The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1868, Page 6

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NRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— VcrmNOR any Anr. TRI PLE SHEET. New York, detente. June 6, 1868. THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘the news report by the Atiantic cuble is dated ‘Yesterday evening, June 5. i ‘The Irish Protestant Church Suspensory bill was passed in committee of the English House of Com- mons, Francis Joseph of Austria states that if he refused to sign the bills hostile to the Concordat he should abdicate. So he signed the bills. Congols 947, a 95, ex dividend. Five-twenties 72% in London and 77% in Frankfort. . in the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands closed at Uijd. Breadstuffs dull. Provisions and produce without market change. CONGRESS. Im the Senate yesterday the bill providing that special contracts for payment in coin hereafter made ‘Whall be legal and valid was passed. The bill to ad- wit the Sonthern States was called up. Consider- able discussion ensued on the question of striking out Alabama from the bill, which had been done by the Judiciary Committee, but the Senate finally ad- Journed without taking any action upon it. During the discussion @ committee of conference was or- aered upon the Arkansas bill, and the House amend- ment to the Deficiency Appropriation bill was agreed ww. The latter bill now goes to the President. in the House the report of the conference com- mittee on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed ‘wo. A bill relating to pensions was passed. The jiouse then went into Committee of the Whole on the New Internai Tax bill, The sixth section, which ives the appointment of all revenue officers to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, was stricken out. ‘rhe committee reached the twenty-second section, waking a few unimportant amendments of the vari- ous sections as they discussed them, and at ten «clock the House adjourned. THE CITY. There will be mustc in the Park to-day if the weather is fine, Augustus Bernstein, a Custom Honse broker, doing ‘business at 87 William street, committed suicide at duis residence in Hoboken yesterday by shooting ‘hhimsef in the head. He left afew lines in his own handwriting—“Driven to death; not guilty.” Evi- aience on the inquest went to show that he was divorced from his wife and had overworked himself at his business, in the Supreme Court, General Term, yesterday, Che case of Marsh against Peters and others, a suit in partition, caine up on appeal from an order of the «court below granting an allowance to the platntifr ‘of five per cent on the total amount realized in the partition sale, The court affirmed the order. ‘The case of Robert R. James against Matthew “Westbrook came before the Supreme Court, at Cham- bers, yesterday, on an application by plaintiff to compel a further justification of the defendant's wureties in bail. Plaintiff sues to recover $300 which he had been induced to pay to defendant for a “share” as copartner in @ tea commission business which it was subsequently ascertained had no ex- istence. James afterwards demanded the money, ‘but it was refused, and be had Westbrook arrested on suit. The court decided the security in one in- stance insufficient. The defendant's advertising book, holding forth astounding inducements for in- vestment in every conceivable article, was produced Jn court to show the nature of his ostensible calling. Judges Nelson and Benedict passed sentence yes- terday afternoon upon ti three prisoners recently wonvicted of defrauding the government, in the ‘Waited States Circuit Court. Theophilus C. Callicott, ©x-collector, was sentenced to imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary for two years and to pay a fine wf $10,000; John S. Allen, Deputy Collector, to one year’s imprisonment and a fine of $2,000, and Rich- ard C. Enright to cighteen months’ imprisonment nd a fine of $2,500. An actign to recover $10,000 damage was brought by @ young Man named Willlam Puider against his mother-indaw, Eliza Stoothof, in the Brooklyn City Court yesterday, for inducing kis wife to leave Lim in the month of September, 1564. ‘The Anchor line steamship Europa, Captain Craig, ‘will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow and Liverpool, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Borussia, Captain Franzen, will sail at two P.M. to-day as an extra vessel for Southampton and Ham- vurg. The Cromwell line steamship George Cromweil, Captain Vaill, will leave pier No.9 North river at ‘three P, M. to-day for New Orleans direct. ‘The steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Eaton, ‘will leave pier 96 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga ‘The stock market was irregular and excited yes- terday, Government securities were dull. Gold closed at 190%, MISCELLANEOUS. We have mail advices from Vera Crus to the goth of May. Rivera had pronounced againgt the gov- ernment and taken p