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The Southern Commissioners at Washington, doubtful of the sincerity of the assur- ances given them by the administration, that the present military status would remain undisturbed, have made direct application in the pro- per quarter for explanations regarding the naval armament now fitting out. Itis conjectured that they will obtain no satisfactory replies to their in- quiries. Our latest accounts from the capital, however, assert positively that the administration, yielding to the pressure of the war section of the republican party, has determined to blockade the Mississippi river, and if possible collect the reve- nue at that point from on board ship. The ves- sels-of-war now preparing for sea are intended to co-operate in this design. We learn from Charleston that Lieutenant Tal- bot left that city yesterday, bearing despatches from Fort Sumter to the War Department. The people of Charleston were in great excitement, in consequence of the receipt of the news of the war- like preparations on foot at the North. Rumors were in circulation that the fort would be attacked within forty-eight hours, and it was understood that orders had been received from Montgomery to cut off Major Anderson's supplies from the city, and allow no further communication to be held with the garrison. Lieut. Gilman, who arrived at Washington on Wednesday night, direct from Pensacola, states that no supplies have been landed by the Brook- lyn at Fort Pickens. There are now five thou- sand of the Confederate States troops about the fort, all anxious for fight, and Lieut. Gilman is of opinion that it will be impossible to avoid a col- lision at an early day. We have received intelligence from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which states that a peace conven- tion had just been concluded between the United States authorities and the Navajo Indians. The numerous and constant depredations of this tribe have made them the terror of the people of New Mexico. The strength of the Navajoes is variously estimated at from ten to fifteen thousand souls. Collector Barney was engaged yesterday in fill- ing afew unimportant vacancies in the Custom House, but as yet has done nothing with regard to the principal offices im his department. It is understood that he will again visit Washington before he fully assumes the duties of his position, and on his return we may expect the guillotine to be set in motion. tis said that the antechamber of his office was yesterday like the lobby of a theatre, or the outside of the Governor's Room at the City Hall on a popular reception day. plenty of people waiting their turn for admission. The shipments by the Kangaroo have caused some trouble at the Custom House as to what should be considered the actual time and place of shipment. Further particulars will be found in another columa. Judge McLean, of the United States Supreme Co died at Cindinnati yesterday, in the seven- ty-seventh year of hisage. A biographical sketch of the deceased may be found in another part of to-day's paper. There are now two vacancies in the Supreme Bench, caused by the death of Judges Daniel, of Virginia, and McLean, of Ohio. Our State Senate spent the greater portion of yesterday over the Annual Appropriation bill. After a lengthy discussion and several amendments it was passed. Among the appropriations are $45,000 to the salt works at Syracuse, $5,000 to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, and $1,000 to the Curator of the State Cabinet of Natural His- tory. In the Assembly the bill authorizing the city of New York to borrow more money to in- crease the supply of Croton was ordered to a third reading, as also that to prevent the sale of swill milk. The bill to transfer the Bureau of Collec- tion and Assessments of this city to the Street De partment was discussed at some length, and re- ceived what is considered its quietus for this Session, the motion to order it to a third reading being laid on the table. Tae Metropolitan Health bill again engaged the attention of the House for some time. The mails by the steamship Nova Scotian, from Liverpool 21st ult., via Londonderry 22d ult., which arrived at Portland Wednesday afternoon, reached this city last evening. The advices by the Nova Scotian have been anticipated by the America at Halifax, and the details of European intelligence which our files furnish, although one day later than previously received, are not important, The Perseveranza of Milan asserts that the priests were exercising a pressure on the Pope, with the object of inducing him to proceed to Venice, Bellegarde was in Vienna, conducting negotiations to that effect. It would appear, however, that Austria fears the responsibility which such a step might involve. The Pope's last allocution is regarded as precluding all hope