The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1868, Page 6

B NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tux Rivas. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack SAEPPARD—THE Stage STRUCK YANKEE. BROADWAY THEAT! Broadway.—I we By ‘RE, way.—IRELAND as IT NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— PARIS AND HELEN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dowpry FRENOH THEATRE.—LA BELLE HELENE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Wuirz Fawn. anne COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BaLLet, Farce, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SONGS, Eoomnraiorrizs, £c.—GRaND Dosen “—." SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETu10- FIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &C. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1868.—TRIPLE’ SHEET, charged the jury, who, after fifteen minutes delibera- tion, came into court with a verdict of not guilty. Kelly, who was at once most warmly congratulated by his friends, goon after left the court room, once more a free man. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Benedict presiding, Edward Cosgrove, charged with running a distillery without a license in the basement of the grocery store No, 122 Clinton place in July last, was found guilty. A motion made by counsel for arrest of judgment was granted, the United States District Attorney not opposing. A person named McDermott and another party, found on the premises at the time of the seizure, will be put on their trial this morning. In the same court, Judge Blatchford presiding, an important case was brought. The plaintifr, John Graham, proceeds against Gregorio Dominequez and Anthony Millman on an aMdavit in which he charges them with entering into a fraudu- lent contract with him under false pretences for the purchase and sale of the iron ram Dunderberg. The plaintiff alleges that by the misrepresentation charged against the defendants he is a loser by the transac- tion to the amonnt of $140,000. On the affidavits sworn to by him the defendant Millman was arrested and discharged upon bail to wait examination. The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Cap- tain Leitch, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool via Queens- town. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The National line steamship Virginia, Captain TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooa.iem, NrGRo MINsTRELSY, 40. STEINWAY HALL.—Mns, FRANCES A. KEMBLE’s READ- iNG@s—Magy Srvanr. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—EXUIbITION OF PAPER PicTuULES AND PorTRAITS. . B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— obsey Ritson tus Pan WeorTun Two Pore, , EUROPEAN CIRCUS, Broadway and Mth atreet.—Equrs- RIAN PERFORMANCE, LIVING ANIMAL, &0. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn,—Erntorian MINSTRELSEY—PANORAMA—PROGREBS OF AMERICA. HALL, 964 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THR WAR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. May 1, New York, Friday, In the High Court yesterday Mr. Sumner’s order calling for a voie of censure against Mr. Nelson came up as the first business. Mr. Nelson being allowed to make an explanation, said that his intention was to settle the matter with Mr. Butler at some other time and place where the Manager might desire, and ‘that if the latter wanted a duel he (Mr. Nelson), al- though no duellist, would hold himself ready, but that he meant no disrespect to the Senate. The whole matter was then laid on the table by a vote of 35 to 10. Mr. Cameron's motion to hold evening sessions Was also laid on the tabie. Mr, Evarts then continued his argument, the gal- leries being crowded almost to repletion to hear his peroration. At half-past four, however, he an- Bounced that he would require an hour more to con- clude, and the court, partly at his suggestion, ad- journed until this morning. In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Brooks, on the return from the Senate Chamber, offered a resolution, as a question of privilege, recit- ing the action of Managers Butler and Logan in the Alta Vela case, and declaring that they be forthwith required to appear belore the House and explain why they sent a letter to the President counselling him in that matter while they are prosecuting him at the bar of the Senate. Mr. Washburne said that none of the Managers were present, and on the taking of a vote it was discovered that there was no quorum. Atthe suggestion of the speaker, Mr. Brooks then withdrew his resolution, on condition that it could be offered again to-day when the Managers are present. THE LEGISLATURE. Inthe Senate yesterday the Annual Supply and State Militia Appropriation bills and a bill authoriz- ing the Legislative Impeachment Court to sit else- ‘where than in Albany were passed. Mr. Stamford called up the report of the Conference Committee on the bill for the management of the canals. It was disagreed to, and the bill was lost by a vote of 15 to 16, Mr. Stamford voting with the democrats. Mr, Stamford subsequently moved for a reconsideration Of the vote, but it was shut off by a motion to ad- journ, which was carried, Mr. Stamford again voting with the democrats, In the Assembly the New York City Tax Levy, after going through the Commitee of the Whole without amendment or debate, was taken up, read a third | time and passed, by a vote of 64 to 18. The special | committee on the charges of corruption instituted by | Mr. Glen reported that the charges are wholly un- founded, although Mr. Glen was doubtless sincere in his belief of their truth. The report was laid on the table to be printed. Several bills of no general im- portance were acted upon, and the Assembly ad- journed until this morning. