The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1870, Page 6

canna EN G NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL NEW YORK HERALD BROAEWAY AND ANN STREET, * JAMES GORDO i BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR, ” Rejected communications will not be re- turne. + Noy GES Veni, etweon Gib and 6th avi ASATS. TA'S BOOT A Wive troadway.—Couto VOCate way aud 12th street. MUSIC, Min ttreet,—ITALIAN OPERA LR, O TAKATRS, Broaowiy.—New VERSION OF Frou. GRAND OPNRA Wd wd Woops mer Tiled at. — rordway, eor- ov nt. Broadway. PIPPIN; OR, THK KING Boway —MUDEA—MEDIA.—ToEe ony eon. Ptrect.—GRanp VARIETY WAS PAK TUEATRE, Brooklyn. ‘WL Bowery.—Comro ANO'S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Tammany Building, 14th 2 ot RL. MINSPRELS, $85 Broa way.—Ermio- ¥, ade & LION'S MINSTR *, 720 Broadway.—Fnow FINWAY HAUL, Fonrtcenti street.—Graxp Vooat AND INSTOUMENTAL CONOD&E. pXEW York M M OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— oIFNCT AD New York, Friday, April 22, 1870. CONTSAVS OF TO-DAWS HuRAL PacE. I—Aavert Q—Advertisonents. Another Dodge of the Gold 2biers; Sensational War Rumors; Dis- fut Condition ot the American Navy— Jon to Keauce the Per Capita Tax on is—Fire ta Broadway—Naval Intelli- —The Sta‘e Capital: Preceedings of the ature Yesterda' fie National Game— The Thorn Robbvertes—The Kights of Wit- besses—Tha Hackensack Bridge Horror—Lec- tures Last Night—New Jersey Secretarystip of @—Sout America: Detatls of the Killing of Lopez, of Paraguay; Politics in Brazii—Japan and China: Tne Dead of tre Oneida; Finding and F ngiand) Dritung ws from Jamaica, MeFarland Trial: Furtner adjourament of the Case tll Monday— Proceeds in tne New York City Courts—A ynnectica’s Prize olieze. Hie Has and Cormercial Reports ~) e Pay.renus i Matters—Ma- nsfers—“ovns Couductors—Marrlages Oeaths—Advertisemen's. G—Eartorials: Leading Articie on The European Proviem, the P¢ ca! Crisis in France—Amuse- ments, 8 from All Parts of the World: narion to Fi Prineipie; Tre An American eated tie Galiows”—Financial al Banks and Steauship Ci Ship on F: 4; liovrible Tragedy m Bol- timore—The Spriug Frestets: Poruculars of the Flood 1 the Hudson, Monuwk, Genesee and Schona te Vaiieys—New York City News— The Story of Litvie Nellie Rurns—The Grand The European Problem—fhe — Policcst Crisia In France. Our cable despatches from the various centres of thou! t and action in Europe, read in the light of our extensive Furopean corre- spondence, reveal a sinto of things which cannot ecr ; be regarded as a fair illus- {tration of te beauty and order of Cosmos, The nati em to be on the eve of another | serious outbreak, Is it that the appointed wre ended? Sinco 1866 the vaus has been shut; bas Mars ont? There istrouble in almost every nation in pe, nor can it be said that J} any ono nation is on good terms with any ther, Prom Rome to St, Petersburg, from wodon to Constaatinople, the old Cort the aspect of a vast and troubled Reform movements are evorywhere, bece the advance o! i b-come inpa Hivence, the growth of 2 healthful and »vou! pablic sentiment, has made peop es verious and rulers coneiils- ory. Nor ia popals than is national ambitt tis felt that sweeping andradical ¢ gare imminent. Tue old is percept bly passing away, and me peor into the future with eyes ex ressive of une rtainty and alarm, True to her ancient eh r, France towers up proudly and promiseatiy among the nations and reveals the general siiuition, The Frene) people fight for poiilical liberty; the Eaperor struggles hard for his dynasty, and the result is a compromise, of which the Seaatus Con- sultum is the expression, Waat the Enperor thinks and means to do wo know alr ady with a tolerable amount of accuracy, Waat the people think and mean to do wo shall know, if the latest arrangeme its are carried out, on the morning of the 8th of Mey. That the Emperor is going as far in the way of re- form as is compatible with lis own interests and the interests of his family few intelligent minds will refuse to adinit. At the same time no lover of constitutional forms finds it easy to reconcile the pledésci’e with free parliamen- tary gov-romeat. If the Emperor really moans to govern France as a constitutional sovereign, by and through the @yency of a free and un- fettered Parliament anda responsible miuis- try, this direct appeal to the people, if not avoided altogether, might and ought to have been mado ia another way. In the United States or in Great Britzin such a course as the Emperor has resolved to follow would be