The Portland daily press., 1866-02-27
by TELEGRAPH,
Tuesday Morning, February 27, 1866.
THREE DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival Of ahe Steam> ship Hibernian Mt
New York. t9
TO THE DAILY PRESS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 81.
1915 A. M.-The steamship Hibernian with
Liverpool dates of the 18th inst, has just az
rived.
The steamships Asia from Boston, and Erin
from New York, arrived out on the 10th.
The steamship Caroline from New Orleans,
arrived at Queenstown on the 18th.
The steamships Queen and City of Boston
from New York, have arrived out. r
The steamers Mont Blance from Savannah,
and Eliza from Mobile, had also arrived at
Liverpool.
The London Times says the new reform bill
consist simply of lowering the franchise in
boroughs to six pounds and counties to fif-
teen pounds occupation.
1t seems Earl Russell acts on Mr.. Briobt's
advice. resolving to stake all on the existence
OF the administration ON the success of the
bill.
We cannot suppose that the government be-
lleyes such bill will be accepted as settle
ment OF the reform question. The conduct
OF the Ministry ON reform seems to show that
they are themselves conscious that they are
settling down. sd.
In the French Senate Marshal Forey said
the return of the French troops from Mexico
could not take place..so speedily as appeared to
be desired in France, and even advised send
ing fresh reinforcements
M. Roucher said these opinions were the
Marshal's. The views of the Government
were embodied in the Emperor's speech and
the address. ",
The Croatian Diet had agreed to union
with Hungary.
Spanish finances are more favorable than
was supposed. Expenditure 400 million re-
ais; revenue 4700 million reals, including
bonds, representing the national property.
The Swedish Parliament has sanctioned a
treaty of Commerce with France.
RUSSIA.
The ordinary and extraordinary revenue
including the surplus of the last loan is three
hundred and eighty-one and half million
roubies, ordinary, and extraordinary, eXpen-
ditureS three hundred and ninety-two million
roubles. Issue of treasury bonds, nine mil
lion roubles. az
InterUie,c Bettveen Coz. Goa and President
s..- johnson.
WASHINGTON, Feb. &c.
Gov. Cox, of Ohio tonight read letter adj
dressed by himself to the Union Central Com
mittee of Ohio, before the Representatives in
Congress hom that State, which gives the sub
stance of conversation had between the
writer thereof and President johnson, on Sat
urday last. Gov. Cox says the Presidents
policy had simply aimed at the earliest posi-
BILE restoration OF peace, on the basis of loyal
ty. No Congressional policy had ever been
adopted, and when he 1.-THE President) entered
upon the duties of his office, he was obliged
to adopt one of his own. He had, in one
sense, inherited that of Mr.. Lincoln, with
which he thought he agreed, and that was
substantially the one which he had carried
out. Congress had no just ground Of COM
plant that he had done so, for they had not
seen fit to declare their views or adopt any
measures embodying what could be called a
policy of restoration. He was satisfied that
no long continuance of Military Governors
would be tolerated; that the whole country
would properly demand the restoration of a
truly civil government, and not to give it to
the lately rebellious States, would be an ad.
mission of the failure of the administration,
and of the party which had carried through
the war. Military government alone would
not pacify the South. At the end of q long
period of such government we would be no
nearer the end than now, and would have the
same work to do, The proper system of pac-
i6cation should be one which tended to slim
ulate the loyalty of the people rather than to
impose upon them laws and conditions by di-
rect external force. Thus, in the case of the
Frcedmen's Bureau, he was not against the
idea of a Bureau in toto, for he had used it,
and was still using it.
He had contemplated that either by proc
lanation OF his own or by some action OF Con-
gress a condition Of peace, the technical end
of the rebellion, would probably be declared
at some period not very remote, and as he un-
derstood the present law, the bureau might
continue year from that time, meanwhile he
could say to the South, at depends upon your
continued at an earlier day, for I will put an
end to it just as soon as you, by proper action
for the protection Of the freedmen, make il
unnecessary" +, r.-,r.t.4- .4q
If the bureau were to be made permanent
thing by legislation, all the objections he had
urged in his message applied in full force to it
and instead of encouraging the South to 10y
atty would tend to make their hatred of the
Government inveterate. The same principle
actuated him in the matter of martial law
Their own conduct must determine the mat
ter, and their own desire and interest to put
down disturbances and outbreaks must be in
creased. Under the same idea he had acted in
regard to the civil affairs of the South general
ly. He considered the new State governments
of the South success.
On the subject of representation, the Pres
ident said he would admit only such represen-
tatives as are in fact loyal men, giving satsfac-
tory evidence of this Whenever State or
district sent a loyal man, properly elected and
him the same as il from any other State, and
he would admit none but such loyal men so
that other States Or districts might be induced
to elect and send similar men. When they
had all done this their representation would
be full and the work would be done. He did
not ask to be judge of elections. Congress was
its own judge. He favored Congress provd-
ing for the protection of freedmen by the u
S. Courts of inferior jurisdiction in all cases
where States did not do SO themselves.
=. If the rebels and disloyal men of the North
and South rejoiced over the veto message, the
country could surely have no cause of sorrow
in that. He thought that was precisely the
kind of pacifcation loyal men everywhere
would rejoice in. His whole heart was with
the body of true men who had carried the
country through the war, and he earnestly
desired to maintain cordial and perfect un-
derstanding with them. This sentiment and
: purpose he regarded as entirely consistent with
his determined opposition to the obstructive
policy of those extremists who, as he believed,
would keep the country in chaos until abso-
lutte ruin might come upon us.
Proclamation In Relation to Fisheries.
OTTAWA, Can, Feb. 26. s