The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. —ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROFRIETOS. pene . ‘OF NASSAU AND FULTON ‘OPFICE H.W. CORNER - ), 2 cande par ome Fayre ST pe enman Fer ern a ere ct CN ol par errno Nites “Bribe or 8010 ang part the Bosna, bth *ForurraaT CORRESPONDENCE, containing enws, solicited from any quarter of the world, if td Y ingtarreD TO Beat ast LavTERs AND PACKAGES aol BU NOTICE taken of cmonymous corvempondence. We do nat JOB PRINTING evecetad with nontnese, cheapness and dae VERTISEMENTS renewed every day. aD ADWAY THEATER, pawoe ov Tae Duscnnerees BIBLES GABDER, Broadway—Sioovewcs—Tas Korn mart—Posco. Brosdway—F vs vs, o8 tm NEW THEATSS. Broa¢way, opposiie Bond «it. Ril Were lasenuw Masiee ¥ Ww THBATRA, srontway.—tne Wire—-One Oost roa Two Sorts. LAURA KEENWS THEATER, ane—Vhauer. er Baie AGADEMY OF MUGIC, Fourteen’) st —Cratiax Orsna— Ib Trovarose. Broadway—Natore ax wa, that pearls streams for the last half cenmry, and sometimes sold, but more frequently lost or thrown away, the people teing euttrely ignorant of their natare and value. . The eoniversary sermon of the Central American Education Seciety was preached by Professor Has tingtoa, of the Aubarn Theological Seminary, last evenirg, in Dr. Adams’ church, Madison square. ‘The society has for its object the education of indi- gent young men who desire to become preachers of the guepel. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending 15th instant, amounted to $1,344 550—an increase of $240,807 as compared with the corresponding week last year. The state of the police difficalties is rapidly reach- ings crisis. On Saturday Matsell was notified to stand his trial before the new Commissioners for disobedience, and in the evening, at roll call, at tho Fifth ward station house, Captain Garpenter de olared his purpose to repudiate the city authoritic and accede to the uew law. Lieut. Horrigan ioter- posed in the mame of the Mayor; both officers ad- dressed the men. Captain Carpenter was notified to stand his trial to-day for the sedition, Mayor Wood bas eddreseed a remonstrance to Simeon Draper on the condition of affhirs, and to-day wil take efficient measures to mect tho defection by physical force if necessary. ‘The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the Starron Woure—Usep Ur Youxc Wisow. Svaaing— | range of the barometer, the variation of the wind ee carrenta, and the state of the weather at three pe- CORI E AND WOOD: MINVTRELA. 4 Brond- | viods during each day, viz.: at 9 A.M.,and 3 and 9 sane o'clock P. M— BUCKLEY'S SERBNADERS, 685 Broadway—Ermorus - Pesronusnees—Tuov ross. ? MGORANIO® HALL, <33 id Maxovrm, 40, z FABNY DEANE'S V. 663 Broadway —Daamaric arp Moma: Matinon. ew York, Monday, May is, Malls for Europe. HK NEW YORK HERALD—ADITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard steamsbip Luropa, Capt. Lou, will leave Bostow, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The European maiis wii! close in this city at « quarter past one o'clock to morrow afternoon. ‘The Buropean edition of the Henatp, printed in Freuch and English, will be published at (en o’cleck In (he moru- tug. Gingie copies, in wrappers, eix cents. Bubscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the REMARKS Saturday Morning, clear and pleasant; afternoon, clear and picarant; night, wied freeh. Sunda) y—Moruing, clear aud pleasaut; afternoon, clear and very warm; night, coid. ‘Monday—Morhing, clear and pleasant; afternoon, clear fad cool; night, cold Naw Yonx Hamain will be received at the following places | *™ ¢ Pas, duds adit dian’ «Bhtnace! lene tm Burope>— and pleasant aight, clear. ‘ Lowen—Am. & European Express Co. 61 King William st- Wednesday—Morning, clear and pieasaut; afternoon, Pasw— Do. do. & Place de la Bourse. pleasant. Livesroo.—Do. do. 9 Chapel street. ‘Thursday—Morning, cloudy, with rain; . rain, Lavesroo.—Joha Hunter, 12 Kxchange stroct, East. —Morning, cloudy, with rain; a, cloudy, Haves—Am. & Eurepean Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘The contents of the European edition of tho Hxmarp wil combine the mews received by mail and telograph at the office during the previous week, and up to the bour of peblication. ‘The News. Our despatches from Washington, published this morning, are important. The points of Gov. Wal- ker’s introductory manifesto to the peoplo of Kansas are given. The British ministry have signified their satisfaction with the position assumed by oar gor- exument in respect to the policy to be porsued in Ohina. Our Minister at Mexico, in 8 commanica- tien to the State Department, depicts the disappoint- ment of Comonfort and the dominant party in Mex- foe, at the rejection of the treaties. Mr. Herran, the Minister from Central America, has expressed his belief in the pacific adjustment of the questions in @ispate with New Granada. The Saratoga has been ordered to Greytown, and one of the vessels at Pa- Bama will proceed to San Juan del Sur to watch the progress of affairs and protect American interests im that quarter. ‘We have news from Caraocas (Venezuela) to the ‘26th ult. Popular opinion was averse to the new constitution. The popular voice had been stified by ‘the abolition of triennial Legislatures; Governors, } hitherto elected, were sppointed and dismissed by the executive; the centralization of power in the hands of the Mouagas family was complete—in fact they exercise almost imperial sway without the ostentation of imperial dignity. The peopie were diacontented, and « revolution was expected very seen. General Flores had left Lagusyra for St. ‘Thomas, after being honored with the nominal rank of General-in-Chief of the republic. with rain; night, rain. y—Morning, cloudy and drivly. