The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1867, Page 6

ae Se NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR,, BROAPWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches aust be addressed New York Huratp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. - No. 178. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY mireot.—OLivER WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK THRAT! gto Now York Hovel.—Favst—Tue Harry — ad THRATRA, Broadway, asar Broome Twist. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad: BOWERY THEATRE, Kowery.—Mazurra. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street and Sixth SS Amars in tusm Wonverru, leats—Jexny BANVARD’S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broad: id Thittio:h streck—Afternoon—Wuo Sruagt Finst evens ing— tow Ror. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue and ‘ifty-eighth and Fifty-ainth strects,—(Hxopone Tuomas’ Porviau GAKDEN Concer, at 8 o'Ulock rf. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, & the Metropolitan Hotel—[n rate MRWrS, SINGING, DANCING AND Hauanaua. way, opposite < byTeRTAIN- 3. 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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. Ta2B NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day ovoning, June 26. England has joined in the allled demand on Turkey for an investigation of tho situation existing in Candia. The Dutch government has ordered tho Hanoverian @xiloa to quit the territory of Holland. Count Bismarck {ia appointed Chancellor of the North German Confedera- Gon. ‘Tne United States frigate Colorado was at Gibraltar. ‘Pho submarine cable destined to connect the istand of Cuba with the United States was shipped from London for Havana. Consols closed at 9434 for money in London, an ad- ‘Vance of one-half. Five-twenties were at 73 in London and 775 in Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market was gonorally dull, with middling uplands at 11 pence. Breadstufls unchanged. Provisions without alteration. By the steamship Russia (new), at this port yesterday, ‘we have European files and correspondence in detail of our cable despatches to the 15th of June. The mails of the Russia, extending over three days only, confirm by newspaper reports the reliability and @couracy of five of the special cable news telegrams forwarded to the Hexatp by our correspondents within that period, and which have appeared in our columns, Our special correspondent in Florence, writing on the th of June, furnishes an important and interesting letter On the subject of the financial difficulties of Italy and the extraordinary position m which the kingdom has boon placed by the action of the Rothschilds, with re- Spect to the new loan, undertaken clearly in the interest of the Pope. The remarkable words dolivered by Baron Rothschild ip annulling the contract made by his agent fora large Italian loan, secured on the church property, Prove very clearly that the Jews control to a great ex- tout the destiny of the new Kingdom and that the ‘wealthy Jows are friendly to the Papacy. Our special correspondent in Pesth furnishes a most f@nimated and accurate description of the grand spec- ‘acl witnessed in that city at the coronation of the Emperor and Empress of Austria as King and Queen of Hengary. His picture of the pageant from the com- moncement to its dissolution in a blaze of gold and diamoods is perfect in the most minute detail of the medieval panorama, the latest and probably last of its Kind A Constantinople journal undertakes to prove that the Bultan of Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte the Third are biood relations through « member of the family of tho Empross Josephine. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Board of Aldermen were obliged to adjourn yes- terday afternoon for want of a quorum. The Board of Councilmen met yestermay. They con- eurred with the Aldermen im granting permission to the Harlem Railroad Company to construct an iron bridge at the intersection of Fourth avenue and Kighty-second street, the company to bear all the expense. The Board of Education held a special meeting last @voung. A resolution in reference to the recent for- gery of a warrant purporting to be drawn by ‘be Huard for $17,500, which was paid by the Broadway Neox, be.ng ofered, the President announced that counsel had ‘Doon employed to take the necessary measures to %oin- Pel the bank to place the amount ¢:avn on the forged ‘warrant to the credit of the Board Resolutions appro. priating $165,000 were adopted fer purchasing iots sa¢ @recting school houses, ‘The Joint Committees of the Common Ceanci! ee the celebration of the Fourth ef July, mot yesterday aod Provided for adinner and salute for the Veterans of 1812, and Greworks at City Hall Park, Madisoe, Tomp- kins, Moont Morris and Jackson squares, East Brred- way and Grand street, Broadway and Forty-fow:s Bizort, Tenth avenue and 155th street the Battery and the Islaud Institutions, The Deputy Health Officer at the Lower Quarantine re- Ports that there are