The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1867, Page 4

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Crosby creditor by 210,000 tickets, at $5, $1,080,000; debtor to 30,000 tickets not sold, $150,000; to ad- vertising, $150,000; to paintings, $15,000; to engravings, $100,000; to commissions, $45,000; to printing and traveling, mpldlr. Lee, 000. Total debt, $750,000; profit, Value of Opera- the undertaking, $650,000. ouse, $350,000. Total profit on e PROFESSOR AGAss1Z's LuCTURES.—A course of lec- tures by Professor Agassiz is announced for delivery in this city before the New-York Association for the Adwyancement of Science, in the month of February. The course will consist of five lectures, descriptive of the Professor’s recent explorations in the valley of the Amazen, including a full account of the physical geography and natural history of that interesting poztion of South America. Among the topics treated by Professor Agassiz, the ancient tropical glaciers cannot fail to attract the attention of intelligent listeners, as well from the nature of the subject, as from the ample knowledge and comprehensive views which he brings to its discussion. For many years, he devoted his personal researches to the glaciers of the Alps, pitching liis tent in the Summer season in the region of perpetual snow, and establishing con- clusions of great importance which have been adopted as the basis of subsequent inquiries, His descrip- tions of the animal kingdow in Brazl promise to be eqmlllgouuncuvr. and the public of New-York may well congratulated that such an opportunity of instruction ‘and entertainment is to be brought to their very doors. We publish elsewhere the announcement of the Fraternity Course of lectures upon National affairs, to be delivered in the Brooklyn Academy of be given Musie. The opening lecture will by Wendell Phillips on Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, Henry Ward , - Beecher will lecture ou the 15th, to be followed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and William Lloyd Garrison on the successive Tuesday A similar course of lccturés upon public dclivered last Winter in the Academy, at- large audiences, and were hmly .me; cotrse v citizens of Brooklyn, 10 be equally moee’;dul. . e Dr. Hebard will give the first of a course of spractical and popular lectures on Human Improve- .ment at Cooper Institute this evening., Digestion, NewWork Daily Sribuwe, “ MONDAY. JANUARY 25, 1867. T0 No notice ean be taken of Anouymous Cowmunications. Whatever is intended for insertion must be autheaticated by te wame sud address of the writer—not ecessarily for publication, it as & guaranty for his good faith All busioess letters for thls office should be addressed to oxe,” NewYork We oangot andertake to retarn rejectad Communications. Tus Tuis Advertisements for this week's fssue of THE WkekLT TRIBUNE must be handed tn o Day EF On the second page will be found a report of the meeting held at the (}mé(ocr "Institute on Sat- urday evening in aid of the Cretans; a letter from our Dublin cory ndent; a letter from the sqld regions of Canada West; Uity News, including the Confested Election [‘lwahyfl!;m}; the Uom- mitment of the Kev. Mr. Williams, Fires, Crimes, dic.; and the Criminal Court reports. The Commercial News and Markets appear on the third page; Literary Items on the sixth, and the Civil wrt reports, Shipping Intelligence and other matters on the seventh page. P The Germans held a mass [meeting at the Cooper Institute last evening, and reaffirmed their support of the Excise Law. P Y Our Mexican advices published this morning announce two important facts: The capture of Ortega; and the prospect of the early evacuation by the French of the City of Mexico, which is now closely besieged by the Liberals. Gen. Sheridan, in refusing to allow civic honors to be paid to the body of the Rebel Gen. Johnston, hasea new claim upon the respect of the nation. In his brief letter to the Mayor of Galveston, Texas, he says: “k “ have too much regard for the memory of the “Jrave men who died to preserve our Govern- “ment, to authorize Confederate demonstra- “ tions over the remains of any one who at- “tempted to destroy it.” These are noble words, and will ring through the land. e et It is not surprising to hear that one of the counties of Texas is in a state of reconstructive grace that looks like rebellion. Bowie County, having mortally wounded a Union officer, after killing his wife, defies the soldiers of the United States. Nothing can be more natural than muider and rebellion in the States blessed by Messts. Throckmorton and Monroe. The wonder is that any policy could have so far en- conraged assassination as to make the lives not ouly of negroes, but of United States soldiers, too cheap. most eurious and State census of in offi- where we present the ive features of the 1865, Though mot yet published cial shape, the statement of Dr. Hough to tho Board of Supervisors enables us to give a good part of its best sub- stance. From the important chapter showing by figures