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to that end. Any three of thein shall constitute a Board; and the Board shall have power and authority to designate and establish precincts for voting, or to adopt tliose already established; to cause polls to be opened at such places as it may deem proper in the respective counties and elections precincts of said Territory; to appoint, as judges of election at each of the several places of voting, three discreet and respectable persons, any two of whom shall be competent to act; to require the sheriffs of the several counties, by themselves or deputies, to attend the judges at each of the places of voting, for the purpose of preserving peace and good order, or the said Board may, instead of said heriil's and their deputies, appoint, at their discretion and in such instances as they may choose, other fit persons for the same purpose. The election hereby authorized shall continue one day only, and shall not be continued later than sundown on that day. The Board shall appoint the day for holding said election, and said Governor shall announce the same by proclamation, and the day shall be as early a one as is consistent with due notice thereof to the people of said Territory, subject to the provision of this act. The said Board shall have full power to prescribe the time, manner and place of said election, and to direct the time and manner of the returns thereof, which returns shall be made to said Board, whose duty it shall be to announce the result by proclamation, and said Governor shall certify the same to the President of the United States without delay.: ' , Sec. S. And be it further enacted, That in the election hereby authorized all white male inhabitants of aid Territory, over the age of twenty-one years, who Eossess the qualifications which were required by the lws of said Territory for a legal voter at the last general election for a member of the Territorial Legislature, and none others, shall be allowed to vote; and this shall be the only qualification required to entitle the citizens to the right of suffrage in said elections, and if any person not so qualified shall vote, or offer to vote, or if any person shall vote more than once at said election, or shall make, or cause to be made, any fal--e, fictitious or fraudulent returns, or shall alter or change anv returns of said election, such person shall, upon conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, be kept at hard labor not less than six months, and not more than three years. : Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the members of the aforesaid Board of Commissioners, and all persons appointed by them to carry into effect the provisions of this act, shall, before entering upon their duties, take an oath to perform faithfully the duties of their respective offices ; and on failure thereof, they shall be liable and subject to the same charges and penalties as are provided in like cases under the Territorial laws. ' Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the officers mentioned in the preceding section shall receive for their services the same compensation as is given for liko services under the Territorial laws. .I TROSPECT OF TROUBLE IN RUSSIA. Our latest advices from Russia are to the effect that the greatest consternation prevails throughout the empire in consequence of the prospect of a collision between the Emperor and the nobility, growing out of the emancipation of the serfs. Several great proprietors of landed estates are said to have fled for safety to St. Petersburg, doubtless fearing some outburst on the part of that class which Alexander has just quickened to political life. ' To Understand this question it must be borne in mind that under the late and all former emperors of Rusia the vast bulk of the rural population were serfs, fixtures on the soil which they tilled for the benefit of its owner and theirs. ' Alexander,1 the predecessor of Nicholas, a' man of much theoretical philanthropy and fanciful enthusiasm, conceived the idea of setting all the serfs free. He attempted to do so ; but after carrying out his purpose on some of the demains which belonged to the crown, he discovered that the nobility who constituted his court had no notion of making any such sacrifice to prove their desire for human progress. It was intimated to him that the fate of Paul awaited him if he persevered. ' Like a prudent man, he took the hint and desisted. The task has now been resumed by his nephew, who has the advantage over his uncle of being a younger, cooler, and more practical man. He