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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON “BENNETT, RROPBIETON. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. i Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- » 128 AMUSEMENTS ‘THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, | Bropdway.- FRENCH THEATRE.—Son Teresa. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Broadway. tax Wire FAWN. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— MASKS AND Facrs. Homery Domery BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—WA11Ack—CAPratn Kyrp—JOLLY BEN BOWLINE. BROADWAY THEATRE, . Broadway. CONNIE SooGan. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. — Panis anp HELEN. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Haxpy ANDY Inten Kaiarayt. IRVING HALL.—Buinp Tom's Concent. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—-Baiiky, FARCE, &. KRULY & LEOWS MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. SONGS, KoogNTmorrtTs, &e.—GRAND DUTCH SAN_FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadw: VIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic Fopanism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, dc. urs, F. B. CONWA‘'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNDER THE GasiiaHt, KBUROPFAN CIRCUS, pasaway and 34th street, -EQUES- ‘TRIAN PERFORMANOR, LIVING ANIMALS, &C. HOOLEWS OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-ETHioriaNn MINSTRELSEY—PANORAMA-—PROGEESS OF AMFLICA. HALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.--PANORAMA OF Tit WAR. NEW YORK M''SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— | SOIRNOE AND Aw TRIP LE. s HE E ‘New York, | Tonewday, May A 1868, T. IMPEACHMENT. Im the High Court yesterday Mr. Bingham con- | cluded his address, and at the peroration a round of | ‘applause greeted him from the galleries. Chief Jus- ‘NEW. YORK HERALD, _THURSD: AY, MAY 7, 1963 TRIPLE, SIIRET, : | Pleading cufity, he was remanded to the xe olslbdgiee the United Staves Marshal, No day fixed for trial, ‘The case of ex-Deputy Collector John S. Allen and | Richard C. Envight was ealled wp yesterday after- | Noon iu the United States District Court, Brooklyn, butwas adjourned, at the request of the counsél for | Vhe parties named | the defence, until noon to-day. | with executing fraudulent bonds for distillers in security to the govermnent for the payment of the tax on whiskey, charging the Grand Jury until to-day, was formally adjourned, and the United States Cireult Court was not opened for business, the Judges in each case be- | ing in attendance at the funeral of the late Mr, Larocque. The stock market was dull, but on the whole steady yesterday, Government securities were firm, | Gold closed ai 13934. | Tlie jury in the Cole trial were still undecided on a | verdict yesterday, Special telegraphic advices from Cuba state that the press representatives had been refused permis- sion to telegraph the account of the late outrage upon the American Consul, Secre- tary Seward has telegraphed to the consul that ex- traordinary measures have been taken by this gov- ernment to redress his grievance. Balmaseda, who is acting in Captain General Lersundi’s absence, gave @ very equivocal answer to the consul’s demands in the matter, ave telegraphic advices from Mexico city to the 29th ulf, and Vera Cruz tothe 2d inst. The law of January, 1865, had not been repealed. Several arrests of liberal officers had taken place, Order had been restored in Sinaloa and Guerrero. Private flying’ before a popular revolution in the capital. Governor Rubi bad entered Mazatlan and re-estab- lished the S.ate government. Chief Justice Chase and the Presidency. Chief Justice’ Chase stands prominently before the country to-day as the people's can- didate for the Presidency. Having apparently | dismissed the Presidency from his thoughts, he | is immeasurably nearer to that high office | now than he ever was during the years he | sought it. His honest purpose to administer | the law impartially in this gréut trial—a pur- | pose that has been evident from the first day— | commends him to that sincere respect in all | thoughts that is of more value to a man than | all party successes, all the manipulation of | cliques and caucuses that usually makes the | fortune of candidates. He has won the peo- ple; he has made himself the man of the people, not by promises, not by bargains and compacts, but by showing indisputably that he stands above all these. time ago made Grant seem the great inevitable man of the future? It was that he had the all parties. He was a man standing alone— broad, grand, national, and differing from all other men in nothing so much as in tice Chase immediately ordered them to be cleared, ‘which was done amid great confusion, the diplomatic | nd reporters’ galleries being included in the order. | In the secret session which ensued the order of | ‘Senator Edmunds to admit oficial reporters to the | Jinal deliberations wis laid on the table, and no | action was taken on the order of Mr. Sumner relative | ‘to the mode of voting on the final judgment. Senator Feasenden’s alleged defection has made a radical change in the prospect, and in Washington | yesterday bets were made of five to one against con- vietion. