Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 2

THE DAILY COUKANT HAlMTOlil), WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1807. 2 rnU'd a deed jrhinc; tlie Kovmimonl thu lowtT obtoined by direct or indirect loans, was expended in erecting some barnliku structures, filled with uncoinfortable, illy arranged and illy-ventilated cells for the use of the and in building an almost equally barn-like chapel and the result of the entiro pro-re lure was that when tho cvilcge was fairly ready to start it had no literal or ncientific a.i aratu no libiary, no observatory, no lab-eatery, no bolanical or geological gardens, no gallery of art, no museum of natural history, no endowed professorships, no endowed scholarships only a few barns and a fifty thoupand dollar debt. Tlio country has thus been filled up with what have so often and so graphically been described as "oue-hcrso colleges," to the great detriment of sound learning and a higher culture. And it is now struggling to emerge from this chaotic condition. The arguments against dormitories strike of Indiana, aud continued him as surveyor general of Montana.

General Meredith had been rejected for several olllees for hich he hud been nominated, and his couUrmation to-day excited tit little surprise. TIIK CABINET SESSION. The usual Cabinet meeting was held to-day, and tlie President Wus well enough to attend throughout Til MAIULANO ELECTION. All Important election will be held in Maryland to-morrow. The people are to decide whether or uot a convention shall assemble to change the organic law of the State.

The only object 'of this convention is to enfranchise rebels disfranchised by the present State coustitulioiL bKNATOK ILSON OONB HOME. Senator Wilson left for Boston to-night to mak a public address. Ho will return this week and go South. FAIR J'LAr KOR MAXIMILIAN. The Mexican minister has communicated, post haste, to Juarez the protest of this government against Maximilian being treated otherwise th: as a prisoner of war, in case of his capture by the Mexican forces.

Van. gress that the Senator from Ohio (Wade) offered a resolution making inquiry of the I'ree-klentof the Uni od States in regard to the absence of Alexander Cuniniings, governor 4f Colorado, from that territory, ho long 1 ehiuT been absent, etc. That resolution was modified before it was passad so a to call for information regarding the absence of the other territorial officers from their posts of duty. Mr. Thayer would now inquiro whether any response had yet been received to that res-edution.

The cluur replied that no reply had been received. Mt. Thavcr offered the following jAuolvtd, That thn President inform fhe feiiRt when Alexandt rtuniniui wh appointrdgovrrnorof Colorado terriioiy how imirb taijo sum Cmmninirs has bcn uliseui irom the territory since his apolDt-Vent. and whether by pprmbsioil or rot, aiiu how niuWi of said time ab-fut w.tli pe mii.liD mid wit Oout pertais-iun, and whether on public business or not. and ther his wilury had bffu paid to bun utirinz hit ibiieuce or Dot.

aud bow nincu Las botti pain tu ban as saliry lor (he time bs hut been ahs nt from tb i territory. Mr. Thayer said he had been informed by gentle men who had the opjiortuuity of know-rng the fact, that Uov, Cummiugs, who was appointed governor less than two years ago, bad been absent Irom the territory eight months during that time. He was now absent, having been here some four months. II therefore regarded it as his duty to bring thi to the of the Senate.

Ho knew Judges ot territories to bo absent year after year, and to go out lo them now and then, aa it wert a pleasant trip. Such absences have become fo habitual as to requiro the interposition of Congress. Mr. Ihickalew ekiir.d the resolution to go over till to-m'irrow. He should regret to have the resolution ptos-c nl the Senate Rejourn thotit response fr the President and witU.

the cr parte statement of the Senate befon he country. There wo re explanations to made as tar as Gov. Cummiugn' present absence: was concerned. The chair said as objection was made to th consideration of the resolution it would go over. Mr.

Anthony submitted an order that 2 00O copies of th- army register be printed for the use of the Senate. Order referred to committee on printing, The Senate went into executive session. nent. The destruction of the pernicious doctrine of secession, the establishment of the right of tlie Federal government to coerce States, a well as individuals Into obedience to Federal authority, and the aekuowlcdment of the just power of the people to alter or abolish social pystems hurtful to the general welfare, arc proud memorials of thu Republican ascendency in Connecticut. Had the Democratic party occupied, at this time, the position which it held in 18111 and it would have been beaten now, as then.

Why, then, lias it been Hueces.sl'ul now Let nsnot blink the question, but, passing by local and side issue-, look the situation square in the face. With the overthrow of Ihe rebellion, the annihilation of secession, and the abolition of slavery, a new duty devolved upon the Republican party as tho political organization having control of the Government. This duty may be comprehended in a single word, Reconstruction. In the tirst session of Congress alter the close of the war, that party embodied its then existing policy of restoration in the amendment to tho Constitution, designated as the ltli article. Connecticut, in the spring of against a powerful Democratic opposition, rati lied that amendment, both at the roll, and in the general assembly.

