The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK Third Avenue Railroad, ‘The case was adjourned te Moa- day next. ‘The trial of George Schmidt, for the murder of Louis Wiechner on the Bist of December last, was concluded in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Kings county yes- terday. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner, surrounded by his friends, went to bis home. A man named Deutsh, living on Twenty-eighth street, ‘was dangerously wounded yesterday by being stabbed with a chisel in the hands of Rudolph Schweiver, who is alleged to have been drunk at the time. Schweiver was locked up until the result of the injuries can be known. A lecture on the “Humanities of War’’ was delivered by James T. Brady at Cooper Institute last evening. The subject was exemplified by instances from history, ancient and modern, and anecdotes of soldier life. The audience was very large, and the lecture received the most marked attention from all present, Tho fine eteamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, of the Inman line, will sail at twelve M. to-day for Queens- town and Liverpool from pier No. 44, North river. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. ‘The steamship North America, Captain Timmerman, will sail at three P/M. to-day from pler No. 43 North river ‘for Rio Janeiro, stopping at St. Thomas, Para Pernambuco and Bahia, The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past one P..M. _ Tho favorite steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, of the Cromwell line, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct. Mails will close at half-past one P. M. ‘The superior steamship Missouri, Captain Loveland, of the Empire Sidewheel line, will sail for Savannah at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 18 North river connect- ing with railroads throughout Georgia and Florida, »The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold was strong and closed at 129 a 3. ‘The advance in gold caused a greater degree of buoy- ancy and firmness to prevail in commercial circles yos- terday, and prices wore qitite generally higher, both for imported and domestic produce. Cotton was an excep- tion to the general rule; the panic in the Liverpool market unsettling the market here, and rendering prices nominal, at decidedly lower figures. Sugar was a shade firmer, Coffee dull, On ’Change flour advanced. Wheat also advanced. Corn was dull. Oats quiet. Pork higher. Beef firmer. Butter dull. Lard firmer, and whiekey dull and nominal. . MISCELLANEOUS. ‘It was reported in Washington yesterday that the ‘Spanish Minister, under instructions from his govern- mont, has requested the mediation of the United States in the Chilean difficulties, and proposed to refer the Spanish claims to our government for arbitration. In addition to the late diplomatic correspondence re- lating to Mexico Mr. Bigelow has written to Secretary Seward that he hada personal interview with M, Druyn de Lhuys, in which the latter stated that he would be 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR wise’ they may wield s. balance of’ power suf- |’ ficient to bring sbout s political revolution. But how is this thing of negro'suffrage to be secured t Of itself it is not » popular idea in the North. Various devices have been sug- gested to make it palatable, such as negro suffrage or no counting of the negroes for Sonthern representation; negro suffrage in ex- change for a universal amnesty; and negro suffrage in 1876, with the exclusion, meantime, of the negroes not admitted to the ballot box from the enumeration of the “ people for repre- sentation in Congress. But neither the Joint Committee, nor the House, nor the Senate can come to any agreement on these things, and so their reconstruction wagon remains “stuck in the mud.” At this juncture the public opinion of the country begins to be heard. The people are beginning to inquire, why should Congress any longer stand in the way of the President’s plan if the two houses can agree upon nothing asa substitute? The States rescued from the rebel- lion have complied with all the terms of resto- ration submitted to them in good faith. They are crippled, disarmed, exhausted and power- less for further mischief. They have had enough of State sovereignty and secession; slavery and the slave power are dead and gone; the civil rights of the blacks are estab- lished; why, then, should the excluded States be still excluded from Congress on this ques- tion of negro suffrage, which will settle itself in due season? These, we say, are the questions which are now engaging the public mind. The American people love justice and fair play. This Con- gress, and without much further waste of time, must do something practical and to the pur- pose in the way of reconstruction, or this Con- gress will be upset in the elections for the next. The dog-in-the-manger policy will not answer. You must admit the excluded States or declare your terms of admission, or prepare to give way to men who will. We have had enough of these mockeries of reconstruction committees, and investigations, and resolutions of inquiry, and allsuch claptrap. What we most wantnow is a full development of the great commercial OFFICE N. W. 