The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1871, Page 7

‘ROUMANIA AND RUSSIA Herald Special Report from Bucharest. Protest of the Sultan Against the Wallachian Consular Treaty with the Czar. Bismarck’s Policy in the Ques- tion of the East. Reliance of the Porte on the Treaty of Paris. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Hegavp bas been received from our corres- pondent in the capital of Wallachia, by way of London :— Buowarest, Dec. 5, Via Lonpon, Dec. 6, 1871. The Roumanian goveroment has received from Constantinople a formal protest, made on the part of the Porte against tho final conclu- sion of the treaty which was negotiated some two years since with Russia relative to the regulation of consular jurisdiction in the terri- tory of the Danubian Principalities. The Sultan’s government justifies its action on the ground that this treaty arrangement between Wallachia and the Czar constitutes a violation of the clause of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, which stipulates that Russia shall not seek executive power or aggrandizement on the Danube, and that the Hospodar is really tributary to the chief authority in Constan- {faople. PRUSSIAN POLIOY. The promulgation of the Turkish protest at the present moment fs ascribed to the influence of Prince Bismarck, who, although entirely fndlfferent to the claims or authority of Prince Charles, has induced the Sultan’s government to assert its sovereignty in Wallachia as part and parcel of bis present game of statecraft towards Russia. Roumanian Interests in the Great Cabinets. The condition of the relations existing between the Roumanian government and the Sultan of Tur- koy has been a cause of uneasiness and jealousy to Moat of the Oid World Great Powers during a few years just jast. Since the conclusion of the Prussian war with France the consideration of the subject has engaged a lurge share of anxious attention on the part of the Cabinets of Berlin anda St. Petersburg, and even in the Councils of the (queen of England, AD Knglish authority, dating in Constantinople some few months since, called attention to the sub- fect tn the following words:— Prince Charles or Roumania seems anxious to oreate further complications in the East and more work (or conferences. ‘The Porte hus been informed that he has uddressed a ictter to the soverelgns of the Paris treaty guarantecing Powers. [t 1s sup- posed that ne writes to say that le can no longer vern tle Principalities under tho present constl- ton, aud requests that the matter be taken Into consideration ata conference. Le the contents of the lettcr whatever they may, the Porte is not likely to submit to a vassal prince communicating direct With forcign sovereigns without any notice to the Suzerain Court, and it will resist. any reference to he question connected with the Principalities at he Conicrence, Considering the relauonship of Prince Charles to the head of the North German Confederation this act is very significant. Can it be that the ttle of prince 1s too modest now tor a Bear relative to the Emperor oi Germany? | Owing to the failure in his endeavors to’ convert the Porte to the views of his government, the Kus- sisn Ambassador in Constantinople discontinued ois ¥e and aimost daily interviews with the Grand izler some time since. His efloris were then un- mustakably directed toward isolating Turkey trom tho Western Powers, and persuading tne Porte to ied ata separate and direct understanding with ussia. Russian Sentiment. Tne Brohange News of St. Petersburg, at one Uwe a warm friend of German interests, published au article some months ago, under tho text of “The Ambitious Projects of Prussia,” in which the Rus- stan writer sald:— It was natural enough at first to suppose that Ger- psy Austria should have sought an interview to je the question of the Roumaunian rail and wo are always loth to velievo evil where go may bo meant, But now German and Vienna corre- paragents aye opened our eyes. Whatdo they mean yy the agureasive Powers, against which Europe is to be guarded? France, thoroughly veaten, could gcarce ruiso @ finger in her own defence; ay Itely ana Engiand do not dream of conqnests. Rus- alone remains; against her, tuerefore, and her lone, ig the menaced huried | she, fortunately vic+ in Asia, ts therefore ready with eager clutch pounce upon the Danube, the Bosphorus, and ven India, She, too, forsooth, is but awaiting the th of the ‘sick man” to carry off every stick and ecrap he p . Jt is wonverful how periectiy versed are these foreign poilticians in our sol-disant secret maciunal and how they have settled in sheir minds that, from the wastes of Kamtechatka V0 the shores of the Adriatic, we mean nothing than to establish one moustrous Sciavonic empire upon the ruins of the whole of ihe European, but | aps pre German civilization—nay, to tne perdi- every civilized individual on earth. Is Rus- ais patientty to bear this? Should she not draw closer to Austria, and thus tsolute North Germany aa Germany endeavored to isolate her? AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. Compliment to Premier Andrassy from St. Pe- tersburg. TELEGRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, Dec. 6, 1871. Count Andrassy has received tne congratulations of the Russian government on his elevation to the Premiership of the Austrian Empire, coupled with @n expression of confidence in tho wisdom and justice of the policy which wiil be pursued under Ris administration of the foreign relations of the empire. SERVIA. Cabinet Resignation and the Regency in a Minis. terial Crisis. TELEGKAM TO THE KEW YORK HEBALD. Viexxa, Deo. 6, 1871. The Servian Ministry has resigned. ‘The Council of Regency, which has charge of the government during tne minority of the reigning Prince, is seeking to form a new Cabinet, but has as yet made uo announcement of appointments, IRELAND. " Libel Suits, Legal Attempt at TELEGRAM TD THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, Deo. 6, 1871, ‘The attorney who acted for the man Kelly, who Was recently acquitted of the charge of having mar- dered Head Constable Taibot of wie police, and who Qwaits trial for having wounded Constable Mullins by shootinz, intends to commence criminal pro- ceedings against 61x London journals for the pab- Meation of “livellous articics against his client Kelty.” NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ‘7, 1871.