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6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY ¥Y, 1867.—-TRIPLE SHEET. muy 4 Pemate enema ee Conon ‘Peo Seranute Yor Forritery iu oath America. The Demecratic Programme in the Coustitu- time completed , Connolly. ‘or more tienal Convention. ho id Hashing stanel eryeasing oveines Seenee AP Menfmaide sb praplic, | Nea The democrats have put forth officially their as Co yesterday in the Supreme Court,g-hambors, on a motwa in the cage of Devlin va, Hope, to vacate an order setting | bas been waging, and programme asa party in the State Constitu- NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘The Leadon Conference. What Mexico Wants. - Anxiety naturally enough stands on tiptoe | Now that imperialism has received its death- to know the results of the deliberations of the bow la Manion, ha fens of tek cabeeucmato august body now-sitting in London. Our cable | country gives rise to a good deal of specula- PROPRIETOR. amde the authority of the receiver in the sotiontoue | appear to be further removed from the | tional Convention. They opposed the Conven- | despatches do not by any means @scourage | tion. Some maintain that the liberals should — nee for damages. The right of action is vested a Deviiaby | objects for which they entered the con- | tion when the question was before the people ; | the hope that the peace of Europe will not now | be left to work out their plans for its regenera- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., Hackley, through seignmen and the Plsintif sees fF | test than they were at the beginning. On | sttompted to show that the vote by which it | be disturbed. ‘The mere neutralization of Lux- | tion, while others think it is doomed to endless MANAGER. pepe woed in the Supreme Court, cir- | *he part of Brasil the is but the result | 78 ordered was constitutionally insufficient, | emburg, it would seem, has ceased to be pop- | anarchy unless we annex it, or at all events BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. cuit, yesterday, by Sichel, Alexander & Co,, of Manches- ter, England, against Waterhouse’& Co, of this city, to recover the sum of £213 88, 94. sterling, for goods pur- chased in 1864. The case involves an interesting ques- tion in regard to the payment of drafts made payable no British bankers, Case still on. Ta the supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2, yesterday, out of a panel of one hundred and fifty jurora, but eighteen were available, the remainder being foreigners with un- Pronouncable names or persons affected with blindness, deafness or other physical disqualification. The Court ultimately requested the Clerk to beg the Sheriff not to send all the malformed or disqualified men in New York to serve as jurors, On Monday last this branch of the court was compelled vo adjourn for the same reason, as but nine jurors were qualified out of a panel of one hundred. In the Court of Common Pleas an action was com- menced yesterday by John T. Lord, ef al. against Thomas Groggie, for the recovery of $5,825 40, which the plain- tiffs claim is due them as forfeiture, and on account of salary Overpaid to defendant, who was manager of a de- partment of plaintiffs business, and teft their employ be- for the expiration of his term of service. Caso still om. The North German Lioyda’s steamebip América, Cap- tain Meyer, will sail from-the Bremen pier, Hoboken, to-day (Thursday), at12M., for Bremen via Southamp- | ton. The mails for the United Kingdom and the Conti- nent will close at the Post Office at half-past 10 A. M. The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company’s steamer Morro, war of long announced and steadily pursued and in some counties refused to take any part policy of the imperial family. The Parana | in the election of delegates. But now that the and Paraguay rivers must be the boundary of | Convention is sbout to assemble, they advise the empire. At*first glance the map would ap- | their delegates to “go into the Convention, pear to show that Brasil should be contented | Prepared to make the moat of their position— with her territorial area; but when it is con- | * 00-operate cordially in reforms, to perfect sidered that the valley of the Amazon is naught the work of the constitution of 1846, by remov- but o vast jungle, that of the 3,340,000 square | ing its errors, and, above all, to protect the miles (Humboldt’s. measurement) there is | People in their personal, local and municipal scarcely one-fifth available for settlement by | Tights, by a vigilant scrutiny into the proposed man, that the only really valuable part lies changes, and an intelligent appeal to them, if south of the fifteenth degree of south latitude, | 2eed be, against any dangerous innovations.” and that Brazil has never ceased her offorts to | Well, this sounds like very good advice, and extend her territory to the south and west, we | it is to be hoped that the sixty representatives shall see that this grasping for a more remote | Who form the minority of the Convention will boundary line is natural. So steadily