The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1867, Page 6

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New York, Sunday, April 14, 1867. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. EUROPE. Our advices through the cable, by special telegram and news report, are dated yesterday evening, April 13. Prussia will be supported by Bavaria and Baden in ‘the event of a war with France. Mr, Gladstone offered an amendment to the Derby Re- form bill.in the House of. Commons, in the shape of a Clause rating at a five pounds valuation. A very ani- mated debate ensued, after which a division was taken, ‘when the lberals were defeated and the Cabinet sus- tained by atiajority of twenty-one, The liberal party ‘was divided, apparently, by what is known in English politics as a “‘bolt’’ on the part of some of its members, ‘The University boat race, between Oxford and Cam- ‘bridge, was one of the most exciting aquatic contests of ‘that class ever witnessed. The Oxonians won and retain the championship. : Console closed at 90%, for money, in London. United States five-twenties closed at 74 in London and 76 in Frankfort, ‘The Liverpool cotton market was a little more active, end closéd'with middling uplands at 11%d. Breadstuifs Orm. ‘Provisions firm. By'the steamship Deutschland, at this port, we have interesting mail dotails of our cable despatches to the ‘2d of April. Napoleon’s negotiations for the acquisition of Luxem- burg engaged the attention of the North German Par- Hament. A strong feeling of Union patriotism pre- vatied. It was recommended that party differences be cast Qaside for preparations to oppose the approach of the foreigner. Count Bismarck delivered a very able, Cautious speech on the subject, in the course of which, ‘without attempting to influence the public mind, he indicated pretty plainly that the Prussian crown would seek to maintain the territorial inviolability of Ger- many, Luxemburg was dangerously’agitated. Reinforcements of Prussian troops had been thrown into the garrison, ‘and a state of discipline expectant of invasion was maintained night and day, Placards in support of an- Bexation to France were distributed. Tao London Times says that the Russian-American ces- sion treaty must be taken as evidence of the existence ofan “andefined sympathy” between Russia and the United States, and as proof of the determination of the American people to uphold the Monroe doctrine at all points, Canada, the London Times adds, can have her independence, with liberty to seek her future, at any time. A French General maintains, in a pamphlet just Printed in Paris, that France can place five separate ‘armies, of one hundred thousand men each, in the fleld; that her war power is of amazing proportions, and that {t would require a European coalition of ten Powers furnishing one hundred thousand men each to conquer her. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday numerous bills of a character not of general interest were advanced to a third reading and passed. Bilis for the improvement of Wallabout bay, and relative to the use of certain slips, piers aod wharves in the East river were reported. for taking the vote on the veto Central Railroad Fare bill ‘was postponed until eight o'clock on Tuesday evening. The Quarantine bill was taken up and progress reported upon it. In the afternoon session bills incorporating the New York Board of Fire Underwriters; creating tho office of Metropolitan Fire Commissioners and a Bureau for the prevention of fres in New York; to provide for ‘an additional Fire Commissioner and regulating the pay of the Metropolitan Fire Department, were ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly bills to prevent delays in the trans- portation of passengers and freight over railroads in the State; authorizing the preparation of a manual for the ‘use of the Constitutional Convention; to pay bounties to cortain volunteers in the city of New York, and to in- corporate the Metropolitan Bathing Association, were passed. The bill to establish a metropolitan harbor dis- trict and to creates board of wharves and piers was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and a motion to advance it to a third reading was lost, ‘the committee rose, and in the session the bill was lost. ‘The bill amending the National Guard act was ordered to & third reading. Bills to incorporate the New York Pneumatic Despatch Company; to extend the powers of ‘he Contral Park Commissioners, and t@ enable the Tam- many Soclety to hold real estate, were reported, THE CITY. An important article on the labor question, in which the past and present strikes of the working mon are re- viewed; the organization of labor; the political infla- once of the labor societies, and the excitement rogaraing the high rents; the weekly cost of living and future trade prospects, togethor with the wages received by meobanios, their hours of work and busy soasons are tally appears elsewhere, The reply of Justice Connolly to the