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday were limited in the fore- noon and prices unsettled. In the afternoon thero were | rumors of sales to the amount of 3,000 bales on private terms. In one considerable line sold, the seller, it was sald, retained an Intereat with the buyer. In flour, com- mon grades of Fastern aud State were heavy and easier, whilo the higher qualities were unchanged. Salos of Illi. ois red wheat wore made st $1 60 a $1 61; common white Southern in store at $1 75; and white Canadian at $1 89. Corn was very active, and largs sales of Western mixed were made, closing at 880.,!n store; and sales of yellow Southern do. were reported at 50e. a 00c., in store aud de Uvered.” Pork was steady, with fair sales at $23 608 $25 06, with small lots reported at $23 76. Sugars were fOrm and active, and the recent advance was fully main- } tained, with sales of about 1,200 « 1,500 bids. Cuba mus- ; Covade, with small lots of Porto Rico and 2,009 a 3,000 bbis. crushed at prices given in another column. Coffee was steady and quiet. Freights were inac'tve, and rates | to Rogliah ports irregular. To the contloent thee was | Father more offering, without change in ates. | Very Significant News from Washington— 1 Governor Walker's First Manifesto. Read the news. Read our speical Washington despatch, embodying the pith and substance of Governor Walker's introductory pronuncizmiento to the good people of Kansas, ond then answer , us, Northerner and Southerner, aro there not | comprehended in this address ali the elements | Tequisite to a definite, satisfactory aud permaneat | pacification of Kansas, It will be remarked, first, that this programme of Governor Walker ia substantially the same as that of acting Governor Stanton; and secondly, have been frequently found in thee ig the proceedings of both parties im Kausas, atdfor the introduction of Mr. Walker's reservedsoheme. Avd why not? What more-feasible plan of .paci- fication could Le devised.than the sarrender of the bulk of the present Territory of Kansasto the free Stato party for @ free State, with the’equivalent to the pro-clavery-party of a now slave State in that great Lidiadatemltory aioug the Southera Une of Kansas? In conclusion, we new seriously incline to the opinion that Mr. Walker aims at nothing more in Kansas till the meeting of Congress, than a gene- ral acquiescence in the laws for the sake of peace; and that then bis new plan of pacification | will, at Weehington, aseume @ definite and official shape. Such are our present impressions of Mr. | Walker's inaugural. Tun Lossy is Wasutneton—Georoe Law } Hussvcomne tay Foaimore Apwmwrrarion.— | We insert in to-day’s paper a report of a suit in- | stituted in Brooklyn against George Law, for the | recovery of ten thousand dollars, as for lobby services alleged to be due to David N. | Bokee, an cx (whig) member of Congress, for ser- : | viecs and influence exerted in 1851, with Presi- | ‘| dent Fillmore, Secretary of War C. M. Conrad, Attorney General Crittenden, and other high | functionaries then in office, to effect an extension | of the time of payment of $300,000 due from Mr. | Law, for the famous muskets and ammunition | previcusly purcbased by him of Mr. George W. | Crawford, Secretary of War, for General Taylor. | Te will be perceived that Judge Culver promptly | dismissed the case, after the jury was sworn, on the ground that the contract stated ia the plain- tiffs complaint, and in the opening of the circum- | stances by plaintiff's counsel, was one that a court | of Jaw would not sustain an action upon, because | it waa contrary to public morals and public po- licy. A motion for a rehearing haa, however, gest that it isdue to Messrs. Fillmore, Conrad, Crittenden and the other “high fanotionaries” im- either to eetablizh or to disprove the imputation that the extension granted was obtained by the “influence” of the ex- Congresaman with them, or by the “inflaence” of any body else, and upon what representations, written or oral, the favor was granted. It ought to be that the acts of the public officials at Wash- ington be regulated and controlled only by eon- siderations of justice and of the public interests, and that “the face of man should not be known in judgment.” What did ex-Congreseman Bokee been made, and, if it be granted, we would eug- | plicated, that their testimony” be procared, | MONDAY, MAY 18, 1857. ‘The French Exuradition Case. We publish el-ewhereia onr columns, to-day, tho first por’lon of the evidence takea before Comarte- e'over Bett- om the app'ica ion for the extradition of the pe:sous ¢' arged with defrauding the North- esn Railroad cf France, or Baron Rothschild, its principal sha eholder. The remsining portion of the testimony we will probably pubiiea to-morrow. The eviocnoe 1s all completed. The arguments of the numerous counsel engaged in the case have