impossible, That it is possible in France only proves that Napoleon is, and means to remein if he can, the master of the situation, and that Frenchmen are wholly unused to parliamentary forms. As it is, however, the plebiscite is regarded by many as an iasalt to the representatives of the people; nor is it at all impossible ‘that, reinembered ia this light, it may yet bring forth bitter fruit. We do not feel justified in saying that the strikes which are crowding the streets of Paris with thougauds upon thousands of workingmen, and which in numbers proportionately large must be crowding tho streets of every city in the empire, are begotien of polities, or, in other words, tuat tusy are political in their origin ana their object; but we can and do say that on the eve o great national test vote—a voie which touches tie hear! aad coa- science of every Frenchman, and which involves consequences of the michtiest impori—we do say that in such circams' 3 this universal uprising of the workiagmea of France is to be viewed with alarm. However this purely natioaal question may be setilei in France there will siill be loft open other and serioas interaational questions. Napoleoa looks to Hurope a3 well as io France in making up his bulget of possibilities and probabilities. In spite of growiay inidrmities, we are told by sore y13 Correspondents, he can still mount his horse; and we may well e marked Boulevard—Probabie Hom.clae in the Sixth . Ward—Business Nuiices. S—Adverusemen's, P—Advertre penis, 10=—Complimen ary Ranquet to Samuel S. Randail— Sojer Fiynn Belligerent: Cowardly Assault of Coroner Fynn on 4 Dug Clerk—Toe Turi— The guting Fenians- Tie Bapis: E uca tional Couvention—Versonal Torelligence— The Irrepress oie Baron Von tempted Murder and : nieide In Miidleiown, N. Y¥.— evsey uy Polk Commuirsion—The ster Tax \ar--Sapping Intelllgence— usements. Below—At- WA Te Advert Tus ELeerion TrokeTs IN Franog.—The Bonapartists, the radicals, the “reds” ard th Orleanists have all party election tickets in France. The Orleanists incline towards the oppositionists of the Bonapartes. The Bana- partists have. however, ‘! vee millions of franes, and are pretty sire that ‘the police is all right’—the latter point an important one in city contesis, even in New York, ‘TARY SEwarp, at a dinner given his residence in Auburn yesterday toa few friends, made a speech touching his late extended tour through the West, Alaska, ico and Caba, Even with such a coufirmed an the traveller's fondness for telling about his travels prevailed, and there was not a word that the distinguished ex-Secretary utter$d which could be tortured into any political significance. Important ARRIVAL oF CEkLESTIALS.—The San Francisco payers of the 14th inst. contain the announcement of the arrival in that city of a large number of Chinese merchants and other dignitaries from the Celgstial empire. They are, of course, welcome to our shores, and, undoubtedly, will be doubly so when they reach the city of New York, the commergial emporium of the nation. Let them come and let them be cordially welcomed. ‘‘Eastward” the star of commerce is svtting its way. Tue AcquitTaL or CHAMBERS.—William Chambers, tried in Brooklyn for the murder there, in February last, of ex-Supervisor D. S. Voorhees, was acquitted yesterday on the ground of insanity, and was given in charge of the police to be taken to an insane asylum, as recommended by the jury. Being thus se- cured against hanging, and having only the dread of the lunatic asylum before his eyes, this philosophic murderer went back to prison, and, plucking the unsightly rag off his head by which he had influenced the jury, he boasted aloud, in the presence of the Sheriff and the other jail officials, that he had cheated the gal- lows and was not insane either. ‘‘You thought you would hang me,” he said; ‘“‘but I have cheated the jury.” rest assured that there is, if need be, fight enongh in him to make a big trouble ia Europe—big enough, at least, to make French- men forget domestic polities, It is this which gives importance to the recent speech of oxe of his Councillors of State. When Guéronnitre— who may or may not be a wise man, who may ally in the cou the Emperor—said ‘that France may be con- tent each Power mast be in its proper place,” he might or be might not be pleasing his imperial master; but of this there can be uo doubt, he was expressihg French sentiment and gratity- ing Frenca vaniiy. It is this same tiing— this determination of the Emperor to win, if be should ran all the ns of a Huropean war—which