The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-05
MIsCELLANEOUs.

Tor Durango ball was given him the occasion OF
| his departure by Governor Terrazas
The statement of the public debt for the month Of De
cembcr 1885, shows the total debt g. CTS 0e2 5s
aud the amount in the Treasury $l3l, 1877 33A Thi
shows decrease In the debt since Decembear Of nearly
1t has TRANSFERRED in Montreal that the British govern
eminent has commuted the sentences OF the Fenian
prisoners from death to twenty years imprisonment
General Lindsay left Canada yesterday his way "a
England He has been instructed by the Governor
Geoera to press upon the home government the
sy for postponement Of any further consideration OF
the confederation question. Troops have been ordered
to Fort Erie, and it is feared that Roberts will make
another raid before tho ice on Lake Erie is melted
Governor Bramlette, Of Kentucky sent his message
In to the Legislature of that State yesterday He
strongly Opposes the acceptance OF the constitutional
amendment The message OF Governor Bullock, OF
MAS was delivered to the Legislature yester-
day. He recommends the adoption Of the amendment
and hopes that Congress will establish universal suffrage
as the irreversibe Law OF the land.
The constitutional amendment was ratified in the
Ohio House OF Representatives yesterday and in the
Senate the day before.
The bodies Of Mr. Lehy the superintendent of Indian
Affairs in Arizona and Mr.. Evarts, his clerk who were
murdered in that Territory the 17th,of November
were terribly mutated, Mr.. Lehy's heart being torn
out and IN its place pair Of bullet moulds was subs
tuted. s-sa
A man named Mccormick was arrested 10 Ph,,aac,.
phia yesterday charged with kicking his wife to death
The committee representing the city government Of
Boston have reported against the proposal the city
take stock in or loan Its credit TO aid the establish
ment Of weekly line Of steamers between that port
and Europe.
The burglar who shot MIRA Ward, in Newark, has been
arrested and all the stolen property recovered.
Congress and The sMprcMe Coart-Thc Great
Issue for she Next Presidency.
The great revolution decreed by the sove-
reign people Of the United States in the sup
preston of the late so-called Southern Con-
federacy by force Of arms is not yet accom-
plshed. To make 1t good, to fix il in the
supreme law of the land and in the admins
tration OF our political affairs, national and
local, much yet remains to be DONE Against
the consummation Of this work recent events
have disclosed . formd sble barrier in the
Supreme Court at Washington, as IL now
stands, a relic OF the past, still adhering to
those old pernicious notions Of national sub
ordination to State rights and the divinity OF
slavery which illuminated in the bred Scott
decision and went down to the bottom Of the
sea with all the other wrecks OF the rebellion.
From present indications, therefore,, the con-
trolling issue for the next Presidency will be
between this rslic Of the past this barrier to
any further progress and its supporters, on
the one side, and Congress, the Union army
and navy, and the great Union party Of the
war on the other side. The result will assuredfy
be as decisive in favor Of Congressional re-
construction as the late contesthas been before
the people between Congress and the Presi-
dent; but this other fight must be made to
clear the track Between Congress- and the
Supreme Court, as between Congress and the
President, the issue will have to be settled by
the sovereign people.
The Supreme Court has resumed its inter-
pretations of the constitution where they were
left of under fancy and Buchanan. IL goes
behind the war and gives us the comst5 sution
and State rights as they were preasaz,d by
jefferson under the inspirations of the Jacobin
French republic, as they were agitatedl by Cal
houn to the verge OF the overt act of treason
and as they were carried into. practic by hall
a million OF his armed disciples in, their late
bloody conspiracy against the unSon. On the
other hand Congress has assumed to act upon
the theory that the constitution as expounded
by Judge fancy is.no longer the constitution
of the United States, and that State rights, az
preached by Calhoun and put into practice by
JEFF Davis, have been swept away with the re-
bellion. Shall the opinions Of bare majority
of these nine old superannuated petifogger
OF the Supreme Court, left to the country as tn
legacy OF the old defunct Southern slaveh Old
ing oligarchy, prevail, or shall these old uer
plots make way for the will Of the sovereign
people and the national constitution rs OK
pounded by Washington and Hsmilton, and !,
established by million Of Union hayons'ts
four years. civil war; This is the gre,,,, que
ton for 1868.
In this contest we take our posiv on by Il
side Of Congress )aw-makip,g power, Il
sovereign controlling department of the n,
tional government, upon which all other d
partments are dependents and TO which the
are all subordinate. Prv.s ident, supreme Judge
every officer Of the government Of every d
par'mens may be approached and removed b
Congress; but Congress itself cannot |
touched except BY he sovereign people. It
not improbable, however, that, presuming to
iar upon. .neir judicial functions, the old Bon
bon, and !ss2sETegg4ly cslhoun!aea Judges 4 1
n.ssent Supreme C"s...1s may thrust shemselvt
between Congress and the pending conssit,
uonal amendmsnt In fact they have done
! . sssS sTleal already in their ls,e Nj