The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1860, Page 6

6 ns 7 where, cannot fail to engage the attention of our NE Ww Y ORK HERALD. readers, The body was embalmed, and will be is at to his triends in Kentucky for burial ES GORDON BENNxT®, | wl y FAME TOITOR AND PROPRIETOR | The trial of Albert W. Hicks, alias Johnson, the : | able wed marderer of the captain and crew of the Orrics X. W, CORNER OF NAG8AU AND FOLTON B73. | oyster sloop Edwin A, Johnson, was continued yes Serre A fail TERMS, cash ty adeance. Money cont by mail will b+ at the Pomage stumpe rik of the sonder, nat received af sunscription DAILY HRRALD wo cents 1, ST per commun. ra per copy, ST per ieee, HERALD, every at whe cons por W oetrvees la | terday in the United States Circuit Circuit. | report of the testimony is given iu another column | Counsel in the cose of Rynders aad Munp, late | United States Deputy Marchals, who are charged with permitting the alleged. slaver Storm King to X's | escape from this port, gave notice in the Ciroutt BOWERY THEATRE Bowery mm PinuY—oranise-Winow's ‘Vicrim—Momanrous Qoms —Rarninoros—Heap or WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street — ‘Wapcowspmnsssn. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Oventann Rovrs. LAURA KEENT'S THEATRE, 644 Brosdway.—Invisioue Pauos—Aas arraiz or Hoxow NSW BOWERY, Rowory.—Davit's Oax—Vitacens—- Baonzs Dongay—H .wix1—Nagno SLuNoBRKS. BARSUWS AMBEICAN MUSEUM. Brosdway.—Day end Broumg—Dor—Hor Picksxs—Lavisg Cvarosrrins, de. BEYANTY MIWBTRELAS, Meokantes’ Ball, 472 Brondway.— Buncesqurs, Goncs, Dances, o.—Tms Steancen. NIBLO'S BALOON, Broadway. —Geo. Canutr's Mix: Orem is Sones, Dances, ‘a0 Bion Buoxvens. MOZART HALL, No. 663 Broadway.—Gvrravus Gaanr's Eyteqraunmxat— Meona’s Ina MaLovies, £0. CORWER OF THIRTEENTH 8YREET AND FOURTH AVERUB—Oauiv0ews Mex cumin. TRIPLE SHEET. New Work, Wednesday. May 16, 1860. The News. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were highly iateresting. The galleries of the Senate chamber were crowded with spectators, anxious to hear Mr. Douglas’ promised exposition of his record and principles with reference to the question of slavery in the Territories. The preliminary busi- ness, consisting of the introduction of a bill in addition to the acts for the punishment of crimes against the United States, a brief discussion on a bill amendatory of the act establishing a Territorial government in Utah, and some explanations relative to the bill for the relief of Anson Dart, Superintend: nt of Indian Affairs in Oregon, was quickly passed over, and Mr. Davis’ reso- lutions, declaratory of the principles of the democratic party as regards the protection of slave property in the Territories, were taken up. Mr. Douglas then took the floor and delivered along speech, going to prove that the squatter sovereignty doctrine did not originate with him, but that it was embodied in the celebrated Nichol- son letter of General Cass, in 1847, and recognized in the resolutions offered by Mr. Dickinson in the Senate in the same year; that it was presented to and accepted by the Democratic National Conven- tion in 1848, entered into the Compromise mea- sures of 1850, and was affirmed in the Cincinnati platform of 1852, and in the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1864. He fortified bis argument by referring ‘to the proceedings of conventions of se: Bouth- ern States in favor of squatter sov , and to the resolutions of the Geergia Legislature of 1854, after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, endorsing that measure, and said those resolu- tions were as good a platform as he wanted—he was willing to accept them without the slightest alteration. Before conclading his remarks Mr Douglas became #0 exhausted as to be compelled to give way to a motion for an adjournment. In the Hoase yesterday a resolution to invite the Japanese to visit the chamber, and appointing a committee of five to do the honors, was adopted. The report of the Committee on Elections, ousting Mr. Cooper, of Michigan, from his seat, and giving itto Mr. Howard, was adopted, and Mr. Howard was thereupon qualified as a member. In Commit- tee of the Whole the bill making appropriations for deficiencies in the Post Ofice Department was debated till the adjourament. The appropriations amount to $155.000,000, The Republican National Convention for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President meets at Chicago to-day. According to our despatches there will be a very large ar tendance of delegates. From the reports of the proceedings of the preliminary caucases, it ap’ pears that the Convention is not likely to prove as harmonious a gathering as has been anticipated. The friends of each of the candidates for the Presidential nomination seem determined to stand by their