The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.
' THE FREEDME BUREAU BILL YKTORD
BY TklE PRESIDENT.
By the arrival of the American mail we We'
New York papers to the 21st ult. The principal'
item of news brought by these advioes is that
President Johneon has vetoed the Freedmen's'
Bureau Bill. The message announcing this was
brought into the Senate on the 19th ult. by the
Vice-President, and read by the clerk amid evi-
dences of intense feeling on the part of senators and
members of the house, as well as spectators in the
galleries, but without any open manifestation, ex-
cept at the close of the reading, when, it is stated,
applause was heard, mingled with determined
hisses, and the emphatic blows of the Vice-Presi-
dent's hammer.
"The exultation of the democrats and rebel
sympathisers is great," says the Washington
correspondent of the Tribune, in a letter directly
after the message had been read. " While lam
writing there is a crowd assembled in front of Wil-
lard's Hotel with a band of music. It is being ad-
dressed by Mr. Roger., of New Jersey, the leading
Copperhead of the house ; Judge Hughes, of In-
diana ; George Francis Train, and several others of
the same stamp, in praise of ndrew Johnson. It
is proposed by these gentlemen and their political
friends to hold a public meeting at Grover's
Theatre, on Washington's birthday for the purpose
of giving a public expression to the love of the
Copper tmuli. for the President. A crowd proceeded
to sereiade the President, who, however, had no
speech ready."
On the following day, the 90th, the bill, with
the veto appended to it, was discussed in the Senate,
which was crowded with excited spectators.
Among the distinguished persons present were
Sir Frederick Brace' British Minister : Marquis
Montholon, Minister from France ; Senor Romero,
representing the Mexican republic ; Baron Stoeekl,
Russian Minister, Ac. Outside there were hundreds
of persons of both SWIM vainly endeavouring to se-
cure a post of observation of the scene, and sending
innumerable cards to their senatorial friends, with a
request that they would aid them in their extremity.
Soon after the commencement of the proceedings
Mr. Wade proposed a constitutional amendment
rendering any President ineligible for re-election
after serving one term. "This (says the Herald),
although the proposer said it had long been on his
mind, was apparently aimed at Mr. Johnson, in
return for his veto, as Mr. Wade, in a speech of
some length which he made in its support,
animadverted severely on the President's recon-
struction policy, saying it was one that suited
every rebel, copperhead, and enemy of the
government, and was no better than treason
itself. At one o'clock the Freedmen's Bureau
bill came up in regular other, on the question
whether it should be passed over the veto, when
Mr. Garrett Davis took the floor and delivered
another speech of considerable length in opposition
to it. He was succeeded by Senator Trumbull in
a long address eulogistic of the proposed measure
and condemnatory of the President's action ; after
which, amidst profound silence and great anxiety,
the question was taken, when it was found that
the bill had failed to peas over the veto by a two-
thirds majority, there being only thirty votes in
the affirmative to eighteen in the negative." The
announcement of this result, adds the Herald, was
followed by tremendous applause in the galleries.
The proceedings in the House of Representa-
tives on the 20th were protracted and stormy, the
President's veto being the one subject in every-
body's mind.
The Tribune says that Mr. Johnson has made a
grave mistake. "He has relieved those who elected
him of a great responsibility by taking it on his
own shoulders." It adds :—" Hereafter, whatever
wrongs may be inflicted upon or indignities suffered
by the Southern blacks will be charged to the Pre-
sident, who has left them naked to their enemies.
Time will show that he has thereby precluded a
true and speedy restoration of the South, and
inflicted more lasting misery on her whites than on
her blacks."

AMWILICAN A 24111 CA NAnt*lir Mmrtn nvli 14-
viarocki tan Wm.--Oa Wednesday serf the Inman
Company's steamer City of Baltimore, from New York oo
the 24th February, and the Allan Company's steamer Bel-
gian, with oorrespondiag advice. from Portland, may be
expected to reach Liverpool; and on Sunday next the
Cunard steamer Europa, from Boston on the 28th February,
end Halifax early on the morning of the 2nd inst., may be
looked for in the Mersey.

