The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1867.—TRIPLE NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Fourcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ‘OmNTs per copy. Annual subscription price:—~ Zen Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of subscri 1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent toevery club often. Twenty coples to one address, one year, $25, ‘and any larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the Ween ty Heratp the cheapest publication in the country. Volume XXXII -+ Ne. 119 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, uear Broome street.—THx SHAMROCK. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brogdway.—A Nostz Revencr; on, Nigut axD MORNING, NEW YORK THEATRE. 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The Franco-German question relative to the posses- sion of Luxemburg has entered a phase of peaceful settlement by means of a general congress of the great Powers, to assemble in London on the 15th of May. ‘The fortress of Luxemburg is to be dismantled pending the diplomatic consultations Queen Victoria took the active Initiative lead towards this plan of so- lution of the difficulty by forwarding a letter to the King of Prussia, advising him to acoopt “recent and more moderate propositions of France.”” Napoleon inclined towards the peaceful aspect, and at last Satarday night, at a late hour, the Prussian govern- meat accepted the suggestions of the Queen of Great Briain, ‘The Czar of Russia will, it is sald, take out the pur- chase money due by the United States for the Russian American territory in the shape of “a fleet of iron- clads.”” Edouard Blacque Bey, the Tarkish envoy to Washing- ton, #» about to depart from Constantinople for the United Siatea United States bonds were steadily advancing in Frank- fort, and closed on Saturday at 76. Five twenties sold at 80 in Parson Saturday evening. French rentes were quoted at 67f. 50c. Our European files by the steamship Cimbria, dated to tho 17th of April, furnish very interesting details of the cable news additional to the mail reporis published in the Heraup yesterday. Tt was evident at the above date that Napoleon had prepared himself by sktital combinations to accept an issue of bis diffcalty with Prussia on the Luxemburg quostion either by war or a peace congress negotiation, aud that the other great Powers were gradunily tending towards his views some time before the active inter- ference of England. Prussia would undertake the war, Dut she seemed to have somo trouble in arrancing ber alliances, and was regarded scarcely in the right in hold- ing the fortress. The British commission appointed to investigate the working of the Trades Unions system bas brought to light some curious tacts relative to the organization, opera- tions and finance by which the combinations whic! seek to sustain tho “rights of labor’ and, to some extent, con- trol capital, aro managed. It appears that the Unions The social equality question among the two races is narrowed down in Richmond to the question as to whether a negro can ride on the white man’s street car, It was recently decided in the negative, but is still agitated so persistently by the black people that trouble is apprehended unless their demands areggranted. Extra police are stationed along some of the lines, and the negroes, it is said, have threatened to tear up the tracks unless they can ride among white people. ‘The Richmond Times recently made some remarks which were considered too incendiary by Gen, Sehofeld, and he yesterday informed the editor that he must not do 80 any more. The citizens of Halifax, Va, gave the negroes resi- dent in that town «complimentary dinner last week, and the citizens of Danville subscribed heavily towards purchasing @ chapel for the use of their ummediate colored neighbors, Edward Carter, E. P. Dyer, Jr., Charles Mellen, Charles H. Ward and Charles H. Smith have been indict ed in Boston for alleged complicity in the recent State street “financial irregularities” of Mellen, Ward & Co. and the parties have been held to bail in $2,000 each for trial. A bold attempt was discovered recently to throw ® large quantity of untaxed whiskey on the Boston market by means of exporting six hundred barrels of water and reporting the same as whiskey. ‘Mr, Peabody had an interview with President Johnson. while in Washington recently. He donated $15,000 for the founding of a circulating library in Georgetown, D, C., Saturday. ‘The Japancee Commissioners are in Washington, but have not beem presented to the President, owing to the absonce of the Secretary of State. The tenor of their business with the government has not yet trans Poe Virginia Legislature bas passed a bill appropriating $80,000 for she education of white and black children. The United States steamer Marblehead wes at Cape Haytien on the 7th inst, A fire occurred at Charleston, 8. C., yesterday morning, which involved a loss of $150,000. The Corporation Conspiracy and the Street Opening Spoliations. We understand that¢he Corporation jobbers of the city government contemplate a sweepizg schedule of immediate street opening schemes which will leave no room for ény further work of the kind for their successors or the Legislature hereafter. The same reckless policy which has just repealed every existing city ordinance in @ day because the Legislature provided for their enforcement by the poiice, will, it seems, be brought