The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1867, Page 6

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Matinee every afternoon at 244 o'clock, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rroadway,— Heap ano Ricgut Arm OF Puronst—Tus Wasnincton ‘Twins—Wowrpers 1x Naturat History, Science anv Ant. Lectvess Dauwy. Open from 8 A.M. will WP. M. THIPL E SHI New York, Wednesday, June 12, 1867, EE EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cablo is dated yester- day, June 11. ‘Tho Czar of Russia left Paris yesterday for Germany. Egypt is declared a separate sovereignty by a firman of the sultan of Turkey. The new King of Hungary has, it ts said, expended “vast sums” of money for charita- ble purposes in Pesth, The Fenian “traitors” lately Con ictod in Ireland have been removed to England. Consols closed at 94% for money in London, Five- twonties were at 73 in London and 77% in Frankfort, Tho Liverpool cotton market closed dull, with mid- dilng uplands at 1144. Breadstuffs were lower. Pro- visions generally unchanged, By special correspondence and newspaper mail reports ‘wo have additional details of our cable despatches, to the 30th of May, embracing matter of much interest. THE CITY. Tho Board of Councilmen did not meet yesterday noon, a quorum not being present when the roll was called. The next meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon. In the Board of Supervisors yesterday a large number Of bills for work on the new Court House were passed. A resolution appropriating $55,380 for the expenses in- curred by the Mayor, Corporation Counsel and Board of ‘Supervisors in the settlement of the banks, and insurance Companies’ claims was adopted. Collector Smythe bas issued a circular setting forth the regulations to be followed by officers of customs in examining the baggage of passengers arriving at this port. There were 36,119 emigrants arrived at this port dur- img the month of May. Most of them immediately made their way westward, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wiscon- sein receiving the largest share of them. Coroner Wildey held an inquest yesterday morning, -at No. 30 East Ninetoonth street, on the bodies of Alfred R. King and Mattie Greenman, who were found dead in their bed on last Monday night. The jury Drought in a verdict to the effect that Mattie Greenman came to her death by the discharge of a pistol in the hands of King, and that King committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. A letter found on the body of the unfortunate man, dated at the “Sher- man House, Broome street, June 9,"’ disclosed the fact that the girl has a sister living at No. 1 Stewart street, Brooklyn. 1t says:—‘‘I have tried every means in my power to Fet employment, to take caro of the girl I ove. My folks and relatives have refused to assist me im any way. To have her I love lead a life of shame I cannot do,” A very extensive robbery was perpetrated in the store of J. M. Oppenheimer & Co., No. 41 Broadway, on Mon- day night, five casks, containing nineteen hundred un- Greased otter skins, valued at $15,000, being taken from the building. No clue as to the manner by which the Tobbery was so successfully perpetrated has been dis- covered. A turpentine and rosin manufactory on Dikeman street, Brooklyn, burned down yesterday, involving @ Joss of $35,000. Two men employed in the establish- ment wore badly scalded. In the test case recently made up and argued before Judges Leonard, Ingraham and Smith, of the Supreme Court, General Term, for the purpose of testing the con- stitutionality of the twelfth section of the Tax levy, or Session laws of 1867, which transferred the power of licensing hackmen, pawubrokers, milkdealers, &c., from the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of ‘New York to tho Board of Metropolitan Police, a decision ‘was yesterday rendered, giving judgment in favor of the municipal authorities, all the judges concurring. A motion was made in the Court of Common Pleas, Chambers, before Judge Cardozo, for the discharge on habeas corpus of Louise Alien, who had been committed on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. It appearing to the Court that no preliminary examination had taken Place the motion was denied. An action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas, syosterday, by Frederick Grimm, to recover $250 dam- ‘agos from Roderick W. Cameron, a shipmaster, for an alleged breach of contract, in not furnishing the plaintiff, @5 agreed, @ passage to Melbourne, Australia, in the ship Pactolus. The vessel did not sail on the day ap- Pointed, and when she subsequently cleared the plaintiff ‘was left behind Verdict for plaintiff, $166 36. In the Superior Court, Part 1, yesterday, in the case ‘Of Sylvia Brillas va, the Atlantic Mail Steamship Com- pany, an action to recover damages for the loss of Plainti(l’s trunk, on the voyage from this port to Havana, ‘he jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $337 27, But soven jurors answered to their names in the Court of Common Pleas, Part 2, yesterday morning, and conse- quently, although the calendar is much crowded, nu- Merous chses bad to go off till