declared, as soon as he succeeded to the throne, that, so soon as the termination of the war with the Western Powers left his hands free, he woidd proceed to' emancipate the serfs. He is now proceeding' to fulfil his promise. ' The nobility, as the letters from Russia state, are rebelling, as they did under the former Alexander; but the serfs themselves seem to have caught the enthusiasm from the Emperor, and are, fighting their own battle. ' ' " ; " '. .,' - It if the old fight between king and people on one side, and the aristocracy on the other a fight which has been fought in every European State. All historians tell us that the decline of the feudal system dates from the period when the kings of the various European countries perceived the necessity of allying themselves witlr the people in order to make head against the barons; how this alliance was faithfully carried out, and how rorely the barons strove against the joint pressure from above and beneath; how, finally, victory generally rested with their opponents, and a city here, a municipality there, a State elsewhere obtained franchises and liberties which no future baron or noble could venture to disturb. The histories of the time are full of the accounts of the conflict; they justify the assertion that it devasted and laid waste Europe for a period of one hundred years, and that, though it may nave been a necessary preliminary to any wholesome development of civilization, it retarded, for that time, every endeavor that was made by searching men to grope their way out of the darkness which' then overspread the European continent. This is the conflict in which Russia is now about to engage. Ever since the organization of the present empire of Russia, one thousand years ago, the people of that empire have been held aloof by their rulers, their laws and their language, from the strifes and theories which have distracted "Western Europe. They have enjoyed perfect peace, when all around them was war; they have been loyal, when loyalty seemed to have forsaken every other spot on earth. But, it seems, strong as were the barriers which isolated Muscovy from the rest of the world, and little as the Russian' serf population were supposed to know and care about political rights, they are provingthat they are not insensible to the effort which the Emperor is making for their emancipation, and proving also, it would seem, '. that they are not devoid of the passions which dictated to former generations the Jacquerie and the massacres of the Reign of Terror in France. , Of the result of the. conflict there can be but little ' question: though it is not unlikely but the Emperor, if he find the strength of the nobility too formidable, may abandon his projected reforms, as his uncle did. , But however the quarrel ends it is quite certain that it will involve ' Russia in disturbances and probably in civil wars for some years to come. This is a historical event of some importance. '' For the past sixty years Russia has been the only really stable part of the European Continent. With the exception of the futile and insensate attempt of Ryleief and his associates in 1825, there has been no ! evidence that the Russian mind was ever aware of the current of ideas which have rendered every European . throne precarious for the past sixty years. No matter what revolutions were exploded elsewhere or what dynasties crumbling, there was Onfc place to which the lover of stable monarchy might always look with confidence, and that was Russia. : " That confidence has been at length dispelled. Russia will now have its revolutionaries and its outbreaks like every other country of Europe and the lover of quiet will find no civilized country in the world to satisfy him outside of the United States. K Y. Herald. . 1 ' 7 ,

A Revival Incident. Last Saturday, at the prayer-meeting at Burton's Theater, Henry Ward Beecher made the sweeping assertion that all present t were sinners. ' " Not so," said a Methodist brother, who suddenly jumped from his seat in a very excited manner; " not so, for Ihave been janctified." " Glory to God in the highest," shouted needier, at the top oi his voice, "you ought to have been m Heaven long ago; you ain't fit to live in this- world. J. loric imy Book. 63" Mr. Buchanan and his two Commissioners to Utah, Messrs. Powell and McCullough, are all unmarried men. We are afraid they will not be able to cope with Biighaui Young. A man with a hundred wives mu.-t certainly be an overmatch for two old bachelors and a widower. Louisv ille Journal. ! Don't discourage them. Give them a chance.

THE LOCOMOTIVE.

