The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK ‘HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the yar, Fourcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- fing and Engraving, neatiy and promptly executed at the Owest rates. BROAPWAY THEAT! Gtreet.—Facuon. ‘_NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel. —Gairreta Gaunt. Nicholas. WOOD'S THEATRE, crepes St eae Matinee at 155 o'Clock. Hotel, —East Lrxxe—Jou: rad way, W APPS. / OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Excwanterss. —Proresson Harta MareUR AND His DODWORTH HALL. 406 Bread: wit’ Prrrorm His Mrkactas—L' Farmy Suvaixe Biro, STEINWAY HALL, Fonrteenth street and Pourth ave. nue.—Mrs. PROSSER'S SHAKSPERIAN AND PoxTicaL Reap- rus. IRVING Irving place.—Mr. Kxxnepr’s Sxconp NTERTALNMENP—TuR SONGS OF SCOTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO ML the Metropolitan Hotel STRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite iy tue Erarorian F Pt VA. KELLY & LEON'S M he New York io! STRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo- —Iy tani Sonus, Daxoes. Ecv un- &o.—Cinnen-Lrox—~Manacascan ‘Tux Two Dovis. ‘FRICITINS, . Baxter Trovrk—Nonua FIFTH AVENUE OP: Brack Crook—La Bricaxpt TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comro VocaLism. Neko Minsrketsy, Buriesques, Banter Divar- FISSEMENT, £C.—AN InisuMAN IN GaRrcn. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Browlway—Lx 4 Vaniery or Licut anp LavauaaLx Enrentacwexn 4 Statue Commaue. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS ‘ooklyn.—Ermortan Mrx- @reetsy, Bautaps ayy Bonu STREETS OF BROOKLYN NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Fixap ano Ricut AnM oy Puowst—Tue Wasuixctox 1NS—WoNDERS IN Narunar, History, Screxce anp Aur. ones Datty. Open tro 4. M, till WP. M. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Guanp Vooas axp Isstav- mental Concert at Steixwar, Hair, Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Grayo VocaL np Ix- STRUMENTAL CONCERT FOR THE Bexerir or THe MEMBERS Or tax Late WorTeR Gaxven Ononxsrea, at Irving Hall, TRIPLE SHEET. k, Sunday, April 7, 1867, 10 READERS AND ADVERTISERS. Owing to the increase of our advertisements, and the vast amount of news from all quarters of the world—which, in justice to the public, we feel it imperative upon us to publish from day to day—we | are compelled to issue a Sunday triple sheet again ‘to-day; and it is probable that we shall have to do @o every Sunday in future. The influx of important Rews from almost every part of the world—Eu- rope, China, Japan and Australia—as well as our own local and domestic news, makes such 2 severe demand apon our space, that in order toaccommo- Gate both readers and advertisers we tind it neces- sary to make our Suudcy issue a triple shect. If Our advertisers Will only accommodate us by send- ing in their advertisements every evening before half-past eight o'clock, they will obtain the benefits of our present periect system of classifica- tion of advertisements, which lessens the trouble of finding what everybody wants in the way of busi- ness. Advertisers will thus see the increased facilities which would accrue to themselves by sending in their advertisements at as early an hour as possible. TAB NEWS. EUROPE. report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester. 1g, April 6. A general distrust—political and Onancial—prevails all over the Old World, Napoleon still jooks to the ac- quisition of Luxemburg by France. Baron Ratazzi is to form a new Cabinet for Italy. Consols closed at 91 for money in London. United States five-twenties were at 783; in London, 78% in Frankfort and §4° in Paris, ! The Liverpool cotton marlet closed heavy and dowa- ward, with middling uplands at 12!¢d. Breadstufs firm. Provisions dull. Produce generally unchanged. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Semate yesterday the bill prohibiting the open- ing of telegraphic messages by unauthorized porsons waa reported favorably. The Senate amendments to the bill relative to taxes and assessments in New York were concurred in. Bills to facilitate the payment of taxes by railroad companies; relative to securing the right of ‘way to railroads, and authorizing the appointment of ‘three commissioners to represent the State against the government for war expenses were passed. In the Assembiy the Annual Supply bill was made a Special order for Monday. The Crosstown Railroad bill ‘was considered in Committee of the Whole and ordered to a third reading. MISCELLANEOUS. Special despatches from san Luis Potos: by way of Galveston deny the ramored ‘lefeai of Escobedo. On the contrary, Maximilian’s force was driven back after five hours’ hard Gghtiog. Both arinies are being reinforced— Maximilian’s, howovor, only by smal! bodies. Querétaro is not completely surrounded at present, Escobedo hav. fing drawn in his lines, leaving one road open to Mexico city. Forced loans were being ieried in al! the liberal Cities. Trade was entirely prostrated. Severn! Americans were arrested at Bagdad for assaulting a Mexican guard. ® The Mexican Minister at Washington has refable in- formation that Santa Anna is