The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1867, Page 6

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A probable average of from forty to fifty columns of advertisements will require that ex- tension of space in rier to prevent its inter- fering with the news. Our advice to business men who feel despondent is to cheer up and advertise. The South will be ‘back soon, business will be lively, and all that will be required will be for them to keep up their courage and to send us their advertisements in time to be classified—that is, before half-past eight in the evening. THB NBWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yaster- ay afternoon, April 2 The Fenian war has been renewed in Ireland, as an- ticipated im the letters of our special correspondents ia Dublin published in the Hexatp yesterday. The British troops bave been in collision with the insurgent “bellig- rents’ in the vicinity of Dublin and Cork. The mili- tary Claim a victory in each instance, In the neighbor- hood of Dublin the soldiers routed three Fenians, who ‘wore “fully armed and equipped,” and appear, by the cable report, to have been particularly formidable. Lord Derby regards the cession of Russian America a3 ® matter of “indifference to England. The cotton growing reports from India are taken as satisfactory in Groat Britain. Consois closed at 91 for money in London, United States five-twenties were at 75 in London, 84% In Paris and 7 in Frankfort. The Liverpoot cotton nfirket closed dull, with middling uplands at 12%d. 013d. Breadstufls frm. Provisions steady. By special correspondence from Constantinople and Alexandria, Egypt, dated to the 28th of February, we have important details relative to the actual position of the Eastern question difficulty and the preparations, noisetess bat certain, which are being made to at- tempt its solution by a great war. Turkey was concentrating her hosts, of various nationalities, in great force in and around Constantinople. Russia ‘was reinforcing her regiments and advancing on her frontier line, and the Tarks (of all classes) seemed im- pressed with the belief that a struggie was at hand in which the Sultan's position must be maintained at the cost of much blood or the Crescent be retired from Europe to the Asiatic shores of the Bosphorus. The Viceroy of Egypt, moved, it is thought, by French advice, bears himself more independentiy towards the ‘Sultan as he undestands the near approach of war. Tho universality of American travel in Egypt and the sorvile ‘and poverty-stricken condition of the newly enfran- chised subjects of the Viceroy form interesting points in the letter of our Alexandria correspondent. Our special correspondent in Madrid sketches the Political situation of Spain as affecting the people and throne of the Queen at the period of the late elections in that kingdom, and shows that it was full of danger to ‘the ruling classes, THE LEGISLATURE. Tn the Senate yesterday several vilis wore advanced to a third reading, Bills amending the revised statutes relative to new trials granted and to prevent obstruc+ tions upon the piers and wharves of Now York were passed, The bills concerning the registration of voters in the Metropolitan district and incorpornting the New York Crosstown Railroad were considered tn Committee of the Whole and ordered to ® third reading, In the evening seseton the bills increasing the school tax in New York and authorizing the Second Avenue Rail. road Company to extend their tracks were advanced to 9 tttird reading, Progress was reported on the bill to in. corporate the New York and Long Island Bridge Com- pany, to prevent injury and loss of life on railroads, and fumerous others, The Assembly amendment to the Central Railroad Fare bill was concurred in and the bill finally passed, In the Assembly bills to facilitate the construction of the New York, Qxwego and Midland, the Southern Cen. tral snd the Susquehanna Valley Railroads were ordered toa third reading, THE CITY. Justice Connolly bas made arrangements to have some ove of the other police justices preside at ois court until his suit against Saperintendent Kennedy is settled. Jus- tice Ledwith has been presiding, but the policemen still porsist in taking their prisoners elsewhere. Maazani, the burgias who Was killed om Suuday mora: and Florida. order age utterly indifferent about the workings of the Military Reconstruction bill, professing really ax much aliqgiance to Mexico as they dototho United States, and taking decidedly more interest in her affairs. A large mass moeting of colored voters was held in Macon on the 26th of March, at which sentiments wore ex- pressed favoring afMliation with the whito voters. ginia until the rogtstration of votors is completed. will fill all vacancies occurring in the meantime by ap- pointments, General Swayne, commanding the sub- District of Alabama, orders a rigid compliance with the provisions of the Civil Rights bill and prohibits pay- ments for services rendered the State during the war, Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. elected Mayor of st. Louis. worth, Kansas, went democratic yesterday. the successful candidates being republicans. nati the republican majority is about 5,000. Jobn Hagadorn, in prison for at Hudson, N. Y., on Tuesday evening, and are now at large. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. ~ “im a ing by officer Scott, in Willamsaburg, is reported to have murdered his wife and child a few years ago, and to have shot Mr. Smith, in South First street, while robbing his house last Christmas, In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Geo, G. Barnard, the case ef Kennedy, receiver of the Merchants’ National Bank, va. Leonard Huyck and Joa. B, Stewart, came up on @ motion to set aside the order of arrest im the case of these defendants. After hearing the argument of counsel the court directed the discharge of Stewart, holding Huyck in dofault of $200,000 bail. The case of Philip Henrich, late secretary of the Rhe- nish Railway of Cologne, in Prussia, who, as stated in the Heaatp of Sunday, had been arrested im Wiscon- sin om & charge of having committed for- gery im Cologne to the amount ‘was again up for hearing yesterday before Commissioner White, Counsel for the prisoner having stated that he had not had time to examine the papers, the Commis. sioner adjourned the case till Monday next. of $8,000, Am interesting cade eame up before Commissioner Newton, in Brooklyn, yesterday, the defendant being former deputy collector of internal revenue, who was charged with having embezzled the sum of nearly $10,000, which he had collected for taxes at various times during 1864 and 1865 from residents of Staten Island. Some testimony was taken, after which tho case was adjourned until the 9th inst: David Horth was sent to the City Prison by Justices Dowling and Kelly, in the Court of Special Sessions yes- terday, for killing a cat. ‘The new Acadomy of Music was the scene of a gas ex- plosion last evening about an hour previous to the nightly performance, which came near causing another serious fire, The property man was so seriously injured about the face and chest that ho is in a very critical oon- dition, The stock market was dull, but steady yesterday. Gold closed at 134%. There was nota great deal of activity in commercial circles yesterday, but a fair trade was developed in most departments, the firmness of gold exerting a favorable influence, The cotton market was irregular under tho cable news, but closed with a rather better fooling on the part of sellers, Breadstufls were quiet, but firm. Corn was active and higher. Pork was dull, heavy and lower. were also heavy. Naval stores were moderately active. Oa wore also ‘firmor. Cut meats, lard, &c., Petroleum was lower. Wool was firm, though quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. In tho United States Senate yesterday the committee on the revision of the laws of the District of Columbia were authorized to sit during the recess. Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, made an explanation rolative to the charge against Mr. Thomas, Senator elect from Maryland, of failing to supply means to pay the interest on certain United States stocks in New York in 1860, whon he was Secretary of the Treasury. A letter of Mr. Thomas, asking @ full mvestigation of the charge, was roforred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate then went into executive session and soon after adjourned. Our Panama correspondence, dated the 23d of March, says that on the 12th of February Mosquera addressed a brigade of troops on the plaza, glorifying himself and abusing Congress The troops then marched through the streets and around the legislative halls. Great indignation was excited in Congress by these acts, and a lengthy report setting forth the cause of the trouble between the two branches of government was read in the lower house, A serious outbreak was ox- pected to occur at any moment. The steamer R. R. Cuyler had taken on six torpedo boats at Carthagona and would probably go to Jamaica for coal. The Colombian Pres thinks it likely that the United States will fiud iteelf involved in complications with Spain. Our Valparaiso correspondent, writing under date of March 3, says the alliod squadron had returned from its trip to San Juan Fernandez, ‘The English ship Colina arrived from Malaga, a Spanish port, in Februray, but was aot allowed to unloail, amd was notified that shohad better put to seaas soon.as possible. The military ex- Pedition to the southern territeries occupied by the Auraconian Indians had succeeded in establishing a post at the mouth of Totten river. The privilege of con- atructiag a railroad from Talcuahano to Concepcion had ‘deen granted to General Vicars, of Philadelphia. Our Matamoros correspondent furnishes a list of the forces in Mexico at present on both sides. Of course the main troops of both parties are facing each other at Querétaro. The total