of a compromise between the Holy See and the new kingdom of Italy. It was currently reported in Paris that the Em- peror of Austria had sent an autograph letter to the Emperor of the French, setting forth that his Position in Maly is untenable, owing to the con- stant encroachments of Piedmont. His Majesty likewise expresses himself unable to understand —Hawaretre—Forty’ the policy of France with regard to Italy, and es- pecially adverts te the speeches of Prince Napo- leon in the Senate and M. Billeult in the Co..s Legislatif, and requires a distinc: an- ewer to this question:—Does the Emperor of t« French mean to support Piedmont ia its aggressions against Rome’ The presence the Piedmontese in the Papal capital his Aus- trian Majesty cannot but look upon as a pre- liminary to an attack upon Venice—the argu- ments that would justify Victor Emanuel in tak- ing possession of Rome would equally bear him out in attacking Venice. Francis Joseph, there- fore, requires an explicit answer as to what course the French Emperor means to pursue. In the event, however, of a Piedmontese occupation of Rome, the treaties of Zurich and Villafranca must be considered as annulled, and Austria could not consider herself bound by a compact so glar- ingly violated, and would consider herself, should such @ covtingency occur, entirely free to act in the manner best calculated to protect her openly threatened interests in the Peninsula. The London News of the 21st ult., in an article discussing the Hungarian question, says that the time is rapidly approaching when the long pend- ing dissénsions between the Emperor of Austria and his Hungarian subjects must be brought to a definite issue. The controversy has been carried on ever since the close of the Italian war, and at every step the Hungarian# have gained some- thing. The Emperor and his advisers have put off any definite settlement of the Hungarian claims, and prolonged a painful and irritating period of suspense, in the hope that divided coun- sels would weaken the national movement, or an armed revolt give them an opportunity of sup- pressing it by force. These sinister hopes have been signally disappointed, and the crisis can now be delayed no longer. The Kangaroo, which arrived at this port yes- terday morning, brought $14,000 in specie. An error occurred in the report of the specie by the the New York on Wednesday. The total amount of specie received from Europe since December 15, 1860, including the sum by the sensi is $23,611,250. A large and important meeting of the Mozart Hall demoorats was held last night, when a series of resolutions was adopted denunciatory of re- pubdican misrule and expressive of opposition to every form of menace, restraint or coercion, under whatever pretext of enforcing law, or col- lecting revenue, or retaking property, which may lead to @ conflict with the seceded States. The resolutions express the approval of the meeting of a Border State Convention, to be held at Frankfort, with confident reliance upon the justice of their proceedings, and anticipate that their claims will meet with a ready response at the North. At the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the question of opening the coasting trade to foreign nations was discussed, but the result was the in- definite postponement of the subject. Strong free trade arguments were put forth by one of the members. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and transacted a large amount of routine business. A resolution was adopted directing the Corporation Counsel to draft an act to be sent to the Legislature, authorizing the Common Council to establish the up town street grades, and to transmit the document to the Board on Monday. There was a lengthy debate on the presentation of a resolution by Mr. Stevenson directing Mr. Hack- ley, the contractor for cleaning the streets, to clean the Eighteenth ward, and in default thereof that the City Inspector cause the work to be done at Hackley’s expense. Mr. Lent stated that the Fifteenth ward, and, indeed, all the up town wards, had not been cleaned since the contract was made with Hackley. The debate was brought to an end by the adop- tion of a resolution directing the City Inspector to enforce the terms of the contract with Andrew J. Hackley. A number of general orders were adopted. In the course of the session Mr. Steven- son inquired why a certain resolution which he had handed to the messenger had not been presented to the Board. The President replied that it had not reached his desk. It could not be found; so Mr. Stevenson was compelled to write an- other copy. A motion to adjourn having been car- ried before he had finished it, the resolution was not offered, but it will be presented next Monday evening. The resolution has reference to the al- leged charge of corruption in adopting the Hack- ley contract, and proposes to offer every facility to any committee that may be legally appointed to investigate the charges. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, John Brown was convicted of burgléy in the third de- gree, having stolen a thousand dollars worth of goods from the store of Henry G. Fitzgerald on the 24th of February. Although a young man, he has already served a term in the State prison. Re- corder Hoffman imposed the highest penalty that he could inflict, which was five years imprison- ment in the State prison. The trial of J. L. Harlem, charged with setting fire to his store in Maiden lane, on the 2d of January, was commenced, and, after the first witness was called, the Court adjourned. ‘The cotton market was firm and active yesterday, with sales of about 5,000 bales, including 700 in transit. We continue to quote middling uplands at 12%c.a13c, The flour market was heavy, and closed at about 5c. per bbl. lower, especially for common and medium grades of ehip- ping brands of State and Western. Wheat was less buoyant, and closed at a decline gf 1c. per bushel, while sales were tolerably active. Corn was heavy, but without change of moment in prices, while sales were toa fair extent. Pork was firm and ac- tive, with sales of meas at $17.0 $17 18, and of prime at $12 50 a $13. The latter was an outside figure. Sugars were in good request and active, with sales of 2,500 hhds. and 1,600 boxes, at prices given in another place. Coffee was in steady demand, with moderate sales, chiefly Rio and Laguayra. Freighte were rather firmer. Corn was freely taken for tone with some wheat, at 9%¢d. in bulk, and in bags at It Westery Sextivest Upon rie Morena, Taxirr.—In a speech delivered at Savannah, Georgia, about a month since, Mr. A. H. Ste- phens declared that the time was not very far distant when the West would join hands with the South. Mr. Stephens, as a practical states- man, undoubtedly foresaw the effect of the Morrill tariff upon the West—a community of free traders. The Western merchant, mechanic or farmer looks upon a revenue tariff as a spe- cies of direct taxation, and views custom houses as relics of a barbarous age. It is as- certained now that when all the Old World is gradually approximating the view that the pro- tection doctrine is a humbug, the much vaunted progress of the New World republic culminates in secession at one end, and an absurd, antedi- luvian system of imposts at the other. The Western people have now begun to ascertain that they are to be taxed millions upon millions for the aggrandizement of Pennsylvania iron- mongers and New England mannfacturers; and there is a growing feeling of resistance in the agricultural districts against the new tariff For the time being the almighty nigger is ig- nored: the interests of the white man are pre- dominant, And we are thoroughly convinced that the Morrill tariff represents the ghost of the old theory of protection. There is an old Latin proverb to the effect that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad; and it would appear thet the republicans bad been marked out for a special judgment, inas- much as they have been eo stupid as to put an unpopular measure before the country at a moment when the ruling powers, so called, are in @ most perplexing predicament, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL: 5, 1861. . The News from Washington—Acttvity in the Navy and War Departments. By the telegraphic despatches from Wushing- ton. which we publish to-day and published yer. lay and the day before, and by in- telligence from all points of the compass, including the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, it appears that the policy of “ masterly in- activity,” of which we have had eo much expe- rience of late, has given place to uousual bus- tle and excitement at the White House, in the War and Navy Departments, and at various naval and military posts throughout the country. General Scott is closed for hours with the Cabinet. Movements o' troops and war ships are ordered. Artillery companies and corps of sappers and miners leave Washington for New York, and General Sumner suddenly leaves for the same city, and “perhaps for the South, to command the troops which are being concentrated there.” General Scott’s private secretary also leaves upon a secret ex- pedition. In the Navy Department numerous orders are issued, and every available ship is to be called home. The Minnesota has been or- dered from Boston to the mouths of the Missis- sippi; the Powhatan, the Release and the Perry are directed to proceed South, and sealed or- ders have been despatched to the Cumberland, Pocahontas and Dolphin at Hampton Roads. It is thus evident that there is something in the wind, but what it is nobody knows. One correspondent telegraph: (iat it has reference to the Spanish movements in St. |)omingo, while