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the generative organs, 20 of the heart and blood NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1860.—1RIPLE SHEET. ’ partisan act of the Senate, and which, for a] The Japanese in Soctety—A Word to the Ona snk eee ee eee self nor allow any other Powers to interfere in | and indignantly spurns the suggestion that NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE X. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ————————————— Volume XXV............-+ laethos sesbene No. 170 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapy or tue Laxe— | Ormmaric Vanurrizs—La Cartivs. BOWERY THEATRD, Bowery.—Tuz Wiiow Corse— Gare, — WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— BvapmeE—MORNING Catt. LAUBA KEENE'S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—tov- ‘Manor's Wirs—Ove Jaranese Kmpassy. NEW BOWERY, Rowery.—Kvustacuk—Mannizo Raxz— Goo ror Norwixc—Denovancex. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Reeving —(.20uNe—OLa Hoxestr—Koves Dudson—Lav- unc Comiosivixs, 4c. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mocbanies’ Hall, 473 Brondway.— Bunteseves, Songs, Dances, dc. — #8 Comes Row Tux Hits. NIBLO'S SALOON, Brondway.—Geo. Cauistr’s Mix. gars, Bones, Dances, Bomumsques, £c.—Jarancse TEMPLE OF MAGIC, 441 Hroadway.—Proressox Jacons. RATIONAL CONCRRT BALUON, National Theaire.— Bones, Dances, buatasqons, 40. PALACK GARDEN, Fonrteenth street.—Batioon AScEN- B10N—VocaL anD LeérROWENTAL ConcERt. CORNER OF THIRTEENTH STREET AND FOURTH ANENUE.—Catironsis Mewscenie. No. 64 BROADWAY.—Catiroxsia Gown Mining Exurst- tion. New York, Tucsday, June 19, 1860. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship North Star, Capt. Jones, will leave this port to-morrow, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at half-past ten o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The New Yorx Weekty Hxrato—California edition— Containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, with a large quantity of local and miscellaneous matter, will be published at balf-past nine o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos sible. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The New York Herald—Edition for Kurope. The Cunard mail steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, will leave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. ‘The European malls will close in this city to-morrow morning at seven o'clock ‘The Frnormas Enron or Tux Heraup will be published At half-past six o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in Wrappers, Six cents. ‘Tho “contents of the Rrnorran Forno oy mim Hxraun will combine the news received by mail and telegraph a the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication. The News. The steamship City of Washington, which left Liverpool on the 6th and Queenstown on the 7th inst., arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. Her advices are the same as those Drought by the Bohemian. The National Demoeratic Presidential Nomina- ing Convention re-assembled at Baltimore yester- day. A motion that the newly appointed delegates from. the seceding States be admitted conditionally that they abide by the decision of the Convention fas regards the nominees and platform, was voted down by a decisive majority. This was regarded es @ test vote, and the rejection of Douglas is con- sidered as certain. Dickinson, of New York is now spoken of as likely to receive the nomination. In Congress yesterday the Senate took up the Naval Appropriation bill, the question being onthe amendment providing three steamers for the sup- pression of the African slave trade. A long debate ensued, and the amendment was finally rejected by & vote of 18 to 25. Subsequently the Naval Appro- priation bill was passed. In the House the report on the Kentacky contested election case, retaining Mr. Anderson in his seat, was adopted. All the amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Ju- Gicial Appropriation bill adopted in Committee on Gaturday were agreed to. The steamship Ariel, which arrived at this port yes- terday afternoon from Aspinwall, brings later intelli- gence from Central and South America. In New Gra- nada a declaration of war was looked for every day on the part of the disaffected States against the fede- ral government. Some authorities state that two States had declared their independence. Gen. Mos quera, the leader of the revolution, had been nomi- nated for the Presidency, ia the hope that he might be induced to pursue a more peaceful policy. In era the difficulty with France is said to be settled. Arms had been sent to General Mosquera, of New Granada, thereby implying that President Castilla approves of his course. Bolivia and Peru have not come to blows yet, but the government of the former has published a decree of non-intercourse with the latter. In Ecuador things are about as they were. The reported death of Gen. Franco fs not confirmed. President Martinez, of Nicara- gus, was getting so blind that it was thought he ‘would soon retire. From Chile we learn the usual story of material prosperity and advancement. The wreck of an American ship off the Chilean coast is reported. | News had also been received at Valparaiso of the | seizure of a vessel by Indians, and the murder of the captain, part of the crew and a missionary. By