The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1867, Page 6

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to retain the malt tax and im- pose some new duties on money incomes. Congole closed at 91, for money, in London. United States five-twenties were at 75% in London, 77% in Frankfort end 84% in Paris. The Liverpool cotton market closed dull and heavy, with middling uplands at 1254. Breadstuffs quiet. Pro- visions generally unchanged. Our special correspondent in Berlin, writing on the ‘20th of March, furnishes by mail a very important letter, fin which he sets forth the causcs of the unhealthy Political excitement by which Prussia is agitated, and shows that they are to be found in the uncertainty which prevails as tothe immediate policy of Napoleon fas (ending to war orthe permanence of peace. Animated dobates occurred almost daily in the North German Par- liament, the reports of which keep the anxiety of the people alive. Count Bismarck may be said to have extinguished the ational hopes of Poland by the delivery of one of his most caustic speeches in the German Parliament, in which, addressing the Polish Deputies, he said, ‘ The reestablishment of the Polish republic is a fantastical dream. There are not Poles enough in the world to accomplish it" ‘The Emperor Napoleon is said to be awaiting the fall of the throne of Queen Isabella of Spain in order to aid the King of Portugal to an Iberian unity rule, a service for which, itis alleged, he hopes France will be rewarded by the acquisition of Cuba or some other of the remain- ing colonial possessions of Spain. Official statistics, setting forth the strength of the Freoch army for the present year, appear in our columns Lord Lyons, British Minister in Constantinople, ena- morates the reforms projected by the Porte government in favor of the Christians in the East in a diplomatic despatoh, which we publish. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate, yesterday, bills to facilitate the con- stroction of the. New York and Northern Railroad, and incorporating the Pneumatic Despatch Company were passed. The general State Appropriation bill, and the bills authorizing Supervisors in New York to reconsider their action in refanding certain taxes to banks and in- surance companies, and amending the port of New York Pilotago law by abrogating the rales requiring the same pilot that brings in a vessel to teke hor out, were advanced to a third reading. A bill providing for the punishment of any telegraph operator who may divulge the contents of tolegraph messages was introduced. In the Assembly the bill to erect public urinals in New ‘York was passed. The bills authorizing a railroad in avenue Cand other streets in New York, and to incor. porate the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company, were advanced toa third reading. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Aldermen failed to organize yesterday for want of a quorum, the majority of the members having gone to Albany to look after the city tax levy. The Board of Health met yesterday, when a batch of documents concerning irregularities and neglect of daty ‘Of Coroners was received from the Saperintendent and roterred to the counsel of the Board for an opinion. ‘The Board of Excise also met, and seven licenses were ‘Pevoked, The Chamber of Commerce held @ regular monthly meeting yesterday, when the resolution on the subject of an early resumption of specie payments was dis- cussed. AR amendment was adopted favoring 8 system of gradual contraction of the currency, The preamble ‘to the resolution was then agreed to, ‘The sidewheel steamer Quaker City has been chosen o carry General Sherman, Henry W. Beecher and the excursion party to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land ‘noxt summer. The Union Republican General Committee at their meeting last evening passed resolutions relative to their efforts to fase with the republicans of Argus Hall, and Girected thag a call be isnued for the eleetion of delegated ‘to the convéntion for the choice of members to the State Conatitutional Convention. ‘Tho Mozart Hall Democratic General Committee also mot last evening and similar measures were taken for the election of delegates to the Convention. A resolu tion congratalating the people of both sections on the ‘victory in Connecticaut was adopted. Farther particulars have beom secertained regarding the explosion at the new Academy of Music on Monday ‘night. Dr. Daff, who is treating one of the injared boys, foports that he was very dangerously burned, and only great care will insure his recovery, This boy, after re- Oviving his injuries, was allowed to find his way home ferithout assistance and before he wag treated by @ sur- } Stephen 6 Carland, & young man, was stabbed Qoverely