charges preferred ‘against him by Superintendent Kennody, which was presented to the State Senate a day or two ago will be found, in synopsis, in another column, Henry Ward Beecher was chosen as one of the Repub- ican candidates for election as delegate to the Consti. tutional Convention im the Second Senatorial district, Brooklyn, yesterday. Fifteom steamers loft this olty yesterday for European, NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Being unable to pay the fine she was sent to the Peni- tentiary. ‘The case of Henry Holden and W. H. Gilder, who are charged with removing @ quantity of whiskey to a place other than a bonded warehouse, was up again yesterday for examination before Commissioner White, The par- ticulars have been already published. After some tes- timony had been taken the matter was adjourned till the 19th inst, - In the matter of the United States va. J. B. Ramsden, G H. Ramsden and Roger, James and Michael Lang, who stood accused before Commissioner Betts with hay- ing illegally removed a quantity of whiskey from a solzed distillery to the store of one of the defendants in Abat- tolr place, the Commissioner held the defendants to ‘await the action of the grand jury. ‘The stock market was firm and active yesterday. Gold was dull, and closed at 135%. Business was only moderate in commercial circles yesterday, but the markets were generally firm, both for imported and domestic merchandise. Coffee was moderately active and heavy. Cotton was a shade firmer, and more active. On ’Change flour ruled firm, though leas active. Wheat was firm at previous prices. Corn was in fair demand, and prices were higher. Oats were steady, Pork was lower and less active, Beef and lard were unchanged. Freights were dull and heavy. Whiskey was nominal. Naval stores remained firm. Petroleum was a shade easier, though prices were not quotably lower, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican letters, dated at the headquarters of the liberal. forces in front of Querétaro, March 22, and San ‘Lué’s, Potosi, March 26, contain full reports of the recent engagement between the two belligerents near Coloya, ‘The complete rout of Imperialists is again .confirmed, Several roads for escape are still gpen to Maximilian, ‘and the people of Querétaro aid him liberally with sup- plies, The besioging urmy is also suffering for food and the contest turns upon the question which army will be starved out first, Escobedo is considered wholly in- competent for his position as the commander of the army. A portion of Coabuila was again in rebellion, under the leadership of General Herrera, who proposes to erect the Laguna district of the State into a separate State. Trouble is apprehended from this movement, as the insurgents might easily move on Saltilloand Hbcrate General Gonzales Ortega, Accounts from various sources: say that Escobedo objected [strenuously to the killing of young Miramon and the other prisoners at the Hacienda de Tepetate some time ago, but Juarez gave him a per- emptory order to do so, and on it being urged that the act would excite the execration of other nation, Juarez said that other nations were nothing to him. A letter from Aux Cayes, Hayti, March 21, states that when tho revolution broke out against Geffrard the coun- try people and peasants atlacked that town, but were repulsed by the commandante Fabre, brother of the President of that name, Groat fears were entertained of another attack, and the impression was prevalont that conflagrations might be the result, Jacmel was flooded with counterfeit money, eighteen millions of which was expected to arrive shortly. Several partics wore arrested for complicity in the crime of “shov- ing’? it. In the United States Senate yesterday, resolutions relative to printing extra copies of the tenure of office bill, forthe payment of clorks and pages during the Special Session, and asking information of the Prosident relative to Governor Cummings absence in Colorado Ter- ritory, were adopted and the Senate went into executive session. Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, advises the people of that State to do nothing until the Supreme Court has decided on his measure for the ‘‘reltef of Georgia.” Governor Brownlow has declared the registration of voters in eight counties of Tennessee to be null and void, A mass meeting of frecdmen was held yesterday in Augusta, Ga, and resolutions were proposed favoring the republican party; the support of the widows and or- phans of Union soldiers; the abolition of corporeal pun-” ishment, and the right of all colors to hold office, Governor Johnson opposed these resolutions in a long speech, and said that if he bad known that was the Programme intended he would not have been present. Judges Starm and Hilliard followed in the same strain, and were followed in turn by several colored orators, who favored the resolutions and the republican party. The resolutions were then adopted. A radical mass meeting of negroes was held in Nash- ville yesterday, in the open air, no hail being large ‘enough to contain the crowd. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Brownlow and denouncing Andy Jobnson. Treasury agents have arrived in Nashville to investi- gate the whiskey transactions among the distilleries in Middle Tennessee, None of the firms engaged in the business have complied with the law and they will all be closed, Their plea is that their business is different from that of Northern distilleries, It is reported in Canada that a force of United States troops had arrived at Rouse's Point. The impression prevailed that a Fenian raid would be mado before a month, The pilot boat Caleb Curtiss and her crew, consisting of seven mon, were lost near San Francisco, while attempting to cross the bar on Friday. Amail party, consisting of thirteen soldiers of the Second United States cavalry and a scout, were killed, scalped and mutilated recently by Indians, near Fort Reno, while on their way from Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Laramie, Fears aro entertained for the safety of Fort C. F. Smith. The running of trains on the Southern Minnesota Railroad has been stopped recently, owing to the do- struction of bridges by the floods, ‘Two distilleries, alleged to have been used for carry- ing onan illogal business, were seized in Philadelphia yesterday. ‘Two Indian chiefs had a stabbing affray in Lacrosse, Wis., yosterday, one of thom being kiiled. Franz Eickerman was tried in the Rockland County Court of Oyer and Torminer on Wednesday, for the murder of James Reynolds, in July last. Hejwas con- victed, and sontonced to be hung on the Sist of May. A prize fight for $10,000, between Dooney Harris, of New York, and Tommy Chandler, of California, came off near San Francisco yesterday, and was decided in favor of Chandler after twenty-three rounds in twonty- seven minutes, A fire damp explosion occurred at Bancroft slope, Ash- land colliery, in Pennsylvania, on Friday night, by which twelve minors wero killed, Aman named Meyer was shot on Friday evening at Now Durham, N. J., by a bartender named Radowski, at tho instigation, it is alleged, of Mrs. Meyer, who had separated from her hasband some weeks ago, The shot was not fatal. A negro school teacher has been appointed register of voters under the Military bill in Alabama, op the recom- mendation of the prominent white citizens vf Jackson county. The Kennebec river is open for navigation. Defeat of the Wharves and Piers Commission Bi. Our Albany despatch announces that the Wharves and Piers Commission bill, which had passed the Senate, received its quietus in the Assembly yesterday by a vote of fifty-one against permitting it to be read a third time to thirty-one in favor. This isa very proper disposal of a'proposed law which could have produced no lasting benefit upon the com- merce of this great metropolis. The bill had its origin in a political ring in this city which assumes to manipulate the representatives at the capital, and the only apparent merit it contained was the establishment of five fat offices for that number of pet politicians. The fact is patent that the wharves and piers of this city are in a wretched condition, and unloas something is done by the Legislature to warrant their reconstruction, and inducement offered to keep them in repair, it will be but a few years before there will be nothing left of them but heaps of ruins, to which many of the valuable piers have already been reduced. But placing them under the control of irresponsible poli- tical commissioners is not the way to remedy the evil, and it would, furthermore, be bad Policy on the part of the Legislature to delegate its power over the piers and wharves to a set of men who might use their positions yond ‘ime to ‘subserve political aims and —_____. How to Par ram Nattoxat, Dapt—Invost it in real estate. Annexation and its Consequences. The annexation of the Russian possessions of North America to the United States naturally suggests thoughts about the wonderful growth of the country, and carries us back through the whole history of our territorial expansion and development. We speak of this annexation as 8 fait accompl, not doubting that the House of Representatives will vote the money to pay for it, as the Senate has ratified the treaty by an overwhelming vote, and as popular senti- ment is in favor of it, No nation ever made such progress as the United States in terrl- torial growth. Rome, with all her vast con- quests, did not. Nor has the colonial empire of Great Britain, extensive as that is, been 80 largely and rapidly expanded. The American re- public has existed but eighty years, a short time in the life of a nation; yet within that period the extent of our dominion has been quad- rupled. The thirteen original States constituted a magnificent empire in area, eight hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and eighty aquare miles, which from its productiveness and climate was capable of sustaining a popu- lation