The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, as MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Le nanennsesaneneiad THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in theyear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. ) THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Annual subscription price:— pewrs per copy: One Copy... Three Copies Five Copies. Ten Copies, Apy larger number addressed to names of subseril $1.50 cach. Anextra copy will be sent toevery club often. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy wilt be sent to clubs of twenty, These rates make the Wenstr Hinitp the cheapest publication in the country. Postage five cents per copy for three months, ‘The Cauvornia Eprrion, on the Ist, 11th and 2st of each month, at Six CxNTs per copy, or $3 per annum. 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Matinee Wednesday and ‘at 246 o'clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Brosdway.— a faire wees freer New York, Mond May 27, 1867. REMOVAL. The New Yous Hxxatp 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 ‘half-past eight o'clock in the evening. EUROPE. By special telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated (a London, St, Petersburg and Dublin, on the evening of the 25th of May, we have interesting and rather impor- tant intelligence from theze capitals. The Czar of Russia has received a tender from the United States government to sell the monitor Miantono- moh, an iron-clad frigate, and two fast war cruisers for his service, and was disposed to accept it. Since the adjustment of the Luxemburg difficulty in ‘London the Eastern question has assumed more import- ance. Itis said that an effort will be mado to settle it by diplomatic negotiation. From Dublin we are told that the authorities dread re- Prisals from the Fenians should the law be executed on the “traitors” Burke and others, now under sentence of death. The dwellings of the Judges and Crown coun- @el who appeared at the trial are under guard night and day. London advices of yesterday insimate that the Sentences will not be carried out. The English reformers made another influential emonstration in London on Saturday. ‘The Danish Cabinet informs the great Powors that Prassia disregards the obligations of the Schleswig ‘treaty of 1865. Paria journals complain that Prussia is strengthening the fortifications of Rastadt. Five-tweatios were at 77% in Frankfort yesterday. The German mail steamship Germania, which arrived this port yesterday, brought our European files to the 15th of May, containing dotails of our cable de- Bpatches one day later than the mail reports published fo the Haeatp on Sunday morning. MISCELLANEOUS. A wmi-oficial report of the siege and capture of Puobdla, the defeat of Marquez and the siege of Mexico, which is now in progress, bas been furnished the Mexi- can Minister at Washington by General Porfirio Diaz. Ho docs not mention the reported wholesale slaughter of imperial officers at the taking of Puebla, and attri. utes the defeat of Marques to the co-operation of General Gaudarrame. He says that he hed eon approached by the Imperial Minister of investing Mexico city with offers {to surrender in case personal guarantecs were given, and ‘by General 0’ Horan, who agreed to deliver up Marques Af his own life would be spared. Princess Salm Salm, the wife of the German Prince who figured in the late civil war in this country, and who is at present om Mazi - ‘Tilian's staff, also made proposals requesting that she might be permitted to enter Queritaro, when he would induce Maximilian to surrender by Soquainting him with the terrible state of aflaire in the capital. Marshal Bazaine, before his Gepartare, made proposals to him, in which he promised te Goliver Maximilian, Miramon, Marques and others, fand all the cities held by the French, and to sell hima Alarge quantity of guns and ammunition, The terms Proposed by all these personages were, however, con- Gidered dishonorable, and were rejected j. The opinion of Attorney General Stanbery on two Clauses of the Reconstruction bill is published elsewhere in the Hmmato this morning. The cinuses refer entirely to the registration of voters and the disfranchisement of cortate classes. \! The United States vessels Huron, iroquois and Une- Gilla were at Rio Janeiro on the 10th of April, and the Juniata was there on the 24th of that month, The Haron was bound for La Plata early in May, the tro. ‘quois for Hong Kong late in April, and the Unadilla for (Aho East Ipdies via the Cape of Good Hope about the time, The Janiate was awaiting the arrival of the which was at Pernambuco, when she would for home, The officers and crows of ali these vessels well, pdm Swe 4 ‘The Rpiscopal Convention of North Carolina, which Fooontly met at Wilmington, adopted resolutions favor. ta Wag Javelectuad bramiag of v1 - tho tr c¥’mon, in order to forestall or corres the | Simple Troasen—The Ineme Botwoon Greeley | and, almost at the point of the bayonet, many orroncous education which other denominations may impart to them, and admitting colored men to the min- istry in tne church as spimtual toaohors and pastors of their own race, General Sickles has ordered the discharge of Stephen Caiboun Smith, who mutilated the flag at the recent fire- men’s parade in Charleston, He has also ordered the release of most of the negroes ongaged im the atreet car riots, retaining one or two of the ringleaders for trial by military commission. Colonel Stokes