twenty-»2@ vossels there but aot a pavient im the hospital. Advices from Mexico city to the 2d inst. state that Diaz expected to be in the capital within a week, From Ban Luis the dates are to the 11th, The trial of Maxi- Millan was to commeace immediately. All the foreign Mioisiers are expected at Queréiaro to use their in- Moence towarda saving him. Our Havana letter is dated June 22 Over one thov- @and runaway coolles were running loose throughout the istand. The sugar market was more eotive, Bille | on New York in carrenoy ¥aries from 28 to 50 per cent | discount ‘The Navy Department tins received information offbe | wrecking of the United Statos steamer Sacramento, Captain Collins, off Madras. No lives were lost. Our dates from the Babamas are to the 19th inst, The crops were looking favorably. No news of tmportance Was reported. ‘The Presidential party left Boston yesterday, and were mot by Governor English, of Connecticut, at Thompsonville, On ther arrival at Hartford they were received by the Mayor and conducted to the State Capitol, where the Legislature was in session. They ‘wore received with the usoaj imterchange of courtesies @nd addresses, and returned tothe hotel, The party will | speobably arrivg in New York this afternoon, NEW ‘YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. In the Constitutional Convention yosterday ‘a larze number of petitions for equal mate and female suffrage were presented and referred. A communication signod ‘H. Wilson was read, charging four-fifths of the members of the Legislature with corruption and bribery, and ex- plaining the system of franchise brokerage among them. A motion to adjourn to Saratoga, amended by adding ‘and thence to New York,’ was made, but its further consideration was indefinitely post- poned, It was agreed, after considerable discussion, to take a recess from July 3 to July 8 in honor of Indepen- denco Day. Numerous propositions and resolutions were submitted, but no business of extra importance was transacted. Speaker Colfax has arranged to be present at the July session of Congress. Among the witnesses examined in the Surratt trial yesterday was Goneral Grant, who testified to having ‘seen Jacob Thompson during the siege of Vicksburg, the prosecution proposing to connect Thompson with the distribution of money to the conspirators. The letter from “Lon” to Booth about his oll speculation, and the one picked gp in a New York street car by Mrs, Huds- peth were exhibited, and Mrs. Hudspeth gave her teatt- mony in connection with the incident. The remainder of the evidence related mainly to the arrest of Mra, Surratt. The Court finally adjourned on account of a lack of witnesses, On being questioned Mr. Pierrepont, of counsel for the government, said they expected to close the prosecution in about three days, A sonsation was created in Orleans business circles yesterday on the announcement by Mayor Heath in his message to the City Council of tho discovery of an alleged fraudulent over-iesuo of nearly $1,000,000 of city notes by the City Treasurer. In his message the Mayor says ‘“‘the city cannot bo mado liable in law for the redemption of tno overissue, and the city officers should be instructed not to receive any of it.” City scrip bad deprociated two and a half per cont, and some merchants utterly refuso to recieve it im business transactions. Sant: Anna’s son bas protested against the action of Commander Rowe in arresting the old chief at Vera Cruz. The protest is directed to the Uvited states Con- sul at Havana, Loading commercial men in Philadelphia have oon- cluded to get up a reception for the President on his return, A fatal case of cholera was reported in Louisville on Tuesday night. The Nebraska Legis!ature has adjourned. An action was brought by Lizetta Traumaan vs. Adolph Kerbs in the Superior Court yesterday, for the recovery of $250 for services rendered in purseance of ‘an agreement in effecting a marriage between one Gus- tave Elo and a Miss Mina Speirs, in 1866. The Court reserved its decision. Application was made ‘before the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, for the discharge from custody of one Wm. B. Latson, a dentist of this city, who is in prison for omitting to pay alimony to a former wife, against whom he obtained a decree of divorce. Decision reserved, The great merccantile slander suit entitied Richard G. Fowles versus Henry C. Bowen, which attracted such attention in its former trials, and has been pending in the courts for the past thirteen years, will come up for its third trial to-day in the Superior Court, The survivors of the recent Charleston duel have been acquitted of murder by the jury and discharged. One of the two white men arrested recently in Rich- mond for alleged perjury, in registering as voters when they were disfranchised by the Alexandria constitution, bas been discharged. The United States District Attor- ney yesterday, on returning from Washington, asked a Postponement of the trial of the other one, on the ground that the July session of Congress would reverse Stanbery’s opicion and ‘‘settle matters."’ The North Gorman Lieyds’ steamship Weser, Captain Wencke, will leave her wharf at Hoboken at noon to- day for Bremen via Southampton. The mails for the United Kingdom and the Continent will close at the Post Office at haif-past ten A. M. This fine steamer will take ‘out about thirty thousand letters, ‘The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company’s fine steamer Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 North River at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The mails for Cuba will close at the Post Office at two o'clock. ‘The schooner Corbulo, Captain Norton, of Brookhaven, from Philadelphia, bound to Providence, with a cargo of cow, is ashore twelve miles south of Squan Inlet, Now Jersey. Domestic produce continued active and higher prices ‘were again realized. Merchandise was quiet, but genc- rally firm, Coffee was steady. Cotton was moderately active and heavy, Om 'Change flour was active and 1c. a 25c, higher. Wheat was 5c. higher for winter and 250. for California, Corn was firmer, while oats were dull and nominal, Pork was better. Boef and lard were steady, Whiskey was firm. Freights were unchanged. Naval stores were generally firmer. Petroloum was without decided change. Reconstruction and its Practical Progrese— The Next Issue. We have been giving our readers from time to time recently, in the letters of our numerous correspondents, @ full and accurate ac- count of the present condition of the once rebel States, and the political views and expressions of the people. We give in this series today one peculiarly excellent letter, summing up the results of the observations of a correspondent whose tour extended through seven States. It inevitably flows from all this accumulated knowiedge that as to the great fact of reconstruction we are all right. However we may be muddled up as to the law between varying interpretations, it is certain that as to the fact we are going on easily and rapidly to a successful issue. Not only is Southern society reconstructing itself spontaneously and in good faith—not only are the people determined to resume as early as possible their normal politi- cal relations with the Union, but they will re- construct on political principles in harmony with the great mass of the Northern people. Many who, ix spicit, are still sullenly hostile, are disfranchived by the law. They are the men who ran the political machines in the Southern Siates betore the war and dur- img the war, and though still bitterly rebellious in thought and speech, dis- franchisement renders their venom harmless. Other white men, a very large proportion of those not disiranchised by the law, are practi- cally disfranchising themselves. Perhaps they could not bend to accept a new system, but they are letting the case go by default. Sickened by the great failure and the rain it wrought—disgusted with that political agitation which forced forward so much evil, they are giving up politics altogether. They are giving all their energies to private concerns—to the vepair of their damagod fortanes—working their farms earnestly, and lavishing on the pro- duction of crops the thought that in other days was turned to bitter invectives against the North, Thus a larze proportion of power that might be opposed to the right sort of recon- struction is out of the way. Other classes of men are taking hold of politics as prac- tically as this class is leaving it alone. All the niggers are coming up to the registration with great eagerness, and of course they are all re- publicans. All the old Union sentiment of the South not obliterated in the war is coming out, and so are all white sympathizers with North- ern principles, whether men of recent settle- ment in the South or whether former rebels who have honestly changed their views as to the position of the States. All the influence of some extensive organizations is the same way—tbe national banks, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the central governing apparatus of the military districts. Appearances, there- fore, indicate that the reconstructed States will be overwhelmingly republican in politics by the happy concurrence of a full development of the elemonta favoring such a result ania defaylt of those hostile to j. With the facts therefore ao tending to harmonize the sections and secure a practical restoration of peace, We can afford to be carcless as to the law, the lawyers, interpreters and what not, It matiers little what particular shape the law may take, as it was only framed to secure a specific result; if we are gotting that result in defiance of an attempt to turn the law aside, it is suffi- cient. Congress, if it come together, may declare the real purport of the law; but this would be more valuable as @ moral rebuke to the President’s efforts to defeat it than other- wise. Should he essay further opposition Congress would then have good groun1 for his impeachment; but even that would be useless, since he can throw no considerable impedi- ment in the way of the movement now making such admirable progress. The South is to