JSriBIT OF TEE PRESS. irtfYOftlAK OFMIORg OT THI LFADIHffl JOURNALS PPOH OCHamT TOPICS COMPILED IT KB I DAT KM TBI BTKN1NO TKLBOBAPH. Tli Last Movs. 'from Vie Tf. Y. Tribune. The President successfully plsvs Lis game political chess. Two more pieoes hare been japtnred 1 Tope and Ord are removed from jqmmand. We understand the removal of Xope. He was too much In sympathy with Congress too anxious to do hid work. The f 'policy" (new edition) is to keep the South Cut of Congress. If we can only hare chaos In the Rebel States disorder, anarchy, and crime the country will sooner learn the Pre sidential lesson that the "nigger" is unfit to Vote. Reconstruction must be arrested. The Jx'orth must be wearied out. The President jlaoes himself in the way, hinders the work iy removing every man who is in earnest, lindoea all the good that has been done, and yet ohargos Congress with the failure I "My plan or none," he declares; "my will or chaos ! X am Lord Proteotor of this realm, and until you pass laws that please me none shall le executed." The President means this, for Jiis aotion hath this extent, lie removed Stanton, and no word has been said. Sheri dan Is banished to the Indian Reservation. JTlie starless Sickles hobbles up to the Canada frontier to command a regiment. Pope and Ord are stricken down with rumors of Rous seau ooming en the scene. The Senate con firmed Rousseau, who went to New Orleans to foment dissension under Sheridan, is, it is faid, to be brought back from the damp and cold latitudes of Walrussia to "exeoute the Jaws of Congress." Why notf We have a Tammany liall Democrat in New Orleans giving us a Tammany liall administration. Vhj not Rousseau f The game goes on the President winning fill the time. Nor do we fail to see that the power which strengthens him is that of Gene ral Grant. There is no use of concealing or Avoiding this tact. General Grant is an instru ment of Mr. Johnson's will. We believe he is Bo unwillingly; but the country does not con sider that. The people only see their General In the War Offio. Ail the moral influence that dusters around the illustrious name of Grant U an element of power to Mr. Johnson. jYhen the rioters in Paris wished to make an attack npon the regular troops, they captured s, mayor or a clergyman and marched him at their head, crylDg: "For Heaven's Bake do Siot shoot the worthy Mayor, or this holy and .Venerable man of God t Do not be guilty of murder and sacrilege 1" The President has cap lured Grant, and degrades him to the same use S8 the ParUiau rioters. Grant may protest, and fret, and explain and beg not to be forced Into a false position but the President holds liim t We do not place him in a false position. ,We see the President behind him, controlling nd manoeuvring his official actions. If Grant Is willingly in the -War Offioe, well; if unwil lingly, then he should resign. He serves no national purpose, so far as reconstruction is conoerned. The work has been taken from iiim, and yet the country associates his name With, it. We were told, when Sheridan was removed, that Grant could not control recon struction because he had no power. The bill Tfas bo loosely worded that he was helpless. His friends were panting to have the bill amended. Congress is now in the seoond jnonth of its session, and no proposition for amendment has been offered. Are we to un derstand that General Grant is satisfied with Jiis position, and with no influence over recon struction, or with an influence which is nega tive, powerless, neutral. We do not think so, ftnd we feel that Mr. Washburne, or some one of his friends, should have brought an amend ment forward. They should make a law to give General Grant the coveted chance of doing Something. , We aim to be fair to General Grant, and Shall endeavor always to recognize his ability and patriotism. It is because of these quali ties that we lament the uses to which he is Subjected. And he has no friend to save him I .Where are the men who ring the endless Changes npon Ulysses the valiant in war, the sage in council? They have the power to 1laoe reconstruction in his hands, but they make no sign. Look l Sheridan is removed 1 5'es, Grant is sorry and will write a letter about it. The War Minister is beheaded I .!True, and Grant is pained; and while he writes a letter of regret he carries off Stanton's head In a charger, and, good friends, be quiet, for Vre cannot censure this beheading without a Word of comment upon the man who struck the blow. Sickles is degraded, and now Pope and Ord I Well, Grant is saving money in the War Department 1 In reconstruction he is a mere clerk. He has no power, no responsi bility, no embarrassing questions to decide, nothing to do with living, Immediate issue3. JJe