The New York herald., 1866-02-24

successful detective operations heard of given
to the world detailed account given elsewhere Of
the robbsres and the means by which the thieves
| detected
THE Ohio river steamer Winchester was destroyed by
fire above wesville yesterday, and twenty lives arc
| said to have been lost.
w The Ohio river steamer Gilmore sunk in the Louisville
| and Portland Canal on the ed inst
General John A. Logan has repudiated the Fenians
The coored population of Nashville celebrated the 22d
| by a parade and a speech from Governor Brownlow
| The steamship City Of Baltimore, Captain McGugan,
| of the Inman line will sail at to-day for Queens
town and Liverpool from pier No. "A North river The
mails will close at the Post Office at hafpast ten A. NJ
| Tho steamship Manhattan Captain Deaken will sail
at three p NJ to-day for Vera Cruz via Havana, from
pier No. 3 North river
The fne steamship George Washington Captain eager
Of the Cromwell line will sail for New Orleans direct at
three p NJ today, from pier No. North river. The
| mails will close at half-past p NJ
The line sdewhee steamship San Salvador Captain J.
Atkins, sails at three p NJ. to-day for Savannah from
pier No. l3 North river connecting at Savannah with
railroads throughout Georgia and Florida
The United States steamer Monongahela reported lost
| was oil Cape Haytien on January %. ult.
| General Grant and the Next Presraency-
The Administration, the Politicians
and tho People.
| We are within two years, eight months and
twelve days of the next Presidential election.
Time flies rapidly in these days. and the great
struggle Of 1868 will soon be upon us. The
politicians, this clique, that clique and the
other, are sapping and mining to secure the
| prize, and working to turn the administration
to their purposes and to befog and betray the
people, To head them of, and to simplify,the
ro1icaI ror <ha o;c;e
claim General Grant as the Independent cham
pion Of the army and the people for the next
Presidency.
The late sanguinary rebellion and its tre-
mendous consequences have taught the Ame-
rican people that politicians, political cliques
and parties are not to be trusted-that their
professions are fraudulent, that their promres
are deceptions, that they are utterly selfish and
INSCRIPTIONS, and that to secure power, spols
and plunder they will stop at nothing. We
are indebted for the late rebellion mainly to
the reckless politicians of the old democratic
party and their hideous scramble for power
and spOils One government did not furnish
them sufficient number of Presidents, cabinet
members, ministers abroad, congressman,
fat Offices, jobs and spols, and so,
failing in the election of 1860, the Southern
Democratic party leaders, such as JEFF Davis,
Mason and Slidell, Toombs and Yancey, Breck-
inridge and Hunter, Wigfall and Yulee. Ben
jamin and Iverson, G. c. Clay, Cobb, Thomp-
son and Floyd, and the whole Southern Demo-
cratic Conyenticle, with poor old Buchanan rs
their tool or their victim, their confederate or
their slave, hitched their fortunes to the black
and sulphorous chariot of South Carolina, and
started full drive down the broad road to
Dante's Inferno.
This was the horrible and bloody ultimatum
Of the Southern secession radicals, the control
| ling wing of the old exploded democratic party.
Like Lucifer, they would rather rule in hell than
serve in Heaven, and, like Lucifer, they have
fallen never to raise again. The civil war
| which they brought upon the country rallied
the people to the rescue. The people have
saved the country from the Southern radicals
one gang of destructive politicians-in putting
down the late rebellion, and the people are
now required to step in and save the country
from another set of destructives--the Norsaern
radicals-in the work of restoring the Union.
In this good work the administration and its
policy furnish satisfactory base of operations.
The clamor and cannonading Of the copper
heads amount to nothing. II is all only the
exultatioD oil q discarded political faction over
a timely rebuff from an honest President
against another corrupt and reckless political
| faction, which ought to be discarded, and is
destined in its turn to be cast out. Misery
loves company, and 80 the copperheads rejoice
But what is the prospect before us! From
the issue raised between Congress and the
President there is but cloudy prospect of
Southern restoration during President John
sons term OF Office. With timely assistance
from the people, however, be may carry
through his safe, sound and acceptable pro-
gramme. Otherwise, before The end of his
term, our financial fabric of debts, credits and
currency may be shaken as by an earthquake,
and our political affairs thrown into some.
thing like Mexican confusion. A govern
ment with its legislative and executive depart
ments at cross purposes IS like a house divided
| against itself IL can do little or nothing to
any good purpose, but il may do a world OF
mischief. The first duty, therefore, devolving
upon the people is to bring such pressure to
bear upon Congress as will effect harmonious
cooperation detween the two houses and the
Executive. The Union will be endangered if
the government is brought 10 II stand still by
81 balky team" The balky no. ses must be
made to pull OF be taken ont.
All this trouble results from the selfish in-
trigues and schemes Of base politicians for
power and spoils. Copperheads and radicals
and so-called conservative republicans are oil
schemng for the next Presidency. The game
Of some is to abuse, and OF others to use the
President; OF some to cheat him, of Others to
defeat him. but be has too much Judgment and