The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1867, Page 12

NEW. YORK HERALD. OFFICE B. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fourceats per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price: — Any ‘arger number addressed to names of subscribers @2 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent toevery club often. Twenty coples to one address, one year, $25, endany larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. Th®e rates make the Wusxiy Herap the cheapest publication in the country. TERMS cash inadvance, Money sent by mail will be atthe risk ofthe sender, None but bank bills currentin ‘New York taken. ‘Tho Caurorxia Eprmox, on the Ist, 1th and 21st of each month, at Srx cents per copy, or $3 per annum. ‘Tho Evanorzax Eprom, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or ‘@6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereolyp- ‘ng and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the AMUSEMENTS THiD AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BEpaDy ar THEATRE, Broadway room e —Tae Pxar. or Savor. Matinee 3 at Igo o volo, THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth evenue.—La Fou, L'Esrerance, La Cuanitiz. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dum Mascuinensaven. OLYMPIC a OanTaRs. Matinee at Ten o’ rolock ‘Taz Docror or A- re Diavouo. DODWORTH HALL, 86 Brosdway.—Prorsssor Hints wus Pxrrorm His Mmac.es—L’EscamaTeun aND His Famr Stuvcuva Birp. Matinee at Two o'Clock. STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth street.—Firra Concert or tus Panarmonic Society oy New York. TRVING HALL, Irving place.—Ma, J. N. Parmson’'s Secomp Piano Matinze. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 pone, opposite ého Metropolitan Hotel—in rurta Eraiorian Ewrerratn- Surging, DaNcina axp BuRgiEesques.—Tux BLack (Jerome's Paige Stupents. KELLY & .BON'S MINSTRELS. 720 Broadway. 0} sitethe bap, cheng Hotel.—Is aoe none ae ‘Reo mn. UNDE! — AscaR Baier Px INFLUENCE or Music. rh oy FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street—Gairrm & Cansrr’s Mi Ermoriax Muvsrretsy, Baviaps, Buriesques, &c. Busoc Croon—Roserr Macairs, Matinee at 25, 0’ Clook. TONY aah | OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Como Vovatisu, Necro Minsreetisy, Bortesques, Bauer Diver. SE. ‘&c.—New YORK Suir CARrentex. Matinee at OHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Vanrerr or Liout 2. eee Ententainuusts.—Taer Harry Faxi.y. is HOUSE. Brooklya.—Ermorian Min- gramsy, BatLacg anv Burixsques. THR geyvas, TABLEAUX, Union Hall. corner of psig tage a ieol bp THES at 8—Moring Min. Soames. Mati Matinee Wednesday nod tod Saturday at 3 o'clock, z he or er“ Fooueien, W Wieernsion - for bone Pree NATIONAL ACADEMY OF IGN, corner of Twenty- ‘third street and Fourth avenue.—Exaisirion oF PICTURES aD w Live At Artists. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Saturday, April 20. 1867. REMOVAL. The New Yorx Heratp Establishment, on and after to-morrow, will occupy the New Herald Building, corner of Broadway and Ann street. 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 @’clock in the evening. EUROPE. ‘The news reported by the Atlantic cabo ie dated yos- (erday, April 19. Germany remains excited. The speech of King Wil- Nam of Prussia at the adjournment of the session of the North German Parliament creates distrust in the public mind, The Paris Bourse was dull and heavy, witha decline in rentes. The estimates for naval and military expenditures in Russia are largely reduced. The English markets and London ‘Change were closed en Good Friday. Our special correspondence, by mail, details the @radual progress of the Franco-German difficulty and Eastern question towards a new complication. It was thought in Berlin that Count Bismarck would eventu- ‘ally compromise with Napoleon and permit the cession of Luxemburg to France, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills amending the act for the improvement of Brooklyn Heights; onabling hus- band and wife to testify against each other; appro- Printing $250,000 for the new capitol; increasing the emigrant head money to $3; increasing the number of piers on East river, and the General Appropriation bill ‘were passed. The concurrent resolution to adjourn sine Gie to-day was adopted. In the Assembly the New York city Tax levy, and bills to amend the code; to facilitate the construction of the New York and Albany Raliroad on the west side of Hud- een river; to amend the act relative to pilotage in New ‘York harbor; to incorporate the New York and Brook- lyn Tunnel Company; to amend the Metropolitan Excise Dill, and to promote cleanliness in the city of Brooklyn, ‘were passed. THE CITY. Good Friday was observed yesterday, not only by Catholics and Episcopalians, but by churches of other denominations throughout the city, and partially by the business community. The courts, schools, stock boards and many places of business were closed. A commission has been in session at the Custom House fora month past, investigating the seizures of Spanish Wines on the charge of undervaluation. The proceed- ings have been strictly secret, but the testimony is con- eluded and will probably soon be ready for delivery to the Secrotary of the Treasury. ‘The government Commission on life saving apparatus ‘wont down the bay yesterday, and experimented upon Various detaching apparatus with satisfactory