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6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, case of Pullman vs. the Mayor, ke., to dissolve the in- junction restraining the payment to Fernando Wood of the rent of the premises Nos. 115 and 117 Nassau street, has been withdrawn. Fernando Wood intends to put in an answer to Pullman's complaint, and test the case by a PROPRIETOR. a pe epee In the Common Pleas, general term, yes! a sult JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., Shtussoeaproiyenchupirarsiccsee snp ar MANAGER. to recover $600 penalties from the Adams Express Com: pany for not complying with @ corporation ordinance requiring all wagons, &c, used for transportation for hire within the city limits t be licensed. The Court reserved ite decision. The general term and circuits of the Supreme Court have adjourned until Wednesday morning, in conse- quence of to-day being election day. An action was brought in the Supreme Court, Circuit, yesterday, in the case of Patrick Gilbride against M. ‘Hughes, to recover $10,000 damages for wounding the Plaintiff in the face with a pistol on February 16, 1865. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff of $1,200, In the General Sessions, yesterday, Joseph Simpson and James Dolan were convicted of highway robbery and sentenced by Recorder Hackett to the State prison for twenty years, The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold closed at 138, In view of the unsettled state of affairs in Europe, ‘and the consequent fiuctuations in gold, the merchan- , dise markets are kept in an unsettled state, and both foreign and domestic goods are to some extent nomi- nal, Business yesterday was restricted by this cause, and the transactions were in the main mode rate. Cotton was more steady, though Liverpool quotation received im the morning were one quarter penny lower than those previously received, The decline on Saturday, however, was based on private telegrams from Europe quoting cotton unsaleable at 11d. Coffee wass dull and nominal, On 'Change flour was not quotably lower. Wheat was dull, unsettled and nonri- nally 2c, a 5c. lower. Corn was active and higher. Pork, sxOADWAY AND ANN STREET. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Fouroent@per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. Volume XXXII......-.-++ a treseeseceescsene = = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. near Broome BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, street, —Fancuom. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Tux Sacre Trost, OR; THR OTH OW THE BareLe Fis.p—Bionpix on tux Tigat THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth aveaue.—Le Mart Dans po Coron—Un Ca ancumant ps Mau—Uw Carnice. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.--Manrrawa. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Hamer. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Me. awn Mus. Howarp Pavt's GRann Fauxwau ¢ ‘Concerts 1x Costumx, DODWORTH HALL, 906 Breadway.—Proregsor Hanrs 1. Pervonm His Mmactes—L'EscamateuR axa His faiky SiNGING BiRp, SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY, Tompkins Market — Guanv @xommnady CONCERT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—In rusia Etmiorian Enreerain- ments, SINGiNG, Dancing amp Bortesquas.—Taz BLack Coox—L'Araicannm, ‘ELLY & LEON'’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broad A ATEN a Tre Hotel In rune Sonas, Dances: ‘Roper. | beet and lard were in improved demand and firmer. Sie eee nominal. Naval stores remained quiet, Potroleum was dull and heavy, There was considerable activity in the market for beef cattle, and prices were slightly higher, despite the free offerings, amounting in the aggregate to 1,650 head. Ex- tracommanded 83c., first quality 173,018. Fairto good 16% a 1734c., and.common and rough 1330. a 16. There was an improved demand for milch cows, and a firmer feeling pervaded the market. Extra sold at $100 4 $125. Prime $90 $100. Other grades sold all the from $45 to $80. Veal calves were with a fair demand, extra having sold at 12c. a 123¢¢., prime, 11 a 113<c,, and inferior to common 7c. a 10c, Sheep and lambs, ueder light offer- ings, ruled %{c. a }gc. perlb, higher, with an active demand. Extra sheep realized 10%c.; prime, 90. a 10c.; and inferior to common, 8c, 9c, Spring lambs sold at 14c. a 17c, as to quality. The hog market ruled active and prices advanced 3c. per lb, Atthe Fortieth street yards yesterday five car loads were on sale and realized the following prices:—8c. for heavy prime corn fed, 7340. a 7%c. for fair to good, and 7c. a 740. for common and rough, The total receipts were 6,307 beeves, 70 milch cows, 1,995 veal calves, 8.422 sheep and lambs and 12,187 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Our special correspondence from Panama f# dated April 14. The story of the arrest and imprisonment of sixty-eight Congressmen by President Mosquera is de- clared to be untrue, although the coercion of Congress into obedience is confirmed, The original cause of disa- greement between the two branches of the ern- REMOVAL. ment was the passage in March of a pede PRs; that the government troo, should not The Nxw Yore Haat establishment is now seats uicrs\ Gaiweon:- tho lan. how located in the new Heriip Building, corner of pecs ies sad gia eee, bested ga mu ion ween ingress r) Broadway and Ann street. have ceased, and gave notice that he would put in force the article giving him the power of condemning to death, The day after the famie of this decree it was suspended, and an agreement was afringed by which the President FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Guirrin & Carisrr's MivsTRRLS.