the varying intensity of political campaigns, we learn that in the last there was a greater proportion of voters to population than at any former times. Astonishiy may be, there are cighteen centen: this city of tenements and saloons, and eleven of these are of Irish birth. There are 145,683 familics in the city, 42,900 of which are with- out children; 161,334 Irish, and 107,260 German persons, The full statistics are very compre- hensive and abound in suggestion. ] The Leg ¢ Committee on Rivers and Har- bors, in their investigation of the abuses of the Ferry system, will not need to search for facts. The facts are looking for the Committee, and are clamorous for attention. Yesterday supplied another. The Wall-st. Ferry suspended its trips entirely ; no bedt left the slips all day. As the her was perfectly elear, though cold, and the river free from ice, there could be no excuse for this suspension, which took place, as usual, with- out any notice to the public. Hundreds of people left the slip, disgusted but not surprised. The day being Sund when comparatively few per- sons use this fel the company thought it wonld save the expense of coal, and compel the public to use the other lines it controls. Thus it would lose few or no fai merely putting its patrons to the inconvenicnce of walking an extra half- mile and losing time, for which, of ceurse, it cares nothing. For this act, and for many simi- lar acts, the Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn deserves to have its charter taken away, and we believe that could be done on the just ground of a violation of its contract and its obligations to the State and the pul “Thus bad begins but worse remains behind,” might have been prophetically quoted when the House last week went into the buffoonery busi- ness. The next day Mr. Cooper called a fellow- member a liar, and not being censured for this gross indecency, Mr. Hunter, Democratic mem- ber from Brooklyn, was, on Saturday, en- couraged to repeat the offense, and accused Mr. Ashley of uttering “a base lie.” Mr. Ashley’s remarks, though severe, were general and without any personal appli- cation, so that Mr. Hunter's language was without even the excuse of personal resent- ment. Mr. dall of Pennsylvania pursued the subject, replying to the Speaker's censure of this language asout of order, that it was nevertheless true. After being told that he was ont of order in making this remark, he de- clared that he was ready to repeat it. We are not sure that this insolence to the Speaker and the House was not greater than that of Mr. Hunter; it was certainly as offensive, and the in- sult more deliberate. Mr. Randall was not censured, however, though we are glad that the House, by a vote of 84 to 84, censured Mr, Hunter, and thus showed a little self-respect. Mr. Colfax might properly have couched his rebuke in stronger words; as it is, we fear that the mild censure Mr. Hunter received, and Mr. Randall’s escape from any punishment, with the whole disrespectful tone of the debate, prac- tically amount to the condoning of these out- rageous offenses against the common decency of society and legislation, and an encourage- ment to further insults. There must be an end of them if the House desires to retain the re- spect of its constituents. The meeting held Saturday night, in aid of the Cretan patriots, of which we print a full report on the second page, was worthy of the metronolis and of the great cause it was in- tended to help. Mr. Beecher, in declaring that money and food for the Cretans were not char- ity, but justice—Dr. Hitchcock, in pointing out how much our Republican Institutions owe to Grecian prototypes—Mr. Baneroft's letter, in demanding that this country should exert its full moral influence, and do its share in forming the opinion of, the world—expressed the earnest convictions of their hearers, and of millions of Americans whose enthusinsm is arouspd by the old story, ever new, of Grecian herpism and valor. Greece was never more heroie than i~ his revolution of the Cretans, thelr success will rovolytionize §outh-gasy- NEW-YORK' DAILY' TRIBUNE, MONDAY, SANUARY' 28, 1867. ern Earope. All the Christian ‘people subju- gated by the Turks will hail Cretan freedom a8 an earnest of their own. Already, even in the midst of fighting and starving, the enlight- ened spirit of the patriots and the civilization for which they are fighting are expressed in the establishment of a liberal journal, COrete—the first daily paper that island has had. Under the rule of the Turk, Grecian intellect lay crushed; but with the Emancipation from that yoke will come not only newspapers, but schools, churches, manu- factares, commerce, science, art, all that freedom [creates without an effort, and despotism vainly struggles to prevent. This meeting should Dbe but the beginning of the movement in this city in aid of the Cretans. Let all who can, and there are few who cannot, give money and time to the fund, which, under the charge of some of our best men, will assuredly be well managed and faithfully applied. The