is sixty-nine thousand seven hun- dred men, including guerillas, for tho liberals, and six- teen thousand men for the imperialists, The French squadrom sailed from Havana last Wednesday morn- ing. Wo have newspaper files from British Honduras dated at Belize on*the 9th of Maroh. Martial law was in force in the northern district of the colony. that thirty persons died of cholera in Wank’s river. There were sixty-five soldiers stationed at Indian Church. ‘The planters had resumed their work and were tak- ‘og in their crops. A letter dated at Allpines—a new settlement—on the 4th of March, says:—“Evory- thing here is in a prosperous state, our works are getting op splendidly and our tieid bands aro all healthy. A friend of mine from along the coast told me he ex- pected his crop of nice th's yoar would yield about one handred barrels.”? Belize division of the Honduras militia has from service. It 1s reportea Corosal is reported qaiet. The on released Our Southern letters relate to affairs in Texas, Goorgia The people of Texas near the Rio Grande General Schofield has suspended all elections ia Vir- He The democratic ticket was elected in St. Paul, Minn., A radical was The efectiow in Leaven- In Cleve- land, Obio, a democraticMayor was elected, the rest of In Cincin- The application in the Baltimore Siperior Court yes- terday for an injunction restraining the,Police Commis- sioners from holding an election for a State Convention was rejected. The lovées on the Mississippt above New Orleans are all in a critical condition, and one of the largest, at Mor- ganzia Bond, has given way, by which seven parishes ran a risk of being overflowed. A prize fight took place between Frank Drew and Johuny Bernard, opposite St. Joseph, Mo., on Saturday last. and sixty-five rounds, Drew was declared the victor after one hundred Phe Swedish bark Diana was abandoned at sea on the 25th ult. Her crew wore rescued. General Haneock’s Indian expedition was at Selma on Saturday, He propases to call a council of Indians, and if they do not agree to specific terms of peace he will Immediately commence the war. In Utah and Colorado the month of March was very cold, numerous horses and cattle being frozen to death. John Welsh, charged with muntering his wife, and or offence, broke jail Green’s Hotel at Long Branch was burnet down yes- terday. Will Chief Justice Chase Do Hie Duty and Avoid Impeachment ? There appear to be some indications that Chief Justice Chase has taken the question of impeachment in his own case Into serious con- sideration. appoint the officers under the new Bankrupt law which the act enjoins upon him, though It is now intimated that he may he endeavored to avoid that duty. It is also said that there is a prospect of Jeff Davis being tried. Now, we hope that is the case, and that there will be no unnecessary delay, either in nominating the Registers in bank- Tuptcy or in trying Davis, Should Mr. Chase fail to do his duty by patting off the trial of Davis and postponing the nomination of Regis- ters till the meeting of Congress in December approaches, we shall feel it our duty to urge his impeachment; for then he would be clearly guilty of an impeachable efzacy President Johnson Blundering Again. President Johnson, with the passage of the | where to let them off without wunishment The policy of Congreas over his vetoes, we had concluded would trouble the country no more with his exploded policy of Southern recon- struction. We have taken it for granted, from his recognition of these laws and from his satisfactory appointments under them, that he had made up his mind to see them “faithfully executed,” and that there would be no further conflict between him and Congress on the sub- ject. It seems, however, that while holding out this idea as‘long as Congress was in ses- sion, he was all the time meditating a resump- tion of hostilities, and that now, with Congress out of the way till July, he has resolved at Once to make up his case. Within the last few days, it appears, there have been considerable accessions of Southern politicians in Washington who still adhere to the President’s policy and who still think it may possibly be resuscitated and established by the Supreme Court of the United States. These men, it appears, have prepared a peti- tion, numerously signed, addressed to Chief Justice Chase and the associate Justices of the Supreme Court, praying for an injunction against General Pope, commander of the Third Military District of the South, com- prising the States of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, and also against Andrew Johnson, a citizen of Tenneasee and Presi- dent of the United States, restraining them from taking any action in enforcing the laws of reconstruction enacted by Congress until the question of their constitu- tionality shall be tried and settled in their favor by said Supreme Court. It is given out that this petition is to be presented to the Court (now in session) before the end of this week that