of eighty to @ hundred millions. Now we have'an area of about three million five hundred thousand. square miles and room: enough for @iree or four hundred mfflions of people, ‘The causes which have led to this wonder- ful growth, and the effects upon the politics of the country and our institutions national life, may very properly be og: at this particular time. The first an) ion of ter- ritory, that of Louisiana in 1803, which more than doubled the area of the United States, was made under very favorable and accidental circumstances. Napoleon, who was then First Consul, had just acquired it from Spain. With his far seeing and sagacious mind he saw this territory was immensely valuable, though he could bardly have foreseen whatit would be- come, and he would not have parted with it, probably, had he been able to hold it. War" was about to commence between France and England, and he had no doubt that one of the first acts of hostility on the part of his enemy would be to send a fleet to New Orleans and seize Louisiana. The United States had been negotiating with France for certain privileges, the need of which was urgently felt, with regard to depositing mer- chandise at New Orleans and the navigation of the Mississippi. But the American govern- ment had not thought of purchasing the colony. When, therefore, Napoleon proposed to sell for sixty millions of francs an occupation, to use his own words, that would not, perhaps, remain a day in his hands, the American Ministers in Paris were surprised. The nego- tiation, however, was hurried through, even without sufficient authority on the part of these Ministers, and was finally ratified at Wasbing- ton. “This accession of territory,” Napoleon eaid to Marbois, after the bargain had been made, “strengthens forever the power of the United States; and I have just given to Eng- land a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.” The treaty of cession was opposed by the federal party generally, be- cause, as they said, the United States had abundantly sufficient territory for one govern- ment of a republican character, and because the purchase was unconstitutional; but it was ratified in the Senate by twenty-four votes to seven. The vote of the House to carry it into effect was ninety to twenty-five. The political consequences of this acquisi- tion were not felt to any great extent till some time afterwards. The lower portion, the sugar and cotton lands, were adapted to slave labor, but it was not till some years after- wards, when that labor became more valuable and the slavery question became an exciting one in the politics of the country, that the Louisiana purchase was the causo of agitation and sectional difficulty. When new States be- gan to be carved out of this territory and the struggle for sectional ascendency commenced then was seen what a fruitfal source of discord the acquisition had become. Still, in material advantages and wealth and in the aggrandiz> ment of the republic it was immensely valua- ble. The annexation of Florida, by purchase from Spain for five millions of dollars, in 1819, wos the next step in territorial expansion. This was an addition of sixty-six thousand and nine hundred square miles to the United States. The difficulties between Spain and this country arising from the Indians in Florida, and the decline of Spanish power in America, led chiefly to the treaty of cession. Florida had never been valuable to Spain, and has not been very valuable to the United States since ina material point of view, but the annexation relieved us of international difficulty with Spain, enabled us to subjugate the Indians, who had been troublesome slong our border, and rounded off the republié on the Gulf of Mexico. Less opposition was made to this purchase than to that of Louisiana, though some of the old non- expansion party opposed it. Nor have the political consequences been very serious or marked. It added one more slave State to the South, it is true, but not one of much weight. Besides, it was the extreme Southern point of the republic, and did not enter into the sectional controversy, as the Northern portion of Louisiana did. By the Oregon treaty with Great Britain we became undisputed possessors of the north- west territory known in general terms as Columbia and Oregon. The area of this terri- tory was three hundred and eight thousand and fifty-two square miles. But this would hardly be called an acquisition or annexation, for we had claimed it all along, though for a long time we had been joint occupants with England. We were more than once in danger of war about this region. The cry of “fifty- four forty or fight” had a good deal of gun- powder in it at one time. Finally the line of forty-nine north latitude was agreed upon, and the treaty of settlement of this vexed question was ratified in 1846, The difficulty with Great Britain about Oregon or Columbia had entered into party politics and the elections and had influenced them to some degree, but the pro- gressive