The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ees JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. BRQADWAY AND ANN STREET. =— +++ No. 1623 ——_— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY big re Broadway, near Broome sireob™-Laas, Tas FORSAKEM. LL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- ant kop York Hotel—Paver, on rum Dawox, Tus Doctor i ab Dar's Daavout—His Last Luas, ouyMric THEATRE, Broadway.—Trxasvgs Trove, any? 3 OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Tae Imreerat ov Jarannsm Anrists in Tasin Wonpsarc. Feats, L, Tre AMOISOCO MINSTRELS, 985 Broad: opposite @itag Hotel—In rum Ermoriax Ewrerrain- GixG, DaXoInG AND BURLESQUES.—TREASURE ROvE BIFAE UOLD HUNTERS—POLITICAL ADDRESS. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 729 Broadway, oppo- atte tbe Now York Hotel —Ix rune Soxos, Daxoas, Boon wmorrmm, Boriesquis, &0.—Norua—Tus Jars. FIPTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2and 4 West rth street.—Gutrein & Cutustr’s Minstaes.— Mixsraacey, Baucans. Boaiesqves, 40.—Tue Booss Jarannsx Jvccixas—Iux Rivat's Rexpezvous. 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The Italian Parliament rejected tho plan of the Minister of Finance for raising a loan ‘based on the proceeds of a church property tax. Two Fenian colonels from America have been arrested in Ireland. An English expedition has aailed for Africa to search for Doctor Livingstone, ‘The London Stock Exchange was closed for a holiday. Cotton declined 3 of a ponny in Liverpool, closing with middling uplands at 1134 pence, Broadstuffs quiet and unchanged. Provisions dull. Additional mail details of our cable despatches, dated to the 30th of May, arp published in our columns to-day, Our special correspondones from St. Potersburg, dated on the 284 of May, details the progress of the negotin-_ tions golng on between the United States and Russian governments for the trading off of the Miantonomoh and other first class American iron-clads against a por- tion of the purchase money due for the territory of Bussian America. The writer also explains some points of diMoulty which may arise in tho transfer of the pro- porty. The members of the joint commission, Russians and Americans, who will be authorized to delivet and receive ‘the property, are likely to have to discharge some very (tedious formalities. Their duties will cause them to ‘winter in-Sitka, ‘The following telegram from Cork, dated May 27, is poblisho¢ in the London journals:—‘On Thursday night ® military force was attacked at Mitchelstown by a large Fenian force, who fought with bludgeons and staves, A Gesperato fight ensued, in which many on both sides ‘wore soon to fall. Ultimately the military were driven off the deld.’ THE CITY. The Bow of Councilmen met yesterday. The Street Commiss.oas« was directed to cause the East Broadway Railroad Company to remove cars which were block- ding certain streets, A resolution was referred to a mpeoial committee to consider the propriaty of establish- ing public baths in the city. A resolution was laid over $a favor of appointing a committee of five from each ‘Board for ‘the purpose of getting up a regatta on the Foarth of July. A report of the Committes on Rail- goads in favor of prohibiting the Hudson River Railroad Company from running their steam cars below Fifty- 4hird street was presented and dobsted, and was made the special order for the next meeting. The Mayor getwod a resolution passed by the Common Council Fopealing @ resolution which authorized the Comptroller to sell ferry franchises and wharves, piers and slips. ‘The Board adjourned to meet at twelve o'clock to-day. At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday, a Tesotution was adopted requesting the comptroller to Farnish a list of all leases of city property made since 1862, the names of the persons with whom they were made, the terms, and the reasons why the sanction of the Corporation was not obtained. The Corporation Counsel sent in a communication informing the Board o? ‘the result of the prosecution by him of the sureties of the public administrator, Ten vessels, carrying over four thousand passengers, Came into this port yesterday. Thoy were found to be 4n good sanitary condition, and allowed to pass at Quar- antipe without detention, The ship Arnold Bonninger ‘was also allowed to come up after having been detained ince Friday. The cholera is reported to have disappear- ed from neatly al! parts of the world, Mr. and Mrs. King, cach twenty-four years of age, wore found dend in their bed at No. 30 East Nineteenth strost last evening, under circumstances which plainly ‘indicated that he had nrurdered hor while she was asleep ‘and bad then committed suicide. A bullet hole was found in the wife’s left temple and another in the hus- band’s right temple. The pistol, which ho still held in ‘his hand, was a small four-barrelled revolver, from which three shots had been discharged, ‘The stock market was firm yosterday. Gold closed at 197%. The transactions in domestic produce were rather ‘Tore liberal yesterday, and prieesas a general thing were higher, while imported merchandise was moder- ately active at about previous prices. Coffee was steady. Cotton was a shade easier, On 'Change flour was more sotive and 6c, 2100 per barrel higher. Wheat was quiet, but firm, Corn