The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1875, Page 4

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Foreign exchange was firm. | Money on call loans was easy at from 2} to | ¢ per cent. Governor Woopsox, of Missouri, has joined bands with the other States in protesting | against Presidential usurpation. It is plain that General Grant has made a mistake. Govznyons Allen, Gaston and Brown have | already spoken of the usurpation of the Presi- dent with the indignation it calls for, and Governor Tilden, when the Legislature reas- | sembles, will respond with equal earnestness. | ‘THERE Cax Bz No Dovst of the way in | | body of a sister State in peaceful session is a | of him or many others of the distinguished | | and sober minded citizens who feel it their | | men end persist in a course which all our | to convince the President that there is a limit NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1875--WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Call ter @ Public Meeting. The call which we publish this morning for a great meeting of citizens at the Cooper In- stitute on Monday evening, to express the public sentiment of this community on the recent extraordinary proceedings in Louisi- | ana, should arrest the thoughtful attention | of President Grant, This call is signed by | our most eminent and respected citizens, in- | cluding such well known names as William | Callen Bryant, August Belmont, William M. Evarts and many others of similar standing. | The President has reason to distrust his judg- | ment and review his conclusions when the first | citizens of this great and enlightened metrop- olis find grounds, not only for disapproving of his conduct, but for uniting in an appeal to their fellow citizens to assemble in a great public meeting to give united expression to their condemnation and raise a voice of alarm and send it far and wide through the country. The President cannot affect to ig- nore or undervalue such a demonstration, sup- ported by such eminent names, They express the almost unanimous public sentiment of this great city on a subject which the en- | lightened part of our citizens are as compe- | tent to judge of as President Grant or any of his advisers. They feel that public liberty isin | peril ; that the unexampled use of the army in breaking into and dispersing the legislative | blow struck at the very foundation of our in- | stitutions. The President is bound to pay some regard to the public opinion of the | country. He ought not to be confident that | he is right when the best sentiment of the | best classes condemns him. It is at least his | duty to pause and reflect, and to re-examine the grounds of his unprecedented action. Can he believe that a citizen of the venerable age, calm wisdom, republican sympathies and elevation of character of Mr. Bryant, whose name heads this | call, would co-operate in a movement which | his judgment does not approve? Would Mr. Bryant lend his repttation to a vulgar partisan movement? Nobody can believe it | duty to arouse the country toa sense of im- | minent public danger. The President will | soon see that he is not supported by the senti- ment of the country, ard that his unparal- leled course arouses the apprehensions of the | people as no other public event has done since the firing on Fort Sumter. Can he think | it possible that he is right when the wisest men ot the country declare him so dangerously in the wrong? We trust that this demonstration, which expresses the soundest opinion of the country, may be duly weighed by the Presi- dent. It is not safe for his reputation to dis- regard the sober judgment of his country- wisest minds look upon as fraught with the gravest peril. The moral earnestness by which this strong reprobation of his policy in Louisiana is supported challenges his notice and has claims to his most careful con- sideration. This respectable and inftuential call ought beyond which no public officer in this repub- | lican government can go with impunity. The | people do not forget the services of General | Grant ; they do not grudge him the fame he | 80 fairly won as the commander of their armies in the most momentous crisis of our history, It is due to him more than to any other man that we possess an undivided country. It was his | military genius that reunited a sundered fed- | The Duty of Congress. Anemergency of such extreme gravity as the present is fitted to exert a sobering influ- ence on all minds that have any agency iu directing public opinion or controlling official | action. It is one of those rare and momen- tous occasions when inconsiderate appeals to the passions of an excited community would be a wanton trifling with great interests and would betoken a shallow insensibility to (he | magnitade of the questions involved. The public press in particular, which is the chief sentinel on the watch tower of liberty, and the most efficient engine for arousing and guiding public sentiment, has a deep sense of its responsibility in a