is nothing more than a checked pawn on cur chess-board, while the President controls the game, and captures the men pieoe by piece. We protest against this as an injustice to General Grant. We believe he would rather te with ns carrying out reconstruction than to be the captive of Johnson the bul wark of his administration.' He can save money also. No one objects to that I General Grant can follow his economical instincts to iia heart's eontent but we desire something more. It is prudent to patch the walls and Jteep the chimney clean; but just now the tiouse is en fire. If General Grant has any jower, now is the time to use it. If he has yiot, let some friend demand it for him. If Congress fails, then he owes it to his fame to Jeave the administration of Mr. Johnson. The country is not pleased to see the President's tanpatriotio work performed "by order of Oene Jral Grant." . The Degraded Negross, from the St. Lou.it Republican. " "HUvery has degraded the negroes, has made ihem lguoiaut and brutal." ATurucu CUy Journal. ', It Is not Tery long since a prominent and learned divine from a distant State, in one of ' the churches of Bt. Louis, while deprecating the sin of slavery, .till thanked God for having made this sin an instrument in His hands for immanising four million, 0f a barbarous raoe, Six hundred thousand of hom were actual members oi unnsuau cuuroaea, not a few of tvbom were shining lights in th ian4 Faota Seem to bear out this learned clergyman's de claration, In regard to the moral and Intel leotual improvement oi me negroes of the United States through their contact with ami linir controlled by the superior white race. If there exists any where an equal number of the negro raoe who occupy the same elevated, .moral, and intellectual position oi iu Amen can neeroes. low as that position may be there are Tery few who are cognizant of their exiutenoe or locality. But snppoeo it were otherwise suppose ' jUat "filavery has degraded the negroes, has THE DAIL1 irvEiVUSt? TELEGRA Til PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 18UT. made them ignorant and brutal," beyond I what tlmir race is in their native laivl, what I Fcripe of propriety is there in admitting these worse than Hottentots to all the civil and political privileges of intelligent white men? y The Journal desires to clothe the "ignorant and bmul" negroes of all the States with the right of suffrage. The editor says he hopes to live to see the day In which this will be done, and to "aid in ita aooomplifthraent." Of course, then, he would pre'er to have so many Caffres, Congoea, Hottentots, Eboes, and other native negroes, not so "ignorant and brutal" as ours, because not "degraded by slavery," admitted to the pame privileges, were they brought to the Uoited Stales. Why not start an "Immigrant Aid Society" to encourage the migration hither of the superior native negroes, that, by contact and admixture with ours, they might elevate, humanize and en lighten their degraded brethren in this coun try f This ought to be done, if the declaration of the Journal be true. Hut then it is not true. The Journal's editor is only a radical politician, and hence is often driven to the use of bad arguments in sup porting a bad cause. That is all. The Question of Citizenship Flnglamd Preparing to Yield. From the N. Y. Timet. It begins to be evident that if there is fur ther delay in the adjustment of the difficulties growing out of the question of allegiance and natnralization, the fault will lie with our Gov ernment quite as much as with that of Great Britain. The discussion which Mr. Johnson's allusion to the subject has produced in Eng land furnishes ample evidence of the readiness of that country to abandon the absurd pre" tensions to which it has hitherto clung most tenaciously. Government in England is, after all, in a great degree a Government directed by publio opinion; and the Derby Ministry will not be able long to resist the more jubt opinions in regard to the claims of the mon archy and the rights of the individual, which now for the first time obtain expression in the leading journals. The quickness with which the London 1 imes responded to the President's suggestion showed that the danger of the question is appreciated as well as its equity; and the impression will not be weakened by the striking, though by no means exhaustive, argument of 'Mr. .Vernon Harcourt, who, as "Ilistoricus," has earned a prominent place among British publicists. Accepting Mr. Uarconrt's statement of the case, the wonder is that the common sense of England did not long ago abrogate enactments . which are as inapplicable to modern times as any other remnant of feudal power. Except that the Georges renewed the dogma by which the Crown