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EUROPE. The main points of the European nows by the Her- man, dated to the 17th of April, were published in tue Misraxo yesterday morning, soon after the arrival of the Bioamer at this port, with a synopsis of her financial and Pommorcial report, The details are given to-day. Inter- sting despatches from our special correspondents in Paris, Madrid and Berlin also appear in our columns. The Spanish people were heartily tired of the trans- Bilantic war, and the excitement with regard to the Wubjectin Madrid was confined to government circles ‘aud the Cabinet officers, wio were bus.ly omployed in dovising some plan for bringiug it to an end. We are informed that Baron Saillard, on bis return from Mexico, assured Napoleon that Maximilian’s case ‘was hopeless, and that Moxico will be in the end over- run by emizrants from the Unitedstates. Consola closed in Loudon on the 16th of April at 863 9 3654 for delivery, aud 8654 a 864 for the account—an advance of % from tue sailing of the Africa, The Pans Bourse was firm, Atavrican cotton advanced one half of ® penny in Liverpool on the 16th instant, The market was steady. Breadsiu(fs were firm and tending upward, THE CITY. cholera is fast abating at tho Lower Quarantine. No deaths have taken place nor additional cases received yourd the hospital wip Falcon since Friday last, and al! on board are reported to be in a fair way of recovery. The British steamship Brin, Captain Cutting, from Livery Tho on pool via Queenstown, arrived at this port yesterday with cleven |i. dred and eighty passengers, of whom twenty were in the first cabin, The Erin reports four deaths on tho passage—the causes not mentioned. She belongs to the eame Ine as the England and Virginia, A meeting of the caulkers, shipwrights and shtp- of New York and vicinity was held on Saturday morning at Botanic Hall, No, 68 East Broadway, at which a series of resolutions was offered by each of the throe societies, denouncing the assertions published by tho e, and ox g 0 determination to adhere nition of eight hours as eco; piecopal Church Missionary Society + heid its twenty-second anniver the Incarnation, in Madison av o- ‘om the annual report, read by the that the society is free from debt, 701 on hand. The disburse- car amounted to $4,662. The total r Yeamen 1 , hue, last ¥ y y n, WhO tepresents himself to be a law 2A Vat Fourteenth strost, was arrested a bf josston one of a n jon on the 9th inst. from th» tir ns, On Broad atreot ing mon, aged eighteen and ni sived ia & quarrel tate on reet, in which one of thom stabbed t rously With a knife, He was arrested of the Second precinct, wh arching » atrvet, the door of which be found at an early hour, fol ame inv rd rl was ron oror by 9 street car yes st, on the cor. avenue, yeater- ns received the Sacra- , pands of Bishop Potter. » attended the meeting of the Chris. tion yosterday aftertfoon, at the Clin- ® Congregational church. Revs. Mr. Hodge snd Mason Gallagher addrossed the congregation on the f sot of the union Ch an di pinations, 1¢ servions of Tridium, in moration of sod John Berchma J., were ¢ ocod yester. aftérnoon in the Chu f Se 4 Xavier, West senth street, The servi od of the expos of the rolics of the beatife 1 solemn ¥ t whieh the Rev. F perior of the North American M as celebrant, Rev. M. fhierg, 8 J., deacon, ax deacon, The exercises wii be goth her Perron. ficiated BP portrait, | 8 | ospers og, inthe Motropotitan Hall, Steth avenue er, of Haitimora, read @ lecture on the coasion of freedom of speech in Providen®, Rhode There wero not mote than a dozen persons ia oq The speaker dwelt ot « narradon of orivate grievances ajleged to have been received by him at the hands of the Franklin Lyceum Society of Providence. Aboy named Lawrence Connolly fell from the Comp- troller’s office steps in City Hall Park yesterday and had both arms broken, Yesterday morning & fire broke out at No. 304 West Twenty-first street. The owner of the building was arrested on suspicion of arson. : MISCELLANEOUS. The purser of the steamship Crusader, at this port, handed us our files of Jamaica papers, dated to the 18th of April, early yesterday morning, when a portion of the news appeared in our columns. Governor Eyre sustained some injuries by @ fall from his horse at Span- ish Town. Mrs. G. W. Gordon, widow of the convicted leader of the late revolt, was about to leave Jamaica for England. ‘The chiefs of the Anti-Slavery Society of England were to receive her at Southampton. From British Honduras we have files dated at Belize onthe 7th of April. The papers contain no local news. Rate of exchange of bills on England was $500 per £100 sterling. The market report quotes:—Flour, $8.a $11 per