The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1860, Page 6

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The culprit made no remarks at the gallows, but quictly and firmly resigned himself to his fate. He was attended in his last moments by Father Duranquet, to whom it is supposed he made a more full confession of his guilt than that heretofore published. The execu- tion was public, and wus witnessed by fully 10,000 persons, who surrounded the island in steamboats, sailing vessels and small boats. The sloop EB. A. Johnson, on board of which the murders were committed, was also in attendance, with her burgee floating gaily in the breeze. She was anchored a few hundred feet from shore, and was crowded with spectators. Everything passed off in a remarkably orderly manner, considering the character of the assemblage, and the excitement attending the event. A full and graphic account of the is given in this morning's Heraro, Yesterday was a gala day at the camp of the Seventh regiment on Staten Island. Crowds of visiters, a large proportion of them ladies, arrived at the encampment by every train, and it is estimated that at least ten thousand spectators witnessed the evolutions of the soldiers and partook of the hospi- talities of the corps. The day closed with a ball and a brilliant Hlumination of the camp grounds, A description of the scenes, incidents and festivities is given in another column. The camp will break up this morning, and the regiment will arrive in town abont noon, when they will be received by the Eighth regiment, and escorted to their quarters. ian extracts to be found in ing, is one giving a detailed account of the attempted assassination of Prince Go- tai-ro, Regent of Japan, who, it appears, while on his way to the palace of the Tycoon on the 24th of March, was beset by an armed band of seventeen men, determined on his destruction. The Regent received several wounds, but was finally rescued from his perilons situation. Several of the assail ants had been arrested, some had disembowelled Among the late our columns thi themselves, and there was little probability of the | escape of the remainder. Whether this attack was the commencement of a civil war for the succes- sion, or owed its origin to other causes, is left to conjecture. The Japanese govern t, however, ascribe it to the discontent of disbanded soldiers and rufflans. The steamship Vanderbilt is due at this port with European news to the 4th inst., three days later than the advices received by the Arabia. Heenan, the pugilist, is expected to arrive in the Vander- bilt. The steamship Philadelphia, Capt. Baxter, from Havana Sth inst., arrived at this port yesterday The Fourth was celebrated at the There is afternoon. American Consulate with all the honors. no general news of importance. By the Philadelphia we are in receipt of later news from Mexico. The liberal cause is looking ap again, General Ortega having severely thrashed the forces of Ramirez, one of Miramon’s partisans, taking a number of prisoners, artillery and a} quantity of war material. Miramon himself, ater having endeavored to draw his enemy into the open Gield, is reported to have retreated to Guadalajara, closely followed by a detachment of liberals. The latter were concentrating, and another attack upon Guadalajara may be expected. General Uraga is said to be very weak. Miramon bas refused to ex- change him. Another match between Flora Temple and | George M. Patchen has just been arranged, to come off at the Point Breeze course, Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 19th inst., mile heats, best three in five, to harness, This match will, doubtless, create intense interest among sporting circles. At a special meeting of the Liquor Dealers’ As. sociation of the city and county of New York, held last evening, it was unanimously resolved not to comply with the present licensing law, on account of its arbitrary and unconstitutional character. The | Members of the association have taken legal ad vice on the subject, and are determined to adhere to their present course. Farther action will be token at the re monthly meeting of the asso- ciation on Monday evening next, the 16th inst. Yesterday the excitement among the liquor deal ets, o the st oject of taking out licenses, continued unabated. Mr. Hasket's office was thronged all through the day, and the number of applications re- ceived was eo great, and the Commissioners of Ex cixe se occupied in examining them, that time to count them could not b red. They are thought however, to be about one hundred and fifty, or ppwards. We publish in another column some additional particulars respecting the destruction of West Washington Market by fire on Wednesday night last. New buildings are rapidly going up, and ina few days the burnt district will present a decidedly improved appearance. The Board of Aldermen met last evening at five, o'clock, but, no quoram being present, adjourned, pabject