organizing a filibustering force for the invasion of Mexico. The party is known esan Emigration Society and counts mauy military no- tabies among the members. Io the United States senate yesterday Mr. Chandler bad the Clerk refd nowspaper paragraph to show the ingratitude of gome of the appointee: confirmed by that body. It was Of a speech of Joun W. Frazier, Focently confirmed ae Assessor of Internal Revenue for the First district of Penesylrania, in which he declared (amself conservative and opposnd to radical views. Mr. Bumner’s expected reaolution for the expulsion of Sena- tor Saulabury was not ealied up, The Senate went into executive session and confirmed numerous nominations Qo be major and brigadier generals by brevet. Among ‘them Daniel E. Sickles and Thomas L. Crittenden. + Advices from Hayti contain the information that President Geffrard, before teeing to Jamaica, had sent fin his resignation as President. 4 new President will shortly be elected. + A fearful state of ataire exists im the coal mining regions of Pennsylvania, Five homicides have been committed near Pottsville in two monthe, and in about the same time there were six murderous assauite and twenty-seven robberies. The minors’ secret organization of “Molly Maguires’’ is supposed to have been con. mocted with most of these crimes. The citizens of the town held a mass meeting last week and resolved, if the ‘Legislatare did not devise means for their protection, they would take the matter into their own hands. m The Hoboken Excise law having been dofeatedftne liquor dealers in that suburb have agreed to make pro. ision of their own against the Sunday incursions of the of New York “bummer” They have agroed to ploy forty extra policemen at thoir own expens, to nothing stronger than wine or lager beer on San. and to have themselves sworn {n as apeciais to pre the peace, oe General Sickles has prohibited the branding of a man voniced to undergo that punishment (or mansleagh- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET constructed by the French, and leading to the | steswy Texatten for tho Current Year—he | balls and private theatricals—at which, this People ef the State ef New York Pay | year, Charity has so often been the presiding tor in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the prisoner waa in tieu thereof dined $10,000 and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment Surratt's counsel, some time ago, made application for a writ to compel Judge Holt to produce Booth’s diary. Captain Jobn Powell, of Brooklyn, is now engaged in building a small ship, to be twenty-three feet long, and to be propelled by means of four sails arranged like the sails ofa windmill. In this bark he proposes to cross the ocean next June, The democrats of Philadelphia had a grand parade, with torehlights and transparencies, last night, in honor of the Connecticut election. A serious riot is reported at Hazleton and Foster town- ships, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, occasioned by a strike among laborers for higher wages, Governor Geary ordered a company of militia to hold themselves in readiness to assist the sheriff of the county. A railroad project for connecting Belfast, Me,, with Moosehead Lake, is creating considerable excitement along its proposed route, The Suffrage bill, enfranchising all male citizens, ex- cept rebels, deserters and skedaddiers from the draft, has finally passed the Ohio Legislature. Additional evidence discredits the report of a mas- sacre at Fort Buford. Ex-Senator George Evans, of Maine, died in Portland yosterday. Joseph Beavis, one of the lads injured by the recent explosion at the Academy of Music, states that when the fire broke out he ran up stairs erying ‘‘fire,”” but some of the men in the building cursed him and told him to sbut up, Assoon asthe alarm was given the ushers locked the doors, keeping the injured boys unattended in the lobbies, Mr. Goesche, the property man, is still ina precarious condition, as well as several of the boys. The vest are improving slowly. An investigation into the facts concerning the recent murder of Stephen 8, Carland was held by Coroner Wildey yesterday, and a verdict was rendered against Anthony Mabn, who was committed for trial, Four hundred and nineteen deaths occurred {n this city during the weels ending yesterday. Fifty-four vessels arrived at this port from Europe during the month of March, bringing 15,171 emigrants, Numerous additional affidavits against the alleged St. Patrick’s day rioters, produced on the examination be- fore the City Judge, are published elsewhere, ‘Twelve steamships sailed from New York yesterday for European and coastwise porte, The case of Holdsworth against twenty-two pieces of brocatel, which has occupied the United States District Court for the last eight days, was yesterday concluded by the jury rendering a verdict in favor of the claimants against the government, Judge Shipman, in the Admiralty branch of the United States District Court, yesterday, rendered an opinion of considerable importance to ssamen and own- ers of veasels. It was in the case of Henry Waite and others va. the steamship Cuyler for