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IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Brixp Tom's Geaxo | very giad if it were practicable to open communication staples of the South, and to this end the rein- pis 22, Ng agen with Juarez on the proposed evacuation, and make ar- | statement of those States in’ the government is TONE PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery —Siwa- | rangements with him and his party relutive tothe stay | necessary. As matters now stand it seems to of Maximilian among them. Acaptain in the late Fenian expedition to Eastport says that the only hope now is in the Roberts.Sweeny organization. The steamer with the retiring Fenians on board arrived at Portland yesterday morning. A mutiny occurred among the most discontented of them and a threatening demonstration was made against their offl- cers; but, a few ringleaders being put ashore, quiet pre- vailed. Our Enropean files by the Nova Scotian reached this city from Portland, Me., yesterday morning, and the steamship Arago, from Havre, by way of Falmouth, Eng., on the 12th of April, arrived in tho evening. From both sources we are cnabied to publish some inter- esting details of our telegraphic news reports to the day of sailing of both vessels. A Washington despatch states that permission bas been granted Mrs. Jeff Davis to see her husband. ‘The depots of the Detroit and Milmaukee and of the Michigan Southern Ratlroads, and the ferryboat Windsor, were destroyed by fire in Detroit on Thursday night, in- volving a logs of over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, A lamentable loss of life occurred on the boat, twenty eight persons being missing, wlo are supposed tohave been burned or drowned. ‘The fire was occa- sioned by the ignition of a barrel of kerosene oil, The trial of Antoine Probst, for the murder of the Deering fatally, is going on in Philadelphia, The proso- cution closed yesterday. Much excitement prevails and crowds assemble around the Court House during the pro- gress of the trial. No persons except those necessary to the business of the case are admitted into the court room. The Common Council of Jersey City lately passed reso- lutions refusing to recognize the new Police Commis- sioners, Subseqnently the President of the new Polico Commissioners notified those wishing employment to apply to him. Orders were issued that no policemen would be recognized ‘except those appointed by tho Common Council. The matter is thus becoming serious. Captain Doane, of the British brig Promier, from ‘Trinidad de Cuba on the 9th inst, at this port, reports sugar coming in quite freely. Molasses will be late. ‘Tonnage was in demand; all tho vessels in port wero taken up. Freights on sugar to New York, 67)40.; mo- lasses, $6.2 $6 50 under deck and $4 50 on deck, for ‘140 gallons. us that there.ought to bé a sufficient number of sensible and patriotic men in Congress to bring the two houses to the saving alternative of some broad and comprehensive agreement with the administration, or to some plan of their own for the opening of their doors to the excluded States. Free Passes on Rattzoaps anv DEADHEADS Guneralty.—The late Legislature at Albany signalized its closing hours by passing q bill prohibiting all railroads in this State from issuing free passes to any persons other than railroad men, disabled soldiers and for chari- table purposes. If this had been done at an earlier period in the session it would have re- flected more creditably upon the self-denial and patriotism of members, all of whom had already been supplied with free passes over most of the railroads in the State. But better late than never. The whole system of free passes and deadheadism generally is a bad one, and should be abolished. It has been the means of furnishing biased statements and misrepresentations to the public through the columns of many newspapers, and it hus been one of the causes which have contributed toward the demoralization and ruin of the drama in this city. Over thirty years ago we commenced the publication of an independent journal upon a stricily cash principle. We were independent in politics, in matters of finance, amusements and all other local in- stitutions. We adopted the maxim of “Pay as you go” from the start, and this we adhered to during the long intervening period. We have never permitted an ‘editorial notice on any subject to appear for pay, and have by that means kept our editorial col- umns free from prejudice and partisanship. The deadhead system is a bad one all around. It is bad for the travelling public, be- cause it hides delinquencies and colors mis- haps on railronds and steamboats. It is bad for the theatres and the opera, as it buys up shallow Bohemian critics who bepraise where there is no merit and denounce to suit their own whims and purposes. It makes “paper houses,” which do not laugh, and starves poor actors, It was because the Heraup refused to puff the theatres and laud their miserable management that the celebrated line, “This establishment does not advertise in the New York Heravp,” was made to appear in the theatrical columns of all the newspapers. The managers attempted to coerce us into surren- dering our columns to their uses, and we po- litely but firmly resisted them. In the begin- ning of its career the Herrarp revolutionized the political and newspaper press of the coun- try, and now in its riper age it will revolu- tionize the Bohemian press of the present day by giving unbought and unprejudiced criti- cisms upon all topics of prominent interest. Itis time the era of deadheadism was pasi, and our motto, “Pay as you go, and no favors asked,” be adopted by all American jour- nalists. ‘Tae Internat. Revexce Orricers.