The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1867.—-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JaM@ES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STEEET. HE DAILY HERALD, vp. blished every day in the year, Foorcents per copy, Annus! subscription price, $14. ADVERTIEMENTS, 10 a limited number, will be inserted curopean and California im the Weexty Heraiy, tho Editions, RTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO SRAL CoRRmaPONDENTS ARE PA! LL Lerrers axp PaCkaGRS SENT UB We do not return rejected communications, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo typing and Engraving, neatly and promplly executed at the lowest rates. ~ AMUSEMENTS THis AFTERNOON AND EVENING BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—Tax Maney Wives or Wixpsor. WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK THEATRE, 0 ee otk Holel-Tas Euvas-OMDERELLA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Davip CorraarizLD— Pocanowtas. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street near Sixth avenue.—Ristoni's FaRewet Pxeronmances—Matines at 1 o’olock.—MacazTa. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 730 Broadway.—Visu Lazeuen, vx Niouts. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ‘Trours or Jaranxse ARtisTS Lt Matinee at 2 o'clock. IRVING HALL, Irving piace.—Miss Lizstz Mznatristy's Fiast Gaanp Concent. * place.—Tue Imremiac Wonpanrct Fears. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, S85 Broidway, opposite the Metropolitan, jim tusia Ermiorian Ewrearaiy- ‘MKNTS, ano Buecesquas.—Tux Bisce Coox—lursaiaL Jaraxuss Troure. KELLY & L.BON'S MINS: 3, 729 Broadway, oppo. site the New York ifotel.—Is Sov2s, Daxoes. Eooun- Bi ac.: jpa-LBoN—MaDsuascan Baturr teovre—Tan Jara. PIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOU3E, Nos. Zand « West Fwenty-fourth street.—Gairrm & Curr M Srnorian Mixsrancsy, Baciavs, Buucesqves, Boous Jarancsz Juogieas—Urrae Tex HOOLEY'S OPERA MOUSE. Brosklyn.—Ermoriaw Mrx- erunter, Baviape axp Bunixsques.—Tux Srurnx. THR BUNYAN TABLEAUX. Umon Hall. corner of Twenty-third sirest and Broadway, at 8.—Moving Min- Bor ux Pucrix's Procnuss—Sixtr Soanas. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATONXY. 618 Rrosdway. we Rian Agu oF Pnroast—Tux Wassinctow we Woxpans me Natunat Histowr, ane. Macmuricunr at Big o'clock. Semxce axD Leorunss Dai. from 8 A.M. tn WP. ML NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue.—Exuisirion or Picrurrs axp Soutrrunss sy Livinc Agrists. TRIPLE SHEET. REMOVAL. The Nuw Yore Heeatp establishment is now located in the new Henaun Building, Broadway and Ann stree~ NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, May 16. lt te reported from Candia that the Turkish army ‘ander Omar Pasha has been defeated by the Christian tusurgents in a general battle. The Prussian naval au- ‘thorittes deny that the King’s government has bought @r is about to purchase an iron-clad fleet in the United States. A vessel has been chartered in Liverpool for the work of laying a submarine cabie between the coast Of Florida and Cuba. Consols closed at 924g for money in London. Five- twenties wore at 7244 in London and 77% in Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market was active during the day and closed firm, with middling uplands at from Ud alld. Breadstuffs quiet, with corn deciined. Provisions unchanged. By the steamship Java, at this port yesterday, we have @ur special correspon 9 and newspaper files to the 4th of May. The principal subject treated by the writers at that dato—Luxemburg, peace or war, the reform debate and the Fenian treason trials—have been reported fully to (heir isaue by the special cable telegrams and general Submarine news reports of the Henao published simee from day to day. Wo are specially informed that England designs to 90.20 Cuba in the event of aay difficalty with Spain, and endeavor to retain the isinnd as a base in the Gulf of Moxico. The Irish patriots in America are unfortavate in mat- tors of Gnance. Our Dubtia correspondent alleges that im 1865 the Fenian executive in New York remitted large sums of money to Ireland, im the shape of drafis @vewa by the Belmonts on the Rothschilds. The Bntish government embargoea the bills and directe¢ tho “Rothechilds not to pay them, which was done, A bill Grawn for £2,000 sterling, to be used for the def¢nes of “the prisoners, with others, when refused payment in o Londen, wore returned to.New York, but the Fenlane in Trotand allege to our correspondent that the brethren here have never been able to recover tho gold from the Belmonte. The Fenian organization in Ireland is-@aid