wages. The libel- Jants shipped for a voyage from New York to New Or- leans and back, and to bo discharged at this port on the termination of the voyage. The owners of the Cuyler discharged the iibellants before the voyage commenced and claimed they were justified in so doing. Judge ‘Shipman held that the terms of the contract did not jus- tify them, and ordered a decree to be entered in favor of tho libellants, Aman named Nathaniel Oakley was brought before Commissioner Betts yesterday, and charged on a war- rant, issued on the affidavit of Marshal Murray, with having engraved a plate from which counterfeit frac- tional currency might be printed. The Commissioner set down the examination for Tuesday next. The further hearing of the case of J. B. Ramsden, C. H. Raweden, and Roger, James and Michael Lang, who are charged with having illegally removed a quantity of whiskey from a distillery that had been seized, was re- sumed yesterday before Commissioner Betts, Some testimony im, the nature of an alibi having been given for the defence, the was again adjourned. An affidavit wag presonted in the Essex Market Police Court yesterday on behalf of G. L. Fox, the manager of a thgatre on the East side of town, upon an application for & watraut in A matter of alleged libel against Frank Queen; the editor of a sporting newspaper. ‘The stock market was dulland steady yesterday. Gold closed at 13274. There was but little activity in commercial circles yes- terday, though a fair business was consummated in some articles, particularly in breadstuffi, which sold at decidedly higher prices. Imported merchandise ruled steady. Coffee was steady and firm. Cotton was mod- erately active and lower, middling upland closing at 27sec. On 'Change flour was active and 10c. a 25c. higher, Wheat advanéed 5c, a 10c., corn, lc. a 2c., while oats were firmer. Pork and boef wore unchanged. Lard was duli and heavy, Freights ruled quiet. Whis- key was more active, Naval stores firmer. Petroleum stoady. pate The Cession of R merica tothe United States—Tho Now European Difficulty. Looked at from certain points of view the proposed cession of Russian America to the United States will seem trifling and unimportant. Looked at from certain other points of view it is certain to appear one of the most important international transactions of modern times. If we estimate it by the actual wealth which it will bring to the United States it may be set down at once as of no account. If we esti- mate it by the position which it gives'to the United States in the great community of nations its importance is incalculable. Once ihe proposed arrangement has taken effect— and we have no doubt that it will take effect— Great Britain will be the only Power that will stand in the way of the United States becoming the undisputed occupant of the entire North American continent. That differences will arise between the United States and Great Britain through the Canadian provinces is not to be doubted— nay, that in possible complications with the two Powers on account of Canada the attention of Great Britain will be so en- grossed and her forces so employed that she will not only be unwilling, bat unable to take any active part in Buropean difficulties, is not only conceivable but certain. We do not say that such complications are to arise immediately any more than we say that the Eastern ques- tion is to be settled to-morrow; but as surely as the Eastern question cannot be set at rost until the entire east of Europe ‘shall have been revolutionized, so surely will England find at no distant day that her action in other directions is seriously impeded by her re- tention of these North American provinces. “America for the Americans,” already « senti- ment of power, has been sanctioned and encouraged by this proposal of Russia. The question, therefore, is portinent—What is the effect which this new position of the United States is likely to have on the political and international affairs of Europe? Our most recent intelligence relating to the affairs of tbe East make it. no longer doubtful that in spite of all the protestations which have been made and are still being made to the contrary, Russia has fairly and firmly set her heart on the possession of Constantinople. Say what we may, the time is coming and may come soon when the Emperor of all the Russias will transfer his court and his capital from the inhospitable banks of the Neva'to the sunny shores ofthe Bosphorus. Nor is it possible to predict what immediate effect this fresh incur- sion of the sturdy sons of the north may have on the charactog and destinies of all the nations of Southern Earope. The world bas not for- gotten the sweeping effects produced by the Goths, the Huns and the Vandals of » former period. Great changes have doubtless taken place since then, but it is not to bo detiied that in spite of the softening influence of civilization the san of the south now, asin formar tims, has somowhat of an intoxion ing influence on the Madly spd vigorous children of more northern That which chiefly concerns us for the present, however, is the fact that Russia has set her heart on the city of Constantine, and that