—Now that President Johnson has made a commencement in removing radical officials it will be well for Dax Bur Matinee at Ziq o°Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY’. Scnoot or Mrnsteansy, Bautans, Mosicat Guas. Ac.. Fifi Avenue’ Opera House, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourtn sireet.—BLack Starur. Matinee at Two o' Clock. SAN FRANCISCO Eady Soe Broadwry, opposite Met: Hitan Hotel £rMior.aN SixGtsG, Dante NG, &0.— ‘Tux Boaxo or Hraurn, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mall, 472 Rroad bape wane Comicatities, BukLesques, &¢.—TaminG ax RPMAN' HOPE. CHAPEL. 720 Broadway.—Acsert Rosset, PregnpicttaTaur aXp VestRILoguist. HOOLEY’S pein HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etaroriax Mine STRELST—BaLLads, BURLESQUE AND PanrourMns. BROOKLYN ATHEN-£UM.—Ronert Haucer, rar Gaeat Consunow. GERMANIA ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 233 Bowery.—Inisn Natiowau Fare. NEW YORK pence AL ANACOMY, G13 Broadway.—- Open trom 104. M. wil 10 DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway. —GRanp Mature at two o'Clock. Ww IT SUPPLEMENT, ‘Tue Senate yesterday refused toconcur in the House amendments to the West India Telograph bill, and calied for a committee of conference. The bill for tho rollef of certain naval contractors was called up, and after a re- fusa! to recommit it to the appropriate committee, or Postpone the consideration of it until Decomber, it was passed. A joint resolution was offered by Mr. Wilson for an amendment to the Constitution, providing that no payment on account of the emancipation of slaves or the rebel debt shall be made by the United States, and that representatives shall be apportioned among the whole nuinber of persons in each State, deducting proportion- ately ali male inhabitants refused the franchise. The second clause provides that when a rebel State ratities this amendmont its Senators and Representatives shall be admitted. In the House the time was taken up almost exclu- sively in the discussion of the Northern Pacific Railroad bill, The question as to whether the bill should pass or not was moved, whem a motion to lay the bill and its pending amendment on the table cut short all further deliberation, The bill was tabled by a vote of 76 yeas to ST nays. THE CITY. ‘The cholera 1s abating at the Lower Quarantine, and no mew cases have been admitted on board the hospital ship since the last report of the Deputy Health Officer. Fighty-cight cases now remain in the hospital, being reduction of nine since Wednesday last. Three deaths occurred on Thursday and six patients were returned convalescent to the Illino!s Dr. Sevinburne has forwarded a detailed report of the condition of affairs on board the steamsbips Virgivia and England to the Commissioners of the Board of Health. ‘Two more vessels, ordered here as hospital ships by the Secretary of the Navy, will be towed {nto’ quarantine this morning. The passengers on the England are strongly protesting against any further detention at quarantise, and state that food and water are but scantily furnished them. Dr. Swinbarne, the Health OMicer at the Lower Quarantine, publishes a defence of his course since the arrival of the ebolera ships at this port, in reply to certain reflections upon bis mauage- mont of affuirs at the Quarantine, ‘The Board of Health met yestorday afternoon. The Counsol of the Board gave his opinion as to the power to remove the cellar population, which Is absolute in case tho use of the premises is proved to be dangerous to public health, A communication from the President of the Quarantine Commission was received, asking for the assistance of the Board in the matter of obtaining « site on Sandy Hook, to be used fora cholera hospital, ‘The gas house auieance was complained of, and a com- tteo will confer with several scientiGe men on the t and the best means of remedying the evil, on We are not surprised to hear from Washing- ton that the Congressional Joint Committee of Reconstruction has practically fallen to pieces; that “at their last meeting the members failed to agree upon Robert Dale Owen’s plan or any other plan, and split;” that “the delegations from each State separately have agreed to de- liberate npon a plan of reconstruction, inde- pendently of the committee, and report to the House,” and that Thad Stevens acknowledges