The New York Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1868, Page 4

NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROFRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stroet.—Matinee at 1-Un Baio x Mascumna, 08 CARDEN, Broadway.—Taa Warre Fawn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 3th street. Sax Stoors 70 Conquar. ‘ PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 231 st., dormer Eighth av.— Matinee at 1—Facsz. BRoaDway THEATRE, Broadway.—Saw, Matinee a BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rommany—Carram Sraxp, NEW YORK THEATRE, ovvosite New York Hotel.= Nosopr's Davouter. Matinee at 2, FRENCH THEATRE.—Mat ee at 1—Grarp Ducuxss. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Matinee at 14— Pxaat or Savor. “Evening—Lirrix Bauwrvor, BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. Broad. way and 8th #t.—Oruxito—Two Buzsanos, Matinee at 2. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtesnth street. —Grunasrics, Equxsreianisu, Ac. Matinee at 235. ‘TRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway, —Haviow Count HR ATIOUrS aND Miniarunx Cincvs. Matinee at 26 KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Bre Dances, Ecountricitizs, &0.—@rano Duro Sona’, Matinee. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad way.—Ermto- rian GNTERTALMENTS, SINGING, DANCING axD BURLSUUES, TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comw VocaLisM, NkGRO MinsTREIsY, &c. Matinee at 234. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway. — Baiuxz, Vance, Pantownee, Matinee at 2hy, BUNYAN HALD, Broadway and Fiftosnth street.—Tar Pucrim, Matinee at 2, STEINWAY HALL.—Granp Concusr. MIRVING TALL, Irving Place.—Soias or Cassar Music. 3. FB, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brook!ya.— Sacan in Patis—Karry O'Sunen. HOOL! OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Erarortas Minar Bexuesque ov Tux Witv FAwy. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Wilhamsburg.—Frexew Srr—Jueiasp As lr Was Matinee at 2—Hinpen Hann, &c, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. — Scuence aND ART. New York, Saturday, February 29, 1868. THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, February 28, The political gituation was more calm in Evgland. Parliament adjourned to Thursday to permit the recon- struction of the cabinet to progress. Mr. G, W. Hunt is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fenian move- ments and trials are reported from Ircland, The King of Prussia is said to have had a severe injury by being thrown from his horse. Baron Budberg, Russian Min- ister té France, was assaulted violently by a young Russian when passing through Verviers, Belgium. All furloughs in the#reneh army are to terminate on the Ast of March, Consols 92% 293. Five-twenties 71% in London and | 75 a 1634 in Frankfort. Rentes weak in Paris, Cotton heavy, with middling uplands at 9%; pence—a decline. Breadstuffs dull, Provisions slightly ad- vanced. Jury. A warrant was issued by Commissioner Newton for the arrest of an alleged fugitive from Prussia, named Gustavo Poppelbaum, alias E, Weiner, who is charged with defrauding the Prussian government to the extent of $7,000, The prisoner was remanded to Ludlow street Jail. The Superior Court, General Term, assembied yester- day morning, and an effort was made by counsel to obtain a hearing om an application for an order to show cause why am appeal should not be allowed from the ordar at Special Term, sustaining the verification by Frank Work of the petition for the removal of Daniel Drow. ‘The application was denied. The court confirmed the report of the commissioners of estimate and assessment in the maiter of the opening Of the “Circle” at Broadway and Fitty-ninth street, A decision was alao rendered discharging Marquis De Lafayette Sharkey from imprisonment on legal grounds, and within five minutes afterwards an order for bis arrest was granted by the Conrt of Common Pleas. The Anchor line steamship Iowa, Captain Hodder. wick, will leave pier No, 20 North river at noon to-day Stern, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United | radicals, when they discover that their case is States government, to await the action of the Grand | » bad one, may possibly contrive to hold back final judgment of the Senate till after the Presidential election; but even in this eva- sion they will be impeached and removed. Progress of she Southern Reconstruction Conventions, The stirring questions recently agitated in Washington have 80 absorbed public attention that the progress of the Southern reconstruc- tion conventions has been almost lost sight of. But they have really been doing nothing of an exciting nature affecting the fundamental law beyond the adoption of those negro supremacy measures with the animus of which our read- ers are already familiar. The Virginia Convention has been giving Itself up to listening to the political harangues from Governor Pierpoint, Judge Rives and John for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to Minor Botts. land passengers, The stock market was dull and unsettled yesterday. Government securities wore heavy. oid closed at pChEra The North Carolina ‘Convention has given way to © radical State Convention, at which State officers and members of Congress were nominated. It is a noticeable fact that at the The Impeachment . Articles=The Marptet | meoting of tho latter a negro declined 8 nomi- Stanton—The Republican Party. The select committee of seven of the House nation for Congress on tbe ground