eminent counsel have been em- ployed by the petitioners, and that if their prayer be rejected on the ground that the Court has no original jurisdiction in such a case, or if they witbhold their petition on this ground, the petitioners will proceed to get up acase in Alexandria, Virginia, before Judgo Underwood, in order to make an appeal from his district to the Supreme Court. Indeed, they are reported to be working up such a case in Alexandria at the present time, and Presi- dent Johnson (backed by his Attorney Gen- eral Stanberry) is said to be the prime leader in all these movements, We have reason to believe these reports substantially true. These Southern leading Jobnson politicians in Washington would hardly, at this late hour of the day, proceed to such a scheme as this, of a hurried appeal to the Supreme Court, without some invitation or encouragement from the White House. It would be downright stupidity on their part to move in the matter, even of getting up this petition or this Alexandria case, without first consulting and getting the advice and consent of Mr. Johnson as the Presi- dent and as their friend. Mr. Johnson is, Ahberefore, the responsible party for these pro- ceedings, which aim, if possible, te eecare in the absence of Congress a decisiom from the Supreme Court declaring all these late2y en- acted laws of Southern reconstruction uncon- stitutional, null and void. ‘ Upon the late Milligan decision and. one or two ether recent judgments of the same kid- ney there is pretty good foundation for the presumption that as politicians and partisans the President has five of the members of the Supreme Court against four in favor of Con- gress. Mr. Johnson quoted freely from these aforesaid decisions in making up the argu- ments of some of his late veto messages. If a case, therefore, could be brought before this Court and a full bench before July, involving the constitutionality of these vetoed bills, it is possi- ble that they might on « party division, five to four, be pronounced null and void. What then? Why then Pandemonium would be let loose, and discord and confusion dire would prevail over the length and breadth of the land. There appears no probability, how- ever, that the case suggested can be worked up before the reassembling of Congress, or that in the interval a full bench of the Supreme Court could be mustered even it the appeal con- templated should be brought in. There are one or two invalid members of the old demo- cratle Taney school who must not be over-,|. London? looked in these nice calculations. Assuming, therefore, that all these schemes for defeating Congress through a snap judg- ment trom the Supreme Court are moonshine and green cheese, what will be the conse- quences of these proposed experiments? The mere announcement of such projected legal proceodings under the advice, connivance or consent of the President, will operate to check the work of reconstruction so promisingly commenced in the South, and will result in another Northern reaction against him and his political supporters. In this thing Mr. Johnson is blundering again—he is furnishing new capital to the Northern radicals, and is doing exactly what they want in delaying and confusing the work of Southern reconstruction and restoration. The longer the excluded States remain excluded by their own and the President’s folly, as their chief adviser, the better will it serve the political game of the radicals. Moreover, he is strengthening the impeachment party before the impeachment committee in these movements to bring about a conflict in his behalf between the Supreme Court and Congress. If there were any chances, or a single pro- mising chance for a judgment from the Court against Congress and its measures of Southern reorganization in the interval to July, the experiment indicated would still be full of danger and inevitably ruinous to the Executive, the Court and all concerned ; but as there is no prospect for this thing, Mr. Johnson would do well at once to give it up. If he desires to avoid the ordeal of impeachment in July he will at once abandon, suspend and discounte- nance all these factious legal proceedings, which only serve the purposes of the radicals and to revive Mr. Seward’s warning of last September on that melancholy Chicago pil- grimage, that “we must take Andrew Johnson as President or King.” The Judiciary and the Recent Riots. Five or six of the St. Patrick’s day rioters have already been tracked out by the police and arrested, including one of the marshals of the Brooklyn society, which created the disturb- ance. They have all been admitted to bail, and we think it exceedingly probable that the affair will be allowed to end there; for we doubt very much whether they will be indicted or tried, or if they are that the judiciary will jmapove apy penalty upon the rioters. We gee Lehacked, He whe believes ia an irroaistilte preparations going on in ‘he courts and else- truth is that the elective system ha’ converted