to be te working order and unimpaired in force. THE CITY. ‘The steamer Niagara, from Norfolk, arrived at ber dock tn North river about midnight last night with Jef Davia, hie wife, his brother ead sister-in-law on board. They became the guests of the New York Hotel, and will leave for Montreal this afternoon. ‘Tho Board of CounctImen held s specis! meeting yes. terday, for the purpose of ratifying the tax levy as passed by the Legisiature, The ordinance failed to re- ceive a suMoient number of votes to make it a law, and the levy was laid over for fature action. The Board con- curred with the Aldermen in directing the Corporation Counsel and other gentlemen to report to the Mayor the ‘extent of the various franchises legally owned by the Corporation. At the meeting of the Board of Education last even- ing a mumber of appropriations were made for buildiag of New York and ite operations, The subject was re- ferred to the appropriate committee, The annual commencement of the Columbia College Law Shoo! took place ia the French theatre last might, and the degree of Bachelor of Laws was conferred apo eoventy-soven of the students, ‘The West Bide Association held a meeting at the Ev- erott Rooms on Broadeay last evening, whom the report Of the Gxecative Committee was received and an elec- ee for officers was held A public mooting of Germans was held in the seventh ward inst aight, whea it was determined to form an on the perpore of agitating against the pro- the Bactce law. Cotemel Gaenge Mh Katlogg bas been appointed Ieqpector for the cities of New York and ! il / of the laborers aad city railroad stabiemen by li HT ee : Fogler, the marderer of Mr. Disemore, in December wife bleeding and insensible on the floor, The woman died yesterday. Two gold operators indulged im @ sbooting afray among themselves in Broad street yesterday afternoon the thoroughfare was filled with the usual crowd. Neither of the parties directly engaged were injured, but a man pamod Grace, a mere spectator, was struck by one of the bails and severely wounded, One of the parties aged in the shooting, whose name is Fall, was ar- and committed, ball being refused, by Justice Dowling, Tho other one, named Newtom, is stili at large. A decree of divorce was granted yesterday in the Superior Court tn the case of Barbara Sehryer against Philip Senryer. The North German Lloyd's steamship Unten, Captain Von Santen, will sail at noon to-day (Phursday) from Hoboken for Southampton and Bremen. “The mails for tue United Kingdom and the Continent will close at the Post Otlice at baif-past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The fine steamship Eagle, Captain Greene, will sail from pier No. 4 North river at three o’closk this (Thure- day) afternoon for Havana, Tho mails for the island of Cuba will close at the Post Office at two o’clock this afternoon. The stock market was firm but dull yesterday. Gold closed at 136%. Vonsequent upon the advance? in gold the merchan- dise markets ruled a shade firmer, and prices for most commodities advanced materially, and a fair business ‘was consummated. Domestic produce ruled dull, lower and unsettled. Coffee ruled quiet but firm. Cotton was active and 3<¢, higher. On ’Change flour was dull and Sc. a 15e. lower, Wheat was dull and nominaily 30, lower, Corn was in active demand and 50, # 6c, higher, while oats declined 1c. a 2c. Pork was a shade easier. Beet was steady, while lard was heavy. Freights were quiet, Naval stores were active but a shad> lower. Petroleum firmer, en, MISCELLANEOUS. ¥ Tho news from Vera Cruz, Mexico, is to the 4th inst., and from Mexico city to tho 25th of April, Marquez had about seven thousand men im the capital, and was closely besieged by Porfirio Diaz. The aqueducts supplying water to the city bad been cut of and no food was arriving. Artesian wells, however, were supplying the inbabitants with water. Maximilian was reported still at Querétaro, sus- taming the siege, The reported death of General Mira- mon isdenied. The siege of Vera Cruz was boing car- ried on with more than usual activity. Sisal and Merida were im the hands of the liberals, Imperialist accounts say that Maximilian bad arrived in Mexico city with eight thousand troops to relieve Marquez, Minister Campbell’s messenger to Juarez, with the intercession of the government for Maximilian in case of bis capture, returned to New Orleans yesterday. Ho left Juarez at ‘San Luis Potosi, on the 23d of April. Maximilian was inside of Querétaro with fifteen thousand men, while Escobedo bad thirty-five thousand outside and possessed ali the roads but one, The messenger was treated with the greatest consideration