it will not be easy to prevent her realizing her purpose. In the meantime, though her purpose is artfully enough concealed, it is not the less skilfully prosecuted. Her sympathies are naturally with the Christian subjects of the Porte. She desires their autonomy. Her in- fluence, which is felt throughout the length and breadth of Turkey in Europe is one of the principal causes of the disaffection which prevails, and not the least potent of the many incentives to open insurrection. Russia does not now fight—she intrigues for the object of her ambition. Nor is she intriguing without success, It is by no means improbable that autonomy will be granted by the Sultan to his Christian s ts; and no one is so fully alive to thy as Russia herself that the moment such autonomy is granted the entire Christian population of Turkey in Europe will virtually come under her protectorate. And what Power on earth could prevent such aresult? In sucha case these Christians must needs lean upon some one, They would not lean upon Greece; for Greece is too weak to protect them. They would not lean upon Austria; for Austria is of a different creed. The only Power which is at once a neighbor and a coreligionist, and which has both the willingness and the ability to help them, is Russia. And can any one refuse to admit that the recognition in any sense of a Russian pro- tectorate, no matter how nominal it might be, would hasten the final triumph of Russian ambition. Let us suppose, however, that while Russia is still pushing her schemes, and before her object is fully realized, she finds herself com- ing into collision with one or more of the other European Powers—what, in such a case, would be her chances of success? Tho chances, we unhesitatingly answer, would be largely in her favor. Russia, it may at once be taken for granted, will never get to Constantinople with the consent of the Western Powers. Austria will protest; France will protest; England will protest; Italy may or may not protest. Will they do more? Will they form another triple or quadruple alliance and repeat the folly of the Crimean war? We may be sure they will not. Napoleon, certainly, will not tamely submit. But what alliance will he be able to form? Italy, itis to be noticed, at present is warmly in favor of the Greeks. As matters now stand Italy is not, therefore, to be counted onin any supposed anti-Russian movement. Spain and Portugal may well be left aside. Sweden and Denmark, Belgium and Holland, would simply look on. Prussia, whatever she might do, would not certainly be found on the side of France. The neutrality of Austria on the one hand might be secured by the neutrality of Prussia on the other. Fearful for her great Indian empire, and concerned for the safety of her numerous colonies, England would be little likely to do more than assume a watchfal attitude, pledging herself only to draw the sword in the event of her right of way through Egypt being disturbed. — Suppos- ing, however, that a collision seemed im- minent between France and Russia, and that the weight of England was likely to be flung into the scale against Russia, the entente cordiale between Russia and the United States still continuing, the key to the position, the real balance of power, might be found in the hands of the government of the latter Power. So long as Canada sustains the character of a British province, it is in the power of the United States seriously to distract the attention of England, and by that very means to inter- fere with that authority in the political arrange- ments of Earope. Looking at all the facts and probabilities of the case, we see no reason to doubt that at no distant day the armies of Alexander of Russia will enter the city of Constantine, and that the revival of the Greek empire, so long an object of Russian ambition, will be an accomplished fact, We cannot, however, close our eyes to another truth—that the moment Russian au- thority is transferred from St. Petersburg to Constantinople the summit of Russian great- ness will have been reached, and that her pro- gress thenceforward will be the progress of decay. In marching southward she will leave the sourees of her strength and her greatness behind. President Johnson and the Mississippi In- Junction Case. We learn through our Washington corre- spondence that the President did not take and is not taking any action in the Mississippi in- junction case, brought before the Supreme Court by Sharkey and Walker. In fact, the Attorney General, acting for the government, has taken decided ground against prelimiaary proceedings iti even filing the bill of complaint. He objects to the Court entertaining jurisdic- tion in the case even in limine. We regard all this as evidence that the President entertains no purpose or desire to obstruct the work of Congress in reconstructing the Southern States. Let the South go on, then, as it has commenced, to carry out the supreme will of Congress in good earnest, so as to get restored as soon as possible. The Forlorn Hope of Imperialiom ia Mexico. The Huratp special despatches from San Luis Potosi, via Galveston, published this morning, show that the condition of the