The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. AMUSEMBNTS THIS EVENING BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. near Broome street. —Mangor, Tar Lirtux Pouctay Deaces—Tue Litres ‘Teeasuae. NEW YORK THEATRE. Broadway, opposite New York Fovwl.—Psavita, tas Rora, Mi.kuaip—Ma, anp Mus. Preven Wize. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 4 and 47 Bowery,— ‘Unie Acosta. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ove Coustn—Juxwy Lin, ed 4 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tas Bousman on IRVING HALL, Irving piace.—Mr. ann Mrs. UH Pavu's GRaxp Fakewxi. Comcnicrs IN Gomoun. Be ls Awmnicay STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street and Fourth ave. Rue.—GRanp CONCERT IN AID OF THE Masomic HALL AND Asriva Faro, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 68 Broidway, opposite the Metropolitan Hoiel—in ume Ermiorian’ Rareurain: ENTS, SINGING, DaxCING aD Buwunsquas.—Te Black, —-L' AvRICAINE. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, aitethe New York Hotel. —In tarin Songs, Dances. Borex. 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The New Yorx Heratp establishment is now located in the new Hsrap Building, corner of Broadway and Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in erdor to have their advertisements properly claasi- Bed they should be sent in before half-past eight e clock in the evening. THB NEW Ss. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yeater- day ovening, April 25, Prussia has replied to the latest peace proposition of the mediating neutrals, Sho refuses to give up Luxem- burg. War between France apd Prussia was regarded as ‘almost certain.” The Paris Moniteur says Prussia has not carried out the treaty of Prague with regard to Schleswig. The Constitutionnel says that France will ase every effort consistent with honor to avoid war. Switzerland intends placing an army of observation on the French frontier. The Fenian trials in Dublin have been resumed. Prince Napoleon Bonaparte has gone to Italy. The marriage of the Crown Prince of Italy with an Austrian’ Arohduchess is postponed. A serious emeute has taken placeat Oporto, and a Portugese frigate had been des- ‘patobed to restore order. American bonds from Germany were being placed on the London market in large quantity. Five-twentios declined one-eighth in London from the opening fat 68%) to yesterday afternoon. Consols closed at 91 for money | ‘tm London, The Paris Bourse was heavy in the aftor- moos. Five-twenties wore at 73 in Frankfort at noon, ‘and closed yesterday evening at 73%. They closed at 68‘; in London. Cotton advanced a \ of a penny in (Liverpool from the opening to the afternoon, and eiosed very active. Brendstaffs quiet. Provisions un- changed. Our special correspondence by mail from Beflin embraces matter of the very highest importance. The writer details in a series of letters the commencement ‘and progress of the active diplomatic correspondence otween Napoleon and Prussia on the Luxemburg sub- ject. Tho Emperor's “demand” produced great excite- ment in Berlin, and the situation was considered ‘‘alarm- ing’’ for a few days after its reception. A “black day” occurred on the Prussian ‘Change. Germany became irritated subsequently. Gount Bismarck immediately replied to Napoleon in ‘the famous note, the sabstance of which was speciaily tolographed to the Hrraup by the Atlantic cable, asking the reasons for the French armaments, and demanding ‘their “instant” cessation, Our Berlin correspondent weiterates the contents of the note from the “best ‘sources,’ confirming our cable despatch, and goes ou w show that Germany is determined not only to make war on France but to make it before ‘Napoleon is prepared to assume the aggressive. The rallying ery and war motto in Berlin was, “War now, ‘and we will be in Paris in three months,’ The people of Luxemburg prosented a petition to The King of Holland expressing their ‘ardent desire’’ to re- main without change of allegiance. ‘The Paris Débats published an article deprecating a ‘war between France and Prussia merely on account of the future role of Luxemburg. The Liberte, however, points out in exciting words that France must maintain her independance by showing to Count Bismarck that “if there isa German nation, there is also a French nation,” which the people are ‘‘determined to defond ‘and tear to pieces the treaties of 1815,'' if necessary. A Cologne journal advocates a settlement by declaring Luxemburg an independent State. ‘The speoches delivered by John Bright, Mr. Disraeli ‘aod Mr, Gladstone, in the English House of Commons, on the Dorby reform bill, during the animated debate which preceded the test vote division, are reported in our columns, THE CITY. The Board of Health met yesterday, and « report on the deleterious effects of slaughter houses on the pub- }1e health was received from Dr. Dalton. A resolution to commence proceedings at law against twenty-five ef the worst slaughter houses in the city was adopted. The resolution, partly sanctioning the erection of an abattoir (n East Forty-Fourth street was rescinded. Im the Board of Aldermen yesterday, a resolution was Sonoarred in designating the aerial bridge at Fulton (reot and Broadway asthe “!oew Bridge” The City ‘Tax Levy signed by the Governor was received, and re- erred to the Committee on Finance. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon, ‘when Mr. Stephen Roberts endeavored to enter « protest against the action of the Board in concurring with the Aldermen in repealing various city ordinances at the special mesting on Wednesday evening, ‘The protest ‘was not received, bat it will be presented at the next mecting, A resolution to repeal © measure by which the Corporation Counct] was directed to have Church stroot extended from Fulton to Morris streets was re. ferred to the Committee on Streets. ‘Tho Board of Excise held ite regular weekly mooting yesterday, and revoked the licenses of thirteen liquor eaters, Fifteen applications for license wore granted. A new form of application goes into ofect on the ist of ‘May, which provides that the-applicant must coniine his ‘business to a certain portion of his house in which there must bea window through which the interior of the piace can be seen when the doors are closed, and no waiter girls, music, dancing of ether amusements will be eilowea, ~~ approved the resolatien adopted by Py A Aes on Wednesday aight, aunulling alt streets, and in October last one of these cars, while in charge of one of the defondant’s servants, at the corner of Hadson and Canal streets, run over the plaintiff caus- ing him serious bodily iniuries, for which the present action was brought to recover damages. the case of Augustine Daly, plaintiff and respondent, vs. KE. H. Bateman, defendant and appellant, came up for | which a Frenchman is 0 proud, aa of tae posi- argument, There had been a verdict in the 8; Term for Mr, Daly against Mr. Batemin for $410 for certain literary work 3 tion with the well known play of “Leah,” in which Miss | he,so much dreads as that that prond position Bateman has so often appeared. Mr, Bateman ap-j should be lost. On more tham one orca Pealed against the verdict, and the arguments on this | gion recently the French people buve appeal were opened and concluded yesterday. The 4 matter now stands for judgment. ordinances relative to theatres, Jank shope, cars and car arivors, Ad n of Sioux Indians have arrived in this eity from Washington, where they have been for the purpose of obtaining mew reservations. They visited the Park cable deapatohes relating to affairs in yesterday, as also did the Japanese Commissioners. Enrope. The situation no longer hangs on the A mass meeting of the carpenters of this city was | long prominent Eastern question. Thal ques- held last evening at the ay Rooms, Twonty-cighth | tion, though to all appearance as far from street, near Broadway. Resolutions expressing the de- demand: tormination of the body to hold out till the demand | POiD& ee prs ing jeetniion et of $49 day wages was acceded to wore unanimously a9 over, J ret Place to that o' adopted, and more stirring question now pending be- Contracts for the construction of sewers in various | tween France and Prussia. Our latest news, it streets and the paving of others with the stone block | mast be admitted, does not encourage the hope Pavement were awarded by the Croton Aqueduct Pe-| that peace is to be maintained, Prussia has partment yesterday, Two hundred and seventy-five barrels of whiskey | Teplied to the proposals made by the other Wore seized in the Eastern district of Brooklyn on Mon- | great Powers, and has reiterated her determi- day night, on suspicion of an attempt on the part of | nation not to evacuate the fortress of Luxem- thelr ownors to evade the revenue laws, burg. The excitement in consequence has The trot over the Union Course yeaterday included ‘ed a "Tade Oheks ok the tavantie be love DAG: increased, and war is considéred all but cer- but her sulky was crushed in a collision with another tain. Little sparks can kindle great fires ; carly in the contest, and the race was won by the mare | and it appears as if this little spark of Lux- Black Bess, emburg were destined to set Europe ablaze. iihen on tas Tia of Joan, Over tay coma nave | _ Wo Mad, Menta Be 6 Ain; that the volo of cai Talia a al reason might prevail, and that war might be ‘The case of N. Hill Fowler vs. the Canvassers of Klec- | 8verted; but if we are to yield to the evidence tion of the Third election district was argued on appeal | now before us, that hope must be abandoned. yesterday, before the General pore of the vat pe It might have been possible té leave the Grand Court. The appeal was brought from an order e Spocia! Term, refusing to issue mandamus to compel the a eee tr ae ip oo respondents to count the votes polled in favor of the aa ‘Oland as before, only pro- relator in a contest for the judgestup of the Eighth dis- oy ° coord bepraney wn Soearre. trict. Decision reserved. wi wo ave satisfied Franec, co Tn the Supreme ssekapsia yay part 2, in om a et not materially bave injured Prussia. It is now, Elias Fairchild vs. John Graham, an action broug! recover $5,000 damages for injuries resulting from @ sagteset i or be bre F A ak Tyee collision between a city railroad car and a private truck, | 888 