The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1867, Page 6

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THE CITY. ‘The steamship Quaker City, wbich left New York in Jane last fora five mouths’ pleasure trip to the Holy ‘Land, returned to this port yesterday with all on buard well, > Dr. Harr's states ia his weekly mortuary report that 359 deaths occurred in New York, and 189 in Brookifn last week. The diminisbea mortality in this city which ‘ts 00 teas than the average mortality for corresponding ‘weeks, is the result of the unprecedented cleanliness of ‘the city, « Col Jack Mosby, the ex-rebe! guerilia @bief ‘was in- ‘troduced te the members in the Gold Room yesterday, wome excitemeet ensued, and the opiniess of the bro- ‘kors, divided as they were on the propriety of the intro- Guction, were loudly and vehementiy expressed, and silence prevaiied only when Col. Mosby withdrew from the room, « Bon. Charles Samner delivered his lecture, “Are we @ Nation?” at the Cooper Iastitate last night, Ip the Board of County Caovagsers yesterday, Justice Connolly preseaved @ protest against canvassing the votes for Sherif in certain. wards of the city on the ground that tlegal votes wore cast for his com- petiter, The Board of Excise held their regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, and revoked the lcences of siz. Liquor deaiors who were found gutity of violating the Exoiss law. Im the case wherein Mrs Susan L. Corwis, a widow, snee Mr, D, W. Terry for breach of prom'se of marriage, which has ogeapied the attention of one of our courts for seme time, the jury yesterday rendered a verdct for plawmelff of $2,600. The case of Susman Shoster against the Metropelitan Board of Health, whieh was argued before the June General Term of the Supreme Court, was decided yoo ferday.. The pleintif 1s a butcher, and applied for an. imjanation restraining the Beard trom interfering with bis Dasiness aed removing bie slaughter heuse, under certaia health ordieances of the Board. The ( ourt en- joins the defendant frem enforciag tbe ordinances, ex- cept for police inspection and regulation, The Inman line steamship City of Cork, Captain Philtpa, wit) leage pier 45, North river, at noon to-day, for Astwerp. ‘The Cromwell tine steamabip Cortes, Captain Whit- man, will leave pier No, 9, North river, 03 P. M. to- day, for New Oricans direct, The steamship Ariadne, Captsin Eldredge, of C. B. Mallory & Co.'s Texas line, now loading at pier 20 Eas river, will sail to-morrow (Thursday) afterneom for Gal- veston. “ ‘ The stock market was steady yesterday gntil afler the second reguiar board, wnea it became weak, aad prices declined througdout the list, Goverawent securities were dull, Gold eiosed at 130%, MISCELLANEIUS. ‘The Atlantic cable repor: of Kuropeam news of yester- day bad not been delivered whee the HaxaLp went to prose this morning. Charles Dickens arrived in Boston yesterday adeet soven o’cloek, having been takes sboard of a chartered tngboat as Mull, oe@ thus coming in a helf hour ahead of the Luba, He qwan met on the tughoat by Oliver Wen- Got! Hotes, Josiah Quincy, Mr. Fields, Coltector Rus- soft sed bis agent Dolby. A large crowd was assembied on the dock to receive him, but he “rove immediatery to big horet, In the Alsbima Coaveatioh yester’ay the Committee on Milita made « report favorable to the organization of a willtia, subject to thie order of the Governor. A mo- tea to substituse the minority for the majoriiy report on suffrage was voted down, The clause disfranchising wilwho refuse to vole om the sew constitution was The Comvention elections in North aad South Cervlina NEW, YORK commenced yesterday and will be concluded to-day, Nearly @il the votes cast in Raleigh, Wilmingwe end Charieston, so far, have been nezroes, and tor & coa- vention, The white conservatives in North Carolina are said to be reserving all their streigth for e grand Stroggl> to day, but the whites ia @outh Carolina are Mavilestivg no interest whatever :@ the question, To the Constitational Convention yesterday afer some ‘unimportant busivess was transacted it was discovered tbat there was no quorum, aad an adjournment took place until evening, On reassembling, the Committee of the Whole reported the article en canals, Ina repub. Nean caucus ia the morniog « final edjournment'was decided against, The adjourned seasion of the Fortieth Congress jwembies in Washington to-morrow. Eisewbere in r columns ¢his morning will be found aa alphabetical list of the members of both Houses, The Peruvian Mimster, Sener Don Garcia, presented his credentials to the President yesterday. It ie said in Washington, on the strength of private correspondence from Mexico, that Jearez has agreed to permit the transportation of militery stores through Mexican territory to Arizona by the