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday nothing was doue outside of the Impeachment business, In the House, after returning from the Senate Chamber, Mr. Eldridge suzgesied that no busi- ness could be transacted until the Senate, which was then in secret session, should | adjourn, Mr. Stevens was given permission to make a personal explanation on the Alta Vela question, tn which he stated that he signed su opinion on the subject, at the request of Mr, Gar- field, that he had no idea it was to be taken to the | President, but that he had nothing to retract in the matter, He ventured upon some abuse of Mr. | Nelson, of the President's counsel, when he was called to onder by the Chair, and Mr, Eldridge suggested that he withdraw the tenth | article of impeachment. The consideration of Mr. Cary’s proposition to withdraw the tenth article of impeachment was resumed, and it was neatived by & Sirict party vote. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday several bills of au unim- portant character were passed: the conference re- ports on the tax levy were concurred in, and at halr- Past two the Senate was declared adjourned sine dic. In the Assembiy bills to amend the code of pro cedure and for other purposes not of general inter- est were passed. The reports of conference com- inittees on the tax levies were concurred in, and also ine report on the State Charity bill, The Committee on Federal Relations made a report and the Assembly a ljourned sine die, | Correct transcripts of the New York city and coun- ty tax levies, as finally adopted by the Legislature, ‘will be found elsewhere In our columns this morn- ing. EUROPE. that he stood aloof from party; and they were nothing without their peculiar party power. Grant was the national man, Chase was the leading radical. But what a change a few weeks have made! Grant, with all his silence, with all his cautious reserve, has said enough to satisfy radicalism that he is a candi- date to suit it ; and by his relations to party men, by the readiness with which he has fallen into ' radical reconstruction plans, he is seen to be to- | day the creature, the tool, if not the bond slave of the nigger supremacy faction; while Chase | stands supremely above all public men of the country : | make a tool, one who will accommodate him- self to no will less broad and patriotic than that | of the whole people. | change of places, and with this advantage to | | the country—that the man who now stands above party, whom the people can trust with all the honors and duties of the highest place | in their gift, is 2 statesman of ripe experience, | great study and mature wisdom; one whom the | people may with pride compare to the Presi- | | dents that governed in the earlier times of the | republic, Impeachment has done all this, and bas | | “builded better than it knew” toward the | true welfare of the country, It matters little | what may be the fate of its object; for the | important feature in this great legal and | political struggle is that it has tried men that | were not ostensibly on trial. It brought into | one arena all the active elements of our politi- | | cal life, and there, under the direct view of the | country, developed the true nature of each ; and } the most obvious result is that the faction that | would have been dangerous if left to pursue its | schemes quietly has destroyed its own life by | disgusting the people—has forfeited all power to do harm in the future. And thus that ele- are charged in the indictment foand against them | Yesterday the United States District Court, after dis- ) reports were received at Vera Cruz that Juarez was | What was it that a short | respect and confidence of the people as against | the one of whom partisans cannot | Here, then, is a complete | ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated | ment is to be looked upon as a quantity thrown Wednesday, May 6, | ont; it is of no value in political combinations, Napoleon denies that France seeks a mediation | and the republican party is to be esteemed as ‘with Russia between Crete and Turkey. France has | | vroken off relations with (he government of Tunis. ‘roe High Church tories of England assembied in | reat force in London in opposition to the Gladstone ang He Archbishops and bishops were present, ut the meeting was “tumultuons” notwithstanding. | ‘The Hudson Bay territory is ceded to the British | ‘crown, Consols, 157; 294. Five-twenties, and 76% in Frankfort. Paris Hour The United States Minister in Japan demands in- demnity from the Mikado for losses sustained br American citizens at Osaka during the civil war rots. MISCELLANEOUS. 