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TKIPLE SHEET. NEW-YOKX. 8ATURDAY, MAT 18TO. WAIXACX1 MARBTrD UFK. khmttUrm OllbeTt.

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tVjiiifaoe. Mia Nelly MATLNA.K all 'clock. rtuarneter ItrBIXr OARDK1T. ITinca at. MOSQUITO.

Leailina; ckanewn by MU Lyila Thorn paaa, MIM rnim MSrsnass. JnfUw and Weraer. MATIMAUt a 1 'steak. OtTaTPrC THKATKR. Rroadwev.

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TH KATRICAL, I evening. L-a ooileetM of eurkavue. BOWBBT THEATER, ltawflrr. near 4 'anal aft TIIK VLtLNU DUTCHMAN and COLLEEN SAWN. TAMMANT.

sear Sd-aT. VARIBTT EHYKHT A1NMKHT. By Mr. Locke, Howard. If ia utile Eagle, Miaa Maddox and ethers.

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itiroa. Warn bold. Bed sua. ASSOCIATION HALL, ftmr of Ata-ar. MATCNEB a4 a o'clock iMVULAB CONCBBT.

PLYM OtTTH CHURCH. BROOKLYN. near Hlcks-et. Afternoon at 4 o'clock ORGAN CONCERT ON UttaAl' UHUAH, i of tk rtew-hwrk IT isaea. Tbe Dati.t Tnm, par oay 'Taa Hails Tutaa.

Manila ananas, awrJnatra of aba 10 ,1 fba hundrnv li rlitfn Minan Ube par anaaai. i wo ooviea, oua year Am extra copy la getter-op of eiab, aod a aploB. dM etosi aBftnwc o( iba Jaaa iULaax j. fMuaB. a an ooiaea, one Tib WBOXT 9 Tea rei in Ab astra eopy Keotar-ap of etab, and a aptae oa uai iaa urn 4.

AL4.X- auao. Twaatr aaiBiB. on year Aa extra eoov to cetter-iD of Blub, aod a anlmr -dt ateai mtexmrUt ml tba tat UabbX J. Uas- Kareaaaa SdtUsn. par aramm, postsir extra Mabaonpuona to ettaor of oar ediUoaa rooalTed for a leaa leninA of tuna ibsn on year at ana yearly rata.

Tba beau-Wetskly and Waeaiy aaaUad to cJerrymem Addtuosa air ba uad to eloba at etab rate. Tbaaa prieea ar iBrariable. We baT no tnrelln ireata. Remit In draft 00, New-York or Foot Office Money Orders it poaalble, aad vber britfaer of the can be proeorad aand tba aaoney tn a rayfafarad latter. Iildraaa H.

J. RAYMOND A CO, Tiwk OrBoa. alaw-York. Te AdTcrtAaera. AdTertiaers the Times are requested to bring an tbair noaeaa at aa early an boor 1b toe day aa poau- If racat vad altar a o'clock.

It will ba impoeaivte ria 1 MiaiB aiwwr lav proper nnana fr For tbe aooommorlattoB of ap-towa reaidoato. uawiwu wit inaoruiia ut ue AABJ MS will be r. -Ta at nft wm XM-eu, innetioa of Rroadway nd aUbST- aad at No. 40 Kaat between Broad way and at aama raLaa as ar sliarnd at ottos ajf pattUoation. trr Meaara.

DKIXKX, RAJUXS A CCV, Bankers, Ho. I EscnM, rana. are to apcredltod aceata lor 2n aw-Yoa. TiMna la that city. We cannot notice BBonjmona eommnnlcatlona.

Tn all caar rsqntr tba writer's nama and addreaa, awt tor publication, bat aa a iraaranteeof good taltb. Wa caauot ratora rajaotad eaamuucABou aor y'oA'a Bianoanrlyta, nnlaai apanlalljr nwjii ao to Oar CircalarlaM. A Tbe rubecription list and the daily aalea of the Timba are bow irreater than at any period "Within tbe last twelre month a. and are rapidly InoreaMDf. Tbe fact la mentioned for tbe In formation of frtenda and In reply to the nua- 1 of Thr TlaBBB tmm 4ay.

The Tauu of to-morrow, Sunday, May 8, wul eontain, nsnal, an ezoellent Taiiety of pleaaaaC entertaininf and profitable readinc snattev, TacTndllMj good atary, namerone eelee-lou from corrent literature, special article on looal toptea, twadable) and aewsy let- froin aome of our own eoreecpondenta. general notes on amusement, at borne and abroad, foreign and nligkma Intelligence tn tnef, military veeip, Ac. Also, an toe news of importance and Interest reeelTed and collected Tip to pre-time. Advertisements for this edi tion moat be reeelTed ta tbe TlMEa Publication Offlee as early as 8H o'clock this evening to in-aure the proper elaaaifleatlon. NEWS OP THE DAY.

EUBOPK. A eteainer at Glaagw, Scotland, rf ports speaking the Canard teaaaer gtaarMi tmttlng back (ar Qaeenstowa, under sail, harlng broken ber shaft. 8 be was, when spoken, loo miles west of Ireland. All were well on board, and tbe steamer needed no assistance A London dispatch aays tbe Bed Bitot expedition baa been abandoned, a eomproauae harmg been effected by the bill to organise tbe prorlace of Manitoba in tbe Canadian A conference of Ministers and Marshal Cah-siobkbt was bald at tbe TaiOertes oa theSth last, to agree apon measures to preserro order during the day of rotln to-morrow. Ar-reata of persona' implicated or suspected of conpUerty tn the consptraey are still made.