to call. In the law courts yesterday nothing of import ‘ance was transacted. The special term of the Sa. preme Conrt is still busy hearing motions, but uo thing of public importance transpired. The annual commencement of the Fomale Nor mal School took place last evening in the Academy of Music, in the presence of a very large andionce, The graduating class, nnmbering 170 young ladics received diplomas. Appropriate addresses were delivered by Jas. W. Gerard and City Superintend ent Randall ‘The cotton market yeeterday was without change in price; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. the chief purchases making were by epinners. The sales embraced about 1000 bales. Flour opened dull, but th» feel ing improved during the day, with some demand on apse | ulation, and common grades of State aud Western closed with more @rmness. Southern flour was steady aad in good demand, in part for domestic use and in part for ex- port to tropical ports. Corn was quite active, and heavy sales were reported at full prices. Ai the transactions | were considerable lots Western ycllow at 67c. a 8c. | Pork was active and firm, with sales of new mess at $19 25, and new prime at $14 25. Sugars were firmer andactive; retining goods closed at ivance, and grocery grades at yc. to tye: the sales embraced about 1,800 bhds., 333 boxes and S02 hhds. meiado, at sates given in another column. ¢ was firm and more active, with sales of 4,900 baw 200 mate Java and 300 bags Maracaino, at rates given ‘a another place, Freighta were not ac- tive, and rather heavy for Engligh ports; among the en gagements were 2,000 bbls. flour, to Liverpool, at 2%. Sd. | 42s. 44¢d., ant 10,000 bushels wheat, in bulk, at 8&4, | aud about 25,000 bushe's wheat, to London, at 934c., in | bags, partly by steamer. A vessel for Cork and a market was taken up to load with grain at 114., in bulk Progress of the Political Revolution. We notice that the democratic journals in the | interior of this State and elsewhere are shiver- ing in the wind as to the course which they | shall take in the present distracted and revolu- tionary condition of the party, The great ma- jority of the Northern democratic journals are for Mr. Douglas, but they do not take a position with that vigor which indicates very strong hopes of success. The position of the rural press upon this question is not, however, impor- tant. The editors and orators are a good deal bothered by the present position of political matters, and are utterly in the dark as to what it all means. In the political revolution now going on, they are like the curbatone brokers of Wall street in the time of a great financial re- vulsion—eddies circling on the surface of a re- sistiess current, totally unable to direct or con- trol it, or even to manage their own frail barks. The real truth about the whole matter is, that all the trouble in the political world is not con- fined to the demmcratic party. It has extended to the republicans, as Greeley, Weed and the other leaders know full well. Hence the lugu- brious article in the Albany Evening Journal, wherein Weed tells the republicans not to be lulled into a fulse sense of security by the dis- tracted condition of the democracy. Weed says, in effect, wake up, or you will be beaten; orga- nize and work. Don't take things for granted. Nothing is to be taken for granted in politics. And the fact is that the republicans have not gone into the campaign with anything like the enthusiasm they displayed in 1856, Three weeks after Colonel Fremont received the Phila- delphia nomination, there was a Rocky Moua- tain Club in every important town and village in the Northern and Central States. The young men, many of them formerly democrats, worked for Fremont like beavers. They are doing no- thing for Lincoln. The Seward men said at Chicago, “You have nominated your man, now let us see you elect him. We will not raise a hand or spend a dollar in his behalf.” These are two items. Then we have the opposition to Lincoln by the ultra republicans, led by Wendell Phillips, and the deflection of large numbers of the barnburners, or free soil de- mocracy, of this State, who have acted with the republican party during the last five years. Again, we find their more recent recruits, the anti-Lecompton democrats—the men in Penn- sylvania, New York and New Jersey, led by Hickman, Adrian and Haskin—have separated themselves from the republicans, and will go with the free soil democracy for Douglas. The rump of the American party sticks to Bell and Everett, and so the republicans have to rely up- on their own party, pure and simple. Now, the republican leaders know very well that without the sid of the barnburners they could never have carried the local or Congressional elec- tions in this State, and that without the anti-Le- | compton democrats they could not have chosen | Pennington as Speaker, and secured the spoils pendant to the control of the House, Shorn