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1858. JTjSaturdayisthe day of publication of the Locomotive when it will alwaysbe ready for subscribe. In no case will waletacopyofthepaper go from theoffice before publica ion day. LOCOMOTIVE STEAM PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. WE would callthe attention of Railroad Men, Presidenteof Colleges und Academies, the Medical Profession, and all ethers, to our assortment of NEW AND BEAUTIFUL TYPE! eust received from the best Foundrios in the United States, J mbracilip all the Medical Stn, Accent!, Fractions, French Letters, Algebraical Signs, and all the modern facilities for dotnirworlc in the bust stylo. All our Type and Machinery is new, and is good! order, including two of Adams1 Improved STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables us to do our work in a superior style, on asshor time, and as good terms as my other ofllco. We have on hand a superior article of Koolc and Colored Papers, and the best of Inks, and as we are practical workmen, we guaranty all work entrusted to us to be done in the neatest manner, with promptness and accuracy. Our Job Department is well supplied with all kinds of New and Fashionable Type, and we are prepared to do All Blinds of Job WorJt! on the shortest notice, and at the lowest living rates; and : BtAJIKS on'liVEllV BESCU1PTION! on Cap, Loiter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored f apers. aim iaros or i.aro nonrus. For the character of our work we eonlldently refer to any Book or Job bearing our imprint. Our prices are regulated at the lowest cash standard, so as to be regular and uniform, and equal to all; and contracts for work will be adhered to. without resortto extra charges. jtyOnlorafroui a tistanco promptly attended to, and accuracy silnrantled. Ttj"Offlce on Meridian street, Immediately opposite the Post umce. -., ... i ELDER A HARKNESS. - Kansas in Congress. Since our last the committee of Free Conference have reported a bill submitted by Mr. English, which bill will be found in full in this paper. This bill has been the cause of debate, and"Ithough it was agreed that a vote should be taken on Wednesday, still up to Thursday night the decisive rote had not been taken. It is, however, conceded, that this substitute will pass both houses, as is shown by all the test votes during the week. . The final vote may be taken to-day, (Friday,) or to-morrow, but there is little doubt that it will pass, This bill refers the ordinance of the constitution back to the people of Kansas as amended if they accept it, by a fair vote, Kan. sas is at once admitted as a State. If they reject it, then Kansas must wait until they have a population that will entitle them to one Representative in Con gress, when she can frame a new constitution, and ap ply for admission. , , , . tz" There has been a good deal of talk among the members of the bar, and on the street, about the Circuit Judgeship, in this district It has been generally known that Judge Major would resign, and on Monday last, the Governor being absent from the city, the Judge appointed N, B. Taylor, Esq., to preside until the return of the Governor. On Wednesday morning Judge Major tendered his resignation, conditioned on the appointment of Mr. Taylor, which the Governor refused to accept feeling that as he would be responsible for the appointment, he would not be dictated to by the retiring Judge. The result is that Judge Ma jor lias resumed his seat on the bench. The immedi ate friends of the Governor assert that Mr. Taylor would have received the appointment, if an uncondi. tional resignation had been made-others that some other person, that would have been objectional to the bar. Of this we know nothing, but are satisfied that the appointment of Mr. Taylor would have been acceptable to both the bar and people of this' circuit, and creditable to both the bench and the appointing power The result will most likely be that Judge Major will retain his seat. - ' , . Election. Next Tuesday is the day for the elec tion of City Officers. The two political parties have, for the last few yearfe, decided all contests for offices, from the lowest to the highest, on political grounds' and the success of either is heralded forth as a party triumph. This being the case, although we think it wrong, and have often declared it so, when we thought it would do any good, we would urge all our readers to vote, and to vote with their party. Fortunately the candidates selected by.both sides, with perhaps two or three exceptions, will make competent and efficient officers, some of thfcm, and particularly the candidates for Mayor, are pre-eminently . qualified to fill the po. sitions they aspire to with credit to the city. Below we give the candidates for the different offices, on both sides, the reader can either vote a straight party ticket vote for his friends or change or alter to suit himself. Democratic Ticket, t Republican Ticket. FOR MAYOR, Nathan B. Palmer. , Samuel D. Maxwell. 7, , . FOR TREASURER, Geo. F. McGinnis. ' James M. Jameson. FOR MARSHAL, ' Abel E. Catterson. ' A.D.Rose.' FOR ATTORNEY, Byron K. Elliott. . . , Samuel V. Morris. FOR CLERK, George H. West. 7 John G. Waters. . FOR ENGINEER, . D. B. Hosbrook. , ' . James Wood, Sr. , . STREET COMMISSIONER, 7 James Russell. ' ' ' Henry Colestock. ' ASSESSOR, ' Esos Drumbar, , ." : D. L. Merryman. , : FOR COUNCILMEN. First Ward. Robert Talkington. Joseph K. English. - ' Second Ward. ' Charles Young erman. A. G. Porter. , ' Third Ward. ; ' C King. v .-, Jacod S. Pratt. . ; . ' . Fourth Ward. J. A. Wonnell. 'E.Locke." Fifth Ward. '. . S. McNabb.'' ', '. J. Burke. . Sixth Ward. Myron North Wm.McClain. Seventh Ward. C. YeAGER. ' , T. COTTRELL. . The polls will be held at the school house in each Ward, from 9 o'clock, A. M. till 4 o'clock P. M. Electrotypes. In all the late additions of job type to our office, we have only taken type and cuts that are clectrotyped. This new and valuable improvement adds to the cost of the materials, but it greatly improves the appearance of the printing, and makes all work appear much better. All that want the advantage of these improvements, in the appear ance of their work, should bnng it to the Locomotive office, opposite the Post office. A blind horse, attached to a wagon, ran into the cellar near our office, doing little damage.

