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COLUMBI^ Tuesday Morning, August 28. 1866. Idleness. jg . There is too much idleness in this country, lt is breeding vice und rru ruoralit}'. It is filling our jails with criminals. Crime bas been on the gradual increase for six months. This comes of idleness; and idleness comes in a great measure of that abominable idea that a white man cannot be a gentleman and work. He must get money, for that is indis? pensable. But haw? That's it Young men have not the disposition to work, .nd by patient economy secure a basia "for business operations. They must have it now. This suggests ex? pedients. These lead to temptation ; and temptation leads to crime. Hence, we have murders, horse thefts and breaches of trust. Why should a young mau consider it degrading or even undignified to work? President Johnson purchased his present residence in East Ten? nessee with the proceeds of his labor as a tailor. One of the wealthiest bankers in New York commenced the -world as a gardener, selling to the huckster the products of his own labor. Gen. Pat. Cleburn, at ono time the head of the Arkansas bur, subsequently the ruling spirit in a powerful army, began life as a day laborer. Judge Reagan, Postmaster General of the late Confederate States, was once a wood-chopper on the banks of the Mississippi. The world is full of such examples. But where can we point to a successful man who spent his early youth in hunting business which he considered to be more genteel than manual labor? Who has ever heard of a man suc? ceeding who spent his early manhood "waiting for something to turn up?" Young man, if you would succeed, go to work. If you cannot obtaiu a clerkship, take something else. You had better be rolling barrels, or plow? ing, or building fence, or chopping cord-wood, or carrying the hod, than doiug nothing. Quit depending upon your friends. Strike out for yourself. Learn at onco the greatest of all les? sons, that of self-reliance. Have a head, a will, a purpose of your own. Go to work and watch your opportu? nity. The soil upon which you have been reared never refuses a compe tence to those who are willing to dig. Then, if ycu can do no better, dig. Il will pay to dig. Nor is there any? thing undignified or vulgar in it. Il is honorable, if you Aoose to make it so. Thou dig aud watch your op portunity. But don't stand idle, an? "wait for something to turn np." Condensation, says a contempc ry is the new order of the day in new* paper literature. The history wind the world is making speaks to us b} the hour in brief and pithy sentence; aloug thc telegraph wire, whethei through the air or nuder the almost fathomless waters, and no old-fash ioned modes of conducting news papers can resist such a renovatioi as this. ROBBERY OF' DELEGATES AT PIULA DEJLPUIA.-We regret to learn, sayi the Charleston News, that his Hono Judge Wardlaw was robbed of abou 8500, while getting on the train a Philadelphia. Hon. J. B. Campbel was also robbed, at the same time, o a fine diamond breast-pin. The famous province of Venetin lately ceded by Austria to France, i very well known to the world, bu the space which it occupies on th map of Europe is not so well known Venetia contains 3,870,500 acres < ground, and 2,493,968 inhabitants f the last census. NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.-An evei ing paper gives some interesting sb tistics of the newspaper press of tin city. There are seventeen daily jou nals, namely: the Sun, Herald, Tr bune, Times, World, Journal af Con merce, Neics, Evening J*ost, Comme dal Advertiser, Repress, Transcrip Staats Zeitung, New York Journc (the last four being German,) Couru des Etats Unis, and La Messengi Franco-American. Of these, nine ai less than twenty'-?ve years old ; or (the Tribune) has just passed i twenty-fifth year; and tho ages of tl others vary from twenty to sevent1 two years. Tho Commercial Adr? tiser\s the oldest, being in its seveut' second year. Tho Evening Post is i its sixty-fifth. They are both pul iished in the afternoon. The mor ing English papers were establish* in the following order : the Sun, tl Herald, th? Tribirne, the Times, tl Newft, the World. Official Text or the Prolln?I??ric? or Peace. Tho Giizette, of Vienna, of tho 3d of August, publishes the following as ?he text of the preliminaries ot peace: i Their Majesties,' the Emperor-of Austria ami the King of Prussia, ani? mated with the desire of restoring to their countries the benefits of peace, have, with that view, and in order to fix the preliminaries of peace, named Plenipotentiaries, 'viz: His Majesty tho Emperor of Aus? tria, Count Aloysius Karolyl and Baron Adolph von Brenner Felsach; Aud His Majesty tho King of Prus? sia, tho President of tho Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Otho, Count Von Bisuiarck-Schonhausson, who, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed on the fol? lowing fundamental acts as bases of the peace to be concluded without delay : AKT. 1. With the exception of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, thc territory of the Austrian monarchy remains intact. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages to withdraw his troops from the Austrian territories occupied Viy thom, after peace is con? cluded, under reserve of the arrange? ments to be made at tho time of thc defiuito conclusion <>f peace for the guarantee Of the payment of tho war indemnity. ART. 2. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria recognizes the dissolution of the Germanic Confederation, such as it has hitherto existed,? and gives his assent to a new organization of Germany, without the participation of tho Empire of Austria. His Ma? jesty promises equally to recognize the closer union which will be founded by His Majesty the King of Prussia, to tho North of thc line of the Main, and declares his consent to the Ger? man States South of that lino con? tracting a union, whose national bonds with tho Confederation ol North Germany will be the object <A an ulterior understanding betweer the two parties. ART. 3. His Majesty the Emperoi of Austria transfers to his Majestj the King of Prussia all the right; which the Peace of Vicuna of Octo? ber 20, 18G4, had recognized in hin over the Duchies of Schleswig ant Holstein, with this reserve, that Un population of the N:orthern district; of Schleswig will be anew united t( Denmark, il they express thc desiri of a freely given vote. ART. 4. His Majesty the Empero of Austria engages to pay to his Ma jesty the King of Prussia the sum o 40,000,000 of thalers, to cover a pot tion of thc expense which tho wa has occasioned to Prussia; but fror, this sum is to be deducted th amount of the indemnity for war < N penses which his Majesty the Emp< ror of Austria lias still the right c exacting from the Duchies of Schles wig and Holstein, in virtue of Articl 12, of the treaty of peace of Octobe 20, 1804, before cited, say 15,000,00 of thalers, besides 5.000,000, as th equivalent of the expenso of mair faining the Prussian army, borne b tho countries of Austria occupied b that army until the conclusion i peace. ART. 5. Conformably to the dcsii expressed by his Majesty the Empi ror of Austria, his Majesty the Kin of Prussia declares himself ready t leave subsisting, at thc time of tl modifications which must take plat in Germany, the territorial conditio of the Kingdom of Saxony in i actual extent, reserving to himsel on the other hand, to regulate in d tail, by a special treaty of peace wil his Majesty the King of Saxony, tl questions relative to the share > Saxony in tho expenses of the wa as well as the future position of tl Kingdom of Saxony in thc Coufcd ration of the North of Germany. On the other hand, His Majes tho Emperor of Austria, promises recognize the nev-organization whi< the King of Prussia will establish the North of Germany, including t' territorial modifications which w ? be the consequence of it. ART. 6. His Majesty the King j Prussia engages to decide His Maj. j ty the King of Italy, his ally, to gi I his approbation to thc preliminar: of peace, and to the armistice bas on these preliminaries, from the til that, by a declaration of His Maje the Emperor of the French, thc > uetiau Kingdom shall have been ] at the disposal of His Majesty t King of Italy. ART. 7. The ratifications of the p sent Convention will be exchanged Xikolsburg, in the space of two di at the latest. ART. 8. As soon as the ratificati of the present Convention shall h; been effected and exchanged, th Majesties the Emperor of Austria ;i tho King of Prussia will name pie potentiaries, who will meet in a pl; to be afterward agreed on, to conch peace upon tho basis of the pres? preliminary treaty, and agree nj the conditions of detail. ART. 0. To this effect, the contn ing States, after having settled th preliminaries, will conclude for Austrian and Saxon armies on one part, and the Prussian army the other part, an armistice, w!i detailed conditions, in a milit point of view, will la; imm?diat fixed. That armistice will dido ti? the 2d of Angus,., tins day to wh tho present suspension of anns i be prolonged. An armistice will be, at tho ?ti time, concluded hero with Bava and Gen. Mantueffel will be char) to conclude with tho Kingdom of Wurtemberg and tte Grand Duchies Of Baden and Hesse Darmstadt, after these States proposed it, an armistice **ora'n?enciiig tho 2d"of August, ?nd based upon the state of military pos? session of the moment. In testimony of which, tho respect? ive Pleuipotentiaries have signed tho present Convention, and affixed to it the seal o? their arms. BISMARK, M. P. KAROLYI, M. P. BRENNER, M. P. Ufr. Vfttlnnrtiffltnnt. Thcoppononts of tho Philadelphia Convention continue to harp