vy Anthony Mauer, at the cornor of Hester and his further detention. Hewas ander arrest in default of $200,000, and the government reduced the amount to $1,000, Joa. B. Stewart justifying as surety. mony of Henry D. Palmer, who is mow in Paris, came up in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, in the cage of Isaac D, Pray against Palmer, wherem tho plain- \ff claims compensation for services in writing « life of Ristori for the defendant, who is a theatrical manager and the introducer of Ristori in this country. The sumraated, and prices generally remained steady and news, declined %c. per lb. Flour was more active and Se, a10c. higher, Wheat, though quiet, ruled firmer. Corn was less active and lower. Oats were steady. lard ruled moderately active and heavy. Freights were dull. depressed. Bonded petroleum was dull and nominal. the offect that Escobedo nad been attacked by Mejia aud completely routed, Our correspondence from Vera Cruz, dated the 21st of March, says that nothing positive could be obtained from the interior, but well-authenti- cated rumors were flying about that Maximilian’s army was clamorous for pay. Coroma had been defeated by Mejia while attempting to join Escobedo. The sieges of Mexico city, were progressing favorably party. It is now certain that Sante Anns hes made overtures to Maximilian in the shape of an offer of ser- } head of the army as generalissimo in case of an accept. ance of his services. What Maximitian’s answer may be ia unknown, but it is conjectured that it cannot be alto- gether unfavorable to the project of the old veteran. Our letter from San Luis Potosi is dated March 12. The agsanlt which was expected on the 0th had sot taken place, and the policy of a slow sieze with a view of starv- ing the enemy gut of Querétaro had been decided upon. plated. This department absorbs one-half of its collec- tions in salaries and other charges. print six thousand extra copies of the Army Register for 1866 was referred. A resolution of the Michigan Legis- Jature asking a grant of land for the construction of a railroad was laid on the table, and the Senste went into executive session. - shows the total to be $2,663,173,372, and the amount of NEW FORK “HERALD, FRIDAY, APiIf, 5, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET, Elizabeth streets on Saturday night. The wounded man having become much worse, bis ante-mortem etatement was taken yesterday, and Maher was rearrested, baving previously been released on bail. “Yesterday afternoon young Carland died, eee oe Leonard Huyck was yesterday released from arrest by order of the government on nominal ball, on the ground that there did not appear sufficient evidence to justify A motion to settle interrogatories to take the testi- interrogatories were entered. * In the Supreme Coart, Circuit, vesterday, the case of Fennelly, administrator, vs. The Central Park and North and East River Railroad, claiming damages in the sum of $5,000 for the killing of William Brophy, was sub- mitted to the jury. A sealed verdict is to be rendered this morning. ‘The case of William A. Sanborn vs. Silas C, Herring et al. was commenced in the Supreme Court yesterday. The action is brought to recover $26,000, which was stolen by burglars froma sate purchased by plaintifT from defendants under an alleged warranty that it was burglar proof. On the former trial the jury disagreed. The suit is interesting as involving the question whether the makers and venders of what are termed burglar proof safes are liable for their contents if forced and robbed by burglars. In the Common Pleas, part one, yesterday, an action was brought by a tenant mamed Ambrose against owner of a tenement house in Brooklyn to recover $5,000 damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff in falling through the stoop of defendant’s house, which, it was alleged, was not in proper repair, In the Superior Court, part two, yesterday, in the case of Christian Breen vs, Patrick Rourke, the defendsnt's counse! consented to a verdict for plaintiff for $375 90. In the Superior Court, part one, in the case of Moses Strasburger vs, the Western Union Telegraph Company, for damages for the non-delivery of a tolegram, the jury yesterday returned a verdict for tho plainttf? for $686 55. The stock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed with an upward tendency. Gold closed at 13334. In commercial circlos business was moderate, though in ome commodities an increased business was con- firm. Coffee was firm. Cottou, under the adverse cable Pork was dulland heavy. Beef was unchanged, while Whiskey was a shade firmer. Navai stores were MISCELLANEOUS. The news from Mexico, dated at Vera Cruz om the 22d nit, is important if trae, Aa imperialist report is to Vera Cruz and Puebla for the sieging ‘Tae reports of a bloody revolution in Hayti are fully confirmed by our advices from there, which we publish elsewhere this morning. ‘We have news from the Bahamas dated at Nassau, N. P., om the 28d of March. Qur correspondent writes:— The Colonial Parliament isin session. The revenue of the past year has fallen short of all calculations. The colony hal onty about £4,000 to its credit on the 3ist of December. Parliament has gone in for retrenchment, and Governor Hanson is becoming unpopular. The office of Assistant Police Magistrate has been abolished. A re- construction of the customs department is contem- In the United States Senate yesterday a resolution to ‘The monthly statement of the public debt for April money in the Treasury is $140,236,303. Compared with the last statement this shows a reduction in the total debt during the month of March of '$7,335,819. Acopy of a petition of Gov. Sharkey, of Mississippi, and Robert J. Waiker, will be found in our columns this morning, praying the Supreme Court for an injunction against Andrew Johnson and General Ord to prevent them from enforcing the Reconstruction law in that State. It will be presented to the Supreme Court to- day. ° Our correspondents throughout the South have re cently held interviews with Generals Lee, Hood, Buckner and Wheeler, regarding their views of the ction question, accounts of which are furnished in our South- orn letters to-day, Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, addressed a large crowd at Potersburg, Va,, last night, on the political questions of the day. An explosion took place ina eoal pit in Chesterfield county, Va., on Wednesday last, by which seventy-five miners were killed, The pit was still burning, and as the shaft was closed the bodies could not be recovered. George W. Randolph, formerly the rebel Secretary of War, died in Richmond gn Wednesday, The surgeon of the United States ship Jamestown, ‘writing from Panama under date of March 21, says yellow fever was epidemic at that place, The James- town was ordered north on the 14th ult. General Joseph Bailey, the builder of the fim which sorved to extricate Commodore Porter's fleet from the rapids of Red river during the war, was murdered on Tuesday, the 26th ult, by two brothers, while dis- charging his duties as Sheriff of Vernon county, Mo. ‘The steamship Colorado sailed for China and Japan yesterday. The brig Jennie, for Hong Kong, followed an hour afterwards, with the intention of racing with her, > The Hoboken Excise bill was defeated in the lower House of the Now Jersey Legislature yesterday. The daughter of Josh Billings, the humorist and philosopher, was married to a gentleman from South America yesterday, at Poughkeepsie. Reports are in circulation that parties have been re- contly arrested charged with defrauding the Navy De- partment of $200,000, Indian outrages in Idaho and Texas stffl continue, ‘The levees along the Mississippi are breaking in nu- merous places, and there is no money among the plant- ‘ors with which to repair them. A Compromise has been effected between the parties interested in the heavy wine suits pending in San Fran- cleco, The Distillery Frauds. What has become of the prosecutions against Devlin and others for defrauding the govern- ment? We have heard that that individaal has been recently putting large quantities of whiskey on the market. Has the case against him been compromised, or is the prosecu- tion slumbering ? It is urgent that we should have some answer to these inquiries; for we see that frauds npon the revenue are again on the increase, under the belief, we presume, that offenders can make matters right with the gov- ernment officials. Let Us Kyow.—If Congressman Hualburd actually did embrace Collector Smythe, was it in consequence of the general disorder of his mind, or on account of the general order? | Let ug know, The Impeachment Committee and the Pre- posed July Session of Congreas. On Saturday Jast, at noon, Congress ad- journed until the first Wednesday in July (the third day of the month), with the qualification that unless on that day, at twelve M., a quorum of each house shall be present the recess shall be extended to the regular first Monday in December. Another resolution some days before this had been adopted in the House, instructing its Committee on the Judiciary to resume the investigation of the charges of im- peachment raised against President Johnson in the last Congress and authorizing the com- mittee to prosecute its labors during the recess, in view of a report in July or December recom- mending the trial of President Johnson before the Senate, as the high court of impeachment, or his acquittal of “the high crimes and misde- meanors” alleged against him. It will be observed here, in the first place, that a reassembling