The other loyal States, in the autumn of tlio same year, followed our example ith wonderful unanimity. But the rebel politicians of the South, instigated by the Northern Democracy, and encouraged by the President of the, United Plates, refused to permit their communities to be reorganized upon the basis of that amendment. C'ou-gress, therefore, at its next session, adopted an additional and more effectual scheme, of reconstruction. The lirst had been submitted to the decision only Of the dominant class at the South the second was submitted to the whole people of the South. The lirst It'll the local govcnimeiiU ot the rebel States entirely in the hands of the ruling class the second admitted the hole people to a participation in those governments, and provided for the protection of persons and properly, where the civil power should prove itiade-ipiate, by the interposition of military power, subordinate, to the President of the United The tirst stopped short with the proposition of tin- constitutional amendment The second added to that proposition the features which I have ju- indicated.

Such is the substance of the reconstruction bill, hose terms, were the subject of discussion in the recent canvass. Its essential demands wen three: The ratification of the constitutional niiiLiiJim nt above referred to; the substitution of popular sutl'rage for class suffrage in the reorganization of their poiieal systems; and the return of the States in question to the exercise ot all their functions in the Union. The miiitary llatnrcs of the bill are merely temporary and Incidental useful and necessary, indeed, for the protection of life and property in the present chaotic condition of society there, but destined, by the very provisions of act, to pass away so soon as the States should resume their place in the federal system. Now, it true that the neces-iiy and expediency of this bill were directly iu issue in the elt etion of hist Monday. A majority of our peo-pli no inrttter under what influences, no matter hat mi--taken impressions, no matter how much turned a-ide by loeal or personal considerations did, last Monduv, cast their votes again-t the bill, and Mr.

English' majority of t.K shows the e-act preponderance of sentiment iu Connecticut, on that dav, in reference to that particular mode of reconstruction. In my judgment, Ihe fact is demonstrated by t'nis election that both the true, intelligent oj.in-ioa and the majority of votes iu our State will s.i-taiu the liiil, in all its details, before another ea-. shall hae pa-sed. The advance of our principles iu popular fax or, since the close of the war. MIF.

COUKANT. thu kvijtomi i-itiM. -fl O.ur.mt the 'MeM nfmVr lul'rf (''. (Tfi O'i'I irimum limn uh- "told (kMn; l.u.. ami imr (ttc(.

Titr. mil cwhavt fiw eft in tht LUti.i-.-T DaTI tnivirit in mtirnfio'Uiin ttitartofunn, Xoifrrl W(X- fet a 'i''c'i f.V ehnmetcr a toW. i( i'a i a 'cue. a trmlatUi Hmi to but oi jmUvitl Pastern Tvr. kvkmn run i.

irtryrfcw, rt wTiik Otua nt, to t'Mri, full reonve of the f-rAcr i inter.liuj imV yuriec if 7.eiO tjtetrly. T11B CONNECTICUT (OllKANT. 'i can fully nude cftc ivduMt w7r t)iiriiiff i the two do Hi'', inl ti 'mpirti'd every ufiT vik hy en citht.jMid JH circ'iMuen non aimxtcnet in 000 exivndiii'i to all im of the country, owl makin'i it one of tht Ut ndnertUsiiiQ medium i Jto'term nre fl to club aooDi'icii f- fa, I Ycj' JJnetfoni. MOKXINO, AP1M1. 10.

1807, or TJIH IAV. The r-rf nt fu cit'i iit on the railway from tu U'ihaoi is of a t-ni')e nature. A ear-rhiM-e Die and, undi'-SsevenU ol Iters nil'r it rolled river an feet (ieep. in lUrd-clas wven penioiw were Tli' carriuu'e a oao filled wiUi cppwt.i.s w. iuhinsoine pounds, which em to hate been hurled uitli erubhim; if-'etto a id fro anions the unhappy passenger.

The bod.ies were po fri.ulitfiiJly mutilaUtt that the. recants from the iieliboiin villages, who hurried to the fccne of the, dL.vster, were for borne time afraid to touch them. The Emperor and Kmpnv of will ho cro.vii' dattliCbame time te Hiii and Queen of limitary. The celebrated Lia.l has composed nnv-s. In tjutfordfthiiv, England, a hoax recently started and went the round of Hie papers to tho i-flectthat a babe with a bank note of two linn tJe Xlin keeper.

The latter wa immedi itely overwhelmed with letter? o'd'enn-r to relieve him of his charge including the two hundred pounds. Half the people oi F.iiirland seemed at once to be enam-uivd c.f children. Tl.x :icee.sor of (lovernorKyre in the. V.ni- roiony of Jamaica, Sir (irant, is determined to show that he will not be inlluenee.l any prejudice, against the. olored liehsis appoinbil seeral colored people to otlice.

The population of Knsl in America is about of whom at least arc i 'lie portions of the. inhabitant are Creole, Kodiak.s ami AleooU. Tint fact of next year being a leap year" has added to the estimates for tlio British arm v. That is one day's pay for the forces. A irreiiU iii ss tournament, some of the prizes of which are given by the Kmperor Napoleon, is at Paris during the Kpj.iliuu.

Wlciv. is Paul Morphy THE On thi of March a meeting was to lake i.i Marion, Smythe. connly, to -sranlAi a ic ubliean party; but, befo.e the. cou'd proceed to lmsiius, a body of urrni men appeared, and, driving the Union in away, piocctdcd to a meeting of rowu. ney re-oluVioiii denouuein'r ojiirret-s, and urintr, as the m'W of tlie meet- the President should his military power to protect tlie people ol lueSonUi against i ssional usurpation.