results in early every instance. ‘The American Protestant Association celebrated the 338th Anniversary of the Signing of the Immortal Protest’ last ovening at the Cooper Institute, There ‘was a vory large gathering present, tho ball being filled im every part, The proceeds were devoted to the benofit (Of the widows and orphans connected with the order. ‘Tho General Transatlantic Company's Mail Steamship St. Laurent, Ceptain Bocande, will leave pier 60 North river at two P.M. to-day for Havre, calling at Brest, es ie will close at the Post Office at balf-past eleven A. M. ‘The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain Léttch, will feail from pier 45 North river at 12 M. to-aay, for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for ieee rE cance amater Pets, Captain Thompson, will leave pier 47 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queons- town to land passengers. Tho Hamburg American Packet Company's steamship Adlomannin, Sony Molar. will sail at twelve M, to-day NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY,, APRIL , 20, PGT TREE SXKBET. from her pier at Hobeken, for Hamburg, calling at Southamptoe. The mails will close at the Post Uffice at half-past ten AM. ‘The Anchor line steamship Hibernia, Captain Munro, will sale et four P. M. to-dey from pier 20 North river, with passengers for Londonderry, Liverpool and Gias- gow. The fine steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, of the Cromwelt line, will leave pior No. 9 North river at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans diroct. The Empire line aidewheel steamship San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, will sail at three P,M. to-day from pler 13 North river for Savannah, connecting with the Florida steamers, ‘The popular sidewheel steamship Quaker City, Captain ‘West, of Leary’s line, will leave pier 14 East river, foot of Wall street, at three P, M. to-day for Charleston, con- necting at that place with all points south and west. Gold advanced to 189% yesterday, the closing price. Railway shares were firm in the morning and closed steady at a fractional decline. The markets for both imported’ mercbandwe and domestic produce were dull and irregular yesterday, Owing to the violent fluctuations of gold, the increasing Probabilities of a European war, and business waslight, transactions being greatly restricted by the partial ob- servance of the day asa holiday. Imported merchandise ‘was irregular, and in some was unsettied, but as a general thing the markets were firm, in sympathy with the advance in gold. There was almost a panic in cotton, prices having fallen fully 1c, again, closing dull and nominal at 25c. for middling uplands, with some lots forced on the market, at.a still greater reduction. The derangement of business growing out of the decline in cotton Is already great, and promises to be greater. On ‘Change four was steady. Wheat was lo. a 3c. lower, Corn was in demand and firm. Oats were dull and heavy. Sarloy was dull and lower, Pork was firm and lard was higher. MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from Matamoros of the 13th instant confirm the capture of Puebla by the liberals and the rejection of Maximilian’s terms of surrender. By way of San Francisco tho reports of Maximilian’s escape, Escobedo’s defeat and a revolution in San Luis Potosi are contradic- ted. General Placido Vega was at Mazatlan engaged ina conspiracy to secure the province of Sinaloa. Gaston D’Artois had attempted a petty revolution in Lower California in favor of reinstating Navarrete as Governor, but he failed completely. Our correspondent at British Honduras, dating at Belize on the 2d of April, states that the Indian war had ended, and that the martial law rule would be suspended immediately. Some white colonists charged with affiliating with the Indians in their raids bad been ar- rested. Encouragement was being given for the per- manent establishment of steam communication between Belize and New Orleans, Trade was dull in Belize, In the United States Senate yesterday, a committee was appointed to inform the President that the present session would adjourn at four o’clock to-day. The com- mittee soon returned with the answer of the President that he knew no reason why the Senate should not do 80, ‘The special car belonging to the Merchants Union and United States Express Company on the Erie Railroad going west was destroyed by fire yesterday with its con- tents, the loss amounting to $20,000. The messengers inside were unable to notify the conductor that the car ‘was on fire, owing to the cheek rope having been run on the outside of the car and they themselves were almost suffocated with heat and smoke. The engineer onty knew of the burning when he saw the flames burst through the roof. The returned rebels in Kentucky are again engaging in their warfare on Union men. A party of them yester- day prevented the Union candidate for Lieutenant Gov- ernor from speaking at Germantown by threatening him with violence. They then fired some buildings and burned a portion of the town, ‘The rugh for pardons among the disfranchised ex- rebels has been resumed, and a few pardons are being issued daily by the President to that class of individuals who eome under the petty officer and twenty thousand dollar clauses, The Japanese Acrobats visited the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington yesterday. A large and enthusiastic meeting of whites and blacks took place at Petersburg, Va., yesterday, when resolu. tions of a conservative character were adopted and spoeches of « similar character were made. Frank Drew and John Bernard are to fight again soon for $600, the former contest in which Bernard was whipped, being considered unsatisfactory by the latter. At an election for Mayor in Hantsville, Ala, recently the negro vote assisted to defeat the agent of the Freed- men’s Bureau. General Schofield has decided that rebel conscripts are not necessarily deprived of the right to vote, Two negroes were hung in Savannah yesterday morn. ing for the murder of Mr, Seccinger in January last. George Peabody was giveh a public reception by the school children of Georgetown, Massachusetts, the village where his mother was born and where he is erecting a church in commemmoration of her virtues. He will probably leave for Europe about the lst of General Sickles has recently removed certain members of the police force at Wilmington, North Carelina. Ex-Governor Perry, of South Carolina, has written a letter on the military governments in the South in which he says, “A despotism wisely administered is the most perfect government on earth, being the government es- tablished by God for the control of the universe.’’ Judge Lowell, of the United States,District Court in Boston, has decided that the steamer Syren, captured on the surrender of Charleston, was as much a prize to the army as to the navy. It is stated that an extra session of the Tilinois Legis- lature is to be called soon by Governor Oglesby. ‘Two officers of the Fifth artillery, stationed at Fortress Monroe, had an altercation on Thursday sbout the appointment of one of them to the command of Key ‘West, wnich the other claimed as his due, Blows were struck, and in the struggle the shoulder straps of one of them was torn off his coat, No serious injury was done on either side, ‘The Southern Press Convention, at Augusta, Ga., ad. Journed yesterday. Their existing arrangement with the ‘New York Associated Press still continues, Yachting in England—A Chance fer the Now York Yacht Clab. We perceive that the Royal Thames Yacht Club has made arrangements for # grand regatta in June. Some of the races are for schooners and others for boats of any size. The courses set down on the programme include a ran from Gravesend round the Mouse, from the Nore light ontside the Goodwin Sands to Dover; a channel match from the Nore to Havre, anda cutter race from Gravesend round the Nore and return. A notable feature in the programme of these contests is that they are open to yachts of the New York Yacht Squadron. Here is a fine chance for our yachtsmen to con- tend for the prizes with English yachts in British waters, There are already three of our yachts over there, and if, as is expected, halfa dozen more should tempt the dangers of the deep by transatlantic voyage this summer— which is not half so disagreeable at this season asa trip across the English channel, with its chopping seas—the English regatta will un- doubtedly assume o very interesting inter- national character. We notice that in the race across the channel to Havre there is no allowance of time. We can imagine the curiosity with whieh thes French people will watch the arrival of the winning yacht, and the astonishment and satis faction with which they will hail her if she, should happen to carry the colors of the New! York Yacht Squadron at the main. We should not be surprised to hear of crowded excarsion® trains running from Paris to Havre to witn the result, which will no doubt excite sequal interest at both sides of the channel. ‘ We do not see why the Widgeon, Alarm, Phantom, Halcyon, and other new yachts that are now being completed on the east side of the town, should not go over and try their mettle in the regatta of the Thames Club, which, we may add, is considered second in rapk to the Raval Yacht Sauadrom Bomeval of the Herald Establishment to Its New Building—Notice to Advertisers. This is the last day that advertisements for the Hrnaxp will be received at the old nd well known corner of Nassau and Fulton streets. To-morrow, Easter Sunday, advertisers will find us at work in the new Henatp Building on Broadway, and will transact their business tor Monday morning’s issue over the handsome counters of that establishment. The change will be effected quietly between midnight to- night and daybreak to-morrow morning, and by the usual business hours the whole ma- chinery of the paper—advertising, editing, re- porting, composition, stereotyping, press work and mailing—will be running with as much smoothness, order, harmony and compactness in the new quarters as in the old. The new Hzrarp Building is now one of the landmarks of the city. Nearly every one who resides in New York, or who visits the metropolis, has made a point of secing it, and all (as we have been informed) “have admired it. Speculation has been rife in relation to it. A few envious | persons have been predicting that we should never occupy it, or that it would “swamp” us, or become our marble tomb, in which we should be discovered mummified by a far future gene- ration, and some have even proposed that it should be pulled down for the widening of Ann street on the south side. But the people look at it with pride, as a great public im- provement and an ornament and