—TKIPLE SHEET, FRANCE AND THE HOLY SEE. Herald Special Report from Paris. President Thiers’ Diplomacy Towards the Pope and Prussia. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO The following special despatch to the Hxraxp has been received from our corre- spondent in the capital of France :— Paris, Dec. 6, 1871. President Thiers has demanded that the government of the Holy See shall recall Prince de Chigi Albani from the post of Nuncio of the Vatioan to the French republio. This action of the French statesman has been determined on in accordance with a request of Prince Bismarck. Sketch of Prince Chigt-Albani. Prince Sigismund Chiai-Albani was born on the *th of August in the year 1798. He is a Marshal of the Holy Roman Church and Guardian of the Con- clave. Helsasonof Prince Augustin Alpani, who died on the 10th of November, 1855, by bis wife, Amelia Charlotte, Princess Barbarini, who died on the 23d of August, in the year 1837. Prince Uhigt- Albani marriea the Princess Leopoldine, daughter ot Prince Doria Pamphilti-Landi, and was made a widower by her death, which occurred on the 22d of March, 1843, THE PRINCE OF WALES’ ILLNESS, The Fever in Regular Decline and the Patient Out of Danger. Queen Victoria’s Communication with Sandringham. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ~~ Lonpon, Deo. 6, 1871. The official bulletin which was issued this morn- ing reporting the condition of the Prince of Wales, and signed by the phystclans in attendance at Sandringham, states that His Royal Highness en- joyed some sleep last night, and that the fever is declining regularly and gradually to-day. There ts little doubt but that the crisis of the dis- ease 1s now over and the Prince out of danger. Queen Victoria remains at Windsor, but Her Majesty is in constant communication with the at- tendants serving in the sick room at Sandringham. ENGLAND. President Grant’s Message Beforo the Nation and Public Comment on Its Contents, Political Forecast of Coming Diffi- culties in America. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Dec. 6, 1871. President Grant’s Message to Congress makes an excellent impression here and 1s favorably recoived by the press. It furnishes the text for leading edt- tortals tn all the morning Journals, They generally express satis‘action with the spirit in which the re- lations with Great Britain are dealt with by the President, and the opinion fs almost unanimous that never at any time has a more flattering exhibit been made of the condition of the United States, AMERIOAN POLICY ABROAD AND APPROACHING PROBLEMS AT HOME. The London 7imes, in its editorial article on the President's Message, ‘congratulates the American government on the dexterity of its diplomatic representatives in Europe daring the Franco-Ger- Man war in preserving an impartial attitude, with. out losing opportunities of displaying practical sympathy for both sides.” The writcr regrets the threatened abolition of the income tax “without the adoption of a substitute.” Finance, taxation and free trade, the London Times thinks, will constitute the questions on which the great parties of the Union will next divide, It predicts that economic problems in the United States will eventually be solved in accordance witn the views of the agricultural producers of the Mis- aissippt Valley. THE COTTON MOVEMENT. The bark De Mayo, from Savannah, has landed 1,250 bales of cotton at Liverpool. BELGIUM. The Ministerial Crisis Not Termi- nated Completely. Reception of the French Minister ‘at Court. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BROSSELS, Deo. 6, 1871. ‘The Ministerial crisis which was induced by the outside public agitation against M. de Deoker’s ap- pointment has not been completely concluded, and the formation of the new Cabinet ts still incomplete. THE FRENCH MINISTER AT COURT. M. Picard nad an audience with the King to-day, and presented his credentials as Envoy Extraoral- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France to Bel- @tum, The new Minister ts classed, politically, as an ullra liberal Frenchman, VENEZUELA. Anarchy and a Reign of peeoinar Rival Presidents. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Cakacas, Venezne’ A Via Havana, Deo'e tei” } Anarchy contiues. President Bianco left on the 15th to attack the revolutionists under Herrera Garcia, Who assumes to ve President, It is believed that the result of this effort will be decisive, The war schooner Avril had arrived at Ciudad Bolivar to ald the insurgents. Trade is depressed. JAMAICA. The Lost Porto Rico and Jamaica Cable Recov- ered—Buccessful Raising of Cundurango. TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALE. Kina’ Via HAVANA, De G Teo. Cundurango has been successfully raised on this island from seeds leit by Dr. Keene, of Washington. The lost Yorto Rico and Jamaica cable has been recovered, The break 19 twenty-eight miles {rom Ports Rico, Despatohes cannot be sent antti the irmival of the cable ‘steamout Interaatiunal from } Londom MEXIOO. The Defeat of the Government Troops at Saltillo. Progress of the Revolution—Another Loan En- forced at Moaterey—Consternation Among the Foreign Traders. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. New ORLEANS, Dec, 6, 1871. Advices trom Matamoras states that the govern- ment troops were compelled to abanaon the city of Saltitlo after several days of severe fighting. ‘The troops only occupy one fort outside tne city. ‘The revolution ts apparently gaining ground. A second loan has been enforced at Monterey by the revolutionists, and foreign merchants must pay or close their business, Many business men have left the city and closed their stores. Mexican merchants who do not pay are pressed into the army. Great consternation prevailed at Monterey among the foreiga merchants, CUBA. Arrival of the United States Steamer Kansas— Commercial ‘News. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, Dec. 6, 1871. The United States steamer Kansas arrived trom New York yesterday. Sugar quiet and steady—No, 12 Dutch standard, 10% reals. Exchange—On the United States, sixty days’ sight, in currency, 14 a1% per cent premium; short sight, 3% a 3% per cent premium; sixty days’ sight, 1a gold, 11% a 114 per cent premium; short sight, 13 8 133¢ per cent premium; on London, 233, per cent premium; on Paris, 64 @ per cent pre- mium, HAYII. Arrival of Two More Spanish War Vessels at Port au Prince—The Haytien Authorities Prepar- ing for Defence—A Threat to Blow Up the Hornet—Attitude of the American Minister. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, JACMEL, Hayti, Nov. 22, } Via HAVANA, Dec. 6, 1871, ‘The Spanish war steamers Zaragossa and Pizarro have arrived at Port au Prince. The Chorrucca was aiready there, No communications have been yet exchanged between she Spanish feet and the Hay- tien government. General Torquet is in command at Port au Prince In the absence of the President and has made exten- sive defensive preparations, 7 The crew of the Hornet threaten to blow her up rather than surrender to the Spanish authorities. The Hayviens sympathize with the crew. The American Minister continues a silent observer ofthe situation, but has offered no interference, and the Hornet continues to fly the American flag. General Saget is expected at the capital ina few days. Business is brisk. President Saget’s Movements—Excitement About the Hornet—Troubles on the Domini- can Frontier. PorT av PRincr, Dec. 3, Via Havana, Dec, 6, 187]. President Saget nas returned here from his tour in haste. There is much excitement among the people con- cerning the Hornet question. Disturbances have recently occurred on the Hay- tuen and Dominican frontiers, and iurther trouble is anticipated. An American war steamer is anxiously ex- pected, The Chambers have convened. 8ST. DOMINGO. Baez on His Travels—The Cabralists Quiet. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. St. Domingo, Nov, 20, Via Havana, Dec. 6, 1871. } Baez tg still travelling, and is not expected at the capital in amonth, The Cabralists are quiet, but it is rumored that they are preparing for a movement on @ large scale. Business ts dull. ST. THOMAS. Arrival of the United States Steamer Nantasket— A Spanish War Vessel Watching But Not Intent on Molesting the Florida. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW Y0ax HERALD Sr. Tuomas, Dec, |, Via Havana, Deo, 6, 1871. } The United States steamer Nantasket arrived here from Porto Rico, and Captain Carpenter had a conference with the Captain of the Spanish man-of- war, who disclaimed any intenticn of molesting the Teputed filibuster steamer Florida, except to pre- vent her from approaching the coasts of Porto Rico or Cuba. The Nantasket satled for Samana Bay on the 20th ultimg, leaving the Florida and the Spanish man-of- war in port, Nothing has occurred to change the situation of affairs hore, The island is healthy, but trade ts quite paralyzed. The smallpox continues its ray- ages in the island of Trinidad. THE PACIFIC COAST. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 1871. ‘The steamship Colorado, which takes the place of the Moses Taylor ob the Australian line will be de- tained until Friday or Saturday to await the arrival of the English mails. The Senatorial contest has been narrowed down apparently to Sargent and Cole, and the prospects Of the latter are reported as improving. Toe Legisiature has not yet organizeu, the demo- crats desi Hd postpone the Jot Convention as Tong as possible, The President’s Message ts generally warmly com- mended by tho press of the Paciiic coast, Vhe affairs of the suspended bank of B. F. Hastings & Co., of Sacramento, have been taken out of the receiver's hauds by trustees appointed beg asta x t fhe ume for makin ood the impaired capital of the People's froatanes Coun any poh | expired, and no movement having been made to comply wiih the law, the concern will be closed up. The directors of tne Pacific Insurance Company are endeavoring to do business, with smail pros- | pects of success. THE COLD WEATHER ON THE PLAINS, Omawa, Ned., Dec. 6, 1871. Passengers who left here for the West on Friday morning, December 1, were at Laramie station to- day. It ts not known how soon the road will be cleared. Tho weather nas greatly moderated. A great number of cases are reported in tie Wess Of persons irozen to death. EXTENSIVE FIRB IN LONDON, OHIO. CincINNaTI, O10, Dec. 6, 1871, The building of the London Woulien Company, at London, Madison county, Ohio, was burned at tro o'clock this morning. Loss $80,000; insurance $10,000, of Wasch $5,000 18 In the Antes Jasurance Company, of Cincinnati. VIEWS OF THE PAST. DECEMBER 7. 1870—Battle near Meung; French Army of the Loire defeated. 