The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1868, Page 6

6 2W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXII. ANUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth ayenue,—DON GIOVANNE BROADWAY THEATRE, Br onlay. Sam. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PUTNAM—TOM CRINGLF NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel— Nonovy's DavaurEn. YRENCH THEATRE. Tur Geanh DUCHESS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Huarry Dumpty. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Bro ay.—Tne Waite Fawn. WALLACK'S THEATR. ROSEDALE, BANVARD'S OPERA HO"SE AND MUSEU My Broad- pay and Thivtieth street.—UNCLE Tom's CALLIN, roadway and Sth strect.— STEINWAY HALL.—Rrapincs PROM SHAKSPRARE MEASURE FOR MEAsune. YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—GyMNastics, LANTDM, dics THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Rroutway.--BosTon ComIQuE BALLET AND PANTOMINE TROUPE & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, HOUEIES, dee RAND DUTCH YS." SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—-Etm10- VIAN ENTE SLALNADENTS, SINGING, DANCING, & OR'S OPERA HO'SE, 901 Bowery.- NBTRELOY, é&c. Comte AMERICAN THEATRE, CE, PANTOMIME, cc att 472 Broadway.— NYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tar Matinee at 2, PraRiM, HOOLE AS Brooklyn, —ETatortan MINSTRELS EY yur WILD Fawn. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. rR IPL E SHEET. New York, Friday, March 13, 1868. THE NEWS. EUROPE. ram from Naples, forwarded ¢ cable, we learn that Admiral entertained at a grand naval banqu%* sterday, report by the Atlantic cable ts dated mid- Mareh 12, se of Commons was debating the eland. Government will permit a . Ex: een complimented by the mem- » of Peace in London. A law to of public meeting is before the . A Paris newspaper is being rv the new Press law. «+ Pive-twenties, ankfort. with middling uplands at 10d. Provisions active, CONGRESS. erday the House bill for the relief tters of distilled spirits was discussed eninge hour expired, The House bill eustons to certain soldiers and sailors of then called up, but after consid- oned, Several private pension bills rragnh wa Yn that city 3 The new night y é in London tt the Senate yes of Certain expe until granti © fietitions destruction of bonds in rtment was warmly discussed, on he report of the Committee of Messrs. Logan, Van Wyck, Price The report was recommitted with in- e Vreedmen’s Bureau bill was exiled «| without further action, The reso- line (he tariff for freight and passengers went over for further action. nd the Judiciary act of Sep- » internal revenue officers was ‘ on after adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. were reported for local improve- und authorizing Mr. Orton and # telegraph cable to France. Bi viuced for the better protection of travel- sane, prohibiting the carrying of «in the Metropolitan distriet and blishing fire Minits in the city sropriating $905,000 of the vw forthe support of common schools reading, and several private il) nbolishing the Canal Con- ed in the evening ses- yr the extension of Lexington avenue way v Was introduced, bills making appropriations for debt, the collection tolls superinte e of canals, and providing for a WX Of One mill for the construction of new under suspension session & providing of certain towns for the constraction ‘ c us ordered to a third reading. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘iograms from Mexico, dated Marc! at Congress has been prorogued untii t rnor of Michoacan har be 1 kidnappers and banditti with Was thought probabie that the United Saginaw would Interfere in th raul Mazatlan. Aden, Arabla, correspondence ts dat It gives an account of the progress inboat our January 23, the French in the bailding of the Suez canal, Sandwich Islands awtvices to February 26 state that at the recent elections some of the plantation hands snurched to the polis with the American flag at their head and the Hawalian fag at the rear of the pro. coestoD. ‘The President yesterday accepted the resignation of Henry Stanbery as Attorney General of the United Miates, Mr. Stanbery will, with others, defend the President of ¢ impeachment trial. jenerai Hancock has issued an order fixing the 17th and isth of April for the election on the ratifica- tion of the new Louisiana constitution, The Harsimus Cove bill, giving railroad companies the right lo increase their terminus and depot, was passed in tie New Jersey Senate yesterday. ‘The triai of Jet? Davis was formally declared post- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1868—"TRIPLE SHEET ‘The Mississippi Convention yesterday did ere more important than considering the report on the judiciary, In the Chamber of Commerce yesterday Ambrose. Snow was elected a Commissioner of Pilots vice ‘Thomas Dunham, deceased. A