that all his experimeats to solve the problem have failed to meet the case. The two houses of Congress, therefore, after nearly five months of deliberation, investigation and discussion, are all at sea, like a disabled ship in a fog, drifting among the shoals and breakers of a dangerous coast. With the organization of the two houses in December last it was resolved between them that all matters relating to the States recently in rebellion should be referred to a joint com- mittee of fifteen, and without debate, and that no member elected to cither house from any one of sald States should be admitted short of a report from this committee and its adoption by the two houses declaring such State duly reconstracted and qualified for readmission into the national councils. The doors were closed and the fanctions of the two houses were surrendered into the hands of this joint committee, and the committee into the bands Monday next. ‘Tho proceedings are published elsewhere. him to extend his work to the collectors and Last night the New York * Deolers’ Association | of Thaddeus Stevens, Now, after five months | ggseasors under the Internal Revenue law. A assembled en Hester * to consider the new | oF tinkering experiments in the shape of con- large majority of these assessors and collectors Excise law, which was deciared an anjust and oppres- five enactment. At the ailvice of the executive com mittee of the society it was decided to comply with Ite provisions, and to endeavor to effect a change by the election of legislators who will repeal the biil at the Bort session. stitutional amendments, bills and resolutions; and after the examination of a cloud of wit- noases of all sorts,%vhites and blacks, civilians and soldiers, loyalists and rebels, men and women, upon the present condition, politi- are Chase men, appointed because they were identified with that interest, and should now be compelled to give way to conservative re- publicans. These officials can wield an im- mense power and thus become a formidable The Superintendent of Police has placed blank appli cations for liquor Heensss im the hands of the captains | cM! and social, of the late insurgent | machine in the hands of the radicals and of the various precincts for delivery to such persons ap- | States, it appears that Stevens and his against the policy of the present administra- committee, and the two houses, are com- pletely mnddied and know not what to do. With all the outside assistance vouchsafed them from Wendell Phillips, Fred Douglass, General Ben Butler, Roberts Dale Owen, Mrs. Swisshelm, Anna Dickinson, and « host of others—reformers, reconstructors, philanthro- pists, lawyers, editors, divines and spiritual- ists—the committee are still befogged. The confusion of tongues which dispersed the builders of Babel has crept in among them, and the same fate most probably awaits them. What the radical majority of each house of Congress is really driving at is the Presiden- tial succession. This the radicals believe to be a sure game, if the late rebel States can be kept out of the government till after tbe Presi- the basis of negro suffrage before their restora} tion to a voice in our nstionsl affair, Other- plying for them as the captains can fally recommend as suitable and worthy. A motion for an injunction to restrain the Averill Coal nd Oi! Company from transferring the property of snid company toa new company to be called the “Averill Coat Company,"’ and for other action of the court in the Promises, was argued yesterday before Jadge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, in Chambers, The Judge took the papers and resorved his decinon in the case, ‘The investigation in the case of the Madison avenue bond robbery was resumed yesterday before Justice Dowling. The entire day was occupied in the cross. examination of the informer Morrison, who evinced considerable trepyiation under the ordeal, He contradtoted himself veveral timer, but excused himself by saying that he was naturally nervous, and was especigity #0 Om BN Occasion of thie kind. A fail re. port of the investigation will be found in our Supple- mont sheet. A cave of an alleged attempt to pas s counterfoit fifty cont fractional currency stamp came up yesterday before Commissioner Betts, im the United States Commission ers Court, The evidence showed that the defendant, (mn Piaagt, offered the stamp to a conductor of the tion. Mr. Johnson owes it to himself, to those conservative republicans who have come for- ward and stood by him, as well as to the coun- try, to place all these offices in the hands of stanch Union republicans, instead of the pre- sent set of Chase revolutionists sad disorgan- izers, Boovs Bconowy.—One of the radical journals, too silly to comprehend the real and important point at issue, advocates the withdrawal of our Minister from Austria, on the ground that it would save the few thousand dollars paid him for his salary. This incident clearly reveals HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘few dojiare; but they are in fayor of millions..upon a nigger poorhouse called the | ror pe Doman 4 ovag beeen a Oe Pie IML shall accomplish by diplomacy what his uncle failed to eccomplish by war he” will leave a better fame in Europe. ‘Tue Rapicals ap Tas Puesipayr’s Arron uents.