The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1867, Page 6

a WW OWE WeRAby, FRIDAY, JANUARY (4, 10 —TRIPLE Ty imtroduce ituito agua’ places of tandien Cor Long The War Cloud tu the Bast. serving hereéif and, if possible, of geining «| sonal property escapes altogether. Herecom-| quite common in the four thousend tenement , sreninnnnnnanyirinancs YesteOupantiocan;.poliino atsnecieblehsenh staat: Central Europe with their thunder ‘have | is doubtful whetber another alliance can be | laid on all incomes over a thousand dollars, | prised if wholesale slaughter be the result, SONG GONNA BETEROR Ketada Now York; for she better Droit teuntaoe af she | S0arcely passed away before other’ cloud | formed’powerful enough to save Turkey. In | to be applied to the sole purpose of paying the'| The increase of duty imposed upon the ep a a Bot tee paaptery at new Yeck, to. provide for the-asgountivg | @Fizes in the East, ‘The world moves rapidiy | the extremity of the case a general European | war debt of the State; the tax is to be im-| police force by the operations of the ovrion x. W. conwun 0? FULTON AND Naseat org, | DY Police Jastices.of Now York for menoye recsived for. nowadays. Steam and electricity seem to | congress may meet and create independent | posed whenever Congress shall consent t6 | Health Board. and Registry law is re- Soe | fines; to allow criminals to tomtity im. their ow | exercise @ wonderful quickening inftuence’ in | governments in European Turkey. This might | remit it to the States for the object specified. § ferred to: by the Commissioners, but, with behalf, and to prevent the Hudson River Rail- toad Company from using steam below, Bighty-sixth street. Bills were introduced to amend the Metropolitan Excise Jaw; limiting « @ay’s work to eight hours; to ratify the amendment to the United States constitution; ~OmLonoranm, o8 Naw Yous 1x 1967—Tuw Victims. | favoring a protective tariQ, and syumpathizing with the NEW v\ mies site New York | Fenian movement ‘The two last were Isid over under Wlotel OSE TEEATRE, Broadway, opppaie the rule, The Howse them om motion adjourned until erence TRE PaNoars, Fourteenth street, near Sixth | TU°Sdar- vuE crv. \ Rae a In the Board of Aldermen yeste $550 was voted Dow Glee gAHA THEATRE, No. si Brosias.— | | 11 a Manate an the walue of two homee, recently PateInwar » ee expired, The motion for the extension of Church street, ince, — MR. ant the moral and political world as well as in the physical. No “thirty years’” war is possible now. Empires are overthrown or created in a few days. Institutions crystallized by time and fortified by the genius and labors of a hundred generations are swept away like cobwebs. Conservatism will soon become an obsolete word. Progress, either in remodelling the an- cient order of things or in creating new one, is the controlling idea of the age, and no inatitutions that stand in the way can long exist. The Turkish empire in Europe stands in the way of this progress—of the march of Buropean civilization, and its fate is sealed. Feudalism received its deathblow at the birth of the great American republic and in the This, in substance, embodies the main points of the Comptroller's Report. The recommend- ation of a more equitable adjustment of the taxes on real and personal property is a good one; but we think the proposal to impose a three per cent income tax to yay the war debt will not be received with favor. A Goel Plece of Strategy. Senator Comell, the runaway Street Com- missioner, is a emart strategist. When Judge Whiting marched down upon him from Albany, armed with the Governor’s commission, he did not await the attack, but prudently retreated and left the Judge without an eriemy in front. | Now that he finds himself threatened with as- avert a general and great war. If the question cannbt "be ‘settled “by a congress, one of two, things must occur, either a great war or the advance of Russian power towards the Medi- terranean and Golden Horn. The question is now beginning to loom up above all others, and we on this side the Atlantic, while not taking an active part in it, shall watch the progress ofevents with great interest. Whe Is te Be Oer Next United States Senator ¢ The contest for United States Senator seems tohave varrowed down to three candidates— Irs Harris, of Albany, the present Senator; aQanway FIBATRE Broadway. near Broome irteenth street, hi Face Ma Kaela posuiae Ewustaowent—Tue | and the nomination of Joba J. Bradley as President and Mr. Craven as Chief Engineer of the Croton Board were DODWORTH’S HALL wy prosaway.