resolution relative to the pending @ivergence of trade with the interior from this city was adopted. ‘The Spanish bark Cienfuegos was attached and seized yesterday by oficcrs of Marshal Murray's de- partment, on a charge of an attempt to defraud the Government by smuggling cigars, a large quantity of Which, it is alleged, she had on board and no tax paid on them, In the Supreme Court, chambers, yesterday, the case of Charles N. Eitel vs, Abram Wakeman came before Judge Barnard on an application for the ap- pointment of a referee to try the action, Plaintiit sucs to recover @ balance of a cheek for $10,000, amounting to $3,700, which he gave defendant to furnish security for plaintif’s release from arrest by the War Department, in March, 1865. Wakeman withheld this balance as compensation for his ser- vices in procuring Eltel’s discharge on parole, whicb he effected by reason of hia great influence with the President and Mrs. Lincoln and the Assist. ant Secretary of War. The bill of items, which will be found in the law reports of the HuRALD to-day, is interesting. Decision reserved. In the United States Commissioner's office yester- May the case of John N. Hanlon, William England and Alfred Evans, charged with working an illicit distillery in avenue A, which stood adjourned from Tuesday ast, was further adjourned until Tuesday next, ‘The steamship City of New York, Captain Halcrow, of the Inman line, will sail from pier 45 North river, at one o'clock to-morrow (Saturday), for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for Great Britain and Ire- land will close at the Post Oitice at twelve M. The steamship France, Captain Grace, of the Na- tional line, wili leave pier 47 North river at twelve o'clock to-morrow for Liverpool, touching at Queens- town, The Anchor line steamship Europa, Captain Craig, will sail from pier 20 North river to-morrow (Satur- day), at noon, for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. The popular steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vail, of H. B. Cromwell & Co.'s line, will leave pier Ni North river at three o'clock P. M. on Saturday r New Orieans direct, The Black Star line steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, sails from pier 18 North river at three o'clock to-morrow (Saturday), for S nah, The steamship Matanzas, Captain Ryder, will sail ou the 14th inst., at three P. M., from pier 14 East river, foot of Wall street, for Charleston, connecting with steamers for Florida ports. The stock market was on the whole steady yester- day. Governments were dull, but closed strong. Gold closed at 1395 a 1894. The Umpeachment Trial of President John- son and the Probable Consequences, In answer to the summone served upon him some days ago, in the name of the Senate of the United States, President Johnson, it is understood, will, through his counsel, put in his appearance before that high court to-day, upon the important, matters of his impeach- ment hy the House of Representatives, and his trial upon the charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” preferred against him. His counsel, it is believed, will be Hon, Henry Stanbery, who has resigned the office of Attor- ney General. in order to be perfectly free to give his undivided attention to this case), Mr. Jere Black, of Pennsylvania, and perhaps Mr. David Dudley Field, of New York, and one or two others. The managers on the part of the House, the counsel for the prosecution, are Messrs. Bingham, of Ohio (chairman); Bout- well and Butler, of Massachusetts; Stevens and Williams, of Pennsylvania; Wilson, of Towa (chairman of the House Judiciary Com- mittee), and Logan, of Illinois. It is supposed that Mr, Johnson will ask some twenty days’ grace in which to prepare his line of defence, and it is probable that this day will be taken up with this question and other preliminaries and in fixing the time for the regular opening of the trial. It has been hinted somewhat pretentiously in one of the Washington journals that Mr. Johnson will first object tothe incompleteness of the court— ten States being excluded ; secondly, to every Senator as a juror who has expressed a judg- ment against him; and that, failing upon these points, the accused will protest against the tri- bunal before which he is called, resign his office and appeal to the people for his vindica- tion. We rather incline to the opinion, how- ever, from the latest information on the sub- ject, that Mr. Johnson has resolved upon the poli usting the prosecution by the de- fe of a regular siege, and that he entertains a lively hope that upon the con- y of st n and the technicalities of the Tenure of Office act his “shrewd lawyers” will bring about his acquittal. The managers of the prosecution will, however, we are assured, watch every opportunity and enforce every rule of the court to make the trial “short, sharp