to bear upon the subject of street open- ings. An extensive batch of these jobs will be put through, covering enough ground to pre- clude the consideration of any others for years to come, the Common Council thus heading off encroachment or usurpation of their preroga- tives by any future Legislatures, Centre street, Nassau street, Ann, Vesey and Fulton streets, with several of the avenues, are to be widened, extended and jobbed in the manner of the Church street spoliation now before tho Su- preme Court. Our course with regard to proposed public improvements has been uniformly liberal and decided. In regard to the upper part of the island, we have for years combated and de- feated the jobbers and fools who had conspired to destroy the future of that beautiful region. The result, now exhibited in the parks, boule- vards and splendid programme of judicious improvements, together with the vastly en- hanced value and utility of the property in that part of the city, bears witness to the prac- tical wisdom and the success of our views. SHEET. ‘The Cession of Russian America to the United | Progress in New York and the Old Land- States—The Excitement in England. It is curious to notice the change of feeling marks of the Past. Agwe look out/of our office window and cast upon this northern region, and that the discovery has been made that it is mot | attend service in them, as many of altogether valueless, but, on the contrary, Possessed of large though undeveloped re- | town miles to worship there. The ground sources, politicians are in a flurry, and news- | they occupy is needed for the swell- paper writers are at their wits’ end to give the needed explanations. On all hands it is now | We might feel some regret to see Trinity church admitted that the acquisition will be a positive gain to the United States, Some discover in | stantial edifice; but St Paul’s is not. It is like which has already taken place in England in | see the clock of old St. Paul’s church marking relation to the proposed cession of Russian | the fleating hours and hear the bell toll them American territory to the United States. At into eternity we are led to contemplate the first the whole thing was pooh-poohed as a | changes in and progress of this mighty metro- matter of trifling importance. The holding of | politan city. And this progress represents, the territory by Ruasia had been no incon- | too, that of the whole country. Canal street venience, It was difficult to see why incon- | was out of town a few years ago; now it is venience should be created by its transfer to | called the lower part of the city. Many of the United States, Besides, the territory being | those ancient landmarks which the old New practically worthless, a mere northern waste of | Yorkers almost reverenced have one by one frozen lakes, ice-bound rivers and snow-clad | passed away. A few still remain, but they mountains, it was immaterial, except possibly | have a mournful look by the side of the mag- in a strategic point of view, by whom it might | nificent structures of marble aad iron lately be held. It was not worth even the paltry | erected, as if conscious of their coming fate. purchase money which, as every one saw, very | This very church of St. Paul, and old Trinity, thinly veiled a voluntary transfer. with their graveyards, are out of place amid Now, however, that some little light has been | the intense business activity ste them. They are out of the way, too, for those who the church members have to go down ing business of this part of the city. demolished, because it is a handsome and sub- it evidence of a secret treaty entered into be- | an old hulk laid up with its decaying timbers, tween Russia and the United States in pros- | and is of no further use where it is. It was not pect of certain complications in Europe. All | made to stand the ravages of time, and has no see in it proof of friendship on the part of the | beauty to recommend its preservation. The one-headed giant of the North towards the | congregation, who for the most part live up many-headed giant of the West. Not a few | town, should sell this property and build a The Corporation jobbers, driven out of that locality, propose to settle down upon the irregular streets at the lower end of the island, and, under pretence of re- lieving those thoroughfares, carry out vast achemes of personal plunder. We are deter- mined they shall not succeed, if public opinion and a thorough exposure can prevent it. The streets down town are well enough. They are better as they are than they can be made by Corporation “relief.” The jobbers must let them alone; let Church street alone; let Ann street, Fulton street, Nassau street and the rest remain as they are, We want every inch of space for stores and business places in the lower part of the city, It may be possible to argue about 4 indicioug plan of relief, but mot at the hands of the Corporation nor at the price the Luxemburg—its Importance te France—The Position of Prussia. Luxemburg was exacted as one of the guar} antees for the peace of Europe when the powers were in a temper to fancy that peace could never be threatened by anybody but the great disturber, France. This alone indicates the importance of the little scrap of territory to the government which now demands pos- session of it. Indeed, while Luxemburg is in the hands of her enemies France is, to a certain extent, under bonds to be civil, and it fs her degire to be free from such restraint that moves the present agitation. !