and courtesy, but the feeling ‘among the liberals was so bitter against Maximilian and his officers that it was thought they could not be saved from violence in case of capture, Our South American letters are dated at Rio Janeiro on the 9th of April, and Buenos Ayros on the 23th of March, No new movement had been made by either party in the Paraguayan war. Picket firing and the ‘throwing of sheile occasionally into Curupaity were the only hostile mancavres going on. Minister Washburne arrived at the camp of the allies on the 11th of March, from the Paraguayan government, to which he is ac- credited, and had a secret conference with Marquis Caxias. It is believed the conversation was in reference to the proposed mediation on the part of the United States, and that Marquis Caxias declined to admit of any mediation whatever. The recruiting of the National Guard for service in the field is uttorly oppoved by the members of that organization in Rio Janeiro. In Per- nambuco an open revolt is threatened in the event of the order being enforced. The Paraguayan army is well supplied with everything through Bolivia, No sign of want is visible among them, while the a‘ltes are discontented, being bound up in a swamp and deserted by their ailies, A Peace Conference was held at the Government House, in Buenos Ayres, at which General Mitré, the Provisional Presideat of Uruguay, and tho Brazilian Minister were present It is believed all favored a speedy peace. The proffered mediation of the United States is in great favor with all classes, Lopes, the President of Paraguay, among them. Operations against the rebels in the Argentine Republic were |-aotively prosecuted, and the force of the latter had been reduced to a few guerilla Banda Our Havana correspondence is dated May 11. The weather was such that an unusually warm summer was expected, and many violent cases of smalipox and yellow fever were already reported. The rumor was current that Admiral Nunez’ fleet was about to sail for Rio Janeiro, The financial condition had not improved. Several more failures bad taken place. The President of the United States took a walk through the streets of Washington yesterday unaccom- panied by a guard, for the first time since that practice was inaugurated by President Lincolo. Despatches have been received by the Secretary of State from St. Petersburg officially announcing the rati- fication on the part of Russia of the treaty ceding her American possessions to the United States The motion to amend the Mississippl Injunction case by including the charge that General Ord is about to seize certain property of the State was argued in the Supreme Court yesterday. Further particulars of the Movile riot show that four persona were killed and fifteen or twenty wounded, The leader who fired the Orst shot, aiming directiy at Judge Kelley, bas been arrested. Shots were fired from win- dows and housctops overlooking the scene, The shots were generally aimed too low for effect, and by this means ‘the party on the platform escaped more serious damag>, the woodwork receiving in many insianccs the bullets ratended for them. An atiack was made on negroes at some distance from the speaking simultaneously with the main affray. The whole matter ia undergoing rigid Investigation by Colonel Sheppard, the military com. mandsnt, and Mayor Withers. The troops still patrol the town, and Judge Kelley was to have left yesterday for Montgomery on 8 government transport, it not bo ing deemed advisable for Bim to attempt to speak again in Mobile, j AN the banks in Now Orleans have sustained heavy Grafts copsequent on the financial trouties prevailing there. A heavy ron was made yesterday on the City National Bank, and {ts condition became. at one time quite critical; but three private capitalists eame forward and advanced money enough to pay all demands A case is before the Supreme Court of the United States which involves the question whether Texas is a State in the Union or not. A motion is made by the State to have an injunction issue from the court restraining certain parties forming the rebel Military Board of the state during the war from paying certain State bonds to parties who claim them as consideration for certain articles contraband of war. The Republican State Central Committee of Kansas Met at Topeka yesterday for the purpose of arranging for a canvass of the State on the platform of impartial suffrage, when several negroes who participated ex- Pressed themselves as bitterly opposed to female suf. frage, and considerable dissension ensued between the friends of the two questions. The Michigan State Constitutional Comvention is in Pie