Tbe Jaarrttr, BocRxrosT'a paper, and tba edition of tbe Jfopyai were seised yesterday, and trouble was reported at Lyons In eoasequenee of Govern aient interference) with the publication of tbe Ciocas tn that dry. Member of the Opposition hare gone to London and Brussels to ascertain tba truth about tba alleged conspiracy. Tbe New-York Tnbunft London correeoondenL name Brmeamd in Virrt. ba letter to BxArnx, ta tn Pans and prof ease readiness to answer any questions that may be pat to him. He admit reeelrlng Utters for ruMTnaas la Loadoa.

but be says he knew notn-ln- of their con testa, nor of tbe Tbe French clergy tn Boms hare been Informed that the law prohibits their Toting at tba Prenca Embassy tn Borne on the frNmrtim revolted Abrenan tribes bare submlttad to the French after two engagements, la which tba latter were victors. asaerted that 8brbabo will not resign, but will be Invested with full powers of a Boyal Begeat. Span lab Blah ops tn Kobm refuse to Lake tbe oath to the new ConAU- COXO BBSS. In the Senatn, yeaterday, tbe bill to eatab-ltsb a nnlfurm aystasa of edncatioa la the Distrust of Columbia waa-repeated. Adverse report were made oa the bOl to Increase the fee of Marshals la Western Arkansas, and tbe bill providing for special term of tbe Circuit Court la the Southern District of Ohio.

The p-ntr aabaUtatod a btU of tta own for that 'of tbe House radnclsr tbe amber of eSoera of tbe ray. and 1 Jt wu made toe ipedal order for Tasaday next. A lonar debate saroed oa the Bona resolution fixing theth of July for final djosnment, during wblcb tbe merits of pending aaMmrna, which, la would be Jeopa rilaod by a early aa aVoarnzaent, wera Tbe wealttrtoa was postpoaed aUdl THEATnTB. by KMMrm. John Kale Uiwit May to.

The Legislative, Bxeemtt ve aad Jadi- staiT Aif lagitatlisi OtU aalttee of. tbe Whole, and. after debate en tbe it dsoontlauiag tbe pabUeattoa of the laws ta Mwaoepers, was agreed to. woUee was fOvew of 'aa amendment abollaMng sbe Bl Book, pababed far grata! ton distnbatioo. aad tbe senate adjoormad tffl Monday.

Tbe waa not ta A Potta-ville, Form dispatoh aays a strong secret saoTement in progress to persuade tbe aniners of the LaaljrJt aad Wyoaaiag aalmac ra-gtoa to lota tee strikers stow Idle, fa order ta compel tbe operators to yield. SboeJd this fan. work will be resumed generally. rieveraJ barne and a large Itrery-etable la WUkaebarre, Pena aoetaiaia; thlrty-oa hen and asveral eews and aoga. were baraed yester day, with an tbair eontrato and the Pre stock.

Seven dwclllng-bouae on Cal boon-street. Ctn- eianati, were also burned yeaterday. Hsaav Waiab. a nremaa. was severely lnjarod by fall ing walla.

The boiler of the new water-works at Zanesvtlie, Ohio, exploded yeeterday, demollab-lag the baildiac la which it was sUaated. Tbe flretaaa was blown tbreogs) the root, aad fall fifty feet from tbe buHdlag. His lnjarie are probably fatal. The eaglaeer.waa not muob hurt, Tbe daamage la aoaat fXQCeoe. Tho eobomr JtmekM iat; of naavpden.

waa apalaed la a squall aa Wednesday, off Cameon, Ma. and the Ospraln, Wmua Lamx, drowned. The eteam-boat Kmttm track anag in the aTluslmipal.opBoaite Hafia. Ark, aad ara on im sta mac -roe ooaa ana cargo wiu be a total leaa. A party of prominent citisena of Skaneate- les paid a vlalt to Mr.

Bkwaad, at Auburn, yes terday afternoon. To tbe address of tbe spokes man of bis lake visitors, who thanked Mr. 8nw- aj for tbe interview, tbe Ex-Secretary made a pleaaaat little response oa the influence of lake oenery oa men and oountriea, en literature aad history. The American Medical Association had another stormy seasion yesterday oa tbe ques tion of color, during which tbe Committee on Ethics made aa explanation of tbe grounds on which their adverse report of tbe day before was based. A resolution censuring the members of the Committee who signed the majority report was laid on tbe table.

A resolution setting forth that the question of race or color did notenter Into the consideration oa which report of the Com mittee oa Ethics was based was adopted by 113 to 87. when the Association adjourned mm die. We are indebted to Capt. Hkbich, of tbe steam-ship Anmw, at this port from Hamburg, for late Continental papers. The Republican County Convention met last evening eorner of Twenty -second- treet and Broadway, Hon.

Jobs Oochxajt in the chair. Committee waa appointed to oonfer with the organlsationa opposed to Tammany HalL In relation to tbe County nominations for the ap proaching election. Mr. Graham began, his gumming np for the defense In the ease of DAJnax McFabxabt yeaterday, and occupied nearly the whole day in arguing points of law and citing authorities tn eases of homicide. Where the defense has been a plea et insanity.