— Ermiorian Minstretsy, Batiaps, Buxvesquas, &c.—Tus Biack Croox—Roseat Macains. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comico Voca.ism. Necro Minstaetsy, Buruesques, Bauer Diver TisseMENT, &C,—Tus Forty Femate Jack Suxrranps. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Vautery or Ligut axp Lavguasie Enter tainments.—Tae Maskep Bau, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Iretanxp As It Was—Tur Custom or tax Countay—Inisu Tice. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Eraiorian Mur- STRELSY, BALLADS AND BURLESQUES. THE RUNYAN TABLEAUX,: Union Hall. corner of Twenty-third strect and Broadway, at &—Movixa Mir. ron oF THF Picrin’s | Pri S—SIXTY MAGNIFICENT Scenxs. Matinee We iy turday at 3 o'clock. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.< Hixap ann Rigut ARM OF Prosst—Tax WasnincTow ‘Twins—Wonvers ix Natorat History, Scrence anp ART. Lectures Day, Open from 8 4. M, till WP, M, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue.—Exuiaition or PICTURES axp Scutrrures sy Living Aprisrs. : RIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, April 23, 1867. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. wu Advertisers will please bear in mind that in | was authorized to reorganizé we Panama Railroad Com- order to have their advertisements properly classi- fled they should be sent in before half-past eight ~o'clock in the evening. et Paw z . A tun Sap awe EUROPE. By epectal telegram through the Atlantic cate, dhted pany, the exiled bishops wore allowed to retarn to their charges immediately, and the number of. $foops are to Temain the same as at present, An English fitm is re- ported to have offered to pay the national debt, amouns- tng to $33,000,000, and advance $1,000,000 to the nation, besides paying an annual rental of $500,000 for a ninety-nine years’ lease of the Panama Railroad.) Two Spanish vessels were at Santa Martha, on the lookout “| forthe R. R. Cuyler. Captain Reid, of New York, had joined and taken command of the latter vessel. The in Paris yesterday, we learn that it was rumored tbat | Dosen: of Panama bad called out two thousand Napoleon in his preparations for war is endeavoring to purchase guns in the United States. Public opinion Pointed to war between France and Germany on the Luxemburg question. The neutral Powers proposed a compromise, but Prussia objected. Spain continues evasive, and very unsatisfactorily in her negotiations with England in the Tornado case. Com- militia to resist the threatened invasion of the State by Level de Goda. The duties of United States Consul at Panama were performed by Mr. Hicks, the clerk of the consulate, there being no appointment made for the office, We have files from the West Indies, dathd at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 8th of April. The Inspector of Revenue, plote satisfaction will be given in the affair of the ship then on a tour of inspection through the island, was met Victoria. Trade had not been fully resumed after the Easter holidays, The London Stock Board was closed. The Liverpool cotton market was Inactive and down- ward, with middling, uplands at 10%. Breadstuffs dull. By tho German mail steanship Bremen at this port, yesterday, we have very important and interesting mail reports of the European news to the 9th of April. The advices detail the initiation of the war excite- ment in France on the subject of Napoleon’s tiations for the acquisition of Luxemburg, the interference of Germany, under the lead- ership of Prussia, to prevent its accomplish= ment. The agitation was very intense in Pars, and ‘war rumors abounded on every side. Indeed it appeared as if the matter would be regarded merely as one of bartor, for a cash equivalent, and one in which the Prussian movement would ultimately acquiesce were it not for the decided tone of the enfranchised German Durgesses, as expressed in Berlin and re-echoed through Fatherland against its conclusion. England professed neutrality, if not utter indifference, towards the pro- ceedings and in the result. The Invalide Ruse of St Petersburg says that ‘ma- tual advantages’’ will accrue to Russia, the United States and the people of Siberia from the conclusion of the Russian-American territorial cession treaty. England holds aloof from the allied diplomacy of the other Christian Powers in Constantinople on the affairs of the East. She will take no step whatever to hasten ® premature dissolution of tha “sick man,’’ pre- ferring to await his demise from “internal causes,” France, jf