all teen made, with the exception of those of Mr. Galbraith and Mr. McKeon. These will be made to-day and to-morrow, and we may conse- quently expect tho Commissioner to render his decision ip the case before the close of the week. ‘The one point on which all these voluminous pro- ceedings turn is whether the Extradition treaty existing betweev France and the United States includes, among the crimes for which fugitive criminals in either country are to bo delivered up, the crime with whieh these French fagitives are charged. That is the plain and simple question to be decided by the Commissioner, it being herdly denied by the socused parties that acertain grade of crime was, in fact, committed by them—that is, that they did, under the ex- traordinary temptation before them, and under the influence of the atockjobbing mania which at the time raged in Paris, make free with the shares of Baron Rotbechild, deposited with the Nerthern Railroad Company for safe keeping, and that they pledged or hypothecated such shares for the purpose of procuring means to speculate on the Bourse, as all the world was doing. Their offence, according to the whole gist of the testimony taken, hath that extent—no more, The fact of their having made false en- tries in the books, or certain marks on the en- dorsements, amounts to nothing more than the taking of measures to hide their first fault. It does not in any way increare or diminish tho gtavity of their orime, and cannot, by any amount of legal perversion, bo strained into the distinct crime of forgery, as'the prosecuting law- yers are striving to do, The treaty provides for the extradition of cri- minals accused with the crime of forgery, of bur- | glary, and of robbery committed under circum- stances of violence or intimidation. It cannot reasonably be said that the charges against Grelet, Parot and David fall within either of these categories. Nevertheless, efforts have been made to show,that they do. The charge of for- gery has been got up in relation to entries and marks, having a certain understood significance, made for the purpose of evading detection. Bat | it is an Insult to any judicial mind to attempt to | represent such as forgeries; and we should not | imagine for a moment that the argument could have any welght upon the Commissioner. Then, again, a like futile effort has been made to bring the crime under the denomination of barglary, on the assertion that tho safe wherein the shares were kept and from which they were abstracted | was forced open. | This attempt, however, only reveals the intense desire that is entertained by certain parties ia eay or do? What could he eay or do to influence | France for the success of this extradition experi- Mr. Conrad's decision? Was the extension | ment. We have always understood, and granted as a favor to him, and was it known to | We believe, that the testimony reveals Mr. Conrad that be was employed and was to be | nothing to the contrary—that this Grelet paid if he obtained euch favor? and Carpentier, who voluntarily returned to This case is one pregnant with suggestions | Frence, were two of the confidential employés of Our correspondents at Havana, writing onthe 10:h | ‘hat it is essentially different In the important al- inst, slinde to the reported fight of Gen. Walker | ternative held inreserve. Like Mr. Stanton, Mr. | from Rivas, but throw no additional light upon the | Walker pleads the validity of the local laws, the subject. A Cuban writer asserts, with amusing | Juue election, and tho State Convention and Con- gravity, that the National Hotel endemic at Wash- | stitution which may result from those laws, Mr. ington was occasioned by 2 Spanish conspiracy to kill President Buchanan, and that the water was Poisoned with that object. The decree of the Cap- tain General permitting the free importation of fresh fish from Key West, had been annulled by a royal order from Madrid, procured through interest at oart. The joint stock speculation bubble had Yeached such a point of inflation that a speedy and Tuinees disruption was inevitable. There were twelve banks, seven insurance companies, with “fomentos” and “credit mobilier” institations without number tm prospect. Every point at which the finances of the people could be assailed bad been attacked by the cormorant speculators. Sagar waa advancing in prtee and freigh'# were dull. ‘We have Bermuda papers dated to tho Sth of May, but they contain no local news. A wam of £52 had been voted by the Legislatare for the payment Walker alo representa to the stand-aloof free | State party that their silence in the clection will be construed into consent to what the majority of | the voters may ordain and establish. He also pleads that the laws relating to the forthcoming election are fair and liberal—that there is every inducement for the free State party to “go inand | win; and he hopes and believes, and pleads ear- nestly, that the Convention will submit its consti- | tution for ratification to a vote of the peo | ple before eubmitiing it to Congress. Thus | for, in substance, the programme of Mr. Walker | is the programme of his avant courrier, Mr. Stan- | } ton. The snggestion of Mr. Walker, also —that the Convention may adopt » State constitution silent uponithe subject of slavery—has already been throwa | of