im- perialists in Mexico is growing more and more desperate, and foreshadow the inevitable flight of Maximilian and the disappébratios ot the last vestige of the empire. Brought to bay, although not entirely hemmpd in at Querétaro, Maximilian and his forces seem only to be struggling now for a temporary postponement of the finale, On the 22d of last month they made a desperate sortie for the purpose of en- deavoring to capture a supply train of the liberals—an attempt which indicates their own necessitous condition. They were baffled in the design, and driven back to Querétaro after a hard fight) The ranks of the besieging army under Escobedo were receiving large additions, and the determination among the liberals ap- pears to be to atrike a decisive and finishing blow to the imperial cause at Querétaro, There remains one road open for Maximilian’s escape, and the probability is that in view of the rapid increase of Escobedo's force it will not be long before he avails himself of the means of exit. If the liberals could entirely surround the place he would scarcely be able to make his way out of the country, The road not yet occugied by the enemy ies good one, Gulf coast, and so long as it remains uncocu- pied by the liberal forces would afford an easy and speedy eseape for Maximilian from the cares, uncertainties and dangers of his Mexi- can career. Semater Wilson’s Southern Trip—A Hint te ‘Wendell Phillips. Senator Wilson, it appears, has returned from his late Southern trip to Washington. If was supposed when he set out that he intended a regular electioneering excursion through the South to New Orleans, in behalf of the organization in that section of the future left wing of the republican party, on the nucleus of the vote of the emancipated blacks. The Senator spoke to a meeting of four or five thousand of them in Petersburg, and delivered such sensible and conciliatory views on recon- struction, while proclaiming himself a radical, that he was received not only with enthu- siasm by the blacks, but with marked satisfac- tion by the whites, With this good beginning he should have continued his explorations and speeches further South. Why he eo unex- pectedly turned about and came back to Washington we cannot tell. We presume, however, that he was wanted by his friends in the matter of the confirmation or rejection by the Senate of certain pending or expected ap- pointments to office; and so, perhaps, at the close of this extra session of the Senate he may be off again. Senator Wilson says he has not been very far South heretofore, because the political cli- mate down there haa, until very recently, been somewhat unhealthy to Northern politicians of his party complexion. Here is a hint for Wen- dell Phillips. For thirty years past, more or less, he has been preaching the horrors of Southern slavery, the vicious peculiarities of Southern society resulting from slavery, the abolition of slavery, equal rights to the South- ern blacks, with a little touch now and then of confiscation of Southern rebel lands and a new division of the spoils, including the blacks in the distribution; and yet, if we are not mis- taken, Phillips has never made a speech South of the Potomac. From that river of battle- fields and bloody forays on the land and water, and thence all the way through to the Rio Grande, a new world, hitherto terra incognita to this abolition pioneer, is now opened for his admission. Let him go in and go through it, and then if he does not come back a better man we dare say he will return at least a wiser man, and with one or two new ideas in his head to think over and talk about. European and American Perlodicals—Har- per’s Weekly and Bonner’s Ledger. We are described as “ The Universal Yankee Nation,” and the phrase is sufficiently correct so far as it touches the character of univer- sality that pervades American‘genius. An ave- tage American is not only equal to the most dissimilar calls upon his ingenuity, but he can follow round dozen of ordinary’ vocations at one and the same time, and is generally good in all. There is a musician perambulating the streets of this dusty metropolis who might be taken as a typical of this pecu- Marity. With his hugely inflated cheeks and tense lips he fills magnificently a Pandean pipe; hisrestless right arm is responsible for the continual drone of a hurdy-gurdy; his left elbow has some mysterious connection with a triangle, and the hand of that arm holds a cup that expects pennies; nodding his head he fills the air with the musical sweil of a branch of bells attached to the top of his hat; kicking out vigorously his left foot he beats aptly a drum between his shoulders, and by some general jump into the air, or other inde- scribable spasmodic action of his whole econo- my, he draws harmony from a pair of cymbals suspended between the drum and the tail of his coat. This itinerant concert is not an American, we fancy, but he deserves to be, so far as his talent goes. His application of it is not national. As an American he would have been an omnibus driver, simultaneously making change for twelve impatient passengers, con- trolling two horses, one over eager and the other baulky, picking his devious and wonder- ful route in the mazy wilderness of Broadway and keeping a sharp eye on the policeman at St. Paul’s corner. Or—who knows ?