credit to the city, and many have anticipated some grand ceremonial at its opening. Correspondents from other States—from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri—have expressed a desire to be present at the opening celebration, and requested information as to when it was to take place. Wé regret to say that we must disappoint them all. The ceremony will be strictly private. No cards. To-morrow our advertising clerks will be ready for adver- fisers in the counting room on Broadway, instead of on the corner of Nassau and Fulton streets; our editors will perform their labors in their new rooms as brilliantly as in their old; our reporters will report as faithfally and fully there as here; our compositors will set their type as nimbly and accurately as ever, except that they will there be at work in the most spacious, lofty and magnificent com- posing room in the world, where the shining of the polished oak and brass bound cases, and the brilliant gas burners high overhead, and the clear, fresh, healthful atmosphere may at first be novelty enough to somewhat divert their attention; there will be increased bustle and life about the new building, and « subdued “grumble and rumble” will be heard to issue from the spacious press rooms dug “into the bowels” of the solid earth; and this is all there will be of the “opening celebration” at the new Hunatp Building. “Only this, and nothing more.” The truth is, we are too much occupied to be able to devote any time to public ceremonials, The Hunan is published every day in the year. There is no cessation to its labor. It makes its Sppearance as regularly as the sun, to shed light upon the world. It has become one of the necessaries of life,and a day without a Henatp would, so it is said, be under the effect of aneclipse. Every hour of every twenty-four its intricate machinery of intellect, industry, science and labor is busily at work for the public benefit. Other trades, professions and callings know periods of rest and inactivity ; the Henatp never does. Now it is called upon to awaken the public mind to a proper un- derstanding and appreciation of the power of the constitution ; to teach the legislative and executive branches of the government of the United States their legitimate rights, responsi- bilities and duties, and to shape and guide the great question of reconstruction. Now it is employed in watching Mr. Hoffman and the reat of the Corporation “ring ;”’ now in keeping the State government out of the clutches of a Tammany ward politician, and again in saving Congress the disgrace of counting among its members a self-convicted humbug. At one time it is laboring ‘to reform the drama and to prevent the performances at the theatres from being turned into mere spectacles of blue fire and spangles ; at another it is endeavoring to foster and encourage a pure masical taste by seeking to persuade true artists and intelligent managers, like Strakosch and Patti, to come to New York and rescue the opera from its present stagnation. Now it hasa legislatare to lectare and curb, and anona reform to accomplish in manly sports. All the time it has its great system of advertising to regulate and perfect, by means of which the Herat is fast becom- ing the most effective and desirable medium for transacting the business of the city by bringing principals in direct communication with each other without the intervention of agents and middlemen. In fact, in one way or another, and in a hundred ways at once, the Henatp is constantly at work, exerting that “ mysterious influence” which so puzzles some of our country contemporaries, for the general good, and,. as Wendell Phillips, the philo- sopher of the radicals says, “shaping the public mind and controlling public events.” It is for these reasons that we are compelled to forego any celebration or opening cere- monies on taking possession of our new build- ing to-morrow, and to content ourselves with this brief announcement to our army of adver- tisers that they will on Sunday find our clerks prepared to attend to their business at the new counting room on Broadway, instead of -bt the old ane 9p Nassau street, ‘The Indinus—Shall We Have an Indiae War? If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, said Pascal, the fate of the world might have been or peace, the destruction or preservation of that most’ common fact—a bad appointment made at the national capital—the appointment of a man of rather less than average, discre- tion toa point that indeed did not seem to the authorities of great importance. We had agreements with the Indians, in vir- tue of which we were able to live on tolerable terms as neighbors. In pursuance of such agreements certain parties were authorized to eell them ammunition. If itis a bad policy to sell powder and ball to the red men we ought not to agree to do so, or we ought to annul, the agreement in a proper manner and as be- comes a people respecting law—at least laws of their own making. Somebody thought it’ was a bad policy, and, dressed in his brief au- thority, ready enough to play magnate and dictator, ordered in panic haste the discontinu- ance of such sale. So the Indians had no means to kill buffalo, and were distressed and exas- perated, and the cause of trouble was an en- croachment on their hunting grounds by the new route to Virginia City. They did not, how- ever, plunge into war. So many Midshipman Easys