future of Greece may yet be more truly great than her past, and the prophecy be fulfilled— “ Another Athens ahall arise, And to remoter time lhuuxcnth the ;Inr{ of her skies, "The splendor of her primne.” THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE LATE REBELLION. The circumstance that a Member of Congress is branded a liar for stating in his place that very many Democrats were sympathizers with and virtual allies of the late Rebellion, compels us to ask attention togeertain historical facts. If any one can contradict them or break their force, we beg him not to hide his candle under a bushiel. L Secession was first inaugurated in South Carolina, directly after the popular choice of Presidential Electors early in November, 1860, whereby the accession of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency was assured. The men who inaugn- rated it were all Democrats—that is, they had supported for President Van Buren in 1840, Polk in 1844, Cass in 1848, Pierce in 1852, Bu- chanan in 1856, and J. C. Breckinridge in 1860. There may have been one or two exceptions, but we know of none. There was certainly no Republican among them, whether in that or any other State. And, whatever their impulse to Seccession, their pretert for it was the trinmph of the Republicans in the choice of Mr. Lincoln aforesaid. 1L Other States—at least ten of them—fol- lowed South Carolina in her so-called Seces- gion. Two or three more pretended or were claimed to bave done so. In every instance, this so-called Secession was substantially the act of the Democratic party of those States respectively. That is to say: the great body of those who had previously “run” the Demo- cratie machine were early and ardentSecession- ists, while the muss of the opposite party was either adverse or lnkewarm. Thus, every Demo- eratic Governor of a State, those of Delaware and Kentucky excepted, was at the head of the hunt for Disunion nd, of the exceptions, each openly eontemncd all foreible resistance to the movement. IT1. The Federal Government was then wholly in the hands of the Demoeratic party, save that the House of Representatives was tied—Wm. Pennington (moderate Republican) baving at length been chosen its Speaker by one majority. But in no single de ment oppose est resistance to Secession, President Buc n, in his 1860, squarely proclaimed that Congress had no right to use fo to prevent the withdrawal of a State from the Union, nor to compel her to yield obedience to its laws. To do this, he ar- This proclamation of National formal opinion from Jere. 8. Black, s afterward his Seeretary of ¢, who 1 that the use of armed men to enforce laws, in the state of things, I, p. 870.) anarchy was backed by exi the would be “wholly il that an attempt to make a seceded State ful- fill her Federal obligations * would be, ipso fi “an expulsion of su te from the Unio (The very sophistry which we hear every day from the Democrats of 1867.) 1V. During that memorable Winter Demo- cratic Conventions were held in several States —that in this State (held in Tweddle Hall, Albany, Jan. 31, 1861) being one of the ablest and strongest that was ever convened. But from none of these Conventions, [nor from the Democrats in Congress, nor from the thousand to fifteen*hundred Democratic journals pub- lished in the country, was a voice raised in deprecation of for dissent from, these disorgan- izing doctrines. On the 'contrary, they were generallyTreéchoed and almost™funiversally ac- quiesced in. V. Seven States having seceded’before Mr, Buchanan's term expired, their Democratic mem- bers vacated their seats in Congress, with very rare exceptions. Of their few anti-Democratic members, nearly or quite every one remained to the close. VI. Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 18615 and his Ingugural Address was mainly devoted to the inculeation of doctrines regarding” Secession and Coercion, the exact opposites of Messrs, Buchanan and Black's. M. Lincoln was well known to hold (as we did and do) the right of the People to modify or change their form of government as transcend- ing all written constitutions or charters; but he, with great clearness and cogency, yet in perfect kindness, demonstrated that a President must, to the utmost limit of his ability, cause the laws of the Union to be respected and obeyed in every State and Territory—that, ghould a collision of forces result, his position would be strictly defensive and conservative— that the consequent war would be made upon him, not by him. Never was a manifesto more firm and lucid ; never was one less irritating. Either its doctrines were sound, or any State might at any time dissolve the Union. Yet, of the five hundred Democratic journals within our reach, we believe no single one approved and sustained the positions of Mr. Lincoln, VII. Throughout that Winter and the ensu- ing Spring, all the organs of Democratic opin- ion within our observation reprobated Mr. Lin- coln and the Republicans as disturbers and disunionists, because of their intent to oppose force by force, if that should