1816—Marsn 1787—The & Ney executed in Paris, aties Of he Delaware State Conven- von aed the Constitauen of ihe United Reces: they were the frst State repreaenia- tives to adopt the Instrumente | | angually from taxation, aside from what may be THE ANTI-GRANT - WAR! The Key Note of the Coming Presidential Campaign. Governor Walker, of Virginia, on the Warpath. His Annual Message Full of Defiance. The President of the United States Charged with Tyranny and D:spotism. Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus an Excuse to Tram- ple on Liberty, Bullets and Bayonets the Secret of the Government in Con- trolling Elections. An Appeal to the State to Reassert Its Rights and Resent the Violation of the Constitution as Framed by the Fathers of the Republic. RicaMonp, Va., Deo, 6, 1871. ‘The General Assembly met to-day, a quorum of both houses being present. At one P. M. a joint committee waited upon His Excellency Governor Walker ond informed him of the organization of the General Assembly and their readiness to receive any communication he had to make. The Governor then sent in his annual Message, which 1s alengthy but able and exnaustive docu- ment, He congratulates the people upon the biess- ings they have enjoyed and the ills they have es. caped and the success of the experiment of univer- sal suffrage and equality before the law, which Vir- ginia, the first of the Southern States, voluntarily inaugurated. “Certainly,” he says, “nowhere else could that experiment have been so successfully tested, and nowhere else has lt been so favorably ‘and impartially tried, the result having showed that under favorable circumstances it may be rendered not only not antagonistic, but rather conducive to good and stabie republican government. Certain it ig that, since the restoration of civil government in” our State we have enjoyed a degree of peace and good order, of ovedience to law and respect for au- thority equaliea by few and excelled by none of our sister States. While it ts true that this is due ina very large measure to the law-abiding character and HIGH MORAL SENTIMENT OF OUR PEOPLE, it cannot be dented that, to accrtain extent, it ts due tothe fact that every citizen of the State, no matter what his race or nis present or previous con- dition 1s or may have been, haa been fully protected in tne rights or immunities of citizenship, IMMIGRATION. On the subject of immigration the Governor re- commends: first, the organization of a bureau, under the control of a board of airectors— one from each Congressional district and one from the State at large—to have entire management of the affairs of the bureau; second, the establish- ment in Europe of one or more agencies for the pur- pose of furthering immigration vy the dissemina- tion of correct information of the advantages and inducements offered to the emigrant; thira, the establishment at Norfolk of a depot to receive the emigrants when they land; fourth, the publication of a pamphiet for distribution at the North and in Europe, giving information necessary as to the commercial, agricultural, manufacturing, climate advantages and mineral resources of the State; and fifth, to mvest anthority ina commissioner to act a8 attorney or agent of owners of lands in tho State. He concludes by recommending an appropriation of $20,000 for the turtherance of this scheme of im- migration. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTRM—A NEGRO COLLEGE WANTED. ‘The Governor states that the success of the school system inaugurated ander the laws passed by the last Legislature has surprised its warmest advo- cates, and conclusively demonstrates that the peo- ple appreciate the benefits as well as the necessity, both ina material and moral point of view, of edu- cation. The schools are now supported by a tax upon property and a capital tax of $1, scarcely one- half of the latter being Collected. He advises the amendment of the constitution so as to provide for the collection of a capitation tax of $2 only, to be devoted exclusively to the support of schools, aud prohibit any and every citizen from voting at any election who does not pay this tax. ‘The colored people, being clothed with the elective franchise equally with the whites, should be educated in order to intelligently exercise that right. This cannot be accomplished by any system of mixed schools; each race mast be provided for separately, and the true interests of the colored people demand that they should be provided with separate schools. For this purpose the government recommends the establish- ment of a college or university for the education of negroes, wherein shall be taught all the higher branches of useful knowledge: the same to be bullt and sustained by the sale of tne land scrip due to the State by the United States, or by the conversion of the scrip Into bonds or seourities bearing six per cent interest, THE PINANCRS—TOTAL DEBT. On the sudject of the finances the Governor, in an elaborate argument, justifies the Funding Act passed by the Jast Legislature by whieh Vir. ginia assumes twotnmrds of tne AnthWar debt, and issues certificates for the remaining third, payable by West Virginia, should that State agree to pay this portion of the debt The debt fundable under that law was $47,090,868, two-thirus of which ts $81,393,910, which ts the poruon as- sumed by this State, and on which the annual in- terest 13 $1,865,450. by (he sale of all the interests owned by the State in imternal improvemenis the total debt will be reduced to $39,141,000, two-thirds of which ts $26,100,000, on wiiica the annual Interest Will De $1,466,000, RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM. The Governor then urgently recommends re- trenchment and economy In both the legislative and judicial departments of the government, and indt- cates the means by which such retreuchment can be easily attained. If these measures are carried out it will be found that $600,000 will be ample