claims the ever lasting allegiance of its subjects and their de cendants, we might have supposed that the dogma itself, with all its consequences, had passed into the region of the obsolete. To this day, however, it is revived and aoted upon as against individuals, when the politi cal purposes of the British Government re quire ita use to justify the assertion of autho rity. The Fenian movements have led to several instances of this character within the last few months ; and at least one court has reaffirmed with true owlish gravity the non efficacy of naturalization in the United States, as a means of altering the status of the born subject of Britain. The question is praotioal, therefore, and urgent. For though, as Mr. Harcourt points out, the British doctrine is too absurd to be upheld as an abstract propo sition, and too monstrous to be generally. asserted without certain peril, the fact remains that it is still sometimes acted upon, to the injury of persons whom, as adopted citizens, this country is bound to protect. The conclusions arrived at by Mr. Harcourt as to the manner in which the subject should be disposed of by England oover the whole ground. Thus, in regard to the acquisition of citizenship, he proposes that British citizen ship shall belong, "as oi course, only to per sons born of British parents domioiled in the British dominions;" giviug to those born in foreign countries a right of choice to become British citizens, subject to prescribed forma lities. With regard to expatriation, he pro poses that the right to withdraw from the State and to canoel all allegiance to the Crown shall be unqualifiedly recognized. It is not creditable to England that her lawgivers should be called upon to give solemn expres si en to what really are elementary principles oi Tree government; but that is her business. not ours. What we have to insist npon is that the second of these propositions shall be lin mediately and finally acted npon by England, with the view of ending the complications which are continually recurring in the present state oi the law. The need of "a mixed commission of Eng lish and American lawyers and statesmen" to place the subject on a satisfactory looting is, however, not apparent, bo lar as this country is concerned, the points in volved are not open to argument in i mixed commission, or in any form which im plies a readiness to chare with England the burden which her own obstinacy and short sightedness have created. Congress has duty to perform in the premises by imparting coheslveness and consistency to American law with respect to citizenship, and probably no more satisfactory basis can be adopted than that which "Ulstoricus" has constructed lor Eneland. But this Is all which our Government should consent to do. For its own sake in Justice to adopted citizens and the descendants of such it cannot properly delay whatever legislation is neces sary to give certainty and protection to every man who has pledged allegiance to the Ke- puUic. The American people will tolerate neither hesitancy nor negotiation on a point fe vitally affecting their honor and rights. What we have to do is to define clearly and positively the ground of American cltizeuihip, and to make Known a determination to main tain that ground against all challenges. It will then be for England to shape its own course as to its rulers may seem best. If prudent, they will face a question which sooner or later must be met, and by adopting the view which "Iliotorious" has set forth, obviate the very grave difficulties to which the pretensions he exposes may any day give rise. The contingencies of England's action or inaction in no degree affect the obligations of our own Government. Georgia la a Crisis. From the Columbu Ftujuirer, It is probable that before this is printed we shall have positive Information as to the object for which General Pope has sent a squad of soldiers to Milledgeville. But as longer time may elapse before we are informed as U the Intention of the military authority, we append tha reports given by the Macon pipers of what occurred at Milledgeville when the messenger of tba Convention arrived there and made his demand for money from the Treasury. We do not suppose that either General Pope er the members of tha Convention expected th State offlown to deliver up the publio money in their charge upon any requisition not made in conformity to the law which they had sworn to obeerv. They surely could not have thought that their requisition u suoh a one as the laws of Oeorgia prenoribe for the draw- na or money from the Mate Treasury. The Convention does not even seem to have made n appropriation of the money demanded, so as to justify a warrant drawn by the proper authority. It