—It is reported that the radicals in the United States Senate on Thursday last worked themselves into a great fury over the removal of one or two radicals from office and the ap- pointment of conservative republicans in their places, It is also rumored that they declared that no person should be confirmed who was sp- pointed to a position where a vacancy was made by 8 removal of the present incumbent. This, it seems, 1s dbeir platform. The President has thus, by the few appointments which he has made, placed the radicals on the defensive in regard to the patronage. All shrewd political tacticians endeavor at the very commencement of a campaign to so.manage their-cards as to place their opponents on the defensive. This is considered almost equal to winning in the contest. When this is accomplished the battle is half fought. The President has had Con- gress on the defensive in regard to the restora- tion of the South ever since that body assem- bled. Their position has been a negative one, and they have been obliged to continually ex- plain—trump up ex parte evidence to justify their do-nothing policy. This fact slone is daily weakening them with the people, and has pro- duced so great dissatisfaction among them- selves that their Reconstraction Committee has become completely disorganized. The remo- val of the radical officials throughout the country will increase the demoralization of the revolutionary faction in Congress and place them still further on the defensive, compelling them to continue to occupy @ negative position before the country. No party can stand long in that attitude. The very fact that the radicals make such a fight over the re- moval of one or two unimportant office- holders is conclusive evidence of their weakness and shows that their only hold, their only life, is the offices and spoils. Now that the President has seen the effect of a halt dozen removals he should follow it up brisk- ly, and not confine his operations to minor offices, but commence with the Cabinet, and notify all those who are not in accord with the policy of his administration that “their time has come.” Tax Dargizs on THE Rampace.—The colored population are beginning to feel their civil rights, We hear of four or five of them prome- nading into a fashionable restaurant, sitting down among white ladies and gentlemen and appealing to the Civil Rights bill to protect them from ejectment. This little game will probably be tried at our churches, theatres and other places of resort, and it will cause some temporary inconvenience and annoy- ance; but in course of time all these things will settle themselves and the darkies will be quietly regulated by the force. of public opinion. But perhaps the most amusing instance of the civil rights furor is the presentation to the Senate of a petition, signed by a couple of dozen darkies, for the expulsion of Senator Davis, of Kentucky. This sbsurd petition, with..euch names as “Sam,” “Jeff,” “Ras,” “Bill” and “Clem” attached, wis gravety pre- sented by the irrepressible Sumner, and the Senate as gravely referred it to the Judiciary Committee, instead of laying it on the table, or under the table, or in the waste basket. We do not say that Senator Davis does not deserve this token of remembrance from the childrom of Africa, for he has been pretty hard upon them in his time; but certainly the Senate ought to have sufficient respect for its own dig- nity not to encourage such petitions and petitioners. Important To THE Mexican Linerats.—The Attorney General of the United States has officially declared that in bis opinion the re- cent military order of General McDowell, in reference to our neutrality on the Mexican frontier, cannot apply to the transportation of arms and munitions of war by merchants and traders. Neutrals as well as belligerents have their rights, but neutrals in their traffic with belligerents must take their chances. They are like blockade runners, and the gov- ernment from which they go does not inter- fere either to stop them or protect them. So there is a fine market along the Mexican bound- ary for profitable ventures to the Mexican liberals in such useful articles as Enfield "ips and repeating Spencers. Rewer ror tas Sovra.