has this follow it and be prepared to vote in favor of a policy been carried out in Uruguay that to-day thorough reform of our organic law; the port of Montevideo maybe considered a that they will renounce the -heresies of Brazilian city.. Evem before the’ date of Spanish the Herkimer county politicians, who in 1846 American independence this effort to overrun | 68¥¢us organized anarchy-and corruption in Urugnay, Poraguay and the strip of Argentine | the form of a State constitution, and use their territory Tying between them, called Misiones, | influence tn-the Convention in support: of uni- was the canse of long and bloody warfare. versal suffrage, an independent judiciary, a From the founding of Montevideo, in 1726; the strong and responsible State government and a Portuguese commenced their struggle for the | *y8tem of municipal government for afl our ular. The leading Powers, we are told, hesitate | interfere to establish a strong governmest. to carry out the proposition, and the inhabitants | What patriotic Mexicans themselves think on of the Grand Duchy not only prefer, but ask to | the subject may be inferred from an incident be annexed to Belgium. We are not at all | that has just been related to us. surprised at this, Neutralization commended A well known banker from the city of Mexies itselt chiefly on the ground that it was simple— | was on here lately, and after taking « perbaps the simplest possible solytion of the | drive difficulty. It had, however, as we have before | along which and very distinctly stated, this lvantage— | Washington, they stopped to lunch at the house it would leave the duchy and weak. | of an scquaintance. “Don’t you admire It was scarcely conceivable that $ population | the scenery of our Park?” inquired the very slightly exceeding that of the city of Cin- | host of his Mexican guest. “It is very beauti- cinnati, scattered over some geo- | ful,” was the reply. “And the drive along the graphical miles, and divided a: a number | river?” “It is charming; but I have seen of little towns and villages, should wil-| something to-day that is more beautiful than lingly consent to be virtuslly out off| either.” “What is itt” inquired the host, in from the rest of the world. Nothing is | surprise. “I will tell you,” replied the Mexi- more natural than that. they shontd desire to | can. “It is those beautiful policettem thatone: be annexed to Belgium. They are territorially | meets. at every turn. They give me the iden separated from. Holland: Their present: con- | of’a stable government. That is our great want dition, therefore, is not desirable. To Belgium, | in Mexico.’ I have » eountry house at Tacu- however, they lie contiguous. Nor is this all. | bays, few miles fro the capital, but J cannot Part of the duchy has belonged te Belgium | go thete without an escort and being armed to . ainee 1889, Annexation to: Belgium, therefore) | the teeth, Until £ can-have the same- security * would be not only more natufal; but would put | that I felt in driving out here to-day, I shall HE DALLY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fovrcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. Volume XXXL... errcrereseeeeeeereeees No. 129 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome eircet,—Tux SuaMROcK. SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo. Hotel.—Avappix, tue WoNDeRFUL ScamP— WORRE: site New CinpEReLta. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteeath strest. near Sixth avenue.—Ristorts FAREWELL PeRroaMaNces—ELizasati, Quexy oF ENGLAND, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Jouw Brovcmaw i Douwer ax Sox. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Tue Impertat Txours or Jaraxsss Anrists iv Tumin Wonpenru. Frats. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Lxcrurs, “A Nicat Buronp Tux Toms.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Bro.dway, opposite the Mo! on Hotel—In tren Eravorcan Ewreetatn- MENTS, , DANCING anp Burtssquas—Tux Buack ‘Cook—IMPERIAL JaPanuse TROUPE. KELLY & BONS MINSTRELS, 727 Broadway. oppo. aitethe New York Hotel.—In tame Son7s, Daxows. Ecoen- rriormieg, Buniesques, &¢.—Oinpen-Luon—Mavacascar Baccar Teovre—Perer Pires. PR ir? NUE OFBRA HOUSE. Not. Simtrareet | Castle, Captain R, Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North | extension of Brazil. Uruguay has always been cities, which will place full executive power | an end to the inconveniences inseparable from | not believe in the future of my country.” Brmorix Munmrenter BASAne, BORLNSSs, fc—Tux | river at 3 P.M. to-day (Thursday), for Havana, The | the principal battle ground; for whoever holds | i the hends of a mayor, elected by and directly having different portions of the same territory | This sums up the whole case of Mexico. Cuban mails will close at the Post Office at 2 o'clock P. M. ‘The atock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed strong. Gold closed at 137% a 188, The inclemency of the weather tended to check trans- actions somewhat, still in some commoditios a fair busi- mess was consummated, and at full prices, in