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated at midnight yesverday, April 30, The Fenians Burke and Shaw were convicted of treason-felony in London, and sentenced to lengthened terms of penal servitude. There is a heavy flow of specie from England. The debate on the Irish Church was continued in the House of Commons, Consois, 93% a 94. Five-twenties, 703% in London and 753; in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull. Cotton heavy; with middling uplands at 125d. Breadastufts quiet and steady. Provisions dull. By steamship at this port we have special corre- spondence in detail of our cable despatches to the 18th of April. ‘The report of the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the great Irish Derby race meet- ing is quite interesting, @s is also the description of the ceremony and scene attending the installation of the Pr as a Knight of Saint Pat An Irish peasant remarked that the Prince was a “fine Young man,” an “it was a pity that it took nigh toa rebellion to bring him over.’* THE CITY. Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell, who has been in command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard since the 1st of May, 1865, will be relieved by Rear Admiral Sylvan W. Godon at noon to-day. occasion will be of considerable interest. A young woman, named Annie Ward, was ar- | rested yesterday on a charge of trying to set fire to a tenement house in East Thirty-tfth street, She had been ordered to vacate by the landlord, and, according to the charges, set (ire to her own furni- ture, after locking herself in her room with the in- tention of perisiing in the flames. It was as much as the policeman could do to force open the door and save her life. She was committed. The Kings Couniy Board of Supervisors met at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the matter of constructing a sewer from the county buildings to the bay was brought up. The subj@ct was referred to acommittee of three to report at the next meeting. ‘The ceremonies on the | Thomas, will sail from pier 47 North river at twelve M. on Saturday, May 2, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The steamship Iowa, Captain Hedderwick, of the Anchor line, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers. Thesteamship Cleopatra, of the Cromwell line, will sail for New Orleans direct at three P. M. on Satur- day, 2d inst., from pier No. 9 North river. The fine steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier 14 East river, foot of Wall street, at three P. M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Charleston, 8. ©., connecting with all points South and West, The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ment securities were active and buoyant. Gold closed at 13934. 0U8. Advices from Mexico by the Cuba cable are dated at the capital on the 20th of April. The proposed concession to an English company for the building of the Vera Cruz railroad had been condemned by Congress. Negrete’s rebellion was still unsupported, the revolutionists looking upon him as an unsuitable leader. Canales is reported as about to join him. General Ortega publishes a letter urging his claims tothe Presidency. It was discussed in Congress, but a committee shelved it. It was signed by Ortega as President ad interim. The American Consul Saulnier, had been attacked by banditti, but on men- tioning his official standing the banditti desisted and saw him safe home. The letters of Judge Jere Black and Chauncey S. Black to the President relative to the Alta Vela atfair are published elsewhere in our columns this morn- ing, including the one in which Jere Black with- draws from the President’s counsel. The trial of General Cole was resumed at Albany yesterday. The prosecution called a number of wit- nesses to rebut the evidence for the defence, some of whom testified that they had not noticed any de- pression of spirits in the prisoner previous to the homicide. The treasurer of a windmill company, of which Cole was an agent and Hiscock had been a director, testified that there was nothing unusual in his appearance just previous to meeting with His- cock, but that he had conducted the business im- properly and the company had refused to pay him his salary in consequence, The editor of the Savannah (Ga.) Daily Advertiser has resigned from that sheet because, as he says, General Meade entertains a personal animosity for him, and his further connection with the paper would jeopardize the interests of the proprietors. ‘The original cause of this trouble was a recent order