On Monday he wlJl go over the evidence with the Jury. Proceedings were oommenoed before Com- mlsaloner Osborh yesterday, with a view to the extradition of Thomas H. Johnso, charged with the murder of Edward Bakjixs. aboard the English bark Jforwawg Light, when at sea. The Palilical aTmtnre in Three State.

The elements are being moved in three States with reference to approaching politi cal complications, and we are thus afforded a fresh illustration of the constant necessity of foresight in our political thought and action. There is no other country in the civilised world in which the mind of the people la kept so constantly and thoroughly en rapport with present as well as future political necessities. No sooner is one event decided than the electors begin to study the future, and to calculate its probabilities, its necessities, and the persons who ought to deal with it. Everybody, from the highest to the lowest, feels a personal interest in these issues, either through individual ambition or a desire for the general good. The result is that when any great political question is presented for definite action, the people are prepared to act intelligently upon it, and in great degree to control their representa tives in its decision.

The people of Maine, axe now busily discussing the Question of a successor to Senator Morrill, whose term expiree on the 4th of March next. The merits and demerits of number of candidates are being canvassed, and the prospect is that the struggle will be a triangular affair, like Jack Easy's duel, and perhaps time will produce four or five contestants. Mr. Morrtll, Speaker Blaotjc, Got. and Gov.

Israel Wash- burns, have all been strongly recom mended, but Mr. Blaine is reported to have declined contest. The State is fortunate in having such an abundance of good ma terial from which to choose, and still more fortunate in being able to conduct the can vass without that bitterness of feeling which usually attends personal struggles. In Term ant, a lively discussion is going on as to the Republican candidate for Governor. Among the names most prominently put forward are those of Hon.

Francis Billings, and Hon. Julius Converse, both of Woodstock, and both "West side" candidates. The aide9 presents Hon. A. I.

Miner. of Manchester, and Gov. Hxndex. Apart from the question of locality, Hon. John W.

Stewart, of Middlebury, baa recently been brought forward as anew candidate. Vermont is so nearly unanimous in its Ee- publicanism, that the struggle is ended in the nominating Convention, and the poll is mere matter of form. In Ohio both partiee have actively begun the canvass for the State election, which takes place on the second Tuesday in Octo The Republican Convention is called for the 10th day of August, and the Democratic Convention for the 19th of 'June. The State officers to be chosen are Secretary of State, Judge of the Supreme Court, Member of the Board of Publio Works, and Controller. The great est Interest, however, centers in the members of Congress.

It ia understood that Mesara. Bcbxncx, WrxAjfs, TJpsoat, Gabield, Bingham, Ambt kr, and perhaps others on the Republican aide, are candidates for xn-dection. also, Mr. Cessna, lrnocrat. Judge Welexr, of the Fourteenth District, declines a re-nomlnation, and Hon." James Monroe, of Oberlin.

ia urged to suoeeed him. Tho result of the' canvass is aasured. al though tht Democrats promise a lirely fight. With the oolored votewhich will be at least five thouAaad solid lpbIicaa--tho State is eoimtod good for at leant Jiftecn thousand Republican majority. Ia each ef these States there' it tctj; pros- pect of that harmony and snecess which ought to attend eaarysentests tn place) where wo have 'worn victories before.

We dispaaskmato man can doubt that the' Bepublieans upop the whole, doeerved well of the country. They have endeavored to carry out the will of the people with fidelity, and In tho teeth of innumerable obstacles. The President has boneatlv fulfilled his pledges, and avoided all those errors into which bis Immediate pradeceoaor fell, to the great dstarbanoe of publio affairs. We believe, then, that we may appeal with con fidence to the people in all the approaching election. We have yet many things before us to accomplish, but what we have achieved ia tho past is the beet guarantee for our work in the future.

With reduced taxation. and a revision of that part of our revenue system which checks rather than enoouragee the prosperity of tho nation, we shall be able to say that no other existing organisation eould or would have done half so much to promote the common good. If Bepublioana in Congress will only do their duty, we need not fear that the country will indorse them. The Old Heat aud aha Mew. The old diecnaeioB baa been revived on the question whether or not American atates-manahlp has degenerated ef late years.

Po litical writers, and especially those of ma- turer years who have been accustomed to measure all men and events by old standards, and who look upon new men as intruders into the sacred temple in which they have set up the altars of Calhoun, Hatbte, Webster, Clat, and a score of other worthies, are very apt to assume that we have fallen upon evil times wherein comparative pigmies rule the councils of the nation. With all due deferenoe to the "fathers," we are not prepared to admit fthe utter degen eracy of the "children" of the Republic Conceding of the Wasblngtonlan era, and of that which immediately succeeded it, that there were "giants in those days," we yet incline to believe that in many instances their dimensions have been magnified by time and distance, and that their apparently exceptional greatness in our eyes is largely the result of circumstances. In the first place, the opportunities which our earlier statesmen possessed as the originators of the Government, were highIyfavorable to dis tinction but even more favorable than the opportunity afforded them as political archi tects, was the lack ef competition which they could boast of, and the lower standard of criticism to which they were subjected. There are two points which demand consideration In the first place the average American citizen of today is a much more intelli gent, and consequently a mnch more exacting critic of statesmanship, than the average citizen of fifty years ago secondly, the com petition among the candidates for the honors of statesmanship is infinitely more severe than any which had to be encountered then. These two facts, properly appreciated, ought to go far toward directing us to a wise de cision on the question.

