The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Senne Ne 8 Se See a Seat of Because our finances are in a bad derwood denied the charges made against him by Mr. Hawkhurst of having attempted to brige the ro- | there is @ want of confidence im the future. publican State Executive Committee to support | Why is it thafreal estate in this city and else- ‘Chase for the Presidency, and the resolution of tn- {itty into his condtes ‘was. postponed indefinitely. ir. Hawkhurst, who is chairman Execative Committee, relterated his chargees “A colored aes, | falling? Evideally there is @ want of cont- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Dag.wes (a thecal, dence. The reduction of the revenue by the = laborers of Cleveland, Ohio, are on an extensive | passage jannfacturers’ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, strike, pe —— Bar for beg soar be SIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Tun Warren Fawn. | , 4 4: Bradiey, the Boston negro, who is tn the taw om wage meson pated —— ’ * | business in Savannah, and was expelled from the sovenma, oaee- WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street— | Georgia Convention, ia circulating documents threat- | ous expenses for the army, mavy, reoon- ROSEDALE, poe ening vengeance on democrats who have threatened | struction, Freedmen’s Bureau, pensions, BOWERY wery.—BARNEY THE Baron— | republicans. railroads: Dumerous other things eITePN MONO TENT Oe The case of Maurice Lanergan, the wife murderer, Lda po Asset with BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Jon. who is now under sentence of death at the Tombs, ba bd & bankrupt pk nila was argued on Tuesday before the Court of Appeain, Treasury. Had the dominant radical party NEM YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— | at Albany, on appeal from the conviction of murder | in Congress wished to bring about repudiation In the first degree. Decision reserved, In the Common Pleas, Chambers, before Judge Barrett, the divorce suit of John Jones va. Fanny they could not very well bage done more accomplish that object. By the time the next report of the Secretary of the Treasury is made before a referee, and directed a counsel fee to be | a large amount of our securities sent back from allowed. Europe and consequently @ rapid decline in » Shi and eee ae ieee alt cn node far ie, | Huem, It is all very well to say we aro rich West. country and able to pay the debt, This or ee eestt ras a cay ——— a Cap- | any other country, however rich, may soon be in Yon Santen, wi ive Ho! one P. | ruined pacity government, M. to-day (Thursday) for Southampton and Bremen. proiaion sir sedintl, ove a The European mails will close at the Post ofice at wate a The present ruinous financial policy, or rather The steamship Morro Castle, Captain T. Adams, | want of policy, cannot be followed long. The will sail from pier No, 4 North river at three P, M. el people to-day for erin. The Cuban mails will close at pee ew Laine, the Post Ofice at two P. M. and then, as we saw in the uprising of the war, The Course of Congress On und As Affecting | they move suddenly, like a tornado, and sweep the Natioual Finances, all before them, We warn our reckless and No legislative body was ever more divided | extravagant Congress, the grasping bond- and at sea on a great subject than Congress is | holders, greedy manufacturers and national on that of the national finances, and very few of | bank monopolists, against provoking the over either the Representatives or Senators know | burdened people beyond the limit of endurance. anything about it. Neither of the great political ‘ ro parties of the country agree among themselves on any of the questions which come under tho head of national finances, nor will they be able at present to adopt in their platforms or political creeds any fixed principles or well defined policy. The democrats of the Eastern States and of the commercial cities in the North—such as Seymour, Belmont and other Northern political leaders and capitalists repre are for the most part in favor of the bondholding and national bank interests and of forcing specie payments, while the demo- crats of the West generally are for a differ- ent policyv—are in favor of an expanded currency and the payment of as much of the national debt as possible in legal tenders before an attempt be made to reach specie payments, It is much the same with the radi- cal republicans in the two sections of the coun- a try. Such leading radicals as Thad Stevens ta age cor on Gane and Ben Butler, in the North and East, hold further about it at prosent, but for the pretty much the same views as Pendleton reported discovery that this bill involves « ahd the Western democrats, as do also a ma-| aiiijurate plan for the promotion of General jority of the republicans in the West. In} qin, at once to the White Mouse with fact, the difference is more of a sectional than the removal of Andrew Jonson, The addi- party character, though not sectional alto- | sion of the Chief Justice to the line of #ueces- gether. Nor do the members of Congrens Tep- | sion in the chupter of accidents is set down as Tesent entirely their constituencies or States