¢ is not 4 question of dominion ; for there are less than a thousand square miles and jess than two hun- dred thousand inhabitants. It is a question of strategy, and, in that sense, of safety. It is a question of a thorn in the side that keeps one consider it an emphatic protest against, and a splendid church in @ more convenient place. doflant set-off to, the grand Canadian confede- | In this progreasive city and age veneration for ration scheme. One of the principal London | such old landmarks must give way to utility dailies, looking at all the facts of the case, and | and convenience. They must be swept away having a special regard to the position of the | for the grand improvements that are going on. lately acquired province of Columbia, admits | in the business part of the city. Old Time that British affairs on the North American con- | cannot stand against progressive young New tinent were never in a more critical condition than they are at the prosent moment. York, We recommend the old time folks to consider this, and safely get out of the way of We see no necessity at all for our friends | thatirresistible car of progress which sweeps taking alarm, Our acquisitions in the north | all before it. cannot, in any sense, impoverish them. If Vancouver Island and British Columbia and Some other strips of territory be found neces- sary to forma connecting link between our new and oid possessions, ws have no intenugi of imitating Old World habits and forcibly rearranging geographical boundaries. Nothing of the sort. We mean to have done with war, The National Academy of Design. One of the five wings, or rather palaces, which the Caliph Vathek added to the palace of Alkoremmi, erected by his father Motessem, was named the Delight of the Byes, or the Sup- port of Memory. Beckford describes it ae “ono entire éihantment,” enlarging partiou- restless and wakeful, because any chance may stir it and make it a cause of unendurable evil. Between Alsace and the sea, following down the Rhine, there are three zones of country of primary importance in view of any military operation against France. They open on the Rhine at one end and into France at the other, They are formed by the relation that the Meuse and Moselle bear to the Rhine. The first lies between the Upper Rhine and the Moselle, opening on the Rhine below Cobients; the second between the Moselle and the Meuse, and the third between the Meuse and the German ocean, In the latter zone fie such famous points as Oudenarde, Namur, Ramillies, Ni- velles, Jemeppe and Waterloo. It is because the Netherlands lie 80 much in this division that they became in so many wars against France the “cockpit of Europe.” But since the days when the wars of the Spanish succes- sion, the republic and the empire were fought over almost every mile of that district, the in- troduction of railroads has made some modification of strategy. We have an illus- tration of it here. Luxemburg lies in the middle zone—at the upper extremity of that zone—where the waters of the Meuse and Moselle are nearest together as they rise in Ardennes, It is not at all in the route of an army marching to France by the lower Rhine, yet by its rail communications it can command any point on almost any line of operation in that direction. It can by the same means com- mand all important points in the upper zone, and the march of a foreignarmy by the middle zone would not be feasible if Luxemburg and a well organized French force were in the hands of an active and resolute commander. But in the hangs of the Prussians this impor- tant scrap of territory is a foreign wedge forced in at the vulnerable point of French defence. This point in hostile hands, and France lies almost naked to her foes. Marching from the Prussian frontier by the middle zone they have an easy line to the Marne, and so the direct route to Paris with no good defensive line between. It is obvious, therefore, that France would never willingly have seen a garrison of six thousand Pruss ans placed in that vital fortress. Such a possession is to her a constant reminder of the humiliation that followed the dreadful days of Leipsic and Waterloo. Prostrate before Earope she had to accept the law, not give it, and assent that others should have the material guarantee of 2 way to her heart. Prussia claims thatshe holds the fortress by treaty right—mean- ing the treaty right given at Vienna—that treaty right by which there existed a German Confederation, and which treaty right she smashed to atoms last summer, But Prussia, though she has erated so much of the system then establishe ishes to preserve the advantages it gave her. She can hardly expeet are being systematically radigged to tho United States ‘and France from the centres in Fi and that the Dranches formed in France are ma elazively of Englishmen, and are almost in the sane staye a America — The North American Indians of the Red river settic- meat have forwarded @ cordial iovitation to the Prince of Wales to visit their “hunting grounds’ and homes, MISCELLANEOUS. Our special correspondent with Genera! Hancock's In dian expedition writes from Pawnee Fork, Kansas, under date of April 16, giving fall details of previously reported movements of the force ainong the Chevenne Indians. At Plymoath chureb, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon a Sabbath meeting of German citizens was heli in be- | half of the Sunday clause of the