There is no doubt that the proportion of exceptionally great men, fifty years ago, was much greater than it is now but we are confident that the av erage standard of American statesmanship is much higher now than then. If this is admitted and we think it cannot be success fully gainsaid it follows that we have ad vanced rather than degenerated in political afiairs. The old adage that no man is a hero in the eyes of his valet" has a strong applica tion to this discussion. Not only has there been a great deal of glamour thrown around the characters of our elder statesmen, which is disadvantageous to the living in making up a comparative estimate, but there is no means of knowing how the statesmen of to day will stand with posterity fifty years hence. Comparisons are odious, but we doubt if any elder trio will stand higher than Lincoln, Seward and Stanton.

It is unfair to judge men in the light of the prejudices and passions of their own time, and hence we regard the discussion of our "political degeneracy" as an unprofitable exercise of human ingenuity. What is Oir Tm Policy It is not easy to believe that our country. which is one of the two only successful Republics of modern times, can learn lessons from Spanish statesmanship. But great griefs and evils are also great teachers, and we need only refer to the speeches of Sefior Castelar first orator of Europe, and one of its purest publicists to prove that there are Spanish minds which, in solving the problem of the wretched condition of Spain, have arrived at conclusions drawn from their own misfortunes, which we need not be too proud to study. The Span ish Republicans have just published a manifesto in every way worthy of attentive con sideration here.

The address in question protests against what it calls an "unitarian" Republic, and demands that in any form of government by the people which may be devised for Spain, the Republic shall be Federative," like that of the United States and Switzerland, the only Republics which have achieved suc cess. This is merely another form of insisting upon the Importance of local elf-gov ernment, and upon the impossibility of wisely managing widely scattered and va ried communities by a centralized power. That is what France attempts to do. The Emperor seeks not only to control the general policy of tho nation, but to be felt himself like an omnipresence and om nipotence in every household ef the Empire, controling its religion, and in political af fairs conceding to it only what maybe called liberty under instructions from head quarters. If the Emperor were omniscient, such a scheme of government might last.

As it is. It Is only maintained tlirough con stant peril of anarchy and the display of the bayonet, F.ngland, on the other band. although laonarchy.i ia potsIiarlY deoentralixed Government. 'Tho crown maintains tho form of appointTA tho Governors of eoloiiies, and, to the delectation of. the mTfmiats.

the cost of supporting thorn. Jiav seuii-ivral state; But colinaai aff airs, and joera to the Home involving tho dignity of tba Empire ia eooeerned. Tho 'one inatance in which England has departed from the theory of decentralization of, looal govern ment wse ia, the case of Ireland; and bow grievous a blunder that was, and in what a of trouble Mr. Glaitonb now finds himself, in trying to patch up petty quarrels between Pat and his landlord by solemn Acta of Parliament, we bood not reniiiAd our readers. We have cited these rather still important facts, with a view of making a home application." Tbe tendenoy of our legislation at present is toward a Unitarian rather than a Federative republic It is the natural, to some extent the unavoidable result of the civil war; but men should not forget that the whole end and aim of that war was to maintain the Federal Union upon its primary plan of leaving to 8tates the oon-trolof their internal affairs, while States should leave to bounties and cities a similar mastership over their local government.

The Stat waste be the suzerain, and not the vassal of Congress. But in the hard necessities that followed the crushing of the rebellion. Congress found itself compelled by the emergency to transcend its ancient powers, and legislate within districts which had been State, instructing them as to what laws they should pass, and becoming respon sible for the government of the Southern people. That necessity has happily passed, and we should return as rapidly as possible to the old idea. But the habit of centralized government still exists.

We find Congress still asserting the power first to create, and then dethrone, the Legislature of Georgia; to ques tion the republicanism of Tennessee to charter railroads in competition with existing lines to the invasion of State rights to go within the bounds of a sovereign State and build Niagara Ship Canals, Fox River Im provements, and Kanawha Canals. All these acts are a departure from fed eration republicanism, and involve a danger of undue centralization. Here in New-York we have just been compelled by tbe aggregate common sense of the people to abandon our pet scheme of an all-wise Napoleonism at Albany, and to restore to this City the old-time privilege of ooiitrollingour own municipal affairs. We may do it very well or very badly, but that is our business, and we shall prosper or suffer without again appealing for outside advice and mastery. Let Congress take the hint.

If it can legislate wisely for the nation at large, and harmonize its differ ent interests and antagonisms, it will give us all we need, and it may spare us any further efforts for working out our local reform. National BnaUtiasr-T Taut Stat CircMlatli We may assume that the recent suggestion for a repeal of the tax upon State Bank cir culation cannot possibly succeed with Con gress. The proposition was largely voted down in the Senato, early in February, and it would find little support if introduced in the House of Representatives. State Banking, so far as the issue of bills of circulation is concerned, is obsolete. It was simply tolerated, as Mr.