on a tub to the angry whale, ‘The real scheme is financial questions; for we see Sherman, of said to be such amendment of the bill, when Ohio, going avainst the popular sentiment of reported hack to the House, as will practically his State and in favor of the bondholders and | 1 .ive “Old Bon Wade” and wring General capitalists of the East and North, and Butter Grant into the foreground, so that, with the holding views directly opposed to those of his removal of the present obstruction, the General Massachusetts constituents, Both Congress- may at once takethe helm. ‘This spposed dis- men and political parties are, as we said, all at covery may be an illusion, but there may be sea on financial questions, and there has something in it, ‘Tho progress of events is so fot yet appeared’ a statesman among them apid in these days that we are prepared, capable of laying down a system which either aackt Pi pitta for anything. We shall, the republicans or democrats can adopt asa indecd, be aiauaes disappointed if the re- national platform, The consequence will be | moval of Androw Johnson is not followed by that each of the party national conventions radical developments In the way of roconatrac- soon to meet will not be able to tion not yet set down in the bills, Revolutions show any definite policy, and will only never go backward very fur until they have express some vague generalities, meaning |.) their course forward, and the reconstruc nothing or anything, as politicians choose tion revolution inaugurated by the present to explain them. They will be compelied to Congress is now under a full head of ignore the most vital and important questions we of the day, because of their ignorance of these questions and becanse parties cannot be united upon them. Thns we shall drift along as we are going, from bad to worse, until the finances become hopelessly deranged and repudiation stares us in the face. There is a good deal said by those who world saddle the nation with the perpetual burden cf an enormous debt about national honor, honestly paying what we owe, &c. The American people are as honest in this re- spect as any other people, and have no wish | clearly put than in the old document, How- to repudiate the debt. There is both pride | ever, we are disposed to regard the recent and pleasure in paying a just debt; but | legal proceedings with as litile favor as the nations, like individuals, may be driven by | former. They may Indicate a ruse to cover the stress of circumstances to take advantage | a farther postponement—a tub thrown to the of a bankrupt law, or—what is the same | whale of public opinion, though we hardly thing—to practically make such a law for them- | think that the monster looks for any such selves. There are plenty of examples in his- | bait or is disposed to regard the whole pro- tory, particularly where an enormous debt has | ceeding in any other light than as a farce, been suddenly contracted in revolutionary | equal in its ludicrous features to the other times and under similar circumstances to the | judictment and trial now going on in Washing- creation of our own debt. Every one is! ton. ‘The trials of Johyson aud Davis, the familiar with the summary manner in | President of the United States and the ex- which the French debt—contracted during | President of the Southern confederated States, the revolutionary wars ‘‘to save the | fill up a conspicuous chapter in the history of life of the nation”—was disposed of, with its | our times. Mr. Johnson's dominion is undi- thonsands of inillions of assignats and man- |! vided. He rules over twenty-three States in dais; and without multiplying examples from | which civil law is omnipotent, and is supposed to n countries, of which there are plenty, | govern the other ten States by military law we may come home to our own history—to the | through the agency of his military comman- wiping ont of the debt contracted in the war of | ders aud the War Department. But, in fact, he independence—to show what a brave and hon- | is not permitted by Congress to execute his do under insupportable bur- | privileges either as Chief Executive of the Bven England was compelled to re- | aation or as Commander-in-Chief of the army. duce the rate of interest on her debt, from five | His authority to select an official in the War and six per cent, and some of it higher, to | Department whose views accord with his own, three and three and a half per cent, thus vir- | as all his predecessors have done from tually repudiating it to that extent. The peo- | the days of Washington to Andrew Johnson, ple of this country can never be brought to | is made a subject of indictment asa “high believe that “a nati¢nal debt is a national | crime and misdemeanor” by Congress, with its blessing;” and unless they see onrs diminishing | radical majority and Jocobin managers, all from year to year they will certainly become | athirst for spoils and rabid with hatred for the dissatisfied, restless, and relieve themselves of | man of thelr own choice, who had self-will the burden by a short process, Let it be re- | enough to oppose thejg schemes of corruption, membered, too, that here the mags of the peo- | Jefferson