the Spanish agents and all the foreign Ministers in Washington say there is nothing whatever in those movements; and the proba- bility is that the story is got up to divert attention and cover very different designs of the government. A second correspondent says the troops are destined for the mouths of the Mississippi; a third that their destination is to collect the revenue at the entrance to every Southern port on the decks of ships-of-war, contrary to the laws of Congress; a fourth in- sists that Pensacola Bay is the place of rendez- vous, and that the reinforcement of Fort Pickens, which the federal troops cannot hold, even if it should be reinforced, is the real ob- ject of the orders and preparations now going forward. It is also suggested that a grand coup d’état is to be made on Charleston, with a view to the reinforcement of Fort Sumter and the recovery of Fort Moultrie. Which of all these points, or whether any of them, has been selected as the theatre of war, and for the display of the sudden and unex- pected energy of the government, is mere mat- ter of conjecture. What the Southern army is doing and what are the objects of its movements everybody knows. There is no mystery at Montgomery. The possession of Forts Sumter and Pickens is the avowed inten tion of President Davis and his Cabinet. But when the nation turns to Washington to look for information as to the design of the military and naval preparations of the Northern gov- ernment, it is met either with mysterious si- lence, or conflicting stories, or ambignous ut- terances, like the responses of the Delphic oracles. Now, the effect of aM this mystery, so foreign to the genius of a republican govern- ment, is most disastrous to the whole coun- try. As to the North, with its idle capital its surplus breadstuffs and its enterprising spirit chafing for employment, the policy of the administration is most ruinous to it. All the operations of trade and commerce and manu- factures are paralyzed and fettered. by uncer- tainty, which is more fatal to business inte- rests than the worst reality. Merchants cannot make their calculations, and dare not invest till they have some idea of what is before them. If it be war, they will know what to do. If it be peace, they will promptly act accordingly. But suspense is death to all enterprise. So destructive to the public welfare is the conduct of the administra- tion that the people of the North will not stand it much longer. In the South the know-nothing, do-nothing policy of Mr. Lincoln’s administration is equal- ly obnoxious. It compels the confederacy to keep up a standing army at a terrible expense. At the lowest calculation the cost of maintain- ing ten thousand men for the year is five mil- lions of dollars. The Confederate States will no longer submit to this expense without com- ing to blows; and the irritating, tantalizing course of our government, and their marchings and countermarchings, will probably soon drive the Cabinet at Montgomery into a solu- tion of the difficulty, by taking the initiative and capturing the two forts in its waters held by United States troops. This we have no doubt is what Mr. Lincoln wants, for it would give him the opportunity of throwing upon the Southern confederacy the responsibility of commencing hostilities. But the country and posterity will hold him just as responsible as if he struck the first blow. The provocation to as- sault is often more culpable than the as- sault itself. In the same way he shirks his responsibility in the case of Fort Sum- ter. At half a dozen Cabinet meetings it has-been decided, and that, too, with the con- currence of General Scott, that the evacuation of the fort is a military necessity. Yet Mr. Lincoln will not give the order for its evacua- tion, lest it should be placed on the record against him; and he prefers to allow Major An- derson to be starved out, or driven out by the batteries by which he is surrounded, in which event the lives of the garrison would probably fall a sacrifice, on the military principle that no commander has a right to hold out in an inde fensible position after being summoned to sur- render by a superior forse. For this useless sacrifice of a brave officer and his command, which may occur at any moment, Mr. Lincoln would be held responsible by the nation. He cannot, therefore, escape the consequences of his omission; for by all nations it is held to be the most sacred of duties to relieve a patriotic garrison, either by raising the siege or by ordering the surrender of the stronghold. The ambiguity of the government seems to pervade even the elections, The results in New England indicate the uncertainty and suspense in which the people are held from day to day. They know not what todo. In their business relations they are equally at sea, without a chart or compass or star to guide