on the exclusion of Messrs. Yallandigham and Wood, as evidence that the South ought net to have participated iu the proceedings <>f that body. The fol? lowing extract of a letter published in the New York News, from John Forsyth, delegate at large from Ala? bama, throws sonic light on thc sub? ject: "I take the occasion to deny, with j emphasis, the statement iu this ' morning's Herald, that Mr. Yallan? digham was notified by the Southern j delegations that if he did not quietly j withdraw they would vole him out. lt is impossible to conceive a more odious and damaging imputation upon Southern delegations than thia. What! turn upon a man who had ! suffered imprisonment, persecution ! and exile, for sympathizing with our ? sufferings and trials! If there was one wretch so hearties', from the South, I am happy to say I did not and ueycr wish to know him. My own views and sense of duty were very eleni1, ami 1 believe they were those, of every Southern gentleman ! in the Convention. It was, that wc j could not, in personal honor or con- t science, and with a due regard to the j honor and conscience of our consti tuents, vote to unseat a gentleman whose right to ;i seat was patented to him In the gallant Democracy of Ohio, was as good as our own. and whose only disability was that he was ' our friend iu trouble. Under thc call for the Convention he had a clear I right, for its theory was amnesty for | the past and fidelity to a common patriotic object in the future. Jt, was upon this theory that we of thc South were there, and it was foreign to thc objects and fatal to the effects j expected to be produced, to begin thc work of peace and harmony by j persecuting und punishing for past political differences. I would not, and could not, have remained an in ahmt in that Convention if any Northern delegate like Messrs. Yal? landigham or Wood, properly ac credited, had been unseated by vote. ; lt was not the banquet to which we : were invited, and we should have gone home with the reflection that the North is not yet ready for peace and restoration. lint happily and nobly, on their part, these gentle? men saw thc rock and removed it out of the path of harmonious action. Thu Convention became a great suc? cess, and Northern gentlemen tell inc : it is doing groat good and working well for the cause of re-union. 1 trust so for the common weal, for this : has become a Northern ?us well as Southern question. There is danger that the disunion malady may become chronic, aye and infections, and it would be a singular spectacle to be? hold thc North lay down its thousands of millions cd' treasure and pour out its blood in rivers to prevent tin seceding South from breaking up the empire of States, und then, being victorious, to turn round and detuve and perpetuate thc event they took up arms to avoid. In truth, in thc late war. both belligerents have so far failed of their objects. The South struck tor independence and failed to attain it. The North armed I and invoked her nationality to save the Union, and, up to this time fifteen months after every Confede? rate arm has been grounded-she has ! failed in its attainment. The oppo ! nen ts of the Union in the South arti beaten, sincerely accept the armed ; political solution and arc ready and anxious to gather around the old hearth, and. when permitted, to . 'rally around the dag.' Al! we ask is ! fair play, fidelity to the principles I upon which thc North appealed to j arms h. the fact? of the world, and I upon which we laid our - down, ?ind I that when we d > conic in, wc enter , by the broad stairway rind the front ! door to the temple of the Union, \ with heads erect, in the consciousness ! Hutt wc have done nothing in all our struggle, on land or water, to bring a [ blush to thc cheek of American inan ! lc ?od. This done, and Von will sundy find thc liest Confederate lighters thc truest and braves! np I holders of thc Constitution and the i Union of the Slates. i Jut you had I best In; wary of those who skulked, j and now claim loyalty, when war I fiauied at our door stones, and the : fire and sword of invasion were busy j with tho roof-trees ; nd lives of I neighbors and friends." -?. Since thc publication of the origi? nal cull for thc Soldiers' Convention, at Cleveland, a large number of i names of soldiers, ol' all ranks, during the war, have been added in this city. j They comprise, ns additional name:., three brevet raajor-geuerals, five lu i gadier-generals, four brevet briga? dier-generals, eleven colonels, six lieutenant-colonels, ton majors, se? venteen captains, and four lieute? nants.