set herself up as the defender many, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict for the plaintiff in | and, in the name of Germany and the German the sum of $250. people, refuses to retire from a fortress which Tn the abd pena fe Par, 2 Phenighing 2 an | she declares to be German property. The action was brought by iam H, Scott against the Cen- . >, 5 tral Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia 10 re- question as between the two ae 4 LA cover the sum of $6,440 in United States money, due on | Teduced to the narrowest possible limits, account of dividends declared by the defendants during | Prussia will not yield. France must yield or the war on stock assigned to the plamntif™, The Court | firht. eit eign iy pian ie bid pam OR AMO, ‘i the Which of the two courses is France likely to jividends, and for the detendant on the remaining three, ‘ A In the Superior Court, Part 1, yesterday, an action was | 8¢opt? Will she tamely submit, or will she brought by the Board of Pilot Commissioners against the | draw the sword? No one who understands the Erie Railroad Company to recover penalties for the vio- | temper and present feeling of the French peo- lation of a State law lovying @ penalty of $25 aday a8 | ple can have any difficulty as to the answer ste abe GIS Sea bala getty Ligand which ought io be given to this alternative. If encumbering the piers or wharves of this city without 2 permission from the Legisiatare to do so. ‘The defen Bismarck remains obstinate, France will and dants wore alleged to have encumbered the bulkheads | Must fight. There are, doubtless, many and weighty reasons why Napoleon should not wish, just at present, to undertake the responsi- bility and to encounter the risks of war. between Piers 50 and 31 North river, and the penalty for doing so for 107 days was sought to be recovered against them. The Court directed the Jury to bring in a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed, + A $2,675. To this direotion oxception was taken by counsel | Another time certainly might be more conve- for the defence. nient ; and we may rest assured that war will In the Superior Court, Part 1, im the case of Charles | not be proclaimed until the arts of diplomacy Endres, a minor, vs. Charloa I. Piatt, the jury brought in | haye been fairly and fully tried, But Napoleon a verdict for the plaintiff for $10,000, ‘The defendant i taht. oh caubaliine saa had « contract with the Hudson River Railroad Company | B®? never been a pre = n . s to move thoir cars between Chambers and Thirtitth | Convenience when his own honor an cs honor of France has been at stake. Directly, therefore, it becomes manifest that dishonor is inseparable trom delay, he will “let slip the dogs of war.” Nor will it be possible for him In the General Term of the Marine Court, yestorday, | 10 do otherwise, even if he were willing. « The blood of France is up. There is nothing of The Approaching Kuropean War-—Revols- lows Impending. In another column will be found our iatest tion which hia country occupies among the ir Sie Dat lo oouiese nations of the earth. There is nothing which tasted the bitterness of humiliation. Prussia In the General Sessions yesterday, Joseph Johnson | berself has already touched them on the and George Murray wore convicted of robbory in the | #ore and sensitive part. They have borne it, first degree, having assaulted and attempted to rob Mr. | it is true, but they have borne it with impa- A. D, Dubois, dig anstphgs School No. 36, of three | tience, and have never ceased to long for thousand dollars, jor Hackett sentenced each of Skai's tun Wks elves x taieaty Seace their opportunity. If, therefore, Napoleon, ‘The stock market was firm yesterday, but closed duit, | Yielding to an extreme desire to preserve peace, were to remain passive under this fresh Gold was irregular, but clored firm at 1405;. MISCELLANEOUS. insult—a supposition in the last degree un- judge or two, upon six hours’ notice. NeW YORK BRRALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1867;—TRIPLE SHERT General Pope and Governet Jonkine—A | is the opportunity for which they are pation’ Wholesome Warning. General Pope, commander of the Southern “Third Military District,” has been giving some wholesome advice to Governor Joukins, of Georgia. The General asks the Governor in the outset if he had seen General Ordor No. 1 of said district commander, before he (the Governor) issued his late address to the people of Georgia, advising the do-nothing policy on their part in the hope of some re- lef against Congress from the Supreme Court. The general order referred to enjoins all civil officers of said military district to a strict per- formance of their official duties, and warns them against intermeddling in opposition to the policy of Congress, The Governor confesses his mistake in this matter, apologizes and promises hereafter to do and say “what he be- lievea is required by his duty and his oath of office”? General Pope responds, accepting this explanation; but after enlarging upon the rule laid down ia his order No. 1, he aays that “he will be compelled to remove all officers who, while in office, use their influence to