of all this external aid, which was not only very valuable per se, but of the greatest importance in giving their organization a more liberal and national aspect than it had hitherto worn, the republican organization hat to come down now to its former footing as a factious minority, without a vital issue or a living principle upon which to rally new recruits in place of those who have gone over to Mr. Douglas’ banner. On the whole, the split in the democratic par- ty, which seemed at first to help the republi- cans wonderfully, may, if rightly used, tura out in the end to be the best thing that could | happen for the democracy. The Northern Bal- | timore platform will draw off thousands of votes | which were given to Fremont in 1556, and it is | more (ban probable that Lincoln will stand second in the poll in this State, It is quite impossible that there should be a political revolution, and that only one party should be injured by it. The difference between the democrats and the republicans is simply that the former have an open war, while in the ranks of the latter there is sullen calm, indifference and absolate treason or open dis- affection. As matters stand now, the republi- | cans may be cut to pieces by the Douglas de- mocracy in the North, and the election thrown into the House, in which case the issue would be doubtful. On the whole, we should not be greatly surprised to see Joe Lane chosen as the next President of the United States. Tar Assacit ox tar Reeryt or Jaran—A good deal of mystery still hangs* over the at- tempted assassination of the Go-tai-ro, or Re- gent, of Japan. We give to-day the details of the attack, as furnished by the English repre- sentative in Japan, which leave no doubt of the fact that a desperate attempt was made by seventeen armed men on the life of the Regent, but with what motive it is hard to say. One theory is that it was the result of a feud between the faction of the Regent and that of the Prince Mito, whose houses— like the Capulets and Montagues—are at deadly enmity. Another is, that the attack is but the commencement of a civil war for the succession of Tycoon; while, on the other hand, the government believe, or affect to believe. that the outrage was committed by a few | “Joonings,”’ or disbanded soldiers and rufians However, the state of alarm and preparation for defence exhibited in Jeddo would lead us to infer that there was something more in | this attack than the lawlessness of » band of rufflans. It appears that new gates and draw- | bridges have been erected in the city since that event occurred, and that precautionary mea sures have been recommended to the foreign re- presentatives by the Japanese government. If this alarm is not feigned for some ulterior motive, it is quite probable that the attempted arsassination may wear a political complexion after all. The Execution of the Pirate Hicks— Speeay Justice at Last. In Jess than four months from the time that Albert W. Hicks, the pirate and triple-dyed murderer, put to death bis unsuspecting vic- tims, Captain Burr and crew, on board the sloop E. A. Johnson, for the sake of the few paltry dollars in their possession and the clothes and other property which they wore, he has suffered the penalty of his crime, in the presence of ten thousand spectators, and sur- rounded by the element which was the scene of his bloody work, and in view of the very craft which he defiled with the blood of his ship- mates on that dismal night of the 2ist of March. If any circumstance could add to the anguish of the criminal in his last moments it must have been the sight of that sloop, which, with her colors flying triumphant over hia, seemed a thing of life—an avenging angel of justice, winged and swift. No eye but that of the Allseeing witnessed his crime and tho bodies of the slain consigned by him to the deep, beyond human reach, and where their death wounds could not testify against him Yet his own sin found him out, and for the deed which he performed in secret end in darkness he yesterday paid the forfeit of bis life, in the sight of the sun, and in the midst of our beautiful bay. r Tlicks had concluded that as there was n¢ bing justice of her due in some shape or other. these villagers make us blush for their vulgari- Before the passing of this law it was next to impossible to bring the criminal to the gallows. Hereafter we do not expect another man will be hung in this State, unless that stupid enact- ment should be wiped from the statute book. The sympathy with criminals in our Legislature is very remarkable. It springs from the fact | that so many of the members owe their seats to | this class of men, and that some of them are cri- mipals themselves, who ought to be in the State prison, if not swinging from the same gibbet as go on in the way in which they have been act- ing for some time they must certainly be tabooed. Political Changes in Russia.