Metropolitan Drctee | dow. A number of German addresses were delivered, afver which Rev, Henry Ward Beecher made some obar acteristic remarks, Rev, Edward McGlynn delivered a lecture last evening in the Cooper Institute, before a large audience, under the auspices and for the benefit of the Cammings Library Association. Subject, “ Our Religious Destiny,’ Several persons arrested yesterday in the precincts to which the Fourth District Police Court pertains wera taken before Jastice Hogan, at the Tome; but he re fased to examine them or adjutiests in thelr cases. ‘They were taken to police boadanarters The Commissioner of the Indian Burewu ie vodecided ‘as to whethor he shall entorse the bills recently made by Lowia V. Bogey, the former Commissioner, and at present an agent of the Buroan, with ceriain New York merchants, for the purchase of goods for the use of the Indians. The goods, amounting in value to several mii. Hons of dollars, have been delivered. and the contractors are consequently in a state of anxiety as to the proba. bility of being paid for them. An attempt was mado recently to blow up the ice bridge at Quebec across the St. Lawrence river, bat it failed, and the bridgo still remains firm, and is over fiity foot thick. The country between Montreal and Quebec that others should consent for her to preserve what she pleases a system destroyed by her, when that preg ation must be at their ex- pense, [t has not escaped the keen ¢ye raling in France that the desiruction of the treaties of 1815 has le Luxemburg out of all the realms and made it accessible once more fo its natural owner; and it is only natural that Napoleon, in view of so much European reconstruction should demand and req constraction for France of « defensit France, having one is point, very naturally hesitates it is a topie too don, some time in the month of Ma general conference of all the great of Europe, having for its object the setilemont of the Luxemburg Another degpateh informs us that the Progion government has also signified its acceptance of the proposition of the Queen of England for the assembling of such conference, and that King William is not averse to treating the question on the basis of the neutralization of the Grand Duchy. In the meantime it bas been agreed that the fortress in dispute shall ia ower fiual | vitally important ever to have been started until the determination bad been reached to carry it toa seitlement by diplom pos- | sible or war, if absolut neoe: ‘That was the French purpose. it appears by a cable despatch to-~iay that the Bm t Napo- leon has signified his willi part in negotiations now in progress, and which are likely to eventuate in the assembiage in Lon. | question, | jobbers would exact for it. Relieving Broad- way is a humbug. It cannot be relieved unless the tide of business is driven out of it The streets in the immediate heart and centre of a great metropolis must be crowded, and those below our City Hall can no more be re- lieved of their busy throngs by any new street openings than the North river could be helped by a canal around Hoboken. We do not object to the ctowds at the doors of our new estab- lishment. They seem entirely appropriate and satisfactory, with all their characteristics—cars, siages, vehicles and the cons‘ant jam. The streets in the hearts of nearly all the great capitals of the world are narrow and often crooked—much more #0 than ours. Tt is a question whether the compactness of streets in such localities does not facilitate business and directly enhance the value of real estate. It is in just the narrowest and crooked- est spots in London that the most fabulous prices are paid for property. The expediency of wide streets in place of Church, Pine, Nas- sau, Ann and others at the financial and busi- ness centre of this city may Well be doubted. When it is proposed to exter arch street at the cost of three milliong 4 Aollars it is public expediency that demAnds it It onl, means that the property taken is worth half the money, and the other half is assessed to be embezzled by an ingenious system which originated some years since in the Street De- partment, and by means of which it is sought to enrich certain attaches of that office leagued with the “Corporation conspiracy.” The Supreme Court must head off these street opening spoliations. The Exodus from Europe. The exodus ftom Europe, some months since predicted by the Heratp, has commenced, al- though it will not reach its flood tide until the season is more advanced and the weather settled. Our special correspondence from Ire- land, published on Saturday, gave the informa- tion that nine steamers filled with emigrants had left Cork within a few days of the date of the letier, and that several hundreds of passengers still remained behind awaiting transportation. This was from one port only, while an equally active emigration was going on by way of Liverpool, Londonderry, Southampton and the German ports. On Saturday last the steamer Minnesota arrived at Castle Garden with over one thousand passengers, having left Liverpool on the 14th, and Queenstown on the 15th inst., and made an excellent passage. The Kangaroo also arrived same day from Liverpool with six hundred emigrants, and the America, of the German mail steamship line, with several bun- dred more. So Castle Garden was crowded Saturday night with a large army of males and females, of all ages, secking in the New World the peace, safety and prosperity denied