, the Saviour of the world rose miraculously from the dead to vindicate his claim to di- vinity and to fulfil the words of the prophets. The season of Lent ig » reminiscence of the forty days’ fast in the desert which preceded the sacrifice of Calvary, and, as a historie event, has found place in the memory and is still regarded as something worth preserving, It is, therefore, faithfully preserved by the two Christian Churches which are governed by discipline and codes, and canons and tradi- tion—the Catholic and the Episcopalian. The former, holding with more tenasity to tradition than its more modern and more material rival, has, in its councils and ordinances, recognized the season of Lent as a solemn time, when peace between man and his Maker can be best secured by the mortification of the flesh, by prayer, contrition for sin and abstinence from carnal enjoyments. In thess matters the ancient Catholic Church is rigid and inflexible in its doctrines. Tho Episcopalian Church, while recognizing all that is set down in Bible history concerning the forty days’ fast and the necessity of doing penance, is much more easy with its disciples; but both Churches hold firmly to the idea that the penitential season of Lent is but the prelude of a “good time coming,” if it is properly observed. These are, perhaps, the only two branches of the Christian family that pay any heed to the formula which long custom has established, or insist upon its ob- servance. Originally, even as far back a3 the domi- nancy of the Jewish law, seasons of fasting were prescribed for sanitary purposes, as were also many rites and rules which were strin- gently enforced. With the establishment of the Christian faith many of the ideas which prevailed under the code of Moses were pre- served, and among them that of fasting. In the early centuries of Christianity the rules which applied with most benefit to the people were exercised in the southern countries of Europe, where they were not only a virtue but @ necessity. It is from this source that we receive the rules of the Lenten season ; but the wisdom of modern times has led to a consid- erable relaxation of the penitential laws in northern climates—like our own, for instance ; and hence the consciences of good Christians are not overtaxed in fulfilling the Lenten obli- gations. But, looking at Lent even in a sani- tary and purely material point of view, with- out taking into account any of that religious sacredness with which so many millions of the human race regard it, it is no harm that forty days in the year should be devoted to a little abstemiousness. If the custom was good im olden times it cannot do any harm to follow it now. This is the acceptable hour for Congress, the Legislature and the Common Council te reform their manners and morals, The Case ef Tyng, Jr.—Boggs and Stubbs Triumphant. The court which tricd Stephen H. Tyng for (shall we say high crimes and misdemeanors %) preaching the Gospel in a neighboring parish,’ in opposition to the will of the self-constituted religious authorities of said parish, have found the reverend gentleman guiliy of violating one of the canons of the Protestant Episcopal’ Church, and have advised that he be admon- ished accordingly. So far as we know Mr. Tyng has uot yet been admonished. It is still, so far as we know, doubtful whether Mr. Tyng will submit to admonition. It is just as doubt- ful whether the admonition, if administered, will be more than the merestsham. If Stephen H Tyng submit to formal admonition he will play the part of a coward. If the authorities of the Protestant Episcopal Church do not. formally admonish, they will be accused before the world of moral cowardice. The canon which Mr. Tyng violated was and is a foolish canon. Mr. Tyng foolishly violated it. The authorities of the Protestant Episcopal Church foolishly brought Mr. Tyng to trial. They have since foolishly found him guilty and adjadged a foolish punishment. It has been a foolish affair all through. The end, which is not yet, promises to be more foolish than the begin- ning. Boggs and Stubbs so far have been tri- umphant. To-day the Jerseyites will thank God that the schismatic has been found guilty. NEWS ITEMS, The argamont in tho case of Bishop Campbell’s will, a Wheeling, W. Va., was concluded on Thursday last by a speech from Genera! Gardeld, of Ohio, and Lowrie the codicil of the will In controversy, ‘The Baltimore Court of Appeals has reversed the de- cision of Judge Alexandér removing the trustecs of the National Expross Company. The assignment is decided to be good and tho trustees are reinsisied, ‘The contract for carrying the [pep freight te the res re posts and other points on the upper Mis- this season bas been awarded to Captains outta and Jacobs, of Pittsburg, Sheridan left St. Louls for Fort Leavenwortm oo day evening, to resume command of luis depart- ment, Mr. Kettles, United States Assessor at Wal Tino ‘Was garroted on Thursday night aud robbed The California Legisiature have adopted 8 memorial to Congress asking the same aid for the Southern Pacifica Railroad Company as was granted the Central and Union Pacific Riatitoad Companies, Ina difficulty on the Memphis and Louisville Rail. road on Friday night Major J. Hicks was shot and killed by a planter named Maxweil, who im turn was shot by Hicks’ son and mortally wounded. Maxwell died during the night, Both were highly esveemed citi- rena despatches received at Goneral Sherman's head- guar ok Louis, deny that there has been great ‘fat Fort Stovonson this wiutor, as telegraphed a ater day ago, Tho despatehes say the garrison 19 well provided for in every respect. stoamer from Cairo to St, Louis, sunk at ‘3 — four miles above Cape Girardeau, lust eve~ Tho boat and cargo will probably bea total loss, ives were lost. Mike poral the a abe | mel Ms Ae ryt) oxbibition last — in St Louis, for the benefit of the poor of the city, which was largely attended. ‘ne Drincipal features: were boxing botwoen Ryall and Allen, the English pugi- lists, and McCoole and Joe Shaw. MeCoole will go iato training 9000 for his great mili with Joe Coburn, A Bid occurred yesterday at @ radical moeting at Murfreesboro, Tenn., in which feveral negrovs were jegroes were incited to violence by the occasion, ll, son of Samuol T, Brocknoll, of Maury; Tenn., was murdered - Li Lewis county, in that State, by a stranger named W. The murder was for the purpose of robbing yeas, Brocknol, as Walker carried off his victim’s horse and boo, He ig still at targe, Brecknell was out on a tour as aguas (or several periodigala - eee, SS