favorite, and consequently the prospects of Seward’s success are quite dubious. The Japanese remained in their quarters at Wil- lard's Hotel yesterday, not having recovered from the fatigue of the reception of Monday. They were put in communication with the State Depart ment, and it was arranged that the ratifications of the treaty should be ex hanged to-day, and that on to morrow they should be formally presented to the President at the White House. The New York Aldermanic Committee are at Washington, w as certain what arrangements e been made as to the future movements of the Japanese. It is stated that the Ambassadors will. probably remain in Washington abont tweuty days, that they will then proceed to Philadelphia, where they will tarry three days, and from there come to New York. The defalcation of Postmaster Kowler continues to be the town talk, expecially among the demo: cratic politicians. The whereabouts of the de- fauiter has pot yet been discovered. Messrs. George Law and Gustavus A. Conover, Mr. Fow- | ler's bondsmen, have been notified to pay over the sum for which they «tand responsible, and it is likely that they will respond without delay. Mr. Fowler's fiends are, it is said, exerting themselves to make up the deficit in his accounts with the Post Office Department, with every prospect of | success. ‘The first anniversary celebration of the! Old Dominion Society was held in this city on Monday and Tuesday evening last. An oration was de- livered at the Cooper Institute by the Hon. Mr, | Summers on Monday, and a supper given at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening. Our report ap pears in another column. A meeting of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to assess and collect damagos, &c., at Quarantine, was beld yesterday at the St Nicho- las Hotel—present Mesars. Sweency, Leavenworth and Barger. On motion of Mr. Sweeney, Mr. lea venworth was appointed chairman,and George W Warner chosen as secretary. The 5th day of June ‘was designated as the day of meeting for the transaction of business, at the office of Peter B. Sweerey. No. 47 Wail street. A formal notice was font to the President of the Board of Sapervisors Richmond county, and the Commission, after <osignating the Henan and Tribune, of this city, «nd such two papers of Richmond county as Mr. Barger should name, to publish the notices of the meetings &c., of the Commission, adjourned to the date and place named above. Coroner Jackman yesterday held an inquest at the City Prison upon the body of Robert C. Macdo- nald. who committed suicide in his cell in that insti- tution oa Monday Inet, by taking poison. The tes timony ofthe witnesses, and several letters written by the upfortunate mam, which we publish ole, Court yesterday that they should move to quash the } indictment against the accused. Argument on the motion will be heard on Saturday next. The Board of Excise Commissioners organized yesterday for openivg their baccbanalian campaign for the present year by holding their first meeting to grant licenses. The organization of the Board is the same as that of last year. Commissioners Haskett and Holmes were the only members pre- sent. The number of applications for licenses was twelve, all of which were granted on the payment of $30 for each. The Commissioners propose to charge hotels and large liquor dealers $250 for license, and the price of a license will range from hat sum to $30, inatead of charging $30 to all deal- ers indiscriminately, a3 was done in 1859. The old Board of Directors of the Harlem Rail- road Company were re-elected yesterday after- noon. The polls were opened at ten A. M. and closed at two P.M. There were 51,089 shares of tock represented. Toe steamship Tutonia, which sailed from this port yesterday for Southampton, Havre and Ham- burg, took out 131 passengers and $170,000 in specie. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,200 balee, closing eteady on the basis of 1134c. a 11340. for middling uplands. The receipts at the ports since the Lat of September last have reachea 4,273,000, against 3,534,- 000 for 1869. The exports for the same time have reach- ed ubout 3,850,000 bales, against 2 630,000 last year; and the stock on hand amounts to 612,000 bales, against 450,- 000 at the same period in 1869. There was a bit of a panic in breadstuffs, and State and Western brands of flour fel! off about 10 cents por barrel. Southern four was dull and the market heavy. Wheat fell off about two cents per bushel, and corn was from 23¢¢. a 2c. per bushel lower. Pork was Jeee buoyant, though with more doing: eales of new mess were made at $18 123, @ $18 25, and new prime at $13 75, end of old do. at $12 6¢. Coflee was steady, with sules of 900 bags Laguayra; 1,000 bage St. Domingo for export, at rates given in another column. ttock comprises 1,168 