them over the dark waves; and thousands, fearing to embark and make shipwrecks, are ruined from inaction. Such is the sad condition to which the coun- try has been reduced since the triumph of the republican party on the 6th of November. How much longer the people are to be kept in a state of suspense remains to be seen. There is growt apparent official activity going on in the Cabinet and at the War and Navy Depart-] Mr. Srwaxp’s WaLt Srregr Oxaay ox Tae ments in Washington; but what it all amounts to is still a mystery. The Position of Virginia—Will She Becede? All sections of the country are looking to the action of the Virginia Convention, and of the people, to whom that action is to be re- ferred, as involving the question of a definite separation between the slaveholding and noa- slaveholding States, or a reconstruction of the Union on terms that will be satisfactory to the border slave States, and that may induce some or all of the members of the Southern con federacy to return to their first love. That question will be, if not decided, at least largely influenced by the Convention which has been sitting in Richmond for the last seven weeks. Let us see, then, what are the prospects, or, rather, what are the inevitable results of the deliberations of that body. One of ite first acts was the reference of the question of federal relations to a committee of twenty-one, composed of the leading men of the Convention, and, indeed, of the State. After a session of three weeks that committee brougi in its report, agreed to by a majority of fitteen, who represent the Union and con- servative elements. There were four minority reports submitted: one by ex-Governor Wise, one by Messrs. Harvie, Montague and Wil- liams, one by Mr. Barbour, and one by Mr. Baldwin. The majority report is the mildest, the least exacting and the one most likely, if any proposition could, to meet the approbation and concurrence of the people of the North. It is also the one most likely to be adopted by the Convention. Its chief points are:—First, the assertion of the independent sovereignty of the States; second, the protection of the tights of slave property in States and Territories; third, that the general govern ment shall not intimidate seceding States by holding or reinforcing forts therein; fourth, that the Northern States shall repeal unfriendly legislation against slavery; fifth, that the independence of the seceded States shall be recognized; and sixth, that a confer- ence of the border slaveholding States shall meet at Frankfort, Kentucky, on the last Mon- day in May next. The report proposes amend- ments to the constitution of the United States to the following effect:—The prohibition of domestic slavery in the Territories north of 36 deg. 30 min., and the recognition of it in the Territories South of that line. No more terri- tory to be acquired without the concurrence of amajority of Senators from slaveholding States and a concurrence of a majority of those from free States. This, however, would not apply to any future annexation of the British provinces, which would not come in under the name of territories, but be at once admitted as States. This may be an oversight on the part of the Committee on Federal Rela- tions. If they desire the rule to apply to Cana- da, they had better be more explicit in the terms they employ. Then Congress shall have no power to interfere with slavery in any State or Territory, or in the District of C@lumbia, or in any of the forts or arsenals. Owners of slaves shall have the right of transit with their slaves in free States and Territories, but not the right to sojourn or sale. Congress shall pro- vide for paying to the owner the full value of his fugitive slave, where he was prevented by intimidation from recapturing him. No person of the African race shall exercise the elective tranchise, or the right to hold office. None of those amendments to be amended or abolished without the consent of all the States. One of the resolutions reported by the committee de- clares that, in the event of Virginia not receiv- ing satisfactory responses to these demands, she will then resume the powers granted by her to the general government, and throw herself upon her reserved rights, This is, we repeat, the most moderate and conciliatory proposition submitted to the Con- vention. The question which is still delibe- rated in that body is whether this proposition shall be acceded to and fornmlated as the de- mand of the Commonwealth, or whether some of the minority reports, advocating imme- diate secession, or claiming still further gua- rantees, shall be preferred to it. The prospects are that the majority repert will be adopted; for though the immediate secessionists are most prominent, they are not most numerous. Out of thirty speeches that have been delivered in the Convention, thirteen were