declared by ordinance that the money was to be used in paying the per din and mileage or the delegates, but it also declared in the same ordinance that the monoy was to be only borrowed from the Trea Bury and returned at a future time. This very demand for a loan admits that the expense of the Convention is not a, legitimate charge upon the Btate Treasury of Georgia admits the want of authority to pass an appro priation bill and make a requisition on the Treasury for its satisfaction. Moreover, t!n act of Congress under winch the Convention is apsembled, expressly deolares that it must levy a special tax to pay ita own expenses. Con gress also made an appropriation to defray the expenses of military government in the bouthem Mates, and if that appropriation be exhausted, so as not to allow any part of it to be used in making an advance for the Conven tion, the fact only proves that Congress under rates the expense of the job. It dons not em power the Convention, in anticipation of the completion of its work, to demand the money of a btate Government which, iu the probable event of the rejection of the Constitution, may never have any connection with the body in session at Atlanta. The Macon Tclearanh of yesterday says: "We rejoioe to say that Colonel Jones treated this order in a manner becoming his position as an officer of the State of Georgia, and the custodian of the publio money, in ms repiy ne stated to uen. i'ope, as we learn from a reliable source, that he was an officer of the State under the Consti tution of 1865 that he was sworu to support that Constitution and the laws of the btate that the latter forbade any payment from the Treasury except upon a warrant drawn by the Governor and approved by the Comptroller-Ueneral that he has entered into bonds to a large amount for the faithful per formance of his duty as Treasurer, ana for these reasons must decline to make the tav- ment required. Mr. Angier is reported to have said 'no funds,' in answer to his mission; he should have said no funds that could be had in satisfaction of any such demani, which would nave been much nearer the truth." And the Atlanta correspondent of the Journal and Messenqr writes: "The Governor in formed the gentleman from Fultou that he did not tecoenize tne authority or the power under which he (Angiers) W83 actinir, and that n there were any lunds in the Treasury they would be devoted to legitimate purposes. Some thing was then threatened about Pope's prero gatives and the constitutional powers of the Convention, to which our Governor replied that if force were attempted to be used against the Treasury Department, the matler would immediately be laid before the Supreme Court of the United States, who, he hoped, not without reason, would pronounce this whole scheme of reconstruction unconstitutional; that General Grant was prepared to abide by the decision of that tribunal, and the President cf the United States in that event withdraw the military from the soil of Georgia. The events of the next few days will show if there be any truth in what la here stated. The Eastern lnstlou Hastening to oiuuon. From the N. Y. Herald. The Eastern question again looms up por tentously in the political horizon of Europe. It assumes an aspect more threatening than at any time since the diplomatists thought they had laid it away forever after the close of the Crimean war. Instead of sleeping, it agitates more and more the minds of statesmen, and causes increasing irritation and inquietude in the royal cabinets of Europe, which in turn entail the expense and trouble of maintaining vast standing armies on a war footing, ready to be sent out to battle at a moment's notice Indications of every kind point to but one ter mination of all the discussions, criminations. recriminations, and secret workings evolved by this vexed question. The sword must cut the knot which the most subtle and skilful diplo mattst3 have in vain attempted to untie Russia must find an outlet to the sea. It is mani fest destiny tnat a nation so grand and grow ing, so boldly and rapidly treading the upward path of general advancement and universal imrfovement, should not long remain isolated and cut off from the world. She must have room and chance to develop her latent powers The world's market must be open to her where she may Bend her produoe and bring back needful articles in exchange. She has outgrown her limits, and it is in the nature of things that she should demand room for a pro per .'xpanbion. For seven months in the year her v-orts are closed to her fleets by arctic rigor on her western connnes, while the sultan, backed by Christian powers, forbids their en trance by the east. Her geographical position, her internal needs, and her just