Davis, who, according to the indiet- ple, who pay the taxes, are the voters—the | mént and the facts of history, levied war governing power—and that if once the thought | against the United States, is arraigned by the of repudiation be foreed upon them they will | Grand Jury of Richmond for crimes which he find plenty of aspirants for political honors and | in all probability will never be called to account station refMy to popularize the idea. It ie | for; but the Chief Magistrate of the nation, who only necessary to study hurnan nature and ‘the | battled strenuously and suffered much to main- springs of human action and the former history | tain ite integrity, will possibly be set aside by of this and other countries to see that as re- | @ tribunal which has already projudged, but gards the national debt we are ina very un- | yet cannot degrade him, even though they settled and precarious situation, strip him of oftice. Our five-twenties, hearing six per cent gold Such are the two spectacles offered for the interest, are quoted in London at seventy-two, | criticism of the world by the radical faction. while tho British three per cents are over | If anything weaker or meaner or more con- ninety. Why is this? Why is it that securl- | temptible is. to be found in history we confess ties bearing six per cont interest sell for abont | that we cannot lay our fingers upon the page twenty below those bearing half that interest? | whereon it is recorded, pee Lai FRENCH THEATRE.—La Brite HELENE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, BANVARD'S OPERA way and Thirtleth street. Broadway.—Humery Domety. How AND MUSEUM, Broad- RAGPIOKER OF PaRis, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteouth Ea =a ‘8, stroet.—GyMmastics. IRVING HALL, Irving place. ny nanan COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BaL.er, Farce, AND CONCERT. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SoNae, Ecoks taiciries, Ac.—GRAND DUTCH “S."" SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETut0o- PIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, Ae. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi Vovatiss, NeGRO MINSTREL E, QI Bowery.—Comto e. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Brondway.— BALLET, FARCE, PANTOMIME, \c. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Hasver, lacie HOOLFE'S OPFRA HOUSE. Rrooklyn.—ETMortan MINBTEELSEY—UL OR OF THE WiLD FAWN. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— SoigNcE AND Ant. Thursday, April Mr. Churchill's Presidential Bil, On Monday tast Mr, Churehill, of New York, introduced in the federal House of Represenia- tives a bill to amend the actof 1792 In refer- ence to the filling of vacancies in the offices of President and Vice President. The act of 1792 provides that in case of the death, removal or disability of both the President and View Presi deat the President pro ter. of the Senate shall be the Presidef® and if there shall be no President pro tem. of the Senate at the time the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be President until the vacancy ia the Presidential otfice shall be filled by a special eleciion, to be called in the absence of Con- gress by the Secretary of State, Mr. Churcb- ill’s bill provides to add the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the line of succession in these vacancies, The bill was referred New York, 2, TRIPLE “NOVICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers to insure the announce: the Herat hhalf-past eight o’clock P. M. in order hould bear in mind trait, proper cla tion of their! its, all adverliscunents for insertion in noid be left at the counting room by THE NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. ‘The Hich Court was opened as usual yesterday. After the reading of the journal Mr, Sumner subiati ted a correciioa, declaring that the casting vote cf the Chief Justice was without authority, The vote ‘was taken on this question and his order was re- Jected by a vote of 21 to 27. ‘The question objected to by Mr. Stanbery on Tues- ay was then read and he again objected to it, It refers to the conversation of General Thomag,in the War Department. Mr. Frelinghuysen ask@® if the ‘Managers proposed to connect the answegwith the President. Mr. Butler said he did. Mr. Stanbery then entered upon a__ lengthy argument against the adinisaibility of the testimony on the ground of its want of connection with the subject. He was followed by Messrs. Butler and Curtis, when, the time aliotted to debate having ex- pired, the question was taken and resulted in the admission of the testimony by 29 yeas to Li nays, + Mr. Burleigh was then again called to the stand and testified that General Thomas lad said he would ‘use force to obtain possesvion of the War Office. Con- derable arguimeut again ensued on the adinissi- ‘biljty of testimony relative to General Thomas urg- Ing disobedience to Secretary Stanton on the part of subordinate officers of the War Department. Severai other witnesses testified for the prosecu- tion and the court adjourned. There was no busi- ness of interest whatever transacted in the Senate or House except that relative to impeachment. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the committee on the Eric Railway imbrogiio presented @ report condemning ‘the action of the dircetors and propos ng the adop- tion of a resoiution favoring increased penalties for frauda in the management ef railway companies, A minority reper’ commends the action of the direct- ors, and proposes that a bill be passed legalizing its proceedings and prombiting any Cousolidation of the four roms. Both reporis w referred to the Com- mittee of the Whoe. the Excise Repeal bill was again called up, and, after voting down an amend- ment proposed by Mr. Murphy, was defeated. Nume- Tous bilis of an unimportant nature were passed or ordered to a third reading. In the evening seasion a bili was introduced to punish as a felony the un- authorized issue of stock by corporations, or the retention of moneys or effects of ccrporations in ‘another State for the purpose of evading legal pro- css in this State, and fixing the punishment at im- prisonment for five years, or less. In the Assembly Mr. Glen made sweeping charges of bribery and ‘uption against the members of the House in voting upon the Erie Railway question, and moved for a committee to investiyate them, He said he himself had been offered $500 for his vote, and others had been paid larger sums. The resolution, slightly amended, was adopted. Nunrerous bills of an uninieresting character were acted upon. EUROPE. The news report by the Auantic cable ts dated yes- terday eveninz, April lL. ‘The British revenue returns show a deficiency of five millions sterling in the quarter. The English government has submitted a bill for the purchase of ail the telegraph lines in the kingdom by the Execu- tive. Spain accords a plan of army organization to Cuba identical with th jing in the kingdom, It is denied that American newspapers are seized in Spain, The Austrian Legisiature passed a bill for national éducation in public schools. Denmark asks the cession of Alsen and Duppel from vermany, but Prussia gives a decided refusal. Consols, 93. Five-twenties, 72 a 72% in London and 753 in Frankfort. Cotton active and upward, with middling uplands at 11%. Breadstutts quiet and steady, Provisions quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. We have files from Panama to the 24th ult, The people are suifering for want of ice, Americans in Barbacoas are protesting against outrages committed ‘on them by the natives, The revolutionary party in Tolima haye been defeated. The murderers of the oficers of the KR. R. Cuyier are being tried in Cartha- gena. Our Lima, Peru, letter is dated March 14. The elec- tion excitement still prevailed. Dr. Manuel Ureta, Attorney General under Prado, has been nominated for President in opposition to Balta, and ts believed to be a most powerful opponent of the latter, who has lost a great deal of bis former popularity. A strong conspiracy to reinstate Prado was discovered among the soldiery, and the leaders were im- prisoned, The guano companies had agreed to ad- ‘vance $12,000,000 to the government. The yellow fevor haa appeared in Lima and Callao, The Dakota and Wateree have been pat in quarantine, ‘The election for State oiicers In Rhode Island took place yesterday, and, as everybody expected, re- sulted in the re-election of Governg Burnside, the republican candidate, and the other nominces of that party. We have special telegraphic advices from Nassau to Monday last. A serious difficulty had arisen be- tween the Governor and the Legislature, and it was considered quite probable that the trouble would result in bloodshed, General Grant and General Butler have settled their differences and become friends. it is understood that the Canal Commissioners have determined to open the eastern division of the Brie Cana! on the 20th instant, ond the middie and QweBern Aivisions May 1.) Tie Wack River and The New Indictment Axuinst Jefferson Davis, The Grand Jury of the United States Cir- cuit Court in the city of Richmond has found a new indictment aguinst Mr. Davia, apparently with a view to fill up the gaps in the old in- dictment upon which he was not tried, owing to its defective construction, as alleged, but really because it was not expedient to try him at all, What effect the new indictment may have in bringing Davis to trial we know not, but there is no doubt that the specifications are more orable people m: dens, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1868--TRIPLE SHEET. The Excise Law and the Albany Foll- and many members of the present State Legis- lature received their places on their express promise to their constituents to do all in their power to amend the distasteful law. Indigna- tion meetings have been held and embryo can- idates for logislative honors have been the first to denounce the liquor law as tyrannical, unjust and severe. Yet no sooner have those worthies obtained their desires and ensconced themselves under the shadow of the Capitol at Albany, than they straightway forget their promises and assist in defeating all amend- ments of the obnoxious law. We are assured that those who complain of the severity or injustice of the present liquor law need expect no redress from the politicians of either