of General Meade threatening to suppress the paper if it published incendiary articles during the elec- tion, . Further returns from the Georgia election give Bullock, the radical candidate for Governor, a slight majority. A radical majority is claimed in the State Senate. Mail advices from Nicaragua are to the 22d of April. The press of the country was complaining of the payment of an annual tribute to England, and urging a decisive refusal to pay it in future, when, it is argued, if England tries to enforce ii the United States will settle the balance of the account. The mission of Martinez to England on the subject had failed. General Buchanan, commanding in Louisiana, warns planters that in case they discharge negro laborers for political reasons, they will be held to their contracts and made to pay wages or shares to the discharged laborers, just as if they had retained them. A disastrous cyclone visited Mauritius on the 11th and 12th of March. Hundreds of houses were blown down, one half the factories were unroofed and twenty thousand bales of rice were destroyed. Acotton contract, which was made by an agent and repudiated by the principal after its terms were complied with, was declared valid and binding in the Cincinnati courts yesterday. Atreaty of peace has been concluded with the Brule and Sioux Indians, the Powder River country being reserved to them during good behavior. It is reported that Red Cloud and his band will soon make 4 similar treaty, A radical State convention was held in Nebraska City, Neb., yesterday, and nominated State and congressional candidates for the next election. A convention of soldiers and sailors was also held at the same time and place, and delegates to the Chi- cago Convention were elected. Grant and Thayer is the ticket proposed. The Mississippi Reconstruction Convention, having nearly completed the new constitution, propose an early adjournment. M.P. Ryan was elected by acclamation yester- day morning to fiji the vacancy in the Canadian House of Commons occasioned by the death of D'Arcy McGee. Ata fire in Troy, on Wednesday night, two men nd @ woman were partially suffocated and burned. ne only is fatally injured. Tug Pouce AND THE ConceRT SALOONS.— The blue coats and brass buttons which used to warn victims from the doors of the Peter Funk establishments are now posted, it ap- pears, at the entrances of the concert saloons on Broadway and the Bowery, not to prevent people from being inveigled by their syren enchantments, but to pounce upon the proprie- tors at sundry intervals during the night, when, as alleged, these unlicensed individuals put a drop of ardent spirits into the soda water and lemonade of their customers contrary to law. There is probably no doubt that the concert saloon keepers sell liquor occasionally without license when the Argus eyes of the police are A large saw and planing mill in Carroll street, near Third avenue, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire at six o'clock yesterday morning. It was owned by Mr. John Carr, and valued at $20,000, The proceedings in contempt against five of the directors of the Erie Railway Company were re- sumed yesterday before Judge Barnard in the Su- preme Court. Some interesting testimony was elici- ted on the examination of witnesses and sharp de- bates ensued between counsel. James Fisk, Jr., sur- rendered himself to the court and was admitted to bail, The bail bond in the case of Jay Gould was reduced from $60,000 to $11,000. In Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Sutherland, mo- tion was made to vacate an order of injunction in the Erie Railway case as against one of the parties in the suit, Richard Schell, Considerable discussion ensued between counsel during the proceedings, which stand adjourned. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Ro- corder Hackett presiding, the trial of Edwin Kelly charged with the manslaughter of Thomas Sharpe, was resumed. After some unimportant additional medical testimony was put in, counsel for the ptiaoner summed up. Recorder Hackett then not upon them, and perhaps sometimes when they ure. Their business not being of a very high moral order it is too much to expect that their morals should be very nice. But it may be worth considering whether the police could not be better eimployed—say, for example, looking after burglars and highwaymen— than in playing cat to the pretty little mice of the concert saloons, One would suppose that the protection of life and property comes more within the province of the police than detecting the peccadilloes of the violaters of the License law. Govgrvor Feytox.