that the “radicals in Congress did not wish negroes of Representatives (Mr. Boutwell, of Massachu- | elected to that body,” which is regarded as 6 agreed upon the following articles of impeach- ment, which they propose to make good before the Senate when sitting as a court and jury in the trial of President Johnson :—Two violations of the constltution—one in the removal of Mr. Stanton and one in the appointment of General Thomas as Secretary of War without the advice or consent of the Senate ; two violations of the Tenure of Office act—one in the removal of Stanton and the other in the appointment of Thomas without the advice or consent of the Senate; two or three charges of conspiracy with Thomas and others to take possession of the War Office, in violation of law, and to pre- vent the execution of the Tenure of Office act, and to prevail upon certain army officers to violate the law of Congress which provides that all orders to the army from the President shall pass through the hands of the General-in-Chief, Still another charge will be made of an attempt to get unlawfully the control of certain funds in the Treasury by the unlawful appointment of General Thomas as Secretary of War. All these charges and specifications, however, it will be observed, hinge upon the removal of Stanton and the appoIntment of Thomas in his place, or upon the alleged efforts of the Presi- dent to get rid of Stanton. Had Stanton been removed three or two years ago, or at any thine before the passage of the Tenure of Office act, Mr. Johnson might have escaped all these sub- sequent annoyances which this man Stahton’s presence in the Cabinet has occasioned and all the embarrassments of this impeachment. With the discovery that Stanton waa not with him Mr. Jobnson ought to have known that the removal of this dangerous man was the only alternative of safety, Surely he had seen enough of Stanton’s management of the War Department during the war to satisfy any rea- soning mind that he had his own policy to pursue and his own objects to gain, for which he would permit no obstruction to stand in his | By the stearaship Australasian we have an interesting mail report in desail of our cable despatches to the 15th of February. CONGRESS. Ta the Senate yesterday Mr. Howard presented the Teport of the Sclect Committee on Impeachment, pro- posing rules of procecding ip the case, aud gave notice that he would move to have them taken up to-day, The bill granting Goat Island, in San Francisco Larbor, to the Pacific Railroad was taken up and again laid oside at the expiration of the morning hour, The bill relative to the proceeds of captured and abgn- | doned property, after some warm debate between Mesora. Trumbull and Fessenden, was passed. Mr, MoCreery, the new Senator from Kentucky, was admitted to bis seat. Tho Military Academy Approp tion bill was passed. The Bill declaratory of the law relative to officers fered or dismissed was taken ap, and pending discussion upon it the Senate adjourned, In the House a bill for the better regulation of the cuatody ud expenditures of tne public money was reported from the Committee on Appropriations and passel. The Sundry Expense Appropriation bill was then considered in Committee of the Whole, re- ported to the House and postponed until Wednesday, Notice was given that the Impeachment Commitree would report to-day, A bill was reported from the Committee on Ways and Means for the relief of certain exporters of distilled spirits, In speaking of the tax bills before the committee, Mr, >chenck said the members were satisfied that the five per cont tax op all manufactures could be given up, excep! on somo articles of luxury, The Committee had not detinitoly decided on wbolisting the income tax, The bill was postponed, THE L*GISLATURE. {n the Senate yesterday bills relative to the ordinance passed for street improvements ia New York and (or other porposos were reported. Bills to require gas com- pantes to reduco their rates and for a railroad in Seven- teenth and other streets were noticed. A bill to repeal the Excise law as far as relates to Queens county was satroduced, and a bill to provide for the erection of piers 1m Hariom rivor, below Second avenue, was passed, In the Assembly several private bills were passed, Killa were reported favorably in relation to gas compa- nios in New York, amending the Excise law, creating the ofice of metropolitan fire marshal, incorporating the New York Public Exchange and to protect consumers of coal in New York end Brooklyo. The Military Com. mittee reported that they had found the accounts of Commissary General Palmer correct MISCELLANEOUS. The State Constiiutional Convention closed its labors yesterday. A resolution leaving to the Legislature the appointment of a time fora fiom was adopted. An addroas to the peo of the Convention was accepted, and the new constitu- sion was (hen adopted by a vote of 44 to 31, signed and deposited with she Secretary of State, President Wheeler then inade hie valedictory address and do | clared the Convention adjourned rine div, General Thomas was inerim at the meeting of the Cabinet yesterday writ of quo warrawo to compel Mr. Stanton to show", cause why be bolds possession of the War Office will be applied for to-day, Convention yesterday aloptod a suf ¢ disframchising ali who held office under the ail newapaper mon who advocated and ail preachers who preached secession. The Philadelphia Gas Works, which have heretofore been managed by trustees, will be taken possession of by the Mayor on Monday, in accordance with an ordi- nance