party. The democrats atrenuously oppose any conces- sions made by the republicans, as any reason- able modification of the harsh law by a repub- lican Senate might injure the, prospects of the democratic leaders at the next election. The necessities of party are paramount to all other considerations in their estimation, and there- fore they will endeavor to stop all amendments to the present Excise law which the opposite party may be inclined to grant. There is too mueh political capital in the fnturg to be made out of this obnoxious measure for its opponents in New York to expect an early settlement of the question, It will be a matter of dispute with either party as to which will have the credit of removing the most disagreeable fea- tures of the law. ‘The Napoleonic Dynasty—The Pamphicts _ Pre and Con, Ta our columns yesterday we gave the out- lines of the celebrated pamphiet which has just been published in Paris—a pamphlet emanating more or less directly from the Emperor him- sell; written, in fact, by bis own hand or at his suggestion and ander his inspiration, In the same issue we gave the outlines of another pamphlet, in which the expenses of the empire are set forth by one who, whether he is or is not a lover of imperialiam and the dynasty of Napoleon, is at least a lover of truth. At the same thae we reproduced the debate which took place in the bali of the Legislative body on the 19th of March on the bill for the regula- tion of public meetings, with an article from the London Times commenting on the entire situation. We call attention to these items of news not merely because the Heravy was ahead of all its contemporaries in presenting them to the American public, but because we wich to make them the basis of our remarka, and because without due regard being paid to the same the situation in France at the present moment cannot be clearly understood. The Napoleon pamphlet, it appears, is headed “The Titles of the Napoleonic Dynasty,” and has for its motto “ Vor populi vor Dei.” The avowed object of the pamphlet is to prove the attachment of the French people to the family of Napoleon and to imperialism as represented by them. The proof is skilfully collected and arranged. The votes which raised General Bonaparte first to the Consulate for ten years, then to the Consulate for life, and afterwards to the imperial throne, are severally apecified. Ten mitlions of votes are shown to have been cast in favor of the First Napoleon, between the years 1799 and 1504, the opposition votes during the same period scarcely exceeding twelve thousand. The fifty years which elapsed between the downfall of the frat empire and the government of July, 1845, are bastily passed over, the restoration of the Bourbon being attributed, not to the will of the French people, but to the power of the foreigner, France being once more free to give expression to ber wishes, the snffrages of the people went forth to find the heir of the Grst Napoleon inexile. Lo- eluding the three elections, that which raised him to the Presidential chair in 1848, that which followed the coup d'etet in 1851 and which ee cured him inthe Presidency for ten years, and that which established the empire in Issa, it is claimed that twenty millions of votes bave been cast in fovor of the present emperor, the collective opposition vote during the same period representing a miserable minorly. it is the boast of the pampblet thet thirty mil- lions of Freuchmen have thus, since 1799, de- clared in favor of the family of Napoleon, “Thirty millions of voting papers sign- ed by the French people-—such are the titles of the Napoleonic dynasty.” It is claimed at the same time that the nation voluntarily invested its elected chief with extraordinary powers; that bis terms were laid down and accepted; that “the principles on which the constitution was founded were, therefore, the result of an agreement freely entered into.” The Wases of the constitution are thas fixed, and can only be altered by « plebiscite, but the constitution itself is suseepti- ble of progressive improvements— ‘is capable of being advanced nearer to perfection.” Such, we are told, was the Emperor's intention from the outset, and such is the explanation of bir recent reforming policy. The various reforms introduced since 1861 are all eaumerated as proof of the liberal intentions of the present occupant of the French throne, The argu ment of the pampblet is visible throughout — the present Emperor “ unites in bis own per son the rights derived from deseent and those derived from election,” and is the best possible ruler for the French people. Of course noth ing 1s said of the coup @rtat, of the violent im- prisonments and of the terrific fusliides which followed. This is not necessary to the argu- ment, and silence is wirely preserved. To this pictare, #0 skilfully drawn, there i another side, which we may rest assured Napo- leon will be competied to look at. It in, to say the least, a significant ciroumstanoe thet at the very moment chosen by Napoleon to prove te the French people the superior excellence of his government there sbould hare appeared another pamphlet, which, whatever lis real pur- pose, clearly proves that if