The iceolutions of tlie uiecUnir wd? presented to the 'publisher of a Union paper in the town. He refused to publish them, and was informed that it would not be safe for him to yubich any other report of tlie Cen. was informed of the idfair, and a lieutenant, without troops, was sent to make an investigation. We trust that C'-ii, Mioiield viil! proceed to reconstruct the Mnrloiiites iu the most speedy style. A vast national cemetery for the interment of Union dead in the Peninsula has been completed in the, vicinity of Yorktown.

The remains of iiver twenty-one hundred soldiers who fell in Meridian's memorable slaughter on the Pehinu-lu have been interred in it The report, that there were negroes in the conservative Tennessee convention is denied. The Copperhead negrophiles tried hard to net a lew in, but the colored men ere too bharp for (hem. PrJR'ONAL AM) POLITICAL. Among tlie luxuries allowed to Jeff. Davis i mi artist, who gives him drawing lessons.

T'hre me those who think that litis prisoner of nb.de-, instead of drawing others bhould liiut-seif be drawn and qinrteri d. The Gnat to New York Cyrus W. Pilhl.T'tm! B. Hit Chaillu, the hntib'rand traveler, and lILshop Jackson, i Misisfippi. 1'rederiek Douglass is urged by Rftvcral influ-CJili-d papers as ad to VsH- convention to no ti.e 'onstitution in New York.

The Emigre St.U.' ould honor itself by electinjr him. Tiie old Senator Jumes A. Itayard, who left tke senate retlicr than bike tho test oath, has 1 bv the Covernor of Delaware, to V. he vacancy caused by the death of lie. He is a conservative Ot tlie Jen.

iavi an Tom bevmnur style. (ieotge Vtabody ha'da for Europe oti 'lay-day. lately from Ktuenie 1,: iu. of admiration of his princely benev- cf the. New Yor.k tc-ier, is about to I marble btiilding in Hew York.

counsel tor Viiz, liie keeper nr A-: prison, had a letter to in v. hich he aftcmpts to y- hii'iw, r.iiccei'di in proving tcwn pithy Uie rebels. ll i- ia coming to will ill the summer O- WiiaL tiickeils a I -s v. be over 1 r.v.s the of Edinburgh mat- the portion of executive t-t are ki'm to beall bosh. will b.

u.e Cvciuor-tieitend of i.i. it I IS i i on an cstia-ive bee ih. l.ir us New .1 lit Uo'je, I.yi,.-hbi.v, Uieltincnd, and all proiaihcat points t.u tl. iuul. When in ilay, he is l-i have ttdd t- vnier Wi-e tlr.it pituewimi ol ie -roe.

in l.ue He, I rtineh iu ti.e ciipiUI, II a r. -Tu" register of bankraplcy fir 1 be ei tiovcruor A. T. Hamilton. C-EKtBVh It the Hebrew not tin: action of the l.ahiM l.tbentbal of Cliicimiati.

in a Christian pulpit. he New Vers lite "Iicmi tly and ehecluily" iiidor-i Uiis libera! i-tep. Pe.it instead coel iu the manulac- ture of ens nt (ilen Falls. One Cru.bm, of abducted ln.jl I'jrt'tn obi niece, went to Jo-epu, the same itm with her at a bole.l nil. I i her ft be his wile.

He was arret ted and eotuuiili'd to prison. The i.i the more iU-ravaliiig tHvaue the guilty bae; rp'scrV il ins wiie eliililreii. l-jiiiaii irame known as J.acriM;: is i-rcat I ooularHv in Caaida. It is a stainc of euil.i!ic lor joang an I oi-1, and admits of mu or llt'J liXtrtidU, according to tne twta ol nhivef. i'aieago has mad dogs, mad cows, and other 't intet'CtU 10 j.

i t. ku 1 l' id Mulbpny TTtIVfi i u. ILL HELL I I I nu ll I 'ii' 13 eel T. wels. cent.

nts. ail lo.t'. ti-" 1 y.1 ci iiU. cents. tl men -Iit-t II.

'I iii it) of ir, it A a it it of oil of it is we is at mi'tof Oilv lliill imrk lur a pot-t-olnce. A iiK'iial John of Lnvilcn, tilt! famous imivrch, bearing the ditto of wm hil.i lv lounil Hinlc li'unnj; down fin old rctiiuunci: ar Ncvvtown, L. I. Hur tlwi wtck cndiuir Tticulav next, inttcnl-! will lie isniicil fro'ii tbc Patent (JiUi''. lHiriii.if llio past week about TOO apiilicanls mi'l cavealH nave wen tiled.

During tlio recent iiauhac of the Fawner Chh a'o from l.Iveriionl to l'w I'ork, an iee- luirr eneountcrcil wlueli clove Iioie in in how, and fer cevural davt- clii' win in imminent tinnier of During the excitement one the fnrnlhliecl a uiu melaiicliolv hv otlieers about und'aH'erins: them inoney if they would let him into boats with them. wiu perfectly willinschif wife cliould remain on thn ship. Ik was a good Christian, he eaid, mid prepure.l to(pe; hut in: not qui to mady to would rather iret to New York where he would have time for repentance. In cnnsequencn of aa accident to our new icara elevator the inside forms made up for thopreiwnS issue of Tjik CorBANT, just a they worn goin to press, were suddenly precipitate! from tbo composing mom on the fourth floor to tlio press room in tbo base-mot. The rvsntt vrns ths entiro destruction or four pages of type, involving a loss of mie hundred of dollar, and obliging us, for a day or two, to contract our dimensions to a lialf-frbeet.