conjuncture where it recognizes its duty to bea champion of con- stitutional liberty, and yet feels that impas- | sioned appeals for sound principles migat precipitate the country into inflammatory pro- ceedings which would make the remedy more fatal than the disease. Tho press of the country stands as a mediator between Congress and the people, and it is in danger, | in so great a crisis, of so arousing popular passions as to put them beyond the control of cautious reason, We are unalterably opposed to violent and revolutionary methods of re- dress. We have ao firm and abiding faith in the capacity of our institutions to remedy public wrongs by peaceful and legal methods. We trust thatthere is sufficient love of lib- erty, tempered by sobriety of judgment, to set- tle this unfortunate Louisiana difficulty with- out overstepping legal limits. Public senti- ment, in this community, at least, is fully awake to the gravity of the situation. Tho fact that the call for a public meeting is signed by such eminent republican citizens as William Cullen Bryant and Mr. Evarts shows | how deeply the conduct of the President bas stirred public feeling among that intelligent class to which the community looks for coun- seland guidance. We believe that the views | of Mr. Bryant and Mr. Evarts are the views of all fair-minded citizens, not only here, but throughout the Northern States. Moreover, there is good reason to suppose that the same opinion is held by clear-sighted members of Congress, and particularly Speaker Blaine, | who, however we may rank him as a consti- tational lawyer, is unquestionably one of the shrewdest judges of popular sentiment among | our public men. It is significant that Mr. | Hale, who proposed the bill for a new election in Louisiana, is a Representative from Maine. | It is not probable that he would have taken such a step without consultation with the most distinguished and influential republican mem- ber from his own State. It may, indeed, be said that Mr. Blaine is a scheming candidate for the Presidency ; but if this is admitted it strengthens instead of invalidates the case against President Grant. It shows that the astutest politician in the republican party perceives the destructive effect of sustaining | the action of the President in Louisiana. So practised a politician os Mr. Blaine foresees nothing but defeat and ruin in standing by the policy of General Grant in a case where | he is so clearly in the wrong. The unqualified indorsement of the action of General Sheridan by the President and | Cabinet, which has been officially communi- | cated to him by the Secretary of War, forbids | any hope that the President will reverse his | action unless Congress interposes to constrain him. We do not see how Congress can evade | its responsibility. But what can Congress do? Aside from passing a bill of the same general tenor as that offered by Mr. Hale there are several methods it could adopt. First, the two houses might pass a joint reso- lution censuring the President’s illegal inter- ference with a State Legislature, and declaring that he exceeded his authority. This would stay his hand and compel him to retreat; but there are obvious party reasons why such a vote of censure is impracticable. Secondly, he might be impeached on perfectly solid grounds, and it Congress were as hostile to him as it was to President Johnson this rem- edy would be promptly adopted. party motives which prevent s vote of censure impeachment, Thirdly, Congress might re- vise the existing law, which clothes the Presi- dent with authority to employ the public eration, and the great body of the American people are disposed to pass a lenient judg. | ment upon his occasional mistakes in civil | administration. But they would have him | remember that their rooted attachment to| constitutional liberty is a deeper sentiment | which Governor Tilden will speak of the mili- tary usurpation in Louisiana. He will not | that no past services, however distinguished som the State authorities, and forbiddin, than personal admiration and gratitude, and | on the application of its Executive or Legisla- ture. It might, for example, require the sanction of three or some other number of the Judges of the Supreme Court betore the Presi- dent could employ the federal army ina State ; or it might impose a limit of time be- | yond which the military power could not be | exerted, after insurrectionary opposition is once put down, without a new application permit New York to be silent when Ohio, and brilliant, can atone for a want of | interference except for the sole purpose of up- Massachusetts and Tennessee have so tear- fidelity to the spirit of our free institu- | holding public order against armed bodies of | lessly spoken. “Ary or Us.’’