bage Rio, 16,444 mate and bags Java—giving & total of 37,184 packages of af kinds. Sugars were +tcaay, with sales of about 706 hbds., at rates given else where. Freights were Orm to English ports, and em- eagements fair. Official Corruption and Party Organiza- tUonm—An Iadependent Press the Only Remedy. The explosion in the New York Post Office has cccurred at a moment peculiarly adapted to give an impulse to the spirit of change that is rife in the political world, and to give an- other blow to the crumbling system of party organization. If we examine critically the case of Mr. Fow- ler, we shall find that his crime was es much the result of the existing echeme of party crea- tion and party control as it was of the want of strong moral principles in the man. And, in- deed, if we carry the analysis a little further, we may perhaps come to the conclusion that, under our present party system, no man of strong moral principles could successfully un- dertake the labors that Mr. Fowler has so long borne. Appointment to public office is the eti- mulus and the reward that attend the profession- al politician. Out of the salary he is not only to live, but also to meet the numerous contin- gent expenses of a profession that is necessa- rily more waeteful than .any other. If we contemplate only the relation between ex- isting public salaries and the demands which society makes upon men in the social position ofa public officer, we shall observe at once an immense disproportion. Oar present public salaries were adopted at atime when the aggre- gate wealth of the community was far less than it now is; and, having been set under a wise system of public Xconomy, they are now con- fessedly inadequate to the support of men call- ed to fill the public offices. But the great cause of the evil lies in the in- satiate calls which the present system of party management makes upon office holders and party leaders. We will take the case of Mr. Fowler as an insmnce. Besides being Post master, he has been Grand Sachem of Tamma- ny, Chairman of the New York General Com- mittee, a member of every convention—city, State or national--and the centre of one of the most active of the many political cliques within the broad lines of party demarcation. These du- ties have called him now to Washington, now to Albany, then to Syracuse, then * again to Charleston, besides demanding his presence in Tammany meetings, commit- tee meetings, and clique consultations innumerable. It would naturally be supposed that the onerous duties of the Post Office of the greatest commerdial city in the Uuion would of themselves require ali the time any one man could find; and yet, under the preseat practice of official appointment, no man can become Postmaster ot New York unless he devotes a large portion of his time to political manage ment and party organization. The result is | that the minor duties, which, as the world now | goes, are the public ones, are left to eubordi- | mates, and what subordinates cannot do is left | undone. The evil doeg not stop here, though it is evi- | dently grave enough at this point. Besides the | demand upon his time, the professional politi- clan has far greater ones upon his purse. |’ree social intercourse, wines, dinners, suppers. and treats innumerable, costly as they are, are the least of these. Officious friends, politica! in- struments and hangers-on, men whose good | will it is desirable to retain, venal rascals who | must be kept in golden traces, and a namber lees class who are always in trouble and always ronning 1 the politician for whom they hurrah, and for whose can- didate they vote, to say nothing of the expenses of party gatherings, liguting of hatle, printing of posters and party sheet, building of platforms, hiring of shoulder bit ters, and go on to the end of a very long chap- ter, constitute a positive and inevitable drain upon every man entrusted with public office and the handling of the public money. Here is the eternal source of public corruption, aad | the first great cause of official defalcation, We are not surprised at the case of Mr. Fowler, and shall only be astonished if it is not disco- | vered in many other quarters. That it does | exist in numerous places where it is not even | suspected now, we are fully confident; and the number of retired office holders whose accounts with the government have never been settled is much greater than the public has any idea of. ‘This system of corruption is not peculiar to the Inte democratic party, for the black repub- licnn le just aa thoroughly imbued with it, es nn — } the rer os of th ‘ bas bees evirced tr Treaeurer Of the State of Maine aud eleewhere It is am inevituble attendant upon ou: ejstew of party organization and public uppviat mente, So thoroughly bas it imbued the federal government that the Presideat might with truth repeat the eaying of the late Czar, “] believe there is but one man connected with the government who does pot steal, sud that is myeelf.”’ The Covode Committee, got up for a personal attack upon Mr. Buchanea by men familisr with official corruption for years, and actuaied by a feeling of anger at not being permitted longer to revel in it, is producing effects upon the public mind that its insti- estore Hitle dreamed of. The developements of the corruption in the last New York Legie- lature, where Ta:amany Hall men and black republicans all vent in together to plunder this city; the »-+elations of Eider Peck, ia Maine, and now ‘!.e explosion in the New York Post Office, are sil nails driven in the coffins of the old system of political party orguniz tion. The growth of the independent press is the ad- vance of the power that is destroying that great evil, and which will bring about the re- form so imperiously required by society. When public men feel that they must rely upon an independent press, and not on corrupt party organizations, for support, they will be relieved of the hungry leeches that now force them to plunder the public treasury. Tue Great Pourrical Faron or THE Day.— The party press, without exception, affect to regard the Baltimore nomination of the Union candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi- dency—Bell and Everett—as s signal failure, the greatest of the present day. The democra- tic and republican journals vie with each other in applying all sorts of disparaging epi- thets and nicknames to these gentlemen, and endeavor to show that, as candidates, they amount to nothing. Amopg those jour- vals are the Richmond Enquirer, the Alba- py Atlas-Argus and Evening Journal, and the New York Tribune. One calls Bell a whig, anotber calls him an old fogy, a third eays be is dull, and a fourth that he is “a mise- rable abstraction.” The democratic joumals take care to teil us that this nomination cannot injure their party, while it is likely to inflict serious mischief on the republicans. The re publican journals, on the contrary, labor to prove that it cannot possibly affect the success of republicanism, but may do some damage to the democracy at the South. The truth is that both sets of journals are partly right. The de- mocracy may be defeated by Bell and Everett in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern States, and the republicans may be defeated by the same candidates in Pennsyl- vapia, New Jersey and Indiana. Why do these journals take s0 much pains to run the Union candidates down, if they really amount to nothing’? We rather svepect that it is because they find them furmidable opponents in the present state of parties and political complications. Bell and Everett are both respectabie and able men, and about the safest that could be nominated, under existing circumstances. As for Houston, of whom so much bas been said, he would not be by any means a safe man for President of the United States. He is not conservative, would be very likely to plunge the country into war, and furthermore, he is very much of a humbug. We cannot yet tell what the democratic party will do. At present it is in a state of disin- tegration; and if it should continue in that condition, and the conserva. tive masses ehould rally around Bell and Everett, these men would be found very far from despicable candidates. But it is objected against them that they have no platform. In that very fact consists their strength. The absence of 4& platform is the greatest of platforms in the present criti- cal condition of the country ; for it opposes the agitation of the slavery question, the pabulum of all the politicians and demagogues, North and South, and the only source of danger to the Union. It is this which, above all other things, will commend the candidates to the great mass of conservative voters, who are heartily sick of the revolutionary republicans of the North, and the revolutionary fire-eaters and secessionists of the South. On the whole, viewing the horo- scope of the political heavens, we think the nomination of Bell and Everett is good, and that it may turn out highly important in its bearing on the two great parties of the day, and on the interests of the country, ata crisis in its history without a parallel since the founda- tion of the government. Tux Stroxe Mixpey Wowen ov Divorce The discussion at the Women’s Rights Conven- tion, on Friday last, reminds one of the ex- cesses of the dames cle ia halle in the first French Revolution. The confusion of ideas, the dis- regard of decency and the violence of lan- guege which marked the one equally distin- gvish the other. In reading some of the speeches delivered on this occasion, it is difi- cult to believe that the speakers were females still lees, females with a fair share of education. Tow they could, with unblushing cheeks, utter ina public assembly the sentiments attributed to them, we are at a loss to understand. After all, howeven, theee peor, demented daughters of Eve are more to be pitied than Wlamed. Their infatuation is bur the offshoot of the fanaticiam which, in the various torms of Communism. Fourieriem, Spiritualism, Free- Loveiem, and Niggerism, has set #0 many of our Northern population crazy. As they are nei- ther politicians nor metaphysicians enough to taik treason or philosophy, it is not to be won- dered at that they should preach revolt against the only discipline that imposes restraints upon their unruly tendencies. A Frcrrer ts tue Devocnatic Dovecours.