—Poorssson Hants | aid Gver. Biteon a Paave Mimbey Tue Heo ww tue Ae | gy the, Board of Counciimen @ motion to pave a por- ST Nee. tion of Thirty-eighth street with Belgian pavement was CLINTON Hal place Onxar Focrnanonnic ie se ne SV ALENBINE TOUSDEN, THB} | oa 1. a venotution ‘presenting eortain clerks with SENAY, Bou, reser oes eur | ee a ees one tas ones pepe ey ection [boda agen nye leangy abigaiyy See Ree sr ting Mint sat 0 ch ot Rens poser renee poe teen pm caer ete math mer grouirtourts seat Bomwonmes arid Btak ‘The Board o¢ Health met gesterday, ‘The sorney to 'Cottell aokibg for thé appointment of » com- } for the present to sumpend their demonstra Miverestey. Batiaps, Burcesqcas. kc. —Naw ‘Ynae’s | the board stated that he would soon commence proceed- ——. \ ings ageinat owners of tenement houses, with @ view KRULY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 190 Broadway, oppo. | to compel them to improve the condition and provide ite tho N ed wore roman encamme gee Scasrey Ween °E-Caar or | Mover conveniences to wach ousca Reporte yan O10 BLoce—Naw Year's Cates; received, and after some minor business the board ad- i Journed to Thursday next. TONY PASTOR'S OP! Vorsier Nao, MinsrEstse, Macise! Direemioeeens | Tho Excise Commissioners held s short seasion yester- bar vgeerirlestinar ace day. Une hundred and seventy-five applications for CHARLEY WHITE’ NW TROUPE, at | hcense wero granted. The Superintendent of Police will VF ‘COMBEWA’ eins ope i nedirarots hat Amiery oF WiGR¥ | isgue his orders relative te tho observance of the new sons and papérs, and to “probe to the utmoat” * his official conduct. It is very well known to tae strategic Senator.and ex-Street Commis-» sioner that a committee of the Senate could’ not devete mach time to such a labor and that a very little management would be necessary to extend the “investigation” beyond the legis- fast dying out. The idea of government ‘by divine right or by privileged orders bas become ebsolete. Everywhere the prin- ciple of self-goverament, as recognized by conceding the right of suffrage to the people, is acknowledged. Serfdom is abolished in Russia, and that great empire is closely fol- lowing the progressive civilization of Central The friends of Senator Harris are laboring hard for his re-election; but they find some serious difficulties in their way. In the early years of the war Judge Harris was an ardent admirer of General McClellan, and upon the removal of that commander, from the head of Cena Esilap live, on Saturday. ond Western Europe, “Pricstly domination the Army of the Potomac he condemned ‘the | lative term. Of course no action could be»| their political rare age and increase the ob- 1, " the Chamber of Com: i ion yesterday. . P ” ti f the administrati ‘isin: d by the ligations ander which country already Hes its, ©. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Ls vase fo seem ee Rbokesmonng coy at cetidanahctheiseaad vtaia'eh action of the administration as a surprising | taken until a decision was reached by the com- | liga ry y to the mtich and perhaps, unnecessarily ma- ligned conservative party. It is well known that since the revolution ef 1688; which resulted in the downfall of the stubborn and intractable Stuart dynasty, the. government of the country has, with the ex- ception of certain brief intervals, been con- duoted by and in. the interesis of the great whig families. The accession of William an@ Mary and the arrangement as. to the Hane- verign succession were so dexterously man- HOOLEY'S OPERA HOT! rooklva —Ernioriax Mix. | A preamble and resolutions recommending to tho Pres!- erekisy, Baciaps, BURLESQUES ann Paxtourwet dent and Congress that aid, material and moral, should BR 2 eps _ | be tendered to the Mexican republic by this country, was oar eNO hemes &:Co.'s, Gaker Pao) | casa tate! a resblalion'Wes edopten reqeenting serpents <— loa the State Logislature to prohibit the Iaying of more than ante eee tee gon. ogrng ofGrand and Crosby | two railroad tracks on any stroot in the city. ‘Asim Foo. ee Seen a An opinion was déliyered yesterday by Mr. Justice risa ES Ingraham} of the Supreme Court, rofusing to issue a Lagronen, wert THE COKE AY DNOGEe TieeoR ee Mice | mandamiis to compel Thomas Stephens, the present °F il dB Ag? Biowe Auw or Prosser. Open from | incumbent of the Presidency of the Croton Aqueduct ra Department, to surrender the office of the Board to Jobn i, 3. Bradley, the new appointee of the Mayor and Board and grievous mistake. Upon the collapse of the rebellion he stood in opposition to the re- publican Senate on the question of the expul- sion of Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, against which action he placed himaelf on record both by his report and his vote. These thiags might have been overlooked, but the Senator, in -hia anxiety to atone for them, made the fatal mistake of abandoning the constitutional amendment policy aud avowing