of Congress in July is left subject to contingencies. Had not the two houses, however, entertained a controlling sus- picion that in-the absence of Congress certain contingencies might happen of o dangerous character if the recess were continued till De- cember, they would not have sdopted tho pre- caution of leaving the door open for a session in July. What, then, was the suspicion result- ing in this precaution? It was the suspicion of bad faith on the part of the Executive in exe- cuting these Southern reconstruction laws, it lett without a check to pursue his own course through all the long interval to December next. The next question suggested is, why is this im- peachment investigation resumed, and why has it been and why is it to be prosecuted during the recess of Congress? The object is unques- tionably to give the committee at once a check- rein upon the President, with the power to send for persons and papers, should he attempt in the absence of Congress to set aside, misapply or fail to execute these aforesaid laws of South- ern reconstruction. Nay, more; certain members of the committee, and of both houses outside the committee, who expect upon this test to make up a clear case of impeach ment against the President, even in the short interval to July. there are Such are the contingencies upon which s July session of Congress will depend. If there are meantime no executive impediments in the shape of snap judgments, or flank movements, or legal quibbles or hitches in the work of re- construction, it is morally certain that the im- peachment will hang fire, that there will mot be a quorum of either house present on the 3d of July, and that accordingly the recess will be prolonged to December. On the other hand, if the Judiciary Committee shall be furnished in the interval with the positive facts aad ovi- @enoe required to make a promising indict- ment from the House as a grand jury fora will be a quoram of each House present on the 34 of July, and ¢ telal of the aconsed be- fore the Senate, remltiag in his conviction of “high crimes and misdemeanora,” and his removal from office. We are sorry to say that from present indications the implacable radical enemies of M hopefal of mal him. He has gathered about him and his ex- ploded Southern policy a large body of in triguing, restless and mischievous Southern and Northern politicians, and they, it appears, are now industriously working to make up an original case, or a case of appeal for the final legal tribunal of the Supreme Court, under the impression that a decision may be thus ob- tained which will declare all these reconstruc- tion laws of Congress null and void. Johnson have reason to be up a stromg case against This is the last resort of a desperate oppo- sition, and if there were any prospect that the question involved could be brought directly before the court there would be some reason for serious apprehensions in view of the party division of that body—five democrats of the old Southern State sovereignty school against four radicals and conservatives of the na- tional sovereignty school. But as it appears that the test question contemplated could hardly be reached in the order of business before the court for two years to come, all misgivings upon this head may be dismissed. There is, however, another matter which, unless great caution be exercised by Mr. John- son, may bring him into the impeachment trap left open to catch him. It is that matter which implicates him, at least, as an apologist and protector of certain parties alleged to be chiefly responsible for that shocking New Or- leans massacre of last July. We learn from Washington that letters have been received there from New Orleans which indicate that General Sheridan’s removal of Mayor Monroe, Attorney General Herron and Judge Abell was caused by a scheme on their part to bring about the test of the constitution- ality of the reconstruction laws of Congress; the plan being to originate the issue before the court of Judge Abell, and then, by a writ of error, to carry it up to the Supreme Court. It next appears that Mr. Jobnson’s chief law officer, Stanberry, Attorney General of the United States, is now engaged upon an inquiry into the power of General Sheridan, as commander of the Fifth Southern Military district, to re- fnove theaé aforesaid logal officers, and that it is expected that a report against Sheridan and 8 reinstatement of said officers will soon follow. Here is the danger to President Johnson; for these removed officers, it appears, are unre- constructed rebels, and, from General Sheri- dan’s testimony, we cannot resist the conclu- sion that they were the ringleaders in the New Orleans massacre. Secretary Stanton, we be- lieve, has approved the act of Sheridan in their removal; and if the President would escape the impeachment trap he will avoid any farther issue with Stanton on this business, A word from Stanton to Speaker Colfax, of the House, and President Wade, of the Senate, will unquestionably bring together @ quorum of both houses in July, and for decisive measures, Waren Was It?