and decisive.” They have already done much if collecting facts, hunting up and securing and examining witnesses and in preparing their plan of action. Thus, it is confidently said among the Washington ra di- cals outside the prosecution, that the House managers will require only some three or four days to make up their case before the court, including the eyidence and the law, the facts and the arguments; and a radical contempo- rary has “the highest authority” for the an- nouncement that this trial will not last till the dog days, but will be entirely over on or about the first of May.” Farthermore, we have it from the same au- has scsniad upon standing a trial, his policy is rather to hasten than to delay the final verdict. It is enough, however, upon this branch of the subject, that ‘*Mr. Johnson is not to be allowed the time he expects.” That point | seems to he fixed. Next we are told that the Hon, Ben Butler's pet impeachment article, number ten, on “swinging round the circle,” has not been abandoned, because it is the best in the lot, and because its facts can readily be established by the reporters of Mr. Johnson's speeches of that ill-starred pilgrimage to Chicago and the grave of poor Douglis and back by way of St. Louis, It strikes us, how- ever, that in this article number ten there is room for the suspicion of a spiteful side blow at the head of General Grant. It will be re- membered that on that famous excursion General Grant was the right bower of the President and Admiral Farragut the left, on every public reception, till Grant switched off, while the Secretary of State acted as master of ceremonies till laid up on the sick list. Butler, therefore, will be apt to make the most of his opportunity in a cross-examination of Grant touching that ‘swinging arqund the circle,” in return for that never-to-be-forgotten compliment of the bottliag up of said Butler at Bermuda Hundred. In any event Andrew Johnson is to be dis- placed. Who, then, will take his chair? “Old Ben Wade,” in the line of promotion. But it is given out that, after sitting as a judge and voting as a juror against Johnson, Wade, from a sense of propriety and the fitness of things, will decline the honor, Mr. Speaker Colfax, of the House, will in this event become pro tem. President of the United States; and it is said that as a fitting compensation for this desir- able arrangement Mr. Wade will get the nomi- nation for the Vice Presidency at Chicago. In this view the probabilities are that the trial will be pushed through before the 20th of May, so that the Republican Convention may build upon the corner stone of Andrew Johnson's removal. This will be a safe proceeding with the removal of Johnson; for then, having no more favers to dispense, and being too late in the field, he will have no friends to defend him. The democracy will have other fish to fry, and the popular judgment of the ex-President will go against him by default. His best course, then, would certainly appear to be a repudiation of the tribunal before which he stands indicted, the resignation of his office and an appeal to the people, as St. Paul, with the sagacity of an old campaigner, appealed from Festus to Cesar. The Vote on the Alabama Constitution The New Law of Congress. Several members in their places in Congress have stated the vote in Alabama at seventy thousand for the constitution and one thousand against, They state it thus only to deceive. The result, in truth, is quite different. The registered vote of the State is in round num- bers one hundred and seventy thousand, and of this vote only seventy thousand were cast for the constitution. Acting onthe Reconstruction law applied to this case as it stands, every vote not cast for the constitution, whether cast against it or whether not cast at all, is to be counted in the negative. Therefore the vote on the constitution is seventy thousand for and a hundred thousand against. Disappointed radicals attempt to argue all round this result. But what is the great point in their argument ? It is that the negative vote was not cast 3; that ninety-nine thousand of these voters did not go to the polls. Let it be remembered that staying away from the polls was means that the radicals had put in the hands of the people to declare against the constitution. It was a way in which to vote ‘‘no” under the law. It was the simplest, easiest and most certain way, and it was the way the opposition chose. But this fact is considered of no weight in the radical councils, and the law is to be set aside on the strength of some wild romances about intimidation and « great storm that kept the people at home. The law is explicit. The opposition took full advantage of it by staying at home, and so de- feated the new Alabama constitution according to the law. But the power of Congress being absolute over this question of the