CITY FINANCES. The Annual Report of the City Clerk is before us,

for the past year, showing the receipts and disbursements of the city. As it is a matter of general inter est to our readers, we give it below, in full. 7... Annual Report of the City : Clerk, t From April 1, 1857, fo April 1, 1858. RECEIPTS. '" Balance in Treasury, April 1, 1857,. $1,275 95 Collections on Duplicate tor 180. rfo,4i 20 Collections on Delinquent Taxes 5,080 08 Licences.. 630 00 Markets....: 532 87 Fine's 450 80 Indebtedness, Aprill 1, 1858 18,229 53 $61,618 43 EXPENDITURES. Indebtedness, April 1, 1857. .. .. .$18,877 20 Street Improvement 8,998 77 Fire Department 7,106 52 Furniture 35 59 Officers Salaries. . 6,579 14 Watch Salaries ... .. 4,508 85 Buildings and Grounds 280 00 Cisterns .......... 198 08 Pumps and Wells 332 08 Town Clock 50 00 Market House 31 00 Printing .. 784 04 Bridges 2,912 00 Books and Stationery '.. 236 81 Nuisances..... , 67 74 Fuel : 41 15 Lumber... ..: 334 23 Hospital 4,443 73 Gas 2,013 68 Tax refunded 6 00 Repairs . 32 00 Rent 346 00 Elections... 144 00 Contingent 832 51 Bills Receivable 96 25 Treasurers per centnge 1,667 31 Interest 1,163 75 $61,618 43 By the above it will be seen that the expenditures of the City this year was. . . .$61,618 43 Last year they were 40,699 71 Excess this year over last. . .820,918 72 This increase is mainly in the items of street improvements, bridges, printing, (which is more than three times as much this year than last,) gas, hospital, interst on orders, &c. In items of cisterns, market houses, and one or two others, the expenses were less this year than last. . This shows the indebtedness of the city, at this time, to be $18,229.53, against $18,877.20 last year, as presented in this report; or $8,002.26, as reported by the Clerk last year. We are satisfied that inacuracies existed in the report made last year, by Mr. Stein, and have ho doubt thatthe amount above are substantially correct From various causes, there is a large delinquency this year, amounting to within $1,000 of the entire receipts of last year. From the Treasurer's books, we gather the following facts in regard to the assessments and delinquencies, which is substantially correct : Tax assessed for 1857. ....... . .$59,532 47 Delinquencies for 1856 8,720 00 Total .$68,252 47 Collected to April 1, 1858 36,732 00 Delinquent April 1, 1858. .. .". . .7. J. i . .$31,517 47 This is a large delinquency, being more than onehalf of the entire assessment, and nearly one-half of the assessment and delinquency of last year included. We are informed that this delinquency is largely among the heavy tax payers, some of whom are indebted for five or six years. ; The above reports and facts refer exclusively to the General Fund, and have no reference to the School Fund, which was reported at the last meeting of the Council to be about $2,000 in debt. . .. . , 1 It will be seen by the proceedings of the coun. cil that another circus has been allowed to exhibit here two days without license. Considering the condition of the Treasury, and the heavy tax assessed, this looks like an outrage on our citizens. (EST The new map of the city has made its appear" ance. It is large, and well executed, showing every lot and part of lot, and every division and subdivision in the city. It also shows every building in the city or suburbs at the time the map was laid off last sum mer. A carctul examination satisnes us tnat it is as near correct as such maps can be made. lar We are informed that money is getting plentier in this city and county that a great deal of produce has been sold, and money returned, and used in pay ment of debts, that . makes it some easier. There is yet a stagnation in business, with little prospect of its getting much better before fall. The building busi ness now appears to be about the best in the city, as those having the means are taking advantage of the ; present low prices to erect substantial buildings. ' At the request of many friends, on account of, the election, the annual meeting of the Orphan Society has been postponed till Wednesday evening, May 5 th. The regular business meeting will be held at Mrs. Paxton's, Tuesday afternoon. ' JaT Our attention is called by the Journal to a mis take in the notice of the Pike Township Educational meeting, in our last, of the time. The meeting will be held to-day, the 1st of May, instead of the 15th, as pub lished. Reference to the copy shows that the mistake was ours. Cg" For all the late Magazines, the late New York and Cincinnati daily papers, the Illustrated and Liter, ary papers, in endless variety, go to Mrs. Thompson, in the Post office. lW The Circuit Court is now in session, Judge Ma. jor on the bench. : The Grand Jurors for the present term