be satisfactorily recon- structed—is to be overwhelmingly repub- lican; and the next question before the coun- try is tobe one within the republican party— the question of the Presidency. That is the coming grand agitation, and the country is taking it up with spirit. We may see how it is to go by the indications cropping out the other day in the Ohio State Convention. In Mr. Chase’s own State, if anywhere, we might suppose that he would be “the man for Galway;” and Mr. Chase’s more reckless admirers evidently thought so too; for nothing would suit them but to force the Presidential issue into the Con- vention. Beginning in the very organization they only secured a Chase man for chairman, “on the distinct understanding that the selec- tion was not a triumph for either side on the Presidential issue.” Determined to have their fight out on the nomination, they denounced General Hayes, the conspicuous candidate, as a Grant man, and mustered all taeir forces to szcure another choice; but on thé” distinct question thus made Hayes was nominated. Here is an unequivocal expression of popu- lar sentiment; for it was noted that there were present at this State Convention “fewer politi- cal hacks than ever before.” With the people deeply interested in the national welfare, and taking a more than ordinary part in politica, this will be the case with all the conventions, and in all we shall have the same result in favor of the people’s man. The strongest man named against Grant, even in his stronghold, is readily beaten in the first fight. The country is ready to carry the fighting further. With the great topic of reconstruction getting itself rapidly out of the political field, other great topics will come forward; and one of the great- est of these is to be fought out between the people and the national banks—the machinery originally organized to make Mr. Chase Presi- dent, and still relied upon for that purpose. The popular readiness for the struggle, as seen in Ohio, augurs well for the spirit with which it will be carried on. The Convocation ian Remo, Our special telegrams yesterday from dif ferent European centres were full of interest. From one of them it appears that in Rome preparations were being made on a splendid and gigantic scale for the approaching festival of Saturday and the services and ceremonies of Sanday. Already upwards of four hundred Catholic prelates—bishops and archbishops— from all the ends of the earth, with many thou- sands of priests, in obedience to the call of the Holy Father, have assembled in the ancient and honored seat of Catholic Christendom. Rome is literally crowded with strangers, lay and clerical, from all paris of the world, and still the multitude increases. The bishops from the United States were, it appears, the objects of special attention. St. Peter’s church, which is to be illuminated on the occasion, will on the evening of Sunday present a scene which in point of genuine magnificence will be without precedent in the entire history of the Christian religion. Never before has St. Peter’s day been so grandly celebrated as it promises to be on this forthcoming occasion. The ostensible object of this convocation is the celebration of the eighteen hundredth anni- versary of the martyrdom of St. Peter. A centenary, as compared with an anniversary, is always entitled to special distinction. It was fit and proper that attempts should be made to make the celebration worthy of the time and of the great event. In the whole affair the Holy Father has from the first taken a deep personal interest. The hearty response which has been given to his invita- tions cannot fail in some quarters to create surprise, and must generally produce convic- tion that whatever may be the difficulties be- tween the Holy See and the kingdom of Italy, and whatever may be the upshot of these diffi- culties, the Papacy has not ceased to have a firm bold on the intellect and affections of a large portion of the human family. Ostensibly convened for the purpose above indicated, it is yet difficult to resist the conviction that the heads of the Catholic Church were bronght to- gether for other deeply important though ulte- rior ends. It is at least improbable tha’, having come together, they will separate without taking into considesation some of the questions which seriously affect the future of the Papacy. We can see no reason, indeed, why they should not, ere they separate, resolve themselves into a council, if that be necessary, and dispose finally of some of those outstanding questions which are becoming more and more a source of weakness and annoyance. There is, for example, that vexed question of the temporal power—a question which is keep- ing Italy and the See of Rome at variance, and will continue to do so until itis settied. Why cannot thie matter be set at rest at once? If there is any fearfulness on the part either of the Holy Father himself or of his immedi- ate advisers to trust themselves to the volun- tary principle, there aro prelates from England, from Ireland and from the United States who are able to give them