some cases at higher prices. Coffee was steady. Qotton was dull and lower, On 'Change flour was moderately active and firm. Wheat was steady, Corn was lc. a 2c. lower, while oate advanced 1c. a2c. Pork closed steady. Beef was frm. Lard was steady with a fairdemand. Whis- key was dull and nominal, Freights were unchanged. ‘Naval stores were dull and heavy. Petroleum was a shade lower. and people under different governments, If it | What it wants is plenty of “those beautifal is trae that the people bave expressed this pre- | policemen.” Whether the Juarez government ference, there is little likelihood that the Con- | will be competent to supply them remains to ference will be indifferent to their wishes, | be seen. Ifaftera fair trial it should prove There can be no good reason why either France | unequal to the task, we shall probably be cotn- or Prussia should object to this cours:. If they | pelled to undertake it agree, we may take it for granted that the other Powers will not object. ‘The Jeff Davis Problem Solved. We are not disposed to attach any import-| Chief Justice Chase has at last iseued « writ ance to the rumor that both France and Pras- | f habeas corpus, addressed to the President of sia are proceeding with their warlike prepa- | the United States and to any others who may rations. It is perfectly natural, under the | bave the person of Jefferson Davis in their cus- circumstances, that they should. It is doubt- | Ody, requiring them to produce their prisoner leas in. the interest of certain parties to keep | before the District Court of the United States up ® war excitement; but, looking impartially | ®¢ Richmond on Monday next. We have at all the circumstances of the case, we cannot beans reserve ee ae at aan ouragement e er eee e Monroe to hand over the ex-President of tlie The Case of Virginia and West Virgiaia. confederacy to the civil authorities whenever The State of Virginia in this case appears | Called upen to do so. There is a progpect, against the Siate of West Virginia for the res- | therefore, that the head of the Southern rebel- toration of the two counties of Berkeley and | lion will be pat upon his trial for treason: st Jefferson, which it is alleged have heen by | last, and that a very unpleasant and not slto- irregular and fraudulent proceedings appro- | sether creditable piece of business will be printed by West Virginia, and placed under | ‘ken off the hands of the United States gov- her juriadiction. The plaintiff fully recognizes | ¢Tament. the Btate of West Virginia, but contonds that ho Fornande Weed Lenses. as these two aforesaid counties after her ad- During Mayor Gunther's official term a few. mission into the. Union .were fraudulently | rooms ims building on Nassan street, owned best in vwseas 12 an, sd bude oC] Ncoeemaes amet | eerie ‘the question to. the popular vote of those coun- } for wority-one thousand dollars are stated | tes, but cannat consent to, recognize the elec- | bg worth about four thousand dollars yearly, tion held es valid; on the contrary, Virginie | rent, This profitable job. has recently met contends that it was a trick which renders the with rough weather, in the shape of injuno-» seigure of those two counties an unlawful act tions, and Comptroller Connolly hes resisted ; eg hoeagnd Medaaiobolie aa sisee far asin his power the consummation of ro counties, therefore, (cov. Eastern | ontrage upon the taxpayers. On Tuseday af outlet into Maryland at Harpers Ferry of | tornoon, however, he was that great commercial artery of West Virginia, | by a Supreme Court mandamus to execute and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad) rightfully | deliver the ten yeats’ leases. Yesterday mora belong to the old or the new State, is the ques- | ing Fernando Wood waited upon the Comp- tion before the Supreme Court. The bill of | trofier and blandly applied for his leases, im complaint has nothing: to do with the status of | socordance with the order of the Court; “but ae erMGEe ances ieelices secant. he was met by.the information that e new in- tes being a as ve by plain- | junction had been granted by Judge Sutherland, Ha amd respondent, :: The cee te simply ar ying amar gag whether Jefferson and Berkeley counties | jeages, and setting down for Monday next the rightfully belong to Virginla or West Virginia, | argument on the application to. make the in- and nothing more. junction perpetual. So the ex-Mayor is not 5 a iaelie aE NRE yet secure of his plunder, and it is to be hoped j Free Trade aad Pretection Movemonts—Fore- that the law will, after all, be powerfal enough : sbadowings of Fature Political Divisions. | 4, protect the taxpayers from this outrageous A number of prominent manufacturers met imposition. at the Astor House yesterday to initiate a movement of the manufacturing interests as a| Tae Mysresy Sorven.