are, Jame8 McVey, Jacob Smock, Jesse Johnson, James S. Bell Peter Ruark, George W. Dutorn, Avan Ballard, GeoHollingsworth, Ezra Bates, G. Bruce, Jesse Springer' Elias N. Sliimer. ' The Petit Jurors are, Percy Hosbrook, Jesse Ragan, James Clark, Sam. Record, Geo. Tomlinson, Thos. J. Todd. Squire Dawson, Jas. A. Merriman, P. W. Cotton, John McCormick, Robert Hanna, and Lemuel Vanlaningham. IJThe newspapers bear us wonderful accounts of the large number of Shad caught in the east, their size, and delicious flavor. Why cannot some of our enterprising fish men make arrangements to supply this market? There are plenty of Shad lovers here, that would like to get a taste of this fine fish. Can't some be brought? C3T The different classes of workmen are constantly employed on BlacWord's Block. They will permit no unnecessary cessation of their labors until it is entirely completed. Placed in the very centre of business, " Where merchants most do congregate," it will not only be an ornament to the city, but will, in all its parts, be the most durable and substantial building that has yet been erected among us, and will be a sure and profitable investment for the upright and enterprising owner.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. . 6pkcial meeting. Council Chamber, 7 i. Indianapolis, April 37, '58. ) All the members present except Harvey. ; The Mayor stated that the object of the meeting was to appoint Inspectors and Judges of election. Mr. Fletcher offered the following resolution : Resolved, That an Inspeetor and two Judges of election for the Wards of this city respectively, for the

election of officers for this city, to be field on tne 4in day of May next, be appointed as follows: First Ward. Inspector, Matthew Littlo ; Judges, John H. Batty, Daniel Keely. Second Ward. Inspector, Andrew Wallace; Judges, John Coburn, Wm. Campbell. Third Ward. Inspector, das. L,owaen ; juages, E. T. Emerson, II. Rodawald. Fifth Ward. Inspector, Jas. Sulgrove ; Judges, Isaac Roll, Charles Coleman. Sixth Ward. Inspector, V m. JJoaz; Judges, A. Metzger, N. Hughes. Sevexth Ward. Inspector, J. W. Uavis; judges, G. W. Buchanan, A. Iliner. Mr. North moved that the resolution be so amended as to strike out all after the words " as follows," and that the Councilmcn of each Ward name the Judges and Inspectors. Lost. ... ' The onginal resolution was then passed. Mr. Geisendorff offered the following resolution : Resolved. That the city license charged under the ordinance relative thereto, on the circus exhibition of Nixon & KemD. be remitted, in consideration of the fact that said company has wintered a largo unmber of horses in tins County, ana will organize nere, leaving a large amount of money in the community. Adopted. ' ' Mr. DunlaD presented a petition from several citi zens, praying, that owing to the inconvenience of getting to the city, by the bridg"S being washed away in the vicinity 01 rogue s Xi,un, that temporary Dnages ue built across the same. Granted. Mr. Vandcarift od'ered a resolution that McKernan and Edgar have permission to put wood vaults under the pavement in front of a brick building on lot 1, in out block 58. Mr. Durham moved that the large stall m the Last Market House be removed. Aopted. Mr. Enulish offered a resolution that the property holders on the first alley north of Michigan Street, between Liberty and Noble Streets, be permitted to remove the dirt from the high points to the low points of said alley. . . . Mr. Vandesrift offered a resolution that 15. li. ouierove, 1st Assistant Engineer, be allowed $100 tor serB. ...... 1 .1 . r. T.i- j iu v. vices renaereu me past year. xw;iei-i-eu tu win x' " o Association. : Mr. Porter offered a resolution that as Mayor Wal lace's term of office expires on Monday next, Mr. Fletcher be appointed until the Mayor s successor De elected and qualified. Adopted. Adjourned sine die. journal. 6" The Junior Sons of America hold their third Anniversary Festival, in Starr's Hall, Richmond, on Friday Evening, May 14, 1858. The names on the Committee of Invitation indicate that it will be a fine affair, and worthy a visit by our dance-loving citizens Messrs. M. L. Ohr, and Geo. Chapman, of this city are on the committee. ' 1 IJaT Heavy frosts, and a light snow, the early part of this week, has killed a good deal of fruit, that promised fine. ' It is thought the peaches and cherries are all killed. Many of the apples are killed, but there will still be enough of them. s3T The Republican Congressional Convention, for this district, to nominate a candidate for Congress, will be held on the 31st of July the day after the Demo cratic Convention. Ijgg" The Marion Engine boys are endeavoring to raise by subscription enough to make the first payment on their new engine, which has been ordered, and will be here shortly. The council, at their last meeting, refused to donate the money to buy it. . WASHINGTON ITEMS. Washington, April 29. Messrs. Broderick and Seward speak to-morrow which will close the debate, and the vote will probably be taken at 3 o'clock. . 