—What does ‘us’? mean? Secretary Belknap informs General Sheridan that “‘all of us’’ approve of his action in New Orleans. Is Secretary Fish one of ‘ns?” | Perhaps he may reply to Secretary Belknap as Richelieu did to Baradas—‘‘What page in | the court grammar, man, made youa plural?” Tansany Hatt has done well to enter its | protest against the outrage in Louisiana, and has emphasized that protest by quoting Gov- ernor McEnery’s words, “that such action is | subversive of the republican institutions of | this free country.'’ Tammany Hall in this | tions or release him from his solemn | oath to “preserve, protect and defend the | ' constitution of the United States.” In his first inaugural address he declared that he would have no policy to enforce against the will of the people, and if this call shall re- | vive and invigorate that purpose his country- men will throw a broad mantle of indulgence and oblivion over bis recent great mistake. The eminent ropublicans who have signed this grave call have put their names to it “more in sorrow than in anger.” insurgents. But there is no reason for hoping that any of these methods will be adopted by Congress in the present conjuncture, But a remedy similar in substance to Mr. Hale's bill, similar in substance to Senator | Carpenter's bill two years ago, would be entirely practicable and could not be con- | strued as an affront to the President. General Grant has repeatedly asked Congress to re- lieve him of his responsibility in this Louisi- ana difficulty, and there is no way in which Congress could accede to these reiterated re- | the control of its local authorities. But the | would be more effective against a successful | force in suppressing insurrections in a State | | directly and ig any | quests with so much respectful considera- tion for the President as by providing | for a fair and honest election in Louisiana. | government competent to preserve the peace. Its pretended Legislature is without a quo- rum, and therefore incompetent to perform any legislative act. Its pretended Governor would be compelled to seek refuge in flight if he were not supported by federal bayonets, Both the pretended Governor and the pre- tended Legislature are indebted for such authority as they assume to possess to frauds which nobody has the face to deny or defend. Unless the guarantee of republican govern- ment is unmeaning surplusage in the jederal constitution the present is a case in which it may be properly called into force. The only way to re-establish republican government ina State in which it has been subverted is by an honest election, through which the people may declare their will. The difficult part of the problem is to devise the machinery of a fair election. It would not do to intrust its management to any of the Louisians factiong, and expose it to the same imputations of fraud which have attended all recent elections in that State. Still less would it do to.putitin charge of President Grant and the army, with the known bias and un- qualified committals of the President in favor of the bogus Kellogg government. Unless tho election can be lifted out of the atmosphere of party passions it would only thicken the diffi- culties and further inflame the country. It would be worse than idle for Congress to take this subject in hand unless it gives a secure guarantee of perfect fairness ond honesty in the election it orders. Congress has unquestionable power to take it out of the hands of the President. There aro various methods it could adopt, but perhaps one of the fairest and most satisfactory would be to appoint a committee of its own body— say the fair-minded committee it recently sent to New Orleans—to act in conjunction with a committee of the most eminent citizens of the State. The State committee should be com- posed of members selected in equal propor- tions from the two political parties, but ap- pointed only with the consent of the Super- vising Committee of Congress, who should reject all members of whose fairness and in- tegrity they have not satisfactory proofs. When. Governor and a Legislatare shall have been elected by an honest vote of the people the duty of Congress would be dis- charged, and the State could be safely left to There are, doubtless, shorter and better methods, but in the present state of parties they are impracticable. The republicans have gone too far in this unfortunate business to retreat by any other road, end while that party re- tains its majority in Congress it is vain to look to any other source of redress. The Comptroller's Respite. Mayor Wickham has put on record his con- demnation ot Comptroller Green as an in- capable or unfaithiul financial officer. He has stated to the Common Council tbat he is not | in a position to inform them what tho liabili- ties of “the city really are, but that in his | judgment ‘the time has arrived when the ac- tual financial condition of the city should be definitely ascertained and published in de- tail.” He has declared that it is impossible to devise and carry out any practical measure | of effectual relief until the taxpayers are in possession of the fullest information on the subject of the finances—information they do not at present possess. If this means any- thing it means that the head of the Finance | Department is either so incapable as to be ignorant of our true financial condition | or so dishonest as to deceive or with- hold informatién from the people he serves. It is the duty of the Comp- troller to know ‘what the liabilities of the city really are.’ Why is the information withheld from the Mayor? It is the duty of the Comptroller to be familiar with ‘‘the actual financial condition of the city.” Why are not the taxpayers in posses- sion of ‘the fullest information on the sub- ject?’’ The Mayor calls on the Common Council to take measures—in which he promises to heartily co-operate—to procure a balance sheet showing the financial position of the city at the close of the past year. What necessity could exist for this recommendation to the Common Council if we had, in the opinion ot the Mayor, a capable and faithful | head of the Finance Department, whose statements could be accepted as reliable? Mayor Wickham further arraigns the Comp- troller for having caused ‘‘vexatious and costly litigation” by “forcing current claims | against the city’ into the courts ‘before the | creditor can secure the amount to which he is justly entitled.” The charge is in- not directly made, it trne; but when the Mayor pledges himself to secure in the future “to every just and | honest creditor a speedy settlement of his claim;” when he declares that he will hence- forth “see that no unnecessary delay takes | place on the part of the proper officers of the government in passing upon claims presented to them for adjustment and settlement;’’ when he proclaims that ‘thereafter there must bo discrimination—the unjust must be separated | | fgom the just—and as to the latter vexatious and costly litigation will not be permitted,” he means tbat the evils he promises to remove | have heretofore existed, or he means nothing at all, and his words become mere rodomon- tade. Now, why does the Mayor hesitate to re- move @ financial officer whom he thus ar- is be by some regarded as an indication of {n- stability of purpose. We have every conf- dence that Mayor Wickham will do his duty in the end. We believe that he will better satisfy the people if he does it promptly. Panctille Over a Volcano. Both Senator Conkling’s constituents and the sober portion of the republican party everywhere must regret the pertinacity with which he pressed his amendment to Mr. Thur- man’s resolution of inquiry. Had he merely proposed it a8 a point of courtesy and grace- fully yielded as soon as he saw that it was likely to obstruct the passage of the resolu- tion, it would have been regarded as a proper enough attention to the forms of official inter- course, But the heat and acrimony with which the amendment was insisted on showed that his real objection was to the substance of the resolution, and that he wished the Presi- dent to be relieved of any obligation to an- swer the inquiry. It was, therefore, an imprudent confession that it would embarrass President Grant .to give a satisfactory answer to the request of the Senate for an explanation. If the conduct of the President is indefensible, and is per- ceived to be indefensible by his friends in the Senate, it is natural that they should oppose a call for information. But if he has a valid explanation—if he has a defence which rests on solid legal grounds or on facts which have not come to the publio knowledge—his party supporters should be willing to afford him the earliest opportunity to communicate it and thereby allay the prevailing excitement and tranquillize the public mind. Attempts to ob- struct inquiry are calculated to produce an impression that the conduct of the President is indefensible in the estimation of his politi- cal friends, If the question were not so grave and did not so deeply stir public fecling this fastidious stickling fora mere form would be ludicrous. It is a form which has been frequently neglected, as is attested by the records of the Senate and as Mr. Thurman proved in the course of the debate by a copious citation of instances. But even if the usage of the Senate had been uniform it would be unwise to stand so stiffly oa a punctilio in a question which goes to the very foundation of our insti- tutions on points so essential as the subordina- tion of the military to the civil power, the right of the people to have their votes in an election fairly counted and the exemption of legislative assemblies from interference with | their proceedings by illegal violence. Have | the spirit of liberty and respect for the con- stitution fallen into such decay that the Senate cau weigh a trivial form of official etiquette against the rights, peace and dignity of a State of the Union? In a conjuncture so alarming it is the duty of Congress to be watchful for the general welfare, and it is their right to ask for information to guide their judgment, and itis the clear duty of the President to furnish it. Tho first duty, the very first, that is required of him by the constitution, after enumerating his powers, is | this:—“‘He