bbl.; beef, $18. $24 per bbl.; pork, prime, $a $26 per bbl. ; pork, mess, $27.a $28 per Dbl. ; fish, $7 50.0 $8 per 100 Ibs. Freights to the United States :—Log- wood, $42 $5 per ton; mahogany, $14. $18 per 1,000 feet; rosewood, $4 a $5 per ton; light freight, $1 25a $1.50 per bale; cotton, 1c. a 13¢0. per Ib. The French mail steamer from Rio Janeiro, at Lisbon, with Rio datos to the 25th of March, reported that the allied army crossed the Parana rivor on the 14th of that month, General Canby was tried in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans on Saturday for contempt of court in preventing the execution of an order for the seques- tration of five hundred bales of cotton, The docision was reserved. The schooner Ornamest, from Rondout for New Haven, hooger Crag . capsized in a gale yesterday morning off Lloyd's Neck, Long Island Sound. The passengers were all taken up by the propell'r Electra—the same vessel which saved the passengers on the ill-fated City of Norwich. It is said the steamer State of Maine passed near the wrecked vessel without offering any assistance. At Cadiz, Ohio, about three o'clock yesterday morn ing, the Harrison National Bank was robbed of $350,000. Th6 cashier wad selzed in his house and made to surren- der the keys to the safe, The robbers escaped. Twenty thousand dollars are offered for their arrest and the return of the money. A gang of eighteen ruffians, supposed to be from New York, amused themselves yesterday in Jersey City by an indiscriminate war upon windows, doors, and citizens residing in the vicinity of Curry’s Wood. They severely beat two men who were quietly walking along the road, and varied the performance by attacking a policeman who attempted to maintain the peace, On their way to this eity, after their entertainment, six of the peace breakers word Atrevted at the ferry and com. mitted, They state that they belong to the First-ward and are members of the Junior Frank!in Base Ball Club. ‘The counsel for Isham Hendorson, charged with com- plicity in the government frauds at Nashville, entered a plea in bar against the jurisdiction of the Court on Satur- day, which was overruled. The Secretary of State has telegraphed to General Thomas that the President up- holds his action in refusing to release Henderson on a writ of habeas corpus, A communication published this morning from Thos, J. Kelly, Adjutant General of the Irish republican army, States positively that it was the intention of Head Centre Stephens to leave Havre for this port ou the 28th inst.* in the steamer Napoleon IIL, which will probably arrive about the 9th p:oxi:no. A fire occurred in Eric, Pa., yosterday, which destroyed * property to the amount of thirty-eight thousand dollars, The Negro Testimony bill passed the Tennessee House of Representatives on Saturday. Report of the Reconstruction Commit- tee—A Plan at Last. It is understood that the Joint Committee on Reconstruction will report in both Houses of Congress to-day the plan which they have at length agreed upon for the rehabilitation of the lately rebellious States. This plan, which we published in full m our issue of yesterday, embraces, first, a constitutional amendment which provides:— Srcrion 1, That no State shall make or enforce any law abridging the equal privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or demying to any person equal pro- tection under the laws, Sec, 2, That the whole population shall be counted for representation in Congress, excluding Indians not taxed ; bot that whenever any State shall deny to any portion of its people the right of suffrage, except for participation in the rebellion, or other crime, the popular basis of. representation shall be proportionately reduced, Sec, 3, That untii July 4, 1870, all persons voluntarily participating in the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for members o/ Congress, and for electors for President and Vice Pres'dent of the United States, Suc. 4 Prohibits the payment or recognition by the United States, or any State, of any debts incurred in the rebellion, and repudisies all claims for compensation tor lors of slave labor. Sre. 5 Gives to Congress the power to enforce these provisions, This is the plan of the Reconstruction Com mittee, after an incubation of five months, But this is not all; for it comes forth, like Minerva, ‘ull armed from the brain of Jove, or, rather, like a Chinese mandarin, with two tails, in the form of two bills. The first i: “a bill to provide for the restoration of the States lately in re- bellion to their fall political rights;” and it substantially ordains that whenever any one of them ~ shall have ratified this aforesaid amendment, and complied with the ‘terms thereof, in its local laws, the members