— There is a good deal of gossip abroad about the removal of the City Chamberlain, Mr. Stout, President of the Shoe and Leather Bank, by Mayor Wood, and the substitution of Mr. Platt, President of the Artieans’ Bank~a chaoge whieh, of course, will transfer the custody of the city funds irom the former institution to the latter. People are wondering whether this move is a political or a financial one; and now that a misfortune has befallen Mr. Fowler, the Postmaster, who kept Tammany Hall going for some years past by his popularity and his as- sistance in other ways, it is snpposed that Mayor Wood will have to go in and take charge of Tammany, as he seems to manage demo- cratic politics generally. The gossips around the different democratic headquarters are quite alive on these two important events--the troubles of Grand Sachem Fowler, and the re moval of Mr. Stout. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1860—TRIPLE SHEET. + Speeew Trcrease of Immigration. more potent than party politics or sectional For tho let suarter of © gsatury there | sgitation militate to hold the different sec- have been periods, occtticg from time | tions of the country together, and to draw to time, at which the immigrstion to thi® | them etill closer by means of more rapid com- country bss recrived an uncsus! impetus, ! munication. Demagogues may agitate as from various known and nutursl causes. | they please, and preach disupiea, but the The condition of Europe from 1816 to 1850 | in particular was eo peculiar from the combined effects of material depreesion and Political sgitation, that emigrants from all quarters of the Old World poured into this country, as the last refuge of broken for- | tones und disappointed hopes. Want and op- P'¢ssion at home swept off the population by th: usands, until the broad Atlantic was studded with emigrant ships, and the ports of America people feel, after all, that they are members | of one family, though divided by the | brecdth of a whole contineat, and by | imaginsry sectional lines. The welfare of the North snd the South, the Atlantic and the Pa- | cific regions, is bound up im one common des- | tiny, and subject to common influences, either for good cr evil fortune. Rallroads and tele- | graphs, and every other agency whereby dis | tance and time are overcome, and the people *warmed with the bone and ainew and brain of | brought into closer communion, are the strong- Europe, seeking here a field for their develope- meant, which they have since fertilized and en- riched, At no period, either before or since, was the ‘mmigration to this country so large; but for the last five or ten years it has been gradually decreasing, and it is only within the last ‘ew months that the advent of immigrants to our shores in unprecedentedly large numbers has attracted any attention or surprise. Political tranquillity, the absence of agitation, and com- parative prosperity in Europe, had rendered emigration no longer a necessity, and it is therefore a matter of speculation and astonish- ment that it should have received such an ex- traordinary impetus at the present time. Ireland and Germany have always furnished the bulk of emigration to America; but we do not perceive in the present aspect of affairs in either country any paramount cause for deser- tion of home and kindred such as existed a few years ago. Nevertheless, emigrants from both lands, the former especially, have been pouring in upon us in immense numbers for some time past. The new exodus from Ireland is excit- ing considerable attention, and even some alarm, in that country, and the immediate cause ofthe movement does not seem to be under- stood there; and the same is true also of Ger- many; but it is manifest to us that this ex- traordinary emigration can be accounted for by circumetances at this side of the Atlantic rather than at the other. The fact is, that those who have previously emigrated to this country have been very prosperous. The magnificent resources of the United States, spread over an extent of territory combining all deecriptions of climate and soil, its vast agricultural