made by Breck- inridge democrats and two by Bell and Everett men in favor of secession, seven by Bell and Everett men and three by Douglas men in favor of a border slave State conference, and two by Bell and Everett men and three by Breckinridge men in favor of submitting an ul- timatum to the Northern States. It does not appear in the least probable, however, thatany of these reports, resolutions or speeches of this Convention will defi- nitely settle the question of secession on the part of the border slave States, or the reconstruction of the Union, if the present do-nothing policy of the Lincoln administration be persisted in. It is in vain for the Union sentiment of Virginia to appeal in behalf of compromise as long as the govern ment at Washington remains indisposed to take any measures towards that end. It is far more likely that the alleged determination to rein force the Southern forts, as indicated by the active preparations now going on in the naval and military departments, will ultimately crush out the friendly feeling existing in the Virginia Convention, and compel that State and the other border States to ally themselves to the Southern confederacy. Prosrecrs or aN Extra Session or Con orrss.—If the administration should decide so call an extra session of Congress, the House would stand thus:—Republican, 105; opposi tion, 100—a majority for the administration of five. The States which have seceded are ea- titled to thirty-three members, and if they were represented at Washington the republi- cans would be in a minority. In Rhode Isluna and Connecticut the opposition has gained four members, and in the next Congress fifteen republicans will be replaced by oppo- sitionists. No more decided expression of the sentiment of the country could be desired than these Congressional elections. In Connecticut especially, the fight was hand to hand—a duel ala ’outrance; and it is quite absurd for the Tribune to say that the republican voters were kept away from the polls by the snow storm: That the new Congress will develope a radical change in Northern opinion cannot be doubted by any calm observer of current events, That the calling of an extra session would result in the utter discomfiture of the administration is plao quite certain. CrirrenveN Compromise—Prerarg vor War.— Our valiant Wall street cotemporary of the Courier and Enquirer, in one of his long-winded political essays, meets our requisitions for his opinions on the Crittenden compromise. Our limits to-day restrict us to a very brief notice of a leading point or two of his very compre- hensive and very belligerent article. He thinks that if the Crittenden compromise, as we have suggested, were made a part of our federal constitution, it would not produce the slightest reaction in favor of the Unien in the seceded States. But, conceding this point, we renew these questions: Are not the borderslave States in danger? and if this Crittenden com- promise will hold them fast to the Union, should it not be adopted, and as soon as possi- ble? Our object is te save the border slave States; for with those States secured we secure the allies necessary to bring back the seceded States. This proposition has not been fairly met by our cotemporary. He jambles together the border slave States etill in the Union with the Gulf States that have left the Union in his treatment of the probable operation of this Crittenden compromise. Can we persuade him to consider it as a peace offering to Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken- tucky, Missouri and Arkansas ? In the next place, our military co-chieftain of the Courier emphatically prefers civil war to disunion. We ask: Will civil war restore the Union? We think ‘not, but that, on the other hand, civil war will hurry us, North and South, Fast and West, headlong into Mexican ahar- chy. But although “his voice is still for war,” our belligerent’ cotemporary says that he will support Honest Abe Lincoln, “right or wrong as his policy may be in our judgment, so long as we know that it is to be followed by bring- ing the whole force of the government to punish traitors, put down rebellion, and restore the Union to its integrity.” Here we are semi-officially admonished that the exercise of the force indicated is simply a matter of time. It is resolved upon, and the time may be near at hand. Thirdly, our infatuated fighting cotemporary thinks that in ninety days a blockade of the ports of the cotton States would bring about a successful popular Union reaction in said States; and, next, the freemen and the slaves of the seceded States are enumerated from the census to show how utterly impotent those States would be to resist the armed forces of the United States in the event of war. But here again our cotemporary overlooks the border slave States. Inaugurate a war between the United States