to meet the current expenses of the State government, including thé legislation expenses, Add to this the annual interest—$1,420,000—and the sum of $2,220,000 wiil b@ the total required to be realized uppropriated for school purposes. To ratse this amount the Governor recommends the taxation of | all ralroads in the same proportion as that upon private propery; an increase of the oyster tax; upon the manufacture and sale of ardent liquors; stamp tax and an equalization of the assessments of real estate, which, with the adoption of the economical reforms he indicates, he 1s confident can meet the expenses of the governmeny and pay the interest of the debt prompuy ag it falis due. THR DEBT PETWREN VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. With regard to the settlement and adjustment of the debt vetween Virgiaia and Weat Virginia a Excetlency reiterates his recommendation o ® year ago, which #aya:—“The better course to he pursued is for ihe two States to submit ihe whole question to arbitration. let each State select one disinterested arbi- trator, and the two thus selected a toird, to whom the whole subject shail be submituod, th finding to be final and binding upon the two States. ‘This is a fair and equitable mode of adjussment, and if ten- amply justifea m cneckn remed: the only instrumentality ne aaining-—-chrough agn the Supreme Court of the United States. SLEOTIONS IN THR STATH—A SHOT FOR THB UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Tne most important portion of the Governor's is that devoted to tne subject of elections and the recent threatening attitude assumed by the toward the State government, which [ give im extenso, a8 \t aa @ national interest, and aa & fee document in the next iresidential con- teat is second to none yet published. Une of the Most serious objections to our constitution ts the number and {frequency of elections which it pre- scribes. We now have annually two regular elec- tions—one on the fourth Thuraday in May and tne other on tne first Tuesday after tne first Monday in November, aside from the loss of time to the citizen in ndance upon registration and the polia and the excitement of teeling and dis- turbance of business incident to the heavy expense upon our people, wich they are tily abie to bear, there ia no necessity for it. Thero ought to be not more thau one elect(on each year lor Sate purposes. Congressmen are elected every two yeurs and a President every four years, and by a law of Con- the latter election must be held on the Tues- lay after the first soaane November, and t am clearly of opinion that {t is advisable to hold our Congressional elections at the time now prescribed by law; but 1 am very decideuly tn favor of so 7 sistent with the it; free education and taxing of the lowost degree maintenance of the pubile 1 for all; a fostering care, cacouragement and elera- t.on of labor, and under ‘ully, dnancialiy and per- manently accomplished vntversal amnesty and im- partial sudrage, It ia in nO partisan apiric that I utter these words of warning to you. | should be derelict in the execution of the high trust imposed on me did t not make known to you the perils which surrouna us and indicate the course which, in my judgment, tt is wise to pursue. I would that I could present a less sombre pictu that I could congratulate you upon the compiee restoration of the national government to its pria. Upe purity and strong hold on the affections et the people, and its just execution of their sovereign Wil; but a8 affeciion is not begotten of force, nor honesty of corraption, 80 LIBERTY IS NOL NURTURED BY TYRANNY, hor peace by violence. Not until the people rise tn their majesty and reassert their liberties, now trampled upon; not until kindness shall supersede hate and patriotism rise superior to partisan selfish- ness may we look for the imauguration of an era of good feeling. Let us hope that patriota and statesmen, good men and Christians everywhere throughout the land, regardless of past associations or aMiliations will Unite In an honest and earnest effort to redeem the nation from this unnatural and dangerous condi- tion of affairs to the end that peace and fraternity may be again restorea among the people; so that the amending the constitution as that all Stace, ag A municipal and townsnip elections shall be hel on the fourih Thursday in May. This was the time for holding State elections prescr bed by our former Constitution, and was found by experience to the most convenivat time for our people, and by its adoption now we should save the time, expenses and incidental evils of two electiuns, except in each alternate year, am also in favor of thls change in the constitution for another, and to me very cogent reason. It would Semowe oat State elections beyoua even tae pale of an EXOUSE FOR FEDBRAL, INTERVENTION, By the fourth section of the first article of tho federal constitution the Legislatures of the several States are authorized to prescribe the times, places and manner of holding eloctions therein for Con- Gressional Representatives, but the right to mane or alter such regulations at any time is reserved to ngress. For more than three-fourths of a century the authority thus conferred upon tne State co tures been satisfactorily exercised vy them. Twenty-one Presidenual and forty-two Congres- sional elections had been held, some of them amid the excitement and confusion of foreign wars, or the throes of domestic revolution, and yet no occa- sion had arisen, iu the opinion of our wisest states- med, calling for, or that could justiiy the assertion of the reserved right of Congress to make or alter the regulations preseribed by the States, Not until the year 1570, a period of profound peace aud unt- versal prevalence oi luw and