way of Australia and San Francisco, we learn that the Feejee Isiands have been annexed | to Great Britain. ‘The steamship Quaker City, Capt. Shufeldt, ar- | ftived at this port yesterday from Havana, with | four days’ later dates, We are also in possession | Of dates from St. Thomas to the 30th ult. M. de | Gabriac, ex-French Minister to Mexico, had ar- fived at Havana on his way to Burope, in the French vessel-of-war Olivier. A batch of four | hundred negroes, taken from an American slaver, were brought to Havana by a Spanish veasel-of- war. The slaver was captured by the Spaniards, ‘and not by Americans, as was at first supposed. By the bark Margaret, arrived at Philadelphia, ‘we have news from Parahiba, Brazil, to May 11. | The stock of sugar was redaced to about 4,000 | daga, and the present crop is likely to be a failure | | vessels, 104 of the lungs, throat, &c., 2 of old age 46 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 4 still- | born and premature births, 48 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 53 of | general fevers, 1 of disease of the urinary or, | 2 unknown, and 23 from violent causes. The 1 | tivity table gives 237 natives of the United States, | 68 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, 9 of England, 2 of | Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun- tries. The Japanese Ambassadors were officially re- ceived by the Governor of the State and the Mayor of the city yesterday, in the Governor's Room, | City Hall. The proceedings are fully described in our columns this morning. The Common Council of Brooklyn propose inviting the distinguished strangers to visit that city. The proceedings in the West Washington market property controversy were resumed yesterday before the referee. Comptroller Haws attended, but refused to give evidence in the case. Itis probable that an application will be made to the Supreme Court to-day for an order directing both | ex-Mayor Tiemann and the Comptroller to testify | in the matter. The investigation into the operations of the Cen- tral Park Commission, before the special commit- tee of the Legislature, was continued yesterday. A series of specific charges against the Commission were presented by Mr. James Hogg, one of the original Commissioners. They are given in full in our report in another column, The Police Commissioners, at their meeting yes- terday, appointed Capt. James Leonard Inspector, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Capt. Dowling. One or two captains were trans- ferred from one precinct to another, after which the Board adjourned. A meeting of the American Zoological and Botani- cal Society was held last evening at the Athenwum building, in Fifth avenue; but in consequence of there not being a quorum present, there was no business of importance transacted, and they ad- journed until Saturday evening next at 8 o'clock, when a full attendance is expected. The Special Committee of the Commissioners of Emigration were to have met yesterday afternoon to consider the subject of appointing a superintend- ent of Castle Garden, in the place of John A. Ken- nedy, who recently resigned, for which they were appointed. They did not muster a quorum, how- ever, in consequence, probably, of the excitement prevailing on the subject of the illustrious Japanese guests, and they were consequently obliged to ad- journ, which they did till Wednesday afternoon. Notwithstanding the feverish excitement which has pervaded the great mass of our citizens for the last few days in reference to our distinguished Japanese guests, the Excise Commissioners continue to hold their daily meetings with the most stoical uncon- cern of the stirring scenes by which the city is so intensely and thoroughly aroused and agitated. Yesterday they met in the usual way, and granted six licenses for $30 each, and they then adjourned till this afternoon. The cotton market "continued to exhibit a tame appear- ance, while the sales yesterday were confined to about 500 bales, closing at about 1c. for midling uplands. On Saturday afternoon a sale of 1,700 bales was made in tran- sit at p. t. The foreign news had a favorable influence on the market for breadstuffs. Flour was firmer, with a good demand for export, and the market for some de- scriptions closed at higher prices. Wheat was also firmer, and closed from 1c. a 2c. per bushel advance, with good export demand. Corn was also firmer, with a good domestic and export demand and increased sales. Pork was lower, but more active at the concession. Sales of new mess were made at $18, and of new prime at $13 623% a $18 75. Sugars were easier compared with the quotations of last week, while the sales embraced about 600 bhds. Cuba and Porto Rico, and 60 do, melado, at rates given in another column. Coffeo was beld with firmness, while sales were light; 150 mats Java sold at 150, and 600 bags of Rioatp.t. The stock was reduced, and comprised about 6,400 bags Rio, 14,027 mats and 1,400 bags Java, with stock of all kinds, exclusive of Java, 16,000 bags. Freights were firmer for Fnglish ports. Among the engagements were about 40,000 bushels wheat, a mall portion in bulk, at T¢d., and the remainder, in ship's bags, at 8d., and about 5,000 bbls. of flour by sailing vessels, and 2,000 boxes cheese, by steamer, at 60s. To London flour was engaged at 2s. 434d. a 2s, Gi., closing at the latter figure, The