- National Intelligencer, 2ith. Secretary McCuUoeU on the Finance.. Secretary McCulloch, being ou a recont visit to his native New Eng? land, was invited to dine with the solid men of Boston. The loiter fail? ed to reach him till after his return to Washington ; but on the 18th in? stant he responded, showing why ho could not accept, and speaking of thc national finances as follows: "Although it was hoped that ere this tho currency of the country yvould have been brought n?sarer to the speeio standard, I am sure the people have cause for congratulation that our finances are in so healthy a Condition as thev are. "Since March, 1?G5, the war hat been brought to a successful conclu? sion ; immense armies have been dis banded: every soldier has been paie before being mustered out of th< service; all maturing obligations ex tho Government have been satisfae torilv provided for, while tho na tiona! debt is nearly $250,OOO,OUI less than it was estimated it would bi at the present time, and thc rcductioi of it has averaged, for tho past vear more than $10,000,000 per month If no other-nation tiver rolled up : debt so rapidly, none certainly eve commenced the reduction of its del) so soon after its creation. If our eui roney is depreciated, wo have so fa escaped tho financial troubles thu usually occur among nations at th close of expensive wara) and whic there was reason to apprehend woul happen to us at the termination c thc great war in which wo have boo engaged. If the business of th country is conducted upon a chan j ing and uncertain basis, it has bee subjected to no severe revulsion: Cf our Laxes are heavy, our resource are almost, unlimited, while the di: position of the people to bear checi fully their burdens, is a surprise eve to those who have tho greatest coal dence in the honor and good faith ( a free people. In my opinion, tl people of thc United States aro 1 make republicanism illustrious amor, the nations by establishing tho fn that thc securities of a republics Government aro thc safest of all s curitics, and that the people who ii: pose taxes upon themselves are tl most jealous ol'their national credi 1 do not, however, disguise the fa that groat financial difficulties are st to be overe?me; that our present pr. perity is rather apparent than rei that we are measuring values by false standard; that we are, in fat exposed to all the dangers which : tend an i u tia ted and irredeemal currency, which diminishes labor the true source of national wealth and stimulates speculations and ? travaganee, which lead invariably thrift lessness and dcmoralizutio Before thc country becomes aga really prosp?rons, the specie standa must bc restored, prices reduced, i dustry stimulated, the products the country increased, the balance trade bet wera the United States a other nations cease to bc against tc all the great interests of thc e..ant eared for ?un? protected by wisc a impartial legislation, and all si ct ii of the country to be brought ag: int.? harmonious and practical ri tinas with the (relierai Governmcn That thc country will bc again tl n ally prosperous is as certain us ai thing in the Int ure. That it shu bc so at an early dav, and that, t without a financial crisis, it is o necessary that there should be pro legislation by Congress, economy the public expenditures, and fide on the part of those who arc entras with the management ?d' the pul revenue. Trusting that yt>u will pardon for writing so long a letter in knowledging the receipt of yonrv courteous invitation, I remain, v tritlv, your obedient servant. urtiH MCCULLOCH < ?> ? ? ( rKF.Er.EY <>\ JEFFERSON DAVI! j Thc radical papers keep badgei i Horace Greeley on his position garding the imprisonment and 1 j of Mr. Davis, tho last twit Inn been given by Thurlow Wood, (i. hits back in the following styl "Wt! cant?o; help regarding imprisonment of Davis as aswind I farce and cheat. Ho bas been 1 i immured so long that only the fully blind .-an fail to sec that the no purpose to try him with any tent to convict. He is kept in awaiting a favorable time to let out. If tried, there will be aqun of a million spent on lawyers i witnesses, with no idea of obtaii ; a verdict. Meantime, tho seen ' lion is constantly assuring the ] thal he is no real lion, but. only H . t he Joiner compelled to roar show his teeth tn save him fruin ' blood-thirsty radicals. We refti: play thc part assigned us in this try business. The prisoner is ni bc punished lie is not even t tried in earnesi. stop thc farce let him go!" Hy the arrival at Philadelph: the Hendrick Hudson, from Ha on the lKth, wo have news from ( to that date Tho slav.: trade i thc increase in a startling <lej Y<III Africans wore lauded at one t and rumor says if was done byra of a consideration \ ?resented to ; one high in office. Humor also tiiiit tho vessels carrying crimina Fernando Po are. by a simila rangement to return with cargo Africans. Good New? for Uk? Hungry, The Now York Journal of Com? merce, of Monday, tho 20th instant, publishes the following, which will givo our readers some idea of the. in? exhaustible fertility of the Western country: Within six weeks-that is to