of the (ity Council. It is said thai the trustees will resist (he seizure by force, General Havcock bas issued an order reinstating, by order of Genoral Grant, certain Counciimen of the city of Now Urleans whom be had hitherto removed, In the steamer Magnolia insurance case, now pending in St. Louls, one of the pilots swore that he waa offered $5,000 to sink the steamer, and his wife swore that she was offered $8,000 to prevent her busbaud from testifying. A democratic organisation of ex-officers and suldiers of the Union army {ein progress in 81, Louie to offset the Grand Army of the Repubiic, A vory largely attended Johneop meeting war held jast evening ot the Cooper Institute, Resolutions in support of the Prosident’s poliey and ageinat the m- peachment policy of Congress were passed with aocla- mation, The meeting was addressed by several epek- ors, and broke up with perfeet good order. {n the United States Court yesterday the sherry wine cane was comtinued and is not yet concluded, United SBiates Comminsioner Osborns decided to hold Ryan and way while there was a chance of its removal. General McClellan’s experience under Stanton cers of the army, cast into the shade, owe their misfortunes to the hostility of Stanton. Even General Sherman had a very narrow escape from official disgrace in consequence of a single | political mistake at the end of his brilliant military campaign of Georgia and the Caro- | linas ; and if Grant was cordially supported | | throngh the war by Stanton it was doubtless | becanse the political marplot of the Cabinet | | saw that asa politician Grant was not the man | tostand in anybody’s way, though crowned | with the military laurels of the greatest soldier | of the age. | Down to the passage of the Tenure of Office | act—a measure which was, perhaps, suggested | by Stanton himself, and the main purpose of | which was unquestionably to hold him in the | Cabinet as a master and a sentinel over the | President—the removal suggested would have been an easy matter, and any other man in Stanton’s place would have beon a wise | exchange. Afier the passage of that act | the bill. Under" that act Stanton was | empowered by Congress to bring the President to a surrender or to provoke him to some pro- an impeachment. Mr. Johnson has fallen into the snare and is under indictment 93 4 malefac- tor, while Stanton still lords it over him in the War Office. Yct, under the circumstances, it ia not surprising that the President should finally resolve to invite a trial on impeachment before | longer in the keeping of his appointed master of the War Office. Within a few days, we suppose, the trial will commence. The Senate committee on | is full of instruction ; and numerous other offl- | seat of governmeat not to send negro Repre- ceeding -upon which he could be brought to | of rales for the government of the conrt, | | with a view to a the The indictment lered and shaped for the same purpose. Had Mr. Johnson made known hia resolu- tion to remove Stanton, even a few days befor case, in hetne | he acted npon it the bill on the table of thy Senate providing for his suspension from offi « | t when called to trial would doubtless have been pushed through. This measure, however, according to the House debates on the impeach- | ment resolution, is not necessary, a8 the case bringing it to # settlement. We appreheni, however, that In the examination and cros+ examination of witnesses and in the discussion of points of testimony and points of law the | trial will Inst for several months, and that in | the end the “high crimes and misdemeanors ” of Andrew Johnson will be whittled down to nothing. Wat, then, will be the consequences to the republican party? The time wasted apon this trial to the neglect of the great practical consequences of this disgraceful prosecution high court of the people in th September, October and jections of next vember; and the office-seekers will be equally disastro the republican cause." With nothing upon which speedy econclision of | against the accused is so palpable that some | ten days or so will only be consumed in will bring about the impeachment aad condom- | word, it | pation of this whole radical party before the | existing apatby tn this | of Congressional revonstru | scribed States at this ti the | | subject, meantime, have been preparing a set | been decided long since in favor of the negro, setts, chairman) have, as we understand, | fimsy curtain dropped by the radicals to screen ulterior designs, In the South Carolina Convention progress has been made in the article on the judiciary. A proposition to elect judgos by the people failed, and a vote endorsing Congrese and Seoretary Stanton reccived a nunber of negro voies in the negative.” The State is to have six Ropresentatives in Congress instead of four, but there is “no thor- oughfare” for negroes, under special orders from Washington. This mandate, like the one to North Carolina, is probably sent by the radical leaders to all the Southern reconsiruc- tion conventions. These leaders have appar- ently become affrighted at the black monster they have created, and are now endeavoring to drop it through a trap, liko some stage trick, to recall it after the elections in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut, “Too late.” The Georgia Convention has resolved to change the capital from Milledgevilte to Atlanta, The delegates have been sadly in want of change for a long time, but it is a question whether this will satisfy them. It seems, however, that the delegates will hold on as long 08 