the benefit of their ex- perience. Asto the efficiency and suflicioney of that principle, there can be no manner of ! doubt. If there be any doubt as to its authority they cannot do better than fall back upon the example and teaching of the Charch’s founder and still living head. “My kingdom,” said he, on a certain memorable occasion, “is not of this world.” On another occasion he rebuked those who would bave tempted him by the words, “Reoder unto Cesar the things which are Cmwsar’s, and unto God the things which are God's.” Beiter follow Christ than retain the dangerous gifts of Constantine and Charlemague. Much good, too, might be done by « return to greater simplicity of doctrine and worship. We have wandered far from those beautifully gimple forms ia which Djviae wuth (quad ex- | Pression in the Sermon on the Mount; nor can it be said that we have been more faithful to the lessons then and thus conveyed. Non- essentials have too much monopolized the place of essentials. We must go back to greater simpligity. Lot the council take action in these matters, and we do not despair of the increasing usefulness and prosperity of the Catholio Church, Nay, moro; rid of the incrastations of ages, purer and simpler in doctrine and worship, and resting on @ more catholic foundation than ever, it might form the centre around which the other Churches and sects of Christendom would gather, and out of which would grow the universal and undivided Church of the future. Now Idens of the Age—Speeches of Wade and Train and a Letter from Wikoff. We publish to-day the speeches and opin- ions of three of the greatest statesmen of the age—Munchausen, Miss Nancy and Machia- velli. Which is Munchausen, which is Miss Nancy, and which is Machiavelli we leave the public to judge for themselves, ‘Two members of the Congressional Western excursion party have lately exhibited feats of ground and lofty tumbling, strange antics and fantastic tricks, which put to the blush both the Japanese and the Arab acrobats, with all their marvellous vitality and suppleness. Ac- cording to the prediction of the Merry Andrew of the party the newspapers have enabled five million readers to assist at the curious spec- tacle. At Lawrence, in Kansas, Senator Wade, Vice President of the United States, after saying that he had kept in advance of the people in the great strife between freeiom and slavery, de- clared that ho meant to do the same thing in the contest which had just commenced for extending the right of suffrage to women. He repeated that he intended to keep in advance of the people on this subject, and that “he was now ready to take another jump forward, if necessary.” Whereupon he jumped. He thought that radicalizm upon this and all other questions was righteousness, while con- servatism was hypocrisy and cowardice. He unfolded his views upon the new order of the day. The question of slavery has been dis- posed of, and “ now that of labor and capital must pass the ordeal.” “Property was not equally divided, and a more equal distribution of capital must be wrought out. In short, without citing the text which Proudhon bor- rowed and made famous—la propriélé c’ est le vol, property is thett—he yet boldly proclaimed himself an ultra radical and preached as righteousness the wildest and most agrarian doctrines of French socialism. In the great radical game of leapfrog he cleared the heads of Thad Stevens and Wendell Phillips at a single jamp. He now wants the American people to play “follow your leader ;” but if everybody were to follow the possible Presi- dent of the United States we should all fall plump into social and political chaos. Why need these radicals and ultra radicals clamor for confiscation and even for an equal division of property? The war has anticipated their wishes, as far and as fest as it is possible to realize them. It has already distributed and scattered wealth with a vengeance. We are now “paying the piper ” in the distribution of the national capital at the alarming rate of five hundred million dollars a year, and but very few years will be required to consummate its wholesale confiscation. Why cannot Mr. Wade and his friends rest satisfied with this cheerful prospect? The extravagant ideas which Senator Wade has expressed can have been generated only by the pure and rarefied air on the Western prairies or on the Western mountains, by “ mountain dew.” When the excursion party visited Pine Knob Chevalier Train stood and spoke aloud on the summit of the mountain, “seven hundred feet above the plain below.” As a Bowery b’hoy would ask, “Isn’t that high?” But this con- tractor for railroads and ramrods, organizer of political parties, fifth wheel of the Fenian coach, puffer of water-cure establishments, and ubiquitous traveller, was on tiptoe for yet higher flights. “Excelsior” is the text which he took for a farrago of nonsense and self-lau- dation. He whirls his kaleidoscope around so rapidly that a bewildering confusion makes it difficult at first to see what he is driving at. But with a little patience we discover that he deems it necessary to deny