1 Although in the House to-day, Mr. Jones, of Tenn., moved to lav the report of the conference committee on Kansas on the table as a test question, all the members did not so regard it as some of the known enemies of the report voted in the negative. The States of this evening publishes a letter dated from Panama April 10th, in which it is stated that Col. Kinney had been for some time treating with the Mormons with the view of settling them on the Musoueto coast, and by the last California steamer he had received inteligence that his proposition had been fa vorably received by the Mormons, and this lntorma. tion enabled him to raise $30,000 in cash, $80,000 more in merchandise and supplies, with which, accom panied by 20 followers, he has sailed tor trreytown, He expects to obtain through General Lomas per mission to colonize the country under the JNicaraguan flag, obligating the colonists to help defend Nicaragua against the encroachments of filibusters. Failing to obtain this he expects to hoist the Nicaraguan flag, and as this is under British protection he expect to meet with no serious objection from any quarter. The Sebastopol Ships and the Yankee. It is not true that the American expedition to Sebastopol, to raise the sunken ships of the Russians, has been abandoned. English and French journals have repeatedly stated that such was the fact, that the company had burst up and the statement has been copied into many papers in the United States ; but the story is flatly contradicted by a correspondent of the Boston Transcript, who is attached to the expedition. He says the expedition has thus far been successful, having raised a frigate and the bottom of two eighty-four gun ships, besides the greater portion of a one hundred and twenty-gun ship. We presume the writer alludes here to the Philadelphia expedition, under Mr. Gowen, as he speaks elsewhere in his letter of the Boston Submarine Company as not having been successtiil, and remarks that their ships have gone to Constantinople. It is also stated by this writer that the winter has been anusually severe in that part of Russia, and that the company are awaiting the advent of spring to recommence operations. Dreadful Condition of the Whites in San Domingo. Dispatches have been received from San Domingo, which will, says the Washington States, undoubtedly, confirm all that we have stated heretofore of the critical condition of Americans and of the whites as a race in that doomed island. .' The negro leader, Baez, is shut np in the walled city of San Domingo, where he vents his ferocity on the white citizens, whom he retains amid the horrors of siege and famine, in some sort, as hostages for his own final escape. . Mr. Elliott, the American Consul, and his lady, Dona Merced de la Roche, (the daughter of one of the. noblest old white families of the island,) are daily subjected to base and studied insults. The United States flag has been repeatedly dragged through the streets and trampled upon by negro mobs ; the Consul's lady hissed at in the streets, and followed home from church with language too vile to bc repeated ; American seamen and vessels have been illegally sacrificed ; and, in brief, every form of outrage that negro spite could invent has been heaped upon our citizens, for the single crime of being white men and Americans ; and not a ship-of-war shows itself for their relief. Fresh arrival of Boots and Shoes. We had the pleasure of looking through the new Spring Stock of Goods at that old established stand of A. Knodle now A. Knodle & Son, and feel warranted in saying that a better stock of Boots and Shces were never brought to this city; consisting in part of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Lasting Gaiters with and with out heels, also, Morocco, Kid and Calf work of all sorts and sizes, and in addition to the above he is man ufacturing very extensively all kinds of work to order, all of which will be sold as low as any other house that expects to pay for their goods. aprlO 4w

FRANCE AND HER EMPEROR. Certain of our City cotemporaries have improved the occasion of the " Orsini demonstration" to read a lesson of stern rebuke to the people of France for their . dastardly imbecility in succumbing to the despotic rule 'of the Third Napoleon. The illustrious editor of the Courier and Enquirer himself, who is well known to be the bosom friend and club-window associate of the actual Emperor of the French, cannot resist the temp.