pre- vent. the execution of the laws.” He will have no auch nonsense or trifling with the laws of the United States—the supreme laws of the land; but he simply intends that they shall in good faith be obeyed and carried out in his military district. This example of military discipline will doubtless bring a good many other in- tractables in said district to a realizing sense of their true situation They will thus understand that the terms of reconstruction laid down by Congress are not to be opposed, ignored, evaded or postponed ; but must be recognized, respected and obeyed. Genera! Sheridan, in New Orleans, Headquar- ters of the Fifth Military district, from the word “ go,” proclaimed this decisive policy of Gen- eral Pope, with the additional emphasis of the discharge from office of the contumacions and obstructing Mayor Monroe, and a refractory General Sickles, in the Second district, North and South Jarolina, has been more fortunate in having sensible and practical governors and civil offi- cers generally to deal with. In cheerfully con- sulting and co-operating with him the result is perfect harmony and smecoth sailing to the military and civil authorities, and perfect order and peace among the people. The same may be eaid of General Schofield, commanding in Virginia, the First Military district, Whether this is in consequence of good advice given or taken by Mr. Underwood, Mr. Botts, Mr. Wise, or Mr. Hunnicut (white men), or by Mr. Julius Casar Johnson (black man), it makes no material difference. I¢- is enough that the district. commander is getting on very pleasantly. with the civil authorities of Virginia, and with big fellow citizens there, Union and seceah, “ white folks and niggers.” » We know, too, that ‘between General Ord, at the Fourth district (embracing Mississippi and Arkansgs), and the civil authorities and people concerned, there is a happy accord, and every prospect of a thoroughgoing work of recon- struction without the slightest difficulty, not- withstanding the efforts of Sharkey and Walker to work up another Dred Scott decision in the Supreme Court on State rights, Best of all, in this business, are the evidences before us that in General Grant’: commanders of these South- ern military districts we have officers who know how to respect the local civil authorities within their appointed limits, and how to deal Additional advices concerning the situation in Mexico confirm the news published yesterday. Three commis- sioners were seat by Maximilian to Juarez, at San Luis, With an offer of capitulation. Guaranteos for the lives | force torrent, and property of the prominent chieftains, it is sad, are demanded by the commiassoners, but will not be granted by Juarez. a. Seward's messeager, bearing the inter. | hand, he flings himself on the people and cession in favor of Maximilian, was furnished with an escort at Matamoros for San Luis Potosi, where he ex- pected to find the Mexican President. also that Maximilian had offered to surrender if he was granted a free departure from the country. Our special correspondent in British Hondures, dating | Will resound throughout all her borders, and at Belize on the 7th of April, states that the colony was {| France will be roused as she bas not been stili unsettled, in consequence of the Indian raids. Fresh 18 ts reported incursions by the Indians were feared. The writer adds: ‘* What we want is a body of men like your Texas rangers, who can find and whip an Indian,” One of the | drove the invader from her soil. In this one largest landholders has offered one hundred acres of land | thing Frenchmen of overy cluss and of all to each actual settler. Tho latest Indian raid was at Guinneycrase, where they took several persons. They come across the Rio Hondo and return before we know they are here, and as the English government will not allow us to invade the soil of Mexico, they set ns at de- fiance. The commandant of the post at Memphis has directod | himself. It ia impossible, therefore, to doubt that no public demonstration In the way of speeches of | the egurse he will follow. Procession be permitted at the opening of Elmwood Cemetery, when the gravea of the rebol dead in the vicinity were to have been decorated by the women, | Predict what disastrous consequences. may fol He recommends that it would be more becoming to con- fino their demonstratious t simple acts of mourning for deceased relatives. General Suliy's commission recently received the visit of a band of Sioux Indians, one of whom confessed to having been implicated in the mnsgacre of the garrison at Fort Phil Kearny. Senator Wilson visited Jo Davis at Fortress Monroe | hui certain to bevet serious difficulties with yesterday. The conversation was entirely up topics, the reconstruction question not he i ‘The Senator afterwards made a speoch to the colored people, who assembled in the vicinity. At a meeting of republicans of both races at Wash- ington yesterday a strong attempt was made to incorpo- rate the name of a colored candidate on the Council- manic ticket, but the motion to that effect was Inid on the table. The individual who proposed it said he was advised to do #0 by Senator Sumner. George Peabody