shall, from time to time, give to | Congress information of the state of tho Union.” He is bound to kesp Congress in- | formed on every important point relating to the welfare of the Union, whether specially called on or not; and when, in a great crisis, | such information is asked for by the represent- | atives of the people, he cannot constitutionaliy withhold it. It is absurd for his political sup- | porters to interpose quibbling questions of form to save the President from the perform- ance of aclearduty. Itis infinitely absurd to rank such forms above the rights of a State and the endangered pesee of this country. Governor Trupex, when the Legislature re- ; assembles next Tuesday, or possibly before, will undoubtedly defend the State, which has | just honored him, from the possible results of | | the President’s policy in the South. New York dare not stand by silently and look j coldly upon the dispersion at the bayonet’s | | point of the Legislature of a sister State. Mn. Bovrwett, when he was » member of | the House, decided, by an elequent speech, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Mr. | Boutwell is now in the Senate; will he be | silent in respect to the greater offence of Grant? | Anorner Prorest.—A number of the lead- | ing clergymen of Arkansas have published an | appeal to the people of the country denying the statement of General Sheridan that a reign of terror exists in their State, but say that the { remedy he proposes would of itself produce | terrorism indeed. Massacuvsetts saw yesterday a spectacle as unfamiliar as roses in December or snow- flakes in June—the inauguration of a demo- cratic Governor at the capital. Waar Is tax Trurn?—We have repeatedly affirmed thet the President would be con- demned in the cyes of all honest men, republicans or otherwise, even to the point of impéachment, if he did not promptly com- | municate to the country the reasons which led him to make General Sheridan Commander- | in-Chief of the Army and Navy and virtually proconsul of Louisians, with power to dissolve | legislatures and overturn sovereign assemblies, The President now intimates that he is in possession of facts which justify the course he has taken, and that he will probably place them before the country in a special message The Clerical Protest, The press has spoken with a unanimity um usual in these days of partisan strife; the Governors of two Northern States—Mnsss- chusetts and Ohio—have spoken; Arkansas, Tennessee and the outraged people of Lonisiana have spoken, and New York will soon speak to the President in lan- guage which may compel him again to an- swer, ‘Be brief; Lam sick.” He has reason to be, for no other President—not even Mr. Johnson—ever offended the American people ashe has done, But in the midst of all these voices of surprise and indignation General Grant may hear the calmer utterance of the Churen, the ministers of which know neither party, but speak simply for the good of all. In answer to the accusations which General Sheridan made in his despatches to the Secretary of War the leading olergy- men of New Orleans have issued an ad- dress to the American people. They affirm that it is their duty ‘to pro claim to the whole American people that those charges are unmerited, unfounded and erroneous, and can have no other effect than that of serving tho interests of corrupt politi- cians, who are at this moment making most extreme efforts to perpetuate their power over the State of Louisiana.” The signatures to this address include those of Archbishop Perche, Bishop Wilmer, the Rev. Dr. Gut- heim, Bishop Keener, of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, and the Rev. Dr. Dall, rector of St. Juseph’s church, besides many others. These reverend gentlemen can have no motive to utter what is not the trath about society in Louisiana, and they have privileged means of knowing its character. The Presi- dent may disregard thoir protest against the stigma that has been put upon their State, but the American people whom they address will listen and believe. The Church is neutral as between political parties, but it cannot be neutral between the wrong and the right, Taz Inrenconnecratz Contest experiment was tried at the Academy of Music last night. It will be seen from oup report of what took place that even the winner of the first prize in oratory only won becauso he forgot himself end was natural in his delivery during a part of his speech, The whole thing, how- ever, was a dreary exhibition of mediocrity, and demonstrated clearly enough that these young men would have been better employed if they had given more time to their studies and less care and anmety to their show speeches, which were not much of a show after all. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, It 1s again rumored that Mr. Disraeli is to be married, 4 Marlon Harland has an income of $2,500 from her “Cook Book” alone. Mr. Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, is stopping at the Metropoiitan Hotel. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is stay- ing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. ‘rhe subscription book publishers are accused of | snapping up the most popular writers, The American edition of ‘Chambers’ Encyclope dia” costs $55 and the Scotch edition $16, Professor L. H. Atwater, of Princeton College, is residing temporarily at the Everett House, Rev. Dr. W. C. Cattell, President of Lafayette College, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins and Mr. Henry R. Pierson, of Albany, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Baron de Busaitre, of Paris, arrived in this city yesterday, from Washington, and is at the Hoff man House. State Senator Wells S. Dickinson, of Bangor, N, Y., is among the latest arrivals at the Metros politan Hotel. A Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig will make its ap pearance 1st March, with the irrepressible Parson Brownlow as editor. Assemblymen James C, Brown, of Spring Valley, and Adolph E. Wenzel, of Callicoon, N. Y., are registered at Earie’s Hotel. Speaker Jeremiah McGuire and Mr. D, C, Ellis, Superintendent o1 the Bank Department, arrived trom Albany yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel. Democrats will console themseives over the New Orleans case with the thought that it there was any doubt in regard to '76 these events have re- moved It. “Deep Sea Fishing and Fishing Boats,” by W. H. Holdsworth, ts a finely illustrated and well written | book on the capture of sea fish, which may be classed as one of the great industries of Britain. The name of A, M. Holorook now appears at the head of the New Orleans Picayune as “editor and proprietor,” thus setting at rest the doubts of some of his contemporaries as tothe proprietors ship of the paper. Frank B. Carpenter, the well known artist, is at work on a portrait of Hon. Ezra Cornell. The sittings for the picture were given at Ithaca last summer. The portrait was ordered by the trustees of the Cornell University. With what gusto would the tyrant in Madrid have received trom she Duke to Alva @ proposl- tion to declare all the patriot people of the Netuer- lands ‘‘banditti!’? The tyrant would have said your course ts ‘thoroughly proved.”” She 1s a dreadful creature, Cora Pearl; and yet the other night, when her coachman was arrested just as she came out of the theatre, » ‘Jeune elé- gant’ volunteered to get on the box and drive her home, It seems sometimes as il they were fond of dreadful creatures, Russia has given her Turcomans of Astrakhan a “reservation” on the Peninsula of Mangbyschlak, beyond the Caspian. They began to move thither | in September, and all who are nut moved by May wiil be counted as inhabitants of Astrakhan and will consequently be subiect to the laws like other people. The suggestion of the Springfield Republican that General Sherman should resign 1s one that he | will not be foolish enough to act upon, It isan | axiom in military science not to do what your enemy wants you to do, and to refrain from a cer- tain course simply because he wants you to take it. Every lover of the country feels at this crisis that there is a great guarantee in the fact that the commander of the army 1s not a creature of the A bill for this purpose would have passed | the Senate two years ago had it not been | for the democratic opposition. The ob- | jections then made by the democrats | have become obsolete by the progress of | indignant utterance speaks for all New York, | Tux Frvaxce But.—Contrary to expecta- without respect to party. | tion the Finance bill was yesterday rushed ier ! through the House, without debate, just as it had been through the Senate, and passed by a vote of 136 to 99. The previous question was raigns? Some of the city papers allege that the Mayor has ‘‘made his peace” with Mr. Presta Valateectants HERE M. De Villemessant, of the Paris Figaro, has dis- played enterprise unusual in the Parts press by sending one of his best leader writers to India to attend the trialof Nana Sahib, Such enterprise to Congrese. The press of the United States, Green; others, that he hesitates to remove tho which is ignorant of any such startling infor- | Comptroller in the fear that the Governor will | sgjaagssring as ly say that the VF inom ssabeate violate his principles to “save” a personal | be as extraordinary as the act of the President, | Now anp Turx.