admission of States, if the two houses shall say the vote of Alabama as given is satisfactory, Alabama walks in, and that will be decisive. That she will be so admitted we have no doubt, Mean- time, by default of the President the new bill providing that 2 majority of the votes actually cast in these reconstruction elections shall be conclusive has become a law, so that the op- position to the radicals in all these elections | and fear, chosen for his Envoy. Mr. Burlingame, though an American, goes on a mission which will be to the interest of all civilized nations, and we doubt not will be recognized in that character in Europe. Our own government and people should give all the ‘clut possible to the distinc- tion conferred on Mr. Burlingame and to his mission, Tue Democratic Convention—A Political Dummy Versus a Popular Party. The proceedings of the Democratic State Convention afford no reason to believe that the so-called democracy has either heart or brain for the occasion that lies before it. Never was there a grander opportunity than is now presented for a party to retrieve ancient errors or to establish original power in the political destinies of a nation. Never was a country riper for change, and change toward the most distinct type of democratic ideas that is pos- sible within our laws, than this country is at the present hour, As we are now, the govern- ment is inthe hands of a party that has no man’s respect, that is scandalously corrupt, that has no sense of political decency, that keeps faith with no system and ne principle, that regards its own pledged word to the nation us a thing to be kept or broken as may best suit its convenience. How far such a party may drive the nation all see. Hence the people fret under its domination and regard it with mingled indignation, contempt The nation is ready for any change that promises improvement; but, wisely sensi- tive to every indication of party purpose and spirit that time brings forth, it hesitates, as change seems to threaten greater evils than those it endeavors to escape. Thus last year, with radicalism in all its deformity before the people and demo- eracy standing as a promise for the better, the great Empire State gave fifty thousand ma- jority against the ‘republican party. But this vote turned the heads of the democrats. Mad with triumph, they went so far in the assertion of offensive ideas that the corrupt, selfish, retk- less radicals seemed pure in comparison, and New Hampshire has shown the result. It would seem not very difficult to take the indication from these obvious signs—not very difficult for sagacious leaders to hit a happy medium between two such definite points—to set their principles in honorable contrast to the conduct of the dominant party and avoid those declarations of doctrine that must forever damn any party before the American people. How did the democracy mect the case at Albany? It did what it might or could to put Pendleton down and get rid of the burden of copperhead principles generally—that is, it did the little that words can do to that ent. It applauded a speech from Mr. Seymour—and # good speech is something. It heard read a declaration of principles which promised a return of the golden age of the Union under the auspices of a true and pure democracy. But the one act of the Con- vention belied all its words. It met to appoint delegates to the National Conven- tion, and in performing that function its practi- cal working leaders showed how little they appreciated or cared for all the pretty phrases of the orator and the platform writer. They showed that in their hands democracy is once more falling a victim to the disease that has been fatal to it in every clime—a want of faith in its own principles. In glancing down the list of delegates the intellectual nothingness of nine-tenths of the members is the most strik- ing feature. And this points to the fact that this delegation is only put up to vote as job- bing managers behind shall dictate. This democracy means, then, the rule of two or three jobbers in office—a small and contempt- ible Cesarism. Ciwsar was a democrat, too; but he had such an appreciation of the brains of his party that he did not think great ques- tions were to be trusted to them, and he arranged everything on a very simple basis to have the democracy always in the right. This is the game now played in the democratic party ; but men fool themselves greatly if they suppose that the people will accept such a political dummy in lieu of « party vigorous and energetic, with the real life, the blood and the thought of the people. The Earl of Mayo on the State of Ireland. The Earl of Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is reported by telegraph to have made a very curious speech in the British House of Com- mons on Monday night. Tie telegraph may have misrepresented him, but if