"the Radical Programme."

la anothcr ocluían, ander thixbove hcaditig, our readers will tiod a few of' the ainendniönts wliioh the Uoiistitutiuu liukers - alias radical caucus - at Washington proposo to engraft upon tho Consütution of tho United Stutos. The Constitutinn was adoptad on the 17th of September, 1787, and was ratified by thu last of llie original thirteea States on the 29Ui of May, 1790. At the first Congress, on tho 25th of September, 1789, and whan but eleven of the States bad ratified the Constitution, ten atueudment, or rather tun additional articles, were adopted atid submitted to the States for their appioval. These articles wuro more explanatovy thaa otherwise, and wera the result of discussioDs in the several State Convention pending aetion on the original Constitution. Sinee that time - up to the last Congress - but two amendments have beeu submitted to tho States by Congress ; one in 1791, limitiug the judicial power of the United States: and the other iu 1803, cbanging the procesa of voting for President and Vice-President by tko. Electora. The original Canstitution adopted by our fore-ñulid-rs has, tberefore, beon tho chart of our liberties and gmrantee of our rights lrom the foundation of the goverumenl to the present time. But, if the radical plans do not fail, it s to be the great charter no Jonger. The ameudments novv pending before Congress wipe out the ditinctive features of the Constitution, effectually an nihilato State rights, and give the General Government unbounded control. Such is the desigu, and such will be the effect of the proposed amundmen'.s, when adopted, abolishing discriminations against color, - wc came uear writing distinctious of color, - and giviug Congress control over the local nffairs of the States, even to tho determiuation oí the qualifications of voters for the lovvest grade of ofEoers. Now tbat Congress has taken a reeess until after tho holiduys, it will be well for oandid oitizens to review whíit has been done since the openiug of the session, espeoially in the direotion of Coustitutioa tinkering, and ciitting loose fiom tho old land raarks. Unless the tido turns. the nation will tioon ba at sea, with a Constitution as easily chmged as lus beenthat of Maxico. Z'ST The New York Evening Post endorses the positiou of Secretary McCüllocu, that Congress or the general government has no right to is.'ue promises to pay in the ehape of bank notes and niíike tUeni a legal tender, and saya it " held and proelaimed that opinión at a time when practice upoc.such a trine vou!d baVe saved us froin the mi,chiefnovv done and threatcncd by our cuvrencíy." But tbo Post does npt endorso the Secretary's advocacy of the national banking system, under the preteoce that "the government ia bound lo provide for tbe people a paper currency oí some kind' It hold that " it ia alalways a falso principie that one may do indirec.tly vihat he ia iorbidden to do direotly," and, henee, coneludcs that if th6 government is forbidden by the Oonstitution - or not autborizcd by it - to utter paper money, it caunot charter corporatious and give them the right to Bood the country with a paper cuireucy. It says tha people should bo aliowed to regálate thia matter for themselves, without Congressional or even State law; and that if the üuaneial iutorests of the people demand paper currency, they will find o way to supply their wants, just as they have provided for draf'ts, exchange, &c, and will control its omount just as thoy control the amount of notes, bonds, rnortgnges, etc, held as evideuces of debt. Tho only business of the goverrment, it holdp, is to próvido laws for euforcing contraéis and the collectioti of debls, and the demands of busiuess wiïl effeetually regúlate this fiction called papei' money. The Post evidenlly belongs to the old " Benton mint-drop" school ; and we must concede tbatthe government would havobeeu better off to-day had fiuanciers of that school been aliowed toshape the policy of the administration in tho early years of late war. Tho goverrirneut debt would to-day be half its present volume, aud tho currency afloat would uot ba ko espanded as to threaten lo engulf the whole business intorests oí the country. J5S" Ooewin, of Ohio, died at WBshiugtou ou Mouduy, of paralysis, agtid 71 years. Mr. Cobwin has been prorainently in public lifo thirtyüvu ye:irs He has boen a membur of both the House and tho Senate, was Secretary of the Treasury uuder Presidens Fillmobe ; aud under President. Lincoln. Minister to Mexico. &-LT The House lias passed a joint rosjlutiou giving to Mr?. Lincoln tho full salary of her late husband for 1865, $25,000 The Sonate wil! probably coucur. Mr. Wkntwohtii, of' Illinois, pereittetitly urged tho appropriatiou ol 1100,900 o:' fjur year'ü salary.