them in the Old. “ And the cry is still they come.” What Then? In the Milligan decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, on a fall bench, the judges were divided, five against four. That decision, as a precedent, will, from the same judges, justify « decision restraining the Secretary of War, General Grant and the five Southern Military Commanders, from the exeeution of the reconstruction laws of Con- gress, Suppose, therefore, that such a decision is made—what then? President Johnson will bow to the Court. What then? Why, then, there will be a reassembling of Congress in July, and some additional measures of recon- struction that will finish the business, But first jet us await the judgment of the Court, Senator Dixon's Opinion. | Senator Dixon, of the political Senatorial | fran of Cowan, Doolittle and Dixon, on Satur- day evening last made a speech to his welcoming fellow citizens of Hartford, Con- necticut, in which he gave it as his opinion | that the South, under the military bill, isin @ state of slavery. The woolly horse in Con- | nectiont seems to have tumed everything upside down. We expect next to hear from Senator Dixom that Jeff Davis has issued @ pardon to Andrew Johnson. How Loxo?t—If it takes ten years for the federal authorities to get o site for our city Post Office, how long will they be in getting up , dAanted Ip songequence of the accymulation of oe, be dismantled the building and getting into itt oe Se eg EERYNs A See RET Ss COS = Star Spangled Banner alone shall wave ; but unless war is forced upon us. Our conquests | larly upon the attractions of a certain gallery are to be conquests of peace. The best proof | “ which exhibited the pictures of the celebrated of our peaceful intentions is to be found in Maur, and statues that seemed to be alive.” the means by which we propose to make the | Our academicians may have had some such Russian territory our own. The example we | {deal when they erected at the corner of Twen- here give is the example we mean to follow. | +Y-third street and Fourth avenue, and dedi- We do not close our eyes to the fact that the | °ated to art a building the architecture of star of ompire is with the Great Republic, | Which seems more appropriate to Venice than and thatto all human appearance the day is | New York. But this elegant structure, by not far distant when the Union shall extend | {6 very dissimilarity to the monotonous brown from the tropics to the Polar Sea, and when | “tone fronts of our houses and to the almost over that vast region, with its teoming millions | ®#=lly monotonous marble fronts of our Broad- of free, happy and industrious people, tho way stores, suggests on agreeable contrast be- tween its purposes and those of our prosaic we do not mean to oxtend our territory and life in this bustling commercial city. It is not surprising that the Academy of Design should have become a favorite resort for our citizens, They will be pleased to learn Our Great National Repreach—The Indian | that the directors intend to give a more per- War. manent character to the exhibitions of the The statement recently published by Mr.| Academy, by making arrangements for an Bogy, late Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sub- | exhibition in the fall and winter as well as stantiates the view which we have all along | spring. A suggestion that the galleries be taken of our difficulties with the Indian tribes, | kept open throughout the summer for the con- and of the management of our Indian affairs | venience of those residents who are compelled generally. According to his showing the | to forego pleasure trips, and of the numerous impending war is due, not to the unreasonable | travellers who then visit our metropolis, has demands of the chiefs, nor yet to the rapacity | also met with favor. Let us hope that in due of the government agents or traders, upon | time they will be kept open all the year round, whose shoulders the blame has been so freely | like the art galleries of London and Boston. laid, but to mismanagement in Washington. | Is it too much to hope also that, as in Paris, With the exception of a band of Sioux, headed | art may yet be allowed to aid religion by free by @ chief named Red Cloud, there are in | access for all classes on Sunday to the galleries reality none of the tribes hostilely disposed } of the Academy? towards us. Even this chief, irritated as he is} If the present exhibition is not remarkable by bad treatment, could easily have been kept | for many large pictures of striking superiority, quiet if a disposition had been shown to con- | it nevertheless offers more variety and a higher ciliate them. He is represented to be manly | average of merit than usual. Landscape and honest, and he has taken to arms simply | painting still maintains its acknowledged pre- because afier repeated remonstrances with the | eminence over the other branches of American agents of the government he has been suffered | art. Several landscapes and marine pictures to acquire the conviction that nothing remains | exhibit the best characteristics of our American for him and his followers but the alternative | painters in their favorite sphere. These char- of fighting or starving. He now serves as the | acteristics are a close and almost devout study leader around whom all the malcontent | of nature; a happy choice of subjects and a spirits of the other tribes rally. Mr. Bogy | skill in composition, attesting inventive powers