70, im London | all. | South American advices are dated at Aspiuwall on i* | utte the 28th of April. The yellow fever continued to spread in Lima and Callao. There were four hun- dred and sixty deaths by the disease in March, and | Jour hundred and ten during the first ten | April in the two cities, Balia was undeubt- | edly elected President of Peru. Ex-President Yrado has been dismissed from the y by government decree, and his lute Cabi- ‘net and staf discharged from oMce. In the state of Bolivar an insurrection was gotten up, but promptly put down by the militia, The ceo tives were accused of being at the bottom of iw trouble, but it was denied by the leading conserva tives. days of Advices from Central Ameriea bring us details of an important treaty concluded between the govern mont of that republic and the United States, | samuel Mills was hanged in Franconia, Mase, yes: | torday for the brutal murder old man named of an Maxwell. On the scaffold te made g Sgt hie qutit and asserting that ne would die Hke a youn. He fell eight feet and death eyened almost in slantancously, his neck being br: ‘The Connecticut Legislature a aud received the message of Gove; ‘The Legislature of Georgia, it is undorat: ony will not require the test oath of members elect, ‘The Texas Reconstruction Convention wit) Die on the Ist of June instead of the isi), A convention of radicals who action of the Republican State Cony « a. Baltimore, M4., yesterday. The Canadian government fas arrose 1 prominent Irishmen and prohibited th aeerine seen! from the niion was held | The steamship Java, for Liverpool, took o 95,000 on freight, in the United States Distriet Court, Brooklyn, Jivige Denedict presiding, Willem Cileht ist, char With defrauding the government of the fevene tar due on the manufacture of whiskey, Was arraigned qestorday when the indictment was read, and. | should honor | actors and managers than their friendship, but of Fenian newspapers. | purged of those viler forces that were rushing it onward to its own ruin. there is still a great career. But above all parties and partisans this trial has shown the character of Chief Justice Chase, has lifted bin away from party relations and given him to the | people, Let the people take notice of it, as a fact of no slight significance, that this man's | | | course on this trial has procured for htm | the enmity of all those men who want | to govern the country “outside the constitn- Radicalism in its most approved type | its denunciations of thi« man, and that | is bis commendation to the people. It dreads him, and that is the best reason why the people At the same time that the | worst man in the worst faction is ‘making up | his quarrel with Grant” his associates come | perforce to open iasue with Chief Justice Chase, ind both events are fall of instruction for the | people, Around this ruling character a new | party a ory stallizes—-the people's party & par imitted to all the good results of the war, hut fighting to the death all those pitiful wret that would make reconstruction 4 and forfeit the national , ing it lead to the destr Such a party, with Chief Justic ' ie candidate, and some stanch sol- n, Schofield or Meade | pre vic the «, Sherk ket. can sweep the country, et men of the United States Senate will bold to their resolve to put down the radical desperadovs BRLEGREENT Actors A WARNING PO Dita. Matto Orrvics.— Musical and dramatic critics, in the faithful discharge of their duties, more frequently incur the i-will and enmity of the latter parties seldom resort to auch meane of ‘ing their displensure as the hueband of | * German actres# employed on Tuesday night | towards the critic of a German paper, in front For such a party | was leaving the theatre and béat him in an un- be puta stopto at onee. Crities have suffi- ciently onerous duties to perform without being liable to wanton assault and injury for the frank expression of their opinions. There, is always a satisfactory court of appoal against | them for the wronged aotor or manager, Their | employers and the public are a sufficient safe- | gaard for the genuineness of their criticisms. | The National Debt Statement and Financial Prospect Befere Us. Mr. McCulloch makes slow progress in the | reduction of the national debt, notwithstanding the extraordinary amount of taxes imposed and the vast income of the government for the last few years. lished yesterday it appears that on the 1st of this month the debt was, in round numbers, after deducting the cash in the Treasury, two thousand five hundred millions, On the 1st of and twenty millions, "That is; there has been the last year. This ie a very ‘small amount, if even it wore an actual reduction in the burden of the debt, considering the immense income and resources in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury. But the debt has been only nominally reduced twenty millions, while the miserable financial policy of Mr. McCulloch has vastly increased its weight. Ontof the twenty | millions reduced about eleven millions were of } the debt bearing no interest, and consequently amount. Thus about seven millions only of the interest bearing debt have been liquidated last year. But against this we find that Mr. McCulloch’s transformation of the currency interest bearing debt to the gold interest debt, to the amount of over a hundred and thirty millions, makes the burden over six millions a year greater than it was before, which is equal