—The Governor, it seems, has lost the confidence of the Senate at Albany, and his nominations don't go through. He is ina minority where his party have the majority. The republicans of New York State, in fact, are divided upon Fenton, Moral—He may give up the idea of the Vice The Chief Justice and the Impeachment. The attempt to suppress free speech in this once free country may be said to have reached its culmination when we find our Senatorial Jacobins openly plotting to gag the Chief Jus- tice of the United States while presiding over the highest court of judicature known to our laws or constitution. It was not enough that the President should be arraigned for having dared to express his opinions in regard to the state of the nation in a succession of addresses called forth during a non-official excursion to the West. But now, while the President is being hurried through the forms of a trial with a view to his removal for having asserted this very right of free speech, we next find our Sen- atorial conspirators actively and audaciously proclaiming that they will not even permit the Chief Justice of the court before which he is being tried to exercise that prerogative of summing up the evidence and giving there- upon his views as to the questions of law in- volved, which is made the duty of every presid- ing judge in every court of justice known to our system of government. The Chief Justice is to be made a mere automaton, nodding assent to the decrees of a jury already pledged to con- vict, but with no power either to offer advice as a guide for their deliberations or to dissent by word, look or gesture from whatever he may find to be the conclusions at which his lawless jurymen shall have already arrived. To this end run all the dictatorial and offensive bullyings of Butler; to this end all the rulings of the Senate, and pre-eminently to this end the resolutions offered by Senator Sumner di- rectly forbidding the Chief Justice to make any summing up or charge whatever when turning over the case to the tender mercies of his Jaco- bin associates. That the Chief Justice will accept the igno- minious attitude herein striven to be imposed upon him, those who know him best profess themselves most reluctant to believe. In every past occasion of his life his abilities have risen equal to the emergency and his courage has sustained him at its height. His conclusions may have been right or wrong, but he has never lacked dignity in their assertion, nor is he a creature of yesterday, to be overawed by either Butler or Stevens. In his person a great issue is at stake, and he cannot be false to the trust. As the highest representative of that co-ordinate branch of the government which we typify as the ermine, he must see that itis neither torn from his shoulders by lawless violence nor sullied while he wears it. It is his duty not to waive the prerogative of summing up the facts put in evidence and expounding the law as applied thereto. He must stand between the body of Senators and their own passions, putting out of their sight all portions of the testimony which are not relevant or have not been sustained, and placing before them, in brief and lucid form, a condensation of such points as are material, with his decision as to the legal considerations upon which their verdict must be founded. It will be one of his first necessities to define the technical signification of the words “high crimes and misdemeanors ;” and upon that in- terpretation, as a point of law, his ruling must be supreme and cannot be questioned by the Senate. If the acts charged against the Presi- dent do not fall within the definition laid down by the Chief Justice, then the trial fails. If they do, then it will be for the Senators to say whether President Johnson has been guilty of those acts or not. In the course of such a summing up the Chief Justice will be afforded a noble oppor- tunity to vindicate the conduct of the govern- ment during the war, when every act necessary “for the safety of the nation” was not only jus- tifiable, but commendable as the highest duty of patriotism ; and to contrast with this honorable record, in which his own part was so illus- trious, the misconduct’ of our present Jacobin rulers, who perpetrate and keep perpetrating, after three years of peace, violations of the constitution more decisive and destructive than were found necessary, during the worst days of the rebellion, by the more wise and moderate administration of which the Chief Justice was one of the highest pillars. ‘During war the laws are silent,” was a maxim which the government of Mr. Lincoln strove to soften as much as possible, rarely invading the just dominion of the civil power except in cases of the last extremity. But with our present Senatorial revolutionists this old maxim has been materially modified, until now it may be said to read:—‘‘After war the laws shall be abolished altogether.” If the Chief Justice be true to his great and shining antecedents he will tower above the puny efforts now being made to narrow down his great office into a blind and dumb figurehead for a tribunal which may be designated a party caucus for the removal of Andrew Johnson. The Reception of Mr. Burlingame at San Francisco. The people of California evidently appre- ciate the importance and value of Mr. Bur- lingame’s mission; for we learn by the news telegraphed from San Francisco and published in yesterday's Heratp that a grand dinner had been given to the Minister by the most prominent citizens of the State. We are all interested in this novel and extraordinary mis- sion—yes, the whole civilized world is inte- rested in it—but the people of San Francisco and California are especially so. The “Golden Gate” of California is