—‘‘If any man hauls down the American flag,” said General Dix, in 1861, “shoot him on the spot.” ‘The American called and cut off all discussion upon the | events. If they believe that a majority of the | friend. We do not accept either of these ex- | °T that ho must stand condemned for usurpa- | wouid sdurcely Ie bina misdiete America, but is ene eo le sdvine. | Bat Dow, | merits of the bill. If by such measures as | people are opposed to the Kellogg usurpa-! planations, for to do so would be to ton peters 0 Ds a | bebe inlet iigele. trate shop in the when not the flag but the citizenship it repre- sents is degraded, General Dix is silent. His eloquent words in 1875 are, “I have nothing at all to say on the question. this the republican party in Congress expects to regain the confidence of the people it is much mistaken. A finance bill, of all bills, | deserves to be fully debated, and not to be carried tuder the party whip; anda bill that | cannot stand debate is confessedly k. It now goes tothe Pr nt for his signature ; and as it was undoubtedly passed by his ordor he will no doubt approve his work. should welcome an opportunity for o fair and Tue Forrtcnens resident in New Orleans and doing business there have heid a meeting and protested against the language used by General Sheridan in his despatches as an injury and a degra yn, and this they do without venturing to offer any opinion upon the political merits of the situation, damaging situation by a method which could not wound their party pride. tion could rest. ach State a republican form of | g r Until republican government } is overthrown ina State there is no warrant | ANDEE' on’s opinions upon the Loui- : Lapecedalt ih i be cht pungent ressional interference. This is a | Govegxon Brows, in his \ copgrat. | he was sn impeached President, y on of fact to be determined by the wise | plates the Legislature of ‘Tennessee that it is | interesting. Hiei deliberation and sober judgment of Congress; permitted to assemble peac nd thatno | Tue A: ature has formally | but it is a question which is divested of all | military forces are ass sperse it. | protested a ution of ¢ difficulty by the condition of affairs in Lonisi- But he warns it that this immunity may not | Louisiana, continue, and, like Governor Allen, calls upon | ple to know whether the Southern States are it to protest against the usurpation at Wash- | independent or merely provinces. Provinces ington for the sake of constitutional liberty. | at present, we should suppose, and appeals to the American peo- | ana. Louisiana is a State without any gov- ernment at all, republican or other. It is a tion—as no doubt they are—the democrats | honest election, and the republicans in Con- | gress ought to be glad to escape the present | There is only one basis on which euch | The constitution guar- | State in which order is maintained only by | | the presence of the federal army, having no | case is a direct injustice to the city, and may | condemn Mayor Wickham as unfit to hold the office for which he has, up to this time, | shown gratifying qualifications. It may be trus that the Mayor, in his kindness of heart, has conceded to Mr. Green a certain respite in order to afford him an opportunity to re- sign. If he has done so we believe. he has made a mistake, for the Comptroller will never resign. If the delay bas been sought it bas been for the purpose of affording an opportunity for intrigue to embarrass a re- moval. It is sometimes wise to ‘‘make haste slowly,” but the policy is often harmful, The people desire to get rid of Mr. Green. The Mayor has condemned him. The Board of Apportionment have censured him for official miscondnet. It is essential, above all things, that the finances of the city should be man- aged capably and faithfully, Delay in this we cannot imagine any conspiracy in the South, without overt action, which could jus- tify the dispersion of a sovereign Legislature. But the President is bound, in respect to the American people, to submit to Congress, at the earliest day, the information he claims to possess. If there is an excuse we must know it, Govennon At of Ohio, has spoken to | his Legislature in emphatic terms, and Gov. | ernor Gaston, of Massachusetts, and Gov. | ernor Brown, of Tonnessee, in their mes- sages have also urged the Representatives of | those States to take immediate action, It is plain that the Prosident has offended the pride and outraged the rights of the American people, and that there is but one answer to the blow he has delivered upon ail the States | when he struck down Louisiana with the sword, ny | pled to it by steam, Rue Fontaine, in Paris, He has a weakness for art and for artists, Me wusts them, and some times this is very important tovthem, He docs not get rich, however. On the contrary, he gets poor. In December sixteen Frencn artists of fira® rate reputation, every one of whom in his time has been helped by Pere Joseph, each contrivuted a picture forthe benefit of their old friend, The pictures will be exnibited and then sold, and Jo+ | seph will be able, evidently, to keep the wolf away. The Shan, riding to the translation of his diary kept m England, was enraptured witn the iiuminated Albert Hall blazing with its countless jets of gas, On the one side the great organ “spread itself out like @ plane tree.” To rigat and jeft were $00 lovely maldens attired ima unt form of spotiess white, but one-half of them wear- ing biue riboons and the other half red, The | stupendons instrament was manipulated by a “Te played well, but wind was sup. Otherwise how could an tn dividual, with his feet or both hands, biow tne neediul blast?” single mon,