ion of the mountain fastnenses of Ajusco, with bé&ween seven and twelve hundred men. He claims to have numerous promi- nent generals co-operating with him. Similar pro- vuneiamientos had been made all over the country. Considerable alarm was manifested in the capital, Murquez, In his published manifesto, denies that he ‘vetrayed Maximilian by refasing to go to bis rescue at Querctaro and giatea Wat he vever received orders to go there, Our special correspondence from China, dated at @long Kong on the 19th of April, furnishes a compre. ‘tensive and most interesting exhibit of the progreas \f «flairé—political, military, industrial and social do the ancient land. Traditions are being hourly evitterated by foreign energy and the work of the raph, the axe, the pick and the pen. England end France continned keen in their diplomatic efforts to seize the profits, England being particularly Anxious Lo pentralize the anticipated eects of the Burlingame mission The marriage of the young ay YORK mth? — ype, Emperor to a tady chosen from one huadied and twenty ‘‘candidates” is reported. Our special correspondent in Yokohama, Japan, Gating on the 27th of April, states that the city was then in posseasion of foreign troops, and, conse- quently, peaceful, American interests were coming prominently forward, and our prestige was already slightly advanced beyond that of Great Britain and France. Our Panama correspondence is dated May 28. A strike bad occurred among the native laborers on the railroad, and the Superintendent had sent agents to the interior to procure fresh hands on contract, The new administration of Colombia under President Gutierrez was progressing quietly, but great poverty ‘was felt throughout the repnblic. our Lima (Peru) correspondence is dated May 14, The celebration of the 2d of May passed off without any disturbance, the proposed ovation to Prado being dispensed with. The electoral colleges are still cast- ing their votes for President, being so far almost unanimous for Balta. The strong probability of war between Chile and Peru was exciting some attention and apprehension. The yellow fever was on the increase, the deaths averaging two hundred and fifty @ day. Among the recent victims were Captain Blakely, inventor of the Blakely gun, and Signor Fortuna, the baritone opera singer, It is no secret that a conspiracy 1s on foot to reinstate Prado. Our Valparaiso (Chile) corresponderice ts dated May 3. Another attempt has been made by the re- presentatives of the United States government to ef- fect a mediation with Spain; but as the war is en- tirely unattended with blood-letting, bombarding or blockading, both belligerents keeping as well out of reach of‘one another as possible, Chile, itis probable, will coolly decline any interference, Considerable ill will existed between Chile and Peru and a col- lsion between the two was considered inevitable in the course of time. The free trade treaty with the Argentine Confederation had been rescinded. The flagship Powhatan, Admiral Dahigren, was in port. Our St, Domingo correspondence is dated May 21, and is of considerable interest, although the main news items have been anticipated by our Gulf cable despatches, Baez and his Cabinet are working hard to effect a permanent alliance with Hayti to develop a comprehensive mining system and to make @ mail and trading centre of Samané. The Cabinet is said to be favorable to the sale of Samané, with the exception of Delmonte. The new constitu- tion substitutes a Senate of seven members for the entire Congress and gives Baez despotic powers, His government has already become unpopular. Our Havana correspondence 18 dated May 30. The news items are generally details of our cable de- spatches. Spanish American gold coin is no longer received in payment of taxes. The new regulations for vessels trading with Cuban ports are given in full. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Collector at New Orleans not to permit either of the iron-clad vessels, the Oneota and the Catawba, to sail, as they are intended for Peru, which country 1s at war with Spain, Newton Crawford, an examiner in the Patent Office, was removed yesterday for.abusive language against the President. ‘The rebel Admiral Senimes and his brother, who are practising law in Mobile, recently asked the Sec- retary of the Treasury to forward them a copy of & certain document which they proposed to use in defending a client who was indicted for selling lot- tery tickets. Mr. McCulloch refused and the Semmes Brothers have written him another letter asserting their right as citizens to the paper in question, and making a peremptory demand for it. Astorm passed over Sandusky, Ohio, yesterday, which did considerable damage to property. The roof of @ qrailroad warehouse was torn off and thrown on a propeller at an adjoining dock, injuring her sertously and dangerously wounding two men. ‘The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad dificulties have been finally adjusted by the action of the com- mittee