seventeen echool teachers for a peried of nine months. We lately announced the departure from Panama, NM. G, of Dr. Caldwell, assistant surgeon of the United States frigate Independence, on a trip of ex- poration of the Isthinus of Darien. The Doctor | followed the rou taken by Lieut. Strain, and re tarned to Pansma on the 3d insiant, after a very successful journey. He advanced to within sight of the waters of the Atlantic ocean, and was within five miles of the spot where he intended to halt when nis Indian guide deserted him. In this emer- gency, and suffering mach from want of water, he determined to retrace his steps. Having reached Panama, be reported officially to the department at Washington, speaking most favorably of the feasi- bility of the inter-oceamico canal, as be thinks We elevation of the land does not exesed two hundred feet in any place. The myvterions murder at Newbarg of a young | and beautiful female, about two weeks since, has thas far baffied all the efforts of the officers of the | law to discover the perpetrator. The Coroner and Jury have exerted their utmost to obtain some clue, bates yet without avail. The jary, however, met om Saturday, and though no evidence had been @eoured since their last meeting, determined to ad- joern until the 50th inst, in hopes of more success. ‘The Governor has been solicited by a nnmber of public spirited citizens to offer a reward, but thus far he has refused, on the ground that the case is not sufficiently developed to warrant his so doing. The | ‘town Council of Newburg have detailed two men to look after the business, and Dr. T. W. Penton, the Coroner, feels certain that before the next meeting of the jury some clue will be obtained. There number of flying rumors about the town, but mune of any credibility. We publish in another place a graphic account of the pearl fishery in New Jersey. That the muddy brooks of oor neighbors are producing resi pearle ia no hoax, but @ veritable trath, as the well filled purses of some of the muscle diggers will testify. ‘The principal places where the pear! growing mus- cles have been found are the Great Notch brook, the Rock road brook, and Hoboken stream; bat this wpecies of shell fish, containing pearls of greater “or lem size, do not appear to be confined to these streams alone. Thay are said to be found in ‘li the brooks and rivulets in Bergen county, if not in ail of the entire northern part of the State. This discovery has of course created an immense excite- Ment throughout the neighboring districts of New seme, ate: rnshing to the brooks to ag tor One curtous featare of the matter oat by the acting Governor to the people of | Kaneas, | It is next, from the appeal of Mr. Walker in | behalf of the Union—from the many advantages | | which he recapitulates as dependent upon the | early and peaceable admission of Kansas—very | evident that bis first desire is, and that his first | experiment will be, to eecure the quiet adoption of a pro-slavery State constitution. His arga- | ment to thia end is very persuasive, very tempt- | ing, and decidedly logical thronghout. But the | comprehensive scheme of pacification which he holds in reserve is better still. It is foresha- | | dowed In that hope which he expresses that the | | great and fertile Indian slawholding territory south of | Kansas is soon to become a State, aided and encour- | | aged by the State of Kansas. This is the official | germ of Mr. Walker's reeerved soneme of paci- | fication, ax detalled in this journal a few days | 0 | “ers the interval to the meeting of Congress, Mr. | | Walker has a plain line of duty to follow. He can do nothing more nor less, in his capacity as | | Territorial Governor, than to administer the loonl laws aa be finds them. To secare the co-opera- tion, however, of the free State party, he appeals strongly to their reason and their interests. With | | the admission of Kansas aa a State, the Indian titles to large tencts of her lands will be ex- | tinguished, and lfheral grants of land will be | made to the new State for railroads, schoolo and | colleges, in addition to homesteads and pro- emptions to actaal ecttlers, Then an impetus | will be given to all the Pacifie rallroads having ' Kansans for thefr centre, of the greatest im | tance to all the land and railroad speculators | the United States Aud if these, all these splen- | did offers will not suffice to secure the consent of | all the free State land speculators and stock- , jobbers inside and outelde of Kansas, to the quiet | admission of the State as arranged by the pro- | slavery party, Mr. Walker has still another en- couragement to give. It is this: That although Kansas may be admitted as » slave State, it will It is eaid similar transactions have been in past times of every day occurrence at Washington. “Infinence” has been bought and sold as well to obtain executive as legislative favors, Heads of departmenta, we doubt not, are often Imposed upon by paid agents employed to car- wig them, whose Interest is concealed; and sometimes subordinates are deceived in the samo way. Congress might do something towards checking this evil by an act for the protection of secretaries, comptrollers and anditors and examining and accounting clerks, from being approached by agents and earwigs interfering in official