October. His Honor Judge Brady addressed the members of the bar and stated that he had bad an interview with the Commis sioner of Jurors, and that he had been promised that ‘things would be different next fall. He (Judge Brady) expected to have the merchants of New York as jurors; and if he had the power to send the Sheriff after them he should have a jury in this court next fall if be lived. In the case of Robinson vs. The International Life As- surance Company, an action in the Supreme Court to recover om @ policy of life insurance issued to one MoMardo, in Richmond, Va, in 1845, and the premiums On which, subsequent to the outbreak of the late war, ‘wore paid in Confederate money, the jury yesterday re turned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $13,375 26, The Inman line steamship Edinburg, Captain Bridg- man, will leave pier 45 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The stock market was, on the whole, firm yosterday, Gold closed at 13734. Business continued dal! yesterday, and commerc!al ‘transactions were greatly circumscribed, The dulacss ‘was not universal, however, a few of the leading com- Mmoditien having been freely dealt in, and generally at Bull prices, The market for brendetums continued to - NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. $$ —$—$ rule steady, under a fair demand for flour. Wheat was nearly nominal, white corn and oats were again decidediy lower, Pork opened at an advance, but closed heavy, with @ part of the improvement lost. Beef raled steady, while lard was more active, though still heavy. Freights were firm, Whiskey was atoady. Cotton was heavy, while coffee was unchanged. Naval stores were a abado firmer, Petroleum ruled dull, though quite drm. Wool continued te rule dull and heavy. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Moxican reports, extracted from the papers in the interior and on the border, contain further items of in- terest regarding the surronder of Querétaro and Maxi- milian, Escabodo, it is aaid, was gent for at a distance of three myes to receive the sword of Maximilian, which ‘was a most costly one, the hilt of i¢ being decorated with diamonds, The traitor Lopez is an uncle of Marshal Bazaine, and was the bosom friend of Maximilian. Ks- cobedo is reported to have killed several wounded meu and prisoners with bis owo hand after the surrender took place. Our Panama correspondence is dated Juno 2. Tho Stato was inafever of excitement, President Olarte and his ministers had determined to secede from the Colombian Union, and asa first step made an attempt to seize the Colombian man-oi-war Bolivar. In this at- tempt, however, they were frustrated by the address of the captain of the vessel, and she put to sea, A circular was issued by tho President to the consuls and ministers of foreign countries in the State, intorming them that it was the intention to secede if the news of Mosquera’s assumption of the dictorship proved true, At the samo time orders increasing the commercial taxes fiity per cent, and levying a forced loan of $60,000 wore issued. The first order applied to foreigners and natives alike, the latter only to natives. The foreign consuls hold a meeting and pro- tes ed against the increase of taxation, but nothing fur- ther was heard from Olarte on the subject. The import- ing merchants thereupon agreed to close their places of business, and whon the President called a meeting of them they placed their cases in the hands of their ro- spective consuls and refused toattond. The President afterwards acted very discourteously towards tho foroign consuls, Mr. Hicks, the American Consul, advised tho American merchants to goon with their business and rofuse to pay the extra tax; but they did not dogo, In tho interior the revolt is moro general, Antioqua, Mag- dalena and Santander aro preparing for a vigorous warfare against Mosquera. A Spanish rear admiral had arrived at Carihagena and ordered tho release of the Rayo and her restoration to the Colombian authorities, Our correspondence from Lima, Peru, is dated May 22. The revolution was assuming a decided shape, Tho English mail steamer Limona, from Valparaiso for Panama, was seized by Caldera Castillo and about thirty other discontented Peruvians, off Iquique, carried into the small port of Mejillones de Pisaqua, divested of fitty cases of her cargo containing American rifles, and then allowed to proceed on her way. Considerable excite- mont ensued among the authorities on hearing of this, and the steamer Meteor, with six hundred men and ten picces of artillery, was dispatched to Arica immediately for the purpose of whipping Castillo before he could organize, The Indians at Pano were in a state of revolt, and it was thought they would join Castillo. Two regi- ments at Cazes had been dispatched to Puno, and a deci- ded move for or against the incipient rebollion was ex- Pecied at any moment. Amid all this excitement the questions between Prado and Congress have been dropped, although the Spanish question is frequently discussed in Congress. The cholera in Buenos ayres was decreasing. The Allied fleet was at Valparaiso on the 16th of May. An outbreak had occurred in Villa Grande, Bolivia, in