and Emerson Etheridge argued their articular views of the political queation at Memphis oa day, to the mixed assemblage of blacks and whites, which at’ present ts the unfailing characteristic of « Southern mass meeting. The editor of the Savannah Republican, who was finod and imprigoned for libel last Maron, bea been pardoned by Governor Jenkins, Four men were killed im Louisville on Saturday night by the caving in of a pit in which thoy wore working. Another quiet Sabbath yesterday under the Excise law. Ne Troason— The National Debt a National Swindle. The voice of the people rises with disappoint- ment and indignation at the conduct of those who favored and bave been instrumental in the escape of the arch traitor, Jeff Davis, We have rarely witnessed a more general and sponta- neous expression of public seatiment. The re- lease ot Davis on straw bail, which is really the abandonment of the charge of treason on the part of the government and judiciary, aatia- fies no one, except a few unconverted secession- ists, It leaves everything unsettled; it makes the war a farce; it shows that-halfa million of brave men have been slain for naught, and that three thousand millions of national debt, con- tracted to put down treason and to make it odious, is a swindle. Had Davis been tried and the laws vindicated, had the crime of trea- son been fixed and defined, and stamped with that odium which the authorities talked so much about and which would have made men shudder bereafter at the thought of committing it, the people would not have complained. Then they might have been magnanimous, even, and have consented to executive clemency to the offenders, But now nothing is settled, and they ask, Is there treason or is there not, in this country ? All the parties to this infamous fraud upon the public are conscience stricken, or, rather, they are stricken with fear of the consequences to themselves; for it is doubtful if they have any conscience in the matter. Having commit- ted the deed, they suddenly wake up to asense of the evil done, like the assassin Booth, and appeal to the public with all sorts of lame ex- cuses and special pleading. The President pleads want of authority or jurisdiction, and throws the responsibility on Congress and the judiciary. Congress did nothing, and endeavors to throw the responsibility on the Executive. Chief Justice Chase, whose duty it was especially to see that the traitor should be tried and treason punished, positively refused toact, and now tries to make the District Judge, the pliant Dogberry Underwood, responsible. Under- wood, acting under instructions, from Mr. | Chase and the administration, undoubtedly made a great fuss about the heinous crime of treason, and then let the trajtor go on straw bail. Greeley, who, pretending to represent the loyal North, and the republican party in particular, went all the way to Richmond to in- fluence his radical friend, Underwood, and to volunteer bail for the liberation of the traitor, now makes « pitiful defence of bjs conduct. Botts, the bitter enemy of rebels, and of Davis, the chief one, especially, was another of these volunteer and uncalled-for bailmen who takes the stand to defend himself before an outraged public. Well may the people ask, Is there treason or is there not? All these radical declgimers against the odiousness and heinousness of treason—all theae pretended Simon Pure loyalists—have been made in the end the tools of an able and adroit State rights lawyer of this city. Through their weakness and vanity Mr. O’Conor bas entrapped them. They placed them- selves in a position to be tempted and ruined politically, and he has lured them to destruc- tion. As o lawyer he has only done his duty for his client. For the escape of the chief rebel the people will hold Mr. Chase to account, with Greeley and the rest of the radical Chase party who brought the disgrace upon the country. Everywhere the question is asked, Is there treason or is there not ? But what will be the consequence of let- ting the rebel chief go without being tried? How will the people interpret this act? Will they not argue that if there be no treason the war was in vain and is fruitless? There is now in the public mind a degree of con- sternationand doubt. The action of the gov- ernment and judiciary has unsettled it. Is there treason or is there not? is the question every one asks. Soon, if we mistake not, the people will interpret the action of the government, the Chief Justice, Underwood, Greeley, and of all the rest, as repudiating trea- son and as declaring the war a failure in its results. If so, will they not regard the national debt a national swindle, and repudiate that ‘as readily as the crime of treason has been re- pudiated ? They will say naturally enough that they ought not to be burdened with a debt of three thousand millions and upwards, reckon- ing the debt of the States as well as of the general government, for nothing. They will ask why they should be taxed a hundred and fifty to two hundred millions a year, when they have been cheated in the object and results of the war. Is there treason or is there not? This 8 the question of the time, before which every other must give way. It involves the security of our government hereafter and the payment or repudiation of the national debt Under- standing the action of the government and the judiciary as virtually declaring there is no such crime as treason, we should not be sur- prised to see, within five years, the debt cre- ated