of New York stockholders who recently visited Davenport, lowa. The board of directors has been reorganized, the stockholders approve of the issue of forty-nine thousand shares of stock, and the road to Council. Bluffs is to be constructed immediately. All suits at law are to be withdrawn and Mr. Tracey retains the management. The Chinese embassy were formally received by the President yesterday. Mr. Burlingame made a short address, to which the President replied. The Cabi- net members were then introduced to the Ambassa- dors, who soon afterwards departed. Dr. Harlow presented to the Massachusetts Medical Society the skull of a man who in 1848 had a three pound tamping iron driven through his cheek and brain, coming out of the centre of his skull smeared with brains and blood, After a long illness the man recovered and died in a cataleptic Mt in May, 1861, twelve years afterwards, The testimony for the prosecution in the Dorn im- peachment case before the State Senate in Albany was closed yesterday. It is believed in Albany that an extra session of the State Senate will soon be called to consider upon Executive nominations made last winter. A despatch from Montreal states that seven hun dred soldiers were to leave that city last night for St. Johns. The Presidential Sitantion—What WI! the Democrats Dot It is to be hoped that the various groups of democratic leaders, though favoring in a spirit of party loyalty several men identified with the past history of the democracy, wil take cognizance of the general sense of the country and will not let their several predilections stand in the way of a nomination so evidently acceptable to the whole mass of the people as to give high promise of success. Senator Hendricks is a great favorite in certain circles, Mr. Seymour in others, and Mr. Pendleton is pressed with peculiar energy by many ad- mirers, while the names of Generals Hancock and McClellan keep in view constant possi- bilities. But the effort to force any of these on the democratic convention will surely excite that very spirit tltat has always been the ruin of the democracy—that spirit which threatens it with the only danger it has to face in this contest. Democracy has only to fear the intense, almost blind and unreasoning loyalty of cliques to some central figure in each. Democratic strength seems always to organize itself in this way around prominent men—for the masses are peculiarly ready to act on the indications of a dominant intellect—and this, as it gives the control always to the best brain in a given circle, is an advantage; but pushed too far it has vicious tendencies; for the innn- merable circles eventually refuse to see any great man but their own, who, looked at from « distance, may he very little; they become absorbed in the pecu- liar purposes and ambitions of one man; they lose the large sympathy that would keep them ia harmony with great national tendencies, lose the party will alto- gether, and are so resolutely carnest to push the fortunes of the chief they stand by that they can understand nothing as defeat but what defeats him, and nothing as victory but the one he wins. Are the adherents of Pendleton, Seymour, Hendricks, Hancock and McClellan now in this position? Are they so wrapped up in the fortunes of these respective candidates that they care not who wins if these are beaten? Is each circle indifferent to whether the party wins or loses ff it cannot win under the leader- ship of the one favorite of that circle? If this is the condition the democratic party has no | future, If the admirers of each candidate go to the convention as the Breckenridge and Donglas men once went to ® conven. tion, caring nothing for the party, moth- ing for the ¢ y, notving whatever for CATIa any interest or idea bul the success of the predétermined name, they might aa wel! stay at home; for this spivit will only make a wild discord, will raise to the highest pitch the ex- citement of party passion, and the consequence will be the nomination of the man who most extremely represents the peculiar views of that party. Such a nomination would be inevitable; for passion is thoroughly honest and uncom- promising and could satisfactorily express it- self in no other way. It needs scarcely to be said that such a nomination would be as un- wise as it would be for the republicans to nomi- nate Wendell Phillips or Ben Butler. An ex- tremist on one side is as unpalatable as an ex- tremist on the other. The people will swallow neither. Perhaps they would even swallow the Down East extremist the most readily ; for we must remember the war and must keep in view that the public mind is ngw unprepared for, if not thoroughly and forevéf averse to an extremist of the contrary direction. Let the democrats remember, therefore, that for one clique to insist upon Pendleton will be only the signal challenging another to insist upon Seymour, another on Hendricks, another on Hancock and still another on McClellan, and that in the obstinate of these sev- eral cliques will