himself in the recent election ao advocate of impeach- mittee. We would suggest that there-is‘a much shorter and less expensive way of getting at a correct decision relative to the charges made ‘ against the Street Department through a trial in @ criminal court. Such a trial would enable Cornell to thoroughly clear his skirts, if inno- cent, of any corrupt acts, and he would come out with flying colors, The process is direct and is nut attended with the expense to the State that would accrue from a legislative investigation. The witnesses on behalf of the the ancieat capital of the world, has ‘fallen with the temporal power of the Papacy through the progress of liberal ideas. Even the most bigoted religions populations are emancipating themselves from priestly influ- ence. All over Europe, except in Turkey, the spirit of pregreas is changing the face and condition of society. We see, however, in the fairest. portion of Europe, washed by the Mediterranean, the Now Vork, Friday, Jnanary 4, 1867. of Aldermen. Adriatic and the Euxine, and traversed in part ther = === ie ment and ot all the other wild vagaries of the | people would be compelled to attend without | aged as-to secure for themselves complete he atock market was fi esterday. Gold . ani i | THE Naws. Lane hy Ailes walling tb ify imc Nek a picky by the Danube, in the land of ancient historic | pen Butler radicals, This was e blunder that fee; there would be no “adjournments” nor | ascendancy in the councils of the nation. Ex- greatness and genius, where the arts of war and peace attained their highest development— we see in that beautiful and fruitful country a semi-barbarous and anti-Christian government inimical to the enlightened progress of the age. It is under the blighting rule of the Ottomans. Mahometanism, with its effete institutions, cruel despotism, blind intolerance and paralyz- ing fatalism, stands as an insuperable barrier to improvemest. Worse than that, there are eleven millions of Christians who have to bear the yoke of this infidel Power—of a govern- ment more suited lo the deserts of Arabia or the interior of Africa than to civilized Europe. Such a atate of things is a strange anomaly in these enlightened times. Can we be surprised, then, at the insurrection in Candia, at the intense excitement and move- ments in Greoce and at the mutterings of revolt in Servia and among other Christian populs- tions of European Turkey? It is said in West- ern Europe that Russia secretly foments these insurrectionary movements among the Christian subjectgof the Porte to promote her own ambitious ends. There may be some truth in this, and it is quite natural that the people of Russia should sympathize with their core- ligioniats under Mehometan rule. Still. we know that Russian influence and progress in the East is the bugbear of the press and states- men of Europe, and of England and France ia particular, and the action of Russia, if there be any, may be much exaggerated. Apart, how- ever, from Russian desigus or action there is ample cause, as we bave shown, for revolution among the Christian subjects of the Sultan. The greatest efforts are being made by seve- ral of the Powers of Europe to keep insurrec- Yonsry movements in check and to maintain the integrity of the Turkish empire. England and France, as every one is aware, made war on Russia a few years ago, in what is called the Crimean war, to sustain the Sultan against supposed danger trom Russia. That war did give strength for a few years to the Ottoman government. Had Turkey not been sustained by sach powerful foreign aid her rule in Europe would have been utterly destroyed. To two of the greatest Christian Powers must be ascribed the continuance of the blighting afluence of Mahometan rule over eleven mil- lions of Christians and over the fairest portion of Europe. But, afters few years, the results of that costly and bloody war in the Crimea are being effaced by tho treeh revival of the “Eastera question.” It is in the nature of things irrepressible—it cannot be kept down. Whether Russia does intrigue or not in the affairs of the Christian populstion of Turkey, these populations and the Christian world will never be satisfied till the Ottomans are driven out. There will be insurrections, and this will ve the end in spite of armed evolutions or diplomatic manwuvring. Every day we are receiving some news by the Atlaatie cable or by mail about that part of the world. It bas become, really, the promi- nent question of the day. France and Eng- Tand have frowned at the Cretans and warned the Greeks, and they are watching the Russians with intense interest. But all this does not appear to prevent the determined resistance of the Christian subjects of Turkey to Otto- man rule, and cannot