become necessary to maintain the integrity and authority of the Union. We can recall no instance of Demo- cratic rebuke to those who were openly, osten- tatiously conspiring and arming to resist the Union, which they proclaimed already dis- solved. VIII. A Confederacy of the seceded States having been formed, leading Northern and Western Democrats openly advocated the se- cession of their several States from the Union and their accession to the Southern Confeder- acy. “If the Union is to be dissolved,” said Judge Geo. W. Woodward, (Democratic can- didate for Governor in 1863,) “I want the line “to run north of Pennsylvania.” Ex-Gov. Rod- man M. Price of New-Jemey wrote and printed ssage of Dee. 3, | gued, would be to make war on a State, which Congress had no constitut 1] power to do. (See Amevican Conflict, Vol. He further urged | | triet) and should forthwith unite her fortunes with those of the Slaveholding Confederacy. (See it in American Conflict, Vol. I, p. 439.) And ex-Gov. Horatlo Seymour of this State privately argned that New-York should likewise unite with that (Confederacy whose head was Jefferson Davis. It was held by leading Democrats that the Union might thus be reconstructed without bloodshed or convulsion—only New-England, and perhaps two or three of the more fanatical States of the North-West, being exeluded there- fromy as unacceptable to our Southern breth- ren. IX. Actual hostilities were commenced by the Rebels—not by firing on Fort Sumter, as is often asserted, and as Pollard mow pretends, but months before, while Mr. Buchanan was yet President. They seized and appropriated the forts, arsenals, armories, ordnance, arms, munitions, custom-houses, post-ofiices, sub- treasuries, &c., throughout nearly half the Union, without a shadow of resistance—his Democratic Secretaries of War and the Treas- ury being conspicuous, active Disunionists, and he himself, with most of his counselors, play- things in their hands. Before Texas was out of the Union, according to Rebel computation, the bulk of our little army bhad been betrayed by its commander, Gen. Twiggs, and sur- rendered to three Rebel Commissioners—Feb. 18th, 1861—a fortnight before Mr. Buchanan went out of office, If ever a Government for- bore till smitten on both cheeks, and till to- Dbaceo-juite had been spit into its eyes, that did the Federal Government before grappling with the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. And yet, from first to last, the Democratic journals and canvassers represented the War for the Union as waged by Mr. Lincoln and the Republicans, and assumed that the Rebels were assailed and stahding on the defensive! X. Democratic protests and remonstrances, public and private, against the War as cruel, fratricidal, wicked, revolting, abhorrent, &e., &ec., were abundant throughout the struggle ; not one of them, so far as we can recollect, ad- dressed to the Rebel chiefs, but all assuming that Mr. Lineoln and the Republicans were waging hostilities necdlesdly if not wantonly, and might have an honorable peace whenever they would. Thopas H. Seymour of Connecti- cut was the author of one .of the carliest of these paralyzing missives; and he was nomina- ted by acclamation by the Democrats of Con- necticut as their candidate for Governor in 1863, and his clection enthusiastically supported by the party. XI. In this City, one of our Democratic jour- nals, The Daily News, was an open, unquali- fied contemner of the War on our side and champion of the Rebellion, from first to last. It did its utmost to prevent enlistment in the Union armies, eulogized the Rebel chiefs, and proclaimed that they could never be subdued ; systematically magnified their successes and de- nied or belittled their reverses; and was well understood to be their stipendiary and tool. In full view of the s, its editor was in 1862 made the regular Demoeratic candidate for Con- gress in one of our strong Democrati listricts, running on the same ticket with Gov. Seymour and receiving nearly the full vote of his party; and he has since been chosen by that party to a scat in our State Senate. XIL As to the propositions, specches, acts and votes of Vallandigham, Bayard, Bright, May, Josh. Allen, Jack. Rogers, and other Democrats in Congress, including Benj. G. Harris’s vaunt that the Rebellion never could nor ought to be put down, we leave them to Mr. Ashley or whoever shall see fit to answer Messrs, Winfield and Hunter not according to their folly. Just a word, however, to the form- er of these gentlemen. One of the very fore- most Democrats in his district is (or was) Gen. Archibald €. Niven, who, very early in the war, wrote a letter to a nephew who meditated enlistment to fight for the Union, urging him not to do so, and representing the War on our side as cruelly oppressive and un- just. That letter was published ; aud thereupon Gen. Niven was made the Democratic candi- date for Senator (in Mr. Winfield's precise dis- ol the full Democratic vote, by which he was returned elected ; but the Senate, on a contest, gave the seat to his