say, by the 1st of October-will be har? vested ono of tho largest corn crops ever produced in the United States. Nothing can look more luxuriant than the fields of growing corn that cover thousands of acre? in the vallie? of tho Ohio and Missouri Rivers, where one-half of the entire crop in thc United States is produced. A writer in ono of the Western papers calcu? lates that, as a bushel of corn cou tains sixty solid }>ounds of grain, the crop of the current year, even if it should not exceed 80,000 bushels, will amount to 4,800,000,000 pounds of grain, besides an equal weight in fod? der. The value to the country of such an aggregate of agricultural wealth, springing from a single crop, is not easily conceived. Though wheat realizes a higher price pei bushel in the market, its positiv? I value as a life-sustaining product it ' much inferior to that of maize, since ! the former averages but little mon ? than one-third as much to the acre ir I the quantity grown. The statistics o tho production of com in tho Unitec States for tho lust twenty-five yean are as follows, viz: Bushels. ? In 1840, total crop. 377,581,87 In 1830, total crop.. 5i)2,671,lO I In lsflo, total crop .. .. 830,451,717 j lu 1SG?, total ? rup, (catim'ed). l,0:>:*,M?u,ou The writer, whose calculations v>< have noticed, remarks upon titi i showing us follows: "Tho increas j being at the rate of four per cent, pe annum, the aggregate crop of 1Kb I will be over nue thousand million* rj i bushels! Estimate this ?it sixty cent ' per bushel, and conceive, if you can I the feeding power of this enormou quantity of Indian corn." No wonder that the farmers of th West exult iu the prospects afforde ' by their luxuriant fields. They luiv snreiy been disappointed, us no st; plc of agriculture seems so we adapted to resist the changes of on climate, 'i nking the last twenty yeal together, the average yield per act in the "Buckeye State" is not ii from thirty-three bushels. Com is commodity which should not be di spised. Interest i J?K Correspondence-Tlic Tomb or lien. Ltt'n Duughler. The following interesting curre: pondenoe, from the Petersburg E! jtress, of August 21, explains itsel and no remark of ours need be addei oilier than that the graceful comm n?cation of the young ladies w richly deserved by the recipient: WAKREN Wu rn: SVLPHTR SPRINGS, August 13, 1866. Mr. Hutson-Sat: The citize and Committee of Arrangeuren for the erection of the monnme over Miss Lee, thank and return y j grateful acknowledgments for yo j promptness, despatch and gratuito , transmission through the Southe I Express Company, of the iron rn I ing recently sent from Petersburg, I enclose the grounds in which rep? ! thc sleeping dust of Anna Car I Lee, tho beloved daughter of c i noble chieftain. I Through your agency, this labor I love .,-as fully accomplished, and ; feel i nat to you we ure indebted I the consummation of our wishes, a hope that nt some future; day you n j visit her tomb and enjoy the sw j remembrance of aiding in the c< I pletion of this tribute offered to i beautiful dead and the heroic li vi: . Most respectfully yours, Mus. JOSEPH S. JONES. Mas. THOMAS CARROLL, Mies. J. M. HECK, MRS LUCINDA JONES. Miss M. A. SUMMERVILLE Miss BROWNLOW, Miss M. A. ALSTON, Committee REPLY: ! PETERSBURG, YA., August 16,186t' I LADIES: Most heartily do 1 c I grat?late you on the happy com] ?ion of your '"labor of love:" ? j since you have highly enough ; teemed my small contribution to ! success of your laudable euterp: j to honor me with so grateful an 1 knowledgment, be pleased to rem j ber that your lovely tribute of tba j belongs more legitimately to i higher officers of our comps j through whose liberality it is that j agencies throughout the country i authorized always to use any j every possible means to contribu? the success of any undertaking wi i contemplates thc bestowal of praise to our lamented dead, and reflection of deserving honor u those living ones whose cour: j virtue and fidelity commend then ! the love and admiration of i people. Most respectfully, I J. E. HUTSON, ; Agent Southern Express Compati -. -? ?- *? - A GLOOMY PROSPECT.-A pri letter from Monroe, La., the A kn >wn Ouachita District, gives ? gloomy accounts of the gro\ crops. No rain had fallen for nc seven weeks. Yegetatioti was pa ed literally. Trees had died to roots. The corn crop is a com] failure, and the cotton nearly in same condition. The. writer has corn fields that look as if a firo passed over them. The river getting very low, and uavign would soon be closed. CORN.