by the war repudiated as an imposition and afraud. That, in fact, would be the logi- cal consequence of letting treason go untried and unpunished. If there be no treason the war was all wrong, and the national debt is a national swindle. The Iron-Clad Barter. It appears by a cable despatch in another column that the report that our government had thrown ite old iron-clads in the market, and was ready to “swap” them off for real estate or hard cash at a discount, was not so much of a joke as many people were led to believe. The Russian Emperor, it is stated, will most likely accept the Miantonomoh and two or three other vessels in payment of Wal- Tussia, and he may be induced to take “a few more of the same sort” and pay for them in berd moper, Who's the next customer ! NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1867. and the Repablicans. Greeley justifies the release of Jeff Davis on straw bail because he hag been lying in jail for two years “unindicted for anything but simple treason.” This “simple treason,” in the eyes of Greeley, is nothing but a venial trans- gression, for which two years’ imprisonment is sufficient atonement. If complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln—one aingle victim out of the hundreds of thousands sacri- ficed to the rebellion—could have been estab- lished against Jeff Davia, or if he could have been held “in any manner responsible for the murder of our captared soldiers,” that would have been altogether a different affair; but as he was “not even indicted” for those offences, and only stood charged with “simple treason,” Greeley considers himself fully justified in aiding to set bim free on straw bail, and pro- claiming to the world his innocence of any serious crime. This is precisely the point upon which the great maas of the loyal people of the Union | will take issue with Greeley and his straw bail operation. While very few peraons believe that Jeff Davis had an. active share in the assassination of President Lincoln, everybody of common sense, and Greeley among the number, knows that the crime was the natural | effect of the rebellion and its exciting appeals to the prejudices and passions of reckless men. Jeff Davis may not with his own hands have snatched the food from the starving Union soldiers at Andersonville, Salisbury and Millen, or shot them down when in their despair they cast themselves beyond the “dead line” of their prison-pens ; but as ihe head of the rebel armies and ‘the ruler of the confederacy he had supreme power over his subordinates, and was responsible for tho treatment of his prisoners. If the captured rebels confined in the loyal States had been left to rot and die by the ten thousand in Northern prisons, would the copper- heads who now. pat Greeley on the shoulder and pour sixty thousand dollars’ worth of Corporation advertising into his lap, have acquitted the republican President of all responsibility for their murder? The people hold that the rebellion was a great crime, and not a “simple” and venial offence; and that out of it grew the heavy sufferings of the nation; the loss of millions of treasure; the desolation of hundreds of thousands of homes; the horrors of the Confederate prison pens; the assassination of Lincoln, and all. They are not willing to allow the master spirit of the rebel- lion to go unpunished and the arm of the law to be paralyzed by the special pleas and quib- bles put forth by Jeff Davis’ straw ball. An in- cendiary who sets fire to a dweliing does not directly take the lives of the victims who perish in the Bames;. but he is nevertheless eld ., The cry of tho republican party, and among the rest, haa been “punish the rebel leaders and let the misled masses go.” The principal count in their indictment against An- drew Johnson is that he has shown too mich sympathy and leniency towards leading rebels. Bat now Greeley turns round and stultifies his party and justifies Johnson by fawning upon the great head of the rebellion, the arch traitor of all traitors, the autocrat of the treasonable Confedera‘e government, and securing his re- lease from jail and his escape from punishment. It is for this offence that the republicans of the West, and of the whole country, indict Horace Greeley as a black eheep in the flock; and all the “narrow-minded blockheads” of the Union League Club cannot release him from the charge on straw bail. Fraad and Demoratization. Undoubtedly there is a most astounding cor- ruption prevalent in several of our government departments. It is notorious—known to the Public through the press; known to the autbor- ities through the searching inquiry of innumer- able special agents—but who is punished for it? We have repeatedly laid beiore our readers ac- curate and detailed accounts of transactions by which the revonue department is annually de- frauded in the article of whiskey alone of amounts that would pay the éxpenses of an economical government. There seems to be no remedy; for while it is easy enough to detect and expose the swindlers, whether in whiskey or other articles, there is a wonderfal conta- gion, and government officers touch the cor- ruption only to become corrupt. There is enough money in the swindles to bay up all who come near enough to be dangerous—col- lectors, agents, detectives; and from the patent fact that there has been so much exposure and so little punishment, it would be drawing no very violent don. clusion if we assumed that the money was not without its influence on men