originate a storm that will end with the nomination of the worst possible man of all these, or perhaps in one worse than any. But if the democrats look at the situation in any other spirit than that of personal loyalty to their respective candidates—if they consider how the nation stands wavering in its fear of the radicals and waiting for rescue—how easy it will be to win all with some present self-denial—they cannot for a moment enter- tain the purpose to nominate any of the above men. They must forthwith dismiss them from thought upon the simple con- sideration that they could not by any possible means elect any one of them. Such ‘is the pre- sent position of affairs that the democrats must have for their standard bearer a man indu- bitably known to have been in sympathy with the war and having the respect of the loyal masses of the North; a man whose record will commend him to all those who desire to see the country governed under the constitution and the civil laws—the point of relation between the whole mass of the democrats and the conservative republicans—and a man who, by dividing the negro vote in the South and getting the whole white vote there, can carry several of the Southern States. Such a man is Chief Justice Chase, and there is no other man in the United States in whom will be found united all these requisites. With Chase, there- fore, the democracy must win, or it cannot win at all. He is the only man that affords any chance for its success. But we think that even Chase might be strengthened if it were understood that he was to be surrounded in his administration by the prominent men of all the sections of the great popular party. His Cabinet might be very satisfactorily made up in this view with Governor Seymour as Secretary of State, Mr. Fessenden as Secre- tary of the Treasury, Mr. Pendleton as Attor- ney General, Mr. Hendricks as Secretary of the Interior, Admiral Farragut as Secretary of the Navy and General McClellan as Secre- tary of War—thus grouping around a great statesman all the popular names of a great crisis. Who would dare to question the sue- ceas of the ticket? Gevernor Fenton and the Tax Levies. Some of the papers are making a great deal of noise over the action of Governor Fenton in signing the city and county tax levies, and ap- pear to regard his approval of those bills as a very heinous offence, This is all balderdash. The city tax levy of 1867 was larger than that of 1868, if we deduct the increase of the State tax this year, amounting to nearly two million dollars; but the republican Legislature last year had embodied one or two remunerative party jobs in the tax bill, and it was, therefore, suffered to pass without comment. The people are now plundered to the extent of eight or ten million dollars every year over and above the legitimate cost of the city government; but as they continue to elect those who are instru- mental in plundering them by increased majori- ties, election after election, it is evident that they do not object to being subjected to the phlebotomizing process. If Governor Fenton had vetoed the tax levies, instead of signing them, he would only have added some three or four million dollars to their present totals, A statement made by a radical organ that the city tax levy contains a clause repealing the provisions of all laws relating to the raising and expenditure of city revenues except those contained in the present levy is incorrect. There is no such provision in the law, and the statement is either a wilful misrepresentation or shows an entire ignorance of the text of the bill as signed by the Governor. ‘ Subsidies to American Steamship ‘ines, A bill is before Congress authorizing the Postmaster General to contract with the Commercial Navigation Company of the State of New York for the weekly or somi- weeldy conveyance of all European and for- ign mails of the United States—between New” York and Bremen, touching at Southampton (England), or Liverpool, touching at Queens- town—in first class seagoing steamships, to be constructed in the United States. The autho- rizing of the Postmaster General to contract with the company aforesaid to carry the United States mails at a certain stipend is only another form for the institution of the system of subsidies for steamship lines, against which our people object. If we have not the means or resources to compete with foreign bottoms in transatlantic traffic the sooner we become aware of the fact the better for our own in- terests. Furthermore, if we do not at this moment build iron steamships fitted to com- pete with those constructed on the Clyde or the Thames, that fact becomes a matter of con- sideration with ue as a shipbuilding nation. No subsidies that Congress may grant-they are always a sop which any jobbing sponge can speedily wipe ont—will build up substan- tially « national line of steamers between this port and Europe. The men of enterprise and capital constitute the fulerum upon which this lever of commercial progress must be moved. When private