businees before them, Such conduct and all meddling by outsiders in matters pending before them, except by written or printed state- ments signed by them, should be made a high misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprison- ment. Another provision, punishing ia like manner, the levying of black mail by threats to oppose @ claim unless fpai4 a douceur for silence, would stop a good deal of the knavery eald to have been practised at Washington, And similar enactments in reference to business before Congress and before its committees would be of ealutary effect. We have confidence that the present administration will do ite duty in respect to euch matters, and that insidious, conocaled and covert influence, if attempted to be exerted | with any of its officers, will be rebuked in a de- cided manner ; and in charity we feel bound to tay, also, that wedoubt not in cases that are re | ported to have occurred during General Taylor's and Mr. Fillmore’s administration the “ high funo- tionaries "’ of the government were often done in- justice to by the representations of thoes who | wished to be feed as to the potency of the influ- ence they had with those officials and their con- trol over them, when in fact they had no greater power over them than had Samqua, the late Chi- nese Governor of Shanghai The decision of Judge Culver in the case re ported, diemiesing the case, Is a wise one, based on indisputable lew, «nd if unflinchingly adhered to by all the courte with strictness, will do a great deal to repress the corrapt practices advert- ed to, Bat this decision does not clear the skirta of George Law himeelf. Wo have no doubt but that Law engaged Bokee to act in this qneation- able lobby business, and promised him the $10,- 000; and then, after getting his services in the ex- tension of credit, turns around snd repudiates his own lobby contract simply because it waa not recoverable in law, bat 8 mere lobl-y transaction, which Is always a deception. Lanor Srecc.ations tw Stoans—On the re ceipt of the Empire City’s news, at this port, on the afterneon of the 11th inst., from Havana, the theory of @ short crop of sugar in Cuba became confirmed, which information, with accounts of un- favorable weather on the Island, caused rampant speculative feeling to grow up. Agenteof Spanish houses, it was said, recetved large orders to pur- chase In this market on epecnlation, and prices immediately advanced from } a } cont per Il, fully recovering the previous depremion. Taking the two days of the Lith and 16th Inst, the tales amounted to about 4,009 to 5,000 hhda and 6,000 bbla. of refined crushed sugars, of an aggro gate value of over one million of dollara The hogeheads sold weighed sboct 1,400 tha each, which, at current ratee, averaged about $160 per bogshead. only be nominally, for that, de facto—and very soon de jure, too—she must become a free Stato. We therefore conclude that the Kansas pro- slavery will be carried out, and that 0 State constitution will be adopted recognizing slavery, or sllgat upon the subject, which will be Immenee profita, It was stated, had boen realized by some houses engaged in the speculation. Prices have, however, now renched such’ a height as to seriously interfere with consump- tion ; and when # pinnaole Is reached by specula- tors, the probability of @ reaction and oollapse will become imminent, the company, not only having access to, but hav- ing care of, these identical shares of Baron Rothechild, which they attempted to utilize for their own profit, without intending probably to cheat or injare him. [t appears to us, therefore, that this pretence of burglary is a silly, idle and improper effort to warp justice and to wrest facta from their proper and true significance, If the framers of the Extradition treaty had de- tired or intended to include withia its provisions | this crime of embezzlement or breach of trust— which alone lies against these partles—they would have said so, and there would have been no doubt of the interpretation to be given to the words which they would have used for that pur- pore, But they did not intend to give to the treaty so extensive a field of operation, and it is highly improper now for the officers of the law to seek to make It effect tha¢ which its framers did not intend it should effect. We have no desire to shicld the men or to palliate the offence with which they are charged: We merely say that a treaty to sur- render murderers, burglars and highwaymen should not be made to apply to eheopstoalers, pickpockets, or unconsclentious speculators. That in our whole position in the matter. These men, under the irresistible influence of a mania for speculation which permeated all classes of French | society at the time, were tempted .to make use of | stock otherwise lying unprofitable in the safe, as @ basis on which to speculate to any amount They did ro, They pledged or hypothecated the stock. Their speculations were unfortunate. In- stead of becoming millionaires, as they fondly | dreamed, they were unable to redeem the stook which they had pledged, and had to resort to artifice to conceal its abstraction. More and more and more stock was obtained in the same way, and swallowed up in the same yawning gulf of the Bourse, till fivally it became an im- possibility to retrieve their