possible, a motion to adjourn sine die on the 27th of March haying been rejected. The question of the adoption or rejection of the Alabama constitution remains undecided. General Meade has pocketed the returns and may consider them “close despatches” until Congress decides Alabama’s claims to reha- hilitation in the Union. The Mississippi Convention has been mostly exercised on the subject of taxation, although il has disposed of some fifteen sections of the Bill of Rights, prohibited duelling and pro- periy ond educational qualifications for eleciors, defined treason and thanked Con- gress for impeaching the President, which, by the way, does not yet appear te be a fait accompli. The negro element is supreme in this Convention, and if either of the conventions disregard the admoni- tions from the radical powers at the federal sentatives to Congress it will be Mississippi, the dominant party there thinking it will be such @ good thing to send a “nigger” to Con- gress trom the home of Jeff Davis. The demo- rats in th te have an extensive and har- monious org: ation, and when the election occurs it is not likely it will be allowed to go by default. The Louisiana Convention has been busy on the dis‘ranchising clause in the new constitt- tion, some colored members taking higher and more sensible ground than many of the white | radical delegates. The Arkansas Convention has concluded [ts labors, and an election will be held from March 15 to 20, inclusive, for the adoption or rejection of the new constitution, as also for the election of State officers and members of Congress. The democrats are making some exertions, and they may elect some of the officers if they do not defeat the constitution, The Florida Convention, after a hard sirng- absolute submission to or a ruptuce with | gle between conflicting elements for the offices, Stanton was inevitable. It was the object of | has, tianks to the presence and pacificatory policy of General Meade, finished its Herculean labors and presented its offspring to the suffrages of the people of the Siate, together with a huge and delectable dish of candidates tor office, the savory odor of which has reached the nostrils of many hungry patriots in New England. Tho election will he held from April 6 to 8 inclusi ‘Texas is still an open question, althongh the Convention, and with it the radical delegates, | @ radical Senate rather than continue any | has no doubt been carried. The above is a brief révvmé of the position ollon in the pro- ‘The project of negro socisl and political equality having tins noching to conclude the black feast except 9 few highly favored side dishes | aul ordoriterious entres. Awrrican Comaterce=Views Kegardiug He oxtention, Ausin refecence niust be imde to the pros. | ration of the mereantile marine of the United The #oeb of foreign steamships that ly every day in the week, reapiog the reward of American industry and enterprise, causes a feeling of sadnege in the breast of every citizen: and now that the hour of remedial action bas errived they ask wilh | excitement, Who will insugarate the move- ment to again foal our ensign over a number of powerful American steomsbips on the ocean? Iv regard to this question the dominant feeling of nationality is again awakened, The United Staies must Ve represented on the highways of the sea, ‘I'be causes of the natlon’s utter mercan- tile marine helplesevess arc correctly given ina letter from onr correspoodent at Wilmington, Del, being a digest of » long and evidently necessities of legislation and the demoralizing ; mutually interesting conversation with the prominent steamship luilders there; In a points out the reasons of the iroportant branch greutaess. Now at band to of the country’s former that the opportunity ie if the Senate remove Andrew Jotnsun the | remedy the existing evil in American com outrage against justice and the scramble among | merce, and aa there are shipyards and engi- to | neera of skill sufficient to build first class vessels among us, (he obstacles that beset them to condemn the accused and with nothing to | and American capitalists should at once be hope for from hiv discharge the prosecuting removed by prompt legislative ngtion. depart from tis city to the prominent ports | Tho Now foglish Miaistry—Their Work and Their Prospects. Our latest cable despatches do not convince us that Mr, Disraeli is likely to have any serious difficulty in securing or forming s full and an ableCabinet. Most of the men now in office are likely to continue at their posts. To this three exceptions, it appears, must be made. Sir Hugh Cairns succeeds Lord Chelmsford on the woolsack; Mr. Hunt and not Sir Stafford Northcote is to succeed Mr. Disraeli as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Cranbourne is to be Secretary for India. With these three exceptions the Cabinet of Mr. Disraeli is likely to be substantially that of his predecessor. Sir Hugh Cairns has long been a tower of strength to the conservative pariy, and, unless it be that he is known to be somewhat enthusi- astically devoted to the Protestant interest in Treland, we know of no reason why his appoiut- ment should not be generally acceptable. Mr. Hunt is arising man aod a good financier. He bas already done good service in more than one position, having particu- larly distinguished bimself some time since in arranging the existing commercial treaty between England and Austria. Lord Cran- bourne is one of the most hopeful of the youth- ful members of the aristocracy. He is thor- oughly posted on Indian affairs, His retire- ment from