the French people are in love with the empire they are ie lowe with a very expensive toy. In this pamphlet it fs very clearly shown that the imperial gov- ernment has spent on an average eight hundred million francs a year more than the govers- ments that preceded it, and that the expenses are annually increasing at a rate which ix not only out of all proportion to the income, but ruinous to the credit of the cvwntiy. The enormous capital of the public debt has been more than doubled in fifteen years, and it is la vain attempted to keep the floating debt wader one thousand million francs. The conclusion to which the writer comes is that the finansial and political credit of France has fallen lowey’ than in 1852; that the ‘‘internal condition of | the country is characterized by general em- barrassment, which is turning to misery,” and that ‘‘there remains for France no choice be- tween reform and bankruptcy.” If such be the actual condition of France— and we have no reason to doubt that it is—it is not difficult to discover sufficient and satisfac- tory reasons for the appearance at this parti- cular juncture of the Napoleon pamphlet. The elections are rapidly approaching. In spite of the Emperor's reforms’ France is suffer- ing and dissatisfied from one end to the other. The new army bill is everywhere most “reluctantly ‘submitted to. Bread riots, always alarming in France, are only kept down by military force. The Emperor, growing old and feeble in health, trembles, not without reason, for the future of his dynasty. With France in such a condition as she now is, an Empress Regent anda sickly boy would be feeble guardians of a throne. The throne is, no doubt, safe enough so long as the Emperor remains to protect it, but all his skill, and more than all his skill, will, we fear, be needed. to transmit it safe to his son and heir. His pamphlet is not ill-timed; but while it is cer- tain to bring him trouble, itis doubtful whether it will accomplish all he intended, Steam Commanication with Japan China, We published yesterday despatches from Shanghae, via San Francisco, dated- February 27, giving an account of the annual meeting of the Steamship Navigation Company at Shang- hae in Febtuary, This company has paid all debts, and has fourteen first class steamers running to Hankow, Tientsin, Chee-Too, Ningpo and Hong Kong. It has purchased three more steamers, the Express, Manchera and Warrior, which were due at Shanghae from New York at the date of these despatches. Remembering that the line which this com- pany has established so successfully is but the pioneer of other and numerous lines which our fature steamship communication with Japan and China must require, we can- not but rejoice in the encouraging report pre- sented at the annual meeting of the Shanghae Navigation Company. A more rational legis- lation than has hitherto prevailed in Congress asarelic of precautionary measures during the late war, will stimulate the building of American steamships for the immense Pacific trade which is only beginning to indicate its possible development, Within a few years wo may hope to see alarger number of American steamships on the Pacific than are now to be seen on all the various lines across the At- lantic, ‘ The steamship China, from Hong Kong via Yokohama, brought the despatches to which we have alluded, arriving in San Francisco on the Sist ult., after a longer passage than has of late been usual, In due time, no doubt, the passages of this steamship line will be made more speedily, and the extraordinarily quick time made about two years ago by the Bombay mail, which teached London in eleven days, will be regularly beaten. The overiand route will be completely distanced by the new route to the incaloulable wealth of ‘tho East,” which is “our West.” San Francisco will receive the exports from Japan, China, and even India and Australia, and New York will distribute them for this country and for Europe; and on the other hand New York will receive and San Francisco will distribute the European exports destined for the ports of Asia, Thecompletion of the Pacific Railroad will hasten the time when steam communication between Europe and Asia will be mainly carried on by way of New York and San Francisco, and New York will be the commercial centre of the world. The Pennsylvania Coal Mine Disaster. A* terrible accident occurred on Tuesday morning at the Diamond coal mines at Scran- ton, Pa., by which over a dozen lives were lost, A platform containing seventeen men was precipitated down a shaft a distance of one hundred and eighty-five foet, through the breaking of a chain connected with the hoist- ing machinery. The first reflection that oc- curs to the mind on the receipt of the news of wach a disaster is how its recurrence may be prevented, Thére is entirely too much reck- less disregard for human life shown in every depertment of business, commerce, mining and travel. The most dangerous and destructive elements of nature have been pressed into the service of man, and with ordinary precaution moy be handled with impunity. But how often does it bappen that the employés on a railroad, steamboat or in a conl mine dare the power of steam or firedamp in the most reckless manner, as If no danger could possibly accrue to them! This Inet disaster was probably caused by over- loading the platform on which the miners de- weended the shaft, or by culpable neglect in not examining the chain at the proper time. In all those mining operations in which men ex- pose themselves to a frightful death in case of the least neglect there should be a superin- teadent for each department, whose business it would be to provide against the possibility of accident. There is no ase in leaving the mat- ter in the hands of the workmen. ACrevom Horse Rereevcmment.