opened firm, bat closed heary at ‘® decline of 20. a 8¢. Oats were dall and nominal. Pork ‘was active, but at a decline of 580. per barrel Beet ‘was steady, while lard wae heavy, though more active. Freights were a shade firmer, Whiskey continued firm. ‘Naval stores wore dull, Petroleum was unchanged. At the National drove yards yesterday the markot for ‘oof cattle was characterized by extreme depression, and holders being exceedingly anxious to realize wore ‘obliged to grant concodsion of fully 1c. per tb.; in ome cases inferior qualities were disposed of at i Greater reduction. The demand, however, was actire, wad about ail the offerings found purchasers. Extra ‘quality commanded 19, prime 180, a 18\e., first ‘quality 17}¢0. ® 17%0., while fair to good lots brought 1163¢0. @ 17¢., and superior to ordinary 12¢, a 1ée, Trade do miloh cows continued light, and all trades, except extra, favored the buyer, We quote the range $45 & $125, ‘Veal calves wore in moderate demand iat unchanged’ prices. We quote extra 120. a 126. Prime 1130, a 120., and inferior to common 7c. a yey ‘Pho market fof sheep and lambs was dull and depressed, ‘and prices were a shade easier, at 73<c. a 80, for extra, Te. a Te. for prime, and 60, a Tc. for inferior to com. mon. Lambs fanged at from $5 to $8 60 perhead. The hhog market has ruled quite active, and with « falling off An the receipts an advance of 3¢c. per Ib. was established, ‘About twenty-five car loads were on sale at the Fortieth ‘Breet yards yesterday, and were disposed of at the fol. Rowing quotations :—750. a Te. for heavy prime corn Wed, To. 0 13,0. for tair to good, and 630 @ Te. for com. #00 and rough. The totdl receipts were 6,061 peers, 6T milch cows, 1,698 veal calves, 15,445 sheep and lambs | General Sheridan and Governor Wells—Pree- and 19,147 ewine, MISCELLANEOUS, Our special despatches from Mexieo are dated in Que- rétaro May 26, and come direct from the correspondent of the Hunan, who sustained the siege inside the town with Maximilian, The Emperor end all his Moxican generals were alive except Mendes, who was shot for remaining concealed after the surrender. and Maximo Campos, who attempted to escape with four thou- sand dollars at the time of the surrender. None others are known to have been shot, though all the French officers are miasing. The Princess Salm-Salm, an American lady, is sald to have intereeded so power- fully with Juares as to receive the promise of Maximil- jan's safety and that of her husband, Prince Salm-Salm, who was an officer in the United States Army during the rebellion tn this country. Miramon was expected to die of the wounds he had re eeived. Lopez, who betrayed the garrison, is to receive $48,000 in gold for his treachery. Maximilian was still lying ill from dysentery, A few weeks before the sur- vender he was decorated with the Cross of Knight Com- mander of the Mexican Military Order, by his leading generals for his bravery under fire, and self-denial during the campaigns. He has issued a proclamation to the people of Mexico, in which he acknowledges that the valor and patriotism of the republican forces have destroyed his power, charges Louis Napoleon with cowardice and infamy in deserting him, and says that when the news of his fall and death reaches Europe, the monarchs of Charlemagne’s country will demand of the French Emperor on account of his blood, He desires that bis fate may serve asa warning to all am- Ditions and incautious princes, and, as a last word, re- commends to the Mexican people to ennoble with their virtues the political cause of the flag they sustain. Another despatch says that Escobedo had ordered a court martial to convene for the trial of Maximilian. The official list shows the number of offloers captured to have been four hundred and thirty-seven, Genoral Gomez, at Tampico, had declared for Ortega, but a por- tion of his garrison, favorable to Juarez, had revolted, and a bloody fight ensued, in which tho revolting party were worsted, Some ot them took refuge on the United States steamboat Yantic, Wo havo files from Japan dated at Yokohama, March 80. The Japan 7imes of that day reports:—The French Minister returned on the 28th inst from Osaka, where he has been visiting the Shogoon. He has had several interviews with his Highness, who received him very graciously, All doubts respecting the opening of the great Southern port on the first of January next aro now removed, A high dignitary has arrived in Jeddo with commissions for the officers whose pres- ence will be rendered necessary in Osaka by the cstablishment of foreign trade, There is no other political news of any importance, The searcity of money among native dealers continuing, we have to report a limited business in most kinds of imported goods, AS tho value of the dollar, however has slightly receded, Slearances of goods previously sold have been made ratffer more freely. Tho demand for cotton, rice and arms is decidedly lessened, and the at- tention of our customers, for so many mentbs directed strongly to theso articles, appears likely to revert to what we are inclined to think more legitimate, because staple, imports, Rice has fallen off eighty cents per picul. Gray shirtings have slightly improved in value. Fancy cottons and woollens of all kinds have been completely neglected, and even black cloth must