—he might have been the president and owner of a dozen railroads, innumerable steamboats and banks, ranning the lobbies of three or four legislatures, and manipulating twenty Con- gressmen like the pieces of a Chinese puzzle. Between American human nature and Eu- ropean human nature there is the widest pos- sible difference on this point. In Europe men give up thtir lives to one definite line of labor, and expect that the solar system will tumble to pieces when they deviate a hair’s breadth to the right or left of that line. Every little necessary pursuit of civilization is some one’s specialty. We see nowhere a better illustra- tion of the difference than in the periodicals of the two hemispheres. London publications are special. It is Punch’s vocation to do the fun. Ithas nothing to do with any subject except asit can draw a laugh fromit. If it cannot keep on the broad grin it must maintain silence. The London IWustrated News has no business with any event or fact under the sun unless there are pictures in it. All that lies in the realm of the pictorial artist is fair game; beyond that there is nothing. Other sheets are equally devoted to athletic sports; others again to fiction, and still others to political discussion. In the p of a single New York periodical we find all these at once. In Harper's Weekly we find current srene ese vis eptand admirable pencil, and on page the broad grin of homely humor—the lash of political satire, sometimes rather savage, perhaps—excellent fi , and often poems of a high order of While good fun is thus shown to be possible, attempts to establish funny papers here always fail. Bonner’s irrepressible Ledger has « range but little less extensive than Harper's Weekly. It also supplies its readers with constant novelty in fiction, with ‘well written essays on various topics, and, having due regard to the spice of life, with wit, humor and poesy. ‘These journals fill the sphere thatin Europe would be taken up by half a dozen sheets, each conducted on different plans. Undoubtedly in the matter of the striking difference between the Old World and the New on this point of specialty there are notable advantages and disadvantages on both sides; yet we cannot but regard the Amorican peculiarity as the in- dication of @ fuller and more satisfactory de- | velopment of the humen intellect 8100,000.000 Taxes. deity—will soon give place to the pleasures of In the last annual report of the State Comp- the race track, the yacht cruises and contests, troller the taxes required to be levied for the and the delightful leisure of suburban retreats. current year for State purposes were estimated | Although the wark of political reconstruction at five and a half mills, embracing the | is not wholly completed wo have no reason to amounts needed for the general fund, schools, complain of any backwardness in the realms of canals and bounty debt. Those estimates were fashion or dulness in the tide of enjoyment. based upon and included all the necessary ex- In this respect everything looks bright and penditures for the year, so far as they could be | cheerful. ascertained by the Comptroller; but the reck- leas. and profligate legislation of the present session has put all that officer's calculations to flight, and he has deemed it his duty, as stated call the attention of the Legislature to the enormous increase of taxation rendered neces- sary by the large additional appropriations they propose to make. The general fund tax for the year was set down in the Comptroller's budget at one mill and @ quarter. This would raise the sum of four hundred and forty thousand dollars for thet particular fund. But the Legislature has already passed and proposed appropriations to be paid out of the general fund to the amount of two million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, thus leaving nearly two million dollars unprovided for in the Comptroller’s estimates, and neceasitating the increase of the tax to two anda half mills, to avoid adeficiency, Among the items which add thus largely to the public burden is @ supply bill reaching one million dollars, a special appropriation of thirty thou- sand dollars for extra pay of clerks, a quarter of a million each for the constitutional conven- tion and the new Capitol, one hundred an fifty thousand dollars for the Hudson river improvement and two hundred thousand for a charity bill. This increase embraces the general fun alone. There are in addition numerous bills con- taining provisions for the levy of special taxes for specific objects, amounting in the aggregate to over four mills. Among these are the taxes for State aid to the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, the Whitehall and Plattsburg Rail- road, the Oneida improvement, the Chenango Canal, the enlargement of locks on the Erie and Champlain Canals, the payment of canal claims and the like. A majority of these mea- sures are usually carried through the Legis- fortable, lature as jobs, and owe their success to