Vote of Censure and the Expunging Reso! jon—A Po! of Danger in Our Political Developement. We learn from Washington that a motion will be made in the House of Representatives to expunge from the journal of that body the re- cent vote of censure passed upon the President. In the history of the country there is but one parallel instance to the ill considered act of the Honse in passing a solemn vote of censure on the chief magistrate of the confederation, and the circumstances which attended that instance were widely different from the present one. ‘The removal of the deposits of the government from the Bank of the United States, on the Ist of October, 1833, caused an intense excitement everywhere, and was believed to establish a precedent dangerous to the perpetuity of the republic. The friends of constitutional law were alarmed, and on the 28th of March, 1834, a resolution, presented by Mr. Clay in the Senate, was adopted by that body, declaring “that the President, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed to himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.’ Mr, Benton introduced in the next session his cele- brated expunging resolution, which was finally passed by the Senate, after a long and exciting debate, on the 16th of January, 1837. The difference between Mr. Clay's resolution of censure and the one recently passed by the House of Representatives is, that the first was a condemnation of a precedent held to be dangerous to the constitution and the per- petuity of the republic; while the second is not the condemnation, but it is the establish- | ment of a similar precedent, derogatory to the constitution and the laws—one chamber, and that the inferior one, of the legislative branch of the government, assumes a power to repri- | mand the representative head of the nation. When the beat of passion shall have passed | away, as it will soon do, this act will be seen in all its enormity, and whether Mr. Florence's resolution be passed by the present body or not, the present factious majority has put itself in a position in which its violent and dan- from drought. The first plantings having failed, | planters were compelled to plant the canes a second time, and they appear stunted and faded. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes: terday, the report from the Councilmen, granting | George Law's Staten Island ferry the privilege of ‘occupying ® portion of the Battery water front was bepes, joints, &c., 73 of the brain and nerves, 3 gerous course will be condemned, whenever reason resumes its sway in the House, It is not alone the natural mutation of parties that will bring to pasa this solemn condemnation. ‘The sober reflection of the people will produce to stand by a people jealous of their liberties, and jealous of the wise and equable institutions which our fathers have bequeathed to us, ‘There is another element in the recent action of the House which will hasten its recantation. by one of the co-ordinate branches of | the government, which seemed to sanction the time, rendered it difficult to induce it to retrace its steps. On the other we tind merely a bitter and inconsiderate partisanship giving itself up to the guidance of revengeful and cormpt office hunters, taking a step in direct opposition to the jealous feeling of the country, and establishing an innovating precedent which, if allowed to stand, will car- ry us logically and by natural developement to a perfect revolution in our government, and the establishment of that worst and most bloody of all tyrannies, the tyranny of a single delibera- tive assembly. The motives which animated the instigators of, and led the House to, this unworthy step, are already apparent, and will constantly be- come more and more transparent to all. The vote of censure on the President is based on the revelations supposed to have been obtained by the Covode Committee. This committee was gotten up by Forney and a few of his fellow } spoils hunters, with the ostensible object of proving a corrupt connivance on the part of the President and his Cabinet in the prepara- tion and support of the Kansas Lecompton con- stitution, and a set of zealous political partisans in Congress authorized its appointment because they believed it would be a good political ma- noeuvre. When the investigation was ended the managers saw that it had failed, and so they hurried the House into passing the vote of cen- sure before the evidence was produced. How this was brought about is pungently exposed by Mr. Winslow, in the minority report of the committee. Here are his words:— Most of the charges examined were founded on anony- mous communications; others upon information from persons destitute of charactcr and without position—dis- placed office holders, disappointed office seekers, venal placemen, adventurers, mercenary Swiss—whose polities were bounded by no loftier motives than self-interests. All the evidence which, unexplained, raised suspicions against the administration, was, by means un- known to the undersigned, regularly telegraphed to the Northern papers; aud when the evidence was not of that character it was invariably garbled and distorted. ‘The official evidence, which we have now re- ceived in the voluminous printed report of the committee, shows that Forney, instead of being the self-denying patriot he assumes to be, was a constant solicitor for one