gives significance to the troubles in the Ansivian empire; to the movemenis in Soath Germany; to the cau- tious, cunning and persistent policy of Prussia; to the grumbling of Denmark about the unful- filled conditions of the treaty of Prague; to the watchful atiitude of Russia; to the strangely inconsistent talk abont arming and disarming; and, above all, to the folly of Rome in pushing the infallibility dogma to a vote, and thus strengthening the North German Confedera- tion and aiding Prussian ambition by multiply- ing the anti-Romanists who speak the German tongue. There is nothing more true than this, that all Europe is now looking to France and dence of watching the progress of events with a view to necessary action when the time for action comes. Nor is there anything more true than this, that Napoleon is watching Europe quite as much as he is watching France. He scans the whole horizon and sees all possibilities, That he has made, or that he is making, every neccssary arrangement and fully providing for every contingency may well be taken for granted. To gay this much is only to say he is the man who accomplished the coup d'état in 1852, and laid Austria low in the dust in 1859-60, At the sume time it is undeniable that since 1866 events have been in progress that have given unity to the German race, and that have virtually created a powerful Teutonic empire in the centre of Europe, Adash by Napoleon, or the sudddn death of Bismarck, might delay the inevitable for time; but as things now are we cannot see how Napoleon can win permanent glory by attacking Prassia, No other war is now possible, He dare not attack Great Britain, He has no quarrel with the United States. Austria is too weak and Russia is too far off. It is a big fight, however, in which the Empe- ror is already engaged, and he must go through with it. It will be well, in our judgment, if a European war does not form one of his necessities, It will be better for 1870.—TRIPLE im, beiter jor his son, better for his aynasty, if he ca) convince Franee to take reform quietly at his hands, Meanwhile, unless be orders it, his counsellors of Stave must have a guard upon their speech, Tho Arcade Railway Swindle. The bill to ipcorporate the New York Arcade Railway Company passed the Slate Senuie yosterday, and thas has aceoiplished on» important stave of its jonraey, The moans hy which fi passed the Sonate indicate the danger that it may slip through the Legisla- ture almost bofore the people are aware of 1s true character, It is the most nefarious scene over yet presented at Albany in the guise of a railway Its primary parpose is not so mich tof b the convenient means of trans- ion the people so greatly nerd as to dosiroy Broadyvay as the great central city life and trade, It is ao grand game, with the des ion of or its fret object, Pei do not need to be told the history of the growth of this e'ty and of the developmont of the value on ovr beautiful thoroughfare beeam evident that the main trade of the city had chosen that avenue us its favorite seat; but the speculators have evidently studied that subject closely, as well as the means to divert the grout Broadway trade to other chanuels, and so, perlaps, ¢ use to cenfte elsewhere the value that now attaches to Broaiway property. The first step is to paralyze Broadway trade—to compel that incessant treffle to stand still or go clsewhere. ‘Tuis result the bill, if it ever becomes a law, will accomplish as its first step. Tais bill gives the incorporators absolute authority over Broadway for five years, For that ierm the street i8 theirs to do what they please with—theirs on the suriace and theirs under ground. Not only the part dedicated to he public uses of the people is theirs, but the private property at either side also, In favor of these men is suspended every general principle of law that guarantees a citizon in his private possessions, They may so tear up and obsiruct Broadway that a loaded vehicle can neither pass up nor down the length of that street for five years; and they may seize any man’s house, and proffer in payment half or quarter the value, and the pretence of improving other property he may have near by isto justify this seizure of pri- vate property without remuneration, Any man with common sense can gee for himself the consequeices that must imm-diately flow from this power to dig up Broadway. I: will render insecure every house that stands on either side this of street of splendid edifices— destroy every vauli—make unceriain the tenure of properiy—make