weight in foreign affairs, unite in firmly demanding that all the barriers erected against her outgrowth by the fears or malevolenoe of foreign powers f-uould be at once and lorever swept away The Russian policy thus partakes of the nature of manifest destiny itself, and is so regarded by the Muscovites, and not simply as a tem porary line of conduct. The most implacable and bitter enemy to the traditional policy of Russia has been France. Napoleon combined England and Italy with Turkey and Franoe against the Czar, and was most active iu the Crimean war. And since the termination of that contest, bo painful and in a degree humiliating to Russia, the latter has never ceased to detest and hate him. England, too, is disliked, but it is too well understood that she is in the future to be a neutral power for the Russians to feel deeply inimical to her. Although the active efforts ot French influence have not been without effect on a small but poweiful element in the Russian court, the vast majority of the court and people are hostile to Franoe aud to French policy. The moral support that the Czar lent Prussia prevented Napoleon from intervening in favor of Austria in the late war, and subsequently deterred him from pushing his claims to territory on the KUine. Indeed, we may safely assume that Russian influence has been effectively employed in all the nego tiations that have occurred for years as against France. Napoleon's bold and insolent effort to combine the great powers against Russia in the Poliah affair will not soon be forgotten by her. It was successfully repelled at the time, but the olfense rankles yet in Muscovite bosoms, aud has greatly strengthened the Government in its resolve te find a solution of the Eastern question and an end to French control on the continent. - The last move of Napoleon in securing the support of Austria in dictating terms of set tlement of the Eastern question has aroused RuKSfa, aud must precipitate affairs. Al ready the Moscow Gaittte and the Invalids Hums, recogniied organs or the nobility and the army, contain artioles warning Franca ' that her course imperils the peace of Europe; and it is stated that the Czar has expressed his dissatisfaction to Napoleon with his shift ing polioy in affairs of the Ksst. If the French Kinperor does not withdraw bin offensive claims, as he did in the Luxemburg negotia tion," he is likely to Justify his position by the sword. Russia cannot retrace her steos. Her .vast preparations for war. the ceaseless ac tivity in her arsenals, and her successful ef forts to obtain money, all go to show that she expects a oollision, and is making ready for it. lhe spring or loos Is likely to be an eventful one, and we may sen before the 1st of June a war that thai! involve all the great powers on the continent. With a common interest against a common foe, Russia and Prussia will unite against whatever powerful combination Napoleon's bkIII may be able to form, and de cide forever the Eastern question and that of German unification against Franoe and Aus tria. In the contest tha Christian communi ties on the Danube, in Servia, Moldavia, Mon tenegro and the old Greoian peninsula, already rpe for revolt, will play an important part. Meanwhile, as a power friendly to Russia, we may discuss Alabama olainis with Kngland, and thus relieve her as well as ourselves from the necessity of joining in the fray. Two Pictures. From the Clilcago Republican. Nelson Walker, a neuro. announce himsMf In the Nnslivllle timet a candid ite for the ollloa of Sheriff of Davidson county. Ailreu Menlf-e. a neitro, wai eloniod on Mon day, by the Nanhvtllo City Council, a a mem ber of the Board of Education. Above are two items that have started their round of the press. They carry the mind back to the Nashville of seven years ago, and speak with an earnest and terrible significance of the barbarism within civilization imperium in i in juria that dominated society in those oligar chical days, and also of the breaking up of the Southern organism, of the deluge of passion that swept the old order of things into anar chy, and of the new and remarkable out growths when the war of the elements had subsided. In 18t30, Walker was a barber, free, in the Tennessee meaning of the word, when applied to a mulatto, while Menifee, auother copper- colored individual of the victim race, was a chattel, npon whose valuation in dollars the master annually paid to the State a direct tax. JNtltber had the rights of manhood. Iu the parlance of the time, one was labor owned by a w bite man, the other was labor owned by himself. In the contemplation of publio opinion, both were property, only the pro prietorships were different. At one time, Walker could have sold himself for