favor of General Acher.. The Cabinet meeting yesterday, it is believed was de- voted to the consideration of tho Attorney General's opinion on the reconstruction laws, the removals from office by Generals Sheridan and Pope, and the petition of citizens of Tennessee for protection against Brown- low’s militia. The Constitutional Convention reassembled yesterday. Mr. Sherman submitted the report of a select committeo, recommending a code of rules for the regulation of the proceedingr, similar to the rules governing the General Assembly, The consideration of this report was post- poned until to-day. Mr. Harris, from the Com- mittee of sixteen made a report on the best practicable mode of proceeding with the revision of the constitu- tion. It recommends the appointment of committecs to examine and report upon the several parts of the constitution and the expediency of revising them. This report was ordered to lie upon the table and be printed. Resolutions appointing a committee of seven to report upon what offices may be abolished, anda committee of five to report upon the expediency of incorporating afemale suffrage clause in the constitution when the female citizens over tweaty-one years of ago shall ask for it, were ordered to lie upon the table and be printed. Considerable other business of more or less importance was transacted, and the Convention adjoerned until this morning. John H. Surratt was again produced in the Criminal Courtat Washington yesterday for the purpose of stand- ing his trial, The argument on the motion to quash the jury panel was continued, counsel for the defence aver- ring that it the present jury was illegally drawn #0 was the Grand Jury by whom Surratt was indicted and under this construction they claim that if the motion rules, the prisoner is entitied to his discharge. The ‘motion was finally amended by incorporating facts with the Register’s affidavit and the Judge said he would Tender @ decision to-day, whereupon the Court ad- journed. News from the Sandwich Islands is dated May 18, Qneen Emma is visitng her mother at Taboma, and the King was on a tour through Molakai and Maui. The crater of the Killama was shooting forth lava with yn- Creasing vehomence. The United States steamer Lackad ‘wanna was in port at Honolulu, The widow of the late Rev. Dr. Jool Hawes, of Hart- ford, Conn., died yesterday, aged seventy-six years, Her husband, who was the oldest gainister in Con- necticut, died last Wednesday, at the ago of soventy- eight years, Gerrit Smith has published a long letter to prove that ho would bave been inconsistent if he had refused to sign Jom Davis’ bond. Senator Wilson und @ number of prominent republi- cans of the North are at Richmond for the purpose of reconciling the two wings of the repubiican party in Virginia. Botts, Hunnicutt and Underwood bave been in consultation with them. The negroes of Kentucky are preparing to petition Congress for an extension to them of the suffrage and the right of testifying in courts. A Co incil Game Blocked. The Common-Council “ring” has been much alarmed recently by the movements of the Comptroller of the city and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in relation to the markets and other city property. The patronage and pickings from the markets and the city leases have heretofore been controlled by the Alder- men and Courfcilmen inside the “ring,” and have been their main source of plunder. All this promises to be stopped by the proposition of the Comptroller to dispose of the markets, which have been a cost to the taxpayers and a diagrace to the city, as well as of all the unpro- ductive real estate belonging to the Corpora- tion. The Common Council have, therefore, endeavored to deprive the Comptroller of the power to dispose of such property, by repeal- ing « resolution adopted by them in 1864, which authorized that officer to sell at public auction ferry franchises, wharves, piers and slips and all improved real estate belonging to the city, at that time unoccupied and yielding no revenue. But fortunately for the citizens the Comptroller does not hold his authority in the matter from this resolution, nor from the Common Council at all, but from the ebarter of the city, the State Legislature, and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. There is, therefore, no hope for the Common Council. All they have to do is to console themselves with strong whiskey and strong oaths, and to abuse the Comptroller, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and the Legislature to their hearts’ content. In the moantime Conrp- troller Connolly will probably go on with the good work he has commenced, and pay no heed to the ravings of the Councilmaulo “loa! ‘The Commencement of the Now Era—New | saloons and restaurants while the riot was at York the Starting Poing for the Nation. The fall of the present year will be the com- mencement of the new era in the history of New York. The existing era began at the epoch of the adoption of the present Siate con- stitution, with its blunders, heresies and license, and has been marked by @ steady increase of misrule year after year, until the people are borne down by the weight of