to an addition of a hundred millions to the bulk of the debt, That is, the country is relieved | merely of the interest on seven millions dollars in currency a year, while by the change of four hundred and thirty millions of currency interest to the gold interest debt the annual payment is increased about six millions and a gold, to pay six millions and a half more inte- rest on the debt this year than we had to pay last year. This isthe way in which Mr. McCul- loch’s figures misrepresent facts, and such is | the wretched and ruinous mismanagement of our national finances in the hands of this incom- petent Secretary, } has appointed and instructed a sub-committee totake into consideration a revision of the tariff, with a view to provide for anticipated deficien- cies in the revenue, It may well be alarmed as to the future. The reduction of the revenue to | the amount of a hundred millions a year, by the law recently passed exempting manufactures | from taxation, and from other measures lately extravagance are kept up, will certainly leave a frightful deficiency, If Mr. MeCull with | lionsa y a few millions, while at the same time he actu- millions, how is it possible to meet the demands of government with a revenue cut down a hup- dred millions or more? Congress may try to i | bridge over the difficulty (ill afier the Presiden- | tial election, and probably by an inflation of | the currency; but this would only be a tempo- | rary expedient. A bankrupt treasury must be | the consequence, which will be followed by such a revulsion and crash as have never been witnessed, perhaps, in this country before. A reckless and corrupt Congress and an incapa- | ble Secretary of the Treasury are hurrying us | on to this inevitable result. Southern = Anarchy—“sSomehedy’s Leave.” | The results of the late elections, for all prac- Gat to Georgia and Louisiana, appear, after all, to be pretty thoroughly radical. The democrats in various districts ; but, doubtless, they will end in smoke, The simple trath is that the outside Southern States are in that condition of | political demoralization which may be pro- | nounced Southern anarchy. The new organi- | vation of parties, from Virginia to Texas, on the dividing line of race and color, has brought | about a state of things which has been aptly | described by a philosophical African in these suggestive words :—‘‘De fac’ is, we's beginnin’ | to tink dere is too many kinds of people down Dere is de whites an’ de blacks an’ de | Dat's too many to git along well, yer. Yankees, an’ somebody's got to leave.” vading idea of Southern society to-day—‘*some- body's got to leave:” and this is the idea which underlies all the political movements on | both sides in the States concerned directly in this business of reconstruction, and it ia at the bottom of all these secret Southern political associations, such as the Loyal Leagues and Ku Klux Klans, The existing law and order of the South is sitnply a suspension of hostili- ties between the whites and blacks in the pre- sence of the United Sirtes army, The whites, chafing wader the sstonn: and white distrancbi-en | mood for anything like fraternizg and the | ignorant blacks, presnining upon their strength | at the polls and the protection of Congress, | and full of falee notions of equality, are ready for anytbing in the 1 voution of thie terribly significant idea that mebody's got te leave.” The solution of this problem will not, per> haps, appear, ull afi the restoration of , the States concerned to both houses of Congress, as reconstructed under the radical programme. Phen, under the belief that «il the Southern troubles are over, there will doubtless be ® considerable movement in the tide of Northern emigration, white and black, from the West to considerable selling out and exodus of Sontlt- ern white landholders for come other country : for under negro supremacy. if established on the restoration of these ee with the army still om. hand to enforce it, the Southern whites, | of the German theatre, ‘The: irate husband, | hettled. it is enpposed, at some adverse criti clam on his wife whieh had appeared in the | in numerous moving detachments, will settle the question that ‘somebody's got to leave.” Will the South, theo, hecome an African para- merciful manner. This ‘Ku Klux Klan” style | of doing things in the theatrical world should . From the official statement pub- | May last year it was two thonsand five hundred | a reduction, apparently, of twenty millions in | the people were relieved of no burden to that | paid, amounting to seven hundred thousand | half. We are required, at the present price of | It is said the Committee of Ways and Means | passed, while the enormous expenditures and | an income of five hundred to six hundred mil- | “ar, cannot reduce the debt more than | ally increases the yearly interest six to seven | | tical purposes, in North and South Carolina, | This is the per- | n¢ innovations of | ro equality and oniversal negro suffrage | « are not in the | the South, and then we may expect to see a) cal reconstruction? From present appear- ances it will not be an inviting