destined to be the entrance and entrepot of a vast commerce with China and Asia generally, and this mis- sion of Mr. Burlingame will be no doubt the starting point of such a great future. Whilg, therefore, our fellow citizens on the Pacific were honoring Mr. Burlingame from personal regard, the position he occupies gave great éelat to the occasion. But the metchants and citizens of New York, the great commercial metropolis of the country, are also greatly interested in this mission, and onght to ac- knowledge its importance by some suitable demonstration. We have no, faith in the mu- tual admiration entertainments asd speeches generally indulged in by notoriety seekers; but this would be another thing altogether. A grand entertainment to Mr. Burlingame, given by our merchants and prominent public men in New York, would be only a proper acknow- ledgment of the great honor conferred upon one of our citizens by the Emperor of China, and would have a good effect both in China and in Europe. We throw out this sug- gestion to Mr. A. T. Stewart and other promi- nent merchants, to Mr. Westray and others in tae China and Lodia tiade, ( she Chambdr. Commerce, the East India Telegraph Company, and to all others interested in the development of our trade and intercourse with China. Let us have something worthy of New York and the occasion. From the brief telegraphic re- port of Mr. Burlingame’s speech at San Fran- cisco we may expect something more from him highly interesting and useful. The mission he was on, he said, ‘‘meant progress, the adop- tion of international law, peace, commerce, and the unification of the human race.” Let us do what we can to help this grand object. The Jobs at Albany—The Croton Aque- dact Bill. The session of the Legislature, already too long protracted, must soon close; but in its last hours a desperate effort will be made to push through the worst of the jobs that still re- main on the files unacted upon. Among these is the bill to abolish the present Croton Aque- duct Board and to provide for the appointment of a new commission. The real object of this measure is made manifest in the provision of the bill which deposes the chief engineer of the department as a member of the Board and makes him simply an employé. The present commission is composed of Messrs. Stevens and Darragh, one a democrat and the other a republican, and Mr. Craven, the chief engineer. The two former gentlemen have managed the general affairs of the department in a straight- forward manner, as prudent and competent men would conduct their own private business; while to Mr. Craven has been entrusted the entire control of the practical matters that come properly within the province of the engi- neer. The long experience, superior ability and unswerving integrity of Mr. Craven have been of incalculable advantage to the city, and the honorable and independent course of all the members of the Board has secured to the Croton Aqueduct Department a good reputa- tion in a municipal government notoriously ex- travagant and corrupt. The first step to be accomplished by those who now desire to obtain control of the de- partment is to get rid of Mr. Craven. His intimate knowledge of the whole work- ing of the business, and his familiarity with all the wants, expenditures and leakages of the department, would render it impossible that any great amount of fraud could be per- petrated, in contracts or otherwise, so long as he retained possession of his present position. Hence the proposition and the bill to depose the chief engineer from the board of directors and to make him simply an employé of the department—a move that would at once dis- pose of Mr. Craven. With a convenient en- gineer of their own choosing the new Board, composed of politicians, would make the Croton Department one of the most lucrative in the city, and the cost of its management would be increased at least half a million dollars yearly. There is no reason why any change should be made in this department, and every argu- ment is in favor of leaving it untouched. The pretence of a desire to make the Board non- partisan isa sham anda frand. The present Board is non-partisan, and it is its firm refusal to prostitute the patronage of the department to any political objects, one side or the other, that has induced the politicians to endeavor to get it within their grasp. No complaint is made against the present management, and the people know that the water tax is about the only tax they pay that is well earned and honestly expended. The opportunity for plunder is probably greater in the Croton Department than in any other in the city, and it is notorious that a change in the present construction of the commission would be simply an increase in our taxation to the amount of half a million to one million dollars a year. The republican Senators who prate about the corruptions of our city government are asked to support this scheme of fraud and plunder. It cannot be consummated without their votes. Let us see if they will venture to put themselves on record in favor of such a measure. Susrension or Waiskey DIstTiLLertes.