cecond axy'e racing at Hoboken was attended by ‘a large crowd. The burilo race was won by the black horse Backbird, the three-quarter mile dash by the gray colt Urbana, aed the mile ands halfdash was won by Delaware, A spiritual seance was disturbed by some wild young fellows In Bradford, sass, on Tuesday night, and the presiding spiritualist, whose name is Smith, becaine en- faged and shot and killed one of them He then sur rendered himself to the authorities. The failure of the firm of Milbone, Crichton & Son, of Baltimore, with liabilities amounting to $150,000, was last, was hang at Washiegton, Pa, yesterday. He mate 2 ttatersent confeering his own guilt and tmplicating o son of the Hon. William Montgomery, who was tried ‘and cleared at the last cession of the cour, The execu- ‘Mrs. Belinda Etims, the heroine of the story of shipbuilder of Boston aed bie breach of | marrage, haa Fecovered $7,000 for the injery See Tere Peace Treaty—Ie te te be ‘ing Peace, or Oaly an ° ‘The London Conference has tetind on saccess- ‘fully. The peace treaty has been duly signed. ‘The process of disarming on the part. of the threatened belligerents has. already com- menced. Royal and imperial visits bre to be made to the Emperor Napoleon, and Paris will be more brilliant this summer than if war had been less imminent, To England, and especially to England’s Queen, the grati- tude of tho nations is due, If war must ensue before reconstructed’ Europe settles down on a firm and’ permanent basis, it is desirable ‘that the pretext for unsheathing the sword should Baye at least the appearance of justice. War om account of tie Luxemburg difficulty would have had no such reason to recommend it; but war was inevitable if some friendly and disin- terested voice had not been raised for peace. In this instance. the voice of England, has not been raised in vain. Whether the London Conference, with its happy results, is to be set down solely to the good sense and kindly foel- ings of Quven Victoria or to the farseeing wisdom as well of Benjamin Disraeli, time wili best explain. Now, however, that peace is scoured and that the question of genioral disarmament is likely to be raised, it is not inopportune to ask, what is the probability of continued amity among the nations of Europe? In answer to this question we have to eay at the ou‘set that it will not surprise us if a proposal for general disarming be made by England, if, as the result of this proposal, ano:her Congress, on a larger scale than the present one, be convened in London or some other of the European capi- tals, and if as the result of this second council, the process of disarming be-gone into by. all the Powers represented with much apparent sinc:rity. All this, we are willing - lieve, may take place in the early Nay, more; it isnot impossible that second Congress questions of immediate ficulty may be raised and 80 disposed of the peace of Europe will seem to be secured for a period of considerable though indefinite length. We are sorry, however, we cannot add that a firm and lasting peace may safely be coun‘ed upon. The condition of European society and the temper of th> different gov- ernments forbid us arriving at so desirable a conclusion. No one who has made himself familiar with the history of Europs since the days of tho Romans downward can fail to perceive that that continent is on the eve of, if it has not actually entered upon one of those transition periods which have been periodic in its history. For some generations it bas been the great object of European st.:tesmen’ 80 to proporlion the strength of the lead- ing nations—in other words, so to balance power—that peace should necessarily be the result, So far, however, as we have ever been able to understand the so-called) balance of powcr, it has been more’a name. to be: fatare. Ee this dit- that 2 than a reality. It did certainly sicare to two | or three Powers a preponderance of authority; but it did not prevent those same Powers from quarrelling among themselves when occasion offered. The balance of power, in the sense in which it has usually beon inierpreted, bas never been an effectual gustantes for the peace of Europa. In spite of specious appear ances, which the great Powérs have vainly tried to preserve, the struggle since the dawn of civilization in the West has been and ever must be for the commanding position. Intervals, certainly, have occurred during which no nation had courage or strength enough to take the lead ; but thece periods of inactivity have uniformly passed away, the siruggle has béen resumed, and out of it some one Power has emerged the acknowledged masier of the