loss; and the opera- tors found themselves obliged to resort to flight—that Inevitable finale of euch a career— | probably with determination to redeom | in a @lstunt land their forfeited repatation If the Extradition treaty had covenanted that | euch offenders should be matually surrendered we would be the first to demand their rendition; | but as it contains no such covenant we object to j the misinterpretation sought to be put upon it, | and believe that the Commissioner will refuse to | give it such @ misconstruction | And while we have little sympathy for Messrs. | Grelet, Parot & Co., we have still los-for the | Baron Rothschild and the Great Northern Rail- | road of Franca If that company had observed | the tmallest degree of caution, or had been | governed by the commonest business principles, it would have been impossible for two-or three of its employés to practice, undetected, sueh an enormous fystem of embezzlement, extending | over @ space of four or five yearn It iy by wach | unpardonable laxity that clerks, cashiers and | dookkeepers are too often tempted to onter on a | career of peculation and fraud Rothachild and | the Northern Railroad Company deserve no sort | of sympathy, and certainly » great fundamental aw should not be perverted from its plain mean. ing for their benefit or at their desire. Dirty Srnerts.—We heard a good deal, some time since, of contracts that had been made for street cleaning with the ald of new and grand machines, and we were congratulated on the the proepect of clean trees for once, What has become of all these fine promises? Where are the clean streets? Except Broadway, all is filth and mire and mud and garbage indescribable. And summer is upon us, with a torrid sun, We must leok out for pestilence. ‘The P: ogress of BMunktpal Anarchy. Tt seems that the gontlemea who call thom- selves a Board of Metropolitan Police Commis- sioners, not content with awaiting the slow deci- sion of the courts om the validity of their claims, have resolved to make an attempt to obtain, either by force or by trick, the property and the fonctions which they would enjoy were the Met- ropolitan Police act of last session declared valld and constitutional, Mr. Superintendent Tall- madge is understood to be taking “active move- ments against the present administration of the Police department of the olty.”” In apprehension of the collision which must ensue should he con- tinue to tamper with the officers and men of the police force, Mayor Wood hes addressed to Mr. Simeon Draper letter, which we publish ele- where, exhorting him and his colleagues to em- ploy the time that muet intervene before the jodgment of the Court of Appeals is rendered, rather In attempting to acquire a knowledge of the duties of Pelice Commissioners than in striv- ing to embarraca the authorities now in pomes- elon. With the experience we have, it can hard- ly be hoped that the letter will have a salntary effect. Men bent on ruthless usurpation are no: Mkety to be deterred from their alm by mere considerations of juetice and propriety. And we confees we look forward, with no alight alarm, to the prospect of an open collision between the two sets of Police authorities during the present week If there were apy shame jn the leaders of the party which has plunged us into our present fear-. fal predicament, they would surely blash when they reflect on the novelty they have introduced into the conduct of party political strife in this country. No party before them—nelther the democrats, nor the Know Nothings, nor the whigs, nor the old republicana, nor the fede- raliste—was ever co faithless to principle as to attempt to subvert the republican principles on which our institutions rest, for the sake of punish- ing their antagonists or rewarding their own party, The honor of dealing the first blow at that cor ner-stone of liberty—local self-government—be- longs wholly to the republican majority of the New York Legislature, and to its leaders, Thur- low Weea, and William HL. Seward. Other par tiea, obtaining power, have deprived their oppo- nents of offices, and distributed them among their friends; have enacted party measures, and repealed the acts of their rivals; have striven to @rive the public sentiment into their particular channel and to divert it from all othera) But no party—till these Albany republicans came—was ever so lost to patriotio feelings, and so utterly reckless of the ultimate fortunes of the nation, asto deliberately take away from their oppo" nenta the cardinal rights of freemen, in order to achieve a party triumph, and to reap a party harvest of spoil. The attempt is unparalleled. In all our history there never has been one like it. States havo occasionally had to resist usurps.tiens on the part of the federal government ; but mo cigy kay éver—till now—been forced, todeiera itecHingriast the usurpations.of the State auteosities; for ever was there, till now, in any State, a doml- nant party unconscious or careless ef the crown- ing importance of maintaining at all hazards, the base and foundation of our free inatitutions— free muncipal government. In our flercest pollti- cal contesta, our stateamen have always respected in minorities those rights which could not be taken sway without undermining the whole free fabrio, and giving the lie to