Nobody an rejrret this more than we do. We may be permitted also to say, in t'jif! conncetion, tliat tltDs.i who have nott.ied know little of tho diflicnties of fitting up a printing establishment so laro as ours, containing- as it must all the requisite facilities for publishing two largn dailies and one lare weekly. Bat we hope soon to in such perfect ships that apologies such as this will never bo necebsary. Tho probpecta of a war in Europs grow Stronger 1 and btroiiger daily. The grand-duchy of Luxemburg, the apple ot discord, contains 090 equaro miles.

It formed a purt ot tl.e late Germanic Confederation, although ths reiguing grand dalte is William tLVflvird King of Holland. Ai its chief city, Luxemburg, was a fortification of the Confederation, Prussia bisusts that Holland cannot dispose ot without her con am Hence the ditlku'ty. war with Genniny, for Bismark'd late treaties virtually unite all Germany in one compact mass for military purpoies, will be fearful contest, and it is no wonder that in view of it the markets of Luropo are panic-etruck. Yesterday morning the United States con tained 2,023,1 CO square miles. This niorn'ng contains alio 2.330,000.

The Senate as confinne Secretary Seward's Rassian trtaiy and thera is litUo doubt Congress whenever will vote tho requisite seven millions to mako the bargain complete. Our eountry can now supply tho world with walruses and icebergs at the lowpst wholesale price. "It is," says the gazetteer coacsiTung the climate of our new acquisition, rigorous to adniii of agricultural open So that we advise nobody to go ther far too pcrationp." with a riow of carrying if extensive farming rpera- tions" New Archangel, the capital, is a town of a thousand inhabitants, and tho society is the most Folect Esqtiin aux charae'er. Mioever Ls to bs governor, will have a delightful time of it, but ho should bo selected for the strength of his stomach. For train in tho nectar aud frozen sal the ambrosia the American, lae Kussian COXCEHNIXG DOHMTIORIES.

Two questions relating to colleges are now awaiting answers at the hand of the learned world. Slated concisely, the first one is "What shall students study aud the second "Where shall students sleep?" Stated equally concisely, the true replies to these queries see to us to be, to tho first one "Whatever they please," and to the second, "Wherever they please." We do not propose to enter upon the subj jct of what ought to be the course of stuly at a university whether the Ureek or the Latin orbith ought to be made simply elective whether the sci ences or the mo Jem should take the prominent place hithetto held by the c'absics; or whether there should bo any strictly defined V-urriouium at all This matter has too many titles to it for newspaper discuion. Wo shall only veuturj to lay down tho general opinion that wherever the arguments may Boom to bo of equal weight, the spirit of our republican institutions should prevail, and the largest individual liberty be allowed to the stuleat. Even at tho comparatively youthful age at which our young men flock 4o the university thair tastes aud inclinations have already acquired a marked development in a particular direction, and it to us better to allow this tendency to strengthen than to run the ritk of weakening by alte.npting to curb it or to change its course. A superLinai ouueatton, wmcu is frequently dignified under tho name of gen eral culture, i too often tho only result of our collegiate training if a ro liberal policy likely to bring about a sound scholarship ought by all means to adopt it.

Fair play as good a motto where a man's intellect is concern td ai in tho afliirs of love and war. The ether question wo propose to exam, no a somewhat greater length. Tho dormi- tory ty stoat seem to have ben developed in our colleges by a variety of influences. A de- mro to imitate, however rudely, 'tho institutions of Eaglani the comparative difficulty, ia a new country and in small towns, of obtaining neomitno lation3 for a large body of stuleata; a fo ilish wish to rival other college the number and sizs of the collegiate buildings and a belief that pupil, if segregate 1 o.io or two e-tifw', would bs iiv re under the control of the university these app ar have combined to inako this system a uuivt.rs feature of our h'ghor educational establishments. Until recently th ire was not a sliiSl0 institution in Uni' XV V1'-' orromte i hail b(H, slroct iidle and Western States the A -1iaK a cliege wag unifcr-n WHITE Ko tm i u'-iuar or Helfijj! lv raised by Minc-cls ir, A.

-Vei of a relijiou sect the 'ii, and often as much more, i ure CriiH. us as overwhelming. All over tho continent of Europe the system of allowing the students to select their own a iodos iu the university town, either in families or in suites of apartments constructed byprivatc enterprisers universally prevalent. Theeso rooms ere far more comfortable, as a rule, than those in our college dormitoiics, and on tho whole not more expensive. The conduct of tho students is mora exemplary.