our judiciary into a mere farce. It will be necessary for the Constitutional Convention to take this matter into consideration, which should induce them to remodel our mode of appointing judges, and reorganize our whole . judicial system, grand juries, courts and all, Immorality of Politicians. Connecticut has returned to her ancient rule, which forbade the separation of politics from morals, and from the perfection of morals, Christianity. In rejecting as candidate for Congress a showman and self-proclaimed hum- bug whose pérception of right and wrong was 80 obtuse that he gloried in his shame, justify- ing deceit and adopting the vile maxim that the end sanctifies the means, Connecticut has em- phatically protested against the! prevalont im- morality of politicians. ‘That this immorality is by no means confined by party linea, and that it bas infected the party most recently elevated to power by vir- tue of its special recognition of “the higher law” and its avowed pretensions to superior morality, are facts patent to all. It was almost awork of supererogation for Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley to bear witness to these lamentable facts. But surely they are both “competent witnesses in the case, and who shall gainsay their evidence? The Nestor of our New York politicians, particularly, ought to know what is the matter with them. In the courts of this country a witness is not compelled to criminate himself, but his voluntary testimony at the bar of public opinion we are bound to accept. Thurlow Weed admits that “legisla- tive demoralization has reached a culminating point.” He adds that “the tendencies have been downward for several years,” and he de- nounces “ legislative traffic” as “ unlawful, pro- hibited, corrupt and corrupting.” The evil, he says, is patent and present, and he agrees with the Hgratp that the remedy is in the people, who: should scrutinize more carefully the character of each and every candidate for office. The people should practically adopt the theory of the late Dr. Wayland, one of our soundest writers on moral philosophy, that po- litical corruption is in no respect the less wicked because itis 80 common; and dishonesty is no better policy in the affairs of State than in any other affairs, though men may persuade themselves and others to the contrary. Even the violence of party zeal could not prevent the scandal occasioned in England by the infamous private character of both Wilkes and his opponent, Colonel Luttrell, who were alike members of the profligate society of “Young Travellers,” that used to profane Medenham Abbey, near Marlow, by reviving, habited like monks, the worship of Bacchus and Venus. Perhaps the most formal and offensive attempt to justify political immorality was made in the reports of secret committees to Parliament-relative to the opening of private letters, especially those of Mazzini, by order of Sir James Graham. According to these re- ports it is “the duty” of a minister, in certain cases of emergency, “affecting important pub- lic intereata,” to steal, to lie, to commit forgery, treachery and tyrannous injustice—in short, to abrogate the entire decalogue. The British conscience was shocked and alarmed, as well it might be, at such a disclosure and euch a de- fence of political immorality. One reviewer of these remarkable documents traced this im- morality, which he called “a moral canker,” to the state of academical and university edu- cation in England, to the influence of the ethics of Arcindeacon Paley and Professor Sewel, who taught political expediency on the one hand aad blind submission to authority on the other, and to the influence of such pagan litera- ture as the Metamorphosis of Ovid and the history of the Punic war. The consequence ‘was petty larceny, fraud, forgery, felony, reck- lessness of assertion in party lqaders, flagrant breaches of faith and a popular notion that with politicians truth is but a plaything. Why should not the conscience of the American peo- ple be shocked and alarmed when they find the decalogue as completely abrogated at Washington and Albany as it was then in The character of political rulers is even more vitally important in a republic like our own than ina European monarchy. The very ex- istence of a republic depends upon the virtue and intelligence of its citizens, and their char- acter is directly affected for weal or woe by that of their chosen leaders. If the American people become wholly indifferent to this, theirs must be the epitaph which a thoughtful his- torian has said is inscribed on the tomb of every people which has been great in his- tory:—“ It perished because its character was corrupt.” It was the genius of character which rendered George Washington illustrious and imparted to our republic a strength which.can decay only with the gradual disregard of char- acter in the selection of our candidates for public office. Let our orators check this growing tendency to corruption; for it can and must be checked. The wretched logic that made New York send to Congress a prize fighter, a faro dealer and a copperhead, is not more inevitable than that which Connecticut has resisted in refusing to send Barnum to Congress. The historian to whom we have already alluded will be glad to see in this refusal a sign of improvement among the children of Barnum’s neighbors in boyhood, as portrayed by himself. After allud- ing to De Tocqueville’s account of the rural populations in America, where “they have no use for the word peasant, because they have not the idea. which it represents,” our historian adds in a curious note:—“Those who desire to hear American testimony to these facts may read, if they can, Mr. Barnum’s ‘Autobi- ography.’ The description of his native vil- lage—Betbel, near New York—conveys a vivid and striking picture which cannot, I think, be other than deeply painful to any one who wishes the good of his kind. The gambling, the lotteries, the universal cheating, the systematic lying among the farming population of that part of America exceed the most exaggerated accounts of Chinese and Hindoo demoralization.” Hap- pily the defeat of the woolly horse candidate for Congress in Connecticut shows that this worse than Chinese and Hindoo demoralization no longer exists in “the farming population of that part of America;” and we trust that in all parts of America the tendency to demoralization will be checked by a similar rebuke to the pre- sumption of unworthy aspirants to office. We confidently repeat that this tendency can be are worse, and if he were wrong in that suppo- sition at first others would not be wrong; for they would find in him a living refutation of the idea of a universal degeneracy. One ex- ample will encourage many another and may in the end form the general tone of the nation.” Let us not despair of the republic. of the opening ceremonies of the Paris Exhi- bition was sufficiently full to enable our read- ers to form an idea of its character and pros- pects, This is certainly not favorable. Its fort and confusion are not what people were corruption has gone more than hal wer parhescedees * ged. ‘ port, showmats, towards yielding to it himself. Rather let thé y “A. 20mination not ft be fingle,” and tho dead statesman, drawing his own inspiration and | Weight of Professor Northrop, an associal? of forming his own chatacter from the purest | Professor Loomis, the blundering astronomer, times and the greatest examples of his coun? | that broke down General Hawley and his party try, disbelieve that those amiéng whom be lives fa three of their four Congressional districts. Profe,ssor Northrop had Barnum on one side and Loo, "nis on the other to carry—a showmam with bao’ Tecord, and a professor of astron- omy who does 20t understand his business. It was the woolly .'oree and the shooting stars that broke down the’ "epublicans in this battle. On a square party figh.' they are still intact, and would doubtless prov.? in such a fight, oa national issues, that they bolt to-day the pop- ular majority of the State, ‘The issues whiok are to determine the position o,* Connecticut in the next Presidential election hav yet to come; but if such scenes as those recently enacted im Congress between Butler amd Bingha” are to be the order of the day hereafter in the h'ouse, it will not be more than a year before the rul? of morality and decency which has laid out Barnum and his associates will be applied, at least in Connecticut, to the republican party as a national organization. A aa Mismauagement of the Associated Press Agency. We have received the following noto from the General Agent of the Associated Press:— ftzw Yonx, March 28, 1867. To Mumpers oF THe AssociaTRD PkEss:— GxxtLeeN—Mr. Alexander Wilson, our agent at Lon- don, writes that it bas been pressed upon him in several quarters that the urgent need of an advertising agency for American newspapers in that city, * If 80 disposed will you be kind enough to furnish me for trensmiasion to him your rates of advertising, specify: ing the rates for each part of each issue Tee. ly and weekly or semi-weekly), and also the commission which will be allowed on the business which may be forwarded Respectiully, Opening of the Paris Exposition. ‘The cable account which we gave yesterday imperfect state of preparation, its dusty and choked up avenues and general air of discom- led to expect from the boasted French talent for organization, It would have been better to have delayed the opening awhile than to have made such a show as this. What is the use of despotic institutions if they cannot in- sure something a little less democratic and disorderly ? It is impossible to come to any other con- clusion on reading this account than that the Exhibition must prove a failure.” With the ex- ception of the London one everything of the kind that has been attempted—our own not excepted—has been so. The present Exhibition may serve to feed the vanity of the French and to put money in the pockets