long prevent the break- ing up of the Turkish empire. European Powers are evidently afraid of the movement With them humanity, liberty, religion, civili- zation, progress or anything else is mado sub- servient to the political question—to the balance, or preponderance of power In and along the Mediterranean, the Dardanelles, the Euxine and the Adriatic. The international question is the paramount one. Under these circumstances the inquiry naturally arises, what will be the end of this complication? Will. the Powers of Western Europe, will France and England again draw the sword ‘ to maintain the Ottoman government on the European continent? England is uowilling to take such a step, and, therefore, hopes to stave off the trouble, though she bas, or believes she has, the greatest interest at stake. She dreads having her empite in India exposed through the advances of Russia in that direc- tion; but she is tired of war, and feels. the necessity of peace. France bas less at stake but is more active, and may be disposed to go farther, from an inberent pride of meddling tn or regulating the affairs of Europe. Ansiria would probably join another English-French alliance, if that could be formed, With the ef ghookipa Busgla op bet borfier. of ore- cepting the somewhat protracted period during which the genius of the younger Pitt presided over the destinies of England, and the briefer periods which mark the ascendancy of Wel- lington and Peel, the offices: under the Crowa: have been mainly in their hands. Naturally there has beea not a little of what may fairly be called class legislation. Of this the Re- form bill of 1832, notwithstanding many un- doubted excellences, is « noted specimen. Under the guise of enfranchising a larger por- tion of the population they were successful im carrying measure the practical result of which really qwas the establishing upon a ‘firmer basis their own authority in the State. Long accustomed to rule, they are naturally enough impstient when power is In other hands. The authors of the firat Reform bill, proud of thelr work, tremble to see it touched by alien hands. The objection to the late Reform bill as put by their opponents mainly was that, like the Reform bill of 185% it too exclusively contemplated the interests of their party. The position which the whigs have so long enjoyed, and their connection with the first Reform bill in particular, have acquired for them the reputation, which bae perhaps been too iberally recorded, of being the friends of the people. It is in this char- acter, and obiefly because of the failure of their late measure, that they new stand before the people. , Whatever be the claims of the whigs to popa- lar favor, it is simply abeurd to imagine that they alone are favorable to progressive reform. ne ee 134. EUROPE. Our news report from Europe torough the cable is to the 34 instant. Several members of the New York Yacht Club have embarked for home. A French report says that Mexico will be evacuated by tho 1s of March, without reference to Maximilian. Ths fastorn question is threatening in Servia. Fenian agents wore atill arrested in Ireland. Spain ad decided to agnd four iron-ciads to the Pa- oilte ‘The Duke de Serrano, late Captain General of Cuba, had boon arrested by order of the Qrieen. Gousols closed in London at 904; tor money yesterday. Vaited Statos five-twoanties were at 7334. Cotton was active and breadstaffs quiet in Liverpool. Gur special correspondence from Rome, Madrid and Athens, with the extracts from our files by the China, published to-day, embrace important details of our cable aud mail telegraphic despatches to the 224 December. ‘Tho question of Iberian unity, as agitated between Spaia and Portugal, is clearly treated by our correspoad- ont im Madrid. ‘The diplomatic relations between Greece and Turkey wore in a very procarious state at the date of our Atheus letter. It is positively asserted that the Emperor Francis Joseph has interdicted Maximilian from landing oa Aus- {evan territory in consequence of a personal quarrel, ana that (he ox-Emperor's real difficulty will commence the day ho eaves Mexico. cannot {ail to seriously impair his prospect of are-clection, since the people of New York and of the whole North rendered an emphatic verdict in favor of the Congressional policy, and the Legislature 1s bound to elect a candi- date who stands fairly and unequivocally upon that platform. Many of the most active poli- ticians in the republican ranks are opposed to Senator Harris’ re-election, because they say it will only “be hanging up the New York Senatorsbip for another six years.” This re- mark lias reference to the fact that Senator Harrw is neither a ready debater ner an active worker on the floor of the United States