Segregation encourages mischief and those petty tricks generul "rows" so comnnu-at our colleges. The supervision which it enables the faculty, by practising an unpleasant espionage, to exercise over the students, is more thu counterbalanced by the opportunities offered for combination in evil practices. It must be remembered that even if they do not live in dormitories the members ot the university are still amenable to univeniiy discipline. Any bad conduct will always reach tho cars of tlie college authorities, and may be properly punished. But some laws, which, as experience has amply demonstrated, can never be enforced, and which only lead to tricky evasions on the part of the pupils, must, if the dormitories are given up, be allowed to drop from the col lege code.

Among these are all those relating to ompulsory hours of study, requiring students to retire at a certain time, prohibiting unusual noise in ths apartments of 6iudents, and authorizing domiciliary visits by tu to; and processors. These wiil prove to be lo great loss. For by the non-dormitory method which may be styled that of extra collegiate homes the gentler but stronger influences of the family are thrown around the student he is affected by many restraining motives which he does not feel in college; dor mi.oru'8; and thoso sen imenla of individual honor which are so strong in young men, and which, under favorable circumstances, do so much to make them gentlemen, are allowed full play, instead of being to a great degree neutralized by the irksome guardianship of tutors and the stringency of disciplinary rules. T.ie institution, tDO, is saved th8 expense of erecting and keeping in repair a number of large buildings, and is in a position to expend what they would cost upon things mre legitimately pertaining to a university thefaculty are freed from the disagreeable duty of acting as spies and wardens, greatly to the advantage of their self-respect and to their real influence end popularity among the pupils; and that peculiar ability, which according to the slang of the clay eo lew possess the ability to "keep a hotel" now ceases to be an essential characteristic of college presidents and college teachers. We have admired as what traveler in Europe has not? the magnificent collegesof Ox ford and Cambridge, their beautiful portals, their splendid courts, their massive towersand their venerable architecture.

We have admired the life which is led by those who ro-slde in them a life marked by the few good features and free from all the bad features of inonasticiain. We have had our day-dreams as ost American students have had, of that good time coming when our ahna jJiaershould glory in long lines of such uoble structures, built by the munificence of her sons and widening, by their n.arvelous beauty, tho circle of her lame and influence. But we have seon, too, the plainer edifices ot Bonn and Uottingen, of Berlin and Munich. Wo Lave seen them to be the center of a system which produces, on the whole, butter scholars and better men of a system which we can imitate with far less menu and in far less time than we can reconstruct the palatial colleges of tho Cam and the Isis of a system which accords better wkh our republican institutions than ihe exclusive, costly and aristocratic system tf England. A university in our own (State, which, in the eminence of its instructors and in the facilities that it grants to those who enter its stand second to none on this side cf the ocean, has it in contemplation, we believe, to erect a series of new and csp-advo dormitories.

Wo trust that those who manage its affairs will examine this subject well belore si much money is expended on such a rrejoet. Wo are of the opinion that such an examination will prove how superior the continental method is to ti.e English method. LETTER FIWM HEXATOK FERRY. THE LESSONS OF ELECTION TDK DCTT OF TUB ITUKE. The Norwalk Gazette publishes the following private letter recently written by Senator Ferry.

The valuable lessons it deduces from the recent contest in this State, and just and proper course it marks out for the future, recommend it to the careful consideration of everv Union citizen: Wasiunuton, April 4th. 1807. 3fy Dear Sir Yon sneak truly when vou sav, that iu the election of iat Monday there are some elements which earnest Republicans mav contemplate ith profound satisfaction. The very circumstances, under men our opponents nave won lueir partial victory, evince a wonderful progress in polit ical sentiment during the last lew years. The Democratic party ol Connecticut will nevi rairain, as in 101, assert in a deliberately adopted platform, the right of secession, or deny the pow er of the Federal government to coerce a rebellious ftate for they have succeeded now only by setting up a candidate, ho has always condemned seeesfioii, and who voted men and inuney to coerce rebellious States.

The Democratic party of Connecticut ill never again deny the liht of the people to abolish tdavery, lor it lms been the principal recommendation of Mr. English that he voted to abolish shivery. To thee chaie'es in political attitude the Re- puLlicansof Connecticut have forced their adver saries diiriiTj; the last five years. I he recent eke- I tiou demonstrates that the change Lb to be perm a- FROM FI ROJ'E. By Atlantic Cable to Tiik Covrant, London, Aprj! 9 Evening.

TRIALS Kill IENIAMSM IN IRELAND. The trials of Fenian prisoners on the charge of high trea-on commenced at Dublin were to-day postponed until the "'I he prisoner Massey has turned Quoi n's evidence. NEW TURKISH ENVOI TO 'IHE UNITED STATES. A Constantinople di-patdi says that M.Edouard Blaeqite, formerly Turkish eon-ul-getifral nt Naples has been appointed envoy of the Mihliine Porte to lav United States. THE I IWEMIIUKO O.Ml'l.IC'AI ION.

It is now know that the Emperor Napoleon deeming the cf Luxemburg indispensable for the military security of tbc Ire.neh frontier not long since commenced negotiations with the King of Holland foi the ptiTha-e of the Grand Duchy and its incorporation with the French Empire. But as the fortress of Luxemburg which is one of the. vtrongesl fortifications in Europe, it held by a PrusoUu garrison, and the Pnis-iau government bat ked by the whole (if Germany firmly object, to the tran-fer of the Duchy to France, King William III. leis from any further negotiation on the subject. The French Emperor insists that his propo-osi tiou shall be carried out and the treaty completed.