tation ol an irrepressiDle conviction, and Daiances his commendation of the tact, energy and skill of his Imperial Patroclus by a gravely sarcastic denunciation of the people of France who have bowed their necks to the yoke of the usurper. It would seem to be rather hard, certainly, that a whole nation of men should be branded as idiots, cowards and knaves, for yielding to the fascinations against which the Republican virtue of the distinguished journalist himself was not wholly proof. Yet we cannot but respect the Spartan honesty which holds its conceptions of truth, however bald and inchoate, to be more sacred than the spell of friendship ; and we ought to overlook the cruelty in admiration of the justice which dictates the stern sentence passed by the Courier and Enquirer upon the ruler of Fiance. And we can do this the more easily, perhaps, that there is really nothing in the present relations of the French Emperor with his people to demand a ferocious verdict upon either party to the tacit contrast which underlies his government. We give place to none, be it premised, in our detestation of the Napoleonic theory of anthority ; and we were certainly not among the last to express our be lief that the administrative tactics which have been re cently adopted by the French Government are equally impolitic and unjust intolerable for the rigor with which they bring the weight of power to bear upon the private life and the private enterprises of Frenchmen, and unwise for the violence which they offer to the dominant convictions of all the most enlightened men of Europe and the world. But we ourselves are unable to see by what processes of logic the conclusions are reached from these premises, that in accepting the goveonment of Napoleon HI the French people proved themselves incapable of freedom and that in forbearing to dash his throne presently in pieces, they declare themselves insensible to wrong, and tamely patient of tyranny. Indeed, those who most londly insist upon these vituperative conclusions, by their very vehemence stultify their own assertions. If there was no power in French behind the throne, the throne would be as litttle assailed as is the throne of Turkey to-day, or as was the throne of Lows Alv a century and a half ago. The true secret of the fury with which the French people are assailed for enduring the second empire, is the sense which all men have, and none more keenly than the advocates of European Democracy, that France is full of independent and vigorous life. France has always given, and, for years to come, must give, the signal or any grave changes in the constitution of Continental Europe, and multitudes now beyond the borders of France really seem to regard revolution making as the only legitimate business 01 the French people. Perhaps it is not the worst feature in the. present condition of France, that she does not take precisely this view of her mission. JLhere are some thirty millions ot human Deings within the limits of the French Empire, who have a great many serious interests in life to look after. Some of them are fathers, some of them are mothers, and a few of them discharge the ordinary natural relations of human beings with no inconsiderable fidelity and success. They have their work to do as the rest of us have and they have peculiar difficulties of their own in politics and Government to deal with. When the Revolution of 1848, which took the country at large utterly by surprise, had failed, as it did most ignobly fail, to organize itself irom a chaos into a constitution; when the centralized power of the administration had become the shuttlecock of a dozen battledores in the hands of as many frantic players; the people of France accepted the decisive grasp of Napoleon, simply as the guarantee of repose, and in so doing did what any other people similarly situated would have been morally certain to do. I is very easy for us whose influence over the central authority of the nation is confirmed to us by a complete machinery of local and independent organization, to rail up the French for this acquiescence of theirs in the reestabhshment of the Bonapart dynasty, and to say that they were coerced by the bayonet into their votes of 1851 and 1852. But any man who will take the trouble to recall the tone of thoughts and language which prevailed in New York towards the end of the reign of Wood, will find reason, perhaps, for