the Indian Secretariat in Marob, 1867, as some of our readers will remember, was occasioned by difference in opinion between him and his colleagues in regard to the Reform bill, which has now passed into law. It is not to be denied that the new Ministry has some severe and testing work before it, The Scotch Reform bill and the Irish Reform bill have both to be carried through. There is but small presumption that Ministers will experience great difficulties {n carrying through . either of these measures, Their success is as certain as it is necessary. It is, however, to be borne in mind that there are other and important questions which are ceriain to be brought forward and which will at once tax the ability and reveal the tenden- cies of those now in power. The question of national education is already creating immense excitement throughout the country. The Irish Church question, too, and the Irish Land Tenure question hoth impeciously demand attention. ‘There is but small chance that any one cf these questions will be allowed to hang over till the new Parliament has been elected. It will be the object of the liberals to compel their opponents to commit themselves to a policy before they go to the polls, This, in truth, will be the great object of the liberals during what time the present Parliament shall be in existence, and this will be the real diffi- culty agaiust which the Disracli Ministry will have to contend. Each of the two great par- ties will bid for power. The chances of suc- cess on the one side and on the other will depend on the line of policy which each fore- shadows. If the new Ministry gocs in for a liberal solution of all these outstanding diff- culties its prospects are good. If Mr. Disraeli contents himself simply with representative reform, refusing to advance further in the path- way of progress, success cannot attend him. The game of the present session, therefore, wili be to win the people. The highest bidder will have the best chance of success, It will be interesting to note how the game pro- gresses, Disraeli’s chances are good. He is not the man to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, The Campaign in New Hampshire. ‘The battle is now waging fast and furiously on both sides in New Hampshire. Both sides are confident of victory. Every night enthusiastic meetings are held in all parts of the State, nud the heaviest material is being brought to bear to convince the people how they«#hould vote. The imbroglio at Washington does not appear to have entered largely into the cam- paign as yet; but it must, sooner or later, and as the Siate goes so will it be regarded as a decision in favor of or against Congress or the President. The question of men is sank alto- gether in the vital political issues of the day. These issnes, or many of them, are novel to the New Hampshire people. It is true they have been harangued unceasingly by negro worshipping orators ever since the negro question became mingled with party politics ; but they have not yet spoken in regard to the matter of negro supremacy as contemplated and Carried out by Congress, The negro free and the negro as master are two different things ia the estimation of the New Hampshire yeomanry, and we have no doubt they will exhibit at the election on the 10th of March a signal evidence of their intelligence on this distinction. The financial question is also a new and potent one, and as the people of the Granite State have learned the extent of the burden they have to bear in the way of taxa- tion, they will be ready to express themselves ina menner that canuot be mistaken In oppo- sition to the whole financial as well as the whole negro supremacy policy of Congress. The impeachment bother is only another stumbling block thrown by the radicals in the way of the restoration of harmony and pros- perity tbronghout the Union; and it will be a marvel if the people of New Hampshire do not condemn thie aw well ag the entire cata- logue of political crimes by whieh the radi- ls have sought to encompass the bankruptey ynd vain of the country rather than they sball jail to secure # further lease of power. The Last Gave Now Advertising Dex _ NEW “YORK ‘HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY” 29) “1868, Superintendent Kennedy would make a good | mercantile “drummer.” He ought to be re- warded with a handsome commission for his splendid advertiverent in all the newspapers | of the United Statey and a good many outside of « certain nitro-glycerine company. This great feat be achieved ina letter to the Wash- ington Superintendent of Police, warning him of five missing cans of nitro-glycerine, “suf- fictent to blow up the St Nicholas Hotel,” but which the vigilant Kennedy suspecie are more likely intended “for ase in Washington than elsewhere.” He haa not forgotten the pho» phorus incendiaries with their black bags; and hence the shrewd suspicion that there five cane of blasting oi! missing in New York may have been emuggled into Washington for the purpose of blowing up Congress 4 la Guy Fawkes, Tho reading of thie letter in the House of Repre- sentatives was a great hit for the blasting oil company; but we are happy to state that not one of those five missing cans of the destruc tive fluid has been discovered in any subter- ranean hole or corner of the Capitol, nor even ander the sanctum of the terrille Stanton in the Wer Office. Ocherwiso @ nisro-glycerine | the constitution, -¢ | Convention, that they have so little confidence | mouths, laden with vast expense, ae the result oharge might perhaps have been added