could not have been more disposed to argue the points in « pacific way. Argument, explanation, good temper would have settled all the trouble, Argument could not be had; good temper was not to be wasted on “sav- ages.” Parties eager to be heard for | their rights showed themselves in sight of Fort Phil Kearny and held up their blankets as signals. They were shelled and driven away. Soldiers went out shooting at them “on their own hook,” whenever, they came near. They hovered around, however; they assembled in larger numbers—-three hundred, it is said; three thousand, others ssy—and Indians present in the party, of tribes that have always been friendly and boast they never slew a white man—such Indians declare most firmly that the intention was not hostile. But there was a panic, A party was out cut- ting wood--the Indians might destroy it! Another party was sent to see to its safety. This latter party saw Indians and opened fire. The Indians retreated, the sal- diers pursued, were drawn into an ambuscade and slaughtered to aman. Such is the plain story on the judgment of experts of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre—all, there is too much reason to fear, a most terrible blunder! Shall we expiate this blunder by a war with all the Indians we can force to fight us? Shall we save the pride of the author of this blunder at the expense of the equipment of an army? We hope not. There was a time when war was the only possible result of accidental col- ‘lision. If two or three men of Megara mur- dered an Athenian in a dranken bout, the Athenians murdered any Megarean they could lay bands on ; and so from murder to murder men drifted into war. It is the advantage of higher civilization that we act less blindly. We single out particular delinquents and do not retort indiscriminately on a race the crimes even of certain of its members, Let us not give way to passions and prejudices, but pause and inquire calmly whether there is not a bet- ter way for the settlement of our Indian diff- culties than the costly one of extirpation; whether, indeed, a properly established system of stocked reservations may not make the savage his own antidote, and make him even contribute towards our progress across the plains. Radical Movements in the Seuth—The Rich- mond Convention. The black republicans are coming. The white republicans, who have heretofore been held up in derision as black republicans, must now yield this distinction; for the real, genuine black republicans are coming. From Virginia to Texas they are in motion all over the five Southern military districts, holding political meetings, making speeches, reading addresses, adopting resolutions and planting themselves on the platform of Congress and the white re- publicans of the North. On Wednesday and Thursday last the genuine black republicans of Virginia held a grand mass State Convention at Richmond, at which they pledged their political services “to the national republican party of the United States,” and in behalf of “equal political rights in all respects” to whites and blacks, includ- ing the right to hold office. In their address (published in fall, with their proceedings, in yesterdsy’s Hmnatp) these Virginia black re- publicans, after reciting the enormitics and horrors of the rebellion, and the unjust laws in favor of the rich and against the poor, which slavery has left on the statute books of the State, declare that “with malice to none, and with charity to all, but in a voice of warning, we desire to say to the disloyal land monopo- liste in this State, who may be disposed to op- press the laborer in his wages, and improperly prevent or control his votes, or to burn more school houses, and further to molest the teachers and friends of the freedmen, your best interests will be promoted by moderation; for if the course of violence, encouraged by the disloyal press of the State, is continued, you may expect that confiscation, now hang- ing over you, will be enacted and enforced by all the power of the great it you insult.” Here, considering that this address is the work ofa designing white man (Under- wood), there is a touch of agrarianism which may mean mischief. At some other places South the same suggestion, more or less sharply defined, has been cropping out of late at these Southern black republican meetings, and there is no telling the bad results of such hints and teachings, if not met in season by wiser coun- sels. Between the two races, South, nothing is more essential to law and order than harmoni- ous relations as employers and laborers; but stick to the text that these reconstruction laws now before the South are the ultimatum of ‘The Convention of Revision. - The approaching State Constitutional Con- vention appears to give the party journals and politicians s great deal of trouble, and to create quite a commotion in the rival organi- zations in this city. There is likely to be 9 mixed fight on the Senatorial district delegates in New York, if not sll over the State, and the election will probably foreshadow the general disruption of parties that is almost certain to take place next fall. ‘There will, of course, be @ large majority of republicans returned. to the Convention, and with the exception of the sixteen delegates at large, who are sure of election, the democrats ‘will have a very meagre show. They arenot at all likely to secure as many members of the Convention