is said, proposes that Tur- Key shall yiel¢ Candia to Greece on obtaining a guarantee for the security of her remaining territory ; but to {his Russia objects, remarking that no Christian Guarantee can be given insuring immunity for the perse. cutions of other Christian peoples, The course of the Spanish government in the Tornadéd caso offended England so very deeply that a war with Queen Isabelia would not be unpopular. The London ‘Times remarks that the United States did not hold such a high tone towards Groat Britain, under circumstances Almost similar, ag does the Cabinet in Madrid. THE CITY. There was no quorum im the Board of Aldermen fes- terday. The Board of Councilmen held a meeting, and after exciting debates, revolutions directing the Clerk of the Common Council to prepare ten thousand copies of the Corporation Manual at an expense of $50,000, and to furnish the members of the two branches of the city government with gold badges, were defeated. The Magual resolution was adopted, but the paper was sub- sequently reconsidered and iaid over. A meeting of the Board of Health was held yesterday afternoon. A discussion upon the proposed new abat- oir at the corner of Forty-fourth street and First ave- Bue occupied the attention of the Board during the Greater part of the session. The election of delegates to the Constitutional Con. ‘vention takes place to-day. A full list of the candidates in New York and Brooklyn, besides a list of the chances made in the polling places, will be found in our columns this morning. The Government Commission on Life Saving Apparatus spent yesterday in examining and testing hose couplings and water guages, and resolved to go down the Bay to. day and test fog signals, An extensive public auction sale of city real extate transpired yesterday afternoon at the Exchange sales. room, on Broadway. About sixty valuable parcels of Property were sold, each commanding ® good price. One plot of ground at the foot of Corlears street gold for $76,600, which exceeded the expectations of the Com- Missioners of the Sinking Fand, under whose direction the property was disposed of, by over $50,000. There wete four hundred and six deaths in this city last week, and one hundred and twenty in Brook- jyn. 1a the Savreme Court, Chambers. the motion in the by the most marked disfavor, and in some places with positive insult, in consequence of an impression that his advice brought about increased taxation on land and trade. ish infantry disembarked from the steamer Tamar and marched to Up-Park camp, under command of Major Hardy. April 34 the Eighty-tourth rogiment of Brit- ‘The advices from China are to the 17th of February. The Chinese were highly pleased at the prospect of a still more intimate upion with tho American people. A Prussian war vessel was ingport at Shanghae, the naval vialt having for its object the attainment of a strip of Iand on the island of Formosa for the use of the Berlin government. Wo have files from Japan, dated at Yokohama on the 26th of February, containing the latest news, executive, financial and commercial. American merchants are warned against seeking to force an unhealthy extension of their trade with the ports of Japan. Senator Wilson addressed a crowd of six thousand col- ored citizens in Richmond, Va, yesterday. He was in- troduced by Governor Pierpont and was attended by sev- eral members of the State Legislature. After the council of Gen. Hancock with the Cheyenne chiefs at Fort Larned, on the 12th inst,, the tribe at night abandoned their village, disappearing with all their movabies of value. Gon. Custer, with his cavalry, ‘was sont in pursnit ‘The steamship America, from San Francisco for San Juan del Sur, with about forty passengers for New York, put into Acapulco on the 28th of March for coal, which she could not obtain, and she put to sea again, after en- tering a protest, The city of St Louis has borrowed $2,000,000 from the National Bank of Missouri, A riot occurred among the miners of the Silver Bend Mining Company at Bowens Novade, recently, in which the superintendent of the company was ridden Oh 4 rail ‘and twenty men were killed, A sudden rain storm in Colorado desert recently destroyed a government train and drowned two men who were encamped in a ravine. The United States steamer Tahoma arrived at Galveston on the 17th from Tampico, and her news confirms the capture of Pucbla General Diaz shot sis general officers and sixty-one of a lesser grado ia retalia- tion for the October decree, Political Judges. The Judges of this city are out in force as candidates for the State Constitutional Convention. Two Judges of the Common Pleas, three of the Superior Court, a City Judge, and a Judge of the Supreme Court, as well as three or four ex-Judges, are soliciting votes for the office of delegate. To be sure their calendars are crowded and the business of the public is suffering in their Courts; but what of that? They must all be elected; for is not the elective system of the judiciary, to which they owe their places, in danger? In the case of the Judge of the Supreme Court there is a slight