debt and taxa- tion, and the whole State is given over to an- archy and corruption. Itis now about to close, and the great political reconstruction for which the whole nation is preparing itself will ap- propriately and properly find its starting point in New York. ‘The action of the Constitutional Convention now in seasion at Albany will destroy both the existing political organizations in the State and lay the foundation of a great reform move- ment which will be the nucleus of the national party, whose province it will be to make Gene- ral Grant the next President and to finally dispose of all the old leaders, hacks, aspirants and fanatics—secession, copperhead and radi- cal, Whatever course the Convention may take the result will be the eame, and it cannot be averted. There ere some men among the delegates on both sides who will be anxious to make a good constitution and sub- mit it to the people for their approval; but if they succeed it will be despite of the partisans in the body, all of whom, whether democratic or republican, will op- pose any alteration of the organic law that will not inure to their own political ad- vantage. Their work will be repudiated by both the existing political organizations in the November election, and efforts will be made by the leaders and their parlisans, either openly or covertly, to defeat it. But it will be sup- ported by the great mass of the people, and its success at the polls will of itself be the inau- guration of the new era and the commence- ment of the political reconstruction of tho whole nation. If, on the other hand, the radi- cal fanatics in the Convention, led by Greeley and aided by the Brookses and their copper- head associates, should force upon us a bad and unacceptable constitution, then the people of the State will unite against them and their work, and willoverthrow them all. There will, in that event, bo a popular combination upon candidates nominated, without reference either to democracy or radicalism ; the party tickeis will everywhere be defeated; the constitution will be rejeoted, and the people will take tho roform of the organic law and the purification of the government into their own hands. In either case the corrupt, wornout political or- ganizations will be swept out of existence, and tho foundation laid for the great Grant move- ment of next year. Under these cirsumatances it is fortunate that the State Constilutional Convention was authorized by nearly four hundred thousand voters at the last November election. Thu character of many of the delegates and the opening scenes of the session have been calcu- lated to make tho people distrust that any good could result from the Convention. But, as we have shown, whatever may be its action, it cannot fail to be instrumental in securing a thorough reconstruction of political parties in thie State next fall, and in clearing the way for the Presidential campaign. The four hundred thousand electors who recorded their votes in favor of the revision of the organic law wore in earnest in their desire for reform. In con- junction with thousands of others who did not vote on the constitutional question at all, they will be found in the next election supporting the new constitution, if it be a good one, and voting against it and against the old party organizations by whom they have been be- trayed, if it be a bad one. Nothing is more certain than that we cannot continue any longer in our present condition. Returns recently made to the Seoretary of State and Comptroller, under the law authoriz- ing the Convention, show that the local indebtedness of the cities, towns and counties in the State will reach nearly ninety millions. The State debt is over fifty millions, and the people of New York there- fore owe at the present moment about one hundred and forty million dollars, ex- clusive of their proportion of the national in- debtedness—over two thousand five hundred millions. These figures are startling; and they become the more alarming when accompanied by the knowledge that both the national and State goveraments are in a condition bordering upon anarchy. At Washington the executive and legislative branches are in bitter opposi- tion to each other; both of them weak, blun- dering and obstinate, and doing their best to bring ruin upon us at home and disgrace abroad. In our own State we are without any responsible government, and given over to corruption and political confusion. The vagaries of our politicians are making matters worse, by proving the war to have been a failure; establishing the fact that treason, against which we have fought at such a ruinous cost, is no crime after all, ond familiarizing the country with the hateful word “repudiation.” In a word, we are ata crisis in our history, hoth as a State and as a nation, and there is no hope for us but in a prompt and thorough change. The November election will inaugurate the new era in New York, by sweeping away the old political organizations and building up a strong party of and from the people. This will form the nucleus for the great movement of political reconstruction throughout the Union which will confound the plots and schemes of all the old party