—Did Hnlburd put his arm around Collector Smythe’s neck to guide him through the dark, tortuous and intricate ways of the national capitol, with which he is so familiar? or did he embrace the Collector in an outburst of affection? or did he put his arm about him at all? What patriot who loves bis country wil Jt us know A Mowestovs Question.—The great question now agitating political circles is, did Congress- man Hulburd, of forty cents’ worth of candy notoriety, place his arm affectionately around neck of Collector Smythe, or did he not} Prcanrecte pauses and Connecticut is for gotten in this momentoug issue. Appeals 10 ¢h6 South. A Wosbington paper Of the copperhead stamp makes itself ridicalov’é in an attempt to Point the moral of the recent Section in Con- necticut. Its balderdash would gearcely be deserving of notice if it were not or the fact that it has the reputation of being the organ of President Johnson and reflecting his’ penti- ments on national questions. This may ‘be @ malicious and unfounded rumor; but it is enough that it obtains credence and that the President is in a great degree held responsible for the political articles that appear in its col- umns. When the people read in the reputed mouthpiece of the Executive at the national capital imeendiary appeals to the South, de- signed to “fire the Southern heart” at the very moment when the work of reconstruction is rapidly progzessing under measures accepted by the best men of the ex-rebel States, it would not be surprising if they should ask themselves whether after all it is wise and pru- dent to suffer one of the highest branches of the government to keep alive the seeds of dis- sension between the two sections of the country—to revile and villify the Comgress of the United States and to stand asa stumbling- block in the way of the complete restoration of the Union? The people of the loyal States have declared with a ananimity unprecedented in our political history their concurrence in the policy of Con- gross. The present Congress is in fact the very embodiment of the loyal sentiment of the nation at the existing moment. It comes fresh from the people, It is the voice of the whole people speaking on the very issues of the passing hour. Yet itis branded by the Presi- dent’s organ as “the assassin of constitutional liberty ;” its policy is # “Jacobinical policy ;” its acts are acts of “wanton wickedness,” “arbitrary, cruel and unusual in civilized society.” While this abuse ia heaped upon the heads of the people of the loyal North, whose representatives at Washington are simply carrying out their views and commands, what counsel ia given to the South, slowly, unwill- ingly and only partially yielding up its re- bellious sentiments? Let us see. The South- ern States are told that they are “now satrapies” “under the yoke of Congressional bondage.” They are helned forward in the work of repentance and reconstruction by such paragraphs as these:— The South is under the compulsion of the sword. It has already flashed from the scabbard in interference with oivil rights. Like the glittering steel of Damocles it ig suspended as it were by a single hair over the entire ple. Pomme South is under the iron heel of unlawful oppres- sion, and the tacle of unprecedented wrong and out- my oan ie the cause of fraternal of men the world over. If this language is authorized or endorsed with the progress of the world, or he would either beg or order his organ not to do him this unnecessary damage. Every time that the loyal North stretches forth a hand to the South the copperheads who have taken him under their especial control rush between the two sections and endeavor to break the frienily grasp. They would go on in their mad folly until they drove the North into the necessity of seizing the whole Southern terri- tory and partitioning it among the soldiers of the Union and the white loyalists and freed- men of the South. They would distract and divide, embarrass and exasperate the public mind until the loyal people forgot generosity and liberality and remembered only the ruinous wickedness of the rebellion, the cost and suffering it entailed on the innocent millions of the loyal States, and the fact that their burdens must be yet farther increased by bounties to soldiers, damages to Union men and other claims still hanging over the nation as the bitter fruits of the war. It is to be hoped, however, that the ravings of the copperhead executive organ will be un- heeded by the South, and that