—Will that Empire be Revolutionized ! One of the most intricate political problems Hicks | in Europe, and perhaps in the world, is the oad | present situation and future prospects of the Recertioy or THE Prixce or Watus 1x New | Russian empire. Yorx.—The approaching visit of the Prince of | A military despotism of the most complete Wales to our city is occupying more of the | character in its form of government, Russia serious attention of the public than any similar | proper has extended its sway from the Black event within our recollection. The strongest | Sea to the Frozen Ocean, from the Baltic to the anxiety is manifested lest, by any unhappy ac- | Pacific, covering a greater extent of contigu- cident, he should fall into the hands of the ous territory than any other Power, and com- Gogs and Magogs who did the honors of the | prising a greater variety of nations and races metropolis to the Japanese. The respectable | than has been witnessed in the world since the portion of our citizens feel naturally desirous | palmy days of the Roman empire. The pro- that he shall derive his impressions of republi- | cess of its growth has been one of conquest, generally, from some fairer source than that of jaw of its policy. As nation after nation has corporate associations, They are not willing that | been brought, by force of: arms, into obedience men who daily disgrace~ themselves by their | to the White Czar, the necessity has arisen of profligacy, vulgarity and brutality shall as- | turning the activity and energies of the con- sume to represent, on such an occasion, this | quered people to schemes of further conquest, great metropolitan community. It is of import- ance, besides, that our young visiter, the heir to one of the greatest thrones in the world, shall have an opportunity of examining the de- mocratic element under its true aspects. Were he to judge of it by the conduct and language of aldermanic ciceroni, we fear that he would return even less favorably impressed with it than his aristocratic prejudices had previously led him to be. In order, therefore, that his visit should be attended with benefit both to himself und to us, care must be taken to prevent him judging of us by the types that are ‘thrust into places of authority by the influence of party organizations. In whatever arrangements are made to do honor to our young visiter, we must determinedly set our faces against any plan which will bring the members of the two boards prominently upon the scene. The most they can be permitted to do, to give evidence of their corporate entity, is to present an address, and that only under the condition that they get some decent, well washed and ordinarily lite- rate person to read it. In consulting, however, the necessity of keep- ing down the obtrusive elements of vulgarity which are so apt to shame us on these occasions, we must not lose sight of the fact that we have yet to mark our sense of the honor conferred upon us by the Prince's visit by a demonstration of some kind. The delicacy that we fecl in dealing with the matter might otherwise be construed into in- difference in reference to it. We would sug- gest, as one of the most appropriate and most interesting to our young visiter, in view of the recent efforte to establish a similar organization in his own country, a grand review by the Go- vernor and military authorities of our volun- teer militia. He would thus be the better en- abled to appreciate the fact that the true strength of a country lies not in its standing army or in its navy, but in the patriotic zeal and military education of the masses. This is a lesson that is worth a trip across the Atlantic to acquire, and it may exercise, through the convictions of the young Prince, an important influence on the future security and welfare of his country. In regard to the other arrangements that are witness of the bloody business, and the dead bodies could not be found, he would escape the long arm of the law. But the plunder for which he committed the atrocious crime was the instrument of his conviction. He fled with his booty, but was pounced upon in his hiding place. The property was found in his posses- sion and fully identified. A point of law was raised for him in the newspapers, which, had the murders been per- petrated on land, might, when urged in court, have saved his neck, und probably would, ow- ing to the extreme liberality with which our judges interpret every law in favor of the cri- minal where there is a peg to harg the slight est doubt upon. The point was that in a case of mnrder the dead body must be found, or there must be a witness of the death, leaving no doubt that the corpus delicti, as it is called, has been really committed. To obviate this difficulty, the District Attorney decided not to try Hicks for the murders, but for piracy, which robbery by violence on the high seas is defined to be, and as the penalty was death, the result would be the same as if he were convicted of the killing. Of