—Law and order set-off (o the efforts of the American Free Trade | people have long been puzzled to account for League established in this city. The latter | the numbers and the turbulent and unruly association, headed by William Cullen Bryant, | character of the roughs of New Orleans. Gen- has recently displayed a great deal of energy, | eral Steadman, Internal Revenue Collector for and fas been zealously spreading abroad its | that city, has, we guess, solved the mystery, anti-protection, low tariff arguments, and the | in the discovery therein of sixty illicit whiskey class against whose special interests its efforts | distilleries. He has stopped them; but in are directed have apparen‘ly resolved to rally | the discovery we see that the Bourbon in New the northern bank of the La Plata dominates | Tesponsible to the people. But the framing the whole of its immense and magnificent | f the organic law of the State should be no valley, even to the heart of Bolivia. party question; and the sincerity of those who, hile affecting to uphold reforms, endeavor to The lodgment which the Portuguese effected, ™ on the La Plata early in the eighteenth century excite party feeling and prejudice in their dis- gave rise in 1776 to the most formidable mili- | “™on, may well be doubted. The old de- tary expedition which up to that time Spain mocratic leadera, whose only hope of retaining had fitted ont to the New World. The Portu- any show of vitality at this end of the State lies guese settlement was laid in ruins, and the rar stor ts hives oeomha attempt of the Portuguese to hold a point on pe arava 7 clas, will we eugpact i the great river was signally defeated. Brazil ‘protesting” against the new constitution, if it has, however, staked her future on this desired should aeek to remove those evils, and inciting boundiry; and as sho has already - their followers to vote against it at the polls, nearly a century of war to plish her a i Let the ete - “ eee egy “hy pose, it is not to be supposed that she will now peer eesrers BAe stein “3 desist, When the present war opened the little and susechy thal now threaten its Geeyacnany dictatorship of Paraguay, with seventy thou- let iteweep out of the organic law the heresies sond square miles and fivé hundred thousand egenay = Lo Mase prac is — inhabitants, was scarcely less ambitious than yews! = its more coloseal neighbors. The try and it will work such a political revolution in having been at peace for more than half a this city, as well as in the State, that the old century, and during that time rapidly de- ee mu gnesn sanae veloping. its wonderful natural resources, be- aeclicked gan to feel the wants that every nation poreee pe feels as it unrolls its resources—a commercial The Mayor and the Corporation Jobs. outlet on the ocean and territorial extension. All the jobs passed by, Both could be obtained in one direction, and | in the oh of street ands ae pode ce vac ined af Mie’ Salsas aioe ee and the.like, are sent to the Mayor for -his ap- 9 i the’ Argentine States, 4 wal. He has vionios end Biro, Wige—the, later with wae | Sntvatin, ad if iu fost apoe et) tos Ko contaot withthe great estuary of the. La Pista, | neithor approves nor votes the ordiakinoes or: aud both provinces bounded by rivérs naviga- | resolutions: thus transmitied to him, “they be- ‘atready" power‘ul in ‘an impregnable position, cpseatina, bad as though they ha palera pp hanging like » shadow over the great Bra- 1 oficial signature. It-has-been a too common tilian province of Matto Groso, preventing the | practice when a theasure of questionable cliar- settlement of southeastern Bolivia and the } acter has been passed by the Common Council Gran Chaco, she threatened to shove, wedge- | for the Mayor 4o retain possession of it over like, betwen the two great adversaries, Brazil | the stated ten days, and then allow it to be- and the Argentine republic, and control the | o¢me = law by default, thus evading in & whole vast interior of 9 valley which, for) measure the responsibility of a direct ap- natural productions, fertility of soil, and] proval. If the taxpayers who are victimised wealth, both mineral and vegetable, has no by the job should subsequently remonstrate equal in connected area on the surface of the against it and denounce it, they are told that globe. they had an opportunity to protest against the But the objects of the Argentine republic | measure during the ten days it remained in the in this strange territorial contest were not dis- | Mayor’s hands, and that as they neglected to similar from its neighbors. Under the Vice- | avail themselves of that privilege the Mayor roys Paraguay was a dependency of Buenos | was not to suppose that there were any sound Ayres; but in 1811, when the viceroyalty was | objections to its success. overthrown and a provisional government es- ‘The mojority of these matters, especially tablished, Paraguay refused to recognize what | when they »romise a large profit to the ring, it called a central usurped authority, and im- | are passed through the Common Council so mediately declared its independence of Spain. | quietly and unobtrusively that they frequently The effort of the Buenos Ayreans to restore her to } escape the notice even of the reporters, and it the viceroyalty was unsuccessful; but the Argen- | has sometimes happened that the