much nearer to the central power than district officers or investigating agents. It is but too evident that if aman can make enough money by corruption he is beyond control. He bays the detective who discovers his secret—he buys the government agenis all the way up—he buys, save in some few rare cases, the judge on the bench, and at the last, if ever consigned to prison, he can buy his way out from any turn- key. With the legal restraints thus defective, is there any other? Is there a moral standard anywhere that can be brought to bear? Where has society sent to Coveniry the mil- lionaire whose money was made by the de- tected fraud of untaxed whiskey or shodily blankets? With the moral standards s0 blunted in high places that we cannot punish the recognized head of the most gigantic treason in history, that the author of atro- cities without parallel goes scot-free—with such a condition in the upper political atmos- phere, how can we expect anything better in places of less responsibility ? South America. The anticipated trouble at Panama, In which it was almost certain that Admiral Thatcber, of the United States squadron, might take possession of the Isthmus, has vanished into thin air; two out of the three vessels of the fleet have left the port, and all is quiet again. In Peru the revolutionary turmoil still con- tinues, and bids fair not to be settled until Congress confiscates the Church property and the country goes through the long religious war necessary to that measure, as has been done in Mexico. Chile is not disposed to ac- cept our friendly mediation on the Spanish Chileno war, and will probably fight it out. In the meantime the political aspect of that republic looks rovolutionary.. The govern- went bes forced an election in its own feTor Company is a corporation with a capital of for the etock of the company are kept here June. The practice, sanctioned by law, is to responsible for their fate, and suffers the penalty | § mining, the grand and venerable es “lesiastical system of Catholicism! Losing nove of its casential permanent features, might it Bot be somewhat more exactly adapted to the youdi- tions and wants of modern society? Mighy not the Church thus strengthen the powerful had which it has had for centuries on the hearts and minds of mankind? ‘Tho'Indian Campaign « Failare. It appears that, from all the news we receive upon Indian affairs, the great campaign which was to annihilate several of our most promi- nent tribes will - be postponed until next year. Instead of taking the offensive, our troops are more disposed to take the defensive, and the greater part of them are required to guard the Pacific Railroad, In the meantime the savages are proseouting their work of plunder and murder, and are laughing at the regular army, which is so encumbered with comforts that we never expect to hear of the capture of anything but squaws, While the troops now rest from their arduous campaign it would be wise to attempt @ new treaty with them. This will give the Indian agents and contractors a fine oppor- deputies have been elected to the Congress which favors the party in power. Thus the South American troubles, instead of quieting down, look more cloudy than ever ; and the Pa- cific, as well as the Atlantic coast, appears bent on general warfare of national destruc- tion. Extraordiaary Attempt to Get Possession of & Great Rallway—Wall Street Graspiag tor the Northwestern. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway about forty millions of doliars. It derives its charter from the State of IMinois. Its treasurer resides in this city,and the books of transfer The annual election of directors for this cor- poration isto take place in Chicago early in close the transfer books » certain number of days previous to an election. They have been ‘on the present occasion as usual ; but give the indians time to prepare for next year’s campaign by laying in a good supply of powder, bullets and blankets. The desperate warfare between regular and Indian tactics can then go on to help pile up the taxes and amuse the people, which is the only good derived from the annual expenditures. We believe that the Indians are frequently forced into warfare by the unprincipled white population in contact with them. When we deal with them in peace it should be honestly, and when we make war it should be warfare of a different kind from that we usually make. The wars waged against them for the past ten years have by them been considered rather an amusement than anything seriously intended. The proper method would be—as suggested by a letter which we pub- lished a day or two since—to allow the Gover- nors of the frontier States and Territories to organize volunteer companies of frontiersmen, who would soon make short work of the Indian pest. They would bo incited, moreover, by the memory of wrongs to be avenged and of savage massacres, whose perpetrators still go unwhipped of justice. If we are to have any more Indian campaigns organized let them not be like the present one, but let them be based on common sense, The West is better able to take care of the Indian question than the East. | Let those in contact with the problem have the privilege of solving it, and we shall then have our Indian expenses reduced to a very small figure. books any further. A writ of mandamus was applied for to compel him to show the books or to furnish lists of the etockholders, Under this legal proceeding number of witnesses have been examined, who have disclosed