en- gineers, raise Grant to the Presidency, and restore permanent peace and safety to the nation. ‘The Ex-Mayor of Mobile on the Late Biot. It appears that the ex-Mayor of Mobile has found it necessary to visit Washington, in order to protest in presence of President Johnson Prins the order of General Pope, who removed him from office after the fatal riot in that city. Bx-Mayor Withers contends that he and the other officials were “misrepresented entirely,” and that they were not responsible for the bloodshed and violence which occurred ‘on that occasion ; but he does not state that he absented himself from the city ata time when & breach of the peace was imminent—at a mo- ment when the newspapers of the day had inflamed the public mind to a degree that free- dom of speech was not likely to be permitted ; nor does he state that the police—according to their own testimony furnished to himself the day after the riot—took no steps to quell the isturbance, but, a# we read in their communi- qations, wero hidden away in various oofiee ite height. . We learn with some eurprise, from Mr. Withers’ reported statement, that the police were interfered with by the military authori- tes in their efforts to quell the disturbance. The fact is, ag we have obtained it from our own correspondent who was on the spot, and @ cloud of other witnesses, that the military did not arrive oh the ground until after the shooting had almost entirely subsided. What little effort the police contributed to put down the assailants may be best appreciated by their own statements, above referred to, and the fact that only one arrest was made out of the four or five thousand persons present. People will naturally conclude that there must be a screw loose somewhere when the ex-Mayor and ex-Confederate General Withers comes all the way from Mobile to Washington to state his case and demand a reversal of General Pope’s order removing him from an office to which the generous secession majority of the people of Mobile, it is said, affixed the salary of six thousand dollars per annum as a pension for his services in the Confederate army. It is not likely that General Pope’s discretion in removing these disturbing ele- ments will be disputed by the Executive. On the contrary, we anticipate that he will be fully sustained, as has been General Sheridan’s actior® with reference to the removal of Gov- ernor Wells, of Louisiana, although for different causes, by the President and General Grant. Japana Great Field for American Enterprise. The departure of the Japanese Commission- ers and their suite, yesterday, from this city, for Japan, leads us to consider the growing in- tercourse between this country and that, and the great field for American enterprise which is opening on the other side of the Pacific. The first Japanese who came here a few years ago, when, a8 will be remembered, the smart little fellow Tommy was quite a sensation with the ladies, were an embassy to make or complete the treaty between Japan and tho United States. This last party of officials, who left yes- terday, was a commission for business pur- poses, though also sent by the Tycoon. They came to look after funds which had been sent to this country for the purchase of vessele of war, and to make purobases for a Japan navy. They havo succeeded in obtaining from our government the famous rebel ram Stonewall; which formidable vessel is now being prepared for sea at the Washington navy yard, and when ready will be sent to Japan. Two officers of the Japanese navy, First Lieu- tenant Ogasawara-Kendon, and Second Lien- tenant Jovata-Haisa-Ku, remain here for the purpose of going in the Stonewall, whon that vessel is ready for the voyage. In the present age the great race among nations is for the prize of commerce. For the trade of the East, or, in a more specific term, of Eastern Asia, there has been an intense rivalry. Great Britain has had, heretofore, the advantage, because she had acquired a colonial empire in that part of the World. India itself has proved very valuable to her commerce; but her dominion there gave hor particular advantages in other countries of Asia. The Dutch also, up to late period, monopolized » good deal of the trade of the Bast. But a great change has taken place within a few years, and, we might say, almost within a few months. The United States have flow entered the race for the commerce of Asia with a vigor, prestige, and facilities that no other nation possesses. We have approached those populous and rich empires of Asia which a short time ago were sealed against the rest of the world, not as England and other Powers have, with cannon, but with the olive branch of peace and good will. They have appreciated this, and we stand to-day better in the eyes of the Japanese and Chinese than any other people. They have recently learned, too, what a mighty power this republic is, and what a rich and vast country we possess. This has a powerful influence over the Asiatic mind. The Chinese, who have emigrated by tens of thousands to the Western shores of the republic, learn a good deal about the country, and send the information to their countrymen. The Japanese, a shrewd, inquiring people, who