that he is “a d—d fool or a lunatic.” In his own opinion, at least, he is afflicted, not with softening of the brain, but only with hardening of the heart. His cry is, “Down with England, and up with America.” He advocates a high tariff, saying, he “could forgive the bounty bill, the confis- cation threat, the military reconstruction, and the impeachment fizzle; but there’ is no excuse for Congress playing into the hands of England on the question of life or death to America.” He asserts, cor- rectly enough, “that Columbus was right about the short road to Indin, and that America could build, while battle fields were red with blood, @ great railway across the empire.” He recog- nizes woman as a man and a brother. To sum it all up, he concludes by exclaiming, “If I were a demagogue my platform would be, woman suffrage, repudiation and hell fire!” We know nothing which resembles in ab- surdity what Chevalier Train calls “these Iron Mountain ideas,” and what Senator Wade jumps at as “the new ideas of the age,” unless it be the folly of Gerrit Smith and Horace Greeley in going bail for Jeff Davis at Richmond. The former are absurd in theory, the latter absurd in action. The letter of Chevalier Wikoff requires no comment. We must say, however, that it is refresbing to turn from such ridiculous de- monstrations as those of Senator Wade and Chevalier Train to this lucid and forcible ex- position of the actual political situation, of the causes which have led to it and of the responsi- bilities which grow out of it. ‘The Case of Santa Anna. It seems quite possible that a troublesome question of international law may grow out of the forcible carrying away of Santa Anna by the liberal authorities of Mexico from the decks of a United States ship. The case is strongly put in the protest of Santa Anna’s son, which we give elsewhere. It is not merely that the General was passenger on a vessel bearing our colors, in which position he was at least entitled to protection, but he was actu- ally an enforced passenger—was there against his willand a prisoner—having been put on that vessel by Commander Rowe. He was pre- vented, by the act of a United States officer, which might have been in his power, and thus fell flat into Mexican hands; and, in such cir cumstances, we eeem clearly accountable for his welfare. If our standard has ceased to be ® protection in Moxican waters it is time the country knew it; and, as we have evidently got to come in collision with these very liberal Mexican authorities, the sooner the better. Steamships and the Decay of Our Commerc>. Despite the bad legislation of Congress our commerce, at which such staggering blows have been levelled, appears to be creeping up- ward. The returns for the first quarter of 1867 show the value of the imported cargoes at this port to have been, in American vessels, $30,302,574 ; forelgn vessels, $93,783,879. For the first quarter of 1866 the imports in Ameri- can vessels were $30,745,607 ; foreign vessels, $122,002,445. These figures show that in 1866 over three-fourths of our trade was carried on in foreign bottoms, while 1867 shows that only two-thirds is thus controlled. Slowly, very slowly, we are regaining our commercial supremacy. Before our late war our tonnage was greater than that of Great Britain; to-day it is sadly reduced, and its efforts to struggle upwards under all the dif- ficuities that hamper it are wonderful. The only real hope we can have to see its old glory restored to us is bya broad national encour- agement of commercial efforts, and the first great foundation of it is an extensive system of steamship enterprises; but no sooner is an application made to the United States Congress to obtain the subsidy necessary for tho purpose than a blindness appears to cover their eyes, and none of the members, except those from com- mercial States, will vote the appropriation. The West says, “We are agricultural; take care of your own commercial interests, and do not expect us to aid you.” But nothing is more radically wrong and blindly suicidal; for the larger trade we develop with the coun- tries of the world the greater demand there will be for our products, the higher price those products will bring and the greater will be the revenue produced upon imports. All this not only interests the man who resides upon the seaboard, but him who lives on the summit between the Atlantic and Pacific, and the dif- ference of interest which each has is infinites- imal. Narrow, indeed, must be the brain that shapes the policy of our country when we see our magnificent and unequalled seaboard al- most deserted by ships. A nation, born as we are to a great commercial destiny, is poorly ruled when, up to the present date, we have no great commercial system. It is not so with our formidable rivals, England and France. The former long since discovered the golden key to the trade of the world, and has used it to such good effect that she absorbs the inte- rior and commercial trade of the countries lying at our very doors; while to the chagrin of our merchants the influence which the steamship