capital fails to- assist in these commercial enterprises New York may con- sider itself fading before the grand emprises of the age. The bill before Congress is of no more account than the bida of a Peter Funk anetioa in New York rede be | aati TRA? (LT Closing Gcones of the Apratnion Expedi- tion—Frem the “Camp om Talauta.”” ‘The closing scenes of the Abyssinian expedi- tion, as detailed in the letter of our corre- spondent, published yesterday from the ‘‘Camp on Talanta,” taken efter the usual dishes of our home news of these dull ‘‘piping times of peace,” are like the strawberries and cream and the cup of coffee and eau-de-vie at the end of a pleasant dinner. In the thanke- giving and farewell to Magdala, in the last council of King Theodorus, in the visit to the chamber of horrors, the palaces, the harems and treasure houses of the dead King; in the royal funeral, the destruction of the fortress, the ‘sea of fire” (from the burning of three thousand houses); in the visit to Napier of the two rival Queens, with their congratulations at the death of the ‘Great Negus ;” in the account of the new dynasty and an African Cwsar ; in the entertainment given to the royal widow of Theodorus; in the homeward march of the British army and in the complimentary general order of Sir Robert to his soldiers, which has the ring of the bulletins of the Great Napoleon, we have the rich materials of this most inte- resting letter. Of the two rival Queens (Walkait and Muste- bat) we are told that Mustebat’s claims were good ; that she is a charming woman, and was clad in the regal magnificence of a sovereign ; that Walkait, in a fit of jealousy, retired to her own country, surrounded by hundreds of her best soldiers, while Mustebat, all smiles and genuine triumph, was most royally entertained by the victorious English General ; that it was a silk tent of the fallen King wherein the Queen and her young son were lodged; that by dint of great persua- sion she complied with the request that she and her son would sit for their portraits ; that @ good photograph was taken of each (the camera in Abyssinia!) ; that ber son is a bright, intelligent boy of ten, of the color of a Span- iard, and that this young Theodorus will be sent to England to be educated at the expense of the British government, attended by a retinue of his father’s courtiers. The same honors over two hundred years ago were ex- tended to the Princess Pocahontas, daughter of old King Powhatan, of Virginia—a proceeding which signified the absorption of his kingdom in the sovereignty of England. So in holding young Theodorus she retains the sovereignty over Abyssinia. In this view the small detach- ment of troops left by Napier at Zoolla will be sufficient for present purposes. It will serve as a warning to the various fighting local chiefs and factions and also to the Viceroy ot Egypt that England is still within striking distance and that Abyssynia hag become her rightful possession. The beginning of her oocarathoa of India was a ‘‘small detachment.” Sir Robert Napier’s congratulatory order ‘to his soldiers embraces some remarkable facts. He says:—‘‘You have traversed, often under a topical sun or amid storms of rain and sleet, four hundred miles of mountainous and difficult country;” that “‘you have crossed many steep and precipitous ranges of mountains more than ten thousand feet in altitude, where your sup- plies could not keep pace with you.” This march is truly a great feat when it is consid- ered that in addition to the difficulties named the carriers of the expedition included Indian elephants and camels along those dizzy moun- tain shelves where the slip of a foot would be sure destruction. No point of the Alps where they were crossed by Hannibal and Napoleon is, we believe, over eight thousand feet above the sea; and if Napier had the advantage of a tropi- cal latitude, which lifts the snow line several thousand feet above that of St. Bernard, he had still those storms of rain and sleet which, among the more numerous precipitous cliffs of Abyssinia, made his enterprise of four hundred miles in those mountains, at times ten thousand feet above the sea, a far more serious undertaking than that of the few days required by Napoleon for the short passage of the Alps. In brief, in the discipline of his army, in his sagacious calculations, his skilful appoint- ments and equipments for this difficult under- taking, and in its complete success, with the loss of only some three or four hundred men out of five thousand six hundred, Napier bas proved himself a truly great soldier. Among the results of the expedition he says “a host of many thousands have laid down their arms at your feet;” ‘“‘you have captured and destroyed upward of thirty pieces of artil- lery, many of great weight and efficiency ;” “you have stormed the almost inaccessible Fortress of Magdala, defended by Theodorus ;” “you have released not only the British cap- tives, but those of other friendly nations ;” “you have unloosed the chains of more than