come here, spread intelligence of America throughout their country. One of these Com- missioners, who left yesterday, Matsmoro, was here before with the embassy. He was sent again, doubtless, on account of his ability and his knowledge of the English and several other languages, to investigate matters here and to make a report of them when he arrives home. We understand that he is “fall of ideas,” and will communicate them to his government and countrymen. The first Commissioner, Ontomogoro, is a very observ- ing man also, we understand; but Matsmoro has had superior advantages, and is a learned and keen observer. Should the Tycoon send an ambassador to Washington, which is very desirable, Matsmoro would make on excellent represeniative. It is to be hoped, too, the Tycoon will send his brother, who is now in Paris, to the United States before he returns home. That Prince would be able to compare the wealth, power, grandeur and vastness of this country with the mere glitter of the small States of Europe. He would see here the seat of the greatest empire the world ever knew, and the centre of the commerce of the world at no distant day. But for our progress and influence in Eastern Asia we have not to look to what such impres- sions may effect or the future may develop. The facts are before us. The steamship line between San Francisco and Japan, and con- necting with China, has brought that part of the world into intimate commercial relations with us. The frequent and regular intercourse thus established has created a most extraordi- nary and favorable impression. We have news from Japan in twenty-five to thirty days, and they publish the news from this country in the same time. Within a few years, when the Pacific Railroad shall be completed, we shall be able to go from New York to Jeddo in thirty days, The Japanese rightly regard us as their near neighbors, American ideas are rapidly pervading the empire. Already the Tycoon and his officers of the army and navy are adopting our dress and uniform. Through their press and other means of communication they are fast becoming acquainted with our ‘institutions, habits, and the events of the coun- try. The Tycoon, who is a young man of about thirty-five years of age, has large and liberal views. In « few months the whole empire will be opened to foreigners. When we consider that tn Japan, rich and produotive gouotrr. with thirty millions of! people, there is hardly a vehicle of any kind on wheels to be found, outside of those used by foreigners, and that they have no machinery or labor-saving implements, we shall see what a vast field there is for American enterprise. They dig or grab the earth, they earry every- thing on their shoulders or in their hands, and they have no facility of locomotion besides their legs. They want our improvements; they are looking to us to supply them. Imple- ments of husbandry, machinery, sawmills, and steam engines of every description, with a thousand different articles of use among us in everyday life may, ere long, find @ market there. Then they need railroads and steamboats, which we can construct better than any other people. Tho pro- duction of tea, it is said by the Japanese here, could be quadrupled by introducing all these improvements, for they have plenty of cheap labor. And go, probably, with rice and other productions, The movement has commenced and, to use @ common sporting phrase, we have the inside track. If we take advantage of our opporiunities we shall open a very extensive and lucrative commerce with both Japan and China, and in a short time it will not be neces- sary to send specie to pay for the tea and other things imported from there. We may have a balance of trade in our favor. We may con- trol the commerce of these great Asiatic empires. Such, by the judicious management of our government and enterprise of our people, is the proapect of a mighty trade on the other side of the Pgcific. Maximilian’s Proclamation The proclamation published yesterday, if it shall prove to have originated with the ex-Em- peror Maximilian, will afford the world some new light as to the character of that Prince. It should be noted that it came to us, not from any of our special correspondents, but through the associated press, and in such an indefinite, cloudy way that we cannot trace it beyond New Orleans. It is ts be supposed that the nows with whick it is associated left Querétaro not later tnan our special despatch, also pub- lishod yesterday. Indeed, as our special de- epatch came by Galveston, we might fairly reason that that is the later of the two, and, therefore, that our correspondent on the spot should have known of the existence and publi- cation of this notable document, ifit were ever published at Querétaro or ever came from Maximilian. Yet our correspondent does not mention it. He gives the latest authentic news of the German Prince, mentions his illness with dysentery, and the exertions on his behalf of the Princess Salm-Salm, but not a word of the proclamation. As our correspondent at that point is a man to be relied upon, and 2 line from hia id wort: & wilderness of ordinary press despatches, we must regard his silduce as an evidence