The national pride of France has Im-cii deeply wounded ami wild unti feeling retails. In tin: meantime while the dispute is pending both Prussia and France are making mil-itary preparations. This threatening state of affairs is the cause of the financial panic which now exists in Loudon, Paris, and uil the principal commercial centers of Europe. Hit TOX A FFA IRS. APPOINTMENT.

By TViegn.ph ioTuE C'H'RAST. "lion. Isaac Newton, commissioner of agriculture, leu- appointed Ib'ii. Theodore C. Peters, lab; President of the New York agricultural society, an agent to aid in the distribution of sects in the south, to perfect the lists of soatle-rn (-mistical correspondent, and to cooperate iu the ie-organizatiou and improvement of suuth'-rn agriculture.

l'ARDON. The President i Tuc -day morning issued a pardon to 15. Vance-, late' Governor o. North Caro.iua. CRIMES AS'D CASUALTIES.

by Telegraph tu Tub Couitast. The prize tight between RooV.c and Collins on Fisher's Island, Long 1 -land Sound, Tuesday morning, was won by (joliins, in consecpuenee of Kooko striking a foul blow. A tire, at Wilkesbarre, Tuesday, destroyed twenty buildings, among them the uiliec of tho ll-x-rd of the Tim-. Loss JlOU.OW, insured i.0,-Xn. St.

Bernard's church at Ea ton, wan burned on Tuesday. Less.J:W,ooo. The steamboat Il nejit ith '-J00 bale of cotton was burned on the 7th atSizeman's oodyard, on the Alabama river. A train on the Mobile and Great Northern railroad was thrown down an embankment uc-ar Carpenter Station Tuesday morning, and the baggage master and three other persons wen-injured. FROM THE SOUTH.

By Telegraph to The Cocrant. 'Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, teiegra hi to Augusta, from Washington, that he shall file a bill on Wednesday, in the Supreme Court, for the relief of the State of Georgia. A rain caused the postponement of a freedmen's mass meeting at Auguui, from Wednesday to Saturday. General f-heridan's order forbidding election in Louisiana, having failed to reach the parish of Livingstone in time to prevent an election previously ordered there, and the same having been held contrary to directions contained in tli.it order, tho election is therefore declared null and void. MISCFLLASEOiS SEWS, liy Tcif7.Tfi.ph to The Cocrant.

The second anniversary of Lee's furrtnder wxs celebrated on Tuesday in Buffalo and Schenectady, N. by tho tiring of guns, parades of military and lire com 'anies, and addresses. Sr.illie St. Clair, a popular actress and the wife of Charles M. JSarras of black Crook fame, died on Tucsdavat ibitfalo, N.

Y. The Union etntr.il committee of Pennsylvania have fixed the time ami place for holding the Stile convention at Wiliiam-port June -li. The directors of the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad appeared before the legislative committee oil railroads and canals at liontoa Tuesday to support their petition for aid Irota the State of lo enable them to complete the road. Tlie number of miles to bo completed is P.rj and the amount asked for as a loan is The government commission to examine life paving inventions for steamers, met again at New-York Tue-day, but nothing ed' importance vu done beyond arranging preliminaries lor testing the submitted. The board of supervisors of San Fran'-i-m on Monday night extended a welcome to Captain Worden ttie hero of the Monitor and M--rriim-k light, now in command of the Ji and tendered him the chambers of the hoard any day he may appoint for the reception of citizens.

'I lie journeymen hou-e carpenters of Philadelphia ce-ased on Monday to bring on a strike for per day. having heretofore received $2.50. The plasterers and stonecutters struck some time since for higher wages but after holding out six weeks recommenced work at the old rates. James Jackson, mayor, and the whole "Democratic" city ticket was elected atLcikport, N. on Tuesday.

SENA TE EXTRA SESSIOX. TVAsntNGTojT, April Mr. Trumbull introduced a resolution which was adopted, directing the secretary of war to furn sh to the Senate a list of tho names of volunteer officers now in the service of the government their rank and particular duties assigned to them that he inform the Senate under what law they are retained and whether some of them may not be dispensed with without detriment to the public service. Mr. Anthony ellered a resolution proposing a new rule, that all resolutions calling on departments for information shall be referred to one of the standing committees to inquire iuto tho probable cost of furnishing the required information.

Mr. Anthony said Buch cal's are frequently made without knowing tho cost involved; clerks having to be employed for weeks to prepare transcripts sometimes of little value. It would be well to ascertain in ndvanco the amount of labor required in such cases, aud whether the result would justify its outluy. Mr. Trumbull suggested that tho resolution of the Senator be referred to committee on printing, and it took that direction.

Mr. '1 haver said it would be recollected during the last Bessron of the Thirty-ninth Con MASSACHUSETTS. Havei hill and Gloucester cxpott to be made cities soon. Maggiit Latidon, a young Irish woman 150 years end, fell beneath the wheels of a train on the Western Railroad at WesUleld, Tuesday noon, and was run operand itist.intly Sb returning from a isit at Northampton to btr home at Noilh Adam. EISA M'H AXI TRADE.