principles of democracy. ‘The late New York Legislature is the first exam- ple of @ body ready to pull down the house about our ears in the hope of plunder during the fracas. On what principle do Gov. King and his friend justify their attempt to step in here and govern us? Qui facit per alium facit per se: Gov. King’s Commissioners are mere deputies of himself; if the acte are declared valid he will be the real head of the police. By what right doca he dare to as some the appointment of our police and the ad- ministration of the funds we appropriate to pay for them! By what right does Governor King dare to lay ont a park here for us with oar money’? By what right does Governer King dare to build a city hall here with our money? How does he come to have any- thing to do with euch things, any more than the Governor of Massachusetts or the Pope of Rome? When did we ever ask him for anything of the kind? Where is his suthority, express or im- plied? Wheroin is he better aathorized to spend our money or to appoint our police than Lord Napier or M. de Sartiges? What have we to do with him? And if this atrocious attempt to usurp our rights and spend our money leads, aa seems like- ly, to an open collision between two rival seta of police officers this week, with its inevitable con- sequences of free rowdyism and flagrant anarchy, on whose shoulders will the responsibility rest? Are there no laws that would reach such scanda- lons stretches of neurped authority? Tun Quarantine Station. We are glad to see that Justice Clerke bas issued an injunction against the Quarantine Commissioners, forbid- ding them to proceed with the erection of build- ings on the land purchaeed by them for a yellow fever depot at Segnine’s Point, Staten Island; and we hope that the nature of the issue joined will permit an inquiry into the speculations in real estate which are generally understood to have been the principal motive for the sélection | of this spot, and the establishment of a branch quarantine there. The proceedings before the Grand Jury of Rich- mond county have probably satisfied the specu- lators who have engaged in this modo of making money that there are difficulties in the way that will not be easily surmounted; as one | of the witnesses sald, “every dollar they may make by planting their yellow fever depot will drip with blood.” We are surprised, for our part, that with the opportunities afferded for lucrative speculations of various kinds at Washington and Albany, Mr. Weed and Governor King’s conscience kcepcrs should have taken the trouble to engage in such a desperate conflict with these poor fish- ermen for ® few thousand dollera Sarely It will not pay to fight these honest bat somewhat in- Tactable men—who, after all, are only ex- ercising what they conceive to be legitimate rights of self. defence—for the paltry profit on a ew acres of land near Tompkinsville and at Seguine’s Point, Cannot Mr, Weed be satistied with bis naval depot in Georgia? Is there no- thing at Albany that will answer Mr. Seaman’s purpose bata fresh Kanens struggle in Rich- mond county? Cannot the republicans earn money romehow without driving these poor fish. ermen to desperation and rain? Resistance to Trraswy—The Albany papers attack the meeting lately held in the Park on the ground of its violence. There may be some truth in thin A meeting of merchants, mo- chanics and workingmen would answer the pur- owe more offegtually, The true course and the git rel F F i i i F i i [ H F Z E ; | | it z f g g F i Lie He 2 E ‘ : i : rf i z 8 i i [Eee THE LATEST NEWS. from Ws KAN®AS—INTRODUCTORY MAKIFESTO OF GOVERNOR WALKER—THS STRONG PODITS OF HIS PLAN OP Pa- able document (of geome twenty-four of manuseript), sud I find that he anlienh polas ara en fedoasee. 7 In the onteet Mr. Walker says that he has consented te become Governor of Kansas, ‘at the earnest solicitation of the President, with the cordial concurrence of all his Oa- inet.” Upott this point, therefore, the cabinet is = unit. Next, after admitaing the terrible character of the imbro- gio on the nigger question, Mr. Walker proceeds to a brief review of the history of slavery in the United States. ‘Then coming to Kansas he falls back upon the ‘ popular sovereignty” clap trap of the Kansas Nebraska bill. The people of Kansas, in the State constitution which thoy are about to frame (proslavery), must, therefore, settle the question for themselves. The President recognizes the va- ldity of the local laws (pro-slayery) providing for the June election, &c., and in regard to the stand-aloef po- licy adopted by the free State party, Mr. Walker, im these exact words, says :—‘Throughout our whete Union, however and wherever free government prevails, those who abstain from the exercie of the right of suffrage authorize those who do vote t aot for hem in Chat contingency, and the non-volers are as much bod under the law and the constitution, as well as by an overruting moral necessity, by the act of the majority of thoag, who de vete, as though all had participated in theelection.” Thus, if from the stand-aloof policy of the free State party in the Kansas June election, the result should be « pro-slavery eoustita- tion, it wil! ebinding as if every man of the non-voters bade’ @iection of the Convention. Stick = pim te <etdimplores the free State party te cur, Selection, therefore, but very mecia i -"Mtbe epider 40 the fig.” Be has {50° "TO" a8; he thinks the provisions for the elee- Won ver, smooth and fair,eud that if there should be ‘fsende in the olection, the Convention will be honest. Bus then, as 8 last resort, if there ts « wrong there is a remedy in Congress. He next seys, ‘J cannot doutt that the Qon- vention, after having framed @ State constitution, wil mb- mil it by a avlemn oath for ratification ov rejection by « ma- jority of Ure people of Kansas.’’ He eniors into an carne constitutional argument upon this point, frem which it ts evident that the President desires this coarse to be pur- sued. Mr. Walker next throws out the following dems. Saga he:—"It is true that the constitution of a State, as has ‘been the case with many, may be silent on the subject ef slavery, in which case, in the absence of any prohibition ef the legislative power of = State granted in one general comprehenstve clause, the Log'slatare of the State, elected. by the people, might act om the question of slavery as they” have done in other States,” &o. He thinks that this forth- coming Convention will have tho perfect right to adopt this ourse of non-tntery¢ntion in their State constitulon, And you may etick another pin there, Then follows an appeal for a general participation im the election,’ &c., teuching mpon Indian titles, Doundaries, homestoads, pre-emptions, land grants, &., depexdont upon the carly admission of Kansas as a State. ‘Then the Governor touches upon Nebraska, soon to be- come a Stato, and upon “he great andl futile slaveholding Indian territory on the South, soon, I hope, to become a State, e@ided and encowraged by the Sate jof Kansas." thicktwe or threo pins there. Next Mr. Walker brings all the Pe- cific raiiroads t@ bear upon Kansas, and winds up by re- peating that he must; enforce the laws, and by appealing to the patrietiam of the people of Kuneas, inasmuch as the safety or the yestruction of the Union is in their bands. ‘This Unico a-gument is substantially the same as that te behalf of Mr. Bucbanan in the late Presideatial campaign. And such is the cream of Mr. Walker's introductory Kaa- pas manifesto. THR POSITION OF OUR GOVERNMENT ON TIM OMUNA QUESTION SATISPACTORY TO EXGLAND—THR FOR- BIGN APPOINTMENTS—A PULL MISSION AWARDED TO NEW YORK— DANTRL 8. DICKINKON AND JUDGm PARKER THR CANDIDATE®—TUR MEXICAN TRBA- TIRS—-ANTIOIPATED ADJUSTMEWT OF THK NEW GRANADA DIFFICULTY —VRS8BL6 OF WAi ORDERED TO NICARAGUA, ETC. Wassuxctox, May 17, 1867. Despatches have been received from Hagland, stating that the position of our government, os Inid down im the reply of Gen. Cass to Lord Napier, relative to Chinese affairs, is entirely satisfactory to the British Cabinet. The statement of the London Port, that the request England made to our government waa for penceful cooperation te erroneous. Joint armed tntervention was asked for, aad decidedly declined. Our government agroed to co-operate | by repreecntation and Jotnt remonstranes; and this is be- loved te be satisfactory to nglamd, a9 !t was obviousty the only proper course for us to adopt. A request for recall bas beeu received by the Stale De- partment from Mr. Cass, our Minlstor ot Rome. This makes the fourth Minlater who has desired to be recalled. | Of Meesra. Vroom, Owen and Relmont, have formorty advised, Neither Slidell nor Petmont are applicants far foreign appointments. All Uae foreign appolntments to be made this week wilt not exceed sixteen; moet of the othors are tw lay over for a time. The appotntmenta will be of the boat mon, regard- tenn of their Stato residences. This has been decided om withia the last two days. Ono full mission will be gives to Now York. It will be offered to olther Mr. Dickunsem or to Jndge Parker, of Albany. This you may rely upom. Despatches from Mr. Forsyth, received yestorday at the Stato Departinent, announce the disappolatment of the Mexican governmont at the return of the inte treatios, and that the position of Presideat Comonfort is very precarious. Ho intimated no wish to return, and the goverament have not decided whether they will recall him. Gen. Herran retarned bere on Seturday, and calle@ upon the President and Secretary of State. Ho has re- cotved advices from the new administration at Bogota, amd hopes to be able to initiate a eatiefactery arrangement of pending difficulties with New Granada. Advices have been received at the State Department that no disturbaase is anticipated on the Isthinus. The slosp-of war Saralogm palla tomorrow from Norfolk for Aspiawall, and gow from there to Greytown to protec) American interests om the Nicaragna transit route, A ship has also been ordered from Panama to San Juan del Sur. Commodore Kearney has been appointed to command he Navy Yard at Brooklyn. Dr. Parmanter has been appointed inspector of Drugs we Hoxton, vice Smith, romoved. Dr. MoViokar has beea.ap- pointed Surgeon of the Marine Hospital in Iitinois, view Brainard, resigned. | The following Baltimore appointments wore made om Saturday —John N, Banghman, General Appraiser; Beat N. Richardson and David Springer, Assistant Appraisers. Dr. Aiken is re-appolated Inepector of Drugs. pn tensa Sat et ag Thurlew Weed at Charleraon. ‘ (CHARLTON, May LT, 1867. Thurlow Weed arrived this eveaing, and took roome a