be classed among unsaleable articles. Sugar is lower for medium kinds, Silk has receded in price, Tea is slightly easier. Freights dull. Exchange in limited demand. Among our reconstruction items §to-day will be found several articles of vital interest, the vetoes of tho Pre- sident on the original and supplementary bills being among the most important as showing the Presidont's own viows regarding the powors of the military com- manders in the South, a question which is being consid- erably agitated since the issue of the Attorney Goneral’s opinion. Also a spicy letter from ex-Governor Wells, of Louisiana, to General Sheridan on his removal from office, and the letter of General Longstreet, in which he cuts loose from the Democratic party because it denies the franchise to negroos, John H. Surratt was produced in Court, at Washington, yesterday, to siand his trial for complicity in the assassi- nation of Mr. Lincoln. His counsel expressed themselves as ready to proceed with the trial, and the District Attorney sald that the prosecu- tion qere also ready, but before proceeding fur- ther he submitted a petition challenging the jury panel ag not having been drawn according to law, and read an affidavit of the Register of Washington in sup- port of his motion. Some discussion ensued, but at the request of counsel for the defence, a recess was taken until this morning to study up the law on that point, oe The Constitutional Convention reassembled, according te adjournment, at Albany yesterday, but after the read- ing of the journal adjourned again until this morning, no quoram being preseng. General Howard, finding that the negroes will drink and the Sons of Temperance will not admit them into their organizations, has advised his officers to organize “Lincoln Temperance Socioties”’ among them, to which white men may also be admitted. He also desires the ames of officers of the Bureau who are intemperate to be reported to him. McClellan and Vanderbilt trotted on the Fashion Course yesterday mile heats to wagons for a stake of $2,000, Four heats were trotted, McClellan winning the first, second and fourth, the third being declared a dead heat. The best time made was 2:30%. The Indian war has commenced vigorously in Arizona and Idaho. The red men have attacked the ranches in the neighborhood of Forts Prescott and Whipple, and large quantities of stock are being stolon by them daily, John M. Washington, Mayor of Newbern, N. C., has declined to take the oath of office required by Gonoral Sickles, Elsewhere in tho Heratp this morning we publish some official correspondence which will throw eome light on the recent efforts at mediation on the part of the United States, England and France in the struggle between Spain and the allied republics of Chile and Peru, In another column will be found an article on the National Banks of the West, which shows up the opera- tions of those concerns, their reckless misappropriations, enormous profits and increasing powera. The expedition intended to take possession of the newly discovered island tn the North Pacific in the name of the United States sailed on Tuesday last from San Francisco. Our letters from the South relate to matters in Vir- ginia and North and South Carolina, The mills of the Hartford Carpet Company, at Tariff- ville, Cona., were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss amounts to $1,000,000 over and above the in- surance. General Sherman, with the concurrence of Secretary Stanton, has agreed to allow Governor Hunt, of Colorado, to equip five hundrod volunteers for Indian sorvice. Senator Wade's excursion party was welcomed in Lawrence, Kansas, by an enthusiastic crowd yesterday, when Messrs. Wade and Covode made speeches, The former urged the enfranchisement of all classes, without regard to color or sex. A bonded warchouse on Greenwich street was robbed by burglars on Sunday night of $8,000 worth of black silks and velvet. It is presumed they were concealed in the premises at the time of closing up. Two watch dogs usually kept on the premises were found strangled and thrown into Beach street. A motion was made in the Supreme Court, General Torm, yesterday, for the confirmation by the Court of the report and assessment of the commissioners in the mat- ter of the extension of Church street from Fulton to Morris street, It appears from the report that citizens and public property have been assessed for this improve- ment nearly $3,000,000, and the costs have amounted to $84,000, The argument is adjourned to Friday noxt, Chief Justice Chase has ordered the summoning of the Grand and Potit Juries in the Circuit Court at Raleigh. No distinction of color is to be made. The Harvard Regatta took place yesterday, the Junior crews winning the first race of three miles, between lapstroaks, in twenty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds, ‘and the Scientifics winning the second race, which was for the same distance, betwoen shells, in twenty minutes and twenty-threo seconds. ‘The Texas Legislature, having abolished two judicial districts, the judges of which were strong Union men, for the purpose of getting rid of them on account of their political opinions, General Sheridan has issued an order nullifying the act and reinstating the two judges in their piaces, Several old members of the municipal government