her citizens will rather accept the sound and patriotic advice given them by such men as Lee, Beauregard, Longstreet and Wade Hampton, and proceed at once gratefully and cheerfully to reconstruct their States under the plan dictated by Con- gress. Let them not seck to drive the loyal North to the-wall. They have their future fate now in their own hands, and again the warn- ing voice of their real friends bids them no longer reject 3; terms offered to them. ‘The Two Dromies of the Associated Press. Simonton, the agent of the Associated Press, sends us’a long rigmarole for publication about one of the news reporters hired by the association and in reference to his own con- duct as agent. We have no space in the Heratp for any such rubbish, and it is a great piece of impertinence in Simonton to sappose that the matter is of any interest to us or any of our readers. He evidently presumes upon our indulgence in allowing the two Dromios, Craig and himself, to abuse each other in three or four letters apiece through the columns of the Heratp; but we did ¢o for the purpose of showing that neither of them was fit for the position of Associated Press agent. We care nothing about Wilson, the London reporter, or Simonton, the New York agent, or for the Associated Press cable despatches either. The latter are of no importance to us, a whole batch of them being seldom worth as much as asingle Heratp special. But we insist that while Wilson and Simonton are paid salaries for doing work for the Associated Press the former shal) not go into the advertising agency business, and the latter shall confine himself to a proper discharge of his duties and keep him- self out of the newspapers. Dost! Dust! Dost!—We have hardly drag- ged ourselves out of the mud and we are smothered in dust. The mud was bad enough, but the dust is worse. Who will clean the streets; who will cart away the mud when it is very heavy, so’ that it shall not be de posited in the eyes and lungs of the citizens when it is very light? We can imagine the contractor declaring that the dust is all in his eyo, Betty Martin—and we wish it were, Dm He Do Irt—Judas Iscariot kissed the Saviour of the world. Did Congressman Hul- burd embrace the Collector of New York? _ A Washington Org. Out of Tune—Iacendiary | News from Moxice-Keperted Defeat of the Liberals before Queretaro. ‘The news from Mexico would be important. if it were more reliable. Imperial reports say that Escobedo had been attacked in Celoya, where he had taken up a position, and com- pletely routed by Mejia, who had sallied forth from Querétaro for the purpose. The defeat, it is further reported, was immediately fol- lowed up, and San Luis;Potosi, Juarez’s tem- porary seat of government, was occupied hy the victors. Escobedo’s army, it will be remembered, although numbering only twenty or twenty-five thousand men, wae extended over sixty miles in a cir- cuit round the city. Any one point in the line was, therefore, necessarily weak ; and the imperialists, completely cut off and sadly do- moralised, were probably bent upon a despe- rate effort to force their way through the enemy’s lines, On the other hand the news, if true or reliable, should have reached us by way of Matamoros sooner than by way of Vera Cruz, where it was compelled to pass throngh the besi-ging force of the liberals. - -If, however, the news is really true, it only complicates the affairs of the unhappy Haps- burgian and his mimic empire, It. merely delays his final discomfiture. It may give him and his followers renewed hope and confidence for a time, but it need not give the friends of constitutional liberty any @oubt or anxiety for a moment. The National Observatory at Washington. The volume of astronomical and meteorologi- cal observations made at the United States Naval Observatory during the year 1864, and which has just been issued from the gov- ernment printing office, is creditable in every respect but one, and that is its date. We see no reason why the publication of a work of so much interest to the members of the naval profession and to scientific mem generally should be delayed so long. Making all due allowance for the time required for the intri- eate calculations of which it is made up, it ought to have been in their hands some seven or eight months earlier. « In matters of a purely scientific character government, we regret to say, does not take the interest which their importance demands. Abroad every encouragement is given to re- searches and discoveries in connection with them. No vote of public money is deemed too large for such objects. In England and France especially astronomical’ science has been carried to a point of exactness which no other countries have approached. Green- wich and Paris give their time to the rest of the world. We have