constitutional difficulty in the way in the section of the con- stitution which says, ‘they (the Judges of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court) shall not hold any other office or public trust. All votes for either of them for any elective office (except that of Justice of the Supreme Court or Judge of the Court of Appeals), given by the Legislature or the people, shall be void.” But this is only a trifle. The “fierce demo- eracie” will elect him in spite of the consti- tation. The State Constitutional Cenventios—The Election To-Day. The election for delegates to the State Con- stitutional Convention takes place to-day. Very little general interest is manifested in the result, and the vote is likely to be light ; yet it is an election that bears directly upon the wel- fare of the State and the prosperity of the people. The delegates to be chosen to-day are to be intrusted with the labor of remodelling nl ana sy law of the State, We are to to for reforms which of experience have shown to be arta cone the removal of evils which all admit and de plore, and from which the people cry out for relief, No citizen who Properly appreciates coastasonsty Saal NAb er epumens o ly re: idle or at such a time. — The nominations made by the two political organizations are, it is true, in » majority of in- stances, of a very indifferent character. Party lines have been strictly drawn, and the most Prominent names in the State have been passed over, to make room for local politicians ‘and efficient partisans, Yet there aro some good men te be found among them on both sides ; euch es Horace Grecley, William M. Evarts, Charles 3. é John A. King, Henty Ward Beecher, John Cochrane, Thomas Hillhouse, John H. Reynolds, Horatio Ballard, and John L. Taloott, among the republicans ; and Henry C. Murphy, Francis Kernan, Charles G. Helpine, Erastus Corning, Robert Lansing, Arphaxed Loomis, Delos De Wolf, Sidney T. Fairchild, Israel T. Hatch, and George W. Clinton, among the democrats. Of these Messrs. Greeley, Evarts and Folger, on one side, and Messrs, Murphy and Kernan, on the other,are on the general tickets, and are sure of an election; but the remainder are district delegates, and should be voted for on their merits, independent of party considerations. Every elector who goes to the polls will vote for sixteen delegates at large and four district delegates, and it would be well for the tax- payers in each district to select the four best men in nomination, without reference to their politics, and cast their ballots for them. The general apathy in regard to the result grows out of the prevailing impression that the work of the Convention will not be such ag the people can approve ; that on one side the re- publican politicians will endeavor to use the new constitution as a means of perpetuating their supremacy in the State, and giving them greater power over the rights and franchises of municipalities; while on the other the demo- cratic politicians will seek to render the con- stitution as objectionable as possibile, in order to defeat it at the polls next fall. There is great danger that these apprehensions may be realized ; but the republicans must bear in mind the fact that under the mode selected by them ‘for the election of delegates they com- mand a large majority in the Convention; that they have thus voluntarily taken upon them- selves the duty of framing the fundamental principles to be submitted to the test of the popular vote in November next, and that if they present to the people of the ‘State an im- proper and objectionable work the issue will be made against them as a party, as well as against the constitution, for which they will be responsible, and that if it should fall, they will surely fall with it It is therefore peculiarly incumbent upon them to select capa- ble and honest men as delegates, and wherever their own organization has put forth unde- serving candidates they should vote for those of the other party. If the work of the Con- vention should be well done, it will strengthen the republicans in the State. If 1: should be badly done, it will destroy them. There are, in reality, but a few points in the present State constitution that will be required to be touched by the Convention. The power of the Governor must be increased, so that he may be held directly responsible by the people for tie good government of the State. The other State officers now elected by the people are simply heads of bureaus under the Execu- live, and should be appointed by him, as the Cabinet officers are appointed by the Presi- dent of the United States. Under the present system the greater portion of the subordinate State officers are clected the year when there is no gubernatorial election, and they are frequently the political opponents of the Governor and do all in their power to embarrass his administration. This is inconsistent with the ides of a harme- nious and efficient State goverament. The Judges should be appointed fot life or during good behavior, and, after reaching a certain age, should be retired with @ pension. This would insure an