Republican competitor, Judge Low. —We might multiply such facts to infinity; but need we? Suffice it that, as the¥result of a most anxious, intent contemplatioggof the history of our great struggle, we do most un- doubtingly believe that the Demoerats, as a party, were not at heart for the Union in its terrible struggle with Secession—that they did not rejoice at its triumphs nor deplore its de- feats. We do not say that a majority of them wished the Union permanently dissolved: we know, and have often stated, that they did not: but they believed that Union defeats and disasters would discredit and destroy the Repub- lican ascendancy, and that they would there- upon come into power and coax the Rebels back into the Union by all manner of concessions and prostrations to the Slave Power. They hiad no notion that the Union could (or should) be saved otherwise than byiletting the slaveholders have their way in it; and the road to this, they realized, lay not through Union vigtorigs but th cxutmry. Firmly gronm\ in this conviction, are we at liberty to proclaim it? Do we deserve to be knocked down and stamped on whenever we say what we believe? or only to be branded as liars? What say you, Messrs, Winfield and Hunter? ——— FREE TRADE BULLYING. The Evening Post parades a lot of figures ar- ranged to show that the Tariff bill now before Congress imposes higher rates of duty on cheap and poor than on rich and costly fabrics, and thus proceeds: “It appears that these Protectionists seek to oppress the poor, the farmers, mechanics and workingmen of the laud, in & special manner, We warn Congressmen to take care how they vote for this bill. Many of its most atro- clous features are most artfully concealed, so that none but experts can discover them now. But the people will them very quickly it the biil becomes a law ; and n they find that the poor man's overcoat, or the poor woman's cloak, i3 made to pay & heavier duty than the rich man’s or woman'’s, and thé same with carpets, silks, &, &c., thoy will ask why this 13, and who voted for this {niduity and oppression. A Western paper, The Chicago Tribune, tells us that the proposed tariff, on hardware alone will take $20,000,000 from the farmers and mechanics n{ only one Btate, and that Iowa—one of the newer 8 tos. Yot Congressmen howare of this bill. 12 it becomes & law, it will kill every man who votes for it. It is an enormous and cold-blooded swindle upon the workingmen of America; and it will be no excuse for Congressmen to say by and by, when callod to account by their con- Mituents, that they did not know what they voted for, “This tarift, if it passes, will very greatly inerease the high prices of all necessaries of life ;" 1t will make all home pro- Quetion more costly than at present; it will disable us from selling either onr manufactures or our natural pro- duets abroad, except at a loss, and it will make the whole nation poor.” —The Post knows better than this—knows that its charge that the friends of Protection seck to oppress the poor, is a groundless, wicked calumny. It has a right to its own view of the natural effect of any measure; but when it ventures to attribute base motives to men nowise less worthy than its conductors and their backers, it exposes itself to just and scath- ing rebuke. The Post assailed those who “the “bill of abominations” of 1828 and “the Black “Tariff” of 1842 with epithets as abusive and detamatory 8y \gsg iy R0y applivs w e gup- porters of Protection in then, as it secks now, to raise a clamor about details and excite odium by imputing unworthy motives to such men as Henry Clay, Walter Forward, Theodore Frelinghuysen, and John Davis. It threatened then, as it threatens now, those who voted: for Protection with popular wrath and ostracism ; yet neither the Tariff of 1828 nor that of 1842 was beaten by making a fair issue upon and carrying the country against it. Each of them was undermined and sub- verted by indirection and subtlety, by com- mending Gen. Jackson and James K. Polk as themselves Protectionists, by parading the Cole- man letter of the former and the Kane letter of the latter. The people will not be so cheated a third time. All that can now be said as to Protection in- creasing prices, paralyzing commerce, destroy- ing revenue, &ec., The Post has urged against former Protective Tariffs, by whose operation they were signally confuted. So it will be again, THE EASTERN QUESTION. 