so much money, aud possessed the inestimable right to pay how much he would take and from whom he would take it; Menifee might have been transferred to another owner without consul tation of his wishes, and the cash arising from the transaction would have gone into the pocket of him at whose bidding he had been compelled to come and go. JNow, bow changed the relations cf these two colored men to external circumstancesl Property no more the mudsills of Southern society no more shackled no more by publio opinion that binds as closely and as fast with its viewless fetters as the jailor's hand-cuffs they stand before the law the peers in politi cal and civil rights and privileges of their late masters master, in the one case, by acci dent of birth master, in the other case, by virtue of written bond and taxed value. No longer the connecting link between beast and human, they stand forth in reooguized man hood free American citizens. In 1860, had the one dared even to whinner his ambition to be bherilt of Uavlddon .county, the voiced aspiration would nave strucK a whole community dumb with astonishment at the effrontery, had it not rather stirred publio indignation to its profoundest depths, culmi nating in death-dealing vengeance. In 18 GO, had any City Council of Nashville dared to appoint the other to a membership npon the Board of Education, sooiety would have been convulsed as with the throes of an earthquake, and the recufant members who had ventured on such an unhallowed experiment would have found halters ready to hang them to con vement lamp-posts. lake the changed condition, and what a volume of comment does it speak upon the march of liberal ideas I Can it be that this is the telf-same Nashville that, seven years ago, was a slave-mart where babes were torn from their mothers' breasts, and sold for fifty dol lars each T the very city from which a black man escaped nailed up in a dry goods box, which burst open during the transit through Indiana, causing the return of the fugitive amid a furore never created by Jackson in his palmiest days I . r . i Tha Unitary Removals, j , From the N.Y. World. , The order issued from the headquarters of the army by the command of the President, removing General Pope from the command of the Third Military District, to be succeeded by General Meade; of General Ord from the Fourth Military District, to be succeeded by General McDowell; and of General S wayne from the Freedmen's Bureau, deserves the warm ap proval of every sinoere patriot. So' little is known of General McDowell since the close of the war, that we can express no judgment on the fitness of his appointment; but the substi tution of General Meade for Pope is so excel lent that we are willing to take the other upon trust. We are now fairly in a new era in the administration of the Reconstruction acts. We hope hereafter to witness the reign of law, instead of arbitrary caprice and partisan tyranny, in the bouthern btates. We can at length discern some gleams of sense in the strange message which the rresi dent sent to Congress eulogizing General Han cock. That unaccountable and, taKen by itself, almost ridiculous communication seemed to us a greater puzzle from the faot that, in every other instance, Air. Johnson's messaees have been marked by a vigor, per tinence, and dignity which constantly extorted our praise in spite or tne vacillation ana Enori oomincs of his praotical administration. It is possible that we do not even yet understand the real intent of the Hancock message, which we thought so foolish, and passed over in regretful silence, at the time; but we can now imacine a tolerable apology for it, if not a com plete justification. It wad the President's mode of declaring the principles on which the admin istration of the five military districts will here after be conducted, bo far as those principles can be maintained by the selection of com mauders. He intended to give to Congress and the country, in advanco, the reasons of the pre sent order, which he bad then determined to Issue. An army order would obviously be no suitable vehicle for Buch information; the l're (ddent has got over the undignified habit of making stump speeches; aud a message xiliniiir to Coueruss the reasons of these removals would look like acknowledging aa ajwrniiitabiiitr to them for acts whiou are coin pletely within his independent provlnoe as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. He was., therefore,undor the necessity of explaining he OLD RYE WHISKIES. THE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK OF F I n C O L D RYE V I! I O tl I E G In tho Land Is HENRY S. HANNIS & CO.? Nob. 218 and 220 Trno ori-F.n the ramr to tiik traif, in lotm, on tkrt aDt-akta-hboco TBRMS. J Their Stock of Rye Whiskies, in Bond, comprises all the favorite brands extant, and ram through the various months of 18C5, 'CO, and Liberal contracts made for lots to arrive at Wharf, or at Bonded Warehouse, as parties may ENGLISH CABPETINGS. Atw 4.0411m or oin own impohtatioh just auhivf.d. 