— With the aeront of the Secretary of the Treasury, Col- lector Smythe, we understand, put out some time ago the labor at the public stores con- nected with the Custom House by contract to responsible parties. under heavy bonds for the faithful performance of UNe work, and it appears from the inte Treasury report to the House of Representatives that the Collector by this | arrangement Bas waved tothe oes seventy thousand dollars per aanum—no small item on the right side of the ledger in these days, when the balences of our government officials are, as the rule, great and smail, on the wrong side. Bot as Collector Smythe in thie matter bas been violating the general prac- tice of our public servants it would not be rur- prising Wf for thie “high erime and misde- meaner” the famous Van Wyek were to bring him up for another investigation. and tion constitution, it ie reported, has been adopted by & small majority. As this constl- tution gives the right of euffrage and equal politi-ol rights la regard to the offices, not only to niggest, but to women, white and black, Arkeartes, with Ite adoption, will be the place | for O conge Francis Traia, Mrs. Cady Stanton, ; sy cuy suc of Impeachment at Albany, Senate and the Court of Appeals, and over by Lieutenant Governor Woodford, meets again to-day to consider the case of Canal Commissioner Dorn, charged with “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the way of bribery and’ corruption. This court, following in the wake of that at Washington, will have a compare tively easy task in reference to precedents an@ authorities, while from the positive charges and specifications against the accused this would appear to be not a base imitation of the Congressional impeachment, but a bona fide case, clearly demanded by the interests of jus- tice. After all, however, Dorn is but the scapegoat of the tribes of undetected spoils and plunder men of both parties at Albany; and if the truth were divulged he would doubt- less appear as a small potato in the game of filling his pockets at the expense of the public treasury, compared with other parties connect- ed with the various “‘rings,” combinations and cliques which prey upon the people of this city and State. If Dorn has been so unfortunate, however, in his little jobs as not to cover up his tracks, he must take the consequences. That is all. One aT A Timz.—There appears to be a very fair prospect of the early passage at Albany of the Broadway Arcade Railroad bill; and there is also a powerful coalition at work for a horse car road through Fifth avenue. Very well. We suppose we must take the good things the gods (of the lobby) provide us; but in regard to these two benevolent enterprises we may modestly submit that both together will be too much of a good thing, and that it would be more merciful to give us one at a time. FIRE IN HARLEM. Loss Estimated at Thirty-five Thousand Dole Jars. At about two o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the steam planing and saw mill oo the north side of 128th street, between Second and ‘Third avenues, owned by M. Doughty. The com- bustibles in the mill caused a rapid spread of the fire, and Ina very short time the whole build- ing was enveioped in flames. The upper part of the building was occupied by Day id Brown, sash and blind manufacturer. The entire property was de- stroyed. The flames also son communicated to a row, of five two story fraing dwellings on 129th street and to a five story brick tenement, all of which were totally destroyed, the occupants only having sufficiens time to remove a part of their household effects. The frame buildings were owned Pk Mr. Brown, whose loss will be $10,000; insured for $3,000 only. Mr. Brown’s loss on stock and machinery in ti factory will be about $8,000; no insurance, The value of the mill building and the machinery was $10,000; insured A9r. $6,500 in out of town and city Insurance companies. ‘the brick tenement is owned by B. Richardson; loss $7,090; partly insured. A Ulree story brick dwelling house, owned and occupied by iene Weed, was damaged to the extent of $3,000; insured for $10,000 in the Citizens’, Relief and Rutgers Insur- ance Companies. ‘The ire is supposed to have beew occasioned by iicciders. FIRE IN CHAMBERS STREET. Loss About Thirty Thousand Dollars. Shortly before six o’clock yesterday morning @ Gre was discovered in the French plate glass store Nos. 45 and 47 Chgmbers street, owned by D. 8. Schenck & Son. ‘The prompt action of the firemen enabled them to extinguioh the flames just as the fire was extending to the second floor. The damage to the