of the richest placers of official power and spoils—the editor- ship of the organ and the printer of the Post Office blanks. It is also clearly proved that there was not the slightest foundation for the insinuations of ex-Governor Walker that the Lecompton constitution was prepared by the Cabinet in Washington, and sent to Kansas to be adopted by the Convention. The whole fabric, so laboriously constructed by the mana- gers of the Covode Committee, has thus fallen to the ground. The House of Representatives, in passing the vote of censure on the supposed strength of evidence which did not exist, has done dishonor to itself, and established a precedent in our po- litical history full of danger to our form of gov- ernment, to the institutions established by our fathers, and to the liberties which are so dearly cherished in the hearts of the people. From such a position it must necessarily recede, and any party and any public man that, blinded by passion, struggles to prevent a recantation be- fore the people, will incur all the odium that be- longs to the wrong that has been committed, and will be consigned with it to a merited con- demnation. It is not the President that is to be righted by the expunging of the resolution of censure; it is the honor of the House itself which is to be vindicated, and a precedent removed which, if allowed to stand, can bnt work the most mischievous evils in the State. Merropouitan vs. Provivoiat Manvers.—The excellent behavior of the vast crowd which | filled our streets on Saturday, and welcomed the “Japanese Embassy with such hearty enthusiasm, is the general theme of discussion in the press and private circles. It is with the greatest gra- tification that we are able to state that there , was not the slightest disorder at any point on the route; the Bowery and Broadway comport- ed themselves with equal dignity and sobriety; the roughs of Mott and Mulberry streets were as quiet and polite as the upper ten thousand in Union square. This state of things is more ratifying to us from the fact that at Baltimore and Philadel- phia the personnel of the Embassy received posi- tive rudeness at the hands of the rowdy classes which abound in those cities, and are quite paramount to the police or any other authority. We learn from the most reliable private sources that the New York reporters, so far from color- ing or heightening the facts in the case, toned down their accounts, and omitted to mention the most flagrant, outrages committed on the route of the procession. From time immemorial civil authorities have been noted for stupidity, but the Common Council of Phila- delphia outdoes any other example of official opacity which history has given us, Without sufficient escort, they dragged the Japanese over three or four miles of their sprawled out village, subjecting them to the insults of the rabble who ran by the side of the Ambassadors’ carriages; and, in one or two cases, attempted to remove some of the affaches from their equi- pages. The Philadelphians treated the envoys of the Tycoon as if they had been so many wild beasts carried about in a show, and gave them a most unfavorable impression of the people to whose government they had been accredited. The departure of the Embassy from Philadel- phia was also very badly managed, and through- out their stay the provincialism of the place was demonstrated in the most disagreeable man- ner. Mark now the contrast between the interior cities and the metropolis. Here the Embassy found everything in the best order, The ar- rangements of the Aldermanic Committee, of the Superintendent of Police, and of the Mesers, Leland, had been perfected days beforehand, and everything went like clockwork. Civic pride was never more ac tively. displayed than on Inst Saturday. Every New Yorker, high or low, young or old, seemed resolved to do bis best. Whether the good conduct of “the governing classes” is owing to the refining influences of the Central Park, or the distinguished honors lately paid to some of their representatives near the Court of St James, or to the good advice given by the press, or to all these things put together, we cannot say. We have the gratifying result, and that is enough. On the part of the Joint Committee of the Common Council, it is but even-handed jus- tice to say that they conducted the whole affair with judgment and discretion. The city gov- ernment of Philadelphia ought to come here and take a lesson, while the governing ‘classes of the Quaker City, and the journalists thereof, | would be materially benefitted by mending their manners upon the model of metropolitan good breeding. Ladies. Now that the Ambassadors have become com- fortably settled in their luxurious quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel, there will be com- menced for them a round of the amusements in which the beau monde of the city especially de- light—such as the Opera, the fete champeire, the bal pare, and so on. On Wednesday morning the Academy of Music is to be thrown open to them, when the fine opera “ I] Poliuto” will be given, together with the Japanese March, which Signor Muzio has composed in honor of the Em- bassy. The grand ball—the scene of which is to be the whole of Niblo’s theatre, garden and spacious saloons, as well as the parlors and drawing rooms of the Metropolitan Hotel—is announced for next Monday. These entertainments, with