Secretary GUTHRIE fifteen years ago clearly demonstrated, in the absence of the exercise of the Federal authority to regulate the currency. It grew to be something of a necessity, because of the disagreement of political parties In the conn-try on the question of the Bank of the United States, and its recharter or refusal of re- charter in 1811, 1816 and 1823. The first Bank of the United States 1791-1811 was an unquestioned success, but as the charter drew to a close, the Bank was unfortunately made a party question, and President Madison, as the then representative of the old Republican, as contra-distinguished from the Federal Party defeated in the election of Mr. Jep-ncRSON to the Presidency in 1800 vetoed the Bill of recharter, though it was voted for by many of his friends in Congress. This veto proved unfortunate, and as the breaking out of the war of 1812 clearly demonstrated, most untimely.

Tbe absence of the Bank was grievously felt throughout this three years' struggle with Great Britain. The State Banks were without the credit or resources or ability to help tho Treasury in the emergency, and the few loans which they undertook to carry through were made at immense sacrifices, and paid for in greatly depreciated local bank notes, having almost as many different values as there were States in the Union. Mr. Madison, however, was too great a statesman to refuse either to acknowledge or correct the blunder, and be fore the close of bis second term of office, signed, 1818, the bill of charter for a new Bank of the United States, with nearly double the capital of the first charter of 1791. The Bank became a Republican measure coincident with the Tariff of 1818, and was the workmanship of, or approved by, Alexander James Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, John C.

Calhoun, William Loundes and Henry Clat. The Bank, and the.Tariffs of 1816, 1834 and 1838, brought the credit of tbe Government up to i the highest point, and enabled the country to pay off the publio debt. But a year or two after President Jack- son came into office, be took issue with the adniinistration of the Bank, and on thi question first parted company With bis South Carolina friends, Calhoun and Mc- DuTrTE," He Indicated bis purpose', to refuse a renewal of the Bank charter in 1838, if be should be elected to si seeoad term, and upon this issue 4 administration of the Bank very unwisely forced the bill of recharter in the Summer of 1S23, on the ere of UiePreidentialcanvaaaV-and the veto of Jackson; and bis triumphant reelection followed. The President and MxT Vax Burxn, tn chimpkoed the State Banks aa Treasury depositories, and popularity of the AdnistratioTi, growing-out of the rout of South Carolina XuKificatifBC the Bank of the United State was killed oi Ii not only iU autoly tAaakruptedaV talluraMfASoal akgeutar the General Government. They blew, up- in 1S37, and.

the Sub-Aresnmry snooeeded i to their Federal functiofw. 1 The great mistake of the advocate of the National Banking system waa in standing out for a nnopory for a single institution and its dependent branches. Tha. system should have been' free from the beginning. It should eepicially Lavo lce made free alter tbe first charter of lTyi.

The growth of the country, alike with the popolar repugnance af the people to every form of But the sad experience of tbe war, as we have notiocd. caused the re-etablihrneot of another bank with ex-djluni ve privilegea, and it was not until nearly fifty years thereafter that free National Banking found a persistent and successful advocate in Secretary Chask, the author of the present law. It was to Mr. Fillmore and other practical minds of New-York, however, that Mr. Chase was indebted for the principle and well-established provisions and workings of free banking; (established in this State after the general explosion of the old close charters and defective and helpless safety funds in 1837.) and the New-York law was made the model of the National JLctof 18CS.

The deplorable attempts of the Western States to copy the original New-York law, without observing the additional safeguards which our NewrYork Legislature, from the lights of experience, constantly threw around it, and which in twenty years bad made it as nearly perfect as any local system could be-rendered, doubtless contributed to carry tbe National Bill for Free Banking through Congress. New-York was not anxious for it. Indeed the City Banks were at first hostile to it, but subsequently acquiesced, and most of them are now suooessfully banking under it. The system was one of the suooesses, as well as instrumentalities, of the war against secession. It has worked safely and securely.

It has proved popular as well as free, under all opposition. Its uniform and amply secured circulation baa literally run out of employment all un current money brokers and bank-note detectors, and it has so nearly extirpated the counterfeiting of paper money, as well as entirely equalised it in value from one end of the land to the other, that our people carry the National Bank notes about them without the trouble of looking at the place of Issue or incurring the trouble of depositing them with thetr own banker by way of caution, discounts or explosions. We presume that it is in no pronounced spirit of hostility to the National Banks that it has recently been proposed to revive State Bank circulation, which Congress wisely taxed out of -competition with the National Currency. But the motive to this proposition probably grows out of the attempt of the Funding Bill to oppress the National Banks. We believe there is no ground for concern on this point.

The banks will not be disturbed. They are much stronger than the architects of the Senate Funding Bill, and the system is too acceptable to the country, and its circulation far too popular with the masses, to bo either overthrown or greatly weakened by Congress. The same remark is even more emphatically true of the Greenbacks, which this Funding Bill also prof esses to contract or withdraw. The demand, therefore, for repealing the tax on State Bank circulation, is not only premature, bat really without a substantial basis. Minsk Doctor law Black Patients.

The medical gentlemen who are holding a convention at Washington have been much exercised in their minds concern Lag that everlasting object of contention, the negro. It appears that the said negro, not satisfied with the political privileges which he now enjoys, actually has the presumption to aspire to practice aa a physician. What is the world coming to The doctors at Washington evidently think that some tremendous convulsion is impending. Stupendous events have been predicted for some time past. Very awkward looking spots have been seen on that irregular orb, the sun.