United States, Advices reegived {rom the seat of war in Crete state ‘that Mrs, Hill, an American lady, recently published a strong mazifesto against Elisabeth Kantaxaxi, « Cretan woman, who acts as a spy for the Turks, Genere] Hancock and staff lett Cairo last evening for New Orleans on the steamer Missiralppi. Edward Cooper is the new Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasary, in place of Mr. Chandler, He enters upon the duties of bis office to-day. ‘The amount demanded of the United States for the eevsion of the Danish West India Istands is stated im the treaty to be $7,500,000 ia gold, Official statistics show that one or another of the Isiands suffer every year from a» hurricane, and ts is bighly probable that the hurricanes, having beea in arrears for some time are now paying ap. ¢ The Richmond negroes are becoming daily more scared over reports ef the dissection of stray darkies Fifty medical students from New York aro said to be in towa watching for thom, and a circus, which negroes never have failed to viet by thousands heretofore, only had fifty darkies among the audience on Monday night. ‘The China steamship Great Republic, whieh. was over- ‘due for several days, arrived yesterday at San Francisco, The steamer Panama will sail from Havana to day, with Baron Magnus, Prince and Princess Salm-Selm and other celebrities from Mexico om board, bound for St, Nazaire, Shephard, the wife murderer, waived am examination at Worcester yesterday, and was committed, He con- fesses fo the murder and says he did it through love for his wife because her friends had interfered bewween them. J Coburn and MoCoole met {n Chicago last night and signed articles of agreemest to fight for the champion- ship on the 27th of May next, at some point within fifty miles of Cincinnati for $10,000, Heenan and Morrissey, it is said, will train Coburn, Several pigaters im the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, bave presented a statement to General Pope. relative to the nightly drilling and organization of negro wililia companies op their’ plantations, :. Secretary Seward has appealed to the British govern- ment for clemency to the Manchester Fenians. The Grand Counc at Fort Laramie has been con- cluded, Notbing was accomplished, the few Crow chiefs who presented themeelves to treat and be treated, being advised by the Commtesioners to wait until next spring. Carlin, the pedestrian at Troy, whe commenced to walk one hundred miles in twenty-five bours, suddenly, Gicappeared on the thirty seveath mile aad bas not since been seen. ‘The Susquehanna and Chenaago riversat Binghamton were frozen over on Monday might. The steambiats Amaranth aad Amanda were receatly sunk in the Missouri river, ‘ The Obio and Mistissippi Railroed- Company has etected a new Board of Directors, with William D. Gris- wold as President, All difficulties with the Corporation of Cinginuati bave been settled. Reassembling of Congrese~Programme of the Radical Leader. The great radical leader in Congress, Thad- deus Stevens, has been In Washington seve- ral days proparing for work on he reas- sembling of Congress to-morrow. He is a hard-working, earnest and positive man, and is always up to time to strike telling blows. This character, with his ability and parliamentary experience, really makes him the first and most powerfal man in Congress, The extreme mon, the thoroughgoing radicals, cheerfully concede this position to him. The trimming, timid and would-be conservative republicans fear bim ; for he has heretofore whipped them along in party traces without mach trouble. Instantly at the opening of each session of Congress he bas been ready with some resolution or measure to make them stand up to the rack. We bave seen some of them wince and wriggle abent under this discipline; yet they dared not resist. His whip, party fealty and the dread of party ostracism have carried them along in the most ultra-radical course, even when their souls se- cretly revolted at what they were doing. We see the same preparations as were made on tho eve of former sessions for similar action. Though feeble in health, Mr. Stevens has-drag-: ged his body to Washington for the purpose of holding private party caucuses in advance ef the opening of the seasion. He is mostly con- fined as an invalid to his room, but the members flock to him as soon as they arrive. Speaker Colfax, Boutwell, Senator Morrill and ochers have been to confer with or take lessons from the old ebief, as the courtiers and poli- ticians used to crowd round the coach of Wolsey or Richelieu. Looking, then, at the position Mr. Stevens occupies, or has occupied, as the leader of the party overwhelmingly powertul in the national Logislature, it is important to know his views and purpose, Hence we notice the Washing- ton newspaper