Of Mobile recently refused to accept a reappointment to thetr ol offices after having beon removed. General Swayne has therefore ordored that the vacancies be filled by colored mea. (deat Johneson’s View of the Power of the Generals Under the Military BIL Thore is some clamor for the removal of General Sheridan. This clamor originates with the radicals, who are disgusted at the removal of Wells, the radical Governor of Louisiana—disgusted at little Pbil for venturing to see that 8 republican could abuse his posi- tion, and for boldly enforcing the law without considering what party might be aggrieved by it. They arge the removal of Sheridan on the ground that in displacing Wells ho has tran- soended the powers given him by the law. In this they throw to the President what might at first glance seem a very pleasant bait—a chance to take action against the Reconstruc- tion law, to limit and restrict its force at the instance and advice and for the benefit of the very party that made it. But the President cannot do this. He cannot remove Sheridan for the removal of Wells, because in this course Sheridan has evidently been guided by the President’s own interpretation of the law. For some months the Generals have been waiting for Mr. Stanbery’s interpretation of the law to tell them what their powers were, and they have waited in vain. The Attorney General has indeed given a muddy opinion on those points of the law relating to voters and candidates, but not a word as to the status and powers of the commanders in their rela- tions with the civil authority. They have thus been compelled to interpret the law for them- selves or to take those broad interpretations of it hitherto given by the President. If General Sheridan has done the latter his rebuke cannot come from the Executive chamber. If he has acted on his own interpretation of the law it is remarkable that he and the President have sven it in precisely the same light, and Mr. Johnson cannot condemn another for doing what he himself saw would be inevitable if the laws were put in operation. We find Mr. Johnson’s interpretation of tho reconstruction laws in his two veto messages sent to Congress when these laws were submit- ted for his approval. We publish parts of these messages in another part of to-day’s paper. Of the original reconstruction law Mr. Johnson said tt “places all the people of the ten S:ates under the absolute domination of the military rulers.” Farther he deolares “the power thus given to the commanding officer is that of an absolute monarch—his mere will is to take the place of all law.” Again, the Presidentéaid of the commander of a district, “He alone is per- mitted to determine: what are the rights of person or property, and he may protect them insuch ways as in his discretion may seem Proper.” Moreover, “he may make a criminal code of his own,” and “if he gives a trial be- fore punishment, he gives it of his grace and mercy ; not because he is commanded 60 to do.” Such are the very olear declarations of the President's veto of the original Military bill, passed over his head by Congress. He also vetoed the Supplemental bill, and in that usod expressions as to the scope of the law not less instructive regarding the power of com- manders. He said the law gives to the people the alternative @ither to accept negro suffrage or “submit indefinitely to the rigor of martial jaw, without a single attribute of freemen.” He characterized the condition of the States under the law as an “absolute military despotism.” Now, if the commander is an absolute despot, he may remove any one within the limits of his disirict. If his “will is law” he can make or unmake governors as their actions may suit his sense of propriety. How- ever radicals may clamor, whatever disgust the removal of Wells may stir in his party, it is clear that the President is estopped by his own utterances from taking any action in the matter against Sheridan, based on the notion that he has transcended his powers. Mr. Jobnson was perhaps the only legal authority consulted by the General. Moreover, the American people accepted the establishment of military government in the South in the full knowledge and conviction that it was an evil, but believing that it afforded the shortest and safest way out of the trouble. The confederacy had obliterated civil society and the real government of law. Davis and his adherents had established military law—bad kept up a military despotism for four years, and in those four years the country had become so demoralized that it was not expected that it could come suddenly into the quict condition of civil society as existing at the peaceable North. Only military rule and despotic au- thority could be strong enough for such turbu- lent elements as were brought into existence. ‘Thus there was hardly a choice. The people saw military law set above all other in a case under the constitution where “the public safety required it”—in such a case as those in which the Senate of Rome appointed a dicta- tor. They regard this military rule, however, as only a preliminary—only a means of control- ling turbulence and bringing society to a state when the government of law may once more prevail; but in the vigorous action of Sheridan against corrupt men of every class they see military rule fulfilling the exact service required