to both Houses of Congress from such State, if duly elected and qualified, shall be admitted; and the bill further provides that in regard to the proportion of the federal taxes devolving upon such State so complying with the terms aforesaid, the State, with satisfactory assurance to the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be allowed a credit of ten years. This is. @ generous concession, and materially softens the more rigid conditions of the Congressional plan. The second is a bill of ineligibilities to office under the government of the United States, “excluding from any federal. office, first, the President, Vice President and heads of depart- menis of the late#p-called Confederate States; second, those who in other countries acted as agents of said Confederacy; third, Cabinet officers of the United States heretofore, officers of the army end navy, naval or military grad- uates, judges of the courts, and members oi the Congress of the United States, guilty of aiding the rebellion, together with all persons who have treated Union officers or soldiers or sailors captured during the late war otherwise than lawfully a8 prisoners of war.” Such are the constitutional amendment and the two bills embraced in the plan of the Re- construction Committee which is to be sub- mitted in Congress to-day for the reconstruc- tion and restoration of the eleven excluded Southern States. The main purpose of this plan is evidently the continued exclusion of those States till after the next Presidential election, with the requisition of negro suffrage or the exclusion of the negroes from the enumeration of the people for representa. tion in Congress. The securitics for the future contemplated in reference to rebels and claims | for losses of slaves by their emancipation are make-weights: for in the matter of the rebel debts President Johnson has already bound concerned, and in regard to emancipated slaves nobody dreams of paying the two or three thousand millions of dollars which they would bave commanded in the market before the war, or any portion of it They were forfeited by the the States amendment they must secure a two-thirds vole fe regard ta and immu- pre yim guite ot the Civil | heart, and we have no doubt that at an early Rights bill was intended to meet the case; | day he will eloquently interfere to protect the and concerning the admission of rebels to | Very creatures that he recently so roundly federal offices we had imagined the test oath | abused. As new converts are always the in force was sufficiently stringent, But if most enthusiastic, it is probable that Messrs. Congress can do it better by doing its own | Belmont, Bancroft and Van Buren will work over again, as well as that of the Presi- do sll the heavy work of the society. dent, let the two houses proceed to business, | It would not surprise us to be called The plan of their joint committee, it appears, | "PON to record that the graceful and agile is approved by all its republican members, Prince John had chased and overhauled a twelve out of the fifteen, including Messrs. butcher’s boy who was driving a cart over- Stevens, Washburne, of Illinois, Morrill, Bing- loaded with calves, or that Mr. Belmont had ham, Conkling, Boutwell and Blow, of the scientifically polished off some vulgar ruffian House, and Messrs, Fessenden, Grimes, Harris, | Who was belaboring refractory donkey, or Howard and Williams, of the Senate. Mceare. | that Mr. Bancroft had lugged a couple of dog- Grider and Rogers of the House, and Reverdy | Sghters offto jail singlo-handed. At any rate Johnson of the Senate, democrata, voted in the | the society is certainly an excellent one; its negative. According to this division of the list of members shows that it has accomplished committee it would seem that the republicans | #°m¢ good already, and we offer our most cor- of both houses are, ina body, disposed to sup- | dial wishes for its tuture success. port the scheme. To pass their constitutional A Contrast—Slavery in Massachusetts A Formerly and Radicalism Now. in each house, and here will be the test:| tm looking over a book reoently published, Shonld it thus pass the two supplementary bills | entitled “Notes on the History of Slavery in will of course follow, and then they will go | Massachusetts,” and comparing the former con- before the States and the people. The plan is | duet of the people of that State with their con- ingeniously contrived; it is considerably milder | duct ip the great issues that brought on the than anything heretofore emanating from the | war and that now agitate the country, the com committee and nearer the policy and the | trast is very striking. To the Puritans of Mas~ views of President Johnson, It may be un- | sachnsetts