and the. Con- federate States, and the latter, instead of being limited to their own free white population of two and a half millions, will have a free white Southern population of eight millions to draw upon; for such a war will unite all the slave States as in a common cause against the govern- ment at Washington. Upon this point we feel entirely assured of the correctness of our po- sition. Finally, our warlike cotemporary says:— “Now, let President Lincoln remember that the eyes of the whole civilized world are upon him, and that if he does not prove by his acts that he intends to put down this rebellion, it will be the right of the governments of the world to assume that the Southern confederacy is a government de faclo! Then we cannot close their ports. What then? We will not an- swer this question, but repeat what we have heretofore said: Act, act, act; and let the first action be the assembling of Congress.” We ibink it very probable that if Mr. Lincoln does not very soon procure the repeal of this Mor- iill tariff, or recognise the Confederate States ag a separate Power, or proceed to show that they are still a part of this Union, he will be pushed to the wall by England and France, in their recognition of the Montgomery govern- ment. We think that Mr. Lincoln, impressed with some such conviction, is preparing to do something; and we suspect that the war faction of the Cabinet has proved too much for Mr. Seward, and that civil war isto be our portion. Thus we inter- pret, not only this warlike article of the Cou- rier, but the late extraordinary editorials of the Tribune and Times. “Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.” Let the American people prepare for a civil war. Cart Scuvrz Once More.—The Tribune comes indignantly to the rescue of Carl Schurz against the charge that he is a worshipper of the Jacobin’s Goddess of Reason, and is there- fore the last man in the world who should be appointed to represent the Christian people and government of the United States before her Most Catholic Majesty of Spain. Our cotem- porary says that Schurz “is not a Roman Catho- lic, and is a republican,” and that “that is the sum total.” It is also contended that as we have never yet sent a Catholic Ambassador to Spain, the fact that Schurz is not one can hard- ly be tortured into a cause of offence. Grant- ed. Our impressions of Schurz, however, are that he is not simply a Protestant, but a radi- cal, ranting red republican German infidel of the genus Bohemian, whose intense hostility and prejudices against the Pope of Rome and his Church will be apt to get him, and perhaps the United States, into trouble at Madrid. We dare say that Mr. Seward resisted his applica- tion for the mission to the new kingdom of Italy on some such ground as this; and we dare say, too, that but for the boisterous pa- rade by Schurz at Washington of the German legion at his back he would not have frighten- ed Honest Old Abe's Cabinet into his ap- pointment to Spain or any other foreign mis- sion, Finally, if Schurz shall turn up a good Christian at Madrid, even to the recognition of the Immaculate Conception, we think Old Abe will have saved at least one poor soul from an indefinite roasting in purgatory. Rerveticaytsma Hostr.e to Menicrean Lvpe- PENDENCE —We perceive that the Massachusetts Legislature has been entertaining the idea of establishing a metropolitan police system in Boston somewhat like our own; but it can hardly be that the workings of the New York police system have impressed them with the wis dom of such a measure. The fact is that the republican party is enamored with the idea of centralization of power, and wherever it is in the majority it inclines towards that end. The destruction of municipal rights appears to be the first aim of that party. In Pennsylvania the other day the Harrisburg Legislature dealt a fatal blow to the munrcipal independence and privileges of Philadelphia by continuing the corporation in office, and thus depriving the people of their inalienable right to elect new representatives to that body, The course o/ the Albany Legislature in this respect, sir fell into the hands of the republicans, is known to need«any comment. We plorable examples enough of its ° effects in the Metropolitan Police, the H Masters, the ns for opening st] and various other legislative acts which robbed this metropolis of its most sacred and privileges. There are three vital principles which tially belong to our democratic form of go ment, and without which the spirit of thd stitution is violated, and the perpetuity government in the Union on and these are municipal Tights, State and foderal rights; and-mot the ledat of the the rights of the people under a control their own affairs for their ~~ being. Yetwe find that the demolition rights is the first object with the i pal party whenever they