let things take their own course in this regard. The little that has been | accomplished by us has been set down to the Whenever we haye made apy advance in astro- “Professor Maury has done that.” Luckily Professor Maury has relieved us from his oppressive individuality, and if the pursues the course of giv- ing to scientific men generally a fair amount of encouragement we shall soon distinguish ourselves in this as we have distin- guished ourselves in other branches of human knowledge. There can be no better evidence of the disposition existing among us for it than that the observatory at Albany is run by a banker ands doctor, that Yale boasts of a ourselves have our weather prophet. It only depends, as we have said, upon Congress to develop the taste which exists for such pur- suits and to make their results redound to the glory and benefit of the country. Laber Treubles—Strikes and Trades Unions. The house carpenters of the city are striking for higher wages. The masons, plasterers and housepainters are doing the same. The move- ment runs through the whole class of trades concerned in building and is due to the sup- posed activity in the erection of new edifices in the city that may be incident to the opening season. These strikes either indicate or antici- pate a greater demand in our midst for certain kinds of skilled labor, and so far are a heaith- falsign. That they have no deeper cause and are not due to any greatly deranged state of the relations between labor and capital is evi- dent from the fact that while labor of one class is thus demanding a greater price other classes of labor are submitting to @ reduction. Ship- builders and shipjoiners have just. lost a por- tion of an increase in wages secured some Months since, and there is an agitation among employing tailors that is likely to reduce the rates paid in their trade. In other trades also there is a tendency in the same direction. It is to be hoped that the striking trades will take notice of the important facts involved in the above statements. No useful industry is ever oppressively underpaid in a great city like ours, nor can any trade successfully make unreasonable requirements. If there is any real basis for the strikes it is not that builders are paid below a fair average, but merely that there is a present scarcity here of these kinds oflabor. That searcity can only be temporary; and by holding out for unreasonable demands the strikers will glut the market with labor from other quarters, and may end by losing some weeks’ employment and leav- ing wages just where they are. Thus the carpenters here are now demanding four dollars a day, while the same trade is only paid from two and a half to three dollars in @ city so near as Philadelphia; and the highest paid in certain parts of Canada is runder two dollars, and in some cases runs down as low as a dollar and a quarter. It is the same with plasterers and painters. Wages rule lower in the neighboring States than the rates demanded by the strikers. The course of events with the shipbuilding trades quoted above should warn the builders. The ship- joiners and others engaged in building sbips struck a year ago and secured such an ex- travagant advance as to nearly paralyze the industry by which they lived. The result fs that wages are now going down again. Let the builders take care that they do not gain their demands at the expense of that regular and constant employment that will alone make them valuable, Trades unions are not so serious a complica- tion of diffloulties between labor and capital in this country as they have recently become in England. They are, however, not without their influence, and here, as everywhere else, that influence is pernicious. They are organ- SS Ll a& Se ee =~ ized and managed by the demagogues of the trade—thd noisiest, laziest, most conceited and obstinate, though often shrewd, man being the chosen one of every set. These become the presidents, secretaries and, above all, the treasurers ef the societies ; draw salaries from their funds, manage their more tractable fellows at their pleasure aud live and thrive upon the trouble they create. If we should have any permanent arrest of labor‘among the builders and consequent distress, it will be due only to the obstinate counsel given by such coteries ; but it isso much the nature of our people to think and act for themselves that we do not believe these orfanizations can have sufficient influence in the present case to do seriowe harm, America in the Paris Exposition. Our late special telegraphic cable despatch from Paris describing the opening of the grand Exposition represented that America was rather behind in the show of articles of interest or value; in fact, that France entirely out- shone: the United States, and that Englawd beat