glass stock will be about $10,000; insured for $80,008, a8 follows:—$20,000 in the Niagara Insurance Com- pany and $5, each in the Eagie, Cans Howard, Commercial, Manhattan, Hamilton, New York, Loril- lard, Republic, Resolute, Continental and Pacific. ‘The upper part of the building ts occupted by Kirt- land, Babcock & Bronson, clothiers. They estimate the damage to their stock at about $15,000. are insured for $104,000, as follows:—Montauk, 0005 Market, $10,000; Yonkers and New York, 000 tna, $10,000; Liverpool and London, $20,000; Na- tional, of Boston, $10,009; Queen, $20,000; People’s, $5,000; Humboldt, $5,900; Artic, ‘$10,000, and Com- merce, of Albany, $5,000. The building beiongs to the Wyeth estate and is damaged about $4,000; fully insured. The fire apparently orizinated in the straw box, but from what cause is at present unknown. NEWS ITEMS. At a meefing of the stockholders of the Loutsvitie and Nashville Railroad, held at Louisville on the 31st * ult, It was decided to accept the amended charter by the Kentucky Legislature, authorizing the company to issue $8,000,000 of bonds to acquire an interest in or to buy up roads in other States which connect with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The spiritualists of St. Louls on Tuesday cele- brated the twentieth anniversary of the advent of spiritualism, ‘The ceremonies consisted of an dress by Miss Elvira Wheelock, in which she gave a hisiory of the Rochester knockings and similar Phenomena, briefly sketching the growth and pro- gress of their religion, and claiming that they gained in this country over four millions of believers. ‘The interior of the Webster woollen mill at Sal Maine, was burned on Monday night, The loss will- amount to many thousand dollars. The tena | is insured in Hartford and New York ‘omens is stated ve the property is owned in Boston and Portland The funeral of seven miners, victims of the Dia- mond mine accident of Tuesday, took place y: afternoon at Hyde Park Cemetery, Scranton, Pa., in the presence of four thousand people. All the places of business in some of the wards were closed. The Diamond, Oxford, Hampton,, Continental, Mount Pleasant ‘and Bellevue mincs "have suspended work until Priday. eigen. has commenced in est on Lake Erie. The schooner Ell Bates, from Buffato for Mil- waukee, arrived at Port Colborne on Tuesday, and the propeller Henry Howard was preparing to leave there for Detroit yesterday. The wind Was south ennee and the ice will probably be driven up the jake. Sergeant Bates, the reconstructing pedestrian, car- rying the United States flag, arrived in Raleigh yes- terday morning. He was received by the or and Commissioners, and was tendered the hospital- Ities of the city. He was repeatelly cheered, and C, |. Busbee, an ex-Donfederate soldier, delivered a short and tasteful address of welcome, * J. W. Cudilp, of St. John, N. B., has accepted the nomination for the vacant seat In the New Brans- wick Legisiature, on the platform of severance of coe connection with Canada, to be followed by @ union of the maritime provinces, The trial of Cora James, alias Samantha Proctor, on a charge of being a common scold, in the Court of| Criminat Correction, St. Lonis, was concluded vester- day, the court Cegeer her to six months im-! prisonmeat in the county jal, Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, has signed the, Pacific Rattroad bill, and the company, it ts under . stood, will accept It. The bill provides for the sv jg of tee road to the present company for $5,000, j99 cast . An accident occurred at the crossing of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at” Union street, Chicago, on the 3ist uit, Thomas LO w was instantly ktiled and George Wheeling was 89 gerious- ly injured (hat his recovery is doubtfal, A merchant of Greenficid, Ind., named J, J, Gridor, was robbed on Monday at Richmond, Ind “of $15,000. He was en route to New York, and is money in & carpet bag which was stolen from the cars, General A. E. Burnside has been F q Chicago the past few days looking after the inter ost of the new Failrogd from Indianapolis to Vineer 1103, The meeting of the stockholder «of the Indiana- iis, Cincinnat, and Lafayette ' ¢Riroad at Morris, ind., on Tuesday, was thinly ALY nued, No business of linportance was transacted. The residence of O. JobnsoF , troasurer of Alumet mun'y, Wisconsin, pe nord en on Saturday night by two men + '« Jobnson was shot and the house robtred of $1,600 bt ja New Albany, Ind., ¥@ worday, Mra, M. Keck com- a suicide by hang’ ¢ herself in the back room of her husband ence, Cause, Medea oe ine sanity superimiuced bY the use of strong drink. REMOVAL "YF OFFICERS IN VIRGINIA, (From the Ev ening Telegram of yestertay.) CHMOND, Va., April 1, 1868, Tt ts by =f od that General Schofield will shortly tase an order pomoving Governor Pierpoint, Joseph ayo, Mayer | and Thomas U. Dudley, City Sergeant. There® no doubt that the Mayor wit tere moved. “ar, George Chanoon, United States Com- Mission? + here, 7 orene? yee and Mr, ‘The only, George W. Smith, a member ity Council, are spoken of for the vacancy. . war ares ~ “4 fag nan Ae alt = cai 4 . ia thought that they wi cead In thelr ‘ciforts, ‘