THB CORNISH billfllte STRIILL—The miners'
strike meeting, held near Tavistock on Saturday, pared off
Is a vary orderly manner. The military that were seat into
the neighbourhood returned to Plymouth the game evening
The chairman of the Devon Consols WOO has addressed the
miners. A large meeting of the men was held at Lis-
heard ore.Saturtlay, which also passed off quietly.
EXTRAORDINARY LONOEVITY.—Dr. Julius won
Pisehereilen has just died at Magdeburg at the age of 109
yore. Be states in his will that the manner of reaching
a great age is very simple. Assume, as often as °one.-
vient, and especially during the hours of sleep, the hori-
zontal poeition, with the head towards the north pole, and
the rent of the body in a direction as much as possible
that of the meridian. By this means the magnetic cur
rents which pervade the surface of the globe keep up a
regular and eormal kind of nntritioe of the mess of von
contained in the mammy, and hence arises as inereses of
the vital principle, which regulates all the organic pheao-
=WM. having a direct aotion on the preservation of life. It
would be intereetiag to know whether these roles were ob-
served by the three ladies and one gentleman whose deaths
appeared in the obituary of a contemporary on Saturday
last, whcee united ages amounted to 376 years, giving an
average of exactly ftt years to each. The ladies as usual
took the lead, being 99, 94, and 93 years ; the gentleman
had reached 94 years. _ _ _

SKATING Ili PIEBSIA. —A oorrespondent of the
Levant Herald, writing from Teheran on January 19, says:
"I endeavoured in my last letter to give you an ides of the
severity of the winter in this part of Persia. The cold
his since considerably increased, and on Christmas-eve the
snow again began to tall in heavy Rakers On the morning
of Chnstmai-day a hard frost had set in, and the ice upon
the reservoirs outside t►e tows was capital condition for
skating. Mr. Albion, whose kindness and hospitality Lave
made h m a universal favourite, did sot suffer Christmas to
pans by without celebrating it in a manner which came home
so the hearse of the few Englishmen whose lot is cast in this
remote semi-barbarous land. Be entertaieed the greater
part of the British colony and the foreign missions at
the Kan. Kajar' (the Versailles of Penn), one of the
Shah's finest pa'anes outside the town, where a sump-
tuous breakfast bad been provided io one of the royal
apartments which his Majesty bad placed at Mr. Alieon's
disp3sal. To describe the bill of fare would be no
easy task ; enough to say that when the numerous
guests had enjoyed a thoroughly English repast
there still remained • hearty meal for the song
train of retaioers sad °hollow who always follow
in the minister's suite. Atter breakfast, skating was
the order of the day, and the magnificent reservoir in
the palace garden—of which the room where we
breakfasted commanded a fine view—was well adapted for
the purpose. The British minister was foremost in the
field, and several other Englishmen followed his example.
Amongst the foreigners, the members of the Turkish mis-
don were by far the most enterprising : they showed an
amount of pluck which excited general admiratioo, and se-
quitted themselves with great credit, considering that they
had before adventured on skates. Intelligence of this
sport sou reached the Shah, whosuon-io-law, indeed, u well
as the eau of the Turkish minister bad distinguished them-
selves in it, and having learned that two English segiames,
the Masan. Stantbry, were accomplished 'kitten, next only
to the minister himself, they were summoned to the royal
presence. There at the ice they astonished the wondering
eyes of Near-Eideen with astounding evolutions, and the
'Pole of the Universe' was convulsed with merriment
during a while hour. The ice-devils' were then dis-
missed with honour, and twelve pai►s of the waederful
iron wings' wen ordered on the spot. His Majesty's
ministers are said to be in great trepidation lest they
should be railed upon to emulate these achievements for
the delectation of the King of King.. Several of them
indeed already complain of chronic theommism. We are
now looking forward to a grand hockey match on the kw
next weak, at which Mr. Alison has promised to preside."
TANDRING HUNDILRD RAlLWAY.—Traffie by
bean commuted on this company's extension to St.
• Botolph's, Colchester.

[AaYn.rtitieMent.] HOLLOWAY'S Pula. —Dys-
mtlndigesiton. Flatulency. Heartburn, Biliononees, Nausea,
i•of Appetite.--French philosophers trac. the moral feel-
ings of tito mind to the state of the stomach, and there is much
wisdom In the speculation. The stomach to the human body is
more than the kitchen to the domestic establishment; be it ever
so slightly disordered the whole internal economy Is deranged.
The youneg may smile at the simile, and db.belleve the tremen-
dous secritice Indigestion exacta from US victims. The day will
come when they will lament over their dyspepsia as theaanotla
stronger than themselves have done, when it will be well fret
their comfort and hoppinem if they will remember time pro
phetic words, and hold in mediums Hollows, 's Pills, a oortein
Wegner&