as they now have representatives in the State Assembly. The probable results are already beginning to be discussed by the party jour- nals, which are predicting what will be done, or discussing what ought to be done by the Convention, according to their several political proclivities, The Convention will have it in its power to consider, and re- model the whole constitution from beginning to end; but there are, in fact, only a few points which there is any real necessity to touch. The reform of the judicial aystem, the increase of the power of the Governor, a plan of re- sponsible government for the cities of the State, and a few minor matters, such as salaries of public officers and the pay and of the Legislature, are #il the subjects to ich the Convention need give attention; and as these are important and necessary to the well-being of the State, the more plainly and simply they. are put before the people the better. We have no doubt there will be a large majority of second rate politicians from both the republican and democratic parties in the Convention, and the chances are that they will control its action. The effort on the side of such republicans will be to frame a constitution under which they would be enabled to secure party advantages and to perpetuate their power in the. State, while the. democrats will strive to embarrass the ‘proceedings of the Convention and to crowd in some objectionable amendments that may enable them to defeat the revised constitation by. the popular vote next fall, and to leave the judiciary ‘and the present condition. The large majority of the intelligent, respon- sible citizens of the State are in favor of cer- tain great reforms in the State constitution: Of that there is no doubt. The elective sys- tem of the judiciary has proved worse than a failure. It has fastened political judges upon the State and rendered law and justice only terms of mockery. The business of the courts is crowded and lumbered up so that it would be impossible to clear the calendars for the next ten or fifteen years, if all litigation should cease to-morrow and the present system be suffered to continue. At every term, especially in this city, the impossibility of keeping politi- cal influence out of the halls of justice is made painfully apparent. Crime is suffered to go whenever the criminal can com- mand the influence of the grog shop politicians and ward ballies, who are all powerful at the polls, The people earnestly desire to see this evil rsmoved and the bench fied by having juiges appointed for life, during good behavior, or until reaching sixty years of age, and then to be retired with » pension equal to half tleir salaries. By this means they hope to seture an independent, fearless and capable judiciary. It is also the popular desire to inctease the respongibility and efficiency of the executive by enlarging the powers of the Governor, electing him every year and holdinj him answerable for the good conduct of th whole State government. Under our pregnt system the Governor has but little more fal authority than the fgure- head of our muticipality, called a Mayor. He should have the power to appoint all the sub- ordinate heads of the State departments, and should be responsible to the people for their honesty and cajacity. The system of muni- cipal laid down in the constitu- tion for the citi¢s of the State should be on the same medel as the State govern The Mayor, as the chief executive officer, should be ij fact, as well as in name, the head of the lity, as the Governar should be of the Séte. He should have the power to should be held responsible to the character and conduct of He should be elected only for that his responsibility to the be direct. There should be no execntive authority in the whole it, and the powers of the Board of Aldermen should be simply and strictly tive. These reforms we believe the State and the people desire ; but from the of the nominations thus far made by With political parties for delegates to the Con of Revision, we see but little hope that will be secured. On neither side, with| few exceptions, do we recog- nize the of men of eminence and supe- rior tions for the trust, and at present it seems as heavy expens= incurred by the Coronation of Francis Joseph. Next sath will be a memorable and won- derful ay in the ancient double city of Buda- Pesth, th Hungarian capital. Francis Joseph, Em f Austria, is to receive the crown as of the distinct existence in his of the kingdom of Hungary. This of the Hungarian war of 1843, when designing white politicians undertake } tee laitlormant, to say the lenst, though it that be i us o resist, and recognizes the autonomy of his sometime province. Hunga- rian history begins again where it was brokem Off at the accession of Joseph the Second, and the vigorous nationality of this people may yet st embares to the empire of which they ve become ‘And ‘tm: this way the Emperor of ee the corner , stone of his empire. War Nows from Europe. Our latest news from Europe, both by cable and mail, is Luxemburg affair, small serious matter for Europe than the'long talked of Eastern question, The situation to all lovers of peace ia truly alarming, .No..one who hag the slightest knowledge of the state of fecling in France and Germsty can: for ‘6 moment ~ doubt that it is the Parla Bxbtbition, and that, ott, wie. Meals Ba, Sono troops from creasing the frontier. and. plunging