to the impeachment articles against Andrew Johnson. Another Event in Mexico. Yesterday’s news from Mexico seems to in- volve a little piece of what is commonly called in the dramas poetical justice. It tells of an attempt to enact in the national palace one of those scenes that so frequently occur on the Mexican highways and byways. Robbery is the chosen activity of the people. Plundering an isolated mansion or the passengers of a diligence—killing, perhaps, one or two of said passengers “pour encourager les autres'’—plun- dering, in fact, anybody and everything that is worth plundering and accessible—furnishes at once the great industry and the chosen pastime of the people. Government furnishes no adequate protection of the roads and makes no example of the criminals; and this has been a special indication of the weakness of authority in that country. And finally this en- terprising spirit of robbery has pushed its way to the capital, and, as if to show exactly how helpless the government Is, exercises itself and lays its plans under the very noses of officials. Not on!y is government helpless against rob- bery on the roads, but it can barely save its own palaces and the national treasury against CONSTITUSONAL CONVENTION. NEW CONSTITDTION ADOPTED. THE Address to the People and Vinal Adjournment, ALnany, Feb. 28, 1868. The Select Committee appointed to draft an address te the people on the work of the Convention made their report to-day. It sets forth that the Convention have presented for separate consideration a paragraph rete tive to suffrage for colored persons, and the rejection of this measure will not affect the harmony of the whole instrument, and if adopted it will become part of the constitution without any derangement of that to which it is attached, In the fourteen articles they have pre vided for progress in agriculture, stringent measures te event bribery and improper influences at elections and Fra unitorm registry oF all voters in all cities, They have provided tor a reorganization of the Legislature, #@ that the terms of office of all Senators shall not expire at once, to the end that some be ne men be continually members thereof. y have the plan of electing membera of the Assembly by couaties, ane their compensation us ® means to have greater integrity, and increased their number to one hundre@ and thirty-nine asa hy ecard the prevention of com trolling combinations; @ d important restria~ tions eae — power to stop abuses in the dispo- sition of public moneys; have coniined that body to ‘more general legisiation and for local matters; have enlarged the of boards of suporvisors; menor Toring: sdreetaress like this aioe egiatire vote 0 pais’ oi ta “tg ot ote ; chan, t a f Secroti eee Soy Cone: Mme umemer™ Wee see: TOS] | ere Anand Game ana ota ents object, and the threatened assassination of Juarez was only thrown in to gloss the event with political character. Such an event as an invasion of the national palace by the brigandage of the road puts the disordered condition of the country in the strongest light, and shows that the triumph of the republican government in the recent with the Governor; have changed the system of capa management by abolishing the ollice of Caual Commis- slouers and providing for a single individual by creating @ head of the cz to be appointed by the Governor and Senate, and hold office five yoais; have created « Court of Ciaums, to audjudicate claims against the State, and taken away the power of tue Legislature to pass jaws in relation to claims; have created a solicitor to care for the jnterests of the State in this court, and abolished the office of Canal Appraiser; bave materially changed the judicial system and made the court of iast resort to consist of seven judges,golecved for fourteom lector to than five candida: struggle has not practically resulted in favor | ind frovided'a commission to diaposo of accutnulatod of the safety of property or security of | causes in th nt Court of Appeals; havo made suck, arrangement restricting the numoer of general terms of the Supreme Court, thus securing leas diversity of opinion and extended the terms of office of tho Supreme Court; have constitctionalized the Superior Court and Commom Pleas of New York city, Superior Court of Buffalo, and City Court of ‘Brooklyn, continuing the office of the present judges’ and lengthening the terms of their successors to fourteen yours; have enlarged the jurisdiction of the county courts and extended the terms of the judges—no judge of « ourt of Appeais to sit in roview of his own decision; bave pro- vided for the relief of the Surrogaie’s Court, aud made more independent and useful the Bench of the Sta‘e; have provided that in 1873 the people suall docida whether judges of higher courts shall be elected by the people rather than appointed by the Governor; have made new provisions regarding the organization and government of cities, increasing the power of tue Mayor, eventing membors of the Vommon Councils trom Polding ‘any other city office or being @ member of the Legisiavure; have restrained the power of tho Commom Council to dispose of public money; have continued the Present constitutional provisions as to {unds for educa- tional purposes, and have commanded a legislative pro~ vision for {ree instruction in common schools of ald persons between f seven and twenty years; bave materially cl og system of control of State Prisons and abolished the office of luspector, and in liew thereof provided an unpaid board of five persons to be appointed by the Governor and Sonate and