independent, farless, honest and efficient judiciary, and take the courts of justice out of the control and contamination of politics. The Senate should lave the privi- lege of confirming or rejecting|the Governor's nominations. Municipal govemments should be based on the same principbs as the gov- ernment of the State. It is no more just to deprive the people of a Gity 4? the choice of their chief magistrate than it Yould be to take from ‘ne people of the State) the election of «their Governor, It is no soinder policy to abift the responsibility for tlp honest and effi- cient government of a city fipm the shoulders of ile Mayor than it is to shifl the responsibil- ity for the honest and effident government of the State from shoulders of the Governor. The Mayor pf a city should therefore be elected by voters of the city, should have the powd, without the in- tervention of the Aldermes to appoint the heads of all subordinate lepartments, and should be held answerableto the people for the character and conduct jf his appointees. The Board of Aldermen jhould be atrictly limited to legislative duties'and the Board of Councilmen should be abobhed altogether, These are, briefly, the reprms in the present State constitution demandd by the popular voice, and they should be facn as clearly and simply as possible. 3 is very probable that the Convention will bj a failure, and that its work will be unsatisfatory to the people; but the citizens of New Yk, who are pecu- larly interested in securin a wise and prudent remodelling othe fundmental law, should nevertheless attend the pis and vote for the best men in nomination, idependent of politi- cal considerations. — Fan on thePacific, The Japan Punch, pried at Yokohama, is queer and interesting ombination of Ameri- can humor and Japaned art. Its caricatures and hits at current evals are done in the irresistible style of th native pencil and printed on the peculiarpaper of the country, and make it the funniest Punch we have yet seen. It is a good evidence that the irrepres- sible Amorican preserves hie keen sense of the ridiculous and enjoys his pointed though hearty laugh wherever he goes. Tho Greatest Wonder of the Age—The Revo- lution in the South. The Southern political tour of Senator Wil- son, of Massachusetts, inaugurated at Orange Court House, Virginia, on Saturday lest, in his opening speech there to the blacks in behalf of the republican church, and continued in his apeech last evening to six thousand Ameri- cans of African deacent, marks a new chap- ter in the history of our political parties. The republican leaders are becoming somewhat anxious as to the drift of the Southern negro vote they have created as a political balance of power, and Senator Wilson is but the pio- neer of 8 host of republican orators who will soon enter the Southern field as reapers of this inviting harvest. But it is evident, from the letters of our attentive correspondents in all the Southern States, that the republicans will not gain this Southern black vote without a struggle—that the sagacious le aders of the rul- ing Southern white class will make a vigorous fight to bring about @ fusion of Southern whites and blacks, landowners and laborers, as in a common cause, and that to this end the late Southern white master will not hesitate to meet his black fellow citizens, lately his slaves, on the platform laid down by Congress—the political equality of whites and blacks. Of all the wonders of the nineteenth century the most astounding and the most gratifying is this wonderful revolution universally inaugu- rated in the South under the decisive recon- struction laws of Congress. A mighty revolu- tion was effected by the late war for the Union in the total abolition of African slavery; for this was the removal of the foundations upon which the whole superstructure of the social, religious and political institutions of the late slave States rested. Reconstruction, upon the basis of universal liberty and civil and political equality, thus became inevitable; but from the beginning to the end of President Johnson’s hal-way experiments it was made manifest that even for generations to comic, 80 long as there were any reservations of discre- tion left to the ruling white class of the rebel States, those States would be held back under the hope of a restoration of the old order of things—at least to the extent of a reconstruc- tion on the old civil and political distinctions of race and color. But Congress has solved the problem. From Virginia to Texas there is an active, earnest movement among the Southern whites in recognition of the civil and political equality of the blacks. It isa revolution casting out those fixed ideas of two hundred years’ growth— those ideas resulting from negro bondage upon which the federal constitution was founded, aad upon which the government has been administered for three quarters of a century. Is not this great revolution in Southern ideas the most remarkable of all the revolutions in the history of mankind? In the Oriental nations, and in Greece and Rome, the transition from the restraints of slavery to the