Continent. The empire of Charlemagne, arising out of the ruins of Rome, the prond position acquired by Spain in the time of Charles V., the glory of France in the days of the Grand Monarque, Louis XIV., and the ail but universal empire built up by the First Napoleon, are illustrations in point. In each of those instances a dulness or a species of dead equality preceded the struggle which resulted in the temporary ascendancy of one Power. Since the downfall of Napoleoa, Europe, till at least within a recent date, bas been at rest. No one Power has stood out towering above the others. It is our conviction, however, that the period is again close at hand, if not actually reache1, when the struggle tor supremacy must be resumed. ‘The European continent, within the last few years, has been completely triusformed. The old boundary lines are no more. Since the Crimean war, but cspecially since the triumph of French arms at Solferino drove the Austrians from the plains of Lombardy and virtually set Italy fre2, the European equili- briam has been seriously disiurbed. France, Austria, Rassia even, are no longer what they once were relatively to each other or to the rest of Europe. Nations strong as they have sprung up at each of their doors. ‘What is to be the position of these younger Powers in the European system? How is the growth of their strength to affect the older nations? Which of all the Powers or what combination of them is to take the lead? In what shape and by what means is the Eastern question to be set at rest? What is to be the desliny of the Iberian peninsula? What alliances are the Scandinavian nations likely to form? These are a few of the questions which have to be decided, and it is difficult to conceive how they are to be decided other- wise than by the sword. A Congress may do much to preserve peace fora time; but it may the judge who sentenced him—necossarily fa; wiliar oa (bey might be with apy oxtonuating circumstances of the case—shall endorse the applicetion;' Sometiiing like this, we believe, is the English practice, although the pardoning power of the sovereign, like that of our Presi- dent and of our State Governors, is theoreti- cally absolute. Experience has shown the advantages of this English practice, aud we are confident that its adoption in the United States would remedy « great and growing evil. The Riots at the Seuth—The Bight ef Free Speech, Following close upon the Heels of the riot at Richmond and the ‘disturbances at New Orleans, created by unruly blacks, comes & more serious afftay at Mobile, Alabama, where a number of .unreconstructed white rebels made ® murferows attack upon a mecting assembled to listen (6 & political address from Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who is at present stumping the Sowth in the interest of the radical party. From our special de- spatches yesterday it appears that soon after Judge Kelley bad commenced his speech he was interrupted by persons on the outskirts of the meeting, who shouted to “put him down.” To this threat tho speaker replied that the Fifteenta infantry were at his back, and that if they could not prevent his being put down the United States army could. This was the signal for a general outbreak, and immedi- ately an attack was made upon the platform. Pistols and guns were fired at those who occu- pied it, three or four persons were killed and fifteen or twenty wounded, and Congressman Kelley and the Herarp correspondent nar rowly escaped injury. This murderous riot is said to have been preconcerted and stimulated by incendiary articles in the rebel press for a few days past. Whether this be the case or not—whetter the attack upon the meeting shall be found to have been premeditated or prompted by the angry impulse of the moment, it was equally unjusti- fiable and deserving severe punishment. It is the duty of General Swayne, who is in com- mand in that district, to exert his power to the utmost to discover and punish the prompters and actors in the disgraceful scene. The mili- tary commanders at the South have been placed there expressly to preserve the public peace and to act as a police for the protection of the lives and property of the people and the proper enforcement of the laws. This is the object of the reconstruction policy of Con- gress. The right of free epzech is as con- stitutional right and must not be inter- fered with by mobs or military, or by the national Legislature itself, except in time of war. Congressman Kelley was just as much at liberty to speak without interruption on all the political questions of the day, at Mobile, as | that literary Bohemian, Pollard, was to lecture upon the