bas received the expected portrait of Queen Victoria, it having been sent directly to bis ad- dress, and not to the British Minister. ‘The State Treasurer of Arkansas has been removed from office, on the ground of incompetency under the laws of Congress. Charles C, Williams, a spiritualist. was found guilty in the Superior Court, Norwich, Conn., yesterday of as- sault on his little daughter, with intent to kilt. Another mysterious murder has occurred in Philadel- phia, An old lady named Magilton was found in her residence with her throat cut and her head wounded with blows from a hammer. A man ssmed Winnemore, & friend of the family, who gave information of the murder to the old lady's husband, was arrested on sus- picion. A portion of a brick wall of the Treasury building at Washington fell yesterday. An inspection has revealed the fact that owing to the weight of heavy several of tho walls are in an unsafe condition, Sanford Conover has been sentenced to ten years im. prisonment in the Albaay penitentiary, for perjury in the assassination trials. likely—their pent-up feelings of indignation would prove too mnch even for his restrain- ing influence ; they would burst, and, like a would cast him aside or hurry him helplessly along with them. If, on the other with them if they attempt to defy, disturb or trifle with the sovereign authority of Congress. The State of Parties in England. In the uneasiness which prevails at the criti- cal relations of France and Prussia the danger- ous condition of affairs in England is over- looked. And yet there is almost as much cause for anxiety in regard to it as that pre- sented by the Luxemburg question. The split among the English liberals, and the retirement of Mr. Gladstone from the leader- ship of the party, are ominous events, They show that between the two great, political organizations there is but little chance of the expectations of the people being realized. ‘The tories will not concede what the popular sentiment demands. The opposition, from their own differences, are just‘as unlikely to be in a position to satisfy it. What is to be the result of this dead lock on the most pressing question that has perhaps ever affected the destinies of Great Britain? Revolution! If the most san- guine mind can find any other solution it must have arrived at its conclusions by a process of reasoning to which we are strangera, There can be no belter evidence of the critical character of the situation than the position as- sumed by Mr. Bright. He abstains from taking a pari in thix conflict of party interests, satis- lied that it can only end in disappointing and disgusting the people. He raises no ob- stacles to such propositions as are made with a view to postpone the final settlement of the question, but he will not favor the carry- ing of them. He, as well as every other sound thinking man, is satisicd that the time has arrived when an end must be put to the struggle between aristocratic tyranny and popular rights. The misery of the people has reached its cul- minating point, and the ruling classes must either yield or prepare themselves fr confisca- tion and banishment, like those of France in the first French revolution. 4% is not only preposterous, but suicidal, irr such a state of things, for tories or whigs to seck to maintain their hold of the governrsent as purely party organizations. They forget that these party distinctions have been obliterated by the force of events, and that the only question thet now occupies the people is how they can soonest arrive at acomple’te overthrow of the existing political syster,, with its hereditary privileges end unfair xaonopoly of the soil. Is would have been well for Earl Derby and bim party if they could have succeeded in hit- ting upon such s measure of reform as would have enabled them to tide over the dangers at asks their support, they will leap in obedience to his summons; all that is loveliest and noblest and best in the land will be consecrated to the cause; the stirring strains of the old Marseillaise roused since those memorable days of the first republic, when she rose as one man and shades of opinion will unite; and, if the Em- peror will but put himself at their head, he will broaden the foundations of his throne and strengthen the hopes of his dynasty. Of this no one is more fully aware than the Emperor Should war be proclaimed it ix impossible to low or where or how it may end. The French iron-clads for cerixin will sweep the fiag of Prussia from the aea, They will blockade her ports both in the Baltic Sea and German Ocean, and carry death snd destruction along her entire seaboard. The blockade will be all | England, who will strive to make capital out of this war, as she has made out of so many others; and in a naval wartare of unparalleled magnitude the value of iron-clads may be per- manently settled. Whether France or Prussia shall be ultimately victorious is a question of minor importance in comparison with the other and more momentous consequences to which it is certain the war will give birth, War is little likely to confine itself to France and Prus- sin, The contagion will spread. The hands of rulers being tied democracy