thinks it would be easy to satisfy the require- | of no mean order; a freedom from conven- ments of this chief and his tribe, and that it | tional methods of treatment, and, in somo would be a much more humane and economi- | cases, vigorous manipulation and a fine eye cal policy for the government to spend a | and faculty for color. Two or three disciples few hundred thousand dollars in providing | of the pre-Raphaelite school, indeed, remind them with reservations and cattle for stock | us more forcibly than pleasantly of a certain raising than to allow itself to be involved | poet who described the phoenix, its color, size, in a general Indian war, which, if once staried, | beak, talons, wing-feathers and all, with such will extend from the Missouri river to the foot | elaborate minutemess that Sheridan said “it of the Rocky Mountains, and from the mouth of | was a poulterer’s description of s phoenix.” the Yellowstone to and including Arizona and | Nature, ii is true, cannot be studied too closely, New Mexico, costing, as he believes, many mil- and pstience and sincerity will not be thrown lions of dollars, thousands of lives and the | away if they lead to something better than to entire suspending and perhaps destruction of | copying the affectations and mannerism of the railroads now being built upon the plains, The expedition sent out under General Hancock is, Mr. Bogy thinks, a great mistake. All that was‘ wanted was the sending of a small number of men to the Yellowstone certain foreign artists who would fain go back to the youngest days of art and leave off just where its riper development begins. Other branches of American art are repre- sented at this exhibition in a manner which to chastise the chief Red Cloud and his | gives encouraging assurance for the future. adherents, The effect of the appearance of | Aside from one or two historical portraits and an army of the magnitude of that under | a very few other exceptions, our artists do not General Hancock’s orders will be to alarm all the well disposed tribes and render a gen eral war inevitable. These views, he says, he tried months ago to impress upon the government; but no attention was paid to them. This he here evince any direct powerful influence of the late war upon their minds. But time enough has not yet elapsed, perhaps, to invest the realities of the war with the traditional halo which catches the eye of an artist. Moreover attributes to the inflaence of the Indian Bu- the equality which prevails in our democratic reau at Washington, where, he contends, have country is by no means favorable to the heraic originated the numerous frauds that have per- style. The sublime and the heroic tn art be- meated our Indian affairs and that have cre- | tong peculiarly to the aristocratic societies in ated all the present difficulties. The head | the earlier periods of their formation. Truly office there, he asserts, is surrounded by a set of | religions art belongs almost exclusively to an heartless cormorants who care but little for | age of unquestioning belief—an age that seems the consequences, provided their rapacity is | everywhere to have passed away. Modern satisfied. civilization restricts the artist for the most part In all this there is but too much truth, and it | to the beautiful ; this must be his ideal. His- is a melancholy reflection that repeatedly as | tory shows that the art of painting is most ex- it has been urged it has failed in producing | tensively practised in the age of mixed plu- any If we wage a gencral war of | tocracy and democracy. If this stage of national extermination against the tribes—and we do | life is best fitted to foster non-religious art, as not see what else is to resuit from Hancock’s | a thoughtful writer has argued, we may expect expedition—the world will, in view of these | to witness in the United States, and particu- statements, hold us responsible for blood | larly in rich and democratic New York, a rapid annecessarily shed, while the addition to | growth both of demand and supply in the pio- our public debt of the millions of dollars | turemarket. The exhibitions of the Acadomy of which the war will cost will render such | Design will doubtless have an honorable share of us as are insensible to the moral guilt | in stimulating and satisfying the public taste ultimately convinced of its impolicy. It is not | for art. ‘aa yet too late to retrace the steps that have conducted us into such a criminal and danger- | Toety Warwrna—The warning that in throe ows error. In the name of humanity and jus- cities of the United States the cholera hes Hine let there be no dolay in backing oat of it | already reaougnred, i i A Grow! from “Old Thad.” “Old Thad Stevens” is not as well pleased as he ought to be with the promises made to the Southern people by Senator Wilson in view of their bona fide fulfilment of the recon- struction laws of Congress. In a letter to the newspapers Mr. Stevens first quotes from a late speech of the Senator promising that there would be no impediment to Southern repre- sentation in Congress if they elected Union men, and expressing the opinion that in recon- structing Virginia the results would be a republican Governor, Legislature and two United States Senators ; and then the indignant radical leader of the Commons responds— that such promises are calculdted to do mis- chief; that they throw obstacles in the way of future reconstruction ; that much is to be done before any