attain power. tried it in New York, to Pecaets of Massachuset.., .ad we may be certain thé genius of the party will lead it to still fal aggressions in this direction in proportion} attains sscendency. ‘ Tux Prcuuar Prospeniry or THE Tal Within the last week businesa in the has received an impetus in spite of couraging appearance of the political hor We can quote no better instance of this thy effect upon our own advertising columns. | advertisements in the Heraup of filled thirty-two columns, or considerably ' than five pages, and as many on, preyious day. This improvement is if wise attributable to confidence in the § | coln administration; for even the repub. j journals are foremost among those to atta, for its want of action and vitality, or, in ¢] words, of any kind of policy. The chan, owing to the natural disposition of our p¢ } to be up and doing, to the highly flod ing condition of our natural resou’ and the large amount of money inj hands of our citizens. The people mating with the dawn of spring, afrt to throw off the comma! lon} which our politicians have done their induce, as well as something far worse, we sincerely trust we may yet escape. No country in the world is more richly dowed than our own with all the element cessary for the achievement of the highest) tiny to which a nation can aspire. But un pily, in the midst of all + pear wish for, we are racked by a power which has its source and being am ourselves. That power cdinprehends faj cism and politics. Politicians have sprang and spread themselves like weeds upon! rubbish heap of fanaticism. They I derived their sustenance from sucking up most vital elements of our stre and they would flourish upon the ruins republic if the parasitical rankness of growth was allowed to go on unchecked. liticians have been laboring so hard an: long to bring about the destruction of our tional greatness, they may find themselvee’ feated in the end. Meanwhile, with the of spring, we are glad to find a renewal of! hopeful vigor and energy which have made people of the United States a shining e: before the world of all that is great and | rious in a nation’s history. AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP.—We have b frequently called upon to notice the criticil of the foreign press upon American instituti: and more particularly American etatesmans We are now compelled to acknowledge there are no longer any statesmen in office thete United States. If there is any such th as statesmanship—that is, the science of gove ment so directed as to secure the greatest g fo the greatest number—it is to be found the public journals. As for the governmen| federal, State and municipal—it is remark: only for its imbecility, its rowdyism and wholesale corruption. If we look towa Washington we find the President occupied tirely with the distribution of the spoils; Secretary of State pursuing a policy which c not fail to result disastrously, the Secretary the Treasury dealing with the question of new loan after the manner of a petty Ohio p. tician, and the Secretary of the Navy s# ing orders for the outfitting of crazy ¢ rotten ships—an idiotic attempt to supp the popular delusion that we have a na At Albany the Legislature is activ engaged in selling itself to the lobi and the only interest attached to the p ceedings of the House and Senate is that wh. attaches itself to the price of members. In { municipal councils of the city illiterate a vulgar ward politicians scramble and intrig: and snarl and quarrel over the remnant plunder which the Albany politicians have |. them. In the South the people, who, accordiig the usual practice in this country, have a rig days, and are induced to submit by the m tenance of an armed force raised and placed! the field when no enemy has threatened to late the integrity of the soil. And this monstrous state of things is fruit of American statesmanship. How lo will a brave, hardy, wealthy, intelligent, proj and enterprising people permit such atrocio mismanagement of their public affairs? Launch of the Steamer Paquete de M. A new side wheel steamer for the trade between paraiso and Constitucion, on the coast of Chile, launched yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, from shipyard of Messrs, Lawrence & Foulkes, North Fiff street, Williamsburg. She is called the Paquete de adelphia, who is at present residing in Valparaiso, Several vessels have been used in this trade, whith somewhat extensive; but they have not answered purpose for which they were built, and to an Ai c shipbuilder was entrusted the task of sending out steamer that would fulfil all the requirements and those who are competent to judge speak with co dence of the Paquete de Maule, tue Iron Works. ‘Fheir power is about 300 horse, or horse each. They are 32 inch cylinders, with 0 sereie 8 feet. Two ro fol Mary ig own dimensions are as ae