of the Paris marchands; but it will disappoint te rest of the world. So far as Americans are con- cerned they will derive neither industrial nor commercial benefits from it. They will simply have an opportunity of seeing the elephant at the largest possible figure. The Paris people are experienced hands in taking care of strangers. The foreigners who have gone there for the Exhibition have already evidence of their hospitable disposition m the raising of the hotel and restaurant prices fifty per cent beyond their usual rates. As an enterprise professing to have inter- national interests in view it is evident, there- fore, that the Exhibition cannot be a success. There is wanting on the part of the hosts the spirit required to render it so. Before it is fairly inaugurated the foreign contributors wijl all be disgusted with it, Between disap- pointment with the internal arrange- ments and ‘annoyance at the extortions practised on them they will soon wish them- selves home again. But they are unreasonable in this, They had fair warning that the thing was not got up for their benefit. They were in- vited there for a political, and not for an indus- trial object. This was simply to assist the Emperor in bridging over by a so-called Indus- trial Congress the domestic and diplomatic em- barrassments in which he finds himself in- volved. Will the Exhibition accomplish that end? We doubt it. We question whether it will even be suffered to run its course uninter- rupted. There are war clouds gathering in the continental atmosphere. Between the strong anti-French feeling which is manifesting itself in Germany and the unmistakable shaping of events by Russia for the seizure of Constanti- nople it is not improbable that befora the summer is half over the French people will have something more serious than the Exhibi- tion to think of, and that Paris will be emptied of ite foreign visitors earlier than either calcu- late upon. shi J. W. SIMONTON, General Agent. « Now, we are by no means disposed to com- ply with this cool request to deviate from our well known,custom of never employing drum- mers and never paying commissions for adver- tisements. Advertisers have long since learned. our invariable rule and know how to avail themselves of the advantages which they so cure by direct communication with us. Nor is this all. We are, moreover, com strained to ask by what instructions of the Associated Press Mr. Alexander Wilson has deemed himself authorized to set up in busi- ness at London as an advertising ggent? We must protest against any such misapprehen- sion on his part of the functions to be exer- cised by him as might tempt him to neglect atill more than hitherto his specified duties while engaged in hunting up advertisemomts.”’ Perhaps his having been absorbed in this new occupation may account for the meagreness of his recent despatches. We have to thank him, for instance, for no details of the Reform bill now before the British Parliament, and-ferfiot a single word about the opening of the great Paris Exposition. He has surprised us by @ similar plentiful lack of news in several other cases, Mr. Simonton, as General Agent, must be reminded that he might have been warned by his predecessor's example not to exceed his appropriate functions, as he surely does by countenancing and aiding this new enterprise of Mr. Wilson, and also, we must add, by © signing with his own name the circular en- titled “The Commercial News,” which showid have been signed by the members or by the Secretary of the Associated Press. The State Constitutional Cenvention—The Work to be Done. A very brief time is allowed to canvass the merits of those who are to be put forward as candidates for the State Constitutional Con- vention; but the importance of the questions that will come before that body for considera- tion and action renders it very desirable that none but responsible, practical, representative citizens be selected as delegates. The expe- rience of twenty years has shown many fmiper- fections in the organic law of the State, and has suggested many improvements upon the present system of governing the Commonwealth. The principle of the decentralization of power, popular in 1846, and” adopted by the Conven- tion of that year as the basis of the State cons. stitution, against the judgment of some of its most intelligent members, has not been found to work to the public advantage or to fulfil the expectations of its advocates. The people, taught by the great lesson of the rebellion the value of concentrated power and direct re- sponsibility in national and State governments, and believing that by such a system alone the alarming corruptions in our legislative, judicial and municipal bodies can be stopped, demand @ radical change in the organic law, and look with anxious hope to the coming Convention of Revision. The first duty of the Convention will be the remodelling of the syatem of State government. We believe that the popular sentiment is largely in favor