equalities of frec- dom was easy, because slavery was not marked by the enduring badge of color. The game may be sald of the omancipation of the serfs of Russia, Bat American slavery, limited to thé negro, and resting upon the religious belief of the negro’s divinely appointed sub- jection as a slave to the white man, js a totally different thing. Still with us, even yet, in nearly all the Northera States, political dis- tinctions against the negro, resulting from negro slavery in the South, more or less pre- vail. All these things considered, we can hardly believe the reports of our correspondents or the evidence of our senses touching this wonderful revolution in Southern ideas. Thus, for example, stands General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, a dis- franchised leader of the rebellion, pleading the old abolition plea of “ liberty, equality and fraternity ” toa meeting of blacks, who only the other day were his absolute slaves, and re- garded by himseif as divinely placed under his sovereign will and pleasure as their lord and master. Neither suffering nor policy couid work such a change single-handed ; but where helplessness, necessity and sound policy combine, even those old Southern inborn ideas, inherited with a thousand negro slaves—ideas which have survived a four years’ disastrous war for the sovereign rights of slavery, are vanquished and dismissed. Gen. Wade Hampton represents the interests of the Southern landholders against Senator Wilson and the interests of the republican party. As the contest goes on the lines divid- ing the future political parties of the South will begin to appear, and the tendencies of the negro'vote. At present it seems to be drifting to the republican camp, and under some vague notion that confiscation is to crown the work of emancipation ; but when this fallacy is dispelled, as it must be, the Southern negro will take a clearer view of his political policy, and will shape his course accordingly. Mean- time it will be intensely interesting to watch the developments of this new political era in the South, and its reaction upon our political parties in the North. The War Between Brasil and Paraguay. We learn from our South American corres- pondence, that the war between Brazil and Paraguay is likely to assume a new phase, to be terminated, perhaps, by the defection of the Brazilian allies. The people and troops of the Argentine republic are evidently disposed to break from their alliance with Brazil. The Emperor of Brazil, in a decree issued the 13th of March, urges the necessity of increasing the Brazilian forces against Paraguay, in conse- quence of the withdrawal of a great part of the Argentine army. It is said that these troops were withdrawn in eonsequence of dis- turbances in the provinces of the Argentine republic; but the real cause, it is believed, is found in the desire ot both the Argentine people and government to back out from {thelr alliance with Brasil. At all events, this move- ment, whatever may be the cause, will lead, probably, to a dissolution of the alliance. The war appears to have become unpopular in Brasil also; for the National Guard of the empire seemed unwilling to leave home upon the Emperor calling upon them to go to the war. At the same time Lopez, the Dictator of Paraguay, held out as obstinately as ever, and with as little prospect of being conquered. Whatevor mar be the persopal character of NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. the Emperor of Bragil—and he is spoken of | Hmnatp continues on in its career of prosperity asa liberal monarch—or however we may condemn the dictatorial character of Lopez, the President of Paraguay, our sympathies are with the heroic little republic which has with- stood the brunt of battle so well. The Para- guayans are fighting for republicanism in South America against imperialism. Looking back to the time when this war commenced, and all the circumstances connected with it, we cannot help concluding that the Emperor of Brazil was acting in concert with Louis Napoleon and the other monarchs of Europe to crush, as far as possible, republican govern- ment on the continent of America. The effort has failed in Mexico, and no doubt will fail in South America. We hope, therefore, that the news which we published yesterday relative to the probable dissolution of the alliance between Brasil and the Argentine republic may prove true, and that this useless and bloody war may soon be ended. : Jadge Barnard and the Now Law Relating te the Supreme Court.: Among the acts passed by the late Logisla- ture, approved by the Governor, is an act re- tating to ‘the’ Supreme Court in Chambers of this oity and county. This act requires the Governor to eppoint one of the Justices of said Court to conduct all ite business of an exparte character. The Judge thus selected will have the exclusive power to grant attach- ments or injunctions, or to set injunctions aside in sald Court; the sole power of the Court to order the arrest of parties, or the re- lease of parties arrested ; the exclusive power of appointment of referees, receivers, trustees, &c., including