originally, and to them more than to necessary in some things, superfluous in others, | any other people, slavery in this country owes and unfair in its continued exclusion of the | its existence. They first began to make slaves Southern States after having, on their pais | of the natives, the Indians, taken in war. This fulfilled the conditions of the administration | wag in the earliest period of the colony. But charged with discretionary powers over the | previous to enslaving the Indians they had whole subject; but we have only now to await | gold into slavery white people as a punishment the issue before the two houses. for offences against the laws. Very soon the Tne Society for the Prevention of Cra- | colonial slave trade began with these “pious elty to Auimals, Christians.” In 1687 Hugh Peters writes to For thirty years we have been bothering ou ! Joh, Winthrop, from Salem, as follows:—“Mr. seives about cruelty to the negro, and now itis | Eadecot and myself salute you in the Lord quite time that the horses, mules, oxen, cows, | Jesus, etc. Wee have heard of a dividence ot calves, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals | women and children in the bay, and would bee should receive some attention. We are very | glad of a share, viz:—A young woman or girle glad, therefore, to notice and to approve the | anda boy if you thinke good. I wrote to you movement recently inaugurated by Mr. Henry | for some boyes for Bermudas, which I thinke De Berg and other prominent and worthy is considerable.” Winthrop says that some ¢f gentlemen. The Society for the Prevention or | yicse slaves, who ran away and were brought Cruelty to the Negro has turned out to be a | in again, were “branded on the shoulder;” and pretty expensive affair. It has cost us, North | that “the prisoners were divided, some to those and South, nearly a million of killed and | of ye river (the Connecticut colony) and the wounded soldiers and four thousand millions of | rest to us. Of these we send the male children dollars. Its managers involved us in a tre- | to Bermuda, by Mr. William Peirce, & ye wo- mendous war, which lasted for four years, and | men & maid children are disposed aboute in ye which they are not yet willing to terminate. Our | tounes.” This Mr. Peirce brought back from efforts to preserve the negroes from the cruel- | the West Indies “some gotton, tobgcco and ties of slavery have resulted in inflicting much | negroes, etc., and salt from Tortugas,” probably greater cruelties upon the white race. More | in exchange in part for the Indians sold. than this, we have placed at least one-third of | “Long afterwards Dr. Belknap said of the slave the whole number of Southern darkies com- | trade that the rum distilled in Massachusetts pletely out of reach of all cruelty in this world | was the mainspring of this traffic.” It appears, by sending them to the next, as a parish | too, that they turned their attention very early, beadle gets rid of annoying and inconvenient | to breeding of slaves. Josselyn, in his Ac- paupers and vagrants by kicking them over | count of Two Voyages to New England, very the boundary line of the adjoining district. | quaintly describos how a Mr. Maverick went to Nevertheless, those negroes who remain in the | work about it, and how, in one instance, he country now have their civil rights, including | met with some difficulty, for a negro woman, the right to work, the right to starve and the | who was said to have been a queen in her own right to take care of themselves or not as they | country, not liking the mate she was compelled think proper. This having been accomplished, | to go to bed with, “kickt him out again;” for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the | “this she took in high disdain beyond her Negro ought to adjourn sine die; but instead of | slavery.” this its representatives at Washington persist The secret the establishment of Indian in making the nation more uncomfortable than | slavery first and negro slavery afterwards is ever by keeping the Southern States out of the | found in the desire for gain and power. It is Union for purely political purposes and in |.the same with regard to the abolition and order to give mo negrues the right to voto. | negra nell ofthe present day. The motive This isa clear case of cruelty to the American | of the “pidus Christians” of New England is the even Mr. Bancroft has experienced « change of | over everybody. people, and an immense society, of which Andrew Johnson, Esq., is President, is being formed to prevent it. We feel assured, how- ever, that the organization over which Mr. De Berg presides will not be led into any such extravagances as those which have rendered so unpopular the organization