against the proclamation. Its authenticity might also fairly be denied on internal evidence. There is too much of the valgar “last dying speech and confession” in it. It is issued as a “warning to all ambitious and incautious princes.” Would Maximilian so de- acribe himself? Has he so far adopted Mexican views as to put himself in the category of men who plunge nations into war through heedless ambition? And is such a characterization quite consistent with the words in the opening of the document that he came to Mexico “only animated with the best faith of insuring the felicity of all?” In its separate sentences this proclamation gives itself the lie. It is too full of purely Mexican buncombe to have come from a European pen. No doubt Maximilian’s feelings against Napoleon would quite justify the extravagant expressions attributed to him. The doubt is whether Maximilian would have given them utterance. While it is always pos- sible that some original paper from the Prince may have been the basis of this document and been badly translated or even “doctored” by the Mexican authorities, we must hesitate to believe that this document is authentic or that Maximilian would have issued it evon at the of the liberal government and as the price of his life and liberation. Outcroppings of Puritanism. We reprint elsewhere to-day two articles from the Christian Advocate, which exhibit quite an unchbristian spirit in denouncing bitterly and sweepingly what is stigmatized as the “irreligion” of the American secular press. Stripped of their verbiage the loose statements of these articles may be condensed into the following assertions:—The secular press has be- come a success; the religions press is a failure; therefore, as a curious non sequitur, each de- nomination must have a secular press of its own. The author of these propositions re- members the signal failure of one attempt to establish a métropolitan daily paper on such principles as he recommends, only to argue that the failure of a first attempt should not discourage a second. But he forgets that re- peated failures in Scotland and England had already demonstrated the impracticability of the scheme which he advocates. It is possible that his motive for reviving the exploded idea is a project of his own to convert the Christian Advocate into a secular journal, as Tilton has converted the Independenj. But we cannot flatter him with encouragement if such be his intention; for experience has hitherto decided against all similar attempts. We should ad- vise him to continue his efforts to improve the character of his paper, as the organ of one of the largest and most influential religious de- nominations. As to the wholesale denunciations which he has fulminated against the secular press of the country, we cannot refrain from expressing our surprise that he has confounded the New York Henatp with the irreligious periodicals which he has consigned to bis formidable index expur- gatorius. What journal has given more power- fal aid to the waning influence of the modern pulpit than the Herat, by the immense pub- lieity which it gives every Monday morning to the sermons preached—some of them, perhaps, to almost empty pews—on the preceding Sab- bath? The whole country bas learned to look to the Heraty for the most ample and trust- worthy reports of the spring anniversaries, No journal bas advocated more persistently the “voluntary principle’—the separation of Church and State. None has applauded more heartily the charitable labors of the different religious denominations to promote the highest interests of mankind, although our solicitude to prevent those denominations from being con- taminated by the corrupting influences that have injured the Churches of the Old World prompts us to watch vigilantly against the perilous and growing evils which we lately exposed—the Gomands of religious sects ungn the public a oe purse for the support of denominational chari- ties. What journal has oarlior dotected and more boldly exposed the Protean shapes ander which infidelity has sought to disguise itself in the Uniied States? We were the first to unearth Mormonism, and we have relentlessly waged war against every other ism in the long catalogue of ungodly isms which have afflicted the land. The pious editor of the Christian Advocate. charges us with “reckless disregard for religion in any form,” because he is manifestly incapable of comprehending the truly catholic spirit in which the Heratp regards all forms of Chris- tianity. Whore will he find a more unreserved tribute to the energizing and life-giving power of Christianity than in the welcome recently extended by the Herarp to the religious assemblics which met in this city in May? Let one citation suffice :—“In spite of all that has been and still is being done to defeat its influence and sap its very foundations, Chris- tianity has grown, and is now indisputably the mightiest and most aggressive power in human affairs. Wherever life, activity, energy, enterprise most reveal themselves ; wherever heroism, nobleness, self-sacrifice are dominant characteristics ; wherever real, genuine pro- gress is most distinctly visibic, Christianity is found. to