may awake to newness of life and sweep torrent-like over Europe, involving thrones and dynasties in general ruin. We shall not regret the chaos if @ better and nobler Europe emerge from its mn. Sauce fer the (ioose, Sauce for the Gander. Under the license afforded by the existing State constitution, the Legislature, the Cor- poration and the lobby have managed to steal thirty or forty millions of dollars in the last twenty years, When taken to task they have justified themsefvs4 gn the plea that the money has only been transferré? from the pockets of the rich into those of the poor—that it qtill remains in the country, and is of mare beneflt A Contrast. because more freely circulated. Viel, this is The city real estate sold a fow days since by } only the old Dick Turpin doctr’ne, and is as Comptroller Connolly realized moro than the | applicable to the inmates of Yas Sisia prisons appraised value, The property auctioned off | as to members of the Corr voration, the Legis« brought into the City Treasury over eight hun- | isture and the lobby. ‘Burglars ’ swindlers, dred thousand dollars, Its value was estimated | forgers and thieves haw, only taken from one at about seven bundred thousand dollars. | pocket to put into ano’ hor, and the money they The Post Office site in the City Hall Park, sold | have stolen has beer. kent in the country and by Mayor Hoffman and the Common Council | spent pre aa for five hundred thousand dollars, has been | ished, w rators of estimated as worth from three to five millions. | escape ? This isall wrong aw actiones If sold at auction by the Comptroller it would | of the State prison should Ail the offices at Al- have fetched at least three millions. So the | bany and New York, or the mombers of the city loses two million and » half dollars hy the 4 Legislature, the Corporation and the lobby operation, | should Gi the colts of the State otawn. Then why are they pun- present threatening England from without. The outbreak of « continental war will be fatal not only to their chances of retaining power, but to their capability of restraining the revolutionary tendencies that now unquestionably agitate the popular mind. Between the discontent of the English working classes snd the avowed dis- loyalty of the Jrish people, it requires but cir- cumstances of extraneous difficulty to fan them into open and seccessful revolt. If war breaks out between France and Prussia it will be ex- ceedingly difficult to prevent its assuming » Buropean character. We need not say what would be the chances of the English revolution- ists in such an event. If we rightly understand the course of Mr. Bright and his followers. this lying in wait, while the two great parties which have so long ruled the country are exhausting shemselves in a fruitless struggle for the pos- session of a power which must soon pass beyond the reach of both. ‘The Mexican Peon and the Negro. Our correspondence from all parts of the 4 South proves that ¢he negro is now thoroughly whitewashed, and that he is receiving the finishing-off touches from the Southern levellers themselves. The negro question ended, it is now necessary to pick up the next great problem for the benefit of the human race. We do not mean the civilization of our greasy, blubber-eating Esquimaux brethren; for they will probably elect some slippery representa- tive to Congress and demand their rights; but we refer to the Mexican peon, who has ever been as good a subject for commiseration as the negro, and would make a capital founda- tion for a new philanthropic movement having @ tendency to give him what his necessities demand—a right to. forma part of this Uni- versal Yankee nation. ‘The Mexicans having shown that they cannot overtake the nineteenth contury, and that their only hope is annexation to us, we feel disposed to gratify their desires and take them in tow while they get up steam. In the meantime Charles Sumner should head the great agita- tors of the day, t:ke up the peon question and ventilate its miseries. Besides, an immense amount of political capital could be manufac- tured in the enterprise, and as the day is not far distant when Mexico will drop into our hands, now is the golden moment. All the radical faction should commence the study of the Spanish language. Toltec, Aztec, Zapoteco and Tarahumare antiquities should be studied, to ascertain if the peon system existed in remote times. Wendell Phillips and his army should wheel into column by division and urge the education of the Mexican Indian, whose brain powers are superior to those of the Spanish race which hus so long governed them. - i The indigenous race of Mexico will make an excellent addition to our negro population ; they are docile, hard working and naturally intelligent, and will form a good connecting link between the negro and the white man. Their labor is low, from twenty-five to fifty cents per day ; and, with the productiveness ot Mexican territory under our rule, they would become valuable members of our body politic. Maximilian, thankful to us for saving his life, will lend a smiling approval to our efforts, and contemplate from his philosophical look- out.at Miramar our solution of the Mexican