of it, They will not find fault because this action happens to fall heavily on a politician of the dominant party. In that fact the country sees only the impartial justice of the soldier. Governor Wells’ manifesto against Sheridan is a piece of contemptible scolding in the vein of Wendell Phillips, and will not improve its writer's position. It is only necessary to say of it that it vaguely intimates a charge that General Sheridan was a “skulker” on an occa- sion when there were bullets in the air. If that is a specimen of Wells’ defence against Sheridan he had better leave himself unde- fended. Preaching in the Theatres, The Rev. Mr. Smith, of Brooklyn, preached asermon last Sunday at the Park theatre, in that city, and advocated the opening of all the New York theatres on the Sabbath for preach- ing, after the fashion prevailing in London. The City of Churches might be supposed to be able to do without a special Sunday service of this description ; but the suggestion regarding the New York theatres may be a very good one, Our theatres are of no value as they are at present managed, and no person cares about attending the performances. Even the papers that are paid for puffing them are compelled to givg them up as a bad job, and are all coming round to the Hurato’s views and denouncing them as nuisances and impositions. It might appear singular to have religions service and @ olous sermgn an Sander sandwiched in between two performances of the Black Crook, on Saturday and Monday; but probably the only way to redeem the character of our theatres and induce the people to visit them is to hand them over to the saints, Such & radical change of proprietorship might effect a reform. The Mextoan News—Maximilian’s Farewell Address. By special telegram we have dates from Mexico relative to the fate of Maximilian up to the 26th of May, The capture of Querétaro is entirely confirmed. The city was betrayed into the hands of Ezcobedo on the 15th of May, and Maximilian and all his officers, four bun- dred and fifty in number, were captured. Only one of the most noted among the impe- Nialists was shoi—the famous Mendez—who has figured in many of the most desperate acts of horror which have made the Moxican annals famous. Acourt martial has been ordered for the trial of Maximilien. The fallen Emperor has issued a farewell address to his “countrymen,” in which he sharply charges Napoleon with being the cause of his misfortunes and failure in Mexico, and closes with afew words of solemn warning to all “ambitious and in- cautious princes.” if The same American lady who interceded with Porfirio Diaz to save the leading impe- rialists in the city of Mexico had bravely made ber way to the headquarters of Escobedo, which resulted in an interview between him and the Prince Maximilian, whose life will now undoubtedly be spared, as will the lives of nexrly all the foreigners who have figured with him in this last bold defence of the empire. Thus ends the empire. The libe- rals, since the evacuation by the French, appear to have made a:commercial transaction of it; and itis a curious fact that just sixty- three days elapsed between the time Bazaine loft Vera Cruz and the capture of Quer¢taro—a sixty days’ note, with three days of grace. It is now simply a question of time when Maximilian can return to bis own vine and fig tree. Our correspondent has been with him through all his troubles, and has, through the Henatp, given him much of his glory. We advise Maximilian, therefore, to lot the HeraLp representative take him under his protecting care and escort him to New York or Washing- ton, where he will be turned over to the Austrian Minister for safe transportation home. Before the liberals Mberate him, however, they will have him tried in the courts of the nation, and have the justice of the inva- sion, the crimes committed by the invaders, and the whole workings and action of the empire, wherever it has had control, thoroughly investigated, and thus enable the world to judge, by the evidence, what the real condition of the country has been and is; for in the conflicting accounts, from both sides, it has been very d‘fficult for the world to under- stand the merits of the Mexican struggle for nationality. Such a trial will be a valuable contribution to the history of the times, and, from the connection that the Mexican invasion had with our own rebellion, of great interest to our people. It now becomes necessary on the part of the republican government to commence the work of reconstruction and bring order out of chaos. We are engaged in a similar work, and it remains to be seen which nation will first suc- cced in re-establishing a peaceable condition of the opposing elements. If we are the first to succeed, much of onr energetic blood will demand more room, and we caution Mexico that we are marching towards the frontier. Our blood, not finding room in old channels, will in time of freshets overflow, and if Mexico does not adopt the American ideas of progress she will find it forced upon her by the irresisti- ble tide of humanity flowing westward from Europe, and, despite ourselves, taking one slice of territory efter another, whether we wish it or not, Whether Mexico now retains her territory intact depends entirely upon her rulers. If they open wide their doors to the civilizing tide they will