Eruptions are not uncommon in that luminary, but the phenomena lately discovered prove that something more than usual is taking place. Then, several planets have shown signs of a disposition to create a sensation in the universe. Altogether, the philosophers are thorou ghly convinced that we are on the eve of terrible event. The attempt of ored doctors to place themselves on the same footing as their un colored brethren seems to be regarded in Washington as the most se rious portent of alL We should' be sorry to recommend that a sick white man should be compelled to call in the services of a black But if a negro wishes to consult a physician of bis own hue, what harm' is there in it Why should be not be privileged to take a black draught from a black doctor I The prac titioners of the regulation color will not allow any of their professional colleagues to meet negro doctors in consultation. Why not, if the patient desires it I Why treat the negro as if were a homeopathistf Some allopathic practitioners are not afraid to meet even the followers of Habtemaxx.

It is not for us to say whether they are right or wrong it is a purely rofeasional point, which the profession must allowed to decide in its own way. But; when negroes are willing to study in the regular schools and follow the regular syatom, is carryiog prejudice to a very gxtreme point to say. Tf Ton shall not be allowed to prescribe a dose! of medicine, or at least not in consultation with us, unless you can change the color of your lakia front black to white." We cannot suppose that whits doctors are afraid of the competition of negroes. In all Tbability, even black man will always continue to prefer a white doctor. But three are not the times when restrictions be faniMeed upon any elan negroes qualify themselves in their Bet let then have as fair a start as aaybndy else4 There plenty' ottmdiseoTcred problems still left in medical acienee, and tbe geaeral public can have- no objection to see the negro try bis hand at Mr.

Craodi thinks that Oxngreas ought not to adjourn so early as rh th Jury, for If It does the Utah Psrgamy bui win. ail defeated. Aad Is that the only ure vhloh wocUd be endangered What ta to become of the biH to abolish the unjust systssa ef snowing members of Congress to office free eoat a ihamsiilnV considerable expense to the public Moreover, 1 It at all likely, from present appearances, that toe nsmerous financial questions pressing for settlement can be disposed of before tbe ilh ef July! At the rate at which Congress has be moving sines the sth of December, the Greek Kalends weald not be too distant a data to Sx for the proper adjastsssat ef nubU bnalaesa. We publish today a full report of Mr. aABAM speech for the defense, ao far as tt has sons, ta the trial of Dasibx McTasxakd.

Wers- alA3 as large a part of snrspass wlUths less rs gretcsssidertng that the trial bbwwd getting near tbe end. Its disappearance from the news paper will probably not be regretted by the public, and perhaps not by ths tn the ease, some of whom have aaoeeeded uistfagulshrag themselves la a manner which they eould scarcely have anUslpated when they first addressed themselves to their dunes. We eaa only bene that la two er three days mare at the outside the eminent lawyers who stm are left alive la the ease will be able is retire upon their laurel-uoh as they are. It is evident from the proceedings yester day that the Senate la disposed to kin the bin abolishing the franking privilege by sua pi re fusing to take It up. It Is reported that there Is a secret purpose to prevent a veto being taken.

and thus ths responsibility will be evaded of openly voting against It. We eaa assure the1 Senate that the plan win fall be people are not to be ao easily deceived, but will attach the re sponsibility where it belonjrs. The bin la one ef the most popular mesrure before Congress, and "If not passed this aeewkra aa expression of public opinion will reach the Senate on the subject which will convince tt that it la always unwise to resist Indispensable reforms. The New-York Obterver, which is a sound religious paper, and not a mere vehloUforpsini, publishes a long article on the eourse taken br the 2dependmt in reference ts ths MoTarlaod afiux. It says, among other things, "we hold that the rejection of the distinctive doctrines of the Gospel by the Independent, and the school It represents.

Is fnsentlaTTy the rejection of Chris In reply to this the Independent will put on its longest face, deplore tbe declining In fluence of the Hew-Tork Observer, and declare that It has drsadfnTTy fallen oft In character aad quality of late. It win say In effect, "leant deny that what you any is very true, but I wfll make faces at you, and pretend to be sorry that you are not ao good aa you were formerly. These Infantile tactic do not seem to mend the esse of the Independent, Tut they are easy to follow and, moreover, they help to Increase the an of Insincerity which pervades the howling wilder ness sf the most unwieldy paper In the universe. Of course a negotiation such as that for ths annexation of Ban Domingo eould not escape at tack from tbe opponents of the Administration. The people of tbe Island- wish for union with this country that fact to clearly estab! For various good and suiBeient reasons, it is desirable that they should be giatlned.

If at the same Cms ws gain, what SH naval authorities admit to be a necessity, a station for coaling and repairs in the West Indies, ao much the better. Thei World Objects to ths transaction, and natur ally, since It represents tbe Opposition side of polities. But the whole subject of this San jtomlngo Treaty has been snfflrrtently rllsensaed for a popular understanding of the ease, aad tbe general opinion now Is that the treaty is one proper to be made. The President and the Sea-ate maybe safely left Jo settle tbe subject, aad any attempt to discredit the President's motives wfll not have much weight with the peeple. -i aMBBBM-aanaaa-aBnato The excited character of tbe debates in Dominion Parliament on the North-west ques tion, shows that some members feel very about what ha been dons.