order, When the fed- eral administration, two-thirds of botu branches of Congress and turee-fourths of all the State govern- Ments were in the hands of one political party, did the Congress of the United States atiempt to inter- fere or regulate the mode or manner oi the election of its own representatives. In that clause of the federa) constitution which prescribes tl “each house shall be the le ey of the election returns and qualifications its own members” it had, therelore, found an ample safeguard for the pro- tection of the rights and interests of its own members gna their constituents. The Forty-frst Congress, however, undertook directly to control the election, not only of its own representatives, but also the election of State oMicers hed at the same time, by an act approved May 31, 1870, en- titled “An act to enforce the right of citizens of tue United States to vote in tne several States of this Vaion and for other purposes,” and by an amena- ment thereof, approved February 28, 1871. CHICANERY OF CONGRESS. The federal governmen*, under the pretence of protecting the treedom of the ballot, strikes «own the freedom of the citizen, aud under the guise of regulaving the action of Congressmen {3 sought the regulation and control ol the affairs of the States. In towns of over 20,000 inhabitants the polls may be surrounded by a horde of petty and irresponsibie oiliciais, designated as “Su, ervisors of Elections’ and ‘special Deputy United States Mar- shals,” inciuding at the discretion of the marshal every voter in the ranks of ois party, all appointed py federat oilictals and patd out of the feueral Treasury, who, upon any fancied or prear- Tanged pretext, may not only arrest any citizen and prevent his exercise of the right to vote, but they may also arrest the election oficers themselves, gui thus break up and destroy the election altogether. Heavy penalties are announced oguinst these ofl clals for neglect of duty; but to redress or protec- tion is afforded the citizen for the unlawful depriva- tion of his inalienable rights. Acts which to them- selves Were lawfui under tle common as well as the statute laws of the land are branded as criminal und heavy punishments pronounced agalust them, while to THK LONG CATALOGUE OF CRIMES enumerated In our laws are ad.ied many othera un- known co our or any other criminal jurisprudence, Already have some ol our most worthy citizens been dragged from vhetr homes aua subjected to great annoyance and expense in delending themseives against unfounded charges instituted under these laws, ‘the eeriitg of partisan or personal maievoleuce has usually been the actuating motive for these prosecutions. But extraordinary and un- recedented as this legislation was, and unconsu- ational, a3 1 believe it (o be, 6O far as it iterieres with State elections, lt was but the precursor of another statute enacted vy the Forty-second Con- gress, which moro completely compassea the real purpose for which they were enacted. This act was Approved on the 20th of April, 1871, and is entitled “An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenta amendment to the constitution of the United states and for other purposes,’ WHY SUSPEND THE HABBAS OORPUS? Can there be found in these provisions any authority for the suspension of that great writ of right, the habeas corpus, or for the delegaiton of the authority with which Congress alone was clotned by the original constitution? Certainly not, And mation, nnited, purified and harmonized, may Bane consummation of the mighty Wall METHODIST EPISOJPAL CONVENTION, SyRacuse., N. Y., Dec. 6, 187. A Convention of the Methodist Episcopal churches: of the State of New York assembied in this city om Tuesday morning to consider subjects of import- ance to the Church, About four hundred dctegatea were present. Tho Convention was called to order at ten o'clock by the Kev. Joseph E. T. Peck, D. v., of Syracuse, chairman of the Executive Committee. Mr. Darius A. Ogden, of Penn Yan, was appointed temporary secretary. Commiuees on permanent organization and business were appointed. A paper entitled “The Statistics and Progress of Evangelical Christianity” was read by the Rev. Wil- liam H. Depuy, D. D., assistant editor of the Chris~ tan Advocate, New York, which closed the first se3- sion, AFTERNOON SB3SION. At the afternoon session & permanent organization Was effected by by the udoption of the folowing re- ort of the Committze:-—President, Rev. William Bq Harris, D. D. LL. D., of New York; Vice Presiaents Rev. R. Hogeboom, East Genesee Uonference: A. O. Lindsley, Genesee Conference; Rev. G. P, Porter and S. B. Foote, of Wyouing Conference; W. G. Queal and W. Childs, of Mog Con- ference; ltevs. J. E. King, D. D., and W. L. Woolett, of Black River Conference; L, L. Hart and Wiitiags Whiting, of Ceatrul New York Conterence; Revs. Re Houghton and E. Remington, of New York Conter- ence; Revs. George Corey aud 0. B. B. Welling, of Erie Conference; Kevs. Kt. A. Caruthers and J, Tngere soll, of Gast German Conlerence; Kev. J. 0. Denim er; Secretaries, Rey. W. H. Depuy, D. D.; Be ote, A. M., and C. H. Appiegnte; imancial Secre- taries, Le’ Flack, ML, and Kev. B. Ives; Reporter—Rev. Jocl Eaton. The PRESIDENT, In taking the chair, stated that tne next order of business was the reception of the report of the Committee on Education. a the absence of the chairman of that committee the Rev. G. R. Onooxs, editor of the Methodist, read @ paper on “Rome and the Puolic Schools.’ ‘The second branch of the subject, Educauon, was taken Bp, and an essay read by Mr. Joseph Jones, of the Ilion Citzen, andenthe head of “The Duty of Chriss tian Citizens Towards the Puvitc Schoois.’” Resolutions were adopted in favor of sustaining the pieseut public school system; for a union of all lovers of the system in its defence, insisting upon the moralelement to instruction, and for petitioning the next Legislature to take steps to secure an amendment to the State constitution perenne prohibiting the appropriation by the State or munt- cipal authorities of public funds for the support of sectarian schools, Professor Fisk, principal of the Genesee Wesleran Seminary, at Lima, read acaroiully prepared paper on the ‘subject, when the Convention adjourned unul evening. ‘AT TIE EVENING SESSION Pro‘essor FLACK, of the Hudson River Institute, at Claverack, read a paver, on behalf of the comme tee, On the subject or ee tee Its Rela- tions 19 Society, the Church and Civil Law. ‘the ev. i. ALAMASTER, from he same commit. tee, read a paper on ‘lemperance Legislation,” and the following resolution was adopted :— Resolved, That while we declare total prohibition to be our right and our alm, we respectfully ask the passage of a law which will make ft necsssary to obtain the Sonsent a ine jority of legal voters, at an election he ward, town or enua fore any one can weil iutoxtoat- ing liquors as a beverage. The Convention then adjourned until nine o’ciock this morning, When the toptes of university education and Miele rte were taken up. The Rey. ©, W. Bennett, D. D., Professor of Hist Logie In the Syracuse University, and chair the committee having the subject in charge, read @ paper on that suyect. ‘The Rev. J. &. Kino, D. D., President of Fort Bd- ward Institute, read a paper on the supply of atu. dents (or university eduction. ‘The committee presented a series of resolations, which were adopted, altirming that the University should be the place of preparation for the most fa- cred trasts in the Church and State; that the bigh- est education implics the education of the whole man, aud that the Convention fully recoguizes @3- sential Christian principles as indlspeasabie in a sound university foundation; and we will faithruliy et that authority is attempted to be vested tn tne resident of the United States by the terms of this act,under the specious pretext of enforcing the provisious of the fourteenth amendment. “Tho privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not Le suspended, unless when, In cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require It,” 13 the language of the federal constitution, By the origin, nature and history of this great writ and bulwark 1t interposes between the freedom of the citizou and the open or stealthy encroachments of tyranuy were thoroughty understood and profoundly appre. ciated by the Iramers of the constitution, Hence the absolute pronibitivun of its suspension, except in the two extreme emergencies of foreign invasion or when reve!lion raises itself to such a formidabie state and proportion as to threaten the public safety equaily with foreign invasion. But Congress, without even the pretence that either of these exigencies had arisen, proceedea in the act under cousidera- tion not only to resign to the Executive this care- fally guarded power with which it alone was in- vested by the constitution, but to clotne him (tho President) with “discretionary authority to exercise itat will.’ Although the constitution authorizes federal intervention tn the local affairs of a State only upon the call of the State, and to thi tont of the overthrow of State government and the obiitera- uuon of stare lines, aud the substitution in thelr stead of military, the arbitrary keeping of one man are committed the lives, liverties and the property of a whole people, 13 NUT THIS THE ESSRNCR OF DESPOTISM? What monarch possesses more absolute power? What tyrant was ever Jess trammelied? This act is ibe fitting climax to the legislation which pre. ceded 16 5 ronnlee through all 1s the same under- lying purpose—the destruction of State govern- the centralization of all power in the Unaer tne former the citizen, without any fault of his own, may be deprive: of his riglit to the exercise of the elective franchise, anu tho election of State ofiicers prevented, while under the latter the innocent cilizon may ve deprived of all rignts and of libert; itself, and the government of tis State rendered oweriess to afford him protection. step by step as this consummation been reached. One prece- istrict and martial law, to ments an federal goverument, and gratefully incorporate such principles into oar system of instruction. ‘The Rev. Dr. KING presented & resolution that the Ministers of the Methodist Church in this State, being vitally related to the successfui establishment and emctent working of the Syrucuse University, shonld exert their utmost power and assert their bighest Cooter | in order tu recommend their eda- catiunal institutions to the favor of the peopic. The Convention then took a recess until two o'clock, The sessions are largely attended, and are of un- usual interest. A.—The Hent in the Market.—If kou Want an elegant, fashionable Dress Hat go direot to the manufac- turer, ESPENSCUELD, 118 Nassau street; prive $1. jeorring’s Pa Ae Herrin ge POON SAPES, 231 sirvadway, socaee Mureay 9099 at A Cough, Cold or Sore ‘throat Requires Ime mediate attention, as negiect oftentimes resuits in some inca rable lang disease, BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES will simoat tavarlabiy give rellet. A.