officered by Messra, Sumner, Stevens, Greeley and Wendell Phil- lips. Fortunately, the horses, oxen, dogs, &., can be dealt with upon very simple prin- ciples. Preserve them from blows and kicks and give them enough to eat and you may save your civil rights for uncivilized negroes and present your ballots to the starving freedmen. ‘The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated by the benevolent Legislature which has just adjourned, and was organized at Clinton Hall last Monday. Mr. Henry De Berg was elected President, and may be regarded as the Moses of the movement. What that distingnished patriarch was to the children of Israel Mr. De Berg may be to the animals. The members of the society are mostly very estimable gentlemen. Mayor Hoffman, who has nothing to do in his office except to affix his signature to a few papers and keep ¢ watchful eye apon nitro-glycerine, will have plenty of (ime to devote to the relief of the sufferings of hack horses and impounded canines. Mr. A. T. Stewart, who has always warmly protested against cruelty to clerks and ernelty to Broadway, will contribute any amount of money to carfy out the objects of the society. It is comforting to observe that Mr. Angust Belmont and Mr. John Van Buren have reformed and are prominent among the active members. These gentlemen have been guilty ofa great deal of cruelty to politicians in their day. Mr. Belmont invented that dem- ocratic guillotine, the Chicago platform, whose planks were stained with the blood of decapitated candidates. General McClellan will be remembered as one of the victims of Mr. Belmont’s malicious ingenuity. The dem- ocratic party was completely exterminated by this cruel political manager. Mr. John Van Buren, too, has a very bad record in this re- | spect. He bas perpetrated many cruel jokes ; but the latest and most wicked of all was the establisment of a Manhattan Club, which was started as a democratic machine in opposition to Tammany Hall, and which reached its acme | when Vt gave a dinner to Mr. James Brooks, | who aided Mr. Stevens in imposing negro suf- frage upon the people of the District of Co- lumbie against their will, To see these gen- | tlemen, now thoroughly repentant, seated among the members of a society designed to prevent cruelty gives ue a better idea of the power of converting grace than can be ob- tained at the most enthusiastic camp meeting. same, though the object be different. “The first statute establishing slavery in America is to be found in the famous Code of Fundamentals, or Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts colony in New England, adopted in December, 1641.” It reads as follows:— “There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or captivitie amongst us unless it be lawfull captives taken in just warres and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liber- ties and Christian usages which the law of God established in Israell concerning such persons docth morally require. This exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by anthoritie.’” The author of the “Notes” remarks that this statute stood through the whole colonial period and was never expressly repealed. “It sanctions the slave trede and the perpetual bond- age of Indians and negroes, their chil- dren and their children’s children, and entitles Massachnsetis to precedence over any | and all other colonies in similar legislation It anticipates by many years anything of the sort to he found in the statutes of Virginia, or Moryland, or South Carolina.” We might here refer to the history of New England, and of Massachusetts in particular, all along up to the period of anti-slavery agi- tation to show how active and ardent the peo- ple of that section were in establishing, per- petuatiug and defending the institution because it was profitable to them. There is an abund- ance of records to show how they initiated and encouraged slavery under the pretext of divine authority; how they established the slave trade and enriched, themselves upon it, and how they carried it on while the people of the Sonth protested against it. Scripture was quoted abundantly, of course, to justify all this, as it bas been since in opposition to slavery. It will be said, doubtless, that the present age is much more advanced and en- lightened, but the truth is the conscience of the Massachusetts Poritans is very flexible, Whatever suits the interests or notions of that people is right. There is, however, a large amount of hypocrisy in all their pretence of bumanity and morality. This was apparent in their former laws and conduct with regard to slavery, and it is seen to-day in other things. Take Boston, for example, where there is a great pretence and outward show of morality, while