the piracy there could be no doubt, and he was speedily found guilty. Of his perpetration of the murders there was also little doubt in the minds of the community; and if any did exist, it has been removed by his own confession, made wher be became convinced that there was no hope for him in this world. But the manner in which he turned this to ac- count shows that his confession did not spring from penitence, but from a desire to make money out of it (the ruling passion was strong in death), and perhaps a desire also to make himsclf famous after death—another Captain Kidd—the only solution which can be given of the motive of his lying account of the perpetra- tion of “one hundred murders.” Such extreme and appalling depravity argues a great defi- ciency of intellect, and a lamentable want of education. The old adage that “murder will out” seemed to have lost its meaning in New York. This case has dove much to vindicate its general truth. But it must be borne in mind that Hicks was not convicted under our State laws, but in the United States Courts, under the federal laws enacted by Congress. The crime having been committed on the high seas, within the jurisdic tion of the United States government, the case was tried in a federal court, and hence the speedy and satisfactory result. In these courts there is not the same facility of appeal as in our State courts, and there is but one Court of Ap- peals instead of two or three. Had Hicks been brought to trial in one of -the State courts, which the counsel for the defence labored hard to accomplish, the chances are ten to one that he would never have been punished. The gene- ral incompetence of judges, their leaning to the side of the criminal, the tricks and quibbles of unprincipled lawyers, jurors who make them- selves convenient, and ehe progress of corrup- tion which is tainting the stream of justice at its source, have all combined to render trials for capital offences as so many farces in this city, where murder with impuaity is the rule, and punishment the exception. In the first place, the criminal very frequently eacapes without arrest, owing to the inefficiency ofa police force which costs more than any other in the world. Walton and Mathews were murdered on the same night by the same hand, ata short interval of time and place, in the most frequented thoroughfares, and at an hour when the streets are full of people. Yet the murderer escaped. The vigilant, active offi- cers, who are 80 zealous in their forays against candy shops and lager bier saloons on Sun- days, were nowhere to be found when this double murder was committed by firearms. and a ery raised after the assassin. The chances are that he will never be discovered. This ia only a specimen of the way in which justice is Lated—one of the thousand evidences of the insecurity of life in this community. If an assassin is arrested, and even caught in the fact, as was the case of Cancemi, the odds are greatly against his punishment. If the District Attorney thinks proper to bring him to trial, and if, wearied out with imprisonment, the criminal does not execute justice on himself, like Macdonald, a jury is empannelled, every one this visit, it is difficult to suggest anything that as chief magistrate of the city, will of course offer hig Woyal Highness such hospitalities as his position demands. That he will discharge in a fitting and dignified manner his duties as host, and that be will convey to his guest an agreeable impression of the cultivation and refinement of the community of which he is the head, we are fully persuaded. Whatever Mayor Wood's failings may be, go one will accuse him «gentleman, and there is not, perhaps, a man in this city better qualified to play the part ex- pected of him on this occasion. Apart from what the Mayor may think it right to do in bis official capacity, we are of opinion that a ban- quet tendered to the Prince from the great body of our merchants would prove acceptable to him, and might be made quite a brilliant affair. The matter, however, should be entrusted to the management of a committee of gentlemen in whom the public have confidence; otherwise it might degenerate into another such scene of rowdyism and vulgarity as the Japanese ball presented. If the suggestion be ( cen up in time and properly acted upon, we believe that an entertainment can be got up which will rival in magnificence and effect any of the costly banquets which the imperial cities of Europe are in the habit of offering to their royal visiters. Prmapenrua = Manyers at tas Race Covrsr.