the use of money in the lobby. When groupe together they make a frightful aggregate for the contemplation of the taxpayers of the State. Fifty Years of Progress. Fifty years ago! How sweeping are the changes which have passed over the world Hin our Albany correspondé yesterday, to rand society since then! Fifty years ago in the oldest, wealthiest and most civilized of the Old World communities locomotion could be accomplished at no greater convenience than was afforded by the lumbering stage coach or diligence, and in the case of the more highly favored classes by the unwieldy family car- riage. Then, to quote the language of one of the most successful of modern English word painters, “The mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn, the hedge-cutter or rick-thatcher might sili know the exagt hour by the unfailing yet otherwise moteorio apparition of the pea green Tally-ho or the yellow Independent, and elderly gentlemen in pony chaises, quartering nervously to make way for the rolling, swinging swiftness, had not ceased to remark that timos were finely changed since they used to see the pack horses and hear the tinkling of their bells on this same highway.” So was it on land. It was not materially different on sea; a for the age of steamboats and of yachts swift as steamboats had not yet come. Fifty years ago the streets of our largest and finest cities could boast of nothing better than the rude q | lantern which dangled midway—the lantern which proved fatal to many a life,and which will remain in lasting association with the first French revolution. In the houses of the wealthiest candle and oil for lighting purposes were the greatest luxuries which could be com- manded, These were the “good old times ” of which the romancists speak when life had in it something of the agreeable. These times may have been “ good,” houschold joys may have been sweet, life may have been easy and com- stage travelling may have had about it somewhat of the picturesque; but'we have q | 20 reagon to regret that they are now “old.” They were extremely slow and were neither in harmony with nor fitted to encourage the This profligate legislation will increase the activities of the human iniellect. taxation for State purposes for the current year to over one per cent upon the taxable property, or more than double the amount levied during any year of the rebellion, and will “draw The changes which have since taken place are of such a character that they speak for themselves, They certainly have not dimin- ished either the number or the value of the fifteen million dollars from the productive in- | Smenities of life. If we have not now the terests of the State.” In order that the Legis- lature may have an opportunity to reflect upon and reconsider some of their acts Comptroller Hillhouse calls their attention to the fact that the people of New York will lave to pay 1867, in addition to their State"ax, thirty-five millions for local taxes, and o for the taxes imposed. by the; govérament of the United States, making a over one hundred million dollars, and) he: adds, slow rolling stage coach we have at least the railway and the steam car. If we have not the tallow candle.and th@ train oll we have surely equivalents in. the clear sirerming gas light in | 80d the brillant kerosene, Who wouid-clect to go back to those times or to have those times brought back to us, when gas ond fail- of roads and steam cars and steam engines and electric telegraphs and postal. communication ‘and newspapers were either non-oxistent or as- “whether any community of less than four | Yetin thelr infancy? To carry us back over englaeaat teil cateamasaned these fifty years, or to bring that period back burden of over one hundred miilion dollars may well be questioned.” *» It is @ fair calculation to place the taxpayers of the State at one-tenth of the whole popula- to us, were such a thing possible, would be to restore “the reign of Chaos and Eternal Night,” Life would not be tolerable. aft Sane” More real progress, in fact, has tion. In a census of four millions this would | made during these last fifty years than give a taxpaying population of four hundred | W8$ made thousand. According to the Comptroller's during many previous cen- turies, The emancipated intellect of man statement an averagetax of over two hundred | has been revealing its power in all direc- and fifty dollars a head will have to be paid | tions. Mind has been asserting ite authority by the taxpayers of New York during the | Over matter. The elements of nature no longer current year. On the entre population the | S°Vern—they obey. Truly, and by no figure, taxes will average over twenty-five dollars a | Science has laid her hand upon the ungoverna- head for every man, woman avj child in the | ble deep and made it the pathway of commerce. State. This is a startling ex:ibit, and it | She bas arrested the fierce winds in their pro- is not surprising that it induce the chief | gtess and trained them to be the carriers of the financial officer of the State to raise. warning | globe. She has caught, nay, she can create, voice and exhort the Legislature to pause in its career of