problem.. Louis Napoleon will lament the aad fate that upset his cherished scheme for the ele- vation: of the Indian race which he tried to Latinize.. The Mexican Indiaw will unroll him- self from his blanket, will give up corn and beans and take to beef, while the glory of his benefactors will everlastingly be enshrined in his memory. In truth there is much room for work in be- half of the peon. The “laws of reform,” and the last Mexican constitution never having been put in practice, the peon is in much the same condition that he was twenty years ago—clad in rags, ignorant, sunk in vices and longing for some happy twist of Mexican political affairs to give him his rights,.to educate him and throw him into the proper channels of industry and general improvement. Our Watering Places. The season is fast approaching when the watering places will be at their zenith. There was a general impression some short time ago that there would be a vast exodus to Europe about this time, induced principally by the Paris Exposition ; but as that affair is likely to prove a grand failure, all calcalations of a temporary emigration of pleasure seekers are apparently about to be disappointed. The steamers to Europe are, in fact, carrying fewer passengers this spring than usual, and the prospects of a general war will not encourage visitors to risk the stormy times and inevitable discomforts attendant upo n travel in Europe. The people of France and Prussia are evi- dently both eager for a fight. In both coun- tries such a conflict is manifestly popular. Weare not disposed to view such a war, should it occur, in a light in the least degree damaging to our interests. We shall reap much benefit from.it. Our vessels, which will proba- bly be the only neutral ones on the ocean, will, to a great extent, monopolize the carrying trade. This will be all the better for us, and will do much to recover what we have lost in our maritime interests in consequence of our owa civil war. Besides, American securities must advance in value, because many sensitive people in Europe, taking alarm at the first note of war, will be glad to invest in foreign securities, and as none are so sound as ours, they will probably obtain the preference. The number of tourists to Europe being lessened our people will spend their money at home this summer at our various country resort. This is all the better. The thousands of dollars which are usually squandered in Europe will be expended, as it were, in our own family. European landlords care very little for travel- ling Americans. They regard them simply as people who have plenty of money, and the highest virtue in their estimation is to fleece them to the utmost extent of endurance. At our summer resorts we bave at least the con- solation of knowing that the money spent re- mains here to enrich the country. We shall also have a larger field for country enjoyment than has been at our disposal for the past six years, because the Southern watering places will probably be revived; the famous Suydam Springs of Virginia, for instance, and other pleasant and healthy resorts which the war and its disastrous consequences had shut off from Northern people. Looking at the present aspect of affairs abroad we antici- pate « larger patronage than usual for our watering places ; more life, more fashion, more extravagance than heretofore, and hence we advise the hotel keepers at Long Branch, New- port, Saratoga, Cape May and other favorite resorta to burnish up their houses, stock their larders and wine cellars, and prepare for » gay and festive seagom, » ~ « 5. (Asonerms or tHe Press.—“H.)G." and “3. W.” have broken out in s new spot, They are just now engaged in the polite amusement of calling each other liars, scoundrels, cheats and forgers. Have we not had enoughof this t Besides, of what use is it? We know enough about “H. G.” already. Let “T. W..") instead of wasting any moro time upon him, tell us al? about. Tim Monroe, and how he was shaved and dressed. That is s more interosting sub- ject, and one upon which up to this time we have bad no authentic information. Revolution in Italy—The Dangers ef Auothor Not only are all Pe of Europe agitated with warlike tendencies, but all the revolutionists are in motion also. Our letter from Brussels, published yesterday, gave an sccount of a remarkable assemblage in that. city. It was nothing less than 9 congress of the republican agitators of the Continent of every nationality—a body representing with more or less fidelity the disaffected and op- pressed populations who only await the hour wher the rulers shall be ia trouble to assert themselves in a more significant way. Deputies from France, from England, Ireland, Spain and Italy, were present. How mach of the vol fary of the masses such 4 statement cingaatal England is on the verge of a revolution througs the denial of popular rights by a dominant minority ; Ireland is ready to take a savage revenge for sges of tyranny; strange agglomeration ef parties in France equalty hate the empire; the whole mass of the Spanish people is eager to drive out the Bourbon ruler, and all the aspirants for [talian freedom are ‘dissatisfied with the sovereignty