—Wall street and Broad street are flooded with schemes pro- posing te raise money for the relief of the South and Southern planters. One of the South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioners addresses a circular to Northern capitalists in which he states authoritatively that the question of labor bas been settled in that State; that | the freedmen will work; that planters say more work is being done than under the former system of compulsory labor. But the fact is every day becoming more apparent that “they will be compelled in many cases to abandon the idea of making a crop for want of provi- sions to feed their laborers or means to pur- chase the same.” Every legitimate measure calculated to assist in resuscitating the pros- perity of the South and in developing its re- sources should be encouraged. If it be neces- sary for Northern capitalists to contribute money for this purpose let them doit. But we cau- tion them to beware of enlisting in schemes gotten up by persons who look more to their own interests than to those of the people they make pretensions to assist. Let Northern capi- talists beware of bubble schemes concocted upon the plea of reiief tor the South. ‘The logs to the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad will reach twenty thousand dollars, and the Michigan ‘Southern Railroad will probably lose twenty thousamd dollars. The fire was occasioned by a barrel of kerosene oil, which, leaking, was ignited from alamp, The fre spread in all directions, and in a few seconds the build- ing and ferryboat were wrapped in flames. Alamentable loas of life occurred on the boat, The ‘Tribune gives the names of twenty-cight deck hands, struction—Diplomacy versus War. Count Bésmark last summer spent a number of days with the Emperor Napoleon at Biarritz. The ruler of France and the first man in the kingdom of Prussia did not meet to exchange the common-places of elegant civility or to dis- cuss the trivialities of polite life. They dis- cussed the map of Europe. They went over it thoroughly and settled and determined upon a definite plan for the rearrangement of every continental frontier. That conference was the real starting point of the grand game that Bis-" mark is now playing in Germany. Every point of the game was either suggested to the audacious Minister by the deepest strategist in diplomacy that Europe has seen for centuries, or, from whatever side suggested, it was fully examined between the two. At.the same time the Emperor of France had some cause for un- easiness in the situation on this side the Atlan- tic. The rebellion was prostrate; the great insurrection that had neutralized the power of the United States, that had made the French expedition to Mexico safe, existed no longer; Lee had surrendered in April, and any steamer might have carried the news that our armies were being concentrated on the Rio Grande. If his Mexican expedition had induced such a result as complication with the United States it would’ have tied the Emperor’s hands at most- unfortunate time—at the very time when he wanted them free for a larger game. Accordingly the Emperor was exceedingly uneasy at that time in relation to these questions of Mexico and the United States; impatient at the slowness of Maxi- milian; but complaisant, gracious and ever ready to make promises at Washington if the United States could be kept still in that way. In the end of that same summer, in August or in the early days of September, the Emperor Napoleon had a personal conference with King Victor Emanuel, near the Italian frontier; and as the results of the conversations at Biarritz are seen now in Prussia, so the results of this second conference are seen in Italy. Both na- tions are arming, and France, looking on quietly, waits to do what it has been said in the Emperor’s suite she would some day do— *get Belgium and the Rhine without fring a shot.” France will have the Rhine for her frontier. Aggrandizement of France at the expense of any one is the grand object and purpose of the present Napoleon, as of the first, only the pre- sent Emperor pursues the purpose by means very different from those that hest pleased his uncle. The manner of the present Emperor's pursuit of the grand object illustrates happily the difference between the two ways. The first Napoleon would have depended almost solely on war—on hard, magnificent fighting. But Napoleon III. perceives that France can- not fight the power that would be united against him on this issue, and he combines diplomacy and war. He combines them in a remarkable manner. Exactly what ebanges have been made in the plan since Bismark became part of it is not yet known. Before that it was tolerably clear, Mexico was the corner stone. The connection between Mexico and the Rhine country is not at first obvious; nevertheless the expedition to Mexico was the very basis of an arrangement whose ultimate object was to give to France the coveted country. The fighting part of the programme was to be done in Mexico. A splendid transatlantic empire was to have been built up with a Hapsburg on the throne. This Hapsburg is childless. This splendid em pire, with a throne guaranteed by France, was then to be set in the balance against Belgium and the rickety, dangerous Belgian throne, and the succession to Maximilian’s empire was to be given to the Belgian heir. Then upon the death of Leopold the consolidation of Belgium with France would have taken place. Prassia’s consent was to have been purchased by the Elbe duchies, Austria’s by the Danubian prin- cipalities, and the German people were to be soothed by the gift of universal suffrage, just as Bismark lately proposed it. The difficulties and want of success in Mexico have made material changes necessary, and these were arranged at Biarritz, In its main European features the