recklessness and profligacy. the terrific lightning ; and she has made it the swift-winged messenger of thought. Snch has The country is in @ prosperous condition, | been the progress of discovery, and so habitu- with the exception of the States that are st. ated have we become to the most violent sar fering from the devastations of the war. The | prises that from the vocabulary of science the people have plenty of money, and business of , term “impossible” hag all but disappeared. every kind is steadily advancing. The panic mongers who have been predicting universal Astonishing as has been the progress w hict Ins'been made we are not without ev idence bankraptey and ruin are laughed at by all | *t he present moment that we are entering sensible people. Greeley and other impracti- | 4P°2 @ new and more wonderful era still. cable theorisis who are all the time demand- | The dkscoveries which are being made, ing 4 return to specie payments; but who re- fuse to pay their own debisin coln, are pretty wellexploded. The advertising business, the and which are but the precursors of others wik prove more wonderful and more benefiisl, prove that we are on the true barometer of public prosperity, was never | ¢V@ Of ® great revolution, the effects of which more active than at the present time. But this | Will be experieaged not by particular nations satisfactory condition of sffairs does not war- | OT Communities, but by the entire human rant the Legislature to 1eedlessly and op- pressively increase the buxien of taxation, and family. It will be worldwide in its influence. Electricity promises more and more to be the we call upon the Committe of Ways and Means | Principal servant of the human intellect in the of the Assembly to pausein their inconsider- ate legislation and to relect seriously upon the facts submitted to them by the Comp- troller. Spring and Ite Fashions it Home and Abread. | completely future agesof the world. On the one hand we learn that by certain improvements in the telegraphic apparatus all the inconveniences resulting from interrapted communications inseparable from the present system will be obviated, and that from any one Our Paris letter, whichwe publish in another | point to any other it, irrespective of die- column, gives a charminy photograph of the | tance and without Pye an aww any inter- fashions of the opening pring in the French | vention along the entire line, messages will capital, which may be r@arded as the legal | be safely and surely transmitted. We are glad status of fashion for all Errope, as no one dis- | to learn that a new company has been or is putes the dicta of the moiistes who design the | being formed with a view to take full advan- costumes of the Empress, he Princess Clothilde | tage of all recent improvements. It is con- and the other sovereign ulers at public fétes, | templated to have a line from Paris via Brest to concerts and imperial leves. The modistes of | New York and on to Sen Francisco and otber Paris are the powers baind the throne, more | large centres in the Union. According to this powerful than the throneltself in the empire of | improved system messages will be flashed from fashion. The votaries ofour republican court, extreme to extreme, from Paris to Sen Fran- which governs the highe stratum of society, | cisco, without any interruption. So much for are of course not unswceptible to the influ- ences of Parisian aut . As that leads so we follow. Hence descriptive as they arp ¢ the customs and cos- tumes of leading in France, have a peculiar interest @pecially for the ladies, We are just now in ftp enjoyment of our own ing of panic prophe} everything looks pro- mising for a brilliant pason. The bungling of Congress has not the vital stream of enjoyment nor jed the liberal expendi- ture ofgreenbacks. Hither doesthe inevitable negro question to have cast ite sable shadow upon the of society. . When the dust demon is laid ¥ shall see Broadway as resplendent as ever jth gay and tasteful cos- tumes, and the nting all its kaleido- scopic effects of mov beauties, outshining the telegraphy.. On the other hand we learn that such have been made in the pro- Ais letters, exquisitely | duction of electrio light that it is not deemed impossible to give light enough to make Lon- don or New York by night lighter than London or New York by day. So much for light. Then again we have pneumatic or air railways already in practical operation and doing good work in the conveyance of mails and goods in the city of London. The improvements which are being made hold out good hopes that at no distant day such conveyances will entirely supersede the present system. What do our citizens say to being shot like a bullet through ‘a tube by atmospheric pressure from Boston to ‘Washington or even to San Francisco? With the earthggirt round by countless telegraphic lines, with the multiplication of pneumatic rail- ways, and with artificial suns blazing over every city and converting night into day, we are surely warranted to ask—what next? In the early fature we shall not trouble ourselves. charms of nature. ‘Je senson of concerts and I-with such paltry questions aa the unity of been —=