of such a reform in this direc- tion as will secure more direct responsibility to the people and confer greater power upon the executive head of the State. The Governor should have the exclusive privilege of appoint- ing all subordinate’ officers whose duties are simply those of heads of bureaus formed for the purpose of carrying on the details of the government onder the executive authority— such as the Comptroller, the Canal Commis- sioners, the Adjutant General, the Attorney General, &c., and his appointments should require the confirmation of the State Senate. In order that the exorcise of this large power may be brought directly into accountability to the people the Governor should hold office only for one year. The necessity of submitting his acts every year to the test of the popular vote would ensure an acceptable and honest discharge of his duty by the Executive, and would do much to deter the party to which he might be attached from exercising an improper influence over his appointments, The salary ofthe chief magistrate of the State should be raised to @ respectable amount, say fifteen thousand dollars a year, and he should be pro- vided with a suitable executive mansion, properly furnished, at the expense of the State. The elective judiciary should be swept out of existence high and low, and the judges should all be appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, and should hold office during good behavior until attaining the age of sixty years, when they should retire with a pension amounting to one half of the salary received by them at the time of leaving the bench. Tie power of appointment should reach all judicial officers of every grade, and include also the chief police officers of incor- porated cities. This ohange in the judicial system would, we believe, meet the public ap+ proval and receive the endorsement of tha popular vote. Brerv respectable citizen and taxpayer ade Tho Diplomatic Quarrel in C and Pera. It appears that the silly misunderstanding between Captain Stanley, of the United States ship Tuscarora, and Admiral Tucker, of the allied navy of Peru‘and Chile, which caused our government to order that the flag of Peru should not be saluted by American war vessels, has led to some diplomatic complications which are likely to be very annoying and possibly protracted, and may interfere with the practical operations of the peace conference proposed by the government at Washington. We have before stated the facts in this case, which com- menced with a supposed insult offered to Cap- tain Stanley on board an English steamer by Admiral Tucker, who was not then in command of the allied equadron, nor was he in uniform, and hence the insylt, whatever it was, can hardly be considered an official act, but an affair purely personal between an ex-rebel officer and an officer of our navy. We under- stand that it is regarded in this light by our Minister to Chile, and that he is anxious that our government should revoke its order. The Minister of foreign affairs for the Chilean gov- ernment and the Peruvian Minister at Valpa- raigo, it is understood, consider the slight of some moment, and, having made common cause of it refuse to resume the usual international courtesies with our vessels until the order not to salute the Peruvian flag is rescinded. When all the facts in the case are fully understood by the State Department we presume that the affair will be settled without further trouble. We trust that General Kilpatrick will make such explanations as will enable Mr. Seward to comprehend the whole of this unfortunate dis- pate, which occurs at a most inopportune time. The nectiont Election. The singular results of the Connecticut elec- tion have thrown the astonished politicians on both sides into a quandary. The democrats think they have something unprecedentedly glorious to rejoice over, but when they come to look into it they “can’t see it.” Greeley at. first is stupefied by the concussion ; but on re- covering a little he thinks bis party will do better the next time. Raymond, of the Times, as usual, is bothered. He dovs not know ex- actly on which side of the fence he ought to jump down, and so he is still waiting for some- thing more definite to turn up. But the most amusing gymnastics are those of the organ of the Manhattan Club—most amusing because they are the most ridiculous. Democratic prin- ciples, forsooth, when English fought his bat- tle on the republican war piatform, keeping the Seymours, Eatons and Tonceys well In the background. Doolittle did little, and Frank Blair and all the other democratic imported stumpers, and the republican outsiders, too, were all Doolittles in this peculiar contest. The World, which in a mean and sneaking way during the canvass bolstered up the showman Barnum to retain the showman’s ad- vertisements, shows only a sneaking sort of moral courage in rejoicing over his defeat. The curious results of this Connecticut elec- Hom however axe eaaile cxmlgined. Jt was