—Small village communities are not decencies and recognized conventionalities of Philadelphia are a striking example of this truth. Whenever they get a chance of display- ing their innate vulgarity and coarseness, they never fail to do so. Witness the reception of the Japanese, when these refined Orientals were subject to the grossest indignities in the very streets of the Quaker City. Another in- of whom must be so ignorant that he does not | stance occurred the other day on the Suf- read newspapers, and has not ¢o much intellect | folk , where the sporting characters as enables him to form an opinion. The chances | and gen’ of Philadelphia showed their of conviction are small, But if the accused should be’ convicted, he is about as far from punishment aa ever. Bills of exception, new trials, appeals from court to court, delay the case for years, till the public have forgotten all about the criminal and his crime, and if (which is very unlikely) he should be executed at last, and not pardoned by the Governor, the value of the example is lost to the community, The stern manner in which justice is administered in the neighboring State of New Jersey ought to put nsto the blush. It is the speed and the certainty of punishment which render the law a terror to evil doers. But delay and uncer- tainty are its characteristics in New York, and hence crime is increasing in our midst. A new and ingenious device was adopted by the last Legislature to greatly increase crime and im- punity. Henceforth criminals convicted of murder cannot be executed till a year has elapsed after sentence. In that interval how many changes of escape or of pardon, or of pob- “the turf,” and gentlemen everywhere. Seeing that one of the racers, against whom they had probably staked a few dollars, more or less, was making a strenuous effort to pass his com- petitor, these Philadelphia bloods pitched their hats and caps at his head, and effectually scared and balked the animal. They were thus enabled to pocket the stakes; but the race course where such an outrage was tolerated, and the city which nurtured such gentlemen, will hardly derive much lustre from the oo- currence. The conduct of these Philadelphians was only paralleled by that of the English sporting men at the great Sayers and Heenan battle. We do not know which was the more disgrace- ful scene; but this Philadelphian affair, coming right on the heels of the outrage to the Japan- ese, fixes upon the right-angled city an oppro- brium which it will require some years of future good conduct to wipe out, Why will advisable, under the peculiar circumstances of | may not be open to objection. The Mayor, | of being wanting in the manners and bearing of | often remarkable for their regard for the | of life. They are very apt to become some- | what boorish and vulgar. Our neighbors | in order to divert them from the contemplation of, and resistance to, their own domestic evils. Hence have sprung two immense dangers which to-day attend the Russianempire. Its domestic administration has sunk into the most corrupt system of government practiced by any people claiming to be civilized; and its vicinity is con- templated by every Power as a standing me- nace of hostility and invasion. This sentiment we find pervading alike Sweden, Austria and Turkey in Europe, and the trans-Caucassian tribes, Persia, China, and Japan in Asia. While the excitement of conquest and terri- torial extension animated the heart of the em- pire domestic evils were overlooked; but as the scene of Asiatic war removed to the distant regions of the Amoor, and the policy of West- ern Europe showed itself determined to defeat the designs of Russia in Turkey, domestic ques- tions forced themselves upon the consideration of the government, and to-day they are ap- proaeching a crisis. The letter of our St. Peters- burg correspondent, published elsewhere in our columns this morning, presents a curious and an instructive view of the changes that are ac- ¢ompanying the measures recently introduced in the domestic economy of the Russian Tue Morver Cacexpar.—Within the past few ty? We hope they will strive to mend their | days we have been compelled to record the manners a little, if they expect to see the | particulars of three atrocious crimes against hu- Prince of Wales, or any other distinguished | man life. In the Walton case, which is still foreigner, trust himself in their midst. If they | wrapped in unaccountable mystery, we have another of those extraordinary tragedies which have so frequently shocked the public sense during the last few years. And yet the detective police, as ever before, have so far failed to find | any evidence against the suspected party, and itis quite probable that the author or authors of the crime will go unpunished. The very au- dacity with which the crime was committed | may prove the best possible shield for the mur- can institutions, and of our social condition | and this very fact has given to it the unvariable | derer. Lying in wait for his victim, he shot him as coolly as he would a dog, and then fled under cover of the night. Pursued by several citizens, the assassin shot the man nearest to him, and he died almost immediately; thus identification is a matter of impossibility. The fact is, also, that the detective police here, bad as it is, lose a great deal