correspondents have kept a sharp eye updo him and an eager ear to hear his remarks. These busy and ubiquitous fel- lows tell us he “appears more determined than ever to bolster up the cause of radical- jem,” that “the voice of the people, as ex- pressed in tho recent elections, has made no impression whatever on his determination,” and thet we may look for. “a more united and vigorous proseemtion of radical ideas.” * Thess -expressions have # broad and genoral moan- ing and can only be understood specifically by referring back to Mr. Stevens’ former radical measures, We are told, however, that he will introduce @ bill to suspend the functions of the: President during a trial of impeachment for high crimes and misdemean- ors. This, of course, would be intended for Mr. Johnson, and it looks as if Mr. Stevens meant to press the question of impeachment upon Congress, As for the rest of his pro- gramme, we suppose be intends to oppose any modification of the reconstruction acta, to force through negro supremacy in the South, to'per- petuate or increase,the cotton tax, and, per hape, to propose @ measure ot confiscation for the benefit of the negroes and those Northern- ers like himself who suffered by the war, Bach was Mr. Stevens’ radicalism, and tf be te determined, as reported, to carry out his ideas, | we may expect lively times in Congress and througtout the eountry. Men of Mr. Stevens’ stamp ecidom take the back track. He is essentially a revolutionary | leader, We oan find his prototypes in the French Revolution and other great revolutions; in the Robespierres, Dantons and Marats of history. Such mon are slways uncompromi:- jag snd fadical in thé extteme, He would make Concrow what the Coureation iz France | HERALD, . WEDW; was, He scouts the restraints of constitutions snd procleima the absolute power of the the government or constitutional rights. But the question arises here, Will he have the hardihood to urge his radical measor:s in face of the extraordinary resection that bas taken place and in deflance of opinion? It is impossible to ignore the: significance of the late elections. Not in ome or two States only, but everywhere, the polléy of the radi- cals has been emphatically condemned. Doss he hope to reverse thie decision and to secure a lease of radical power by defying the voice of the people? If so, he is less astute and more bigoted in bis ideas than might have been supposed, Yet it is sala he declares that “so far from the elections affording # rea- son to influence the radical members of Congress to back down, théy should be ac- cepted as an argument to back them up.” What Jacobin despotism is this! Congress the master and not the servant of the people! Mr. Stevens and his radical confrires are 10 defy the people. and to govern them as the Long Parliament of England or the French Convention did!, What s monstrous proposi- tion in this republic and under our representa- tive and constitutional government! Supposing, however, that Mr. Stevens is pre- pared to go so far, will he be-followed by bis party? Will the conservative republicans be led by the nose into this dangerous course? We think not, but we shall know in a few days. He will try what stuff they are made of very early in the session, Perhaps he even “may back down,” notwithsianding his present apparent boldness an@ determina- tion, should he see a general retrograde move- ment in the republican party. Little conf- dence as we have in the ability or prudence of the mojority: in Congress, we still think it probable chat the more consetvative republic- ans in that body may break from the radica's, should they not be able to.control them, and that tere will bes reorganization of p:rtics. Repudiation of the radicals and radical m2.- sures is the only chance the republican party has to save itself Any other conrse will anni- hilate it as effectually as the old whig party and the secession party have been anni- hilated. s But why does not Mr. Stevens drup the negro and his vindictive of the prostrate rebels and take up the cial question? On this Itter subject he has enlarged views, Here his great abilitios would be used with benefit to the country. Besides, this is going to be, and that soon, the great-question that will overshadow all othera, In the breaking up and reorganization of parties it will have the greatest influence. Everywhere the people are talking about the debt and how to pay it, taxation and ‘how to be relieved of its vast pressure, of the currency, of the na- tional banks, aad of other cognate subjects connected with the national finances. The press all over the country begins to discuss them, and 00m we shall hear of little else in Congress. Hore, then, is a field in which Mr. Stevens cana gratify his ambition. . He has been a leader on the acgro question, but that bas culminated.’ He can make no more capi- tal out of thas, and may lose what he bas made “it be pursues it any further. Lot lifm lead off on the subject of our national finances, and should he live long enough he will acquire more prominence and a more desirable fame than he has got out of the negro, ‘The Hook Trade in the United States. The people of the United Siates are beyond comparison with the people of any other coun- try as a nation of readers. The book as well asthe newspaper finds readers, not. only at every fireside, but in every railway car. We once had oceasion to describe to M. de Lamar tine every American railway car as a reading Toom on wheels,’ The habit, indeed, of read- ing while travelling is condemned by phy- sicians as injurious to the eyes, which, we think ourselves, might be more profitably employed in observing our incomparable scenery, if not the odd vatieties of physiognomy and char- ‘acter presented by our fellow travellers, Bat this habit has become universal, as the book pedlers on all American railways might testify. The field, therefore, which is opened to the enterprise of our publishers is immense, Bat, ae we have previously intimated, they are far behind our dealers-in all other kinds of mer- chandise in recognizing the general law of de- mand and supply. We might fil a column by recapitulating their mistakes, but to-day wo shall only briefly mention two or three. In the first place, they rarely advertise their pub- lications except in journals.of sach limited cir- culation that the great publie is, for the most part, left in ignorance as tothe new books which are continually browglit out In con- formity to the oid Sctiptural rale—that “of making many books there is no end.” In: the next place, they are not ashamed, im too many instances, to practise. what may be called one of the “iricks of trade,” by hasien- ing to advertise for repriat every new publication which fs announced ia London, even when they have no motive for doing ihis except a wish to forestall otber publishers aad to prevent them, according to the absurd fic- tion called “ the courtesy of the trade”—that wretched substitute for a just and honest inter. national copyright—law, from. reprodecing works which they may or nity not’@eem it profitable to reproduce themsclres. Ia the third place, they betray 9 growing propensity toward# rushing into the market in @mick suc- cession a multitude of works withort devoting time of attention to duch « development of the sale of each as @ nation of readers might guar- antee if each book were properly. brought to | ' ite netice. At present we must be content with thas briefly indicating o few of the mie takea which bave hitherto prevented tho book trade from attaining tbat relative importance among. the various indusiries of the United Biates to which {t ts fairly entitied by its in- trinsic Importance. But wo shall reeur to the subject as ane of no ioconsiderable public in- terest. Mamer Out of Votusteer Ompers, Some of the radicals appear to have lost ‘thelr wenees. They made a great outcry agsinat the mustering out of General Bickles, as if ho were some pet general entitled to par ticular consideration for extraordinary ser vices rendered during the war. The act of Congress of 1861 made it an obligation upon the Executive to remove the voluntecr officers | At the close of tho war. In. re! General Ta toon sip dooberiur note nd a serves censure for it Officers far more meri- torious than General Sickles retired long since national Legislature over otter branches of | to their regular army grade, quite willing to. enjoys salary to which they were entitled, in- stead of subjecting the country to extre pay in 8 position which they were filling contrary to justice. Howard and should imme- diately follow Sickles. Let them be mustered out and our expenses reduced here as well as in other quarters, x The Ringe and the City Election. Some of the ‘Tammany organs and their allies are endeavoring. to shield Hoffman from the damaging effect of the enormous taxation under his administration as Mayor of the city, by claiming that he bas vetoed some Corpora- tion jobs and that the expenditures of the city commissions are not under his control, This {sal balderdash. Pollak bas told us of the man “who stole the livery of the court of Heaven to serve the. devil in,” and every intel- ligent citizen of New York knows that the Puritanical cant of a veto message is valucless when the Mayor puts his official signature w every warrant drawn against (he public trea- sury, and when, without that signature, not a single dollar could be, obiained by tho cor- poration robbers. The expenses of some of the political commissions fastened upon the city may be heavy enough; but the fact re- mains that the cost of the municipal govern- ment