exploded Sou.hera chivalry at Rich- mond. If the unreconstracted rebels do not desire to hear Kelley’s political balderdash, they can stay away from his meetings; and if ‘the freedmen and white radicals are unwilling "to listen to Pollard, they are not compelled to attend his lecinze. Whe:her it is wise and patriotic for the Northern radicals to overrun the South and endeavor to excite the minds of the freedmen’before they are yet accustomed to their new position, in the hope of advancing their own political fortanes, is quite another matier, Their hints at “mild confiscation ;” their unnecessary recounting of all the evils of slavery ; their arraignment of the white popu- lation of the South for all the crimes in the calendar, can have but one object and one result—the political division of black and white, of race against race. The riots and fights that have marked the course of these political pilgrims through the Southern States are indications of the serious trouble that may be expected in the future, if the evil be not speedily arrested. Reoznt disgraceful develop- meats show that some of them had better be at bome in Massachusetts, corre:ting the morals of the legislators of that State and the alder- men of Boston, than making stump speeches to Southern blacks. But if these radical missionaries choose to travel through the Southern States, delivering political speeches, they must be pro‘ected in the right of free speech, which is guaranteed by the constitution of the United States; and it is the duty of the militery commanders of the several districts to s2e that they have sufficient protection from mob violence. At the same time these military commanders should be impartial in the discharge of their daties. It is just as much their province to protect the literary Bohemians of the chivalry from the interference of radicals and freedmen as to defend the radicals and freed@men from the assaulis of Southern bullies and raffians. Haaceck’s Talk with the Kiewns. There are three ways of dealing with our Indian tribes—fight them, pet them, or talk them into submission. The first has for years beon a miserable failure, the second has not been s success, and the third process we are trying to effect, backed by a large army used as @ scarecrow. Our special correspondent has just given us tho details of the long pow-wow held with the Kiowas. The speech of Sa-tan-ti has a good ring in it, and if some of his statements prove true there should be a severe handling of some of our Indian agents and military officers. It is a well known fact that the Indian agents frequently cheat the Indians out of more than one half of the annuities conceded to them by treaty stipulation. This occasions much ill- feeling, and becomes often # frequent cause of war. Although we. have no faith in Indian honor, still it is no reason why we should set them such examples of bad dealing as is com- plained of in this straightforward speech of Sa-tan-ti, He complains, also, that one of our Pacific railroads is to run through his hunting grounds, that the buffelo have all disappeared, and that the forests have been cut off. Thishe thinks a just cause of complaint ; other of the eral Hancock gives an excellent reason for 80 doing —among others, that that tribe had burned three white mea, From Colonel Leavenworth’s statement it appears that this band of the Kiowas was en- gaged in the terrible massacre of the Box family, in Texas, some months ago, and for this reason have not received their annuity goods as osneh ‘The whole resuits of the council appear to be very unsatisfactory. No point has been reached, and the settlement of our Indian dif qultics appears to be aa (ar off a0 ever, $ The Suffrage Question—A Suggestion for L4 Politicians. Some of the party organs in this city are just- now engaged in a) discussion on the suffrage question. One of them regards the principle of universal suffrage aga failure, and believes the only way to secure an honest government is to restrict the franchise by a property qualifica- tion, on the ground that the man whe pays no taxes is indifferent to the extravagance and profligacy of an administration. The other believes that the ballot should be put in‘o the hands of every man who lands in New York and is likely to vote the d-mocratic ticket, but withheld from persons of color and others who are supposed to be opposed to the democracy, The anarcby and’ corruption which at present prevail in the State government and in this city are not to be laid to the door of wniversal suffrage. They are the natural. consequences of the constitution of 1846, which muddled up the State and city governments