first, intima- tine republic has always clung to the hope that | tion a property owner has received of an off- her old province would some time return to | cial raid upon his property has been when the her either peaceably or by force of arms; | work has actually commenced. Under these and this notwithstanding the recognition | circumstances it becomes a mere subterfuge of Paraguayan independence in the treaty | and sham to construe the absence of remon- made between the two countries in 1852./ strances against a corporation job into an The great prize, it will thus be seen, for | acquiescence of the property owners in its which the combatants are striving, is the con- | provisions. If any so-called improvement, trol of the La Plata Valley. The prize is mag- | such as new pavement or street openings or nificent; but the Allies, in an alliance unnatu- | widenings, that may be sent to the Mayor for TONY PA: Vocarisa. Ni TISSEMENT, &C. RS OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comro Movstaetsy, Burtesques, Baucer Diver. EW YORK IN 1867. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklva.—Eriiortay Mine suntsy, Battaps aNp BuRtEsques.—Biack Croox. THE RUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hail. corner of Twonty-third street and Broadway, at 8.—Movixa Mine Ror OF THe Pingnia’s PROGRENS—Stxry MAGNIFICENT Scenes, Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 254 o'clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 619 Rroadway.— Heap axp Ricut ARM oF Prosst—Tne Wasnincton ‘Twixe—Woxvens ix Natorat History, Science anp Ant. Leorures Dairy. Open from @ 4. M. till 10P. M TRIPLE SHEET. MISCELLANEOUS. Chief Justice Chase issued a writ of habeas corpus yesterday, requiring the persons having Jeff, Davis in charge to deliver him up to the Circuit Court of the United Statos for the District of Virginia, at the next term of such court in Richmond, on the second Monday in May. Advices from Japan to April 4have been received. The French Minister had returned to Yokohama from Osaka. Captain Hatfield, of the American bark Swal- low, was drowned at Yokobama. Yollow fever and small pox are reported at Nassau, New Providence, no efforts being made to quarantine the vessels on which the cates have appeared. . ‘The South Carolina Republican State Convention was held at Charleston on Tuesday night. The delegations were all dusky, only one white man, Marshal Epping, being allowed to participate in the proceedings. Ad- dresses were delivered, one of the orators being a Miss Hooper, colored. The Maryland State Constitutional Convention met yesterday at Annapolis, and organizedby electing Richard B. Carmichael, of Queen Anne's county, per Congressman Ashley, it is said, has been closeted with Sanford Copover, the purjurer, several times during the tast few days, and the belief is Current that he is trying to obtaiasome evidence from him tending to favor his plan of impeachment. Govornor Orr, of South Carolina, interests himeelf in the emigration of New Hampshire people to his domin- fons, Senator Wilson spoke at Augusta, Ga, yesterday, the audience, as usual, being of a variegated complexion. He was introduced by a former captain of rebel artillery, and in the course of his speech again threatened confis- cation if the freedmen were oppressed for voting as they might think proper. HHon. Elijah Hise, late democratic member of Congress from Kentucky, who was re-elected to that position on Saturday last, committed suicide at Russellville, Ky., yesterday, by biowing out his brains with a pistol, be- cause his advanced age prevented bis doing bis country any more good. In tho trial of Winnemore for the murder of Mrs, Ma- gilton, now in progress in Philadelphia, counsel for the prisoner sete up the defonce that his client is at times insane, and, as @ spiritual medium, does many curious things, Several witnesses, relatives of the prisoner, testified that be saw spirits piainly, and was almost always under their ffluence, A colored conservative addressed the freedmen at Augusta, Ga., on Friday, and abused the Loyal Georgian newspaper in such terms that his audience became in- dignant, and it was necessary to give him an escort to save bim from violence at their hands, A mob in Taylor county, Ky., hung a man named Gebhart on Monday, alleging asa reason that he wasa murderer and a pest to society, whom the quibblers of the law have prevented receiving bis just dues. The office of the Treasurer of Baltimore county, Md, ‘was robbed of $7,000 on Tuesday night. ‘The master mechanics and maaufacturers of Bt. Louts held a meeting yesterday, and refused to accept the eight hour work and eight hour pay proposition of the strikers, A fire occurred in Memphis yesterday by which the REMOVAL. The New York Haratp establishment is now located in the new Heratp Building, Broadway and Ann street, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before halffpast eight o'clock in the evening. By special tologram through ths Atlantic cable wo havea very important report of the first day’s proceed- ings of the Peace Congress in London. The preparations for war were continued between France and Prussia, Gnd the situation was most serious, notwithstanding the Procedings, ‘The Gongr@s was not in session yesterday, the pleni- potentiariey having adjourned from Tuesday. They meet to-day. Russia is concentrating troops and accumulating war “munitions in the provioce of Poland. Consols closed at 91% for money in London, Five- twenties were at 713; in London. ‘The Liverpool cotton market declined 14. from noon, the market closing weak, with middling uplands at 11d. Breadstaffs firm. Provisions quiet. The ship Hotspur, from Manila for Now York, is Teported lost at sea Ne date or particulars of the disas- tor given. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Supervisors held a spe-ial session yeater- day, when ‘the resignation of General Shaler was eccopted and \r, Joseph B. Taylor was clected to fll bis piace. A communication from the Borrd of Edu- cation, requiring $417,348 in addition to appropriations heretofore made, was referred to the Committeo on Annual Taxes. Resolutions were adopted (o pay bitis in ‘the construction of the new Court House amounting to $53,736. The Counci!man:c Committee on Law met yesterday aad heard an argument from Judgo Connolly against the power of the Police Commissioners to appoint conrts and clerks to them. They adjourned till Friday next, at noon. Aconvention of manufactarers was held at tho Astor House vesterday to diseuss the condition of the indus- trial resources of the country. Peter Cooper presided and made a speech of some length. Remarks were also madefoy Horace Greeley, Governor Piorpoint, of Virginia, ‘and others, and resolutions favoring protection to the manufacturior interests amd harmony between the Topreseatatives of labor and capital were adopted. Heavy rains, accompanied by a rough gale from the fe i east, visited this vicinity and points further west on +, | fal and equally unfortunate, are paying very | his approval, does not have the writien con- | in their own defence. Orleans is king. pibtarsn tr ee ener Aarringectr samen sank prose petnap dhe sesh ns killed poi heavily for the attempt to remove one of the | sent a two-thi:ds of the property owners and | The country may be regarded jusi now 2s in Maven, Westsbisalen oosaty, teens poe to evacuate | Young lady perhaps fatally injured. Loss $200,000, three contending parties and narrow the con- | taxpayem affected by it, it should be vetoed | @ transition state, and these combinations, to- BANE FAROE Wl NEW ORLEOS: thoir dwellings and seek safety at a higher point. Four mee fei! from a scaffold intront of the fifth story | rest down to two. Paraguay was the first to by the Executive and returned to (he Common | gether with the labor movements out West, are aati Tho amount received by the Hxcive Board for licenses | of the old Lindell Hotel, in St. Lous, yesterday, one of | invade one of the provinces which she coveted, | Council. This is the only straightforward, | only the foreshadowings of the great principles SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ERALD. uring the week ending yesterday was $012,450. Dur- poeriet ats m severely '=* | but, attacked by her powerfal opponents, she | honest course, and if the Mayor has any real | thet will divide the people of the Union when Mow Connaam: Bay 6) 1008s tng the month of May, 1867, the entire receipts amount. ed to $651,200. Many dealers in cigars in the city have been notified that hereafter they will be competied to keep their stores effectually closed on Sundays No official order has as yet been issued, but it is believed that a verbal notice has been circulated through the police force. The first anniversary of the Radical Peace Society was held at Masonic Hall, on Thirteenth street, yesterday. The creed of the society Is that no buman institution is we again get settled down as a thoroughly re- Nealon dbs meg Semcayge arming 3 ’ constructed nation. At present the anomalous thereby. The cause is said to be the decline in cottow. position of the Southern Stat.s and the various gyrrrermey eres epee IS political questions bequeathed to us by the NEWS FROM JAPAN. war occupy the public mind to the exclusion | Return ef the French Minister to Yokohama— of other topics. But as soon as these matters AE SS ee eee are disposed of new issues will spring into San Francisco, May 8, 1867. being, resting upon the financial and monetary | Tbe ship A. M. Lawrence, from Yokohama April 4, bas A Presbyterian delegation from Scotland and Ireland are on a tour through the United“tates. A Wool crowers’ fair is in progress at Aubura. The Winooski and Kanawha were at Key West on tho Jat inst, The City Bank of New Orleans failed yosterday, has, like an armadillo, rolled herself in her | desire to uphold the rights of the citizens and shell and laughed at all their attempts to | to protect them from the rapacity of the plun- penetrate even her outworks. It is probable | dering corporation “rings,” this is (he course that the close of the war will find Paraguay | he will pursue in the future. relatively stronger than she wasat the begin- cient