AtXewY'irk, TueidaT, money was ei-y tT Pirc'of with a raodt-rtte d-matid ill loan ct red at cent, oil goverum.tiU sal tolUte-als. wr tfis per teat, will) con-idaraVe discrimination. Tbe receipt of currency from the Uitciior were quite iiboral, a 1 the govern nent ditttiursing fml. Horvin exchange Is flraa bat bes'iaes 1 moicrste, bauker's piper quoted at Uty fey, and wy.anS' at abort sght Got wrreqn'et in the bat eeavrlly iJy. tfuxk were Call the ht tp board aud gcuera.ry a little lower.

Toe d-cline of Western Union Teeesra; from to attracts attention, tioid closfd at llil.y aaderstood lh government continue to fell, and ttu warranielia partially iabsided cauoia? an iniraace la five-twrulie Id London, loan were uiad Cat afipr the close. Mining shsrt are raitiu quiet bJt penerjllj Crmer oa leadlc; fharei1. JtjHKIGM MARHm. By Atlantic Cable to Tu Cucbast. At London, Tuda coais.li los'J United State re twcntlra at 71'.

UliuoU central bonile at t. fcoud mil. Liverpool, Tueoday evcahij, ncloeH quiet and oachautred. Transactions wcte lL'bt with mlee of bab-s middling ophndj, 12 middling New Or'eao, 12! 4. Adrires from liiri.he!cr are The ma: ket for foods aad yarn ie reported dull with a declining teneV try.

Eroadjtufr are act! and buoyant. Co 12s. Od. perquirttr fcr railed weleru barity. 4s.

3d. per 6'J ibe. oat, Canadian end Ainerica. 3e. 61 per 43 pea, 45-s.

for inadian. Provhf.onn of all descriptions are unchanged. Petroleam, 1. per p-d'on, for epirits Coed PenaajWaaia an-1 Ciliforni white, Is. 5d.

ros.n, common. 6s. fine. 17f. pr fpirit of torpentine, 37v; clow w-1.

Amerl can red, 65. a-htf, pot. S3. tallow, American, 6J. boa, Scotch pig, 61s.

(id- lor mixed trnmbers. Tbc New York mnrkct fhowed some depression oa Monday in cocscqnenee of the wi: like advice from Europe, which was accompanied by a decline ia American avorities on the Indon and Ftankfort ex changes. however, this depression vanished, fle-tw'pntus having again advanced to their old point in London. There Is no doubt au actual rapturs between France and Pins-da wculd lenefit our stocks In more wy than one. ll would increafe our cirry ug ide, stimulate immigration, and ot an eahuucee1 uemand for tnral product' in Central and WcHlera F.urcpe.

Any unfavorable effect oa or markets, f.r'o-1 from such a caase con id not, therefore, ba pencan'Tt. ICW VOSK bTOCIi (JUOTATIOHS. By Telegraph to Th CXiCEamt. Stock market dull. Gold ISM coapon.107?ar7V I Krie pref.

W3i 71 1M coupons. til Hal-on River. i'tiMi5 New Weiie 10 Hi ciligan Central HWti Michigiiu 63'i Central ii fitt 7iJi Njitliwcfct, ra N'jittiwe-tern if i I-laud l-orl Wayne 91)- Paollli Mail 11. 10-40'- reg 1M 9S 7 9i a Jst aerie lu '-d ad do Missouri C's Jij Tcmicest'C is. Catlton.

'mil. nref gj i V. Vv'. U. A 87 I'uicis'lver iSj, Murip-isi "iii IMnripo-o pr.

Host. Water Power. N. Y. Central Lrie 53i A Lmlic isji bJ Adam Lxprcss Amuri' an b.

S. Express Wells, Kuigo Si rcuau, 57 70 NEW TOPK 1'RODITB MAltKET. At New York. Tuesday, Hoar wms firm cuius K.500 bhls. tsute, 10.132113.33 Ohio, H.l3a?t 1.R0; western, aoatocrn was firm at ti Calil'o ni, $15 434116.43.

-Wheat was ti'i-ch ingert; galea or 17,501 binh-U. Cm 01 w.ih iiciIvb and better; saie of mind weft-em at yellow aeiitheru ai I.W.'J Outs 1c. belter; Hales of M.oiO bn-liel utiite, 70c.73c; wctdern, Itccrwie fteacy. Pork lower; sales of hhln, new mesa, $'i3; old, -3; prime, $IH Lard r. niuhied nnchaiged.

Cotton wan illicit I decided chanfre; nalesof l.fc'X) bles at S7.c3'Ji)e. Hic dud and and nomin.il. Groceries era quiet and ady. Nava etures are quiet. Oils am quiet.

Pctrul uiu le qoict Freleht to Llverpo il are orooping. Cotton by sail 3-lekl. at 7-3-Jd. by steaua, Xd-ii3-ld. torn per steam, oa.

MARRIAGES. ReVER ANDERSON In nnth Hanchcter, at tb it. E. rariuie, by Rev. if H.

Bra Mr. Goo. M. liirlior to Ml iiUma Anucrsoa. Doth of Boath Manchester.