and subverted the most valuable feature of a tree tranchise by making every little petty officer elective, split- ting the whole system into fragments and imposing no direc responsibility anywhere. If the Governor of the State, elected by the people, should be endowed with the fault power to appoint, control and remove all the- heads of the subordinate State depariments, and be held directly responsible to the people for the effi- cient and honest government of the whole State, and if the Mayors of onr citics, similarly chosen, should have the same authority and responsibility, then universal enffrage would be @ success, It is proposed by one of thege party organs to confine the right of franchise in the city elections to those persons who pay taxes. This would be a very unfair and invidious dis- tinction, The laborer and the mechanic who live on their daily wages pay tax:s indirectly, if not directly, on everything they eat, drink and wear. Indeed, in increased prices and high rents they are compelled to bear their share of the direct taxation on real estate and incomes, as well as the property owners them- seives. If, however, our political reformers are bound to have a mixed suffrage and some sort of a property qualification, let them estab- lish the principle of recognizing both persons and property. In the South, before the aboli- tion of slavery, a good, healthy, fat negro was worth about one thousand dollars. A white man at the North should bo valued at that sum at the least. Let us have for our municipal government, then, a separgte qualification of person and property on this basis, giving every man one vote for one thousand dollars as the value of his own person, and to @ tax- payer and property owner an additional vote for every one thousand dollars he is worth in property. This will make a mixed suffrage that will bring in both persons and property and satisfy the political flies on both sides of the wheel. The Tax Upon Emigrante—Where Dees the Mency Got The Logislature at its recont s2ssion in- creased the commutation tax upon emigrants landing in New York from two dollars to two dollars ands half a head. This monzy is col- lected from the ship owners by the Commis sioners of Exnigration. It mast amount in the course of twelve months to a good round sum. Asingle steamship lanied over on2 thousand passengers at Castle Ga:den Iast wook, the tax ‘upon whom would be two thousand five hun- dred dollars, A few days ago nearly three thousand emigrants arrived at tint depot fn twenty-four hours, and from these the Commis- sioners mast have realized some seven thou- sand dollars—a tolerably profit ble day’s busi- ness. In two comparatively dull weeks, up to the 1st instant, before the great tide of emigra- tion has fairly set in, the arrivals at this port have been over eleven thousand, which, under the new rate, would yield ® revenue of some twenty-eizht thousand dollars, Tas produc- tive tax is not the only source of income enjoyed by the Commissioners of Emigra‘ion. They receive ten or twelve thousand dollars a year from the railroads admitted to Casile Garden for rent, and we believe a tax of fifty dollars is collected in some cases where an emigrant is sent to Ward’s Island. But if we take the commutation tax alone and aggregate the arrivals during the year upon the average of the two weeks prior to May 1—eleven thou- sand—we find the reczipts of the Commis- sioners for the next twelve months to be from this source nearly eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Where does this money go? Who ts respon- sible for its safe keeping and its proper invest- ment? We know that a short time ago the gratuity of two thousand dollars was presented toTnurlow Weed and some other person for amicably settling a “difference” that hat occurred between the Emigration Commission- ers and another city commission, and we know that plenty of people would have done the business for one hundred dollars, if the officers in the pay of the Commissioners were incompetent to accomplish it. But farther than this we have but little light on the subject. What are the Comm 'ssioners going to do with their princely revenue? They are philanthropic and take no pay for their own service. dad they not better use the money to build a comely, healthful and convenient emigrant depot atthe Battery in place of the present dilapidated shell known as Castle Garden? They ought to do some public good with the fands ; for their expenses are comparatively nothing, and the people who pay the heavy tax are entitled toa i i | i § 5 Guamsr’s Srasce—Horace Greeley depend upon the Henaty fer.a fall report of his ‘speech and that