hoid office for ton years, said board to appoint wardens; have pro- vided for an annual enrolment of militia, divided tate active and reserve forces, the active force not to exceed thirty thousand; have provided for the oxpiration of all commissions ten years from theirdate, The fo tal articie of the present constitution 1s somewhat plified, that the State shall not, in any way, save by bequest, own stock in any corporation ; have extended the time of payment of the “bounty debt,’’ so as to lessen the annual tax therefor; bave pro- person. In that regard clearly affairs are worse than ever,and the country is on the downward road and must sooner or later fall either a prey to the savagery of her people or into the hands of some power strong enough to snstain society. Mexico isa strange contradiction. She seems to herself to have been strong enough to drive out the foreign foe, yet she is not strong enough to maintain order; and this latier fact should correct ber erroneous notion as to the former. She did not drive out the foe. We did that for her, and then we left her to herself; and that was a blunder. She is learning now the lesson of her own feeble condition, and a full under- s.anding of that will open the eyes of her citi- zens to the fact that the only safety for society in Mexico is for her to become part of the United States. She gravitates into the circle of our States by that irresistible law that com- pels feebler communities to escape annihila- tion by identifying their national life with that of their stronger neighbors. The Constitutional vention and the Pro- vided for uniform assessment and taxation of real and posed Constitution for New York. a hetir Rong) {stipe prices vl ribery and Corry = Tho Convention entrusted with the duty of peo er Pa ieee Maa enana abealemie: framing ® new constitution for the government offenders by district a:torueys undor pain of prosecution _ for negli "rhe 6 Semitic State that. the discussions of the Cen- vention have not resulted in causing many or great changes in the theory of our Stace government, and con. clude as follows:—"The Conventi wieves that if iw of this State concluded to bring its long- drawn-out labora to an end yesterday. The document which the members of the Conven- tion have shaped is hardly worth considering in any very elaborate terms. While it presents afew changes In the old constitution it is really no better than the instrumeut it is intended to supplant in any of the material points which might have been reaebed by an intelligent assembly it the acumen of an intelligent repre- sentative body were engaged upon it. Indeed, it ts hardly worth while to discuss this thing or to perplex our readers with an attempt to define what it means; for it carries defeat and death in its vitals with almost every new phase which it has assumed. It does not insure as a better form of munici- pal government for this city than we now suffer under, nor does it relieve us from the grand evil of Albany legislative interference with the local management of the affairs of any of our cities, It does not correct the abuses which government of the State will be the Commonwealth, with the tavor of the Ruie: Events, be borne forward for another generation in creasing bappiness and prosperity."’ The Convention resolutions leaving to the Lag- islature the appointment of tho time when the new con- stitution shali be submitted to tho people for thelr aj roval or rejection, and providing for two balioa—oue for or against the amended constitution and the other for or against the property qualification for mon of color, Seciion nineteen, article three, was amended 6o as ta read:—No jaw shall embrace moro than ono subject, which shall be named in the title; but if the title oon- tain oniy one subject tho iaw shall be valid as to that and void as to all other subjects. Recess, Evening Sessio ‘The Convention closed its labors this evening, and the new constitution, duly signed by the officers and mom= bers, has beon deposited with the records in the office of the Secretary of State, A slight change was made in sectivn tive, article fourteen, providiag that (be con- stitution shali be in force from and including the Ia day of January next after its adoption by the rs ‘The constitution was then adopted by the following vote:— 3 Yeas—Measrs. A. Alvord, Andrews, Arc Allen, 0, L. Allen, N, M. Allow, Petro i Axtell, Baker, Boadte, 0 Beals, Beckwith, Bell, Bickford, owen, Brooks, BA. arise from wn elective judiciary, but leaves the | Ba" Curia Dugumne, C0. Dwight Wady, Gk present systom stand for five years to come. It ie Wa Gouli'Grant Graven Hadley al, provides only a wordy clause in general | amium kinuey'Krum Tandoa Lapham, A Lawrense Me terms touching official corruption, suggest- | Hitavrence, Ludingion, Movoneld ore Meer ies Prosser, Reynolds, itoot, L: W. Russell, Zaver, Silvester, M. J. Towesend, 3, Townsend. fakeman, Wales, W illiams—84. jergen, Cassidy, Chese- Daly, Develim, Mat. ing the old, stale remedy, which has never “gg Stereo proved a real remedy at all. None of these things that we hoped for have been accomplished, but all that the Albany lobby desires has been provided for. Then, upon the question of franchise and the qualification to hold office, it leaves the negro on the same footing as the white man ; and hore, upon this point alone, the new consiitation would ceriainly be defeated by a hundred and filty thousand votes. But there is an ambiguity in the wording of the document, and there is, ‘Nars—| Burwi bro, Charch, Golshan, Be