be there, and is to be credited with the result.” Can the Christian Advocate present a testimony more decided than this? It is impossible to read the complaints of the Christian Advocate without suspecting that ita real regret is not so much the alleged absence of Christianity from the secular press as the plentiful lack of success on the part of the so-called religious press. The truth is that these lamentations are but the outcroppings of the old and intolerant Puritanism of Mow England. The City Licensing Power—Its Transfer to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners De- clared Unconstitutional. The Legislature at its last session, by a seo- tion inserted in the Tax Levy for the city of New York, transferred all the licensing power theretofore exercised by the Mayor and Com- mon Council to the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners, giving to the said Board the authority to amend, modify, alter or repeal the ordinances relating to such licenses, The Mayor and Common Council resisted the enforcement of this law, and a case was agreed upon, without action, to test its validity. Yes terday the Supreme Court, at General Term, rendered a unanimous decision in favor of the municipal authorities, declaring the section im question to be null and void, and restr the Police Commissioners from éxeroising any of the powers and duties sought to be trans- ferred to thet thereby. ' We publish in to-dsy’s Huratp the opinions of Judges Ingraham and Smith in this mpor- fatit case. It will be seen that the law is pro- nouticed in conflict with the constitution om several points, the main ones being that it vests in officers appointed under the authority of the State the power to discharge duties, make regulations and pass laws relating strictly to the local affairs of the city, and that it dele- gates to the Board of Metropolitan Police, ore} ated by the Legislature, the power of legisia- tion. Atthe same time the Court maintains the authority of the Legislature to transfer the licensing power from the Mayor and Common Council to any other local afficers or boards, but not to officers appointed under authority of the State. We believe this judgment will meet the approval of the people. The law thussetaside was passed in an exceptional manner. It was not asked for by the citizens; it was not embodiod in a separate bill, discussed by the Legislature, and submitted to the criticisms of* the press and the test of the popular voice. In the last hour of the session it was secreily tacked on to the City Tax Levy, and passed without the knowledge of any except the few who were in the secret of the trick. Such legis~ lative legerdemain is dangerous and disreputa- ble, and is seldom resorted to, except when corrupt or objectionable measures are sought to be forced upon the people. The Metropoli- tan Police Commissioners already have enough business on their hands; and if they will de- vote their time and their energies to the pro- tection of the lives and property of the citizens, the preservation of the peace and good order of the city, the enforcement of the laws and the speedy detection and punishment of crime, they wil] win credit enough and give general satisfaction. The statement is made that the Police Com- missioners intend to carry the case up to the Court of Appeals. It is to be hoped that they will do no such thing. The money squandered in this useless litigation, on both sides, comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers. No person cares one straw whether the profits and patronage of the license laws are enjoyed by . the municipal authorities or by the Police Commissioners, and it is an outrage that the people’s money should be squandered in these unseemly scrambles between the Corporation and the Commissioners. The points upom which the present law has been pronounced unconstitutional are entirely different from those on which the constitutionality of the acts creating the Metropolitan Police and the Metropolitan Fire departments was sustained, and the Police Commissioners had better apply themselves diligently to the dutics that pro- perly belong to them and suffer the case to rest where it is. Conference of Sepubiican Leaders at the Governer’s House—The Registration of Veters—Herace W. Hovey Pardened. Ricuwoxp, Jane 11, 1867. Senator Wilson, Charles W. Storey, H. N. Coleridge, C. W, Slack and R. M. Morse, of Massachusetts; George H. Baker, of Philadelphia; John Jay, J, @. Holbrook and G. F, Noyes, of New York; and Hon, Charles Gibbons, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Delegates, ar- rived here this evening. They met several prominent Virginians at the Governor’s mansion to-night, to have with fort, pects of Thastate election, the strongth of the ropubli~ can party, £0. Jobn M, Boots, Mr. Hunnicutt, Judge Underwood and others took part in the discussions. About a dozen colored persons were present. The Con~ ference insted until wn! ty eo bance cho form. <Bemoma Cuvntion contend that ae stlon” of bg eeeteld hs issued a circular to all the Prost. convicted of whi hild, not belonging to the conviettfas pentonced to $100 end fi i ment one month. General has remitied the Gne