traffic impossible and travel disagreeable and dangerous. It will drive trade to the side streets, and this the mass of the people might not look upon ag a great calamity, unless they consider that any such breaking up of the system of trade must prove disasirons generally to the city. But not only is this great thoroughfare— five miles of the most magnificent property in the world—given into the hands of a railroad corporation to wrest to its purposes, but to the saine body is mado a freo gift of all the small parks on the line of Broadway, with so much of the Ceptrat Park as it may have the temerity io seize. Under authority of this law the Arcade Railway may seize the whole of the Battery, what is ‘leit of the City Hall Park, Union Park, Madisoa Square «nd what they want or dare take of the Central Park itself. All these public places they may cover with their depois and car houses, and they cannot be compelled to pay to the city one cent for these great privileges. And what is the railway to do finally? Simply to carry fish to the net of the great owner of the Hudson River and Harlem Rail- ways. lis maia end is to go to the Hudson River Railway, and a branch at Union square is to run up Fourth avenue to the Harlem Railway. It is, in fact, an extension of these two railways to the Battery. In deference to the interest of these railways Broadway is to be torn to pieces and its trade paralyzed for five years—hat is to say, killed. One fact is, the bistory of the bill is charac- teristic. It is a pet measure with the young democracy. Only Senators Genet and Pisrce of this neighboriood voted in its favor. They are the young democracy, and they were backed up by ‘the country membors,’’ Excepting only Genet and Pierce all the New York, Long Island, Richmond and West- chester Senators voted against the measure. The things this bill proposes to do must not be done. If the bill goes through the Legisla- ture the Governor must veto it. If the Gov- ernor permits it to pass the citizens must fight it to the last extremity with all the power of the courts. A War wirn Spain In Watt Srreet.— The “bulls” and ‘‘bears,” for lack of news to bfeak the monotony, which is death to their business, flooded Wall street yesterday with reports of a Cabinet session on the subject of making war against Spain. The incredulous speculators wouldn’t get excited, however, and so the ‘‘war with Spain” had to go upon the shelf with the ‘Death of Napoleon,” “Fatal Illness of Bismarck” and other stories which don’t ‘‘wash” any more. It seems this last venture, however, was a desperate one, and had employed forgery as one of its aids to excite the market. Admiral Godon, of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Captain Steadnan, at Charlestown, have both informed Adniral Porter that they have received despatches signed “Porter” ordering every avaihble vessel to be put in commission, as war with Spain was inevitable. The Vice Admiral has returned them word that the despatches are forgeries. The desperate gamblers who thus dare to play against the peace of the oun- try ought to be ferreted out and punished, Tue Bank oF ENGLAND AND THE FANK oF Franoz.—The gold in the Bank of Engand is reported this week as £143,000 (or say 8,000,000 francs) less than it was last week, while the gold in the Bank of France has increased since the last previous weekly report 1,700,090 francs. Why this difference betveen these two banks? The main reason, we pre- sume, isthis: France is ina political crisis, and the French people are rather disposed to put their gold in the bank for safe keeping than to risk it in uncertain adventures, In England, on the other hand, there is no such alarm and no such drawbacks upon business. | Tie Rochester Conventions—The Juages of the Court of Appeals. The Democratic Convention, which meets at Rochester on Wednosdiy next to select can- didates for the judges of the Court of Appeals, has an important duty to perform, in carrying out the oaly provision of the new constitution which bas been endorsed by the vote of the people, and saved the whole concern from being a total wreck, That the nominations will be generally acceptable we have no reason to doubt, That the names presented will be those of strong men, both in their professional and pariy capacity, we suppose mey be re- rwrded asa fixed fact, ‘The aspirants for Chief Justice are lezion. They are cropping out like a sudden and an unna ural vegela- tion—out of the earth everywhere. But as the election takes place in spring, perhaps we vprised at