it did not then Earl Mayo is strangely inconsistent with his- toric truth. While admitting that great dis- content existed in Ireland he said that it was henceforth will have to drop the policy of “masterly inactivity’ and go to the polls if they wish to carry the day. Surely, too, if the opposition party of registered voters can defeat a constitution in Alabama by staying at home, they can defeat it in Georgia by voting. The new law is the general law of the land. The law applied to Alabama was a radical blunder. British Jealousy of American Influence in China, It appears from our Hong Kong corre- thority that ‘* Mr. Johnson is not to be allowed the time he expects,” that ‘“‘all patriots feel that he has held possession of the government too long, and are determined that he shall not continue to abuse his high office an hour longer than is absolutely demanded by the interests of justice,” and that ‘it is generally conceded that the New Hamp- shire election has cut the last plank from under the President's feet.” Such being the case, we are again called to meet the ques- tion, Why should the President seek to prolong this trial in the hope of an escape, or why con- sent to the profitless humiliation of a trial? All that the radicals want of him is his office, ‘This they are resolved to have. Why, then, in poned yesterday in Judge Underwood's court at Kichmond until the 14th day of April next, Davis's recognizance is continued to that day. ‘The Canadian Parliament reconvened yesterflay. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention nagembled in Worcester yesterday, and recommended the names of Grant and Senator Wilson for the con- sideration of the National Convention. The North and South Carolina Reconstruction Conventions have both agreed to adjourn on the 17th instant. ‘The South Carolina Republican State Convention met in Charleston yesterday and nominated a negro named Cordoza for Secretary of State. Haif the dele- gates elected to attend the National Convention at Chicago are negroes, The Virginia Convention yesterday reconsidered their disfranchising article, made it more stringent sod adopted it uguin. the loss of his place should he invite the alter- native and the drawbacks of a removal? A resignation on his part will end the matter at once, and his reasons for this step, presented in a stirring appeal to the people of the United States, would be more effective in his behalf than all that his lawyers are likely to do with a court from which he has no prospect of escape. Delay will not serve him, because within the next two months there will almost certainly be four, six or eight, and there may be ten, twelve or more radical members added to the Senate from the Southern States now in process of radical reconstruction. Within leas than thirty days there may be two from Alabama added to the radical majority, and so, if Mr. Johnson spondence, which was published in the HeraLp yesterday, that the British in China are very sore at the appointment of Mr. Anson Burlin- game as Chinese Envoy to the United States and Europe. Their newspapers complain bit- terly of the appointment, and go so far even as to recommend the English government to refuse to recognize Mr. Burlingame as the Envoy of China. They cannot disguise their jealousy and indignation. They sey ‘he (Mr. Burlingame) had better confine himself to his own affairs, and that when we (they) have to revise a treaty or transact other business with the Chinese government we can do so without the inter- vention of foreign meddlers.” This is highly characteristic of the British everywhere, par- ticularly in Asia, where they have assumed supremacy all along. They cannot endure the logs of their prestige and power in that part of the world, They would ignore the fact that the United States has become a mighty Power and is destined to exercise a controlling in- fluence over the transpacific countries of Asia. But the Chinese government appreciates this fact, as is strikingly shown in the appointment of an American to the most important mission ever sent from China. We hardly think the English government or any other government in Europe will be stepid enough to follow the ‘advice of these jealous British, colonists and traders and reluse to recognize the ‘ foreign | meddler” whom the Binprror of China has! “exclusively nourished by the Irish in Amer- ica,” thus endeavoring to throw the onus of irish disaffection upon the United States—a most absurd idea ; just as if it is not notorious that Irishmen in Ireland were in a perpetual state of discontent before there ever was an organization here or before there was any such thing as sympathy with what is called “‘the Irish cause,” or, for the matter of that, before America ceased to be a British colony. In replying to Mr. Maguire and other speakers Lord Mayo repelled ‘the charges of English