usder Hoffman, excluding the police, Health Board and other.important items now embraced in the commissions, is many millions higher than the whole municipal expenditare, including all ‘those departments, under any former Mayor, except, probably, in the last year of Gunther's administration. There isan old saying to the effect that a man is jadged by thé company he keeps. Nothing is better Known than tho fact that every Corporation ring is to be found on the side. of Hoffman..'The Supervisors’ ring has become notorious throughout the coun:ry for the infimous Court Housejob, by which over s million of money has already been stolen trom the pockets of the taxpayors. Every mem>er of that ring is the warm advocate of Hoffman’s re-election. There is 9 “ring” in the Board of Aldermen, whose whole businezs is to put through jobs of all descriptions with money in them, and every member of that ‘ring isin favor of Hoffman's re-election. There is a “ring ” of Councilmen, who do all manner of stealing, large and small, who are willing to pick up a peany belonging to anybody else wherever they can find it, and .who. combine the qualifications of Dick Turpin and Charley ‘Bates in their own persons, Every member. that ring is friendly to Hoffman’s There is a Tammany “ring” of leaders, who exercise 8 sort of supervision over the .Corpo- Fation pickings atid stealings generally; who control all the city patronage, make all the nominations, build up whatever tools they please, knock down whatever candidates do not happen to suit them, rule the affairs of every ward with « rod of iron, assame to speak for the whole democratic party, and divide the lion’s share of the spoils among their own se- lect circle. The members of this ring gave Hoffman his nomination, packed the city con- vention that nominated him,.and are laboriog with all their power for his election. No person who understands the reputstion Of these several rings will seriously belleve that they would give their support to any can- didate who was not to be relied on as an ally. They have reaped a rich harvest out of two years ot Hoffman’s mayoralty, and as they are not famous for their modesty, it is cert iin that their démands upon him for the next two years, in case they should succeed in electing him, will not be less pressing than they have been in the past. The probability i that the expenditures of the city government next year would be five or six millions more than the present year if Hoffman should be re-elected by. the votes of the several rings whose candi- date he is. In view of these facts the taxpayers of the city will hesitate before they cast their votes in unison with the Tammany and Corporation rings. Indeed, it now seems likely that a grand rally will be made by the respectable portion of the community after all upon Dar- ling, deepite the treachery of the Times and ‘Tribune, and that an earnest effort may yet be made to elect him over the heads of boch Wood and Hoffman, as the safest and most trast- worthy of the three candidates. Such a move- ment is the only chance left tor defeating Wood, who will beat Hoffman out of sight; and all who regard Wood asan unfit man for Mayor of the first city in the Union should give their votes to Darling, as the best means of defeating the Mozart nominee. A grand tally upon Darling by the respectable voters im a body may yet save us from either the nine million administration of the magnificent rascal with the white mustache or the twenty-four million administration of the Puritan ring- master with the brown. P. S—The interest in this fight of the factions is heightened, and the prospect of a good resalt brightens, with the nemination last night of John H. Anthon for Mayor by the Democratic Union Conglomerate party. Now, gentlemen, come on. ‘The Prize Meney of Farragut’s New Orleans Fleet. About five years ago one of the greatest evente of the wat for the Union tock place. The capture of New Orleans by Farragut’s fleet will be remembered as long as deeds of heroism thrill the human heart and illumine the page ef history. It was aiso an important event, and probably the turning point of the war. Tue bravery and patriotism of the men ‘The Preepect tn Mexico Rather Bleue. Our lateat advices from Mexico via Havana, in bebalf,of the republic redivivus, are rather blue—not @ pure eky blue, but the dark and dingy blue of retarning confusion. No new revolution bas broken out, but the elements ‘were fermenting. The remains of Maximilian have at last been delivered over to Ausiria, on the recognition, no doubt, of the govera- ment of Juares; ao that that question may be considered as setiled. The newly elected will be to replenish it, and then will come the opportunity tor the opposition, and it will pro- bably be improved by them outside after the old Mexican