the springin’ up of parly buds and blossoms of hope at the judicial convention, Por instance, nearly ali the State officers are desirous of obtaining the priz:. They are willing to abandon their useful labors at Albany for tie luxurious seat of fourteen yours’ duration on the bene of the Court of Appeals, No donbt it is something to be covet-d. Comptroller Allen would cheer- fally resign his control of the Stale money bags. The young lawyer Homer A, Nelson would gladly transfer the seals ot State to the next comer for a corner on the bench in the marble building next door. Attorney General Champlaia would probably rather be hearing arguments from ovher law- yersin the quiet repose of a judgeship than making arguments, as now, on the floor of the court room. However, all these gentlemen cannot be gratified. To place any of them in the position they aspire to would indeed be to cause @ desertion frem several important posts, It might do more, Such an abandon- meat of the State offices mizht give the repub- licaus control of the Canal Bourd, should future events transfer power to that party. Among the prominent claimants talked of is Jadze Comstock, who is supposed by his friends to Lave the prize in his own bands, But the really prominent and probably suc- cessfui candidate is Sanford E. Church, whose personal, political and professional attributes give him great strength with his party and the people of the State. Mr. Church’s record is familiar, and would naturally give him prece- dence over other candidates for the Chi f Justicesbip. He is well known in his former capacity as Comptroller, as Lieutenant Gov- ernor and asa candidate for the Presidency in the last Democratic National Conve ition, His popalarity with all branch»s of the demo- cratic party, as well as the generous sympathy expressed for his recent illness, would insure him general support. Hence—to use a sport- ing phrase—Church seems to be ‘‘a good man to bet on” and “a winning card.” Of the host of other aspirants for the bench of the Court of Appeals are Judge Grey, tin, of Buffalo, and Judge Joseph F. Barnard, It does not seem desirable that the sitting judzes’ seats should be disturbed. Comstock, one of the old Roman order of mazistrates, is entitled by his experience and integrity to a continuance of the respect he hes already earned. The friends of Judge Earl are anxious to keep him there, and so with Judge Locke. They shou!d remain to close up the unfinished busi- ness before them, and therefore there seems to be much fitness in keepin ¢ thom in their pre- sent position, Judge Peckham, of Albany, who has yet six years to serve on the bench, would, no doubt, like to b» Chief Justice ; but there may be a little shadow of partisanship, connected with the Erie, Central and Susque- hanna railroad controversies, on his name, which will probably damage his chances. He may do very well for Albany, but it is ques- tionable whether he would suit the whole State. The bench of the court of last resort musi be free from all tinge of partisanship, It is not likely that the New York city democratic delegation will present any candi- date, but will leave the matter entirely with the country delegates. No one yet is defi- nitely named, thorgh Judzes Daly and Leonard and Mr. Rapallo are talked of; but as the salary of a judge of the Court of Appeals is not equal to that of Police Justice these gentlemen would hardly accept a nomi- nation. There is every prospect of a struggle at the Democratic Convention, and there may be a little spice thrown in; bat it may be pre- suined that under the present good manage- ment of the party a strong ticket will be pre- sented. At the Republican Convention, which ‘‘fol- lows hard upon” that of the democrats— namely, Thursday, 28th—the only names as yet prominently talked of are William M. Evarts, Judge Emott and Edwards Pierrepont. The Boston Radical Clab—A New Kink, We have before us a report of a meeting in “the Hub” of the Boston Radical Club—not a political organization, but a sort of tran- scendental, atheistical, physiological, botani- cal and philosophically chaotic concern—the latest kink yet of the moral outcroppings of New England Puritanism. The essayist, Mra. Ednah Littlehall Cheney, was the oratress of the evening, and her subject was “The Value of Individuality in the Organization of Church and Society”—a theme suggestive of a restora- tion of the blessed state of the primitive bar- barian. She argued from this point—that “a germ and a cell are the foundation of all vege- table growth, and