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By tulliug Congress that Hancock was the only officer iu high command south of the rotomao who at all satisfied these requirements, he told them in ell'ect, and by necessary inference, that he was bound to replace those unfaithful officers by others of the Hancock stamp. 1 here was perhaps a certain sort of fitne33 in thus indicating to Congress the reasons of his action. The Republicans would naturally raise an outcry as if the President meant to thwart the Reconstruction law and obstruct its execution. His real object in the removals, as he has explained it, is to prevent the sub stitution of tyranny for law. By the Recon struction acts themselves the constitutions and laws of the several States remain provi sionally in force; that is, they continue to be the law of their respective states until they shall be superseded by the reconstructed gov ernments. It is the duty of the military com manders to enforce them during the provi sional period, except where they may happen to conllict with the Reconstruction aots. Id cases of such conflict the military oommauder must necessarily disregard one or the other; and as he is there at all only by an act of Congress, he must regard the laws of Con gress as the paramount authority. But iu all cases where there is no conflict he is bouud to respect the State laws, which are continued in force for the time being by Congress itself. Sheridan, Pope, and the rest, instead of exe cuting the laws, substituted their personal caprice or partisan feeling; and the President seems determined to reinstate the supremacy of the laws. The Fenians. From the A'. Y. Evening J'osU That some Fenians, being Irishmen, should attempt to liberate an imprisoned brother by blowing np the prison in whioh he was con fined, is no more surprising than that Terence O'Donohue cut off his own head with the scythe hanging over his neck, while attempt ing to kill a toad with the handle.' If it were a less serious matter, the publio must have been convulsed with laughter at the misdi rected ingenuity of these Fenians. If Fenian ism were not an Irish "institution," it would not be readily believed that the fellows who pnt gunpowder under the jail wall were the friends of the prisoners within. Again comes a report that letters containing explosive compounds have been sent through the Post Office to prominent Goverment offi cers, and this, too, of course, is blamed npon i, I.'.. : . Now, the hope of the Fenians to wrest Ire land from Kngland appears to most men as vain and illusory as the failures in all their actual attempts have heretofore been ridicu lous, and their plans without fouudatlon in reason. The expectation of helping Ireland by a raid npon a few Canadian villages; or by an army to be transported from this oountry across the ocean in the face of a vigilant Eng lish navy, or by ill-directed aud scattering out breaks in Ireland and later in England, must strike even sensible Irishmen as pitiable. It wonld be far wiser if the Fenians would use the money and influence they have in agitat ing peacefully such reforms as are needed in the government of Ireland, and as a large and reppeotable party in England is ready to help them to. Eugland will no more let Ireland go, than this oountry would tolerate the secession of South Carolina; but Eng lishmen will help Ireland to better govern ment if the Irish demand that aud continue to demand it. But while we see the nselessness and folly of the Fenian enterprise, we think it right to warn the American people not to believe every report which comes from England about it. It may be true, or it may be false, that Fenians tried to blow up prisons, and are sending ex plosive letters to Government oluoers. There are foels and sooundrels in every organization, and there is reason to believe that the Fenian order does not lack either. But we know also that the English press has always treated its enemies most unscrupulously; English writers misrepresented Americans continually and most indecently during the late war. It is their invariable practice to misrepresent those they do not like, and attribute to them the vilest acts and qnalities. It is, therefore, only right that reports whii h oonie to us from English sources about the Fenians fchould be received with caution. T. STEWART BROWN, B.H. ConwoT FOXJJtTlI Jt CMIV.STXUTSW BUilCIAUTUKliU or . 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