the scope and the particulars of the movemer ' to get possession of the road. It seems that certain Wal! etreet operators con- ceived the plan of borrowing the stock and holding it fora few days, just at the time of the closing of the books, and of buying proxies, so as to control the election. Should this scheme succeed, and the nominal owners be allowed to vote on their borrowed stock, or the proxies be held to be valid which have been made on this borrowed stock and merely | nominal ownership, this great corporation might be placed entirely under the manage- ment of men without one dollar of interest in its stock, or any interest in it whatever beyond the expense of carrying the election. This is a new phase of railroad management and of Wall street stock jobbing, and is of great interest to all bona side owners of railway shares and bonds. If people who have no in- terest in a railway can obtain the control of its affairs in this manner they will be under great temptation to sacrifice its interests to their own personal gain. Great inducements might be ‘Tho Jury Systom. Thoud complaints ate being made of the in- more panel, twelve om another and In the other courts the result is the same. How the jurors are summoned or selected we are ata logs to know, but judging from the above facts we should say they are taken from the directory, without reference to qualification either as to property (less than $250 exempts), knowledge of the language, physical fitness or other essential conditions. Out of panels of one hundred each there are generally one-third returned to the clerk as not found, and conse- quently not liable to fine. About one-third swear to just causes of exemption, and of the other one-third ten or @ dozen may appear, and the rest are fined twenty-five dollars for non-attendance. Are these fines collected, and to what department of the city treasury are they credited? The whole system is wrong. In the first place it bears hardly on the workingman, and in the second it allows the rich man, who can better afford the time for this duty, to escape it altogether. The proper way, to select jurors is to take them from the internal revenue lists, and from the list of voters in the various pre- cincts. In this way no duly qhalified citizen can shirk the duty, without rendering himself liable to the consequences. We recommend these suggestions to the attention of the Com- missioner of Jurors. As the courts are about to adjourn for the summer months, he will have time to accomplish this wholesome and necessary revolution before they sit again in October. The Death Sentence on Colonel Burke, the Fenian. According to @ cable telegram of yesterday, “Earl Derby ,says officially that the Fenian Burke, whose sentence of death was recently commuted to imprisonment for life, will surely be hanged.” It is difficult to conceive how Earl Derby can have made such a statement as this of the case. If the sentence were once actually commuted, to reconsider and recall it and execute the prisoner would be wholly un- precedented, and we cannot imagine anything #0 extraordinary to be possiblé. The previous reports that Burke’s sentence had been com- muted may have been premature. There can be no question that the execution of Burke and his fellow-prisoners would be most unwise policy on the part of the British government, at this particular juncture, when the Euro- pean Powers are invoking the special pro- tection of the United States government for Maximilian, in order to save him from the immi- nent danger of being shot or hung by Juarez, it would be highly inopportune, as well as im- politic, for Earl Derby to hang Colonel Burke. Will Somebody Reconetract Brownlow? Now that slavery is abolished, and the war is over, and Congress has put the machinery for the reconstruction of the South in motion, and Greeley has given straw bail for Jeff Davis, will not somebody set to work and re- construct Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee? According to all accounts his militia, under the pretence of preserving the peace, are keep- ing the whole country in a state of disorgan- ization and terror. His recent brief address to the blacks, like all his violent harangues, was calculated to do mischief and to incite disturbances. He needs reconstruction as badly as the most unrepentant rebel of the South. The lately appointed Vicar Apostolic of the North Pole will meet there dignitaries from South, West and East. From the Oriental churches in communion with Rome will come patriarchs and prelates of the Catholic Americans, of the Catholic or United Greeks, of the Catholic Syrians, the Maronites, the Chaldeans and the Copts. All these differ from each other in ritual and in sundry matters of discipline, as in language; they wear vestments and robes unknown to the Western churches; but, nevertheless, one and all, they acknowledge the Pope as the Chief Bishop, and they are in full unity of faith and practice with the See of Peter. America, Europe, Asia and Africa will be duly represented at the splendid and imposing spectacle which Rome will witness in an assembly composed of more various and more remote nationalities than those which met the first day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. It will be difficult for any one who shall visit Rome this summer to rejeet such visible claims as the Chureh wi'l there and then display to its tide of Catholic. This solemn gathering from the uttermost ends of the earth, together with the offering