1t is hardly necessary for us to say that the Cable dispatch which—for the tenth or twelfth time—announces that the Cretan insurrection is at an end, is not entitled to any more credit than the preceding dispatches of the same kind, which were contradicted on the next or second next day. Contradictory as the war dispatches of Dbelligerent parties must be ex- pected to be, it is generally conceded that the electric wire has mnever been more shamefully abused than it is now by the Turkish Government. So glaring, indeed, has been the distortion of facts, that the dispatches omanating from the Porte and its faithful allics, the Governments of England and France, have long since ceased to find the least credence. The millions who sympathize with the struggling patriots of Crete will require much stronger proof than a London or Con- stantinople dispatch before they abandon their hopes for the triumph of the righteous cause. Of more importance than this London dispatch announcing the end of the insur- rection, is a statement which we give in another column, from trustworthy sources, concerning the strength of the Turkish troops and of the insur- gents. If the number of the former has been reduced to 20,000 and the latter can muster 8,000 well-armed combatants, the prospects for the leroie Cretans are good, regardless even of the aid they may reasonably expect from the rising in other Christian provinces. Another Cable dispatch, announcing that the Russian, Prussian, and French Governments have resolved to negotiate in common with the Porte upon the Eastern question may not, to an equal degree, lack confirmatien, but it certainly lacks explanation. The - intentions of Russia have long been known, It demands now, as it did before the Crimean War, satis- factory guarantees of the civil rights of the oppressed Christian Provinces from the brutish despotism of the Turks, and it does not coneccal its profound sympathy with the aspirations of these Provinces for the restora- tion of their national independence, There has been a great change, mot in the schemes of Russia, but in the public opinion of Europe. Before the Crimean war, public opinion in Europe did not sustain Russia, and the Liberal papers, secing in the Russian policy nothing but a desire of aggrandizement, generally sided with France, England, and Turkey. Now it is different. Garibaldi, Vietor Hugo, and the Liberals of every European country are work- ing in complete harmony with the efforts of Russian diplomacy ; and so strong runs the eur- rent of public opinion, that the Governments of England and France have clearly been influenced by it, and have not the courage to embark in another Crimean war for the purpose of uphold- ing the Ottoman Empire. It was expected that in this question Prussia would ally herself with Russia, for nothing can be better caleulated to further the aspirations of Prussia in the Ger- man question than an allianco with Russia. But the accession to this alliance of France would certainly seem to be a most singular and most unexpected change of policy. France, even more than England, has done every- thing in its power to discourage the Cretan patriots and the revolutionary movements in other provinees of European Turkey, to dis- pose public opinion in Europe against them, and to strengthen the authority of the Sultan. The Turks have been so well pleased with the conduet of France, that the new French Em- bassador at Constantinople, M. Bourée, re- ceived a reception, which, on account of the extraordinary pomp displayed by the Govern- ment, provoked demands for explanations from several representatives of foreign Courts. It would, certainly, be strange if the speecial protector of the Turks had suddenly united with the special protector of the Christians. Has France, in order to pre- vent a partition of Turkey, proposed to Russia to compromise their divergent views by a joint demand of municipal reforms for the several Provinces, with a renewed guarantee of the sovereignty of the Porte? Or has one of the numerous partition schemes, which have for some time been discussed even by the official papers of the different European coun- tries, proved a bait which the French Gov- ernment felt itself unable to resist? We bave to wait fof further intelligence on this subject befers we can express a definite opinion. Whatever combinations may be agreed upon may delay, but cannot avert. the dissolution of the Turkish empire ; which can be said to be net less certain than was the annexation of Venice to Italy ten years ago. PRESIDENT-MAKING. Mr. Wm, Cornell Jewett, who had called a Convention to meet ahd yominate a Presiden- tial ticket in December t, and then post- poned it, finally announces, through the sub- joined card, his withdrawal from the field, and his transfer of the whole business of President- making to “the Radical power of Congress.” This is the most sensible conclusion which Mr. Jewett could have attained. And now, if “the “Radical power” aforesaid, and all other pow- ers, will just let President-making alone for at least a year, and attend to the more urgent matters of National restoration on the basis of All Rights for All, they will evince at least equal sagacity and patriotism. It will not be time to begin to make another President before next Christmas at the earliest. But let us hear Mr. Jewett's manifesto: TO THE PEOPLE. An fodependent Convention for Presidential nomina- tions was announeed for December, 1866. The condition of the country demanded & postponement until Septem- Der, 1867 1 uow, on behalf of myselt and friends identi- fied with the movement, transfer said Convention over to tho Radical power of Congress, for such o disposition as may be deemed for the best interests of the country. 