of Gerrit Smith at the immense mass meeting of whites and blacks on Tuesday at Richmond. His own journsl, the Tribune, failed to give anything bat « brief abstract of Gerrit Smith’s Speech at Richmond. Gerrit Smith made a speech to a mixed as sembly of black and white people at Riche mond on Tnesday which was fall of eharacter- istie benevolence, and contained broeder and more sensible views than the speeches of any other Northern orator now in the South. He did not spare the Sontb for its sins and follies, for bringing on the war, or for attempting, in some cases, to rum away from the restoration terms. of Congress ; but he blamed the North also for its share in bringing om the trouble and for’ its want of magnanimity. Though under the constitution those who took part in fighting against the government are traitors to-day, he said: he. was “averse to having his countrymen (the Southerners) go down to pos- terity s.igmatized as traitors. When this strife had advanced toa. great civil war, witha de ‘facto government, and carrying on war as an independent Power, they were no longer trai- tors; He wanted thus to lift them from their supposed degradation. The North, he would say, was under & common responsibility with the South for the late war.” After of slavery as the cause of the war, and the North being equally guilty with the South for estab- lishing and maintaining that institution, he added, “we of the North reaped far more gain from slavery than you @id. You but held the cow—we milked it.” He said he was not anad- vocate of confiscation, and advised the blacks not to ask for it, but to seek homes by their honest earnings. He would also relieve the South for half a dozen years from direct federal taxes to enable the people to recover some- thing of their former prosperity. Congress, he said, should have appropriated ten or twenty millions of dollars to that suffering land. How such broad and liberal views con- trast with the narrow and illiveral policy of Congress in taxing the productions of the South at a time when they most need assist- ance! How different is this speech of Gerrit Smith to those threatening and mere partisam speeches of Wilson, Kelley and some other Northern orators in the South! We think Gerrit Smith would do a great deal of good were he to follow those other speakers through- out the South, and we recommend him to do a0. Punishment fer Political Offences. He is of the stamp of men whom it is impolilic to make martyrs of. The soil. soaked with their blood is poetically but traly said to be sown with dragons’ teeth. Had Lord Edward the last half century might not have beemas difficult as it has proved. : i Executions for political offences have hap- pily become impossible in the future... Oar example has settled that question. If a; gav- ernment such as ours can forgive the treason committed against It by tien like Davis and Lee, no. other dare oarry its vindictiveness to such an extreme, It is true that in ° the example failed to exercise any a ‘but there was no time for the British ment to interfere, and there is no ocourring again. British officials care in the future how they run the citing another sach storm of indignation that elicited by the execution of Mr. Gordon. i ‘The Sale of the Dandorbera. The sale of the armor-plated mons‘er, the Dunderberg, to the first naval Power of Europe, of actual war our who'e coast would be alive with activity in the building of vessels with which to pay off old scores and wipe out Ala- bama remembrances. The sale of the Duanderberg will set our English friends to thinking. Behiad ber walls of iron her two filteen-inch guns and twelve more each of eleven-inch calibre would make wild work on the Thames or along the unprotected const of Prussia. No English iron-clad could live five minutes above. water under the terrific fire of the batteries of the Dunderberg. The oaly way for John Bull to keep his naval balance, Row eo nearly lost, is to order of usa better ¢raft, which our skilled mechnics can readily arn out. We have no jealousies and feel so s'rong in our geographical position that weere quite willing to thdertake for the English what they appear unable to do for themselves—build a naval fizet capable of coping with that of their French rival. All of our irom-clads areforsale. Our policy now is economy. The confidence we possess in our productive powers is such that we are quite willing to dispose of all our old stock, preparatory to producing a new and better article. Massachusetts Morality. “Extremes meet” is an old proverb, and one + that has been verified in the appalling case of immorality in Massachusetts which was re- ~