-^Messrs. C. N. Averill .V Son, Charleston, S. G., offer for Bale a lot nf prim* corn at a. "very love rate -in fact, ut New YorlC or baltimore prices. See their advertisement._ Tur. BUIININO o>- ConCMJJIA. -An HUM eating account ol the "Sack and Destru? tk>n of the City of Columbia, S. C.," ha* jost boen issued, in pamphlet form ft nw tho PhiKmr. power pros?. OrdftS? Ulled to any extent. Prioe ?0 cents. Copies eau he obtained at this office and the bookstore*. "A?e,'' as he is familiarly called -not "honest old Abo," though, he it undcr^, stood- but A. L. Solomon, Tisq., of \>\sWr street -is ?till at, his o?d stand, prepared to supply his customer* with a variety of useful arr?eles, and al the nam* timi! ib willing to pav the liest price for "King Cotton." Special attention is invite'd to the adver? tisement of Mrssr?. Fisher .V Lowrance. These gentlemen have just opened au ex? tensive assortment of articles m their lino, which cmWaccs almost everything from hats to boots-for male? amt females -be? sides a? endless variety of hardware, dry goods, Russ'preparations, etc. (rive them a call; and if yon have any gold or silver to dispose of. you can get the "toy price" for it. Ucmenaber the place- Main street, nearly rtf ponde the nsw Pkatnix office. Music IN THE 1'AI K. -"We arc pleased t.. state that, by dire .timi of tho Post Com? mander, tho band of thr- Sixth United States Infantry 1*91 give a promenade con? cert (weather permitting) in thc pari;, this (Tuesday) afternoon, at o'clock. Tho following is the programme: I. Qniek-stcp medley. ?J. Grand Potponrro. li. Walt/. -It bacci i. Aie il Chorus. .">. Gallop. Wilhelmsbad. i?. Overture fruin Adams" Opera -LaPon pee <le Nuremberg. 7. Dixie-uicSley. Tine N'EW MARKET.-This building waa thrown open to the public yesterday, in its legitimate character, butchers and fruit? erers, stalls and tixturcs generally, pre? sented a ueat and cleanly appearance. Whethi :. ox not, according to the old adage, "a new broom sweeps clean," we will not positively say; hut this we will assert, without f.str of contradiction, that there was the finest display of beef, yes? terday, that we have seen in thin oily for many a day. Housekeepers will now de? rive actual pleasure from what heretofore na? considered a positive nuisance-mar? keting. ir, unfortunately, anything un? pleasant should occur, call on Mr. De Veaux, and be will make it all right. NKW AnvKtTisi jiKN'i's. Attention is call? ed t i thc following advertise:.icut*, winch are published t?os norning f<>r the tirai time: Levin A I'et .otto -Auction Salo. <'. N. Averill A Son-Corn. H. Ct. Heidt - Cottage for Sale. 0. H. baldwin A Co.-New Goods. Mrs. Stenhouse Music. Han a h au & Warley -Cottage Residence. John C. Stegers-Confession of Judgm't. T. .T. Gibson-Country Hams. Fisher A. Lowrance -Grain Sack?, Ac. TUE PRESIDENT'S POWE? OP RE? MOVAL,.- "It is fortunate," writes James Madison, "when disputed theories can be decided by undisputed facts." This sound and sensible maxim was exactly followed anti ap? plied by the late Chancellor Kent, when Daniel Webster applied to him for au opinion in regard to the Pre? sident's power of removal from oflieo without the consent of the Senate. "It is too late," wrote the great Chancellor, "to call the President's power in question after a declaratory ^ Act of Congress and an acquiescence of lialf a century. Wo shuuld hurt the reputation of oin- country, and ir--, are accused already of (he Repub , Hean tendency of reducing all Execu? tive j>ower tutu the legislative^ and making Congress- a national Conven? tion. These were the words of wis? dom thirty years ago. Are they less wise to-day, and in the face of the open, undisguised efforts of the ra? dical majority at Washington during tho last session, to ruin tho reputation of our country by making Congress st! absolute and despotic "national Convention?" There is not the slightest roason for regarding the President's control of his Executive subordinates as a matter open to question, and the audacious attempt of a petty official at Philadelphia to defy the Chief Magistrate should be settled at once by a squad of police? men. Any person pretending to ex? ercise the fnnctions of an Executive officer in defiance of tho orders of the Exeeutive-in-Chief, is simply an intruder upon thc office which he oc? cupies, and to be thrust out of doors as summarily as he would be from the cashier's desk of a hunk which he should usurp, or from tho box of a stage-coach w hich he should under? take to drive, after being ordered down by the lawful proprietors. [Keir York World Thc M- omi and Illinois dele? gates to the Philadelphia Convention have requested the President to make Gen. Frank P. Blair Secretary of War. In making this request, Col. Broadhead said: 1 am instructed by the delegation to j-resent to you this paper, which recommends an appointment to the War Cilice. lt is said that certain changes aro about to be made, and, without, knowing that they are, upon the simple possibility, we take great pleasure in presenting tho nome of Gen. Blair for thc position. I may add, that it is endorsed by every mem? ber of the delegation from illinois, with one or two exceptioas.