it is well known that there is no place in the world more immoral. Vice abounds there, but it is more covered up and secret than else- where. With regard to slavery the opposition to it in Massachusetts and in New England generally did not arise from love of liberty, philanthropy or regard for the negro. This is after it will be more difficult to get them. Searcely lees strange is the regeneration of | evident if we look at the hard masters and Mr. George Bancrofi, who figures among the vice presidents, A few weeks ago, in his culogy of President Lincoln, Mr. Bancroft dis- played the most aggravated cruelty towards overseors the people from that section nearly always made when placed over the slaves, Anti-elavery agitation gratified their disposi- tion for theorizing and meddling, and. gave the lion of England, the game cock of France, | them an insignificant portion of the population the double-headed eagle of Ausiria, and the | of the country compared with the whole politi- little monkey, with its paws full of roasted { cal prominence and power. Radicalism does chestonte, that not inaptly represents Mazi. | the same now. Restless und meddling, they milian. Spite of the remonstrances of the | must have some subject for agitation. If not diplomatic corps, he stirred up these eaimals | held in check the ol, spirit of Puritan intoler- in a style gore lively than agreeable. But lance which iq in oem would ride rqagh-shod Wo be to the South just now if they had their way. The liberties of the Southerners would be withheld and their lands seized and appropriated, and Scripture would be quoted to justify all this, just as it was quoted to justify slavery and the slave trade in Massachusetts formerly. Although the radical views of New England to-day appear to be in direct conflict with those of former times on the subject of slavery, the spirit and motive of action are the same, Restless ambition, dogmatism, love of theorizing, selfishness and intolerance are the Massachusetts elements from which sprung slavery and all its evils and from which spring our present political troubles. A Grand National Museum in the Park. New York has a just reputation for many ex- cellent institutions established for the benefit and gratification of the public; and the libe- rality of her wealthy citizens in endowing and building up these is known to all. But there is one thing much needed—a grand national museum. There 1s not one worthy of being #0 called in New York, Washington or any other place throughout this great country, There are a number of institutions scattered over the United States in which are limited collections of objects of curiosity, history, art, science, and from nature. Among the principal are the Patent Office and Smithsonian Institution at Washington. As to the humbug show con- cerns called mus¢%ims, got up by individuals as private speculations, they are generally dis- gusting cheats, and none are worthy the name of museum. There are a few private collee- tions quite interesting as far as they go, but the number of objects are necessarily very limited and can be seen only by very few. We havo nothing in reality that bagins to come near the Correct idea of a national museum. It is a reproach to us that we have not, We ought to go to work at once to build up such an institution as would be creditable to the country and durable as the nation itself. This metropolis is the proper place for it. Wash- ington is but a small city, and always will be, in comparivea with New York. This city must continue to be the great centre of population and of movement. We have, too, the most superb place on which to establish a national museum, The Park is the spot. Here there is plenty of sprce, and no situation could be more beautiful or eligible. We call upon our wealthy citizens especially, and upon the people generally, to move in this matter. Let the museum be, however, on the grandest scale; something that not only the,people of New York may be proud of, but that every American may be proud of. If an association ct gentlemen will start the project right and show by their subscriptions and earnestness that the work will be commenced, we will sub- scribe five hundred dollars to begin with, We need not say anything abont the advantage it would be to the city indireetly. Our business men and property holders know that every great improvement \in New York makes it more attractive and increases its wealth and importance. But, besides this, what pleasure it would afford us, and what instruction to us and our children after us. In the great capitals of Europe there are museums of a national character. Sometimes these are devoted to special objects, and sonre- {imes they are museums proper and in ther general