This la hardly i prising. Ex-Gov. Macdocoaix was made to retire from the Bed Blver- Territory under cir- cumatanoe which reflected little credit for sagacity er foresight upon the Minis tzv which sent him. Of eourse he resents the conduct of any one who la even suspected of planning his discomfiture. Probably the most curious part of the matter, and tbe one which wfll strike out side observers the most, is the evident suspicion with which eertain gentlemen are regarding each other.

They seem In the condition of an gry men who are compelled to keep secret, and long to blurt them all out for the asks of "-g mischief. Mr. Macdouoau. charged Mr. Hows, the Secretary of State, with aggravating the Bed Blver troubles, and he called for a Commit tee of Inquiry.

There would be great propriety In tbe appointment ef such a committee, and tbe facts It might bring to light would probably be Interesting as well as lnstrucUTo. Mrs. Burleigh, who delivers lectures on the: rights of ehOdrsm, at of opinion that her enents are the victim of a' general despotism. Most people think that the ease to rather the other way. The lady says, "the child should be permitted sovereignty of his persca and freedom from The setense of Ing henseholds Is progressing.

Te in-behaved eliudrea still further the terror of tbe domestic circle, snd to teach them that so one has any right "to meddle wfcta Utsir vicious propensity, seems likely to be ths mate result of Mrs. Brraxaxesrs method of bringing up child la the way as should go "--although prob ably that hi not the apsefJBe object which she alms at accomplishing. London, as well as our own City of New- York and a great many othsr capTtala, finds what a hard task ft is to put new win tn te old bottles, London to Just bow ambsrrassed by the churches of what to eaXetf the eld dty proper." Before ths great firs ef tt had en hundred of fheas, aays the Pal? AtsZX QotcttM but has new only fixty-stx; aad the dlfleulry eon-J 1st tn ths fact that, as the dwemng-banses are being turned every year tuts warehouses, and ths people go away, those' "ehnrchei, each with its fall eorleslaatleal atsg, are ulOcut oongrcga- VT T-" 1TM Jyi At the asms time, the rich bequests formerly roads' to them tor the" poor and neeiy of Ctlr ar mlaapplled. JXany ef the London would be eefaoawrt forthsCains- ashlng yopulAtam at th dry ftvysti r- i UawWa bd bersrs Partial tor the nef ecaCssatyU whk)Aar TtihtonalsrshJbMiraTe'aad Biauh AarrApTbn- erty are involved. 2 1 i Mr.

k. J. DrLLOjr having withdrawn lis Jfa vary yruseity rstraet htohostmty too existing pUas of the Central Park, Mr. rmxemwould hav aasds the Part somnthlsg tetany diasrent from what tt Is now, and If he reaowa his attempts to' carry out-' htoowBktnatthe result win visions la the Bonrd. tr not nantijaasa the nnklto, ws ar perftrywnmtiuSdwlth th gnaisal annus, and eoostractioa of Ue Park.

At this monasnt, for rsstaocs, with Its spring ttleosn upon 11, there are very taw narks la ths world walok rival tt doubts tbe fact got up early sosae ntornlsg and wander about the -Banjol he wfll Bad tta better testotheaaU the "bitters' ever yet n- eooted. The MmU truly aayst as patchwork sr rseonstruetloaof the bmsw aym- motrtoal pstoe of lasdsaans gardening to be seen The McFadaad tri Courts regulating tool emnsnsllng of janes, aad even lawyers are beginning, to recognise the aaomsry, as win as the roily of disqualifying a man from being a Juror besue he aa Intel- llgest reader sf newspapers, and keeps hansslf Informed oa the current events sf his time. Various reforms have been awwested. thSBMat orUinal. If ast the aaos which to rseemmeadsd by a prominent few JournaL It gravely ptapasaa te saake the dua of Jurors a profession, and to bring up a eelest class fonu ta omos.

suoa a prof. nadsubtedlr a very proAtahls ana, tn ths Jarori but' we doubt If cause ef Justice would be always served. Tho Loudon Ttaas made a very amusing bladder recently with regard, te oar Municipal poUtloa. Ia tt city article tt gravely anaoaaosd as "Brie shares were heavy oa sell as of this quarters ceased by the sntiouneement of the re election of ths friends sf Ooqxp aad Four to ths various Municipal offless is Kew-Yerk a faet whteh should serve as a further warning te aU subscriber to American sabers, since the i organrrttlne of the Democratic Party, by whesa ess person rare smpportod, extend every State sf tns UaloB." The glased before ths British pnblie wfll cause a ilte to beam itpoath faces Ma BWanTBTetOav to ssy nothing of the The LoavUni risuahas ast made a mnch worn nrlstak Bisee It annouaoed that the whoto of ths United States debt was held ta tsrnuaabas annuities, which would expire of themselves is twenty yssrs. Tk Child oC Cub.

Willis. tk As Bottom Adasrnsar, Msy The following ia an extract from a letter received from Mrs. B. W. A.

Ooonwor, ef Dixon, regarding the enlldren of her brother. Capt. wtluamb. of tbe Oneida. The letter was written Is answer to Inquiries coneernlag the con- dition of ths boy sad their relatives, aad will be lntoretlagto those woe have contributed the fund Mr.