many matters jupon which his decisions will be final and conclusive. In short, the Justice invested with the exclusive judi- cial powers contemplated in this act will, in reference to Manhattan island, be second only in the scope of his official authority to the Governor of the State. The great object of this bill was the despatch of all this special business, which has increased upon the Supreme Court, “is increasing, and ought to be diminished.” We infer, too, from the opposition which has broken out in certain quarters against Judge Barnard, that he is the man contemplated by the Legislature and by the Governor for this important appointment, and we are gratified to believe that within 4 day or two this choice will be made. As a defender of the public interests of this metropolis against corrupt political rings, cliques and jobs, there are many special rea- sons why Governor Fenton should appoint Judge Barnard for the distinction designated. As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he was the first of our Judges to proclaim the constitu- tionality of the Excise law; and in his injunc- tions against the Fernando Wood lease, and a certain gas contract involving a saving of ten millions of money to our gas consumers, and against the bone boiling and cattle driving nuisances, and in other things, he has risked the hostility of the controlling political cliques, factions and rings of this city in maintaining the rights and interests of its people. In this view he has lost caste in Tammany, but he has gained largely in the general esteem of this community, regardless of parties, Moreover, if the voice of the lawyers and citizens having business depending or likely to come before the Supreme Court in Chambers were put to the vote upon this appointment, we dare say that nine-tenths of them would be for Justice Barnard, because of his experience and his remarkable qualities of clearness, impartiality and prompt decisions— qualities which have made him not more con- spicuous in the despatch of this special busi- nese of the Supreme Court than he stands before the Court of Appeals in the approval of his judgments. Lastly, as a man of wealth, above the small temptations of rings, cliques or par- ties, and as a man of an independent and fear- less character in the administration of justice, ambitious only, as he has proved himself, of a solid reputation in his office, Judge Barnard is the man for this position, and Governor Fenton, in his appointment, will assuredly be sustained by the legal fraternity and the public opinion of New York city and county. The Now Post Office and the New Herald Building. Certain city politicians and foolish people seem disposed to oppose everything the HERALD recommends, and whatever they sup- pose is likely to be of advantage to us per- sonally. Ifa proposition be ever so good in itself for the public, and the Heratp advyo- cates it, they are sure to be in opposition, and think they annoy us exceedingly. Now, the truth is, if they did but know it, we fold our arms with the greatest composure and smile at these futile efforts to annoy or harm us. In fact, we find that these simpletons overreach themselves, and that we are benefited by their opposition. For example, we pointed out the iniquity and illegality of the Mayor and City Council selling the lower end of the City Hall Park to the federal government for a Post Office site. We did so for the public good, because the Park belongs to the people and is one of the lungs of the city, and because we con- sidered the sale illegal and the amount paid altogether insufficient. In these views we were sustained by able lawyers and the public: But the Mayor and City Council were deter- chuckle over what they have done, thinking they struck a blow at the Henan. Why, the value of the new Heratp building has been As for ourselves, we are quite content: fer the ‘as well under the opposition as by the favor of the city authorities and political rings. ‘Tho War in Moexice and the Lex Talionis. We give in another column the response of the Mexican journals to what has been said of the killing of his prisoners by General Esco- bedo, and the points of the protest of certain French officers in the city of Mexico against the act of the Mexican general. As these officers contemplate the possibility of being taken at an early day, it is only natural that they should object to such shooting; and as to the Mexican journals, we are glad to note that this explanation shows their desire to stand well in the good opinion of the outside world. Their arguments give us an inner view also of the imperial status. It is urged, for instance, that the real flag of the intervention was the flag of France; and that since that flag is gone ont of the country, and since the French commander declared upon leaving that all soldiers taking service under any other forfeited the proteo- tion of France, there is really no longer any intervention as between nations, and that the IMberal authorities have only to deal with some disorderly persons whom they choose to call bandits, We cannot forget that