a germ and acell are the beginning of all animal life;” and the drift of her argument was this :—‘‘Whence grows this power of the germ—this life which enables it to appropriate to itself whatever is fitted to its inward nature?” This being the question which this Boston Radical Club has undertaken to settle, we dare say it will have employ- ment enough for a thousand years to come. We tear, however, that this club, in a religious view, looks to the French Jacobin Goddess of Reason, and so we dismiss it, A STRANGE ILLUMINATION FoR THE Mor- mons,—We have the report trom Great Salt Lake City that on the arrival there, on Wednes- day last, of the new Governor for Utah, (Shaffer) and the other new State officers ac- companying him, appointed by General Grant, they received a rousing welcome, and that after they had flatly told the assembled citizens that their mission was to suppress polygamy there were great rejeicings, includ- ing bonfires, fireworks, a parade and an illu- mination of the city. All this shows that the »Gentiles are getting to be a powerful party at | SHERT, the Mormon Capital, or that the saints have had a new revelation, It’ does not appear that Brigham Young took any part in the proceed- ings, but bewill have to define his posi- tion very soon, We should not wonder if he, too, in due season, should disciose 4 new reve- lation, instructing him to depart with bis people ont of Egypt; and this will probably be tho settlement of the Mormon question, The Navy and Senntor Spencer, In giving our support to the navy and endeavoring to raise it from the condition into which it was falling, owiag to the supineress o! Conzress, it is not astonishing that we now and then (read upon somebody’s toes, It is bad enough for men to frilin their duties, either from indifference or trom igaorauce of the sibjoct; but waena persoa holdiag an important position, in which his abilities should be exerted on the side of his country, nad-rtalces to bre uk dowa one of ovr na ion bulwarks, our remarks in refi to suea couduct must necessarily be uap.latable to him, There is a Naval Committee in the Senate, composed of geatlemoa who have for many years devoted their attention to naval matters, and have much more enlarged and compre- hensive ideas of the service and iis waats than any one is likely to have who has just emerged irom the Southern swamps, Those geutiemen who have charge of nival affiirs ha deemd it necessary to introduce such a siveep- in; bill as that framed by Senator Spencer, of Alabama, who, in his endeavor to explain his cours’, shows how very little he knows aboul the service. It must be amusiig to Messrs. Cragin and Antiony, of tie Seaate Naval Commitee, and to Mr. Draks, who was educited in the navy, to see a tyro trying to tuke the helm from their hands; but no doubs they were indigaim at his propo- sition to broxch the navy to, ail have ere this consigned it to that undiscovered coun ry from whose bourn no such proposition ever retaras. itis a well known fuct that the proposi ion to reduce tue navy to the little end of nothing originated in personal feelinc, avd not from motives of economy, as stated. As reg rds Mr, Spencer’s comparison of the army and th navy, we will merely say that the o xtion of the two services is entirely diffrent. .An army can be raised from our people in a day or ina week or a month, according to the siz» required. A navy, on tie contrary, is the work of long years of patient care. A ship has no relation to a rogimsa, o° a fleet to an army, under any aspect. Oase general can command five hundred thouszad mon, bat it requires one admiral to comnand « squadron of even four ships, min ied by lezs than twelve hundred mon. A captain in the navy com- mands a ship of three hundred mea, while his relative in rank in the army (a coivaei) com- mands a regimect of one thousand soldiers. Every squadroa, bo it ever so small, is ea- titled to its admiral; and as there seven squadrons to be mainiaiaed ia our navy there must be sever admirals; and since these cannot spend all their lives at sea er away from the Urited S'ates there must be a corresponding number of reliefs. Addl this is either misunders'ood by Mr. Spencer or he has endeavored to perpeirate a great injury upon the navy and fals: premisss upon the country. We regret that we are unable to credit him with any patrio ion The fact that the S nator wo.ld save a million by his operation will not even please his consti- tuen‘s; for he might save far more than that by abolishing the navy in foto, cutting dowa the