wealth, its mineral deposits, its growing manufactures, the reward which awaits industry everywhere; all these have contributed to enrich the emi grants of former years, and they have shared with their kindred at home the abundance they have gathered here, and encouraged them to seek a land where the sturdy arm, the quick brain, and the willing spirit, untrammelled by oppression and stimulated by the genius of our institutions, are certain to reap a rich remn- neration for their labor. Millions of dollara are sent every year to Europe by our adopted citizens to bring out their friends and families; and as money is the most potent mis- sionary and the best evidence of prosperity, accompanying, as it doubtless does, glowing descriptions of affairs here, emigration to America becomes the goal of ambition to thou- sands. No part of the globe presents the same in- ducement to the emigrant as this republic. To the industrious and thrifty man, emigration to the United States means certain prosperity, and bence emigration is popular. According to the returns of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion, about 30,500 immigrants have arrived at this port since the 15th of November last, and they have furnished us with the following de- % 31 to Jan. 31 2,148 « from Jan. 81 to Feb. 29 « 14lT 1 from Feb. 29 to March 31... 4,158 oy from March 31 to April 30 6,065 nd from April 30 to May 15 » 7,080 Total......... paroumeredters 30,304 Should the immigration continue for the re mainder of this month at the above rate, the total for May would be nearly 15,000, or half as much as for the entire preceding six months. Of these immigrants there were from Ireland ....... ae ay 10,230 Germany. . OM England. R ace ae 2871 And the remainder from all other countries. © That immigration should have received such an unwonted impulse at the present moment is due to the fact that we were never so pros perous or bad so much money as now. Rising, like the fabled Phoenix, from the financial disaster of 1557, the country bas completely recovered itself, and presents to day a picture of anexampled prosperity, which, unless the schemes of political demagogues and agitators in the preeent crisis of the country’s history shall triumph over the conservatism and com- mon sense of the people, must continue to gtow brighter and brighter as time goes on. Immigration is a source of wealth and an omen of growing prosperity. Millions of fer- tile acres in the West await but the touch of industry to make them blossom like a garden; and, following on the footsteps of the hardy immigrant, towns and cities epring up, the forest and the wilderness are redeemed for civilization, and new Territories and States are gathered into the fraternal embraces of the Union, building up a nation which in three quarters of a century has equalled in popula. tion and power some of the oldest empires on the globe. Communication Between THe Ari ATic Pace Snorre—Ter Pony Exrxess,—The ef- forts to lessen the time of communication be- | tween the Atlantic and Pacific shores are pro- ward from St. Louis are rapidly advancing to | completion, and, with the Pony Express and other overland routes, we shall soon be in very close connection with San Francisco. The Le- cislature of California has offered a sum of $60,000 to the company which hall com- plete the first telegraph line through to Franciseo, to be paid in ten annual instal- ments, and a farther sum of $10,000 to any company which shall complete the second line. With this stimalant to exertion, we shall ree a telegraph in operation to the capital of the Golden State. This move of the Legislature, ne well as the anp | est bonds of union, and the eagerness with which every method which can accomplish theee results is bailed by the people is the best guarantee that the masses, at all events, desire union and harmony throughout the whole country, no matter what way the po. litical storms may blow. Waar Wit Be Narotgon’s Nexr Move!— The new pamphlet, by M- Edmond About, which has just made its appearance in Paris, has given rise to a good deal of speculation. It is entitled “ La Nouvelle Carte d’Europe,” and, although profesaing to be merely a politi- cal equib, deals with the questions of the day in a manner which reminds the reader forcibly of the imperial pamphlets on Italy, The views of the writer are conveyed through the mediom of an imaginary conversation, which is sup- posed to have been held at the Hotel du Lou- vre, between a French officer, an English lady, .a Roman monk, a Piedmontese subaltern, a Turk from Constantinople, a Russian, a Prus- sien, an American, and two brothers, the one born at Naples and the other at Vienna. Here, it will be seen, are all the nationalities neces- tary to represent the leading political interests of the day. It is needless for