misgovernment;” and to prove that no such thing existed he cited the fact that the police force of Ireland was composed entirely of natives of that island. Why, about half the police force of New York is composed of Irishmen and nearly all its municipal officials are natives of “that island.” The same is true of the police of Montreal, and no doubt if we could get hold of the Valentine’s Manual of Melbourne and Sydney we should find that the same is true there. It can hardly be regarded as a work. of “amelioration” to employ natives on public service because there is n0 one else to perform the duty. But then, says Lord Mayo, the consumption of spirits in Ireland was increasing, and that is “the best test of a people’s prosperity.” We have been always told that the consumption of spirits was among the sources of woe to Ire- land ; but then Lord Mayo looks at the ques- tion, not from a temperance standpoint, nor yet with the eye of # philanthropist. The large consumption of spirits is a increased source of revenue to England, and hence it straightway becomes an evidenre of the pros- perity of Ireland to the mind of the representa- | tive of the British governmey’ in that country, | who is only second in rank to the Viceroy. Now, the exchequer of Great Britain could be | largely benefited tn this regard if the govern- ment would only yermit the great Fenian army to go over to treland from this country, where whiskey is very dear and not often very good. They would drink all the distilleries in the island dry in a month and absolutely flood the British treasury with revenue. Tt sounds strange to hear from the lips of Earl Mayo the statement that Ireland is not misgoverned, when the very county from which he takes his title is in a state of almost perpetnal destitution, craving aid from this country, and elsewhere ; and more sirange still when we see, after nearly five hundred years of that kind of government, that the island is now and has been in a state of discontent and periodical rebellion* during all that time. Either the telegraph has done injustice to the Chief Secretary for Ireland or he has made the weakest apology for a bad cause known in history. Lawless State of Things at Pavamn, Our special Panama correspondence, pub- lished yesterday, shows a deplorable state of things on the Isthmus, The native rowdies, mostly young men, have established a sort of bandit reign of terror over the foreigners who may be resident or temporarily staying there, and the authorities coolly let the villains have their way without any effort to suppress them. -One of the last outrages perpetrated was upon otir own correspondent at Panam:, who was deliberately shot by a rufian that had tracked him for the purpose. Notwith- standing such a murderous sitack, and though seriously wounded, Mr. Fawcett was advised by all the foreigners pres- ent, including the most respectable men on the Isthmus, not to prosecute the villain, as he .would not be able to get justice done, and would only subject himself to further trouble and danger. The Prefect of Panama took no steps to have the criminal srrested, who pa- raded the streets publicly with his friends, boasting of having again intimidated the “estrangeros.” But this is only one of many “cases of outrage on foreigners which ara, con- tinually occurring. In fact, murders, riots, robberies and all sorts of outrages on foreign- ers have accumulated to such a degree that unless a remedy be soon provided it will be impossible for strangers to live on the Isthmus, It is evident from this state of things that Pa- nama is fast tending to scenes of bloodshed similar to those which occurred in 1856, Our government should lose no time in investi- gating these ruffianly occurrences at Panama and in affording protection to our citizens. The United States has too much at stake on the Isthmus to allow the native semi- barbarians to plunder and murder with impunity. Be- sides, it is its duty to protect our citizens. If the Panama authorities will not or cannot protect them, let the guns of our navy give these presumptuous wretches a lesson Aney will not soon forget. Our Proposed New. Ohy Post Omice. The new Post Office, we observe, is obtain- ing a little attention in Congress. Our Post Office building—that is to be—ut ihe end of the City Hall Park has come up for consideration in a resolution by Mr. Van Wyck directing the Secretary of the Treasury to Lave detailed estimates, according to the plans presented by the commission, and to report as to the mode of construction’and so forth. We believe that some forty or fifty plans have been submitted, but whether the Dutch Corinthian, the Fenian Doric, the Swedish Ionic or the cosmopolitan composite will be accepted we do not know. In all probabiliiy the plan adopted will be that which absorbs most money and exhausts most time, like our County Court