Sevate, where the voice of the important State of New York is now but very rarely beard. Roscoe Conkling has been a consistent eup- porter of the constitutional amendment, and after its adoption by the State of Tennessee voted for the admission of the representatives of that State into Congress, He is a fair debater, although » little on the spread eagle order, and would make an active and useful Senator. He bas many warm friends, and finda his main strength with the republicans in the malignancy with which he haa been fol- lowed and opposed by Thurlow Weed. He was beaten for the Thirty-eighth Congress by a combination of the democrata and the Weed republicans on Francis Kernan, and the same parties made a desperate but ansuccesful attempt to defeat bim in the last two Congres- sional elections. Judge Noah Davis, of Orleans, is on the bench of the Supreme Court, and has many claims upon the republican party. Ho was formerly the law partner of Sanford E. Charch, and bears « high reputation in his profession. While sitting as a judge in the Court of Appeals he delivered the opinion of the court in the case ot the Paid Fire Department, maintaining the constitutionality of the law creating the new department. At the last State Convention of the republican party Judge Davis opposed the radical vagaries of Lyman Tremaine and suc- ceeded in bringing the Convention to a distinct and unqualified endorsement of the constitu tional amendment as the basis of restoration. He drew the resolntion in the platform in relation to the amendment and is the suthor ot the address issued by the Convention. These are, ia brief, the positions of the three candidates between whom tho probable selec- tion seems to lie. The Legislature should elect no man who is not an earnest and an- qtalified sapporterof the policy so ‘emphat- ically endorsed by the people of the State in the recent elections. delays; the whole subject could be disposed of in two or three days, and’ the vindicated official could go back in triumph to the Senate and take his seat without any of the “mud and filth” of the streets of New York sticking to bis akirta. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special despatches from New Orieans state that a United States gunboat sailed suddenly for Vera Crux ad Tampico yesterday for the purpose of watchmg events between the two points. Minister Campbell had received ne orders to communicate with the govern- mont, and was still in New Orleans. Mojia was said to be lying dangerously if! in San Luis Potosi, and two columns of liberal troops were marching upon that town. The liberals had also advanced a strong line to within eight miles of Mexico city, Our cor. respondence’ from the Mexican capital is dated December 16. Bazaine was putting money in his purse by selling old muskew, arms ead ammonition tothe highest bidder, whether imperialist or liberal. The French Minister, M. Dano, becoming alarmed at this, telegraphed to Napoleon for instructions, which bad not yet grived. Phe bogus despatch announcing the death of Carlotta had been recetved by Maximiliam A young American named Pope was seized and whipped by a negro in the quarters of the soldiery at Queretaro for cursing a French officer who had ran over him on horse- back. Ortega issued a pronunciamento ageinst General ‘Sheridan and Minister Romero, Maximilian, in recent addreas, had expressed regret at the attitude the United ‘States bad chosen to assume towards him. News from Brazos is positive in confirming the execution of Eaco- edo, who, it is anid, was hanged in Matamoros by Canales. ‘We have news from British Guiana, dated at George- town, Demerara, on the 224 of November. Yellow tover had made sad havoc among the troops. A heavy rain CONGRESS. commenced to fall on the 20th of November and con- Congress reassembled at noon yesterday, after a fort- | tinued for soveral hours, refreshing the plantations, A Dight's noliday. commercial report of November 21 says:—Business has To the Senate Mr. Sumner introduced a resotution of | been duil, the market being fully supplied with Amor!