—It appears that the whiskey frauds have be- come so incorrigibly large that the distilleries in the city have been all shut up by order of General Hillyer, and are to be kept closed until the liquor ceases to be sold at a price less than the duty of two dollars a gallon. This is, no doubt, an effectual way to put a stop to illicit distillation, but it cuts off the revenue as well as the manufacture. If no whiskey is made of course there will be no duty paid, and many honest distillers will have to suffer—that is, if the Internal Revenue law has left any such on the surface of Manhattan Island. The trouble, however, seems to lie more with the revenue officers than the distillers, and if the former were ‘‘suspended” instead of the distil- leries, or a more reliable class of men put in their places, there might be no necessity for this sweeping measure of putting a stop to a leading branch of manufacture. | Mr. Netson’s ALARM.—Mr. Nelson, the counsel for the President, is as uneasy in re- gard to Butler as Senator Sumner is; but his uneasiness is of another sort. Sumner smells gunpowder, but Nelson has his thonghts on spoons. Sumner sees the fierce and bloody- minded Butler leading up his powder ship to the great concussion and says to himself, ‘What will this man not do?” Nelson sees Butler as the hero of New Orleans; he hears injured housekeepers crying out for missing silver on Butler's departure, and he muses, ‘‘What wil) this man not take and keep?” Thus the figure of Butler, as conjured up in the mind of Nelson, is quite dissimilar from that conjured up in the timid soul of Sumner; and Nelson, in refusing to trust his “‘original papers” in Butler's hands without calling public notice to the circum- stance, proves that he best understands the hero of all the battles of the war. Greetey Victortovs.—We understand that in alate caucus of “the powers that be” at Washington, on the subject of “Old Ben Wade's” Cabinet, it was agreed that Greeley must come in. Very good. But we would still admonish ‘‘Old Ben” that he must not for- get it, if he would have any peace in the family. A Goop Birt—The bill which has passed the Legislature, and which may be pronounced a law, to afford the same facilities to passen- gers and freight transported to and from Albany and Troy by steamboat as are afforded to passengers and freight transported by rail- read, Our Interests in Japan. ‘The letter which we printed in yesterday's Huratp from the pen of our special corres- pondent in Japan, regarding the situation in that country, was of a character eminently in- teresting and instructive to the American people. It has become abundantly plain that Japan is in a transition state. For many centuries she has been the most exclusive of all the nations of the earth. Her place on the map was known, but of her history and of the habits and customs of her people the world had remained comparatively ignorant, It was not until 1853 that the country was thrown open to the commerce and enterprise of the modern world. It had, indeed, been visited by Euro- Pean travellers previous to that date. Marco Paulo was the bay aphara traveller who brought home with any substantial facts. Mendez Pinto followed him in 1542. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary, followed in 1549. A commercial treaty was effected by the Dutch as early as 1600. An Englishman of the name of William Adams was wrecked on its shores in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth. Adams was taken into favor by the Emperor of that time, and the result was @ commercial treaty with England, which, however, was broken up early in the reign of James the First. The Dutch and the Portu- guese have never been absent from that coun- try since those early times; but in spite of their presence Japan was practically a scaled book until 1853. In that year our Commodore Perry entered the harbor of Jeddo, charged by his government to open commercial nego- tiations with the government of Japan. A commercial treaty was concluded in the follow- ing year. Similar treaties were afterwards concluded by the Japanese government with Great Britain, with France and with Russia. To the foreign influence brought to bear upon the country since the conclusion of those treaties the revolution through which Japan is now passing is mainly due. We have no special interest in the troubles of other countries. Happily, we have no need to hunger for territory. Our immense terri- tory, however, should not be allowed to blind us to onr wants as a great commercial nation. We have interests in Japan and in China more vital than any of the nations of Europe. Des- tiny has marked out the North Pacific as our own. In that sea we will permit no rivalry. It is to become to all intents and purposes an American lake. It is our duty to attend to and to provide for the future. Japan is in that peculiar condition in which we can make good our position. The success of Perry’s expedi- tion gave us a vested interest in that country. But while England is busy, diplomatically and otherwise, advancing her interests, while France is increasing her fleet in Japanese waters, and while Russia is cultivating her in- terests in the northern portion of the empire, we stand idly by. This must