advance with us, but if they hesi- tate to spring into the track of the nineteenth century they are lost. Small Partisans in the Constitutional Con- vention. Greeley and James Brooks, who are mem- bers of the Constitutional Convention, have already shown themselves to be the merest partisans, without single qualification to fit them for representatives in a body intrusted with the revision of the organic law of the State. They are editors of New York papers and have been members of Congress, either of which positions might be supposed to fit a man of ordinary inteiligence for the proper dis- charge of the duties devolving upon the dele- gates at Albany ; yet both Greeley and Brooks have been belittling the Convention by paltry exhibitions of partisanship since the first day of its cession. The truth is, Greeley appears to have had an intellectual collapse since his unbounded philanthropy induced him to be- come straw bail for Jeff Davis, and he will evidently have to begin again at the A B © of politics. Brooks is in no better con- dition. Ever since his unfortunate career in Congress, when he prevented the South from securing a very mild tonic of reconstruction, and aided Thad Stevens in forcing down the Southern throat the black dose of the Military bill, he seems to have lost his head and fallen into a condition of drivelling copperheadism. If the Convention is to do any good, it will have to ignore them both, and pay no atten- tion to their partisan jargon. What Has Become ef the Boulevard? Can Mr. O’Gorman, the Counsel to the Cor- poration, yunt for the long delay that has occurred! the opening of the Boulevard? We understand that a law was passed by the Legislature giving power to the Central Park Commissioners to forthwith open the grand Boulevard all around the island. This will be one of the greatest improvements, after the Park itself, ever made in the metropolis, and will add immensely to the beauty of the city, the value of real estate and the general of the inhabitants. Yet there is an unaccountable and deplorable delay in the work, There is © ramor going around that the Counsel to the Corporation has been searching into the law and has managed to discover some authority or pretence for multiplying indefinitely the commissioners to appraise the property, a8 required by the act, and for turn- ing this great public work into profitable job, as has been done in the oase of every city for the last ten or twelve years. ‘We are not disyosed to credit this ramor when JUNE Mi, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Counsel to the Corporation obtataed his office. ‘Was it for suche purpose as this that the Hapacp and the people of New York supported Mr. O'Gorman as an honest friend of olty reform and elected him Counsel to the Corpo- ration? ‘The Coronation ef the Emperor Francis Jo- sepk as King of Hungary. Our special cable despatches from the different European centres were yesterday full of interest. By one of them we learned that the great coronation pageant at Pesth, regard- ing which such expectations had been formed, and about which so much has been written, had at last come off. Judged from s Hunga- rian point of view, we may say it bas come off with complete success. Hungary has resumed her place as an independent nation with a crowned head of her own, and has obtained the formal recognition and ratification of those rights of which it has been the steady aim of the princes of the House of Hapsburg for three hundred years to rob her, and which were ulti- mately swept away by the very man who has now gladly accepted the crown of St. Stephen. Time works wondrous changes, and seldom have those changes been made more manifest in an individual life than they have been in that of the Emperor Francis Joseph. The Francis Joseph who stamped out the Hungarian constitution and attached. Hungary as a de- pendency to the Austrian crown on the 4th of March, 1848, and the Francis Joseph who on the 8th of June, 1867, performed a feat of which a Ducrow might have been envious, by galloping up Coronation Hill and brandish. ing his sword towards the four points of heaven, are one and the same, yet how differ- ent! To many of the hundreds of thousands who witnessed the coronation the contrast must have presented itself. Glad as we are to record this other triumph of popular rights, and willing as we are to rejoice with the Hun- garians in their new found liberty and inde- pendence, we cannot help, with our New World notions, regarding this coronation busincss a8 very much of a farce. It is scarcely conceiv- able that it can be again repeated. Such a meaningless display belongs as completely to the obsolete past as the Field of the Cloth of Gold or a medieval tournament. If Hungary is to convert her newly acquired liborty and independenee to any practical account it must be by other means than these. There is no lack of Jews in Hungary. Let the Hungarian people seek out some Jew statesman like Dis. raeli, who is now working such wonders with the old fashioned Norman aristocracy of England, or some Jew financiers like the Rothschilds, who will develop their national resources, and more good may be expected than can be looked for from such empty shows or from being able to boast of having a crowned head of their own. : General Longstreet on Reconstruction. Since the