aeemerianaiaattthiie ning; while the Allies, exhausted of men and | Phe Quarantine System—Necessity for Strin- money, will require a long time to recuperate gout Measures. and reopen the great contest. We regret to state that the Quarantine The Ninth of May. Looking back over the last seven years we ved. worth the sacriflce of a human life, and war, for what- | aoq that almost every day in the calendar is regulations of this port are so loosely admin- | interests of the country; and these free trade pet Japeneme seamen wore on boast, sont ever sp man as mere omigyn ah rat pen marked by one or several important historical Beat Licenses. istered just now that we might as well be with- | leagues and protectionist combinations, and | governmentto study the theory of navigation in oat the associations for putting down the price of | city college. They will afterwards proceed to the Rast- provisions and for raising the wages and | ¢m™ States to learn practical navigation. limiting the hours of labor are only the | , The Japan Timessays the French Minister had returned preliminary movements in the great shaping | tye French man-of-war Guerriere went down snd re and division of parties hereafier to come. On | turned with the Minister on March 28. His prolonged one side will stand the New England and other prema ter apes ot gomey — = oe manufacturers who seck high tariffs to enable opposed opesing them to exclude foreign manufactures from the | of ‘we Japanese Perth Sut loot seen tre had ‘boee markets, and to make enormous fortunes by a | selecting the her port fer protective policy. The national banks, as & | to nis compatriot. He pampered, favored institution, will be found in | Chagoo, who aleo received the, tmnt ee coureay sympathy with these special interests, On the | which other side we shall bave the great mass of pro- | portant, ducers and consumers, together with the com- / ,, Captain Hasfelt, of ON pt ec iae tag ‘ mercial and shipping interests, all of whom | A steamer from ton Pranstoce March 1 arrived a& will favor low taxation, @ tariff for revenue | Yokohama April & : alone, and the sbolishment of the DEPARTURE OF WR. LLOYD GARRISON FOR EUROPE. national banks. It is easy to see that the Int- | saiutes Fired, and $30,000 Deposited te Hie events. Thus, on the 9th of May, 1861, the rebel Congress at Richmond authorized Jeff Davis to raise such force for the war as he should deem expedient. On the 9th of May, 1862, General Hunter, commanding in that department, issued his proclamatioh declaring that in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida all persons held as slaves were thenceforth and forever free. This proclamation, like that of General Fremont in Missouri, was revoked by President Lincoln, because he thought that the time for this step had not yet come. On the 9th of May, 1863, General Hooker's army, from its bloody three days’ fighting around Chancellorsville, was on the north side of the Rappahannock, reorganizing its shattered columns, while Stonewall Jackson, the fighting rebel hero of that struggle, was on the south * A decision has just been rendered by Re- | out any Quarantine system at all. It is well corder Hackett which is of tery great interest | known, notwithstanding the efforts of the to boat owners. Under the law as it at present | agents of the companies to keep the fact secret, stands, or rather as it has been construed, no | that there have been a great number of cases person could own & boat without paying a| of smallpox among ths 2migrants who have license fee for it, whether he used it for pur- | arrived here recently by the European steam- poses of business or pleasure, and no one,ex-| ers. If the Quarantine officers had been cept he was employed on board, could com- | attentive to their duty the circumstance municate with a passenger vessel lying in the | could not have remained concealed from harbor without being liable to arrest and «| them, nor would the infected persons fine of one hundred dollars. The object of the | have been allowed to circulate among our law was to protect emigrants against boarding | city population. But the negligence has -house runners and other sharks; but in doing | not been confined to cases of this kind. We this it has inflicted penalties on persons en- | understand that on her last trip from Nassau, tirely innocent of any intention of traud, and | where the yellow fever is raging, the Cunard who merely tried to communicate with their | steamer Corsica took on board an officer of the friends before the vessel containing them had | British war vessel Steady, who was just re- arrived at the dock. Besides this, it has proved | covering from the disease, and who was passed every Congre :man who votes for war authorizes a der, robbery, theft and piracy, and every one who votes for sach a Congressman is classed in the same category ; therefore no radical peace man considers himself @ligible to Congress until the law is changed. Resolu- tions covering these points were adopted at the anni- versary meoting yesterday. Roports from branch so- Cieties in various States were