ninety of the principal chiefs of Abyssinia,” and ‘‘Magdala, on which so many victims have been slaughtered, has been committed to the flames and remains only a scorched rock.” But greater results than these have been obtained in the knowledge given to the world through this expedition of Abyssinia, its people, its geographical wonders and its resources look- ing to trade. The ultimate result will doubt- less be the formal occupation, settlement and development of the country asa British colony. According to Sir Edward Baker a large a of the northern section, from which the annual fertilizing deposits of Egypt are drawn, is admirably adapted to the cotton enlture and abounds in ivory and precious minerals, Our correspondent attending this expedition, , when the army faced homeward from Magdala, asthe advanced guard filed dawn the steep slopes towards the deep valley of the Bashilo, and when the bands gayly struck up the stirring tune, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,” must have been reminded of the echoes of this favorite Union chorus when the returning armies of Grant and Sherman passed over the Long Bridge into Washington two hundred thousand strong, It’ was this American air which enlivened the British troops as they defiled down those steep slopes from ‘the scorched rock” of Magdala, in distant Abys- sinia, Now we would respectfully suggest to Mr. Disraeli or his successor in office, that as this Abyssinian expedition bas been crowned with such brilliant results ia behalf of civilization and science, and that as Sir Robert Napier has proved his capacities asa great military ex- plorer, it would be well to despatch him with his well trained army on another African en- terprise. We would further suggest such an expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone, from the east coast of equatorial Africa, near Zan- vibar, acouad the southern onda of the greet NAOY WAM SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1964/—THIPLE SHEET, — omen WT A _4 a fountain lakes of the MWe, and shence to _ er system of mountains wed lakes aga the great Zambesi and ofver atr: 7 time has come for euch an exploration of those regions. We are sure it is but o questivn of time, and we promise that if such an enter~ prise be undertaken the unfailing and invalu- able Henan correspondeit will be there. New York the Centre ef the World. Everything points to the future greatness and controlling influence of New York as the centre of the world. The rapid development of commerce and intercourse with the nations of Europe on one hand, and with the teeming populations of Asia on the other, will make the United States the highway of trade for both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. Within two years one Pacific railroad at least will be completed, and in the course of a few years several others, The travel and a large part of the most valuable trade with China and the other nations of Eastern Asia, both for our- selves and Europe, will pass across the Ameri- can Continent, and New York will be the gate- of ingress and egress on’ this side, as San Fran- cisco will be on the other side, The time from Europe to China this way will be little over a month, and from New York leas than a month. Then we shall soon have instant telegraphic communication with Asin by way of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, as we now have with Europe through the Atlantic cable. In fact, it is impossible to imagine the wonderful results that inust flow from the progress of these events and the age. New York, consequently, is destined to be the greatest city on the globe and the financial and intellectual centre of the world. We shall see, too, great changes in the city itself, The island will be covered from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil creek with popula- tion; the Park will be surrounded by palatial residences and terraces; Washington Heights will be the site of magnificent villas, and the centre of financial business and bank- ing will leave the cramped localify of Wall street and be established round the City Park, City Hall and new Post Office. These, how- ever, are but a few of the changes and vast improvements we may expect within the life- time of the present generation. Onur citizens | and the people of the United States may well look with pride upon the grand fature of this beautiful metropolis; for it is bound to eclipse all the cities of ancient or modern times. North and Sonth Germany. In the Herp of yesterday we published two long letters from the pens of our special corre- spondents in Frankfort and Berlin. The let- ters were. interesting and full of valuable information as to the actual situation in Ger- many. Count Bismarck, who has played one of the boldest games of modern times, has not yet in point of fact made Germany a unit; but he has through military treaties and by means of the Zoll- verein made Germany as nearly a unit as possible. Our correspondents’ letters are full of interesting information