of valuable time in waiting for the offer of a reward, and give the opportunity for the criminal to cover up hia tracks. The only hope that we can see now’for the detection of the murderer, is in the possible identification of the weapon with which the murder was committed. It was a pistol said to have been made by the Massachusetts Arms Company, and as there are comparatively few of that company’s weapons in the market, it may be identified by the number. It should be made incumbent upon venders of deadly weapons, to keep an exact record of the names of their customers. Descending in the social scale, we have the case of Hoffman, who encompassed the lives of a woman and her infant for a matter of two hundred dollars. The hand of justice was swift to seize this offender, who now lies in the Tombs awaiting trial, which, beyond peradven- ture, will result in conviction. Under the new law, which provides that per- sons convicted of capital punishment shalt be confined in the State prison during a year after sentence, and then hanged or imprisoned for life, at the discretion of the Executive, we expect to hear of a considerable augmentation in the number of murgers. Compared to the gal- lows, the prison has few terrors te the criminal, of whatever grade he may be. If rich, he trusts to the law's delay. If poor, he has the hope of Executive cle- mency, which may be stimulated by political influence, more or less of which all the scamps in the community can com- mand. In a humanitarian point of view, | empire. The emancipation of the serfs had | the anticapital punishment people may be become a great political necessity, and as this | right, but we must be practical with our rogues Measure is approaching to completion, it is , who daily receive recruits from the aluices of urging the nobles into new demands in their own behalf. They claim that the internal ad- ministration of the empire shall be reorganized, and the local authority placed in the hands of locally elected magistrates. This involy@ a complete revolution in the system of govern- ment in Russia, and forms one of the most per- plexing problems of the future developement of that empire. ae It is admitted that if the gelection of the local magistrates is committed in any form to the people, these, under the influence of past education and present ideas, would choose their officers from the nobility they have so long been accustomed to look up to with re- spect, and this would place the power, in fact, in the hands of the aristocracy. The question then comes up, how so many and so distinct nations and tribes can be kept together in po- litical union. Our correspondent details the idea of a constitutional monarchy, such as it is supposed might be created, composed of numerous semi-independent king- doms or vice-royalties, under the immediate control and supervision of the Czar. Such a plan, it is believed, would be very attractive to the Sclavonic nations of Europe, but how it would operate among the roving Tartars, the Mahometans and the Buddhist natione, now sub- ject to the rule of the Czar, is extremely | doubtful. The present government of Russia has been characterized as “a despotism limited by assas- | sination,” and its system of internal administra- | tion has become so corrupt and vicious that the late Emperor Nicholas has been known to exclaim that he could find but one honest man in the government, and he was the Cvar. Such | astate of things cannot last for any long pe- | riod of time, in an age when so many opposing | elements are at work as in the present century. | But how it ia to be remedied has been the puz- | zle of more Emperors than Nicholas. The po- litical impulse of the age is towards an aban- donment of the old ideas of small nationalities, and a tendency to large confederacies. This is the work of commerce, which attacks custom house lines, and other impediments to trade everywhere, and shows by the irrefutable logic of the merchant's ledger the folly of maintaining many kings and expensive courts. Commerce has not yet penetrated the Russian empire to any great extent, and the logic of the ledger is hardly known there. It is advancing, however, and will bring in its train extensive changes, but the territorial extension policy of Russia has not yet lost its vitality, and until this occurs we do not conceive that questions of ja nature can command the supreme | attention of the Emperor and the nation. Hox, Stas Sermour’s Views or tum Exxc- | TIoN.