House. The first appropriation for the new Post Office ought to be about a million of dollars. This, of course, will be buried with the corner-stone ; for according to the usual way of erecting government build- ings it will take about that amount to lay it. From year to year further appropriations will have to be made as the structure slowly— indeed, we may say very slowly—lifts its ma- jestic head above the level of the Park. How happy will the ‘youngest inhabitant” of New York be when he sees the work completed, if, indeed, such a term of life is vouchsafed to any of the present gen- eration! Meantime, we really want a Post Office building; ‘ve want it cdinbdusels, in fact; tor the old church concern in Nassau street is a nuisance to those who have to use it outside and to those who are employed inside. If Congress takes any action upon this matter it should limit the time within which the new building is to be completed and ready for use. Greenwood Cemetery and the Henith of the City. The annual. report of the Board of Trustees of Greenwood Cemetery exhibijs a decrease of fifteen thousand dollars in the receipts, owing to the fuct that the number of interments was one thousand less than the preceding year. This improvement im the sanitary condition of the city may be partly accounted for by the precantions taken against cholera last summer. In warding off this epidemic the authorities also succeeded in improving the general health of the city, They should redouble their exer- tions this spring im view of the horrible condi- tion of the streets during the winter. The ac- cumulation of filth, garbage, mud and snow for the last four moaths will tax all the ener- gies and resources ‘of the health authorities to have the city in a proper condition to meet the terrible foe, pestilence, next summer. The results of their action last year ought to encour- age them to renewed exertions, 90 that the summer may not come upon us unprepared, There are many plague spote in the different wards which are severely let alone by the Street Cleaning Department, and which demand thorongh investigation at the hands of the health authorities, The summer will be upon us unawares if instant action be not taken to place the city fi ina proper: sonitary coadition. ” Prospect Park. This detightful addition to the many other agreeable features of Brooklyn is progressiyig in a most satisfactory manner, if we can jugge from the report of the architects and suprin- tendents just presented to the Commissyoners. The report stetes that the length of drives finished is 6,026 lineal feet, from 25 to 125 feet wide, and the drives in progress extend over 8,285 lineal feet. The bridle walks in progress Amount to 4,800 feet, and are from 8 to 20 feet wide. ‘The walks finished aré 4,875 feet long, with a width of from 9 to 16 feet, and 16,547 feet of walks are in progress, Tho topographi- ee ny cal survey has been extended from west ot Flatbush avenue, and is now being made on the ground east om” that avenue. Brooklym being a suburb of Ne'w York, of course we regard all that benefits ¢hat city as a part of our own improvements, am.’ 05 something that will result quite as much Jo our advantage ps to that of the sister city. Th? location of Prospect Park is as fine as could ¥.° desired. Nature has done so much for it in the Way Of old woods, knolls, pleasant little valleys sad opportunities for good views that there is nof much left for art to accomplish, The Brooklyn Park will be another attraction to draw thou- sands from abroad to the ) erent metropolis. The “Latest from Japan, In the Herarp of yesterday we published quite a mass of intelligence relative to the situation in Japan. The letter from the pen of our special correspondent and the various ex- — tracts from the Japanese journals are interest- — | ing and valuable, not alone because of the fresh intelligence which they contain, but also because” of the confirmation which they give of informa- tion formerly received. Our latest news from Japan was received by the cable via London, and was to the effect that the empire was 4 prey to the horrors of civil war. ‘The friends of the Mikado on the one hand and of the Sho-" goon on the other were in open conflict. Pre- viously we had been informed that the Shogoom had acquiesced in the revolution which had re- stored the Mikado, though an infant, to his original position, making him really as well as nominally the supreme power in the State. The intelligence which we printed yesterday isin perfect harmony with both views of the situa- tion. The letter taken from the Japan 7imes, a journal printed in Yokohama, of January 4, shows that under the pressure brought to bear | upon him by the greater Daimios the Shogoom | had coolly resigned his position as chief of the State, the Shogoonate becoming by the act what it originally was—the War