EAT US. LAWTON In Hartford, oa the eTenlnj or thi 8th at tne reside ce 01 nis urn r-ia-iaw, v. urls- wol.l, Ahnor B. Ijwloo, Ai U. Funeral faun the South liapiist fJhurch, Thurti- (inv.

tith int at 9 o'clock p. m. Kclatives und friends arts respee fully luvittd to attend without further notica. CILUKitT At her remdMice In nobron, April 5, Mis Mary (lilkert, E71, daughter of lue Hon. byl- eter liuoen, a gin ntaie aua uiorougmy eaucai.pa pupil of the liar.

lord for the Deaf and lJuiab, a lady hlglily intel'llgHit, long a member of tbe 1st Ckingiegntiunal cuurca in tlilj place, ana 8' craed in au etuinrn degree to understand and practice those virtues and duiios belong to a true and devot Chrijlisii. hbe wa niut-h esteemed and beloved for her uiauy amiahl 1 qnililies and winning and attructive nntauors, by a Ur-e Circle of admir.njj frlenas. I "OST-Fridny evening, a SLFEVK HUT-j TON, cnamsl. (I, with the letter theieon. A au iut'le reward will be paid for Its rotuiu to tUU aj 10 81 lias been wonderful.

On the first Monday of October, lstKt only eighteen months ago lc-s than thirty thuu-aii of our citizens could be persuaded to' go tb the polls aud vote for suffrage against class suffrage in Connecticut Now popular sutl'rage lacks but WO votes of a majority of the people of the State, lor i very men who voted for R. Haw ley, knew what l.c was voting for. The reconstruction bi.l was passed within a mouth prior to the election. It had not been geueraliy printed and circulated. Its terms were btudiously misrepresented by its opponents, and its true character was misunderstood by thousands who voted againt it.

Of those who voted for Mr. English fully one-half were of foreign birth, many iuiD-dreds of whom had been but a few weeks naturalized, and all were assured that the bill established a military despotism, like those of the Old World from whitli they had sought a refuge here. Under such circumstances the meagreness of the majority against us is a proof that time, discussion, and reflection will give us back, before another election, a vastly greater majority than that which has been Iransieutiy won against us. What, then, remains? Let us speak plainly. We must be traa to the principles on which wc have fought this fight.

We must take, uo steps backward. We must proclaim boldly exactly what we mean. The Republican party proclaims for. Juist, Loyalty to the Republic, as indissoluble, and perpetual. Seemid, Popular suffrage as opposed to class eutl'rage.

Third, The entiro restoration of the Union in the mode prescribed by Congress. Upon this plalform we are etecure. Temporary defeat will bo only the precursor of a greater victory. The Southern communities will accept the terms of the reconstruction act, and will be represented in the Fortieth Congress. The next president of the Unitod States will be nominated and elected by tlie Republican party and a just, durable and beneliceiil peace will take the place of the strifes which have darkened the past, and whose clouds have not entirely disappeared from the horizon of the present.

Very truly vours, Owns S. Fbkhy. FROM WASMXGTO.V. Special Dispatch to Tub Coukant. Wasiiinotoh, April 9.

KO SUMMER SESSION. A dispatch to the Baltimore dates that Senators Conner's and Williams leave for their homes this week, expecting to return iu July for the summer session. This is entirely untrue, as they have both made their plans not to return till December. They have been informed by a majority of Senators that a summer session is exceedingly improbable. THIS 1USSUN TREATY HATIFIEI).

It is rumored that Senator Sumner, though in favor of the Russian treaty, is not a very ardent supporter of it in the Senate. lie made quite a long speech upon the subject yesterday. Three or four Republican Senators indicated their purpose to oppose tho wltolo project to the last. The debate to-day continued for four hours, Senator FeRsenden being the most prominent opponent of the treaty. At 5 o'clock, however, a vote was taken and the treaty was ratilied by tlie reouisite two-thirds vote.

The handful of Dem ocrats present of couive voted vot ed for the treat v. Secretary toward is in high 'lee over the result. THE EUROPEAN" WA3 KXCITEMXT. Iii government circles there is ineredulty respecting tlie foreign news. Secretary MeCulloch sold gold largely yesterday and to-day.

Uo takes no stock in the European war excitement, and expects gold soon to fall below the point where it stood last Saturday. So say gentlemen who profess to have talked with him on the subject. ANOTHER NOMINATION l'OB TUB AUSTRIAN MISSION. Ex-Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, was nominated by the President to-day as minister to Austria. He was expelled from the Senate, it will be recollected, on account of illegality in his election, and there is not the slightest prospect of his confirmation.

The Senate is inclined to Lave Mr Motlcv remain in view of the style of men President Jolmsou is endeavoring to thrust in as his successor. TUB BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE. Colonel Horace Capron, of Illinois, was nominated to-day a commissioner of agriculture, and will undoubtedly be confirmed. He is a radical, was a colonel during thu war, and will un doubtedly be confirmed. i A REJECTION RECONSIDERED.

The Senate to-day, by eight majority, reconsidered the rejection of Geueral Solomon Xlerodith, -it. K'l I i i.tlis. itI'kIi Ce-e Clulle Ierlie i If e. (:. in s.

No. 370 Jlaiint, 11.