- taquiry as to whotber legislation on a constitutional | can provisions. The arrivals from Europe have been a@mondment is necessary to preventthe sale of negroes | verygaumerous, bringing large stocks. Flour ia in heavy into slavery. After some deliberation the resolution | stock of ordinary brands, and sales are slow. Pork in was adoptod. A bill was introduced vesting the appoint- | moderate supply, $28 to $30 for heavy moss, full ‘moat of United States Marshal for the District of Colum- | weights. Produce not very plentiful. Tonnage in large ‘bia ia the Supreme Court. A resolution instructing the | excess of wants. Freights very low. Judiciary Committes to inquire what legislation is noces- | Governor Saulsbury, in his message to tho Delaware sary to provent the enslavement of Indians in New | Legislature, opposes the constitutional amendment, ap- Moxivo on a aystem of peonage was introduced by Mr. | proves of the selling of negroes inte slavery as the beat Sumner, who said that officers of the United States Army | punishment for crime, and the most salutary restraint aad captured Indians in slavery. The resolution, changed | against ite commission, recommends laws restricting so as to make the inquiry by the Military Committee, | negro immigration, and declares his purpose to enforce was adopied. The bill to admit Nobraska was taken up | the laws against negroes possessing arma. The Govern- as unfinished business and immedistely postponed until | ors of Maine, Maryland and Missouri also sent in their Moaday. Mr. Howard gave notice of his intention to | messages to their respective Legislatures yesterday. The Propose amendments to the bilis relative to the regula- | Michigan Legisiature assembled and the Ohio Senate tion of the solection of grand and petit jurors inthe | ratified the constitutional ameadment by « vote of 21 ‘Territory nf Utah and for other purposes. The proposed | against 12. ameadmeats treat mainiy of the marriage ceremony, ‘We have further particulars regarding the loss of the aed make it s crimeto consecrate a marriage in Utah | schooner F. M. Dyer, om her trip from Charleston to Rich- which is not legal elsewhere, punishable with fine or | mond, on the 16th. of October last. Three of her crew imprisonment, The bill to prevent fraudulent repre- | wer washed overboard and drowned, and the captain seatations to induce negroes or others to emigrate from | and a seaman died delirium after being rescued. this cohntey was called up, and pending its considera- | Two veaseis sighted the schooner while she was in dis- tioa the Senate adjourned, tress, but did not afford any assistance. The survivors a the House Mr. Wentworth offered s resolution di- | were carried to Liverpool. reeting inquiry by the Judiciary Committee inwo the ‘The Congressional Committee investigating the Now manures necessary to prevent tie Supreme Court from | Orleans riots closed Ita labors yesterday. rolvasing the eagsassination conspirators, and also into In the Superior Court, of Boston, yesterday, the State the oxpedioncy of repealing the law of 1963, under | Constable was ordered to return one thousand dollars which the Supreme Court is presumed to have acted 10 | worth of tiquors seized at tho Neptune House, on Chel- the instance referred to. Mr. Bundy introduced @ joint | sea beach. The Governor and other State officers freely resolution for establishing four torritorial governments for | partook of liquors (urnished them by the proprietor of tue so-called State of Toxas, which was road twice and | Parker House, yesterday, although the latter is under referred t@ the Committee on Territories. Tho House | jnaictment for selling liquor. then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Stevens’ biil Special despatches from Leavenworth say that twenty- to provide for restoring the States lately in rebellion to | three business firms bave determined to vacate Salt their Catt political rights, and the question being on the | Lake City on account of the hostility evinced towards ameadment offered by Mr. Stevenson the 19th of De- | them by the Mormons because they do not profess that oomber last, that gentleman proceeded to address the | faith, Howse. In the course of his remarks he said:—“The late decision of the Sapreme Court, though perhaps not Tar Secast Exreprrion or vax Assistant 0 infamons as the Dred Scott decision, was far more | Secretary or Stats.—On Christmas night the dangerous in its operation oa the lives and liberties of | United States steamer Gettysburg, in running eer: Pes yn PF ~ Trsident | out of the harbor of Annapolis, in Chesapeake oimeCh » Congress was his commander, and he should be made to obey.” | AY, fanaground on an oyster bank, whereupon a Heratp correspondent, not far off, had his attention drawn to the ship, and upon inquiry ene diairints dp be on! discovered that Mr. F. W. Seward, Assistant tivaal State governments, with impartial suffrage. It thea provides for State conventions, to be composed Soctotary of StNs; was, with other Cleting wished Of foyal men, who shail elect a Provisional Governor | Parties, on board, and that he was believed to be who is authorized to proclaim martial law and suspend | charged with some important secret mission, in- tho writ of habeas corpus Pa Ni be may deem it | asmuch as it was understood that ceveral hun- pp-saneedllp rape year ma dred thousand dollars in government gold were See ee ee ae in the strong