us complotely in the matter of machinery. Well, what of this? Does any one suppose that this country could be fairly eclipsed im invention, if it. feit disposed to rival other na- tions in this French Exhibition? Not at all. The inventive genius of America is proverbial. The intellect of its people, qnickened by the invigorating atmosphere which is unknown to the populations who dwell in the fogs and cleuds of a European climate, and become as damp and heavy as the air they breathe—the American intellect is always busy with im- provement, advancement and progress. Time, distance or discouragement does not retard it. But we must remember that the Paris Exposition fs, after all, a purely French affair, It will probably eventuate im some glory to Napoleon; it may relieve him from some diplomatic difficulties; it may serve to cover up preparations for forthcomiag hostilities, and it will certainly, to some extent result in forwarding the commercial interests of France; but it does not appear how the in- terests of this country are to be materially subserved by the event which is the sensation of the hour in Europe, and hence, we presume, arises the apparent indifference in filling up the chinks of the American department. We do not presume, however, that American enterprise may not be worthily represented at the Exposition and may not contribute a good deal to the éolat attending it. Napoleon, in getting up the Exhibition, only imitates Eng- land in this as in many other things. The fame_ acquired by English yachts and yacht clabs, for instance, has stimulated a rivalry in France, promised, = Cherboarg ro- another “Flying Dutchman”—and the Palmer, called after old Nathaniel Palmer, owned and built by Captain Loper, one of our oldest and ablest sailors, which might make an invincible yacht Armada ; and some lucky one of the squadron might achieve a victory equal to that which the America won during the time of the London Exhibition of 1851. We ought to have & splendid schooner yacht now on the stocks in Boston and three or four more in course of construction in this city. There is great vitality in the yacht clubs in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, just now. They appear to be brightening up for a jovial season. The Bostonians also propose to send some champions of the oar to France, to try their mettle with the oarsmen of the Old World. We have no doubt that numbers of New York men would contribute liberally to send some crack oarsmen from here for the same purpose—to compete for the prizes in the coritemplated regatta on the Seine. If these things can be accomplished America may not be found so far behind, after all, in the great French Exposition. What we lack in machinery and agricultural implements, Connecticut clocks and wooden nutmegs—as it is said— may be supplied by the beauty and swiftness of our boats, the stability of our iron-clads and the muscle of our oarsmen. However, whether the Paris Exposition shalt prove a failure or not, we do not think that the enterprise of the United States will be found wanting in the race where other nations con- tend for the mastery, although neither our in-- terests nor our ambition seem particularly involved in the matter. The Park and the Post Office. The question of locating the Post Office in the City Hall Park has been pretty well ventilated, and it seems to find favor in no disinterested quarter. In the Common Council a report has been presented against it and Isid on the table. The public generally ask by what right the Corporation offered to sell s portion of the people’s property for half a million dol- lars which is worth, as every one knows, from four to six times that amount The ground upon which the Park Bank is being erected, contignous to the new Heratp building, cost about four hundred thousand dollars, and the lot is not one-tenth ae large as ‘the slice of the Park proposed to be transferred to the general government for Post Office purposes at five hundred thousand dollars, Apart from the tion involved there are sanitary oeesanp i ogee this selection for a site tor public buildings particularly objectionable. ‘The City Hall Park is one of the lungs of the city—a breathing place and grand venti- lator for the down town tacts In- stead of encumbering it With piles of brick and marble it should be made even more open than if is by cutting away the trees and converting it into a grand plaza, such, for instance, as the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, or Trafalgar square, in London, If the Park is to be applied to any other purpose than this, why not a gene- ral terminus for the city railroads—which now concentrate in the streets at that point, tothe great inconvenience of traffic and contrary to law—be eregted there, which would pay a rent