as to the feelings of both the Northern and Southern deputies, sto their mutual relations, and as to the common interests of Fatherland. The depu- ties from the Southern States are as full of love of Fatherland as the deputies of the North, but they are unwilling to Be, or to seem to be, coerced by the power or fear of Prussia. Count Bismarck, on the other hand, has repu- diated all intention of coercion, and has in- formed the deputies from the South that while the Union is open to them whenever they choose to enter it coercion will never be at- tempted. There can be no doubt that the complete unification of Fatherland is to be a fact of the early future ; but how far Prussia is to gain, or how far Austria is to lose, are questions which are best left to time to solve, Austria, in the matter of reform, has become quite as active as Prussia, and it be- comes more and more doubtful which is to win the race. Bavaria, Wiirtemberg and Baden must, we fear, share the fate of Hanover or Saxony; but Austria may have something to say in the matter before this is accomplished. A Revolutionary Parallel. When the revolutionists of France first commenced the war upon the established government of that country under Louis the Sixteenth they had no idea of the final results of their action, They only thought of reform- ing existing evils and of establishing a more popular and liberal government ; but the ball being once set in notion they were carried irresistibly to the total abrogation of law and order and to the most frightful anarchy. The constitution and government were destroyed, the chief of the State beheaded, and the very men who started the movement became the victims of a bloody and savage mob. All the landmarks of law and order were struck down by the brutal faction that acted ‘‘outside of the constitution” under the cry of “liberty, equality and fraternity.” The lowest and vilest men—renegades and savage fanatice— became the leaders and’the ruling power. We need not recall the scenes of the car- nival of blood and horror which fol- lowed, for the history of it is well known. Our American Jacobins are pursuing the same course, and were it not for the enlightened and humane spirit of the age the Butlers, Bing- hams, Stevenses and the rest of the Congres- sional Jacobin revolutionists would inaugurate a similar saturnalia of blood. The disposition and object are the same. They, like the French Jacobins, would set aside the constitu- tion and laws and sacrifice every one that stands in their way for the sole purpose of giving unlimited power to their faction. Whenever a dominant party or # political oligarchy begin to act outside of the constitu- tion, as the radical leaders unblushingly pro- fens to be acting, there is no restraint to their passions and ambition. Anarchy and des- potiem follow as a natural consequence. The war to preserve the Union, while necessary, patriotic and snccessfal, has had the effect of stirring up the worst as well as the best pus- sions of the political leaders. And though the war was ended three yedrs ago, and though there is not the slightest possibility of the subjugated rebels giving the government any further trouble, the spirit of hostility and revenge is kept alive on the part of the ruling faction itself, all for the sake of perpetuating its power. The country might have been restored and at peace, and the South as well as i ate Ondo oo through th aa, wet volce of the people at the polis. The Tae otecttans €0 take place within the next six months “i! show whether we are to return to constitu onal government or be launched into future anare: sy? and ultimate despotiam. , Laber Strikes tm America and Englus4. A telegram from Worcester, Mass., pul> lished in the HzRap of this morning, reports that the strike among the shoemakers at Ash- Jand culminated ins riotous demonstration om Thursday, because of the manufacturers em- ploying men not members of the St. Crispin Order. With a band of musicians at their head, these strikers paraded past the building which they threatened to destroy. Luckily some forty citizens armed themselves, and, with the aid of a force of twenty- five State Constables, which arrived just in time, prevented a violent breach of the peace, It is very natural for mechanics and laborers, if they believe they are underpaid, to ask for an increase of pay; but that demand ought to be made in an intet- ligent and straightforward manner and accom- panied with proof that it is founded in justice: Reason, argument and the strength of « good cause are the props upon which they should lean, If they attempt to effect a legitimate purpose by illegitimate. and illegal means the law will be found strong enough to put them down. It is a very proper thing for those who live by the sweat of their brow to de mand full remuneration for their labor ia a legal, open, constitutional way. Acting thus, they will command the respect and sympathy of the public; but the moment they seek by violence or intimidation to compel employers