notbe. Wecan- not afford to fling away now what in after years it may cost much blood and treasure to bring back. We do not want Japanese territory, but we do wish to benefit by Japanese trade. The European Powers must not be allowed to take an undue advantage, and it is our duty and our interest to see that they do not. We insist that in Japan we be more effectively repre- sented diplomatically, and that in Japanese waters our fleet be largely increased. Mr. Samner’s Fears. Senator Sumner is'in a state of great alarm. He is afraid there will be a fight. No one else is afraid of it; but, then, no one else has such feeble nerves as the illustrious type of Massa- chusetts greatness; no one else is so easily frightened, not to put too fine a point on it; no one else has such keen eyes and ears for danger as this wise man, who only a short time since “‘heard a lion in the lobby roar,” when there had been nothing of the feline family larger than a tomcat in that vicinity for months. Mr. Sumner is, perhaps, the only man on the surface of the earth who believes that Butler would fight under any provocation or for any reason whatever ; and for this credu- lous simplicity, this infantile faith that the other great man of Massachusetts means some- thing when he utters his forensic thunder and looks big, the Senator deserves to be written down as the most unsophisticated youth in the capital. Let Sumner be comforted. Butler will not be lost to the country through any untimely exhibition of valor. He will not fight, nd¥ even by the “method of concussion.” Has he not made his reputation as the engineer hoist by his own petard? Is he not already eternally written down as the great concusser of the age? And why should he go on gather- ing more laurels, having already more than enough? He is safe, Let Sumner, therefore, be comforted, or let some one give him a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup. The Cotton Planters’ and Manufacturers’ Association. The meeting at the St. Nicholas Hotel the other evening of Northern cotton mannfac- turers and Southern planters and manufactu- rers for the promotion of their mutual in- terests, was the inauguration of « very impor- tant movement, as it resulted in establishing a “National Association of Cotton Planters and Manufacturers.” Rightly managed this organi- zation may become eminently useful to the country in developing the cotton culture and manufacture to the fullest extent in this coun- try, and especially down South. The time has come when we may undertake not only the ex- tension of the cotton culture to an average of five million bales a year, but the working up of the whole production in our own mills, from the coarsest fabrics to the finest df which cotton js the raw material. And as the cotton growing States have all the advantages of cheap and abundant subsistence and fuel, and any amount of water in or near to every cotton district from North Carolina to Texas, with no freezing up in the winter, we cannot understand why there should be even to-day only one Southern cotton factory where there ought to be twenty. The time is approaching when, instead of shipping off the raw material from the cotton States to Old England or even New England, to be worked up into goods for Southern consump- tion, the South will be not only the great cot- ton growing but the great cotton manufacturing centre of the world. They have greater ad- vantages and facilities around our Southern cotton plantations for cotton mills at a cheaper running expense than are possessed in any other section of either hemisphere. They only want a little ready capital to start upon, and 4 strong tidal wave of immigration trom Evxppe | and the North to bring out the Wealth of the soil in other besides cotton, in order to astonish the world during the present gene- ration with the stupendous resources of our Southern States. If this National Associa- tion proceed upon this. jdea they will surely prosper. ; The Whiskey Tax—Inability of the Govera- ment te Collect It. The Revenue Commissioner (Wells) makes @ surprising statement with regard to the whiskey tax. The Secretary of the Treasury estimated the yearly income from this tax at fifty millions of dollars, but it appears from the receipts up to the present time, and a fair pro rata of what will come in, that the in- come will be only twelve millions, or about a million a month, Thus there will bea defi- ciency at the end of the fiscal year of thirty- eight millions from this article alone. Fifty millions was a very low estimate if the whole of the tax or nearly all were collected; for there is a consumption of fifty millions of gal- lons a year at least, and this at two dollars a gallon, which is the tax, ought to yield a hundred millions of dollars. Yet the govern- ment will only receive twelve millions. This is a frightful state of things. It shows that the government has become so ipefficient and cor- rupt that we are fast tending to utter lawless- ness and anarchy. It is all very well for some to say the tax is too high, and that if it were lower there would be less fraud and more revenue; but this is doubtful. The official rascals and the rascally distillers