box of the ship. But the mysterious Committoe of the Whole without dispos amondmout or the substitute. Mr. Eldrid, mission still remains a mystery. Some sup- to offer « resolution declaring the conviction and sense | pose that Mr. F. W. Seward’s destination is Of the House to be expressed in the resolution intro. | Paris, and that his object is to make some pe nntrertngti Fatt oh yong opal apd confidential explanation of the late famous capt upoo'the basis of the integrity of the Union he | cable despatch from the State Department on shall bo gallty of.a bigh crime, and that Mr. Stevens, in | the Mexican question; other sagacious philoso- proposing his plan expressed in the bill which had fow | phers, among whom is our Washington cor- pene ag cnet Gears ee bad respondent, have it that the object isto buy oneal a bigh crime and deserving of the reprobation from Denmark, cash’ down, ‘the “tight litle of the House, Mr. Ashley objected;and the ,resoiution | ‘sland’? of St. Thomas, for the purpose of a eouid not ‘be, introduced. The House soon afier ad- | United States naval station in the Gulf. The journed. probability is that the Secretary of State, in THE LEGISLATURE. his last winter's excursion to the West. Indies, Tw the ‘Benate yesterday the constitutional amend- | made a conditional purchase of the kind sng- pro et seecwae dn pe pee rede gested, and that, having secured the money Notices were given of fetention to introduce bills to es. | from Congress, the Assistant Secretary has tabi a metrdpolitan harbor district and « board of | been assigned to the duty of paying it over to Wutirves and plore; also to provide for the inspection, | Denmark and taking possession of the pro- Visitation at? Sontrol oF private lunatic aeylums, and to | Dory, If eo, we may congratulate the govern- ee ee anne ment and our ¢ommorcial marine on the great on new patision asking the expulsi advantages they will have thus secured ina Benator Cornel was presented and to the Ju- Committee. “ eo A in tbe Aamir, sevens ire Girv® of inten to | coublagoneles of the future. Under Decision on the Legality of Military ‘Trials. Judge Hall, of the United States District Court of Delaware, has recently rendered a decision which we publish to-day, releasing from confinement four men who were iried and convicted before + military commission at Charleston, in December, 1885, and who. bave been for some time held as prisoners at Fort Delaware, under a commuted sentence of im- prisonment for lite. These men, Francis G. Stowers, James C. Keys, Robert Keys and Flisba Birum, were concerned in an attack upon /the guard detailed for duty at Brown’s Ferry, South Carolina, in which a corporal and two privates of the United States Army were killed. They were ‘found guilty’ snd sentenced to be hung, which sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life at the Tortugas; but they were subsequently sent under orders of the War department to Fort Delaware. They were citizeii#;‘of South Caroling and Georgia and did not be- long to the army or navy of the rebel govern- ment. The Judge decided that at the time of their trial the State of South Carolina was in the exercise of its civil functions, a Governor having been chosen by the people, the Pro- visional Governor being relieved and the State courts opened. The prisoners were entitled to a trial by jury apd could not constitution- ally and legally be tried before a wilitary tribunal. They could not, therefore, be beld prisoners under the commuted sentence grow- ing out of the military trial, and their discharge from custody was ordered. The offence was an aggravated one. The war bad ceased: An attack wils made by an armed baad of rufflans upon a few soldiers, three of whom were mur- dered, two by shooting and@ one by being drowned in his attempt to escape. The mar- derers are thus set tree by the decision of the court. ‘it seems that the only chance of deal- ing out justice through a military commission or court martial was by hanging or shooting. the offenders on the spot. ' ° ' ‘The Metrepotitaa Police. | “4 The annual report of the Police Board for’ 1866 shows an increase of arrests for various crimes exceeding the average of the pss: seven years by over eleven thousand. For offences of the gravest kind, including homiciits, high- way robbery, arson, rape and burglary, and attempts to commit these crimes, the average increase for the last seven years his been thirty per cent. The sumber of convictions following the arrests—about ninety-eight thou- sand in New York and Brooklyn-aypears to be very small, and the number of cises ‘put down under the head of “ how dispostd of not known,” is quite considerable... Accqrding. to the opinion of the Police Commissipners the cause for so many