civil list and reducing his own pay, which last he will not be likely to agree to. The people of this country want economy, but not meanness or breacies of trast with the men who have fouht its battles, Thelast clause in Mr. Spsncer’s letter, which we published for him, shows even more clearly how little ho understands the qnostioa, and is varnished off with that threadbare subject of “staff rank,” of which the public have become quite tired. If Senator Spercer is really serious when he says that ‘‘no one appreciates the necessity of a navy commensurate with our standing as a nation more thau myself,” iet him show it by his endeavors to build the service up, and not by his efforts to pull it dowa. The life of a naval officer is hard enough without looking shead to the ingrati- tude of his countrymen and having the prospect of being leit to starve on a pittance in his old age. There are a thou- sand ways fora member of Congress to bring himself before the public withoit resortirg to measures that would, if carried out, belittle us as a nation. Our commercial interests are matters for the attention of all wise legislators. Our trade, drivea from the ocean, needs the fostering care of Congress to replace it there and protect it after its resuscitation. We should commence such @ career of greatness as the world never yet has seen by monopo- lizing the trade of the East Indies, which we have the power to do through our railroad to the Pacific and by cutting canal across the Isthmus of Darien. In this latter movement our navy is taking a prominent part, and, with the energy it has ever displayed, is push- ing the survey rapidly across the isthmus, overcoming difficulties heretofore deemed in- surmountable. In its new guise of well equipped ships the navy is expanding its sails on its way to tho China seas to cement thoso relations lately formed with the Chinese which are to give us the control of the commerce of the East, It is removing the rude marks made upon its dis- cipline during the past eight years, and is settling down to its encient organization and prestige. Itis daily gaining strength in the affections of the American people, who will not tolerate any attempt to break up an insti- tution on which our commerce and our people so much depend in case we should be involved in a foreign war, and we must support it until its size is increased in a ratio with the tonnage of our country. From JAPAN AND CHINA we have mail de- tailsof the news to the 22d of March. The advices report some few melancholy after inci- dents of the Oneida disaster in noticing the burial of a few of the victims. The commer- cial and political items are interesting and rather important. He Has Hap Exoven or It.—Mr. Vallan- digbam declines to run again asa candidate for Congress, His platform has been com- pletely upset, and he retires in disgust. — Congrese=The Northern Pacific Railroad— The Navy and Ben Butler in the House, ‘ pH The only work of importance in the Senate yesterday was the passage of the Northern Pacific Railway bill, which provides for a railway from Minnesota to Puget Sound, through a cold and almost unexplored region, wh re there is nothing much more civilized than Indians and grizzlies, The bill provides, very suspiciously, that the franchises and land srants donated to the company may be sold without refereace to the building of the road, As for the House, the scent of the Sypher case clings round it still, Mr. Stevenson, who originally engincered Sypher so disastrously, renewed Mr, Kerr's mo ion to notify the Gov- ernor of Louisiana that there was a vacancy in Sypber’s district; and in advocating it he took pains to show that Sheldon, w io is Safely in, and the other radical members from Loui- siana whose seats are yet in abeyance ought to be oisted as Sypher was, In fact, he ‘xpec'cd such would be the result in the cases yet to be tried, and concluded to with- hold his resolutioa antil they Were disposed of. As it is, Colonel Sheldon has cause to ‘atulate himslf that his case was tried first; for it seems that Sypher in his fall will knock down al the rest like a row of bricks, The Nival Appropriation bill was taken up, and several members (ovk occasion to show how utterly inefficient our navy is, The bill is still under discussion. ‘The Goor sia dill, we are afraid, is to be held in shspense for a long time. Ben Butler wants to go Lome, like tho mau ia the play (Batler is always reminding us of some incident in a comely), aud has made a private arrange- iment with his. Reconstruction Commiitee