system of England gives to English traders leaves scarcely any room for American enterprise, which really has to flourish under control of a com- mercial rival. This is not alone the case with England; for France is now in the field ahead of us. The far seeing policy of the French government long since discovered that fora people to be commercially great they must possess the means for the most rapid transit for letters, passengers and exchanges; otherwise they could only hope to get the crumbs of trade that fell from the overloaded table of the nation that might be in advance of them. As an illustration of these truths take the English commerce with Brazil. In 1851 a line ot steamers was subsidized, and the first year the British exports to that country increased one million of pounds sterling, and the five years following the opening of the line showed an increase of imports and exports of England with Brazil of two hundred and twenty-five per cent, while the increase for the previous seven years under the old sailing ship system was less than one per cent perannum. The British steamship system may be said to have been created since 1842, and the net annual gain since that time in trade with British North America and the United States has been more than twenty millions of pounds sterling, while three steamship lines to the West Indies and Spanish America have brought them a net annual gain of more than five million sterling per annum. The imports and exports of Mex- ico in normal times amount to eleven million sterling, and England, by secure and rapid steam communication, has not only been able to seize one-half of this commerce, but nearly all the enormous exportation of the silver with which Mexico pays tor her imports. Al! this with a country more densely populated than our own, that has a frontier contact with us, and whose trade, if properly developed by steam communication, would be absorbed al- most entirely by us. Great Britain, by open- ing steam communication with the west coast of Africa and the Canary Islands, immediately reaped a net annual gain of seventy-five per centin her commerce. They commenced their subsidized mail lines with China, Egypt and India in 1845, and the result wasan annual gain of eight million pounds sterling in their trade with those countries. We have in Spanish America a population of thirty-five millions, and these furnish an annual export and import trade of over one hundred willion pounds sterling, of which, by the narrow policy of our legislators, we reap but one-sixth part. The vast trade of South America is almost entirely absorbed by Eng- land and France, through the valuable steam- ship aid given to their commerce; and still the absorption goes on without an effort on our part to turn the tide. British steamships touch to-day at more than sixty Spanish-American ports, while the points at which we touch are scarcely worth counting. But the matter goes on from bad to worse. Our legislation is so blind that we can have a steamship or « sailing vessel built in a foreign country cheaper than it can be built in our own dock-yards, while we allow the finest ship timber in the world to rot in our forests. Aradical change is demanded in our com- mercial system. Lot it be established ona broad and liberal basis; let Congress make appropriations to increase our, commerce, not rot it out of existence. We want a steamship system to compete with our great rivals, and to Bave this it must be known that steamship lines are rarely self-sustaining, but require sub- sidies, and that the indfrect benefits to our The registrati commerce and to our people must be the | rns'shres whitas aad one hundred vad Aijy-oue goloredy froin making that provision for bis qwa safety - object of legislation with reference to them , wore rexisered, tl, ED “is only by the samo broad and grand policy Givo us lines to all he great commeroial ports of the world. We have already, like magic, awakened the commerce of Japan and China by our new line from San Francisco; bat this is only the beginning. We want more ; and it pursued by the statesmen of the Old World that we may hope to divide the world’s com- merce with them by a g°nerous rivalry with equal weapons. If we attempt to fightit out with the old weapons against the new wo shall make a signal failure. Maximilian aod Vic! Huge. The cable news informs us that Victor Hugo has made a very pathetic appeal to President Juarez in behalf of the Austrian adventurer now in durance vile in Mexico. We hoped that the vain old representative of French re- publicanism would confine bis vanity to his own side of the water ; but it’appears that an erratio idea struck him that it would be an additional distinction if he could blow from the same trumpet a blast for republican and monarch. He may have fancied also that, aa / he pretends to rule the republican element of France, it would be as well to have the West- ern world recognize him as the republican Pope. We are, however, on this side the water, indisposed to give him even these emply « honors, and presume that President Juares will