others of an un- ; official character, will give our Oriental friends a pleasant insight into the manners and cus- toms of the Western barbarians, as they have undoubtedly considered us. At the Opera they will be not a little at the great crinoline crush which the novelty of the programme will undoubtedly bring to Irving place. When the little Sien- nese divinity, Piccolomini, warbled her fare- well notes to our opera goers the lobbies of the Academy witnessed a struggle for places which a great night in Tammany Hall could not match for severity. The better sex had matters all to themselves, and the hearty way in which they knocked each other about showed that New York belles can be as impolite as the highborn dames who make such a terrible fuss at Queen Victoria’s levees. In the case of Piccolomini, the fair ones went to see only an Italian Prin- cess with no kingdom beyond the coulisses; now they are attracted by two full princes and nu- merous other noblemen all the way from Japan, and representing untold wealth in silks, fans, and queer knick-knack goods, which the ladies adore with so much real fervor. The consequence of all this is, that the rush to the Academy to-morrow will be even greater than ever before, and special police arrangements should be made to keep order about the doors. We are aware, however, that even the best police is powerless before a crinoline mob, and we therefore call upon the women of New York to preserve the fair fame of the city, already vindicated by the events of Saturday, and go to the matinee as quietly, or even more 80, as they would to a fashionable wedding. Above all, let them remember that none but the very lowest class of Japanese women ever behave as the Washington belles deported themselves during the stay of the Embassy in the federal capital. In our country the softer sex are freer than anywhere else in the world. This circumstance should make them the more careful not to abuse their privileges. The same line of conduct should be observed at the ball, which will be a most novel specta- cle for the Japanese. The varied costumes— from the rich uniforms of the officers of the army and navy down to the dress coat de rigneur of the private gentlemen, the clouds of lace and silk and muslin, and all manner of crinoline adornments, the wonderful dances, to many of us as incomprebensible as the Japanese lan- guage itself—will make up an ensemble which cannot fail to please the Ambassadors hugely. What their private opinions may be as to the mysteries of the fashionable dances of | the day we shall have no means of ascertaining until they get out their American’ notes. If our fair friends wish to have a good name in Niphon, and perhaps some day assist at the wedding of a Western houri to an Eastern | prince, compared to which affair the diamond wedding would sink into utter insignificance, they must treat the Japanese as well-bred la- dies should approach foreign dignitaries of the highest rank for the first time. Then the glory | of New York society shall penetrate to the green isles beyond the sea, and the praises of | American women be sung even in the council chamber of the Tycoon himself. Tur New Era or Revoucrion wy Evrore— Brarines or Tue Sicmian Qvestion.—Prince Carafa, it is stated, has demanded of France a guarantee for the territory of the Two Sicilies, and has also solicited the intervention of the maritime Powers. The modesty of this request is only to be equalled by the infatuation that has necessitated it. After driving its subjects to rebellion by a series of unheard of cruelties, and after disregarding the repeated warnings and remonstrances addressed to it by the Euro- pean courts, the Neapolitan government now meanly begs for the protection which it disre- garded in the confidence of its own strength. There is not a power in Europe which dare take up its cause without arraying against it the whole force of public opinion. Even Austria shrinks from manifesting towards it any further sympathy than that which is implied in the fact of its sending a squadron to Naples to afford protection and shelter to the King and his family in the event of the revolution getting the upper hand there. That it will do so there can be now no doubt. The moment Garibaldi lands in Calabria the excitement will become so great that it will be impossible for the government to keep the population any longer in check. Even in the capital and under the very eye of the court the insurrectionary spirit has latterly been making such head that it demands the utmost watch- fulness and energy on the part of the govern- ment to prevent it proceeding to acts of vio- lence. Let but the assurance of Garibaldi’s speedy presence reach the city, and nothing can restrain the wrath and vengeance of its long suffering and cruelly used inhabitants, Before matters arrive at this pass an effort will be made to arrest the progress of the revo- lution by diplomatic means. A Congress will probably be suggested, from the notion that such a mode of arranging the difficulty will be most acceptable to France. We are much mistaken, however, if Louis Napoleon, much as he may desire a conference of the European Powers for his own objects, will care to avail himself of the present opportunity of convening it, The quarrel between the King of Naples and bis subjects has to be fought out on its own merits, and the Emperor has no motive astonished | the affairs of Naples. This is what imparts to the Sicilian insurrection so momentous a cha- racter, It is not a mere question of a change of dynasty or of the liberation of a people. It is the first of a series of revolutionary move- ments which will probably end in overthrowing | most of the existing continental dynasties, and | in entirely altering the territorial distribution of Europe. Axcunishor Hugues Rercsixne To Oper THE | Laws or THe State.