us to particularize all the changes in the political relations of Europe foreshadowed in this converestion. Suffice it to say, that the Turk consents to abandon Eu- rope and retire to Medina, to keep watch and ward over the tomb of the Propliet; the monk to give up his Italian patrimony and to take up bis abode in apostolic simplicity in Jerusalem; the English woman to take Egypt and to give up Corfu, Malta and Gibraltar; the Russian to content bimself with the semi-civilized pro- vinces of Turkey, its European provinces to be given to Greece to build up a great State, whose capital would be Constantinople, and furthermore, to reconstitute Poland as an inde. pendent kingdom; the Prussian to cede the Grand Duchy of Posen to Poland, and the pro- vinces on the left bank of the Rhine to France; the Austrian to sell Venetia to the Italians, Hungary to the Hungarians, and Gallicia to the Poles, in order to save the rest of her ter- ritory. The French captain alone, of all these amateur diplomats, declined to ac- cept anything out of these carvings and slicings of the European soil, refusing equally the Rhenieh provinces tendered him by the Pruseian and Belgium pressed on his ac- ceptance by the fair English woman. He made war, he said, in the interest of great principles, and not for aggrandizement, and he wished that he might die at St. Helena if it ever again occurred to him to covet s foot of territory after the outcry raised against him in the Eng- lish Parliament on account of that small affair of Nice and Savoy. All this sounds uncommonly like what the French would call a maurais plaisanterie. The joke is, in fact, too serious to make any one laugh. It will be recollected that its professed author, M. About, wrote the celebrated bro- chuve on Rome and Roman institutions, which did so much injury to the cause of the Papacy. For this work a sham prosecution was inetituted against him by the French government, which was dropped as scon as the Holy Father's posi. tion was felt to be hopelessly damaged. It is pow generally belicved that the book received. like the preeent pamphlet, its inspira. | tion from an imperial source. * Europe bas reason to dread the appearance of these literary rockets in its political atmos phere. They are the certain precursors of fresh political agitations and troubles. They are launched to testthe current of public opinion, and to ascertain how far it is prepared for, freeh echemes which have been matured in imperial brain. The programme described above is an extensive one, butit should be re- membered that it is in a great measure experi- mental. It says more than is meant, and sup- presses more than is expressed. The policy of Louie Napoleon has never been direct aggres- sion and conquest. Ilis isa surer system—that of continually embroiling the other Powers, in order that he may profit by their differencer and jealousies. He disclaims interested mo- tives, and wants nothing for France. It will be found, nevertheless, that as often as matters reach a settlement he will come in for his per centage, just as he did in the affair of Nice and Savoy. } Deer Soutwmrn Trape.— We perceive, by a despatch received from Norfolk, Virginia, yes- terday, that a bark has just arrived there from Bordeaux, with a cargo of wines, silks and | fancy goods for the Southern market. We pre- Personal Intelligence. A. King, Feq., of Washington, D. ©., Assistant Pow General, is in town and sopping s! the Astor a steamship Kangaroo C iurand: eg ah Seer ot New Vork, are Of Savannab, Ga. Judge Lit Vesoy, Faq., of Now York Waabington. aod R Craignond: mopping st the Filth Avenue | ‘Raq., and Hartford, Gen. Robert Halsey, of ; Gen. Towneond, of Albany, and J. P. Brown, Raq., Constantinople, ie { : ox! enthusiasm which greeted the | Lait, Faq.. R. + . trvival of the Pony Expres at Sacramento re- | Yi end Your itu ara, enc PiSetcipaie, cently, shows the anxiety of the people to draw fy gapping 0 tee Lat ‘mn the of pab. cloner together the bonds which unite the Pa- ve lanrsuon nod hee tea New, fore eo cific States to the Comtral and Atlantic States, | Sccss‘wncece nitthe sonosls Gartng ihe lan few years. the moral of which is that the popular heart is| A which, says the hae ately created « strongly im favor of union, and that it is ex- —— mee mt @¢ any op cles to divide thie people, Interest, aa —— THE JAPANESE EMBASSY. , Asraegements for Ratification of Treaty and the Formal Reception by Presidemt—The Future Hovements of Gmbassy--Curtesty of the Ladies, &0., ko, oe. OUB SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATC! Wasmmarou, May 16, 18¢ ‘The precise charscter of the mission of the Japs Was mot aseortstned till last night, whea they proéee letter, dated Jedée, handsomely written fa aye which it is stated that the Prinees come hither as Ba’ Kxtreordimary . with