of the family of Savoy. Such is a summary of the popu- lations represented in the convocation at General Prim’s house. It is a new peculiarity that these revolutionists of different nations are thus coming to a common understanding — that, biding their time and watchimg the course of events, they can agree upon a concerted action, and, giving up selfish hopes, can consent to concentrate all power at the point where an atiempt is most likely to be crowned with suc- cess. It is an evil omon for the principle of divine right, when the people pause to de- liberate before acting. It was decided at the Brussels convocation that the first effort should be made at Rome. This decision indicates the wisdom of the revo- lutionary councils, Italy is for many reasons the most promising field for a battle in behalf of popular liberties. Republican government has been the aspiration of the Italian people since the tocsin of the French revolution awakened Europe, and ever eager tograsp the grand prize, seeing it sometimes seemingly within reach, they have constantly beem turned aside from the goal of all their hopes. When the revolutionary armies moved across Italian territory, trampling out of exist- ence the petiy dukes and duchies, there was im Many quarters an instinctive sympathy on the part of the still half sleeping people ; but when the great struggles of the republic and the empire were fought out, Italy, seeing the reat position in which she was left, mad? an at- tempt of her own. That attempt the = AL liance put down. Bat the attempt had the free spirit, and (hey who were children then grew upa revolutionary generation—Maz- zini and Gartbatdi were of the number. ‘The French revolution of 1830 had its sympathetic effect in Italy, and the country was only kept quiet by very decisive measures. But a wor- thy attempt that spread over the whole land came with 1848; and this was only prevented of success by being diverted from its true ob- ject. The country at large, eager for freedom, was maneuvred into accepting merely national unity and a constitutional monarch, while the stubborn republicans of Rome were put down by the soldiers of “republican” France. Italy is dissatisfied and restless to-day under the settlement thus brought about, and her people, the Romans, above all, will rally toa republican standard under the guidance of the tried and trusted leaders of former struggles. Thus, while France will have her hands full in a struggle with united Germany, Italy will rise and fight out the question of national ex- istence with her feeble and incompetent monarch. France may attempt to save the Pope in accordance with her guarantees, and so send out of the country even more force than will be necessary against the Germans. Barricades in the streets of Paris will be the consequence. And white Spain concentrates her force to oppose the blows that England menaces, and while England hastens to punish the arrogance of the Spaniard, what shall keep down the adberents of Prim, on the one hand, and the Fenians on the other? or what shall control the excited masses of the English peo- ple when John Bright shows them that. they have nothing to hope for from constitutional agitation in Parliament? Who can point the limit to the changes that summer will bring forth? The Life-Saving Apparatus Mauia. There appears to be an epidemic prevailing just now which might be called the life-saving apparatus mania. Whether the primary cause of the disease is a desire to indulge in pleasant excursions down the bay in this genial spring season, enlivened by champagne and bountifa! lunches, or to farther the interests of this, that or the other inventor of some machine to save life under difficulties, certain it is that experi~ mental trips to try the efficacy of boats that can live under the water as well as over it, that can float as well with their keels up as down, and other curious contrivances of a like character, are quite the rage just now with a number of people. We are disposed to regard all these so-called life-saving apparatus with distrust. The best way to insure the safety of human life at sea is to maintain a rigid inspection of steam boilers and to secure well-built boats, with water-tight compartments that are water-tighi. in something more than the name. With safe vessels and properly constructed machinery and boilers and an efficient system of police on board to guard against fire, collision in fogs or other disasters incident to a sea voyage, thera will be very little necessity for any patent life- saving apparatus—the greatest merit of which is, in nine cases out of ten, that it makes a profitable return to the inventor and affords an opportunity to a few pseudo philanthropists in authority to have @ good time on the sunny waters of New York bay. ECCLESIASTICAL MEETINGS. ‘The following are the appointments of seciesiastiont institutions to be held within the coming quarter.— Presbyterian, 0. 8., Cincinnati, May 16; N. 8, Roches 5 Senpen, May 16, Presbyterian, New York Harri Pa, Uh ag Jane 5; Gee. Soon: fentareaes oe island, fro — : mi ; Of Conmectiout, New MI "ie Mr od %. t Massa | anes, June “bo shire. Negine. Rueet Se Of New tame. coe a