—In another column will be found # curious correspondence between the | City Inspector and Archbishop Hughes, which | raises a question as to whether any church or | religious community can claim exemption from | obedience to a law of the State, that in all pro- | bability will have to be decided by the courts. | The City Inspector addressed @ notification to the Archbishop that the law passed in 1853, pro- viding for the registry of births, deaths and City Inspector, under a penalty of fifty dollars | for refusing or neglecting 60 todo. The Arch- | bishop, however, replied by declining,.“with | | the utmost respect for all human Ipgal authori- | ty,” to fulfil the simple requirements of that law. | He says that many cases occur in which it is for , See that the opposition raised by the Russian the Catholic priest to remedy privately the evils | which the corruption of morals may have en- tailed, and declares that while he (the Arch- bishop) is quite ready for a prison or a scaffold, he is not prepared to obey a requisition which would violate the obligations of his conscience. We confess that his Grace is a little obscure. It is not very easy to see how, by reporting the marriages celebrated in the Catholic church— which are registered, we presume, upon books kept for that purpose—the consciences of either bishop or clergy would be outraged. The law is a very common one in every city, perhaps, in the world, and in Catholic France it is rigidly enforced. As a matter of useful, and indeed necessary statistics merely, the registration of marriages, births and deaths in some public office is a very good thing, and why the clergy of any particular church should expect to be exempt from furnishing their quota to the gene- ral table of statistics, in obedience to law, we cannot conceive. In many respects it is a most valuable law. We hada forcible example of the necessity of registering marriages in the Burdell-Cunningham case of alleged marriage by aclergyman where no certificate was kept, and the memory of the celebrant proved very erratic. The Archbishop, however, it seems, from his second letter, does not claim exemption from the laws of the State, but simply desires the City Inspector and Corporation Counsel to go on and do their duty. In refusing to obey the law Archbishop Hugbes alleges no valid reason within our com- prehension. He is misty or mysterious. He says that unless by coercion he will never be- tray “the weaknesses of fallen human nature.” It is the first time we have heard that getting married emhibited any weakness, either physi- cally or morally—in a moral point of view, cer- tainly, it is no evidence of the weakness of fallen human nature, though to dispense with the ce- remony in some cases usually is. What is the matter with the Archbishop? Does he want to fight with somebody? We must confess that there seems to be a good deal of the “Who will | tread on my coat?’ spirit about the whole Movements or THE ALBANy REGENCY aT | Barrimore.—The firm of Cassidy, Cagger & Co. | is at its old tricks again. All last week they | were holding private caucuses in the Broadway | hotels, and making arrangements for the | slaughter of Douglas and other candidates at | Baltimore, in order to make room for their own pliant tools. The latest developements are those concerning a scheme gotten up by Ho- ratio Seymour, through which the Convention was to be induced to take up poor Pierce as a compromise candidate. A more compromising candidate could scarcely be found than poor Pierce, who, it appears, has been sneaking about the squares up town, in the vicinity of Eleventh and Twelfth streets, and endeavoring to ascertain his chances for renomination. It was freely stated, as early as Wednesday of last week, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, the head- quarters of the Regency, that Douglas was to be dropped by the New York delegation after the third or fourth ballot. Following this an- nouncement, on Thursday came a very long interview between poor Pierce and Dean Rich- mond, at Pierce's lodgings up town. This was succeeded by a general council of the Regency ~ Richmond, Cassidy, Cagger & Co.—which com- menced on Friday night, and was continued during the whole of Saturday, on the evening of which day the whole party, including poor Pierce, went off to Baltimore, to operate on the delegates. As to Seymour and Pierce, they have had a private understanding as to the suc- cession since the autumn of 1859. The Regency wants Seymour and Pierce, or Pierce and Sey- mour; they are not particular as to the arrange- ment, so they have the spoils, which they would get in any event. It is a very preity scheme for the Regency, no doubt, but we can tell the delegates to Baltimore that if they take up silly Seymour or poor Pierce,“they will bring their cabbages to @ worse market than that of old Martin Van Buren. Retuste Testiosy Berore tur Covone Commrrree—Forser Saown Ur as as Orrice Broocan.