surrender of Lee and Johnston, that hegira from which the Southern people date their present caiendar, it is noticeable that the men who occupied the position of leaders in the Confederate army, almost to a man—wherever they have been heard at all— have’ cast their voices in favor of the imme- diate reconstruction of the South under the laws of Congress. They have welcomed the Military bill as a measure more mild than the South was prepared to expect. They have counselled a cheerful submission to all its pro- visions, and look to a final settlement of the issues of the war through its operation. In their own persons many of them have given practical evidence of their acceptance of tho terms prescribed by Congress, by devoting themselves, some to commercial and some to educational pursuits, and otherwise contri- buting by their labor and good advice to bring the Southern mind into a proper chan- nel which may lead to harmony and the full restoration of peace, with all its substantial ad- vantages. There 1s, perhaps, none of this class who has spoken more words of wisdom to his countrymen than General Longstreet, whore letter we publish in another column. He takes the correct view of the present political situa- tion of the South when he says that the princi- ples which divided political parties before the war, having passed through all the gradations of argument and compromise, were finally ar- bitrated by the sword; were by that arbitra- ment decided in favor of the government, and have consequently lapsed from principles into law, and that it is therefore the duty of the South to abandon ideas which are now obso- lete, and conform to the requirements of law established by the last resort known to civilized nations, He looks upon the Military bill and its amendments as peace offerings, which should be accepted in that spirit. Upon the question of negro suffrage he agrees with the majority of the intelligent men of the South—that it is a fixture which must be legally recognized, toler- ated, whether for better or worse, and the rights acquired by the colored man under the law fully acknowledged. Upon this point many men in the South who were democrats in former times take issue with the democratic party now, in their desire to restrict the rights of the negro as an enfranchised citizen; and General Longstreet, no doubt, interprets the opinion of a large number of thinking men in the South when he admits that there is no longer any- thing tangible about the democratic party to hold on to, because all its issues were staked upon the war, and with the war were lost. Itisa notable feature in Southern society that discontent and sullen resistance to the inevitable condition of things only exist among the least intelligent portion of the community. These feelings are kept alive by the secession press, which furnishes the most pestilent as well as the most puerile literary material to the public. Happily, however, the political sentiments of these journals have but little weight with that class who are likely, from their position and influence, to mould public opinion. On the contrary, they are ignored by the most enlightened people, and are only available where ignorant minds can be in- fiamed, or a mob element excited. The value of euch letters as those of General Longstreet and other Confederate soldiers, who represent the good sense, as well as the real chivalry of the South, can therefore be better compre- hended when we regard their effect in neutral- izing the pernicious teachings of the rebel newspapers and giving aid and comfort to those who are loyally disposed. We prefer to accept the sentiments of such men as Long- street and his confrires of the Confederate army-as the representative ideas of the South- era people, rather than the frothy balderdash of all the editorial Bob Acres who never pulled a we recajl the oiroumetances under which tha.J truzrer in either an honegt of « miataken cause. —— ‘Te? Noxt Presidency—Now ts the Time for thé People to Move. Fron: #ll parts of the country we hear of the spontaneous @xpression of the people in favor of General Grint for the next Presidency. With the exception «if the radical prese—and we do not discover that eve? that bitter political eloment is swinging united3y in an opposite direction—the public journals are almost unan- imously in favor of Grant for the Righest offige in the gift of the American people. Talk ta men of sense and patriotism from the New England States, and you will find that Grant is the favorite, and that they will denounce the sharp and coarse criticisms upon his character, by such irreconcilable radicals as Wendell: Phillips and others, in the severest tones of indignation. Talk to a Middle State man, from the heart of the great State of New York, and you will always hear the name of Grant men- tioned approvingly when an inquiry is made in regard to the next Presidency. Proceed farther West, and you will find that the public voice loudly proclaims for Graat, “first, last and always,” except here and there where the weak voice of a Chase officeholder ora national bank director is heard saying that he “is not prepared as yet to give am opinion on the subject.” Go down South, and the men who confess Grant to have been thele conqueror select him as their standard bearer and accepted champion ia the next