1 may add that the majority of the people North have doclared that the will of Congress shall prevail. Opposi- tion to that will from the mdnority of the people North— the Suprere Court, Presidont, or bis Cabinet—is freason. 1t 1s clearly the duty of the Southern people, as con- quered, to yleld to that wiil, and to quietly wait for & restoration to representation until Congress shal have possesslon of all departments of the Government—under Congress, It.sought | Missouri Railroad reports that qu‘:gn. the Northern train, were drowned while attem cross the Missouri River through the ice. at St. on Friday morning. The ice was too hea' EM but these ‘which was crushed like an egg-shell, and nawes are unkno i Wi at the tme of the colision. No passcagors wers b USRS B pesopa 1R IRY SERVRY THE HON. THOMAS SWANN. Mr. Thomas §wann, who was eleoted United States Serator by the Legislature of Maryland on tho 2th inst., by a vote of 66 to 32, was chosen Governor of the State in November, 1564, on the Union ticke, with a majority of over 7,000 secured bythe exclusion of Rebels and Rebel sympathizers from the polls. He had not always been a Union man. It basbecirepeatedly and publicly affirmed, and never to our knowledge: contradicted, that in 1860, in a Mtb made at West- he opposed the election of Abra- incoln, and said : K lfitfl{arflmno-f, over attempt to_cross Maryland to coerce a ) State, and I will throw my body in the He was then, we believe,” Mayor of Baltimore, His Unionism, as Governor, continued till M. John- son betrayed the principles he was elected to when Mr, Swann was one of the first to foll t! President’s eum&lp. His recent attempt toz'rcibl remove the loyal Police Commissioners of B.]‘z more, in order to secure the election of Rebel rej tatives to Legislatare, with the offer of the President to put the United States troops under his orders to effect this s b aiod for the s, e the cl hough o tine, w) ylxm‘lust November, the_fricnds of ".r&"c'«'fi':r...,'“" among whom were ing the worst classes fo of city, carried the election b driving Union me from the E’K. clubs and pistols. This resulted in a Union mi; in the present Legislature, securing Gov. Swan; election as Senator ou the Johnson platform. solitary «bstacle to his election was an act the land Legislature 1809, which uires ¢t of r Senators one shall chosen from the Eastern Shore, and one from ‘Western Shore, As both Senator Johnson and Swann are residents of the Western Shore, his el tion was impossible without the of this act, known as the [Eastern Shore Law. Many of the Fastern Shore Democratic_Senators objected to its repeal, but a mmnt& was finally obtained by a vote which torned Mr. Obr out of the Senate, ou the fl-;mnd that Mr. Spates had been lly el . Spates is a supporter of Mr, Swann voted for the repeal of the act, immed following which Mr. Swann was elected. peculiar feature of the al i that act to that effect provides that after 1867 the ol law ;ln;lL again be ro&ufl!qre':dhed h‘n-fla ion 'was but temporary, and inten lor v. Swann's sole benefit. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, it is whose term expires in 1808, " will be depris of reélection by this trlmk. as he, like Mr. Swann, i8 from the Western Shore. Mr. Swann succeeds the Hon, John A. J. Cresswell, whose terms ends March 4; but Mfllg?fllld cannot be con- gratulated on the long series of outrages and tricks which have placed such a man as Thomas Swaun as her represontative in the Senate. The mothod which his election was secured deseryes examinati and we have little doubt but that the Senate wi make the fullest use of its right to consider Me- Swann's credentials. Er:g?:é}i 11 CANADA. vttt BT TELEGKAPR T0 THE TRIBUNK. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF CUSTOMS. TOoRONTO, C. W., Jan. 27.—The Minister of Customs, 1§ his report for 1866 of the trade of Canada with the United States, states that the last year has been an oventful one to the people of Canada. So accustomed had we been to the freedom of commerce with the United Staies that ail our people looked forward with a certain dread to the closing of the treaty between the two countries. Our Government did and is doing all that can honorably be done to induce the American Government to renew the Reciproeity treaty, which has caused 80 great a come merce to spring up between the two nations, * 8o far theip efforts have been in vain, and heavy duties bave imposed on our produce by the American Governme partly from a feeling of retaliation for fancied injurics, Our shipments of flour and grain to the United States have fallen off immensely since the close of the mu‘.