into the very. heart. of Prussia. We say this not be- ‘oause we are atiall cértain that ia‘ a contest between France and Prussis wictoty would be ultimately on the side of the , former Power, but because we are satisfied that the first blow must be etruck by France, | Prussia will not make ‘herself responsible for. the actual commencement of hostilities ; non is it neceesary she should, for she is already in actual possession of the fortress regarding. which the difficulty has arisen. Pity it is that'a matter of this sort could not be settled by peaceful means Should war break out it is impossible.to predict where or how it may end. The flame once lit, the confia- gration, it is all but certain, will sweep with devastating force over the length and breadth | of Europe, destroying property, cramping the | springs of industry, cutting down the flower of the population by thousands, and forever ex- tinguishing ancient and cherished land Heavy will be the responsibility of that Power, which shall take the initiative in such a war, Yet it is not easy to determiio whe | is to blame for matters as they rights when she garrisoned the fortress of Luxemburg during the late German war; but |} it would not be difficult to discover reasons numerous and important enough to justify such a step. Abstractly she may be wrong in maintaining her occupation, now thet the war has been ended; but abstract rights:have névor been allowed to rule when the game of poli- tics or of war has ran high No’ one can blame France for séeking toacquire by honor. able purchase a frontier fortress of so muck | importance. The chief viee it the whole affair, to our mind, consists in the cool and impudent Geterntination of the King of Holland to barter, away his duchy withont regard to the wishes of the population; as if in this nineteenth contury the inhabitants of sa ancient ani highly civil- ee Shee sold like ao many cattle. Itis a little too mu fers grand duke or even s king to attempt in this age of public opinion. _ Efforts in all likee lihood will be made to make the question a subject for European intervention. This scoma to be the desire of Russia. The duchy of Lux. emburg was confirmed in the possession of the King of Holland by the treaties of 1839, when the kingdom of the Netherlands was split up, and the separate kingdoms of Holland and Belgium were established. Were it net that for some time past we have been in the habit of seeing European treaties made of but } little account, we should certainly say that the great Powers who signed these treaties should | be again consulted before any future disposl- tion is made. If they be consulted we should; not be surprised to find that war bad been | averted by an agreement to the effect that the duchy of Luxemburg should be proclaimed © neutral territory. If some such arrangement is not come to | war is inevitable. The collision, if it do take © place, will be fearfal. If war alliances, as is | by no means impossible, be formed on both, / sides, Earope will present to the world "¢ spectacle such as she has not presented slace the days of the first Napoleon, and another and more lasting peace may date from another and grander Waterloo. If, however, France and Prussia are allowed to fight it out alone it will be one of the briefest and most brilltant, one of the shortest, sharpest and most decisive wars which the world has yet seen. Modiation in Mexico. The subject of mediation in the affairs of Mexico attracted some attention in the exece- tive session of the Senate on Thursday, but no | definite conclusion was arrived at. The de- | bate occurred upon a resolution of Reverdy Johnson, and Summer and other Senators sup- } ported it. It seems pretty clear to us that mediation on the part of our government _ would be most timely just now. The imperial © cause is evidently on its last legs; but it does net follow that the defeat ot Maximilian is sure to bring permanent peace to Mexico or secure & settlement of the disturbed elements which have kept that republic in a voleanic condition for s0 many years, In fact we do not see the end of Mexican troubles in the vanquishmont of the Austrian Archduke. Qn the contrary, we anticipate perpetual internal discord, an@ hence the necessity of some sagacious inter- ference on the part of our government, at this — crisis, which would tend not only to an imme, diate cessation of hostilities, but to a permet nent reconstruction of the Mexican republic. It is no secret that the existence of the Juares government during its conflict with European intervention is due to the moral support which it received from this country. Without that the efforts of its soldiers in the field would have. been vain against the French and Austrian troops, although bert artemis? nore from us. Without it there would have been | little chance even of keeping what is called patriotism in Mexico true to the liberal causes | for ft was our moral assistance which gave | stability and hope to that cause. Therefere tha, will of our government ought to be law to the Mexican Cabinet. We have a right to presa our mediation upon the consideration Juarez and that portion of the Mexican people, who adhere to the only form of governm: which we have evar recognized in Mexico, eng, / we are justified in expecting that if the coms, | templated mediation should be offored it wilk | ha accepted in ® spirit of friendship anj} |