would defraud the government just the same. In Great Britain and other countries a heavy tax is imposed on spirits, and yet it is collected. Why can it not be so here? The confession of inability to collect the whiskey tax is a terrible reproach to our government and is fearfully demoralizing to the people. To talk of paying the national debt, or even the interest on it, besides providing for the current expenses of our extravagant govern- ment, under such a state of things is prepos- terous. With the taxes taken off manufactures for the special benefit of New England, and off other articles to the amount, in all, of a hundred millions or more, and with the extraor- dinary falling off in the estimated revenue from whiskey, how can the government meet the demands upon it? With every prospect of increased expenditures to maintain military rule over the South and to support the negroes, as well as to meet the reckless appropriations of Congress, there must be an empty Treasury and a deficiency at the end of the year. In- flation of the currency will become a financial necessity of the government as well as a poli- tical necessity of the radical party in power. We advise all prudent people to look out for the breakers ahead ; for we are fast drifting to times of excitement, to be followed by a fearful smash. P : An Account of New York City. A committee of the Legislature is provoked to utter these words by considering the Tax Levy :— The clamorous who make an outcry against the increasing taxatiomin the Empire State and the Em- pe City generally belong to a class who seem ta forget that the city is no longer a mere town, of vil- lage necessities, but has become an immense metro- lis, whose main highway, which is lighted with gas, 3 twelve miles long, and whose improving streets, and avenues continually require extensive repairs, cleaning and sewering; whose water front is thirty miles long, contributing to the commerce of the world, and whose executive and judicial officera transact business the cares and results of which affect millions of property and persons—a metropolis: which, in the words of his Excel.ency the Governor, mm a recent Taeanage, is one “wherein business ex- pansion, commercial growth and almost marvellous: enterprise are the daily experience.” The committee forgot to add some items to this development of the greatness of the city. All the aldermen are left out, and the whole company of ring makers, and this is the most expensive part of our development. Moreover, in mentioning the length of our principal street and the extent of our water front as reasons for the size of the Tax Levy, the committee forgot to mention that the condition in which both street and water front are kept proves that but little of the money is spent on them. Tue Street CLeanine Contract IN TAE LeGistaturg.—Senator Crowley has intro- duced a bill into the Legislature in the last agonizing throes of its existence which, as a humanitarian measure, should be acted upon before the session closes. It provides that the streets of New York shall be cleaned according to contract; that the citizens of the metropolis, having been taxed heavily for the purpose of paying contractors, whose duty it is to keep the city clean and protect them from epidemics, shall be secured in their rights and not left to the mercy or cupidity of the con- tractor. This bill should be pushed through before the Legislature dissolves. It is of more importance to this city that the streets should be cleaned than that a thousand and one rail~ road jobs should be carried to completion. GenrraL Hanoock.—A friend of General Hancock assures us that he is stronger for the democratic nomination than we suppose; that he will get the votes (leaving out Missouri) of fourteen of the Southern States in convention, and Indiana and Pennsylvania for a beginning, and that New York will probably turn the scale in his favor. But the Western copperheads will not touch Hancock. They will not play second fiddle to Grant. So, then, the only chance for a democratic compromise upon epaulettes is the first fiddle of the Navy, brave Latest Dopek oF THE IMPRAcHERS.—The latest dodge of the impeachers is the amend- ment to the rules submitted by Senator Sum- ner, providing that any question which may arise in the final deliberation relative to the judgment shall be determined by a majority in- stead of two-thirds of the members present, But Mr. Davis objected and the amendment went over, thus rendering ineffectual this freah attempt to choke off and gag Chief Justice Chase, the possible influence of whose charge, “according to the law and evidence,” is mani- festly dreaded by the impeachers, TWE WEW YORK HERALD AND ITS ABYSSINIAN DESPATCHES. (From the Philadelphia Ledger, Aprti 30.) The New YORK HERALD has several times within the past few weeks issued quadruple sheets in order to accommodate its advertisers. In these cases its daily issue has been a paper of sixteen pages, corre- sponding with the usual daily issue of the London constant despatches from the British Abyssinian @X-| edition in advance Of all others; and it has evom! the London spatches, ‘These achievements renect. great UPR Whe | ,