‘ The shipments of Canadian oats lnde\eu to the United States for 1866 does not reach 500,000 buskels, while ous emm of these articles to other countries amoust to 4,000,000 bushels. The great bulk of our grain emd’. exs (-ept‘ng barley and Fall wheat, has not gone to the United States, and yet the price §s higher than before the termi- nation of the treaty. The Americans, to avoid paying the duties on our produce, draw more heavily on the ‘Western States to flnppls the wants formerly supplied Canada, and this demand was taken advantage of by t| Western dealers, and the prices greatly ins L future shipments to the United States will be : Lumber, $5,000,000; flour and grain, 85,269,735 ; provisions, $1,107, other exports, 6,275,846 ; total, 17,033, Americans have doné our business for the last two years, and we have been quite satisfied to allow them to o it, but we have not galned in public or private enters prise or energy by it. All Listory shows usthat indi- viduals or communities who depend for prosperity om foreign aid never thrive, as the secret of success is self- reliance. We must look to Americans for assistance to & certain extent, but we should never be entirely de) entonit. We have the Kower and resources, and now is the time to employ them. We have hung on nurse America’s apron strings too long, and now that she hag 50 roughly shaken us off, let us show her that we can stand on our own fect, and are able to do our own ness. The measures taken lately by the American ernment has greatly redaced our like craft and le: their business under our flag, for many of them been forced to take shelter under the Stars and Stripes. This is a source of shame to us that should be remw ‘We must either find sufficient employment forour vesselq in the St. Lawrence, or we must, in self-defense, refuse ta American vessels the privilege of ‘!unlug through Welland Canal for a few months. By doing this we be able to bring the American Government to reason, The relative position of our exports to the British Nna American Province compared with those of the Uil States in 1865, was as follows: Un'd States, To Now Brunswicl Nova Scotia Prince Edwal Newfoundland #, Total. 019,370 344,638 This 18 scarcely creditable to Canada, and especially ‘when we consider that a great proportion of the American exports consisted of our produce [&mhma by New-York :xnkl:?awn merchants, and by them shipped to those - 3 The fallowing {8 an official statement of the bi shr)dumd from Canada to tho United States and G Britain in the year 1366: Barley to the Unitedis :,TT:EMUb?mL; ; to uw‘gnwn. l‘:fl’l.dw bushel Hfl oal 0 the Unl tates, bushels; to Great Britain, 2,47,631 bushels. 7 e ——— NEW-ENGLAND, — RADICAL RESOLUTIONS BY THE MASSACHUSETTS ANTI- SLAVERY SOCIETY. BT TELKGRAPR TO THE TRIBUNE. Bostox, Jan. 20.—At the evening session of the Auti-8lavery Society last night, Mr. Phillips presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, first, That the safety and honor of the nation demand three things: the removal of the President, IH setting aside of the present so-called State Governmen at the South, and the remodeling of the Supreme Court and without these we sce little or no hope of the contini success of the Union R:“{‘ Second : That no Rebel territ r{nnhould be recognized as o State until the Federal Constitution itself guarantees to every loyal citizen within the Union the ballot and edus cation, and to the negroes land besides, Third : That the vindication and protectionl of the negro, and the restoration of his righ emand the same meas- ures, and are inseperably bound up with their success; that'in_the name of Nat{onal safety, National honor, jus- tice and the ne 'S rtfim. we demand of Congress that I8 forward unfil this National structure rests ou justics fid liberty foy its coryer stone. [SMALL POX NEAR BOSTON. Bostoy, Jan, 26.—A number of cases of small pox have occurred at West Roxbury aud Jamaica Plain. HEAVY SNOW STORM DOWN EAST. BrLEAST, Me., Jan. 26.—A severe snow storm is raging to-night {n Eastern Maine. The roads are ob= structed and the snow in the woods ia reported to b five feet deep. ¥ e . DISASTERS. — R BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE HUDSON RIVER ROAD. Hypk Park, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Another remarkable escape from a railroad disaster reocourred on the Hudso River Rallroad, about a mile above this place, at an early hour this . The Montreal passenger traio, which left New-York at 11 o'clock last uvenln?.,:nn along om time, leaving this place about 3} o'clock in the morning. ‘When about a mile above here, near the spot where accident of Thursday occurred, it ran on & Bl: urn“ :efel m-hn{ly mmrvn ;mfrom l:uM track, I ar a $hroe poms. of mn‘:mt. but all ran on Sroks. "Btrang ey ot one passen *was biikt. This tracks. ) say, 0} tracks s o clock, Baperintendent fim‘y ‘repaired to the scene with a gang of men and a locomot(ve to remove the obstructions. All of the cars were more or aged, and the Cincinnati Express, due here at 4 a. m., med eight hours. All are running reguiarly 'SIX MEN DROWNED, 8. Louis, Jan, 26,—The Mail t on the North ‘men belng anxious 'y, undertook to make l:a‘ passage Wh. RAILROAD COLLISION. CINCINNATY, Jan. 27.—The Chicago and Cineinnath passenger train, bound south, collided with a wood train near Stockwell Ind., last night. One of the brakemen of the was dangerously hurt. Very litile done to the train, as they were H