great diplomatic campaign goes on very well yet, and if the present Emperor has to fight at all for it he will not fightas the other did—one against all Europe; but he will fight with three or four allies against the one refrac- tory Power that threatens to break up the plan. Just now it looks as if this would be Austria. That Power, secing Russia and Turkey in the way—not seeing the acquisition of the princi- palities very clearly, holds too tenaciously to the Elbe duchies, and she may have to be con- vineed of the excellence of the plan by the united power of Prussia, Italy and France. The position of England presents a notable evidence of the superiority of the present Em- peror’s method over the method of the first Emperor. Diplomacy puts out of the question a Power that war could never deal with. With d aside the first Napoleon believed that he could beat combined Europe; consequently he was always desirous to avoid collision with England and to cultivate her friendship, But he never had any success in it, She was always in the number of his enemies, and at last gave him the finishing blow. How different is it now. The Power that once “fought for all and paid for all” only looks on. She is always either neutral in the Napoleonic echemes or she is the active ally of those very purposes that she once combated at such terrible expense. It is true that the diplomacy of the present Na- poleon has had in this the assistance of great changes in England herself. It was the tory party that always carried England into the wars against France, The people of England, so far as they bad any utterance at that time, were against the ware and desired that their coun- try should remain neutral. It was in defiance of popular sentiment that the ministry dragged the nation into the Holy Alliance. Since then the liberal element has grown stronger. It cannot be defled now. The grand start it had in 1832—the growth since that enabiés it to de- mand now a great modification of the constitu- tion—shows it to be » party strong enough and rational enough to keep England out of war until some one can show « good reason why the should goin, Neverthologs, arent qredit is shore, where she burned to the water’s edge. ‘The passenger trains on both roads are running with- out interruption. Temporary shelter has been provided, and no detention will occur in the transmission of freight. Pelitical News. Guyerat Drx on THs Prestpmnr’s Poucr.—At the great Brooklyn meeting on Wednesday evening laste letter from Major General John A, Dix was read, in which he expressed the fullest concurrence in the general scope of President Johnson's policy. He said that from the close of the war it had been understood that the Southern States should resume their places in the Union and their ropresenta- tion m Congress, upon giving assent to the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery and repudiating the rebel debt, and that the exaction of new conditions was a vio~ lation of that understanding. Much hostile feeling a& the South must be expected asa consequence of the war, but it is in the power of each house of Congress to deny seats to disloyal men. is 20 incompatible with the principles of our government as to exercise in peace a control over States not represented. Nothing can regult from the admission of representatives so pre- judicial in its influence as the example of denying te States a voice in the government. The public interest demands speedy restoration, and the policy of the Presi- dent, as best calculated to secure it, has the General's hearty approval. CoutecrorsmPr oF Cmcaco,—A Cleveland paper says:— “The President’s personal choice for Collector at Chicago was Colonel Mann, formerly of Joliet, Illinois; but, through the exertions of Senator Doolittle and ex-Seua- tor Browning, it is said that Judge Walter B, Scates will be appointed.” For Scoretary or War.—The Cleveland Leader says:— “The papers of Illinois, in expectation of « dissolution of the Cabinet, are urging the President to make General John C. McClernand, better known. as the Grecian orator, Secretary of War. General McClernand supported McClellan and Pendicton in 1864.”” ANxoro Witness 1m MaryLaxp.—Under the Civil Rights law, in a recent case in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, ‘a negro was placed on the witness stand—a new thing in that State. Nomuxation oF 4 New Postuasrer ror Proria, Ii.— ‘The Peoria (Iil.) Zranscript announces that Isaac Under- hill has been nominated by President Johnson for Post- master of that city, to supersede Mr. Emery, who is the proprietor of the Transcript. Mr. Underhill was a mode- rate republican up to the time of President Johnson's veto, when he doclared himself in favor of his policy. Tas Texas Constirorion.—The new constitution re- cently submitted by the Texas Convention will be voted upon by the people on Monday, June 25. APPOINTMENT OF A PosTMASTER FoR Troy.