and ardent national party triumphed in this as in other cases where territorial expan- sion was the question atissne. The undisputed possession of Columbia has not, however, pro- duced much excitement or had a powerful in- fluence upon our domestic political issues. It necessarily added to the weight and power of the Northern section of tho republic, but was not a cause of sectional strife, It was far differont with the annexation of Texas in 1845, by which the United States acquired additional territory to the extent of three hundred and eighteen thousand square miles, ‘Texas was a slave State and had area enough to make several slave States. The question of slavery had long been an exciting ands troublesome one. ‘The North wished to limit this institution, and more than twenty years before had restricted it to the boundary south of the Missouri com- promise line of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, except as to the State of Missouri. The South, on the other hand, as slave labor had become very profitable in the cultivation of cotton, and as it was fast losing political power by the more rapid growth of the North, was desirous of strengthening itself by the acquisition of slave holding territory or territory that could be made into slave States. The contest on the annexation of Texas, then, was chiefly with regard to this question. But the Southerners, through their Northern poli- tical allies, and through the general desire of territorial aggrandizement, carried their point, and Texas was annexed, Out of this grew the war with Mexico in 1846; for that republic still claimed Texas and had not.given up the intention of subjugating Mit, The result of that war is well known as leading to the conquest of California and New Mexico. By this conquest, and by purchase and the treaty of peace with Mexico in 1848, we added five hundred and fifty thousand four hundred and fifty-five square {miles to our domain. Subsequently we obtained by pur- chase Arizona, a strip of Mexican territory lying south of the Gila river for the purpose of having an available railroad route to the Pacific. The last annexation is that of Rus- sian America, estimated to contain four hun- dred and eighty-one thousand two hundred seventy-six square miles, Such has been the growth of the great repub- lic. It is undeniable that the material ad- vantages have been immense. We have, too, becom? a mighty Power by these successive acquisitions of territory. But they have given usa great deal of trouble and brought the Union to the vere of dissolution, They, ultimately and mainly, were the cause of our civil war, the abolition of slavery and the remarkable state of things that now exists. We are, however, approaching the end of sec- tional strife from the annexation of territory. Hereafter there will be no slavery, and no South and North in a political and sectional sense, for our institutions will be the sam2 everywhere. We may “rouni off the repub- lic” by the annexation of the British posses- sions, and even of Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, in due time, without future danger. The telegraph and railroads will bring all parts of the continent near one another, and the whole will bo governed as easily as the thirteen original States. President Johnson before the Supreme Court.— The Question Settled. On the Mississippi petition before the Su- preme Court for an injunction against the | President in restraining him from the execution of the Southern reconstruction laws of Con- gress, on the ground of their unconstitution- ality, Mr. Stanbery, the Attorney General of the United States, in the name of the President and upon a single point, submitted an argu- mont ow Friday last which settled the question. The Attorney General said that the petition- ers (Sharkey and Walker) “ask this court to submit him (Andrew Johnson), as President, to the process of subpc a, to compel his at- tendance, and to bring him, as Presidont, within the power of the court.” They ask a process of attachment which, to give the re- lief claimed, must involve the President’s commitment to jail and his detention in jail, under the custody of the court—a criminal pro- cess which will amount practically to his removal from office. This, too, when it is only before the Senate, as a court of impeachment, that the President can be called to answer for any dereliction of duty. There, and there only, he can be called and tried and punished for such derelictions, But here, it is assumed, the court is a better juige of his duty than he is himself, and that when ho proceeds to execute a law of Congress, to avoid impeach- ment, this court is to interfere and tell him what to do and compel him to do it, or to hold him in jail as long as he refuses obedience to the court. This demand, the Attorney Gofioral declared, in legal language, was scandMous—‘“a suit not fit to be brought, and which no court in the United States can forone moment sustain.” “It ia,” said the Attorney Geacral, “with