Fuasx 1 raising, now smountAng to about Bv his antAmelv death him thra Bona am left entirely- dependent on relatives willing bat Inadequate source of supply. Edwasd P. Wn.ua ms, ths eldest, aend twelve, has been nnder my ehairaj sines ths death of hi mother, thre years aso. While I live I ahaU 'do everything I esa for my brother's boy but my health la feeble, my means limited, sod I shall have nothing; to bequeath to aay en. Ths eeeond eon, aged eight, ta with hi unele.

Dr. Hasar Wnb-UAMS. of Altos. AIL. aa sxeaUent sonrdtaa er tan present, but be is ta feeble health aod with fortune.

This boy canst depend on a liberal auoation. on account or a severe ao none injury to als rUrbt arm. Tbe yens M-ATra Hsjrav, Bv yenre old, to wHh hto nal gisndmotaer, Mrs. Jab Krrcius. of rt.

Ave. Tba rmmiiv la Door aod can de nourins- for his education. They ar ass intelligent enil-. well worthy ta proteetaoa of thetr rr. Uod arraat.

thas aosa aar tba-r air reader their eeaatry and the eanss of hnmamty the same no hi service their father has dons vahant life audits heroic sssriflco fordatys Thinsastd PoUars. Yesterday inoniing. about 10t o'clock, flre broke out la a large three story brick building, at the eorner of Kevins and m.B!p streets, occupied as amoldiag aad pLang-siIU by Mr. J. 8.

Loosns. The nsmes spread with crest rapidltr, and soon aareloped various advV Joining buildings. In spite ef the sffurt of welVcawanlsed body of the the building urrt attacked was totally destroyed. ana uib ouaera Bonerea very severely, xn ar ia aaid to hav originated ia ths enrine-roocn. from tbe overheating of ths main shaft, which Ignited ths wooden flooring and rapidly eommu- Bloated Itself to tbe Inflammable materials lying about.

Tb rarions loase are stated aa follows Mr. Looias estimates hi to on the balLdinr at SioevOOe; on stock, S3LO0Slnsnrsnee on tb former, tas.ooo. Mr. W. B.

waltubs molding and saw-tmll. puta his loes oa building at t23.noo insured for Ssos la the Masses. Commercial i-ehang and otherst loss on stock, taawo; insured for tlO.OOO la out-of-town comoBnte. John Cltub, Uqnor-dealer, puts his Iocs on building at $900, on atock at gLooe; leasred on the former for Stoo, tn the WU- llaxnabanr City CJoeopany atock not insured. Thomas Joxdah, earpet-beatsr.

puts loss machinery at SlOO, oa carpets, fl.ooa so m-sursnee. Edwasd FansBU. estimates dsmsaw to reside nee at SasOt ao insuranee. MtCHAsn Hoskt ststee loss oa Bouse st Sass: tnsaredtn the Pen lx Insuraaee Company for Sipuei on table at Ssoo not tnaured. The woodwork or jsnrtne so, eaurnt flre ana was rendered useless.

In Loosns' Mill about we were emDioved. sod la Walters' fifrr men. ail Of whom will be thrown out empioymoot. 1 I rM-seeedln? to the Sr tbe toooer.of Enirta No. 10 eaise into eoUUioo wiLb a street-ear at ta eorner of Oreeo-venae and caoaberiana tree a Ths tender was overturned, and fell apon one of -th.

BAiMd Jamb A. Malobs. He rs eeived very serious lnjunes, aad waa re moved to the eDgins-aouse, wbers he wss attended by Dr. Iattl. its a- Irrtn AVrrident A Mas A fearful ratro-glyeerine explosion took place at ths west end of the Midland BaOroad Tunnel, at WurUboro, 8allrra County, ye iter day afternoon.

It appears that wasaxa D. IlAjrrjM. one of the person employed InblastlBg with glycerine, I eompsny with Isborernsosd Dab Clat, had loaded two holes and" attached wire of tb battery to tones tas blasts ssL Only one of them went OS, however, and tbe leaded bv HABrM avrnc missed, thev diss neoted tae wir from the battery and went to i what the trouble was. Haitcm stooped down over ta missed bole, asd picked off some stoo which fell from tb ether blast, end took bold of the wire of tbe exploder. lis was just- roing to sttaeh It to ta ItsdlB vlre of the battery to try It ara: wbea it exploded, blowins him np In tbe air a distance of 809 feet, and thro wine him tfry feet from tb spot.

His head was completely blown a-, and his body horribly manrled. CtiTind c. or sixty others of the laborers were on the bee c. about nve feet above tbe blast. and miraraleirsi eeeaoed nnlnjored.

II ad tbev been a few Bearer they would mix hav met with a fearf ut death. A Coroner's Inquest was held snd a verdict rendered tbt no on was to blsms. Has CM resided at I i annlhal Cei tr X. Activity ami tk Fenian. The councils of the Fenians become daily mere frequent and secret.

Yesterday, pmnnart to the ean of Gen. CXeilx, th' members cf ExecstiV Couaa-a sf stse. eppoiated by the Isas eat Sf t. I i.a. BoCi- i a f5 Lea '-r not li At i C.

ft Ur rw ai 1 rm 1 -C it i 1 1 i -t Two IlnsWtrod n-v mo, set. I V. tvs.