received, and addresds were made by Professor Taney, Lucretia Mott, Mrs, M. 8. Townsend and others. The National Temperance Society held a business Meeting at the Dutch church in Fulton street yesterday, and in the evening the exercises were continued at Cooper Institute, Speeches were made by Dr. Cuyler, Wendell i’biltips and others. The American Home Missionary Society held their forty-Grst anniversary iast evening at Steinway Hall ‘Tho usual reports were presented and adopted. The avniversary of the American Tract Society took place last evening at Steinway Hall, The annual reports were read and received, after which several gentlemen SS ‘sccounts of the operations of the side dying from his wounds (he died on the | » source of serious inconvenience and annoy- | through here by the Quarantine officers with- ter will become the vigorous, growing party of Order. saa 0 tone The now and elegant rooms of the Travetters’ Club, at | 10th), equal in himself to a rebel loss of ten | ance to the owners of yachts and other pleasure } out the least difficulty. Now, these are start- | the future. There isa general feeling abroad Boston, , 1867, that the New England manufactarers are as |, William Lloyd Garrison was among the passengers to- much of a “ring” as are any combinations of | frends went on board just previous to the sailing of the New York Corporation officials, Aldermen and | steamer, ana Rev. C, R. Waterstom on their bobaif,, Councilmen; and their selfish and grasping | made known to Mr. 1Garrieon that $90,000 had been policy during and since the war is exciting a | contributed and deposited, ‘auke cas tena poptilar feeling against them. The Southern | ‘asors States, when they take thee place in Congres, | he, etz"sia"tttaned” ri and © goserat will join the West in opposition to special shaking of Bands and wishes for a pleamnt Journey legislation, and then, the questions of slavery | Schooiship in honor .of the distinguished passenger en ‘and reconstruction being both owt of the way, ie 3 boats lying in the harbor. In the case of a | ling facts, and we should be failing in our duty party indicted under the law, and of which we | to the public if we did not make them known. publish @ full report in another column, Re- | If we are to escape the perils that threaten us corder Hackett has given decision against | from cholera and other epidemics during the the validity of the indictment and in the de- | hot season it must be by a different sort of fendant’s favor, on the ground of its uncon- | watchfulness on the part of the health authori- stitutionality. He shows that under the de- | ties from that exhibited at present. We do not cisions of the Supreme Court the State of New | mean to say that their subordinates are in con- York has no right to restrict the free use of | nivance with the agents of the steamship compa- waters common to two States in the manner in | nies, although things certainly have very much No, 222 Fifth avenue, were formally opened iast even- ing, the occasion being celebrated vy an instructive lecture from P. B. Du Caillt, on “Explorations im Africa,” in which he gave a basty sketch of his obser | ‘vations and experiences in the tropical regions of that country. Aa appropriate introductory address was de- livered by Edward E. Dunbar, president of the club, In the Supreme Court on Monday Judge Barnard issued a peremptory mandamus, compelling the Comptroller to exectite the leases of the premises Nos. 115 and 117 thousand men. On the 9th of May, 1864, Gen- eral Grant on hand, the terrible battle of Spotteylvania Court House (which commenced on the 8th) was brought to a close, with the captare of the enemy’s works and a thousand prisoners, On the 9th of May, 1865, President Johnson issued his proclamation declaring the war and rebel belligerent rights at an end; and that day was the last day of the Southern Confederacy and of his personal liberty to Jeff whole period of $180,000, Yesterday, upon applica. | Davis; for early on the morning of the 10th he | which this act does, The decision will proba- | that appearance; but we do say that, whether | the old political organizations will be aban- ‘$50,000, tion of counsel, Judge Sathoriand issued an order and | was captured, By daylight to-morrow mom- | bly be taken up for appeal, but we have no | influenced by that couse or by inattention to | doned and wo shall have the new political yore ; stay of proceedings, requiring tye al tundames | 18 *¥O years of his captivity, awaiting “a | doubt that the legsl:and common sonse views | their duiies, their negligence is divisions throughout the Union foreshadowed i dias jars om pare fireman The order and stay were at once | SPeedy trial,” will be complete, which is | by which it is sustained will prevail with the | sad that their places should be supplied by by the protectionist and free trade aad labor ‘Two suicides were committed im this cigy Vemterdar, i served upon the Comptroller, im vime to prevent the de- surely waiting long enough. court above competent and trustworthy anhatitntes movementa of to-~lay, fad a third was attemotod