—Hon. Silas Seymour, late State En- | gineer, and a prominent man among the Know | Nothings, comes out bravely for Douglas. He goes so far as to express the hope and the be- _ lief that the American people “ will elevate him (Mr. Douglas) to the highest office in their gift.” Perhaps Mr. Seymour means the next ; friends of Mr. Douglas must be content | this time to defeat Lincoln, if they can. It _ is perfectly absurd to talk of the election, this | time, of Douglas, Breckinridge or Bell, by the | people. All they can do is to defeat Lincoln by carrying the election into Congress; and to do this all the parties opposed to Lincoln must play into each other's hands. Mr. Seymour talke sheer nonsense when he talks of electing Mr. Douglas by the popular vote. He will be doing very well if he will turn over the North- of power against Lincoln, and this can only do by co-operation with the friends of Breckinridge and Bell. If Mr. Silas Seymour cannot comprehend this fact, he is an ignoramus in politics who ought to keep quiet; if he does comprehend it, he should speak accordingly. The mere clap-trap of confidence and enthusiasm, without anything to show for it, is good for nothing, and goes for nothing. | every city in Europe. New York, more than any other city in the world, demands an active, energetic police, and the most thorough admin- istration of criminal justice. Tue Wasuiveton Srtatve.—Superintendent Kennedy has done a good thing in stationing a good looking and well dressed policeman, who neither smokes segars nor chews tobacco, at the Washington Monument on Union square. It is customary in European cities, where great re- spect is paid by the people tg theig national monuments, to station a guard of honor near them. The statue of Washington, the Father of | His Country, deserves every tribute of respect. Americans, with all their patriotism and love of country, are far behind any other people in reverence for their great men and veneration for historic names. As an illustration of this it may be observed that on the Fourth of July the regiments passed the Washington statue without demonstration of any kind, éxcepting the regi- ment almost entirely composed of German citi- zens. As this regiment filed by, each platoon, under order of its captain, gave three cheers. American boys, like their fathers, are irreve- rent—perhaps a little more so. We doubt if in any city of France a stone would be thrown at a statue of Henry IV. or Napoleon I; but this has been a frequent occurrence, in the ab- sence of any policeman, with the Washington statue, the little ragamuffins wishing to show their skill in projectiles, and the boys from the classical schools to demonstrate that the famous Trojan horse was not the only one that had a hollow receptacle within. With a little vigilance on the part of the police autho- tities, these evils will soon be corrected. They are the result of thonghtlessness rather than viciousnees. It is only recently that flowers have been planted in the public parks, and the difficulty of preserving them intact is daily di- minishing. The people will soon learn that statues fn public places, and flowers and swans in public parks, are their own special property, and guard them with vigilance. As an illustra- tion of the utter lack of appreciation of Ame- ricans of the nature and objects of a public park, we may mention that about six years ago 4 professor in one of our leading colleges was arrested in Vienna for leapieg over a light fence and plucking @ flower which happened to strike his fancy. Upon his stating, however, that he was an American citizen, he was let go without further trouble. So far from thinking or appreciating that his release was attribut- able to the leniency with which barbarians are regarded in all civilized countries, he after- wards boasted of it to his friends as a tribute paid in his person to the star-spangled banner. Ove Retations wrta Perv.—We learn by the arrival of the Panama steamer that President Castilla, of Pera, has been coerced, by the pre- sence of a French ship of the line, into a diplo- matic settlement of the claims of France in be- half of one of its outraged citizens, but that, being well aware the President of the United States cannot order a gun to be fired by one of our ships of war without the previous consent estimate of the rules which govern the affairs of | time; but to succeed the next time the | of Congress, and that Congress has sunk to too low a rule of action to take an honorable course on any subject, he persistently refuses to make any settlement of the righteous claims of onr citizens ; and our Minister, acting under the in- structions of the President, was about to de- mand his passports and leave the scene of his fruitless labors. The whole course of the Peruvian govern- ment towards our citizens has been a series of most atrocious and unjustifiable acts, defended by constant subterfuge and tergiversation. It is time that an end were put to this state of things. If Congress refuses to do its duty, the national sentiment does not and will not so re- fuse ; and the President should take the respon- sibility of ordering the commander of the Paci- fic squadron to concentrate his fleet at Callao and give the government of Castilla twenty- four hours to settle the affair ; if not settled in that time, to take our Minister and our resident citizens on board, and then open fire oa tha