Presi- dential campaign. Therefore now is the time for the people, irrespective of all parties, to unite in prelimd- nary action looking to a comprehensive and powerful organization, one that will com- pletely revolutionize and overwhelm all mere partisan combinations in the next Presidential election. Now is the time for the people te meet, organize and communicate with each other, without recognizing either of the old corrupt political parties or their rotten out- croppinga of mean, shabby and irresponsible little factions. Look at the work of these old parties—the rebellion, with its untold horrors; the alienation of one section of our people from the other; the accumulation of @ moums’ tain of national debt that, “pile Pelion on Ossa,” or the debt of France and England one upon the other, you will scarcely find its equal in magnitude and direct oppressiveness upon the people. Look ata crippled foreign com- merce and a stagnant internal trade. Look attha, corruption that blackens the national capltal,” overshadows the halls of State legislation, and renders insecure even the commonest but most sacred ties of life and humanity. Even a con- vention to reform by constitutional. provisions some of these grievances is met at the threshold of its proceedings by the bloody death of one of its most prominent members for the all commission of a crime against civilized society. There is no safety, no justice, no law, no reli- gion under the present debased system of poli~ tical management, It is all crime—grabbing, corruption, commercial prostration, and mora and political prostitution—as the law is now ad- ministered and society is now organized. The parties that produce these political evile and crimes demand a thorough breaking up. It can be accomplished by the reconstruction of the law-making and the law-administering powers. Under the influence of this great movement the South can be more readily re constructed and the prosperity of that moan- ing section of the country be restored. The whole country will rejoice in this humanising revival, and the old corrupt, vicious and de- moraliging parties, with their intrigues for Chase, Ben Wade, Stanton, or anybody else, go to the wall. Let the work at once be commenced in this Btate, by city, town and county action, for the coming fall cimpaign. It can be done in private or public assemblages, provided the old politicians are kept out. The people will thus be prepared to enter the ficld next year well organized and equipped for a short, sharp and decisive campaign for the Presidency, or in the event of the radicals bringing their rebel batteries to bear too strongly, to declare, im the words of their heroic leader, “We will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” Going Back to the Original State ef Sectety. For the want of laws to punish crime, or from crime being unpunished by such laws as we have, it is evident we are going back to the original state of society, when every mam was a law to himself and redressed with his own hand the real or supposed evils committed against him. This fact was brought forcibly before us in a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Bacon, delivered in Brooklyn on Sunday and pub- lished in the Heraup yesterday. The theme was chicfly on the Stanwix Hall tragedy, as it ie mildly called, or, in o‘her words, the deliberate killing of Mr. Hiscock; but the preacher branched off to other cases and subjects, to show the want of laws, or a proper execution of them, and the consequen: demoralization of society. There is no law in this State to punish adultery as a criminal offence. It is merely one of damages; consequently the aggrieved parties make a law for themselves and commit another crime. The killing of Hiscock by Cole is a case in point. Tho Inst crime is lost sight of in contemplating the first. The public and juries turn their attention to find- ing out rather how far the adulterer was guilty than to the crime of the murderer. At the pres- ent time the dead alleged adultérer is on trial, and not the living murderer. Can we wonder, then, that such crimes are frequent? May we not expect many more of them while the laws are so loose and inefficient and public senti- ment is so.demoralized? And why should all the penalty of adultery fall upon one of the guilty parties? If a man can deliberately take the life of another under such circum- stances without punishment, may not any one, from vindictiveness or bad feeling, execute vengeance upon his. fellow man under the pre- sumption of adultery? Unpunished crime is the seed of other erimes. _ But the cause of crime is mot only in the want of lews to meet it, nor in a demoralized public sentiment in such » case as this of Hiscock and Cole; it is found also in the loose administration of existing Inws, For instance, we frequently hear of notorious forgers and other great criminals being let Yoose upon society again before they have served out half or a third of their sentence. At this very time great efforts are being made by men occupying most respectable positions and by « set of pseudo-philanthropists to get one of the greatest and most notorious forgers out of the State Prison, and their influence is such shat they will probably succeed. Need wo be surprised to hear of plenty of forgeries whon puch criminals arp thug whitewsehod §