to comply with their terms, that moment they will cease to gain respect or sympathy and be visited with the censure of law-abiding citi- zens, If the shoemakers at Ashland whe have ‘‘struck” find themselves unable to carry out their views, and witness the result in the poverty of their families, they may be very” sorry for what they have done and regret that they did not exercise more discretion and a little diplomacy with the employers. That there is a tendency among trades asse- ciations in this country at the present time to “strike” cannot be denied. We think that this tendency does not spring from any desire on the part of workmen to act illegally or im- properly, but is caused by that excessive taxation which ‘grinds the faces of th@poor,” increases the cost of their living, renders them unable to save a dollar and throws many of them on public charity if they are but one week out of employment. All this is matter for the attention of our legislators, if they can spare time from those corrupt apd infamous bargains in which they are bought and sold for money, like sheep in a pen, bringing eternal * disgrace on that grand structure of liberty reared by the genius and valor of Washingtos. Happily for us the history of American strikes cannot be compared to the history of English strikes. During the past two or three years in England “‘strikers” have displayed something of a barbaric character. They have not hesitated to commit murder in the accom- plishment of their designs. There has just been published the report of the Commissioners, Messrs. Barstow, Pickering and Chance, whe had been appointed by the British govern- ment to inquire into the origin, progress and extent of the Trades Union outrages in Man- chester and within a distance of twelve miles of that city. This report reveals a most extraordinary and criminal state of things. Messrs. Meadows, the owners of a large brick- making establishment, set up new machinery. For doing this their men struck. A mannamed Wilde took work from Messrs, Meadows at their terms. He was attacked and nearly killed. His arm was broken in two or three places. Who assaulted him? For the perpetration of . this horrible outrage the President of the Brick- makers’ Union, one Slater, paid fourteen pounds. It was agreed at a full meeting of the committee that this sum should be so paid— money paid for the commission of murder or an attempt at murder, Slater was brought to trial for the crime, convicted and sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. He, how- ever, remained but two years in prison, Wilde having been induced by threats to align @ memorial for Slater’s pardon, Slater wes once again a free man. He was reappointed President, and poor Wilde, who had exhibited 8 Christian forgiveness towards the man who had planned the attempt on his life, was obliged, by threats, to leave the country. Twenty-five thousand bricks were destroyed on the works of a Mr. Simpson. For this ‘Sob,” as it has been termed, fifteen dollars was granted hy the Union and the work was confided to the trusty Slater. Mr. Simpson's “offence” consisted in employing a non-union man. A policeman named Jump was mur- dered by the Unionists, who took part in the outrages at Messrs. Cliffords’ brick worksia the Ashton district. Ward, one of the murderers, was convicted and hanged; ‘‘but,” adds the report, “the Amalgamated Union subscribed towards the defence of the man charged with the murder of Jump, with a full knowledge that the murder was committed by the men returning from the destruction of Messrs. Cliffords’ property, which destruction was done in the interest of the Ashton Union.” Various other offences by the Unionists are described, such as shooting watchmen, blowing ap a house, hamstringing horses, laying poison, set- ting incendiary fires, destroying implements and machinery belonging to the masters and completely driving them out of business. This was indeed ® ead state of things. It was, to be sure, confined more or less to ond district ; but other callings suffered from the violence of men on strike, At the colliery of Mesers. Knowles, at Pendleton, a strike took place about a year ago. It was followed by an jucendiary fire which did great damage to the works, and several “‘knobsticks”—a nick- name for workmen brought from other parte of the conntry—were badly and dangerously beaten, On this strike the Union spent no less than sixteen thousand pounds. A quan- tity of vitriol was thrown in the eyes of a man named Mason, a spinner, because he bad tanght bis wife and sisters his trade. The wreich who committed this diabolical crime was convicted and imprisoned; but when he came out of jail, after having put in his term, he was regarded as a martyr and presented the North might have now been prosperous, had | with twenty pounds by the Union for bis faith- not the destructive spirit of revolution seized the radical leaders of Congress, ‘The oaly hope ful devotion ,to lisbed by tie its canae, [t ia well eatal ‘port of She goverament com-