the requent that they be present: the President through the Stale Departuent. This | wes probably prepared at the inmiaace ef Osusal (es Harris. ‘This morning Mr. Ledyard was at the quarters Japences, arranging for the official visit to the State partment to morrow ; consequently their reosption by | Presideat will aot take place tli Thursday. ‘To-day the soribes of the Embasay aro busily eng ‘m writing despatches announcing their arrival, wit Cidents of the voyage, to be seat to San Francisco by Pony express, amd (hence (> Japaa. ‘They bave asked for more private quarters at With ‘Hotel, and that meals be seat to their rooms. This been accorded. Captain Dupont is very assiduows iu his attontios ‘promote their comfort. ‘The Japanese Embassy addressed a note te Secor Cass this morning, reporting to him, in aocordsuce instructions (rom thetr government, their arrival af city of Washington to exchenge the ratifications o treaty, and that they wore ready to perform the mony atsuch day aod hour as he might specify. peste, er at once, fixing tomorrow at ¢1 oO’ elook the exchange of ratifications, aud tha the following day they would be formally presente the President. The note of the Embassy was im Japa accompanied by a translation. ‘The Embagsy ts not clothed with plenary powers, b Envoys Extraordinary, they are apthariand, howen make propor arrangements for the return of their wrecked countrymen now here or those whe ma hereafter shipwrecked. Thoy have no power to alte existing treaty. They express themecives greatly ploasod their reception, also with ail the appoiate and arrangements made by tae officers having the charge. Captain Porter informed me they would re im Washington about twenty cays bofore they visite Northern cities. They will remain three duysin | delphia, from thence proceed to New York, whore will remain about a week, and from there go tw B: It bas pot been decided yet whether they wili visi gara Fails, but itas more than probable that they wi ‘The subd-commitice of Aldermen from New York been here for several Cays, lor the purpoee of asog ing when and bow they are to be received ai New As yet they have been unable to get any infor upon the subject. ‘The artista sccompau; ing the EmDuasy are com busy taking every object of interest presented w They perform their work with great accuracy Tey have already several sketch books fille teresting matters which have me} their eye, since) departure from Japaa. ‘They bave received no visiiers to-day, main quiet, It willtake them several days to from the fatigue incident to their lovg journey. Tho of the eutire party continues good. Many perrons are seeking admiation to the reception of the Japancso; but I understand tnat tions will only be extended to foreign Ministers, ries, heads of Departments, Senators and House. The East Room will not accommodate seek admission, and consequently the invitejonn Umited im number. The reception will be the most formal manner. Tuo Japancse pect as much, and those who have charge of rangements aro resolved that they shall uot pointed. ‘The Japances are highly pleased with their Willard’s Hotel. Thoy cau enjoy all the which they are uccustomed in their own couatry, their own cooks and ecrvants, and their own kite cooking utensils. They received no visiters today, keeping ‘The piano was an object of great curiosity. of bermovy was © mystery to them, but ‘and one of them, after complying with tbe ‘$1,200 clerk to write bis name im Japancee, plied to by another to fl up half a dozyn same manner. puiled out a small Our citizens are In & positive state of ladies ure ¢ying to be introduced to these ‘smal! staiure is the subject of constant rise to mony amusing remarks. One of the with the air of a wise man, thai the out from the shoulder, ould clexn the Presents pour in upom the Japanese and the people scem determined that month sha}! be as pleasant as possible. Wm, © Yantsinger, Fiag Secretary MoCluney, of the Home Squadron, wip #* great favorite with the Japanese, and by them to may with thems during (beir TRE COINS OF JAPA We were yesterday shown several not fully, equal to any civilised world. The one bundred dollar Already described. It is of gold, so Sexibie. It is six inches long, of an ss thick as an American twenty dollar edge ' milled, but in a style entirely dist rican coins, being of a more Ogured ractery Mr. F W. Burr, jeweller of an artificer, who, with # peculiar almost acute edge, process to upon an anvil untl it assumes the is the expertness with which this of. that the entire earface appears as if it reign of the emperor when it was gold colma, excepting thone represen: similar to the above, being oval stamped with figures corresponding ‘The two dollar coin is of the shape three-qoarters of an inch long and wide, Unlike the other money, it that & is of silyer,and oe