sense, containing almost everything. ‘rhe, British ~ niuscum in Loudon is mote properly one in the general seme. The Louvre in Paris isn museum of art, We propose to have one more comprehggpive then the British museum. We would comMine Piil-the char- acter of that the Louvre and the Jardin des Plantes, or the Zoological Gardens in London. Tt should be a museum of animate as well as of inanimate objects from all realm¥ of nature, anda repository of afl that is ¥aluable in his- tory, literature, science and art. That'fs what wo would make it and what it can be made if the wealthy and enterprising people of New York will set about it in earnest. As if an- ticipating this institution and seeing the necessity of it, there has been ‘collected already, and almost imperceptibly, a number of animals and other things at the Park as a small nucleus with which to begin. The war just ¢) will furnish material. In years to come thing connected with that gigantic struggle and great historic period will be regarded with the deepest interest. The records, the souvenirs, the battle scenes, the portraits of the generals and heroes, and all connected with it will be cherished by fa- ture generations. Now is the time to collect these and to deposit them where they will be preserved forever, and where the largest por- tion of the people can best see them. Here- While alluding to this we would suggest that the admirable collection of war views and scenes, as well as the gallery of portraits of eminent men, taken by Mr. Brady, of this city, should be secured for the public, and particu- larly for the national museum spoken of. Such an opportunity may not occur again and should not be neglected. We may not see the value of these historical works of art now, but it will be seen some years hence, What a val- uable, varied and numerous collection of min- eral specimens we might obtain, too, within a short time. No country has more or is richer in these than our own. We onght to bring together everything connected with the prim! tive races of this continent before they pas away. That is the special duty of the American people. We are entering upon a new age of art on this side the Atlantic. It has just com- menced and begins to grow well. We ovght to have deposited here a record and specimens of the progress we may make, which would in- struct as and stimulate our ambition. We should have plants and animfls from al) parts of the world. This would both interest and edugate the people. Once well established, our citizens, who explore every land and sea, would take pride in sending contributions to the museum; wealthy men would make presents and bequests to it and every one would do what he gould to promote its growth and use- fulnesa, We cannot enter here into the de- tails of the plan nor what may be expected of the institution; that must be left till the the movement, and we have no doubt that ft will grow rpidly and grandly and that in the course of sme years we shall have a museum worthy of being called national. Spain and Chile—The Proposed Meata~ tien of the United States. It is reported in Wasbington, upon good au- thority, thatSpain is willing to accept the me- diation of the United States in her quarrel with Chile, and, submitting her claims against the South American power to our arbitration, will agree to be bound by the decision made. It is possible that this may only be one of the many diplomatic ramors always current in the capital; but if it shall prove to be true we may look forward to an early settlement of the trouble, for it is hardly possible that Cuba and her allies will refuse the proposition. Spain is usually alluded to as the least em- lightened and progressive of Christian nations, as the one holding the most tenaciously and stubboraly to all the old divine-right proju- dices of Europe; yet we see that she is the first of European nations to boldly acknowl- edge the great fact of the time in relation to this hemisphere, namely, that we are the arbiter of national destinies here—the one power whose decision, on American topics should be accepted as law. We might have expected ths tecognition from England, who, knowing better than any other the vitality that an im- mense commerce gives to a nation, should have been the first to perceive our great power, We might have expected it from France, our ancient ally, and the power that makes most pretence to move with the spirit of the age. But hitherto these powers have mostly exercised their ingenuity in the effort to argue around the great fact of our predominance in “ the Western World, and when not able to argue round it they have wilfully shut their eyes to it Te ia thie atior cous that led France to tumble into such an uncomfortable piece of business