doubting whether the French must necessarily be a nation of slaves, because they preferred a single Emperor to a Briarean Assembly. The people of New York certainly ought to be able to suppress by constitutional means the license of official pirates, and to secure protection of their own lives in their own streets. Yet we did not hesitate to talk about Vigilance Committees, and private patrols, and other arrangements as intrinsically anti-constitutional and anti-republican as the actual Government of France. " If we can imagine the whole administration of this country the control, not of our Post Offices and Customs only, but of our Mayors, our Selectmen, our State Governors, our churches, our schools, our roads and canals, our Courts of law, our banks, wholly gathered up into the hands of the Government at Washington, with a majority of Fernando Woods in the Senate, and a majority of Devlins in the House, and no remedy open for us save that of leaving our business and our homes, and marching en masse upon the capital, we can form some conception of the state in which i ranee found herself under the Assembly m 1851 the state which she exchanged for the Empire. Under the Empire she has taken breath once more, and if now she is beginning to find, as all signs would seem to show she is, that the Empire has done its worK,ana is turning altogether to wrong and tyranny, we may be very sure that she will find the means and the time for asserting her rights afresh, and for taking another and an onward step in that path of revolution, in which she is fatally engaged, but in which no nation, worthy of the name, will ever advance, save by slow, and grave and painful degrees. A'. Y. Times. LIBERIA, AS SEEN BY A KENTUCKIAN. RevvA. M. Cowan, the General Agent of the Ken tucky Colonization Society, who went to Liberia last fall, purnosely to make himself intelligent upon the topics of its soils, climate, people, domestic relations, i 1 .1 f 1 .i i .. Sc., lately returnea nome irom ins xour, ana nas given to the Frankfort Commonwealth an interesting letter upon some of the things he saw and heard of, from which we make an extract : Liberia extends 011 the Atlantic coast from the mouth of the Shebar River on the north-west to the center of the San Pedro River on the south-east, being three hundred and fifty-two miles by the navigator's line. Its average breadth is forty miles. The tide rises all around this boundary four feet. Within this boundary there are twelve rivers that are navigable lor small vessels for fifteen to twenty-five miles. Some of them have from one and a half to two and a half fathoms of water. But the bars at their mouths, except two of them, will not allow vessels over forty tuns to cross them with certainty at all times in the year. The Liberians have seven towns or settlements on this length of coast. All of them are ports of entry but one. There are, besides these towns, twenty-seven ports of trade, where the Liberian, American, English, French and German traders trade with the natives in cloth, tobacco, rum, gunpowder, brass and iron kettles, &c. They get in exchange chiefly palm oil, camwood, ivory, the palm-kernel. Other settlements of the Liberians are on the banks of the St. Paul's, St. John's and Senoe Rivers and back from Cape Palmas. There are three capes on the coast. The highest cliff off Cape Mount is forty-one thousand and seventy feet ; that of Cape Mesurada two hundred and ten feet, and that of Cape , Mesurada and Cape Palmas have each a light-bouse. There are no harbors on the coast. The bars of the rivers preventing vessels of such tunnage as trade from abroad from crossing them, the vessels anchor in roadsteads, many of which have a sufficient depth of water for the largest class to ride at anchor in safety from a mile to a mile and a half from shore. Vessels arriving on the coast to trade employ natives to do the work of unloading and loading them. There is a tribe called Kroomen, whose territorial possessions are within the county of Grand Bassa, Liberia. I say territorial, for as the common laws of the tribe alio Brigham Young's matrimonial arrangements, they have a wife at the duferent points where the vessels stop to trade, which makes it convenient for the man to stop ot home at night when in port, and save himself from the pitiable condition of having them all in one place to welcome him home after several weeks' absence-