the ap- probation, advice and instruction of the President that I appoar here to make this objection. Although the gentlemen (Sharkey and Walker) in their bill have said that he has vetoed theso acts of Congress as unconstitu- tional, when the President did that he did everything that he intended to do in opposi- tion to these laws. From the moment they were passed over his veto there was but one daty, in his estimation, resting upon him, and that was faithfully to carry out and execute these laws.” That will do, Mr. President, That settles the question, whatever may be the decision of the Supreme Court upon the constitutional quib- bles and pettifogging involved in these Missis- sippi and Georgia applications for an injunc- tion against the execution of these laws of reconstraction. The Executive is not answera- ble to the Supreme Court for his conduct; but the Judges of the court, and the Executive, and all the other civil officers of the States, are auswerable to Congress. The sovereign arm of the national government is Congress, and in recognizing this constitutional and fixed fact President Johnson need have no fear of injunc- tions, subpoenas or impeachments, and ail apprehensions of any embarrassments from this court or that court in the work of recon- struction may be dismissed. A Tract or Lanp Wanxtep.—Must be adjacent to the late Russian Possessions in North Amer- foa, Property lying to the south and east of these lands would be preferred, say between Vancouver's Island and the Gulf of Labrador. Number of acres no object, as the advertiser is flush of fands. Apply to Washington, D. C., for farther Information. Respectable refer- ences will be required. Crowned heads not objected to as reference. Colored persons need not apply. Warrap to Ponrcusse—A tract of land on the north shore of the St. Lawrence river, with improvements and buildings. Also.any unira- proved property adjacent thereto, Apply to W. H. Seward. Washington, D, 0. Bagiand and Spain—A Little Speck of War. The complications which have lately arisen between England and Spain, relative to the claims of England for redress in the cases of the Tornado and Victoria, promise to grow into a speck of war probably a little “bigger than 8 man’s hand.” A British fleet has been sent to Cadiz to demand a settlement of the difficulty; and while the Spanish government ia unquestionably not in 9 position, financially or otherwise, to provoke a war with England, that fact may operate in directing the action of the English government even to the point of ordering a bombardment of some Spanish port, in the expectation of bringing the controversy to @ speedy conclusion. Spain, unsustained by a powerful ally, may succumb to avoid that bloodshed on her own soil which she did not hesitate to encounter in her present quarrel with the South American republics on Amori- can soil. The internal condition of Spain, in @ political sense, is just now very insecure. There are dangerous revolutionary elements at work there; and inasmuch as history frequently recounts such incidents as.a foreign war acting as a potential remedy for internal discontent, by centring popular sympathies around even a feable government, it may be that Spain, in risking « collision with England, has calculated upon this result as @ means to unite the com- mon sentiment of the country upon its na- tional safety, and thus completely counter- balance the agitation of the liboral party. But, supposing that Spain is not without a secret ally—assuming that Napoleon, who has another “grand idea” in embryo, con- cerning a new Iberian kingdom, and a sohemo for the supremacy of tho Latin race, which failed so miserably in Mexico, should be fomenting this difficulty for the sake of embar- rassing England, as a preliminary measure to his possible hostile entanglement with Prassia and Bismarck, or other unforeseen reasons, the refusal of the Spanish governmoat to yield to the demands of England may be accounted for. There certainly has been something ap- parently rash and almost sucidal in the recent policy of Spain, embarrassed as she 1s with a war in South America, a very disturbed popu- lar sentiment at home and a beggarly ex- ohequer. But the solution of that policy might be found in the fact that she is backed up by Napoleon for the reasons above stated. At least there is probability in the speculation. A despatch from Washington received yes- terday adds another chapter to the story of this Anglo-Spanish complication. It is to the effect that a ramor was rife in diplomatic cir- cles that England intends to seize upon the Spanish possessions in the Philippine islands asa reprisal from Spain. Whether this is a measure resolved upon in advance of the reply of theSpanish government to the demand for redress in the Tornado case, or whethor it is a new idea transmitted to the Britislr Embassy at Washington by cable as a threat to Spain, we donot know. The Philippine islands are re- garded as the brightest jewel in the Spanish