of the immense voluntary contributions of the faithful everywhere, will attest the miraculous vitality of the Church. ‘The Pontiff himself, with the representatives of all nations kneeling at his feet, will offer a striking cont to the position to which he seemed about to be reduced not long ago, when the last French troops left Rome and the eovereigns of Europe had apparently agreed that the inevitable hour had come for depriv- ing him of his temporary authority. Who knows but that the Head of the Church may of his own accord announce to the assem- bled bishops’ that he is disposed to lay aside his privileges as a temporal prince and devote himself henceforth exclusively to governing the vast spiritual empire which owns his sway ? As a temporal prince Pius Ninth signalized his accession to the pontifical throne by certain liberal measures which showed his recognition of the progressive spirit of the age. He has encouraged many of the most characteristic improvements demanded by the nineteenth century; he has restored old roads and built new ones; he has established railways and telegraphs, initiating the use of the latter for scientific purposes, and he has introduced gas- light into Rome. The excellence which, under his fostering care, the Roman schools and col- leges have attained, is a theme of admiration, government has been provided by modern sotence. What « fine opportunity will be Sue Rumseaenes Oee-0 SREY eee offered by the approaching conference in the ce ae pean nina d Ieving 4 tunity to despoil the miserable beings of what |-™ than eighteen were aval | MEXICO. ‘which, without the necessary trainiag, but moved by their great courage, stormed the fortifications and car- whioh [ immediatety did sion harassed him much,. barring ‘Vorw Cruz, in which direction it Proceed; but he countermarched leagues distant from Humantla, and which I offered bim on the heights the purouis of Marques, though f e pureui overtake him, as ne had hi day's. march over mé, General however, had detached General Guadi ‘with a division of cavalry, in pursuit, to which other forces operating inthe valley of Mexico were added, and I sent him orders to cut off Marquez's retreat to Mexico, which he did 80 successfully that Marques wes compelled to seek shelter at the Hacienda De San Lo- renzo. When everything had been to attack him he fled by the road leading from ipulabpam te Texcoco, and he was completely routed. The on the 10th of ane, defeat of Marquez occurred the fourth anniversary of the the crown. I was determined to attack Mexico at once4 and marched upon it, intending to establish my head- quarters at Tacubaya; but General Escobedo having recalled the Guadarraina division, I was obliged to ohange eg ae come to this place. Soon after my arrival, or me somo le proposit jected. Then the Prussian Princess Salm-Salm, the wife of one of Maximilian’s aids-de-camp, came to see me te solicit a safe.conduct to get into , Saying she g Austrian’s acceptance Minister of surrender the cit} mo if I would give him persomel id ’ Haran sent me the samo e would deliver Marquez to me, idea t his own lite and gave bim a passport me ‘abroad. The villains are treacherous, even tor each other. We have now ali our batteries our advances ia such a manner that the capital of the re- our either by direct assault or Within the city there is no vio~ lence or extortion that is by Marques ta order to raise money and increase his forces. The foreign merchants bave all closed their establishments fae peingpery omeny tre yp wane mom! Mio- isters, who have eat their protests ‘the acts oe juez ; and the newspapers of state that nats Ovrpa it aooma, is deninots of jenving the city aad going to ame oon RG ta private individuals "will not prevent thom clog 0. i i fF te ih i Beil : il i hr § Pe i FS i i | re 8 E it ia: i 1-8 5 for trial by military commission. In the case of Calhoun Smith, charged with matilating the national Gag at the fremen’s parade on April 27; the order says:— The extenuat! circumstance 1s the prisoner's sdkareneicoean of rs coupled with the avowal thas the act was done ina moment of unusual excitement, and accompanied by an of sincere for the offence. Prominent and indiaeniiel eentees petitioned for Smith's pardon, that his offence receives uo countenance in A it appearing that the confinement already w by ‘accused, added to the condemnation of the comma- nity will sufficiently admonish him of the such misconduct, tt is ordered that he be di THE NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY. Annual Sermon at the Scotch Presbyterian Church Last Night. The annual sermon before the New York Bible Society was delivered last evening by Rev. M. C. Sutphen, at the the literary efforts which the Bible contained? Tiiad of Homer, the Aincid of Virgil, Milton's Paradise Lost, neitner of them, nor all combined, would so much darken our intellectual firmament as would the eclipse ofa single star of that Ray rete C from the sacred paces was the work also that would at Le lid i i he rif - 38 é a s if # i ii & ie if if i made a far better impression iast evening than on the Sunday. Her voice is a rich, caltivated con- traito, which should be retained in its proper sphere, ‘the concert hall or the opera, instead of being frittered away in trashy spectacles and worse music. Mr. Paiti- son played Chopin's krakoviak with orchestra and his own. fantasia on the Doctor of Alcantara very fincly Noxt Wook the groat musical festival commences, It will be ae re semson ja New t