treat his application with that considera- tion due as a metter of simple politeness to a private individual. Maximilian will be dealt with by the Mexican people as is deemed jua- tice to the nation whose territory he invaded asa filibuster. Foreign countries hold a sec ondary position in the matter, and have no right to expect that their requests shall take the precedence. The requests of private in- dividuals, like Victor Hugo, sink into contempt when heralded to the world with all the pomp that characterizes the. leader of a nationality. Magaificent Newspaper Buildings. An outward and visible sign of the prodi- giously increased power of the press is mani- fested by what may be called the temples erected to it in these latter days. All the re- sources of modern architecture are now ex- hausted upon the splendid buildings which have replaced the dark ani dingy rookeries in which the lever that moves the world used to be, as it were, concealed. The costly and pow- erful machinery, with all its appliances, which has been substituted for the imperfect little printing presses used by Faust, and Guttenberg, and Caxton, is not more unlike the latter than the newspaper officos—which were almost inace cessible, in garret or cellar, a few years ago— were unlike such fine and convenient a! turesas Mr. Child’s new Ledger building in Philadelphia, or the buildings of the Journal of Commerce, the Times, and the Staats Zeitung im this city. Newspaper editors at length bear. witness to the wealth and influence attained by’ the press, and rival the bankers and merchants whose marble palaces—like the bank of Browa Brothers, in Wall street, and the stores of Stewart on Broadway—remind us only by con- trast of the dismal, out-of-the-way nooks and corners in European cities, in which the pre- decessors of the Rothschilds and of the merchant princes of the present day used to hide their diamonds and gold ducsts, thelr silks and cashmeres, during the Middle Ages. Tempora mutantur, ot noe mutamur oum illis. A Lest Opportunity. The copperhead convention of the State of Maine seems to be whittling itself down to nothing. According to the present indications from the South there seems to be no chance of the reconstruction of the democratic party there or anywhere else. The only opportunity’ which the copperheads had of bringing about, that result was when the first constitational amendment was proposed. This, however, was lost through the efforts of Mayor Hoffman, who travelled sbout the State making speeches | advising the South to reject it More foolish counsel could not have been given, and it was doubly silly coming from him, who had been chosen as the wise man of Tammany, but who after all only proved himself a wiseacre. If the Southern States had accepted that amend- ment they might have been in the Union now ; but they thought proper to reject it, and they must accept the consequences, With its ; rejection the last hope of the copperheads passed away, and now they may as well pre: pare to go to their graves and have a roaring Irish wake over them. The Hangarian Coronation. We give elsewhere an admirably graphic account of the coronation of Francis Joseph at Peath—a picture which will carry the reader back in thought to the similar ceremonies of medisval times. This letter is from our special correspondery: in Pesth, as the Hzrarp, unlike the impoverished portion of the daily preas, is not compelled to depend upon clippings trom the European papers for its descriptions of European events. Political Straws. At the recent convention in Ohio there was quite « breeze, one set of republicans being for Grant and the other for Chase, the split taking place on the question of the nomina- tion for Governer. The quarrel came very near taking the same course as the party schism in 1864, when Lincoln was nominated in place of Chase. The difference was com- promised in this instance by the nomination of General Hayes, a Grant man. ‘This isto be * taken as one .of the straws which indicate the direction of the political current. THE CHARLESTON The Survivors Declared Not Guilty asd Dieo cbaraed, CuaRLeston, &, C., June 26, 1867. The jury in the case of Boag and others tried for the marder of Roe, in the recent duel affair, after twenty minutes’ deliberation rendered « verdict of not guilty. = Prisoners were thea discl barged. jose has issoed an order providing for the constituted Ip conformity with } ’ next jury panel bern order No, 32 of Genoral Sickles, dectaring the right of all citizens, without distinction of color, to serve ou juries, ————e THE ALLEGED REGISTRATION PERJURIES. may, cl wi jury, hav. 1nd eine Meta auitenonierd by tie Liecendria Sue onsuitation, was before the United States Com- ‘to-day. District Attorney Chandler, who hae just returned from Washington, asked & postponement wath Oe Smerys ines, aon ety TT "a opinion, a ereby settle The Commissioner held the case under advise. Thomas B, White, for the same offence, was discharged. REGISTRATION IN. SAVANKAH, Savarwan, June 26, 1967. jon Was commenced in ‘this oity to-da : 5 Es ) % » ‘ fu ; 4 \ aI d