region for set- } tlement to. any white man who is not prepared | for negro supremacy in the State and negro equality in the family; but ‘it isa long lane that has no turn,” Massachusetts on i gnseanciiontininl Laws Position of Senators Sumner and Wilson. The position assumed by the two impeach- | ment Managers, Messrs, Butler and Bing- | ham—that the President has no power or | right to question the constitutionality of the | Tenure of Office law—and the very great proba- | | bility that Senators Sumner and Wilson hold the same opinion, revive some historical recol- lections which will be found quite appropriate | at the present time. When the Legislature ‘of | Massachusetts in 1855 passed the ‘Personal | | Liberty bill” over the veto of the Governor this action was defended on the ground that the Fugitive Slave law was unconstitutional, and, consequently, null and void. Now, it must be remembered that the Supreme Court of the United States had not declared the law uncon- | stitutional. Massachusetts, in her sovereign | capacity, pronounced it so, declared that it should not be enforced on her soil, and by means of the law referred to inflicted severe punishments and heavy fines upon all who at- tempted to obey it. The only justification of | this virtual nullification of a law of Con- gress consisted in the assertion that every State had the power and right to question the constitutionality of a law and to resist its enforcement until the Supreme Court decided whether it was or was not con- | stitutional, Did the President take so ad- vanced a position as that with the Tenure of | | Office law? Did he resist its enforcement to | a8 great an extent as the State of Massachu- | setts resisted the enforcement of the Fugitive | Slave law ? It is of interest in this connection to know what the position and views of Senators Sumner and Wilson were at the time the Personal Lib- erty bill was passed. A member of the State Legislature having expressed the same views referred to in the foregoing paragraph, Mr. Sumner addressed him a letter in which he lauded the speaker for his sentiments and stated that he agreed with them. During the same year | | (1855) Mr. Wilson was elected to the Senate of | the United States, principally because he was, next to Mr. Sumner, the most prominent de- fender and exponent of the principles enun- ciated in the Personal Liberty bill. And these principles, as we have explained already, rested almost entirely on the right of Massachusetts to resist the enforcement of what was deemed an | unconstitutional measure. What, then, to-day | is the position of Senators Sumner and | Wilson? The President’s alleged violation | of the Tenure of Office law is identical with | Massachusetts’ violation of the Fugitive Slave luaw.. An enforcement of the one would affect Mr. Johnson more than would the en- forcement of the other; for where the one reduces the executive officer of the nation to the condition of the creature of his own crea- tion, the other affected only abstract ideas and | principles, Is it criminal in the Chief Magis- | trate of the nation to resist an attempt to make him subservient to his own subordinate, and ! proper for a State to resist the execntion of a | law intended to protect citizens in their right to a ccriain kind of property? Both laws were passed by Congress; one is claimed to | be unconstitutional, the other was claimed to be unconstitutional. In all respects, save in the extent of their effect upon the country, both stand identically alike. Senators Sumner and Wilson will soon be called upon to decide whether Mr. Johnson has been guilty of the high crimes and misdemeanors charged against him, We would advise them, when their names are culled, to remember the position | they held in 1855, to explain wherein Mr, | Johnson has offended to a greater extent than | | did Massachusetts, and to reflect, before voting . | for conviction, that in so doing they declare | themselves having been guilty, thirteen years ago, of treason to the constitnti on and laws of the United States. { The Brooks-Butler Squabble. 1 ow the Donnelly-Washbu here and there are putting in complaints of | Hollowing ing Se vara cuae Ste frands, and investigations will probably follow | the House on Tuesday last devoted itself to | the Brooks-Butler squabble. Mr. Butler, some | days before, had referred to the Clarke suit | against the Brooks brothers of the Hzpress in a way which broadly intimated that they had | robbed Clarke, and that the law case growing | out of the affair, which was brought to him | (Butler), appeared so nasty that he would have | nothing to do with it. Mr. Brooks had retorted substantially that the wrath of Butler again | him arose from the fact that throngh his | (Brooks’) instrumentality Butler had been ; compelled by the courts to disgorge some sixty thousand dollars extoried by him as military ommander at New Orleans from a New Yorker Upon this charge Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, in behalf of Mr, Butler, moved « special inquiry through a select com- mittee of the House. Mr. Brooks moved an amendment to inelude « question of veracity in reference to the Clarke-Brooks lawsuit, and Mr. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, suggested that the whole | administration of the Miliary Department of Now Orleans under Butler ought to be sifted. | Mr, Beck, of Kentucky, inquired if the misap- | propriation of spoons and other articles of silver plate would be included in the investiga- : but the question was declared unparlia- ntary. Finally the resolution of Mr, Dawes wus adopted, and the injured Butler is to have the benetit of a special committee of inquiry into the Brooks allegation touching that aforesaid item of sixty thousand dollars, This affair is one of the outeroppings of the impeachment of Andrew Johneon, and it is but a bagatelle to the budget of charges and investigations and wrath and vengeance in the republican camp, which we may look for after the winding np of thie impeachment farce in the Senate. Tak Rapieats Frienrenny.—The radicals | are badly frightened at the unexpected turn of | the tide in the Senate on the impeachment. Feasenden’s position in favor of the acquittal | of the defendant has terribly shaken their con- fidence in the final result. If Fessenden flies | | off at a tangent what security is there for | | Anthony, or Spragne, Frelinghuysen, or Shertnan, or Trumbull, or Powler, or Grimes, or Van Winkle, or Henderson, or Rows — | all supposed to have their constitutional , | scruples and donbis as to the sufficiency of | these impeachment charges? The case begins | or | cellent. radical fanaticism and his high-reaching ambi- tion for the Presidency first, in the place of Andrew Johnson, and the Vice Presidency next, on the ticket with Grant, are operating powerfully against Johnson's removal. Hence | the howling of the radical organs over ‘‘trai- tors” and “infamy” and such things—a howl- ing which will probably be followed by “‘weep- ing and wailing | and gnashing of teeth.” Government meceniandasinn in Japan—How the Social System Is to Be Reformed. The Japanese revolution, which has effected a radical change in the-system of government of the empire by the deposition of the Tycoon, appears to have been a well considered move- ment, necessitated by the exigencies, political and social, of the people, and executed in their behalf with the view of the obtainment of a large amount of future good. The “managers” who conducted the case against the Tycoon appear to have exercised a sound judgment, after anxious and mature deliberation, in a calm, unselfish and broadly patriotic manner, They did not thrust themselves forth as a leagued band of unreasoning fanatics hunger- ing for the reversion of the ‘“‘spoils,” but as an educated party of native gentlemen seeking to benefit their fellow men by lighten- ing their citizen’s burdens and by the influence of their own counsels and a lead and participa- tion in the dangers of the transition. All this is abundantly proven by our mail reports from Yokohama, which embrace the details of the measures already taken by the Mikado to insure the constitutional recon- struction of the government. The affairs of the country have not been permitted to remain unnecessarily a moment in the disjointed con- dition to which they were reduced by the civil war, but active measures, set forth in } intelligible language, were at once taken to effect. a reunion of the system in an improved, simplified and cheaper form. The manifesto of the Mikado abolishes a number of most expensive and useless offices of state, in order, as the paper says, to ‘‘restore the power of the country.” The sinecure of Sessho, first officer of the court; Kwambaku, Vizier, and Bak-i-fu, paid councillors or ‘lobbymen,” with seven others, the occupants of which con- stituted a sort of military freedmen’s bureau charged to look after the affairs of ‘loyal persons in disturbed districts,” are all abolished forever. A ‘‘first” and “second division” of high dignitaries, who were hitherto paid to assist the Prime Minister, have been sent adrift, and many other spoilsmen’s places closed ; so that, in the words of the imperial manifesto, ‘each one may put forth effort and wash away the customary polluted practices, discharging their duties with true loyalty and patriotism ;” and that “upright counsels be pursued by all without distinction of court dignitaries or military class, or differences of noble or vulgar.” In these few lines, or Japanese resolves, we discern the very essence of true reform, pro- ceeding, as it should, from the ruling power. But this is not all. Convinced that it is useless to build on an unsound or unstable founda- tion, the Mikado seems determined to secure the permanency of his improvyd governmental structure by seeking a reformatisn of the social system—by regulating society itself. Irre- sponsible government being at an end an opportunity is to be afforded to men from all classes of the people to participate in the management of public affairs. The nobility is not abolished, but the order will not be | transmitted exclusively in the families of the present oligarchs, but left open for the attainment of any by good conduct and