—The Covode investigation is now at an end, and the testimony, in an authentic shape, is published. We give to-day portions of evidence, from the lips of respectable and reliable wit- nesses, which distinctly contradict the allega- tions and insinuations against the integrity of the President and Cabinet which have been poured out for months past by a set of disap- pointed and envenomed office seekers. It will be seen by the evidence of Hon. Jacob Thomp- son, Secretary of the Interior, and Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, which we pub- lish in another column, that the drawn from the statements of Robert J. Walker and others relative to the part which the ministration took in framing the constitution are entirely disproved. It will be seen, further, that Forney is shown to have been nothing but a miserable seeker from beginning to end; that begged and supplicated Mr. Cobb: again both before and after he established paper at Philadelphia, to obtain for him printing of the Post Office blanks, which he de- clared that be had magnanimously refused to accept. Mr. Cobb’s evidence leaves Forney in ‘a pitiable condition. Mr. Thompson denies em- pbatically that any Kansas programme was drawn up by any member of the administration, Fear diately, or to any great extent, the condition of the Russian peasantry. It simply alters the re- lations of the serf to the soil, just as the eman- cipation of the slave population of the South | tao of uedan sa fr money was used by the President or any mem- ber of his Cabinet towards the passage of the Lecompton bill or any other subject of legisla- tion. ‘The truth is that all the attempts to criminate the President and his friends, to charge upom them corruption by bribery through the means of oflice or spoil, have been got up and based upon unreliable testimony by a set of disap- pointed office beggars, euch as Wendell, Forney, Defrees and the rest of that miserable gang. But the evidence of such men as Messrs. Thompson , and Cobb demolishes the whole fabric, and ex- poses the meanness and vindictiveness of the fellows who raised it. By their untiring industry and intriguing thie gang succeeded in circulating through the ea- tire press of the country garbled portions of the most unreliable part of the evidence, which might be interpreted into a crimination of the report, from which we extract the evidence in our columns to-day, lays open the whole con- temptible business. nee Exancrration or tar Resstay SeRra.—We nobles to the emancipation of their serfs has been withdrawn, and that the measure will pasa into general effect next autumn. It must not be supposed that the change will benefit imme- would do, It becomes, in fact, a question whether there, any more than here, the physical comforts of the former will be promoted by the competition of free labor. The change, how- ever, had got to be made some time or other. The progress of education and en- lightenment bnd rendered it impossible that Russia could go on much longer with a system which found no analogy in European countries, and for which no real necessity could be plead- ed. She found herself in the position which other feudal governments occupied some centu- ries back, unable to advance in the march of * improvement so long as the energies of the Masses were trammelled by the allegiance which th¢y owed to the nobles. In the vast schemes of internal improvement which she has in view, it was essential that feudal servitude should be abolished as the first step towards their accomplishment. In a political point of view, the measure had become equally indispensable to the security of a government which has latterly manifested an enlightened and progressive spirit. It has gone as far as it dared in the path of reforms, and until it can raise up a counterbalancing influence to that of the nobility, it must re- main stationary. The emancipation of the serfs will furnish it with a moral support, which will enable it to accomplish a large amount of practical amelioration in the condition of the empire. It may be that after breaking the power of the nobility the crown will use the advan- tages it has gained to aggravate the despotism of its political system. Should this turn out to be the case, the aristocracy will, in revenge for the loss of its privileges, ally*iteelf with the ~ masses, and assist in curtailing the privileges ~ of the crown. The great body of the people _ will, in any case, be gainers by the change. It may, indeed, be regarded as the first advance made by Russia towards the principles of popu- “ lar government, for following emancipation will come the rights of the free citizen and a voice Se ee ee Brooklyn City News. , eubmitted a report relative to the money appropriated, and not accounted for, to procure the passage of the One ‘ Cent Ferriage bill by the last Legislature. It created ? considerable excitemeat between Aldermen Kalbfieisch Your committee, under the direction of the Common Council to transfer to the credit of Rights account the sum of $5,000 from Treasury, did make such transfer 4 5s Msicat.—There is to be a grand concert at Plymouth church this morning. TT Naval ‘ ‘The following ts a list of the late graduates at the Navad p in order of merit, who received their warranta¥ : i { tha ' tence Pi Hit rh ait i i EF f i t i i i] tl fi