crown, next to Cuba. They are, in fact, with the exception of the Queen of the Antilles, the most important of her foreign possessions since she lost her dominions in South America. They number in all some twelve hundred islands lying in the China Sea, south of Japan, in north latitude from five to twenty degrees, They embrace an area of a hundred and twenty thousand square miles, with a population of fifty millions, of whom two hundred. and forty- five thousand are of European oxtraction. The principal islands are Luzon, Masbate, Min- danao, Leyte, Palawan, Bohol, Samar, Zebu and Panay. The chief products are gold, copper, iron, coal, sulphur, coffee, sugar, spices of all kinds, cotton to some extent, tobacco, filae timber of vast growth, rice, an abundance of tropical fruits of all varieties, a hardy race of horses, and fish without limit, As far back as 1762 a British flect occupied for a time the harbor of Manila, the oapital city. Such a reprisal might well cover the injury dons to the Tornado, and it may not be difficult for the English fleet in Indian and Australian waters to lay an embergo upon the whole of these islands. However, the threatened conflict between England and Spain, trivial as its proportions seem now, may forebode a general rupture in Europe; for whea a continent is ripe for war it matters littie where the difficulty commences. In the preseni disturbed condition of the Old World, it is inpossible to say whether this apparently insignificant quarrel about a couple of English ships may not precipitate a war in which neither nition is directly involved beyond its own imnediate interests, A soli- tary match if ignited will explode a mine. A littie unseen chemicwl action in the bow els of the earth will produce a destructive volcano. The Blockade Runners Botere the Judiciary Committee. The Charleston members of the famous blockade running firm, Frazer, Tronholm & Co., have been served with subponas to appear before the Judiciary Committee w the 10th of next month. This looks bad for he chances of the impeachment project. The object of bringing up the blockade rumors is to sec whether the President cannot be made a party to certain corrupt compromises which are alleged to have been entered ints with them by the government. Our own opinin is that the inquiry will result, like Mr. Ashley’s investiga- tion into the alleged correspondence between Mr. Johnson and Jeff Davis, in—+ mare’s nest. All this is very foolish. It shows not only a weak case for impeachment but discloses a vindictiveness of spirit whch cannot fail to produce a violent reaction. Luxemburg, Napolee: and the Will of the Pele. Curses, like chickens, come homo to roost. So do political sophisns. Louis Napoleon professes to rule by the will of the people. Every doctrine of state ciaft which ho origin- ates, every new acquisitin which ho thirsts for, has the will of the people for its excuse. Well, he wants Luxemburg’, but Luxemburg does not want him. {t has enphatically pro- tested against annexation to France. How does the imperial casuist propyse to get over this fact? Will he seize the duciy first and try a plebiscite afterwards, as ho did with the throne of France? We doubtit. Bismarok has overthrown many of his cabulations, and in this Luxemburg question hefhas the ad- vantage of previous occupation ot the ground. Napoleon, it is evident, has ms his match in the game of diplomacy. Hewill have to Dack out of this Luxemburg business, jdet as he backed out of his Inlian and Mexican blanders, miiuna Regatta. Ee Shon. the clouds of war, now lowering 60 ominously, quietly disperse, Paris this summer will be the centre of attraction to admiring and wondering tho.sands from all the ends of the earth, Not the le.sst interesting of the events which are to take place in connection with the Grand Exposition will be the proposed in- ternational rowing matchés. From » letter addressed by the President of the Paris Row- ing Club to Mr. Morton, Secretary of the New York Yacht Club, and which was printed ia yesterday’s Herat, it appears that arrange- ments of the most handsome kind are being made to encourage “gentlemen amateurs” in the United States to go over and try their skill in competing with the representative rowers of the world. Free transit, including their boats, is offered to unsuccessful competitors, in the fine ships of the General Transatlantic Steam- ship Company. Similar favors, it is almost certain, will be granted by the French railroad companies. The necessary expenses to be in- curred by the sportsmen will therefore be com- paratively trifling. We seeno reason why the best mon of the best clubs ehould not accept the invitation; nor are we without hope that, if the right men do go, they will bring back with them a fair share of the prizes. It appears also that it is the intention of the Parisian clubs to offer prize cups to be com. peted for by the American and other foreign yachtmen. In view of recent events, the yacht- men of America have surely nothing to foar from the yachtmen of any other nation. The Booth Tragedy. This is the anniversary of the dark, myste- rious and appalling Booth tragedy. On the night of the 14th of April, 1865, President Lin- coln was shot and mortally wounded at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth, and nearly at the samo honr, on the same night, Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, was ate tacked in his bed and seriously wounded by a confederate of Booth, known as Lewis Payne, by whom Mr. Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, was also seriously wounded in a struggle with the assassin, The death of Presl- dent Lincoln next morning instantly changed the popular rejoicings over the fall of the re- bellion into universal horror and mourning over the terrible logs of the tried, faithful and esteemed leader and champion of the Union cause, : Since the assassination of Julius Cesar, sel. dom, if ever, has the death of any one man in any country prodaced the shock, the public commotion and such a train of political conse» quences as those which have followed the death of the lamented Lincoln. Doubtless, fiad he lived, all the rebel States wonld ere this have been restored to Congress and upon far more easy terms than the stern and radical condi- tions of reconstruction resulting from President Johnson’s mistaken policy. Lincoln knew how to manage Congress. In gracefully submitting to and relying upon the two houses, he held them in his hands, Quietly yielding when the odds were against him, he whs always strong, and that without an effort, when the oocasion required show of strength, So we have reason to think that his death was a serious disaster to the South, if we look only at the passing sufferings of the Southern people resulting from President John- son’s conflict with Congress, Yet in the end the comprehensive revolution which this con- filct has brought about in the leading ideks, acts and facts of reconstraction will, we dare say, prove vastly better for the South and the country than would have been the half-way conciliatory policy of Lincoln. Thus, as in everything else deplored as dis- asters and calamities during the war, from the first Bull Run to the bloody failures around Fredericksburg, and later, even the appalling death of Lincoln, may be accepted as a sacri- fice which has brought the grandest compen- sations to the country. It is remarkable, too, that the day of Booth’s fatal bullet—the 14th of April—was the day upon which Major An- derson evacuated Fort Sumter, in 1861, and that on the very night of the Booth tragedy the identical “old flag” which was taken down by Major Anderson from Sumter four years before was flying again over Sumter’ ruined walls, having been replaced by the same man, Major General Anderson, during the day, amid great rejoicings. How instrach ive are the events and how strange are the co- incidences of history. Tho Miantonomoh and Cuba—A Fair Exe chanae. Now that Spain has got into difficulty with England and a fleet of British iron-clads are threatening Cadiz, we have a fair offer to make to Spain. Our Monitors can demolish all the iron-clads of England without much trouble, which is admitted by British authorities, includ- ing, we believe, the Board of Admiralty. The Miantonomoh is now lying off Leghorn, quite convenient to the Spanish coast. She could reach Cadiz in a very short time. We have no doubt that if the Spanish government would only tolegraph to tho State Departmont at Washington, this magnificent Monitor would at once be traded off for the Island of Cuba and would be ordered, by a cable despatch, to report for service in Spanish waters, fully manned and armed as she is, and transferred to Spain. This would bea fair exchange. If the latter country has any other islands in the West Indies to dispose of, we have plenty more of the same sort as the Miantonomoh left to barter in the samo way. There are s few in New York and some in Boston, for which we have no use, that can be obtained in exchange for real estate. As Spain evidently cannot take care of her foreign in the midst of her present home difficulties, we have no objection to take care of her West India islands, and we will accept the responsibility of their safe keeping altcomers. Before she gots into a war with England it might bo advisable for her to follow the example of the Wall street stock- brokers and other speculators, who, when they are flush in cash and have made what is called “q good thing,” buy fine property, which they settle upon their wives, and when a crash comes they do not own an available dollar, while their wives are comfortably rich. If Spain would adopt this course before hor , trouble comes, her English creditors could not touch an acre of her’ property in American waters, We will take care of it and give good security in a valuable fleet of our invincible Monitors. i ‘Tax Densy Dax—Tho day when Lord Derby shall offer Brother Jonathan the kingdom of Canada ohean for cash. i Re A ene ory _—