the exercise and practice of mo- rality. There shall be no class divisions, greater or less, in the nobility; but society at large has been already classified in the orders in which laymen shall rank next to nobles by their avocationss and calling in life, | and from which, as classed, they shall be taken | into the ranks of the aristocracy, This regu- lation of society is curious but exceedingly instructive. The “vulgar”—not a mob—is to include the Samurai, or educated class, which comes first ; next in order are “‘tillers of the soil and miners who raise the produce of the earth, the original creators of wealth;” then ‘artisans who manufacture the raw material,” and lastly and the lowest, ‘‘brokers and merchants whose toil is the lightest and profits an increase on | eoek” Such is the programme of the originators of reconstruction by revolution in Japan. We commend their ideas to the careful considera- tion of the people of the United States, as the | placemen, from Washington to Albany, will, we know, merely ‘pooh-pooh” them. The plan for the reorganization of the civic classes and promotion to the order of nobles is ex- Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli may take hints from it for practice in Enghind; but we fear it will find little favor in Wall street or the circles of American “shoddy.” Suicide and Paria Green. Every one must have observed the remark- able pre of suicide of late, not only in our own vicinity, but all over the country. The mania appears to have seized upon the public, and its causes cannot be traced alone to despondency, which is the natural fruit of peeuniary di ties, or want, or domestic disaster: for it has its origin in another source, and that may be traced in the romance of sui- cide itself as ilustrated by the extraordinary case of the four young girls at Yorkville on Monday. as reported im the columns of the Herat, They had read of suicide by poison, and had seen in the ‘Black Crook” papers illustrations of the suicide of young women by | the fumes of charcoal, and the poor children | thought that it was a very easy and seductive | way of obtaining » sensational posthumous | ; notoriety by eating the arsenic preparation known as Paris green, and thus doing them- selves to death im @ mtomantic fashion. Luckily, the dose proved so nauseous to the first wonld-he victim that the foolish hallucination produced no fatal conse- quences; but the point which it is desirable to make is that deadly poisons are too freely dispensed by careless druggists and their assistants, so that wretched creatures who wish to make away with themselves find every facility at hand, despite the law, which, makes the indiscriminate sale af poison # penal offence. Within the past year or two this Paris green has become a favorite material with suicides, > paper referred to, assaulted the critic when he | | aise or al aaa a this x oi bae of radi- | to look decidedly blue for “Old Ben Wade" and | and, anaes it can be readily purchased, | ‘his’ ultra radical t: ope, and Wade's obnoxious upon one pretéxt or ano‘hor, where prussic acid or laudanum or arsenic are difficult to obtain, It is evident, then, that some measures must be taken to prohibit the sale of this deadly substance; and the only way to accomplish this is to make an example of the parties who dispense it without a full knowledge, as far as can be ascertained, of the partios who buy it and the purposes for which it is to be employed. The suicidal manis has to be treated by law, and the accomplices of the crime who reck- lessly furnish ten cents’ worth of death to 'dis- traught and irresponsible individuals for the paltry profit of the sale, should be restrained by the infliction of severe penalties, The Spring Season for Trotting. The predictions which we ventured to make of a brilliant spring season for trotting have been amply verified. The spirited descriptions in the Heratp of the three remarkable trots on the Fashion Course, and particularly of the trot of Tuesday last, have excited very gen- eral interest. The complete and elaborate article which the Heratp of the 27th ult. devoted to that noble animal, the horse, showing ‘What he is, who he is and what he is worth,” attests the great progress ‘in the breeding of trotting horses in this country since the importation of old Messenger, in 1788 and of Grand Bashaw in 1829, the respective progenitors of the two most prominent breeds of trotting horses at the present time. And the trot of Tuesday last, with its six heats, on the Fashion Course, indicated the degree of enthu- siastic and intelligent eraulation to which turf- ites in town and country have been stimulated ley the increasing improvement of horses of each of these two favorite breeds—the Messen- gers, including the Mambrinos, the Abdallahs and the Hambletonians—and especially the Bashaws, which during the present seakon appear to bear off the palm of superiority. The Bashaws, as the Heratp said the other day, are peculiarly distinguished for docility, beauty of form, elegance of proportion, and a swift, correct and easy style of trotting. Itis beyond a doubt that the active