fushion, “All sorts of kidnapping were practised “On prominent and wealihy persons of all ‘ages and sexes to extort ran- coma Torture and.even asssssination were threatened to make people swear secrecy as to the parties to whom these ransoms were puid” — new branch of the old business of Mexican highway robbery. While these delightful thinga were going on in the suburbs the capital was enlivened by festivities in honor of the republic, including the amusing gladis- torial diversion of bloody bull fights. No doubt the leperos believed they had reached the dawn of the millenniam. “There was quite a mystification as to the proposed visit of General Banks—whether he was coming to buy Sonora or Chihuahua. On this subject one of the prominent journals had come out in favor of union between the two republics,” and “to this complexion,” we guess, “It will com: at last.” Along the Rio Grande the Mexican border ruffians cherish an unconquerable hatred of the Yankees, and vice verea. This mataal bad feeling along the river grew out of the'Texas war of independ- ence and our Mexican war of 1846-7. Through the. interior ot Mexico} however, a more friendly spirit prevails towards the United States, and Juarez is said to represent tt But whatever may.be his wishes end bis policy, and whatever, his Congress may at tempt in the cause of Mexican independence, the elements and the chances are against him, and we dare say that it will not be long before they have in that unbappy country another Mexic:n revolution and another plunge into Mexican anarchy. And what then? We leave the reader to answer the question while we ask another. If we find reconstruction so dif- ficult as to excite apprehensions of a failure after only a four years’ civil war, what bope is there for poor Mexico ‘to save herself, with forty years of revolutions and fighting factions upon ber head? ; Obicoary. ¢ Itis our melancholy duty to-announce the death in this city of the Italian Opera, or, at least, that it is suffering from suspended vi ality. Perhaps, like another Phosnix, it may presently arise again ; but, meantime, it seems a caso for the undertaker. Though born on another soil, this distinguished stranger had beeome natu- ralized bere, had fairiy recovered the first rade shocks incident to a change of clime, and seemed not very long since to be in the enjoy- ment of health that promised a hals old age. Alas for the uncertainty of life! who can count upon it? Is it not as vain to attempt such counting as to essay the location of the litile joker? As to what disease terminated the mortal coil that the opera had kept up, doctors differ ; and this fact has led to the unkind in- ference that it died of the doctors. The causo of death has, therefore, been set down as m:fras- We have the satisfaction of knowing that we did our duty toward the defunct. Nay, we re- member that we long ago gave him good advice in the case through the deceased’s next friend, the poor, unfortunate msnager—thr one who has reason, no doubt, to wear the All managers should shun sucb advice as Gestroyed the defunct; should take timely ‘warning, and not suppose they can keep their establishments alive here on wornout operas or plays and worthless artistes; and, above all, should not cot their throats when told of their errors. The demoralization arising from one public execution is greater than the public good which can possibly spring from putting to to death « dozen criminals, Of this we have seen many examples, the two last of which ‘were furnished in New Jetsey—that of Bridget Durgan and Sylvester Quiller, We commend, therefore, the course of Jndge Depus, who on Monday, in sentenctig to death the murders: ot Tormay at Newark, ordered that mo one hould be presout at tho execution exoopt tue criminal’s religious advisers, members family and such few spectators as the might require for the proper faifilment iaw. We hope this order will be strictly.ob- served on the 2d of January tex, and that’ in all cases of ¢apital punishment the same rule will be carried out. We know by experiénce, ‘all the world over, that a public exocution, so far from being a public example, is but an incentive to vice by pandering to the lowest passions of the mob. Justic2 can be as well subserved by putting the condemned wretch out of the world in the privacy of the jail’as by making ® spectacle to gratify the morbid appetite of a gaping crowd. Cengreses and the Currency. Merchants, wholesale and retail dealers, and men of all business pursuits, East, West, North and South, are anxiously looking to Congress for some measures of reliel “Trade is de pressed,” “business is dul!,” “times are very hard with us,” “nothing is doing in our line,” are expressions which may now be heard in any store, in any line of business, from one end of this city to