nyn, Corning, Garom, Groz, Hardenburgh, Hitchman, Liviogs tice, Moore, Morris, Murphy, Nelson, A. J. Park Rolfe, Ray, Schell, Schumaker, Tucker, Voder, Wickham—3l. ‘ogorm, rpianeky The address to the people was then adopted, after which President Wheeler addressed the Conveation ae follows :—Gentiomen of the veation—Tho unasimity and cordiality with which Ja my absence pleased to sqgeree Sky <miial sition Comma cere gratitude. I came to the chair with the single yurpose of administering its duties fairly and impartial- f , Femembering that the trust confided to us was nelihor for majorities nor mixorities, but for all alike, as cilzena of a common State. Your uniform confidence and tole- rationfhave rendered whatever measure of success I may have achieved of easy accomplishment. The work ia moreover, @ difference of opinion upon the | which we have been #0 long engaged is about to pam subject, judging from all the views taken of it, trem oe Dias ereurhonn et ha. pene ‘Teas hese scrutiny of the great body of the that they may determine iba ro fora have not le altogother fruitless, anges suggested by us im organic iaw are such as wili farther the wellbeing and advancement of the commonwealth and assume lor the future the pre senisence to whioh she is justly ea- titled and which bas so long distinguished her. The un~ remitted personal kindness and courtesy which I have received alike from delegates and officers will ever be cherished am the plearant momories of life; and ae we sever our relations to drift out in widely diverging ways in the unknown future, rest assured each one beare wich him my earnest wish for a life of usefulness, pros- perity and pines, Aod now I perform my last off- ‘pronouncing this Convention adjourned as to whether the suffrage clause i$ to be voted upon distinctly frem the constitution, as was done last October in Ohio. It is stated, indeed, by the address of the select committee that we are not to swallow the constitution in one dose, but that the black draught of negro suffrage is to be taken in a separate dose ; and this may make @ vast difference in the fate of It is evident, from the whole action of the BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE, in their work that they dare not put it before } the people without reserving to the voters the tight to decide on this, that or the other clause upon which they felt incompetent to pronounce themselves, lest the unpopularity of a few tue Lara Patan Boren Exerosios is tat Bay. ~The inquest on the body of Silas A, Dakin, late captain of the steamtug James A. Wright, who died on the Zit iust,, at the Long Island College Hospital, from injuries received by the explosion of the boilor on the vessel . ed, Iided yesterday afternoon, b clauses should bring the whole fabric to the yee ‘aspoctor of stsaruere, Ceatiiod than aa ground. And in thie condition—weak, flim- 10 verse! was inspected last September; that an in~ & mere cohweb--comes the labor of er feet in height wholly unsupported by braces; from what be could ascertain there was no United States safety valve in use, ag there should havo been ; there wag a space of five hundred square inches wholly unsupported by braces and eustaming ure of thirty thousand pounds when the steam was up to sixty pounds to the square inch; witness was also of the opinion that ne repairs had been made to the boiler since the» inspection, The att ®@ brief deliberation, rendered the following verdiggt—‘‘That the said =iias A. Dakin came to his death by injuries received at the voller gon yn of the tugboat Ji Wi of February, 1868; ir owners and not boiler inspected, as provided by law; and also of the opinion, from the testimoay that the boiler was net in a safe condition tw be used.’ This is verdict of censure against tho @e. conne owner of the boat, aod is somewhat re. wartab @ specimen of “erowner’s ‘quest law,'* A Revexve Ovvictat 1x Taovna =A deputy collector in the Second collection district, Thomas Waldron, wae arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzlement by Colonel M. Wood, ootlector, who charges him wit, having fracdulently deposited to nis credit in the Nassau National Bank divers sume of entrusted: y collector, and having ceaveried the uee, the whole amountingto several The examination Will take phoe jor Jones this morn’ of the Constitutional Convention, A Showsn ov [upgacuwenta According to the old proverb, “It never rains but it pours,” and the sprinkling of articles of impeachment which Congress bas scattered over the de- voted head of the President of the United States, has been followed by a shower of im- peachments that has fallen apon a New York Canal Commissioner and Superintendent Ken- nedy and two unlucky policemen! Will not some benevolent Noah build an ark in which President and Superintendent and policemen may-all take refuge until the deluge eball be over and & cheerful rainbow shell aynin shine in our clouded skier t Tue Dnirr or Trovont.—Five eans of niiro- glycerine were missing, and Superintendent Kennedy thought the only purpose for which they could possibly have been taken was to blow up the radical Congress. same to his o thousand doll 14 New Jansey Rant. 6 body of an unknown man, shockingly ma. tilated, was discovered at a oariy hour yoaterday morning on the railroad track about midway between Moomouth and Bruaswick. ho reaeaias, past ail possible recogn ti Wore subsoquemtiy removed to thie oity aad plaved (a change of the Verouer, The Frontier Index states that incredible deposits of gold and silver have just been discovered wit fteen of Souders, in Wyoming Terrijory.