of the rebel States or any Repre- sentative or Senator from any one of them can be recognized. He wants to know, too, whe authorized any orator to say that there wilk be no confiscation, and “who is authorized te travel the country and peddle out amnesty.” And then Mr. Stevens, in his most amiable mood, observes :—“I would say to the guilty expect punishment, and then readmitted into both houses regardless, as heretofore, of the objections or opposition of Mr. Stevens and his little faction of implacable radicals. Schomes and Speculations Regarding the Panama Hallway Privileges. It appears from our late Panama correspond- ence that the authorities of New Granada, as welll as those of the State of Panama, are very muck exercised just now about the railway privileges soross the Isthmus. The controlling thought with them is as to how much they can squeese out of any company for the charter, and from: foreigners, for the privilege of crossing this bit of territory. President Mosquera and the Con- gress of New Granada, who appear to have set- tled their difficulties with each other for the present, calculate wron deri an anneal aan eee oe rental A si hundséd thousand dollars {rpm the railway. But, in addition to this, they expect other great advantages; for it is said am English company has offered for a ninety-nine years’ lease of the railroad to pay the national, debt of New Granada, amounting nominally to thirty-three millions of dollars, though pur chasable, perhaps, at fifteen cents on the dollar, to aévance a million to the republic, and to de other things highly advantageous. No doubt the government would be glad to accept such an offer, if it bea bona fide one and there'ase a0 obstacles in the way. But the United States may have something to say in the matter. Bagiand has always been busy at work, either directly through her government or throagh: British companies, to get contro! of the Isthmus: routes of Central America; and this, per haps, is another effort. In view of this fact, and of the interest the people of the United States have in this particular: route, our government should keep a sharp! eye on what is taking place. For the presenti we need the free use of the Isthmus of Panama for our commerce and travel,.and we should. look forward to having a controlling action im the ship canal that will some day be out througt that part of Central America. In the course of ten years or s0, however, we have less need of that*or any other isthmus for our commerce. The two or three Pacific rail- roads which are now being pushed through the heart of the continent will be completed by that time. We shall then be carried from the Atlantic border, across the vast and beautiful prairies of the interior, over the Rocky Moun- tains, and down the golden slope on the other side to the shores of the Pacific in a few days, All the light and most valuable freight of the China and India trade will pass the same way. Much of the travel from Europe to those East- ern countries will take the same direction. Im fact, in a short time we shall have little need. of the Isthmus routes of Central Ameries, except for the ship canal; but for the present we have, and should, therefore, watch the pro- ceedings of the New Granada authorities and the British in the proposed new contract for the Panama Railroad privileges. Aa Anti-Street-Widening Candidate Waated. The public have seen how Mayor Hoffman has consented to- the sale of city property, valued at from three to five million dollars, for five hundred thousand. They have seen how he has been in favor of widening Church street, and also the widening of Ann street. Why should these streets be widened? Broadway is wide enough for all practical business pur- poses, and the widening of adjoining streets is nothing but a species of jobting got up for the benefit of contractors at the expense of tax- paying citizens, It also enables wily specula- tors to obtain a knowledge in advance of movements of the kind, and to buy up or sell out property for their personal benefit, as cir- cumstances may warrant. We are opposed to all these street widening jobs. They are of no possible benefit to us. Down with them! Let us have no more Tammany or anti-Tammany candidates fur Mayor, but a straightforward, upright, honest, anti-street-widening candidate for the office. That’s the ticket ! ‘The Two Virginias in Court. We understand that in the Supreme Court of the United States to-day the case will proba- bly be argued of the State of Virginia against West Virginia, being a suit by the former for at least two counties, Jefferson and Berkeley, (including Harper's Ferry) which it is pleaded were unlawfully seized from the old State by West Virginia and unconstitutionally allowed by Congress. This will make an in- teresting ense, as it directly involves the status of the plaintiff, Virginia—whether, as she stands, she is or is not in law a State. Nor 30 Bap a Baroaww.—The cable informs us that the Emperor of Russia {s willing to take a fleet of our old iron-clads in payment for his late possessions in North America. As we have a large number of that class of vessels now lying useless at the different navy yards, and adding expense to the government, the oppor- tunity thus afforded in gettig rid of them, will, be hailed with satisfaction, Iron-clads are more valuable to the Czar than gold. With ug it is at present quite different. Gooo Nawa.—Judge Whiting and his awoony are are down in the dirt ,