to postpone it until May 5. Thus this accom- nodating Union stands still while Butler prac- tices in some little law court of Massachusetts for his fees, and the Stite of Guoryia is dis- franchised until the puissant Builer gots turough with his little outside business, Bad as the bill is, ‘if it were done when 'tis done then’iwere well it were done quickly,” and if it is utterly impossible for the Honse to do the business withont him, Butler ougit to be tied dowa to his desk by force until it is done. Our South American News. Our correspondeace fron Rio Janeiro published this moroing furnishes interesting details of the killing of President Lopez of Paraguay on the firs: day of last mouth by the Brazilian forees under General Camara, This vent was the cause of great rejoicing in Rio, where processions were the order of the day. fre Princess Imperial, wif of the C unt Eu, under whose command the allied army patanend to the war, was the recipient of two demonstrations in her honor by the enthusiastic ladies of the capital, who de- livered addresses and wound up with huzzas for the Priacess and Brazil. Dom Pedro, too, had received numerous evidences of bis popu- lurity with the people. His Majesty had declined to sanction the erection of an eques- trian statue of himsel!, as proposed by a num- ber of gentlemen residing at the capital. Ina letier forwarded to the promoters of the pro- ject he requesis them to expeud the money collected for the statue in the construction of primary. schools, which evidence of Doin Pedro’s devotion to the cause of public educa- tion deserves the praise it hns received, Our other iiems of news from Sonth Ame- rica are interesting, Brazilian politics were in their accustomed muddled condition; but the conservatives were stronger than ever, probably because of the successfal termina- tion of the war for Brazil and her allies. Rio was agitated on a question of the right of a moaasic institution to retain nuns within its convent walls egainst their will, and public sentiment was almost unanim us in favor of their release, Tue matter had been referred to the Conacil of State for a final decision, The Argentine Confederation, under the able rule of President Sarmiento, continued to move forward in the path of prosperity. The sme canaot be said of Uruguay, which is threatened with another rebellion, and will not unlikely fall a prey to Brazil. Our Jary System. , For years the courts and lawyers have com- plained bitterly of the difficulty of obtaining good jurors; the few persons who serve have groaned at their being called so often, many poor men have been ruined by being compelled to leave their business, important cases and trials have been adjourned and post- poned over and over, and general dissatisfac- tion occasioned through the present incom- plete, loose and inoperative jury system. In other countries and States the people have been given a proper, coherent and equal sys- tem, such as is now proposed in the Jury bill before our State Assembly. This bill remo dies most of the existing evils which at present annoy alike our judges and jurors. It pro- vides a fair remuneration for the poor man and compels the fich to share in the per- formance of this duty. By enabling our Com- missionerofJurors to procure the names of all liable and limiting exempts toa just number it enlarges the list so that the services of each would be light and _ infrequent. The necessity of its passage is as unques- tionable as is the popularity of the bill with our best citizens, most of wom are willing to assist in carrying out so fair, useful and equit- able a measure. Tar STEAMER VENEZUELA, which was spoken some time ago, in distress, by the ship Camilla, and which is now over thirty-five days out from Liverpool for the West Indies, has again been seen. The steamship Ohio, which arrived at Baltimore yesterday, saw her, still in distress, with her rudder gone, on the 16th instant, in latitude forty degrees eight minutes, longitude eight degrees seventy-three minutes, and offered to tow her to New York, but the crazy captain of the Venezuela, who probably has a wholesome dread of running up a biil for salvage against his employers, de- clined any assistance. Her passengers, luckily, had already been brought to New York.by the Camilla, so that the captain has only the lives of himself and crew to risk in this insane busi- ness, Tne Brits removing disabilities from colored voters and repealing the Registry law, except in the city of New York, were both passed in the Stute Senate vesterday.