as the Mexican expedition. It is re- markable that old fogy Spain should be more progressive than her enlightened neighbors in the one fact in which progreselveness {s valu- able. : The present willingness of Spain to submit her pretensions in South America to reason- able discussion indicates a desire to, free her hands of trouble on this side of the Atlantic. It is suothor straw telling us how universally all the European breezes tend toward war. All the powers wish to have as clean a record as possible for the comiy€ summer. Though from what is seen now, the war, if it comes at all, will be far away from Spain and Spanish inter ests, yet there is no knowing how it may spread or who may be involved in it. Ex- perience has amply shown that exact limits cannot be set to any great war, and Spain, act- ing wisely on that experience, prepares to put her house in order. The Internal Revenue Eiit, We publish this morning all the aMerations which the amended Internal Revenue bull, reported a few days since by the Com- mittee of Ways and Means of the lower house of Congress, makes from the exfet- ing law. The amendatory sections are ts many instances lengthy, and the bill vola- minous; but in a majority of cases those referring to the manner of executing tho Jaw - are simply the same words and terms that exist im the preseat law, shaken up, arranged and put together fa a little differont form. In several instances it is a distinction without a difference, The sections providing for the collection of the tax on cotton are very nearly the same as the bill recommended by the Re- venue Commfssion some weeks since; while the provisions in reference to licenses are not ma- terially changed, save in the amount required to tuke out the several licenses enumerated. An attempt has been made to make the public believe that the: Committes has removed the objectionable feature in granting lottery licenses, but the change does not really amount to anything. As heretofore stated, there is a reduction of taxes om a good many articles, and a lange number of smal] items are exempt al- together. In this respect there is much’ commend as well as to condemn. 1 cannot but believe that the committee haver made a sertous mistake in levying so heavy = tax on suger, and reducing it so. largely om Wall street speculation. We cannot under— stand the policy of placing a large tax upom: an article which is necessary to cvery family: in the land,.and at the same time placing+ merely a nominal tax on the luxury and specu-+ lations which are often injurious to the general +. public, and only benefit a comparatively few men. The committee recommend that on sales of merchandise, including dry goods of alk! kinds, a tax-chall be levied of five cents om every one hundred dollars, while the tax tong 3 the sales of stoeks and bonds is orly two cents for every one hundred dollars in sales, Why this discrimination in favor of stocks? What is there in the business of stock brokers that makes it necessary that they sheul@ be thus favored? When we come to the itenx of sugar 4 the favoritism for Wall street is all the mere apparent. Sugars are to be taxed from one to two and a half cents per pound,.ace ording to? the quality, in addition to a license: tax of all dealers. Everytwenty-five or ‘Birgy cents ta! vested in sugar is taxed two anal a half cents, ¢ while a dealer in stocks has to pay on'y two! cents on every one hundred dollars in value.! If this discrimination was made for the ‘henefit’ of the necessaries of life there coulés be no; objection; but when it is mode agaist those articles of necessity to every inmily , and im favor of the speculators—sguinst | be many and in favor of the few—there is g sed reason for complaint. We trast that Co agress will look into this affeir, and corrset this ap- parent injustice of the eommittees before the hill passes. There are several modification » in. the bill which will be approved by the pr sople and ren- der the amendatory law more pc,pular than the present. Qur people have pat'mnily borne all the burdens of the present la-w, feeling that a heavy tax has been require and that time would modify the objectionable featares ; bat Congress will find alogether a different feetiug: if the people once become convinced. that our law-makers are inalined to.so arrange the taxes as to favor the speculators Instead “f the mass of the people. The tax should ‘ne so arranged that all branehes of busines “honld bear their fair proportion, Whenever there is to be any discrimiation, if at all, let it be in favor of those articles which every fumily must have, and aot for the benefit of speculation, which of itgelt operates to increase the cost of living to {ne people, Our national legisiatory cannot he