rivalry of the owners of our best trotting horses to secure improvement in point of speed will prove . | favorable to improvement in every other desirable point. The general result will be beneficial on a scale of national importance, inasmuch as trotting, unlike racing, is not a mere aristocratic pastime, but is of direct prac- tical advantage to the productive interests of the country. Our Indian Troubles=The Commission Farce. ‘The present month opened with a fresh budget of Indian atrocities, and the consoling intel- ligence to the Peace Commissioners that their late protégés are continuing their depredations and murdering every white person they can catch, They have a particular fancy for the scalps of the employés of the Pacific Railroad, and in New Mexico they are very fond'of emi- grant trains with small escorts. The latest accounts from the Peace Commission bring us the gratifying news that ‘‘Man-afraid-of-bis horses,” and ‘Red’ Cloud’s” band of Sioux have promised to be good boys for the future.: The amiable ‘Spotted Tail” has not been heard of for some days, but he is supposed to be indulging in a fresh coat of paint preparatory to another tramp on the warpath. What the intentions of ‘‘Blue Bear,” “Turkey “Tomeat” may be, the Commission have no. idea at present, but they confidently recommend “Prairie Wolf’ and “Running Water.” How long is this ridiculous and at the same time expensive farce to last? If we depend on Indian treaties and promises for the preservation of peace and colonization and development of the immense resources of the far West then no set- tler’s scalp will be safe on his head. During the winter, as we have repeatedly urged, bul- lets and cold steel would have settled the ques- tion of security of life and property on the Plains forever, and we should hear no more about “Boiling Kettle” or ‘‘Man-that-walks- under-the-ground.” Now that the grass is on the Plains and the spring gives the redskins « chance of procuring food for themselves and horses, we may rest assured that they will fling treaties and promises to the winds and return to their favorite pastime of murder and pillage. They bury the hatchet only wher they are compelled to-do so on account of supe- rior force or want of provisions. Now they will lead our troops a wild goose chase over the vast plains of the West, and will burn, pillage, scalp and murder in one district while the Quixotic commissioners are hunting for them in another. A short, sharp and decisive cam- paign, in which the only arguments used will be lead and steel, will prove an unfailing guar- antee of peace with the Indians. NEW JERSEY. Jereey Cty. ACHILD Focnpd Dran.—Yesterday afternoon the dead body of a male infant was found lying near the Hamilton Park. The child was much deformed, thongh Co ta ge not from violence. Coroner War- Lor ala the remains and gave a permit for Weehawken.. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED BIRD STEALER.—For some time past some men from New York have spent the Sunday in catching birds in this vicinity. They were frequently visited by Roe ge bg who used to compel them by threats. to deliver unto him his choice of the ered captives. Ove the bird teepyers, however, made his ap} oe before Jus- tice White yesterday and procured 2 Warrant for the arrest of Peters, who is held to await trial, Newark. Sertove RAtLRoap ACCIDENTS—A Connector BavLy [NJuRKD.—Yesterday forenoon, while the | half-past ten o'clock train from New York was pase ing over the Kast Newark turnpike bridge, on the Morris and Essex Railroad, the conductor, Samue? Doty, was seriously, if not dangerously injared. I appears that, while running over the bridge, he neg- lected to remove his head fram ontside the baggage car, im the door of which he was standing, and struck against the trestlework. He was insta 4 hurled backwards, and, on arriving at the depo! moved to the ladies’ waiting room in a state of an. consciousness, Several physicians were called tn, when it was ascertained that the poor fellow was badly injured in the bead. Still unconseious, be Wast conveyed to bis residence in Orange street. Michaei Roe, a youngster residing with his parents on the corner of Church and Crawford streets, while taking a free rule jum from the one o'clock train. on the New Jersey. road, when opposite Hamill. , ton street. He Sup pede plank crossing, and,* rolling under the wi his right lew shoek- ingly mangled, Amputation was subsequently per- formed by Dr, Dodd, t the county physician, Jobn |. Blait, of Biairsviile, is in the list of cand® dates for the radical nomination for Governor of New Jersey. Its understood, that Mr. Blair will not object to the use of his name for that purpose. ‘The same may be said of the following gentiomen:— Charles Eimer, of Cumbevtand; Benjamin @. Clark. of Hudson; General Me.ilister, of Warren; Andrew K. Hay, of Canien, and Vornelins Walsh, of Newark. Senator Thayer, of NAvrnska, dectines hetag con- | sidered & candidate for the radical nomination for the Vice Presidency, and in a letter to the radicat State Convention recommenda Ben Wade for the, second placc,on the Grant ticket.