=Tho Cold Sanp! Ladies, do not shiver around the fire from the cold, w wind rushing through the crevices of your doors aud wi dows, get them tized with RORBUCK'’S WEASIHER stairs, warranted to exclude cold wind, stop the rattling of sashes d_-cosey, Competent men try to Ox them. KOEBUCK BROTHERS, 58 Fuiton street, near Cli (same office for eight years), Hardware ani buliding tra: jupplied. to Determine Whether DX'S FURS are the most popular. Ite a picturesque and gracetui (han it wae k, cylindrical “stove-pipe” could be presumed that the atl? made to appear, and the reauit must be adinitved to bes crowning triumph of art. But Kaox's Fure are worthy of admiration, Raritan his Fur Caps, which are ‘a little aboad of anything of the kind which been ion Guced here. They are not the saucer-like conceptions which ‘a feeble {mitaturs bave produced; but are ful ‘and towering, and serve as useful as well roamental cov- erings. No we'l-dressed gentleman will ve to either on fo f on horseback durin, 2 ted anovher; they soon assimilate and con- stitute What yesterday was fact to-day ts We » EX! les are supposed to justily tho Ee ce Pend when they do erous measures, ore fare exactly the defect § 1s _ supplied by avalogy. Such @ condition of affairs | heeded by the masses; dered by you t cannot but believe West Virginia Will promptiy accept i. If she refuse you will Bave the satistaction of knowing that you have xhausted all honorabie means o ootaim @ neitiomoent, aud will then ve uid never have been apprehended by the fathers of the republic. Having before them the experiences of past generations and past nationall- tles, and actuated by the most profound regar: the liberty of the citizen, as well as the efficiency of government, with & wisdom amounting almost to prescience, they formed our government for per- etuity, and they omitted no principle necessary to its preservation, and they included none which, roperly administered, could work its destraction. Fre absorption of the powers and function ot States by the tederal government was as foreign to their design as the nullt- fication or repudiation of federal authority bg the individual action of the States, for the tri- umph of either involved the destruction of the Union, ‘And yet, between these fatal extremes—se- cession upon she one hand and centralization upon she other—we have been osciliating since the founda- tion of the government, We have the terri- bie ordeal of attempted secession, but the recoil has carried us the other extreme, which menaced the nation in 1861 in 1871. — pov its insatiate v Power is ever grasping after maw is never cloyed; it climbs by fraud and holds by corruption; its solicitude for perpetuation ex. ceeds that for the public weal, and party is fattened at the expense of principle. When VENALITY CRIUMPHS IN OUR PUBLIC PLACES, ana the insidious approaches of tyranny are up- wuen a& local elcotious federal soldiers, by order of federal oficiali with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, surroun the polls, or federal batue shups, with shotved can- nan, beleaguer a city to overawo its oltvizens in the free excrcise of the elective franchise; when imbecile and corrupt local governments are foreed upoa @ people and they are punished for the ineMictoncy and rottenness of those very governments by the arbitrary deprivation of ail civil governments, all his and all Hberty, arrested vy thousanas—witn- out warrant of law—and driven tu prison like cattle to the shamb.es, It ts TIME THAT TUB ALARM BRLL WAS SOUNDED and the people awakened to a sense of tho dangets impending. They alone can ppl the correction, ‘They have the means of redress in thelr own hands, Let them iasist that the doctrine of tadestractibiity oc tie Union, as the fathers framed 1 shall be recognized, and that the original ant inherent sovereignty of the States and the strict admiuistration of the powers dele- gated by them to the Union shalt again be acknowledged, Let them demand the tnytolabilit, of (he haveas corpus, the subordination of the miil- tary to the civil authority, tae maintenance of the ublo faith, Stare saa Ps ay onesty and economy in the admin! a lic aifairs; tie erualisation end reduction of Arba bout one of Knox's exquisite Fur Cape and Collars, or Gloves or Gauntiew. jout a pair of Knox's Fur A Fine Assortment of Second Hand GRAND SOU ARF, AND UPRIGHT PIANOS, SU STKINWAT & SONS | inway Hall, 109 and it Kast Fourteenth street, New Steinway & Sons’ GRAND SQUARE AND Old Pianos taken in exchange. cranks Mtelnway Hall, 109 and 111 East Fourecath street, New York. jatchelor’s Halr Dye=The Best in tho word iineosty perfect dye ; harmless, reliable, lastantageous, Atal druggists. joro’s Hair Dye has no Equal in the Boosey ats ‘aad most reliable of any. Sold every where. UPRIGHT PIANOS. lustrated catalogues Mink and Mable Furs Darkened.— contd Mind permanent, WILLIAMS, SH Fullon street, Brooklyn. Lining and repairing. Watches, Wholesale Prie«s. oth’ dor’, ae! 1'Brosdway, near Fourteenth street. i 4 Gray Use Halls Vege- rattle weias Wali RENEWER if they desire as good « head of hair asin youth. “Pike’s Toothachs Drops” Cure tn One Min- ute. —HILL'S HAIR DYE, black or brown, Onty 59 couts. Royal Havana Lottery. Th patd for Dow>loons, ail kin ts of (oll TAYLOR & OU., Bankers, i Wall nd Dake of IRussia ung Openty De- that the taste layed Amer! ladies thir i eu Ve on Gay Sy the onmerous m8 which "nati 1 f fant wing him the fh Teaberot FRANK LESLIE'S LADY'S JOURNAL he con feased that he could easily account for their taste. All agree io givin to FRANK LESLIE'S LADY'S JOURNAL the ion. Published every Monday, and for sale by al! newsmen. The Grand ‘palm of Udolph ol 44 Schram SCHNAPPS —Amot the compiain' BCHNAPIS bas been declared % spectlo. OY the euienms b7aicians who have correspon led with the vroprietor are Pepita, debliity consequent upon long-evatinaed told pllepay, aacliomm BAY 9% co gn ap Pi alt shronic disenses. FOR (hese ap: je now prescribed, with greak atc housatal medical practitioners in Aromatic which the ft Rhe SYRUP wil got forenes, cree thee Cnso ol Po PLES RuEUaATIO Ps no Ramo Phystolans’ advice arate ail ‘dihge i dabn etreck io or Rocratca Dr. cure. A guaranice to oure bs