—It is sald | that Brevet Brigadier General Alden has been appointed Postmaster of Troy, to succeed Thomas Clowes, deceased. ‘This is an excellent appointment, General Alden served heroically through the war. At the assault of Fort Fishor he was terribly wounded, and at first supposed to be-dead, By what seemed almost a miracle he recovered. He {s one of the most modest and upright among the thousands of heroes who have honored their country im the field. Albany Evening Journal, April 25. | Recess op Coxaress.—Speaker Colfax nas given ites his opinion that Congress could not take ite recess before | the Ist of July. \ Ronger Date Owen's Piax.—Some of the features of Robert Dale Owen’s plan for reconstruction after 1867, and fora curtailment of tho basis of representation to ‘setual voters, aro said to have been adupted ty tha Ra- Evvscr or tax Crvm. Rioars Law.—The Mobile Register, edited by John Forsyth, says that Alabama already has class of citizens very similar to what the negroes will be under the Civil Rights sct—namely, the colored creoles, who, being citizens under the Spanish govera- ment, were secured the rights of American citizenship by the treaty of 1819. They have proved an exemplary class, and no difficulty has ever been experienced about their status, civilly or politically. ‘Tray ov Jury Davis.—An Eastern paper says that Judge Clifford, of Maino, has been consulted by the gov- ernment respecting the trial of Jefferson Davis. ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. — “Occasional” (Forney), Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, says that Colonel Richard Coulter, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, will be nomi- nated at a Convention to be beld in Pittsburg in July next, as the Jobnson candidate for Governor, in oppo- sition to both Clymer and Geary. AMEXDMEST TO THE ConstrTUTION oF Iowa.—The propo- sition before the Iowa Legislature to amend the constita- tion, by erasing the word “‘white” from the article of suffrage, has passed both houses of the Legislature. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says:—If members of Congress will take pains to inquire they will find that not a few of the most stanch and influential republicans all over the country betieve that loyal representatives from the South should be admitted to Congress, and that their continued exciusion threatens ruin to the party. Ponmcat Dewonstration is Cexteat Trsanow.—there was a large gathering at Jacksonville, Ill., on Saturday, the 2ist inst., to celebrate the passage of the Civil Rights bill, at Which Governor Ogiesby made a two hour’ speech. Newnasga Evecrion.—The people of Nebraska will vote ‘on the second day of June next, on the State constita- tion, submitted by the last Legislature. Casptpates tx Texas. —J. W. Throckmorton and George W. Jones have been invited by a number of influential citizens of Texas, headed by John Hancock, to stand as the Johnson candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Recoxstarcrion ty Texwesset.—The State Legistatare of Tennessee are troubled about reconstruction. Senator Carrigan has introduced a set of resolutions endorsing President Jobnson. Whereupon Senator Senter bas moved to substitute for the aforesaid a resolution de- claring that Andrew Johnson and the republican ma- jority in Congress worked together in serving and saving the Union, and that it wourd be improper for the Lagis- lature of Tennessee to widen the breach between them by declaring preference for one or the other, Both reso lutions were referred to the Committee on Federal Reln- Mons. The Inter. TO THE EDITOR Slave Trade. F THE HERALD. New Yorx, April 26, 1966. I notice in your paper of this date an article headed “ Revival of the Loter-state Slave Trade,” and in order to corroborate the statement made therein I would state’ that I bave known negroes to be forced into service at the rate of $1 per head; and as far asthe Preedmen’s Bureau is concerned, | would state that agents, who, be- fore the war, were worth less than nothing, are a. paratively well off, and 1 would re: ly ask how ‘this can be { about on forty dollars per month and rations, which, I believe, is the amount paid by the gov- ernment to these agents. ee ort There a now living flead, & 6, who would be willing to state that they have paid for rations iseued by the government. while vies mad were keeping srocery stores on the abandoned plant Query— a stoths conse from to keep up these News from - Nasmvinie, April 27, 1866. In the case of Isham Henderson, before the court mar- tial to-day, Colonel Coyle, for the defence, preferred a Tequest for an adjournment until to-morrow, because the a Can from those previously charges taade. request di wre pate ew Bed Rano be i eras “i ‘igadior senton a 0 in the ment of South Carolina, — oT Inman og Ae sixteen influential citizens has been by the City Council to confer with the muni- ‘ai sniertee ‘and citizens of Cincinnati regardi ication ‘between Cincinaadl and railway commun! Nashville. It is believed that their ‘movement will be cordially welcomed in Cincinnat!, ities of Massa- Borros, April 27, 1986. In the House of Representatives of the State Legisia- equalize the bounties of nay vote of Land All the amendments one were rejected. The bill of nine dollars th remota” tne Orleans.