the other, 80 it is, doubtless to a greater extent, in every commorcial city, town and village of the United States, Rents and provisions are still high, our federal taxes, State taxes, and county and corporation taxce oppress the people more heavily from month to month, while profits and incomes are rapidly dimfuishing and the fountains of labor are eke | drying up; and 20 all eyes are tarned to Con- grees in the hope of some measures of redress, Great reforms in our internal revenue laws are demanded and modifications of our external tax laws ; great rotrenchments are called for in the government expenditures, but a deficiency of money in circalation isthe general complaint of ‘business people: every- where and of all class2s, There is not money enough afloat to meet the legitimat» _— of trade ; hence the general depression, _ Secretary of the Treasury has adopted and ts vigorously pursuing a system of contractions, which, unless seasonably arrested, may culmi- nate in the same resuits as excessive inflation— failures, bankruptcies, a panic anda collapse. " What, then, is Congress called upon to dot We think an act should be passed repealing the act for the curtailment of the volume of legal tender notes, and that simple legal tenders, without interest, should be provided for and issued in the place of intercs!-bear:ng legal ten- ders as fast as they mature. Furthermore, we want legal tenders in the place of the national bank notes as fast as possible ; for why sheuld twenty-five or thirty millions interest on the national bonds ss = basis of circulation be paid to these national banks, when by the simple substitation of greenbacks all these bounties to the national banks may besaved to our national taxpayers and to the Treasury. Mr, McCulloch, his admirers ‘say, 1s moving : steadily towards specie payments; but while gold continues on the margin of 140 the pros ~ pect of specie payments by his policy of con- traction is not very promising. With the re- duction of imports and the curtailment ef manufactures theré*aro corresponding redac- tions in the revenue returns of the Treasary, while the costs of collection are still increas- ing, from increasing frauds and schemes of evasion, embezzlement and robbery.. All these things cover = wide field for legislation, and the very existence of the party in power depends upon its action on this paramount and allabsorbing money question. Hence the atiention of the whole country is now turned for relief to Congress, where the power and the responsibility belong. We would there- fore remind the party in power of the public wants and expectations in season for action at the coming session, and especially would we warn the two houses of the folly and the dangers of Mr. McCulloch’s depressing policy of contraction to hurry up specie payments. The Eurepean Situation. ‘ The European parliaments are opening one by one. The North German Parliament bas commenced its sittings, the King of Prussia announcing it as his opinion that the peacs of Europe was now secured. The French Cham- bers have commenced their sittings, and we are told that Napoleon has no longer any ob- jection to the consolidation of Germany. Baron Von Beust has been on a visit to Paris, and we now learn that there is periect accord between France and Austria. Austris will insist on the fulfilment of the treaty of Prague, and her Eastern policy henceforth is to be identi- cal with that of France. Meanwhile the Italian question remains unchanged. A con- ference 1g but little likely to be get together. A parely Catholic “conference is not likely to be asked. A general conference is beset with great difficulty. The different Powers have all different interests at stake, and their demands could not fail to be of a very conflicting char- acter. Prussia dors not like the treaty of Prague; Russia does not like the last treaty of Patis; Italy detests the September Con- vention. Withsach conflicting views it is diff- cult to see bow they can agree. It is manifest, at the same time, that the revolutionary elements now at work in France are each as to give Napoleon sufficient trouble at home.. The recent demonstration at the graves of Daniel Manin and Godfrey Cavaignac at Paris reveals a state of feeling which is far trom reassuring. The Plctrepoliian Beard ef Internal Be- veaue—A Reformation Needed. The Intern:' Revenue oftcers in this city seem to r-garc their daties towards the gov- latter of $1,630,716. No stronger proof could be given of the utter inefficiency of the Board appointed to luok after the interests of the gov- Tuined this year, and that the Metropolitan Board exhibit euch ® deficiency as that we have stated, it | time that the government shold take mex- sures to repress this nuisance ahd protect ite own intoreste and those of lealiimate dealers. .