acquittals is not to be found in the fact that the parties arrested vere inno- cent, but that the criminal laws arc tdo loosely administered to convict them. We pever had any doubt upon this subject, and now is the fitting ‘time to remedy the evil by each an amendment of the constitution, adopled by the Convention to be provided by the Legislature, as will secure « judiciary appointed by the Governor and Senate, and not elected by the Another very important sabje¢ for, im- mediate’ legislative action is suggested by that portion of the Police report relativeto tenement ‘houses. © The police, it is to be assumed from the nature of their duties, know more about these frightful dens of disease and to humat’ life than any one élee. It ts stated that the apartments in mest of those buildings, which generally range from four to seven stories high, can only be approached by a single staircase in the interior which is certain to be cut off in the case of fire, asd hence the deplorable accidents which have appalled the commanity within the past year. We learn also that it is customary to store chemicals ‘and other explosive materials in the basements of these tenement houses. It is unnecessary to pe i pts: i elient wv aied ty practice. If people are permitted to lay a ) under # house cbnteining from four to five hun- | fourths of the now represented in Con- aq the wolios ammo a it wibotheona hates Hy { | per ‘tbe contidence of the nation = poster at Be that the conviction E | t ‘The State Comptroller's Repert. The report of the State Comptroller to the Legislature for the last fiscal year gives the usual full exhibit of the State finances, debt and taxation. The total debt, including the gen- eral fund, contingent, canal and county debts, is $51,763,082. Last year it was $49,861,349, showing an increase of $1,991,733. This large increase, the Comptroller says, is “the result of the legislation of 1865 in support of the measures of general goverument to reinforce its armies and navy in the war.” As to local debts, he says:—“ There are as yet no reliable datd from which an accurate statement could be prepared showing the ag- gregate of the debt incurred by counties, cities ‘and towns for county and other purposes, and the amount now outstanding.” The receipts of the Treasury on account of all the funds except the cans! fund were $12,576,144. The payments on account of these various funds were $13,661,102. Trea- sury overdrawn amounted to $1,074,958. The actual deficiency for the year was $2,623,637; ‘The estimated revenue for the present fiscal year is $10,821,552, and the estimated pay- ments, including deficiency, $10,877,646, leay- ing a deficienty September 80, 1867, of $56,093. ‘The taxes réquired for the present year are, for the general fund, one and one-quarter mills ; for schoola, three-quarter. mill; for canals, one-third mill ; for bounty. lean, three mills. Should any éxtraordinary appropriations be made by the Legislature the texes will have to be proportionately increased. The Comptroller does not favor a system of indirect taxation as long as the general gov- qrament continues to raise money by that means; but he urges the necessity of a more equitable adjustment of the taxes on real and personal property. Real cetate, he aays, as ® general rule, is not assessed at than one- ball is value. while the lareer oortion Of mets Quamanrovs.—The providential A from cholera in this city last summer should aot be regarded as a guarantee against that scourge in the approaching hot season. Our quarantine regulations last year were very tm- perfect, and we escaped a severe infliction of disease more by chance than good quarantine management, We are glad to perceive thet Governor Fenton, in his message, has draws the attention of the Legislature to this subject. There is plenty of time to provide quarantine groands, if measures ase taken to secure « location, It has been & vexed question for many years between New Jersey, Long Island and Staten Island whether we should have any quatantine at all. We hope that the Legislature will now settle the matter definitely, in view of the chances of a severe visitation of cholera next suminer, Tan Consrirettonat. As@iNpMmNT 1v Tim Nortaeen States.—The constitutional smend- menthag been sent in to the Legislature for ratification in a special message from the Gow- ernot of New York, His example is followea The menbbers of these logistatares, as well as those of the next Congress, were elected mainly ‘on this single issue, and the question must be met at once and finally settled in accordance with the distinct and unmistakable demonstra- tion of the will of the Northern people in thelr tate elections. itis highly probable that be- fore the ‘of next March the constitutional