Secretariat. According to the arrangement Stotsbashi was to have a seat in the Cabinet in this capacity of War Minister and Commander-in-Chief, the Mikado resuming the executlve power. From the letter of our special correspondent, which is dated fifteen days later, we learn that the ports of Osaka and Hiogo had been opened. according to treaty arrangement, that the greater Daimios had taker offence on the ground that these ports were opened only im the interest of Stotsbashi, and that they had threatened by way of reprisal to open all the other porta, each in his respective territory. Meanwhile Stotsbashi still held the control of bis soldiers, and it was the object of Satsuma and the other Daimios who had brought about the revolution in the interest of the Mikado, at the date of our correspondent’s letter, to: induce him to resign this power also. Later’ intelli- gence, as we have already mentioned, received per the Atlantic cable via London goes to prove that Stotsbashi had not only not resigned his command of the army, but that he was waging a war, not without some chance of success, against the chief of the Mikado party. It is impossible, after reading all the intellf- gence which we have on the subject, to resist. the conviction that Japan is in a very unhappy and very perilous condition. Hitherto, for some centuries at least, it has enjoyed a species- of unity—a unity compatible, however, with the almost absofite power of the great Dai- maios, or feudal lords, in their respective prov— inces or districts. The state of affairs im - Japan resembles as nearly as possible the condition of the various nations of Western Europe during the whole feudal period. It remains to be seen whether some Henry Vil, will appear in the person of the Mikado, whether some Richelieu will arise from the privileged orders, whether the French Revolution shall reproduce itself im those far Eastern seas, or whether Japan shall be demoralized, as India has been and as, China threatens to be, by the introduction of the foreigner, with his. love of gain in the one hand and his so-called. Christian civilization im the other. In any case the duty of the United States is clear. It is not for us, if we would, be true to our principles, to interfere in the internal affairs of any country. There are special reasons why we should not interfere in Japan, It is, however, eqnally our duty to see that no other nation takes an undue advan- tage of the position. Let us keep our eye upon other foreigners; but let Japan settle her on NO AO NBS own affairs, Japan is fruitful of wealth. By and by we must reap the benefit. Mean- | while it is our duty to wait and watch. ‘tURES.—We publish this morning an alphabetic list of the articles. which: by Mr. Schenck’s bill, that passed the House-on Tuesday last, it is proposed from the 1st of April next to exempt from the internal. revenue we From. the large majority by which this bill a shrewd political device) was. passed in the House—one hundred and twenty-two to two— it is to be presumed that the action of the | Senate will be equally favorable. By the j ultimate passage of this bill great hindrance | to manufacturing. will be abolished, and we mag, therefore, look for an early resumption of } trade in the various branches of business ol? much benefited. Ce NEW. HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. Conconn, March 12, 1868. Two hundred and twenty towns foot ap—Hartl- man, 39,283; Sinclair, 36,300; scattering, 2. The re- mikining towns last year gave Hastiman 476; Sinclar, 186, } Republican Rejoicings in Maine Over the Re sult of the Election in New Hampshire. BaNGor, March 12, 1868, © ‘The republicans. of Baegor fired a national salute. to-day in honor of the victory in New Hampshire. ‘They regard it as a verdict not only in” favor of the reconstruction measures of Congress, but in favor of impeachment, atic: ‘The Indiane Preparing for @ ¢ Grand Coanctt at Fort Laramie. WASHINGTON, Mareh 12, 1868, Information has reached Commissioner Taylor, of the Indian Bureau, stating that Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, with Roman Nose and Little Wolf, under chiefs, are now on thelr way to Fort Lari- mie, accompanied by a large body of warriors. The intelligence of Red Cloud's approach was bronght to the fort by forty-nine Sioux wartioys, who were sent on in advance to, make the announce- ment. These Indians say that by the ist of Aprit there will be about five thousand Indians ateForr Laramie. Red Cloud ond his bands are concentrati at Laramie for the purpose of holding a grand council with the United States Special Commissioners, who have agreed to meet he Indians there in carly spring. Tho Special Commissionore will assemble at Fort | Laramie on the 7th of April, and Commissioner Tay- lor wit teave here wt the Inst of this month, ; Tur Exemrrep Tax List ov MaNnurao- j 1 | a