Maximiliae argued in the same way in 1865. Believing the liberal cause hopeless, and that the resist- ance of the liberals was no longer war, he generalized all the adherents of Juarez as guerillas and bandits, and ordered by im- perial decree that whenever taken they should be shot within twenty-four hours. He also decreed death against all who con- cealed them, gave them information or sold them food. Illustrious examples, therefore, might be cited for regarding Escobedo’s act as justifiable retaliation. We should con- sider, however, that such applications of the lez talionis are only excusable whén they can serve a useful purpose on the side of humanity. Not a word can be said in their favor if they take the character of mere revenge. If the shooting of prisoners by Escobedo were needed to prevent the shooting of prisoners by Maxi- milian, it might be proper enough to shoot them ; but that necessity no longer exists, and Mexican generals should now see that they have an opportunity to put their conduct be- I fore the world in admirable contrast with the conduct of their invaders. By his own decree Maximilian must have executed Juarez if he had taken him last year. Let Juarez now take his revenge, if he captures Maximilian, by sending the would-be Emperor safely to Mire mar. The effect of such an act would not be lost. Let the Mexicans not imitate the conduct they condemn. Mr. Gladstone’s Resignation. The Atlantic cable brings the news that Mr. Gladstone has written a letter, in which he virtually resigns the leadership of the: liberal party. This resignation isan important and significant event. It shows that in Mr. Disraeli the tory party has a leader who excels in the tactics and strategy of political’ war- fare, and who. has proved himself to be more than a match for Mr. Gladstone, whose half-way measures have resembled but too closely the temporizing, half-way policy of General McClellan and other leaders of the Union cause during the opening years of our late war. It also shows—and herein lies its chief importance—that John Bright now stands forth as the General Grant of the liberal party in Great Britain. He “will fight it out on that line,” which must eventually lead to glorious victory. Tho Southern Relict Ball. The Ladies’ Southern Relief Association announces @ ball and supper at Delmonico’s to-morrow evening, for the benefit of the em- barrassed and distressed people of the South- ern States. This is a very good movement in some respects. It will afford an exeellent op- portunity for the benevolent ladies to enjoy themselves, and we are disposed to endorse it more on that account, than with any expecta-" tion that the festivity will result in much benefit to the South. The amount received will be but a drop in the bucket compared with the claims which the widespread want and desti- tution of the Southern people make upon our sympathies. But then to the ladies who have nothing else to do this ball will undoubtedly prove a godsend. They cannot go to Wall street and indulge in the excitement of specu- lation so nearly akin to gambling; but, as a substitute, a ball at Delmonico’s may answer very well to fill up the tediousness of the hour. If the undertaking keeps these ladies busy upon any charitable project, there is no cause for regret that their time should be thus occu- pied. Some time ago charitable works were confined to the negro, and the principal agents were found in the class of what is known as strong-minded women. Relief for the South has resurrected the sympathies of a different class. But if these ladies would only infla- ence their husbands and male relatives to divert the employment of their capital from wild-cat schemes and Wall street speculation and invest it in the purchase of lands, in building factories, reconstructing railroads, and infusing new life into the South, they would accomplish more beneficent results than a hundred balls in New York can ever achieve. However, we are very glad to know thaé the ladies are interesting themselves to the extent of getting up @ ball for the rellef of Southern people. We commend the generosi of Delmonico in furnishing the rooms and supper free, while we admire at the same time the adroitness of this mode of obtaining » good advertisement. We can readily conceive how little good the few hundred dollars raised from the proceeds of this ball will do to the Southern country, which has an area not far short of that of Southern Europe. Compared with « liberal investment of capital in enterprises ealculated to lift up the South from its present impoverished condi- tion, such contribution must prove meagre indeed. Yet the husbands of those ladies, who, animated as they no doubt are by the most humane motives, have given so much of their time to getting up the ball, will not invest a dollar in any undertaking to assist the South unless they are assured of twenty or thirty per cent interest on their money. How much better would it be, then, for these char- itable ladies to induce their husbands to in- vest capital in enterprises such as we have indicated, from which « positive and material