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,v dissatisfaction 50 that the Embassy may

allay dissatisfaction, so that the Embassy may
be continued.
We trust IL will have no such effect. The
government of Rome is no concern OF ours
and we have no right to quarrel with her
authorities concerning it, InaJ Is, IN our
eyes. very stupid bigotry when, IN Ohris-
tian land forbids Christians TO worship uod
according to the dictates OF JheiI own con
sciences. bnt Rome is not bound TO see such
,,at4ors tl,roueb our speotacles, and strangers
who do not like her laws may keep out of her
G,,r oosifion is that this country should
,o,Jo, have had Minister at all. Rome, so
far as She is a State at ALL is an ecclesiastical
state and thus her Importance, her power,
are ecclesiastical; and we sent her Minister
for ecclesiastical reasons-that is, with an idea
Of gratifying or propitiating the Roman Catho-
lies esnecially those of our own country.
Anort from her ecclesiastical character, Rome
has NOT half the claims to a mission that
Bavaria has. or that Saxony has ever had till
within the past year. And now that Italy is
irving to reconstruct herself integrally and
potentially, our keeping a Minister at Rome is
an unfriendly and ungenerous embarrassment
to q great though young power with which
we ought to cherish relations of cordial amity
and mutual goodwill. Italy is and must be
our ally her every interest and aspiration
tend to induce the heartiest wish on our part
that she shall be powerful and prosperous.
Rome is rightfully as Italian as Paris is
French or Vienna Austrian; at least four-ffths
of the people of Italy and of Rome impatiently
aspire to see the latter once more, as she so
long was, the capital of the former. He who
fancies that this aspiration can be permanently
thwarted might as nationally hope to prevent
the return of summer. Foreign force alone
prevents the uniication of Italy; but for France
and Austria she would be under one Govern
ment-her own-within week. Now then, we
insist that our Government shall no longer op-
pose an obstacle to Italy's realizing her hearts
desire-and she does this so long as she main
tains in Italy the mocllery of a mission to any
power but that of Italy herself
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DiplOmRcy-RUnle.
Fron the Tribune.

FTOnl ue ITtOUIIe
The fact that Congress has refused to appro-
pirate money for the salary of Minister at
Rome ought to be conclusive; yet we note
efforts to have that most righteous action re-
yersed. A statement from Rome (Which we
presume to be prompted by the Minister) as
serts that American Protestants are now per-
mitted to hold meetings for public worship in
a house designated as the American Embassy,
though it is not the actual residence of the
Minister. This, it is imagined, will serve to
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President johnson on Our Financial
Situation.
From the Herald.

From the Herald.
We have had various reports, as well as
Private Miles O'Reilly's "talk with the Presi-
dent" about the Presidents views on our
financial situation. The expressions Of Mr..
Johnson on the subject appear not to have
been well understood, or have been misrepre-
sented. The Judiciary Committee of Congress
even thought proper to summon Miles O'Reilly
to testify as to what the President said about
financial matters. There need be no longer
any doubt or speculation concerning the
views Mr.. Johnson holds. Our Washington
correspondent has had 'talk" also, and was
able to furnish us, in his communication pub
lished in Sundays Herald, statement of
these views ION authority that cannot be dis
puted." They are, as he says, ''the real Opt
Mons of the Chief Magistrate on the subject in
question"
What. then. is the Presidents financial
! policy? 1t is that which we have been urg-
| ing upon him, Congress, and the country; for,
he says, he ''sees nothing to object to IN the
financial policy suggested by the HerGtd
within the last few days. lie refers espe-
cally, we suppose, to articles on the subject
which were published in last Tuesdays ana
Fridays paper, though we have been urging
not only "within the last few days" but
through long period, the same views.
The President, so far from favoring or even
limiting at repudiation, is most anxious to
avoid any possible agitation leading to it, NO
other inference could be drawn from his CON
versatlon with Miles OReilly. All his re-
marks were intended as precautionary-as a
warning, and nothing more. ''He is inn
, pressed with the paramount importance OF a
good revenue system, and concerned about
providing adequate means for the gradual
liquidation OF the debt as well as the payment
: of the interest on that debt. Knowing what
p has occurred in other countries, when involved
! in reckless expenditures leading to repudia-
tion, he is alarmed about the possibility o.
like causes producing the same results in oul
own country" He refers to the administra
} tion of John Quincy Adams, which was deemed
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s'DemOcracy" Ia Connecticut.


From the Tribune.
General Garfield made very radical speech
at the Republican meeting in Hartford
suited his hearers. If there is any Democrat
in Connecticut who thinks that his party can
ignore in this canvass its record during the
war; and force a false issue upon the people,
he will find himself answered in that speech.
The party which now demands that the Rebel
States shall be instantly admitted to Congress,
which denounces the terms Congress has
offered them as monstrous tyrannical, cruel
is the same party which in 1864 declared the
war failure, and in proof of its failure, nomi-
mated General Mcclellan for the Presidency.
1t has not changed its principles, as General
Garfield shows, and is now not less dangerous
to the country than then. That the voters of
Connecticut understand this fact, we have no
doubt but General Hawley, p. r. Barnum,
IL. H. Starkweather, and other Republican
speakers, should take care that it is not for
gotten.
We are glad to see that Mr.. Starkweather,
on Saturday night, began a discussion with
Mr. Earl Martin, his opponent for Congress in
the Third District. Discussion is all we need,
and the more ably and clearly the radical prin-
ClpleS VI ueDdLStl, CllG DtIJeI
for our majority. Indifference and ignorance
we fear; for while Democracy has much to
conceal, Republicanism courts investigation.
General Hawley's record in regard to the
eight-hour law is case in point. He has
been accused of opposing it, and the answer
is the publication of his correspondence on
the subject a year ago, in which Governor
Hawley declares that if the workingmen are
sure the law will benefit them-"that decides
the question So far as | am concerned, can
see no valid objection to the measure. l think
that in many cases it would prevent in
justice"
His opinion is even stronger now, and any
attempt to make an issue against Governor
Hawley on the eight-hour rule is every way
absurd. The Republicans are willing to take
up that question, but they will not let the
other questions drop. We want the Demo-
Gratis held up to their principles, as we shall
stand up to ours, and in no State have our
opponents a more unvaryingly disgraceful
record than in Connecticut. Have they for
saken, abjured it? Not one particle. They
fight under the old banner, and for the same
bad cause, and the election of Mr.. English
would give as much joy in the Rebel States
now as the election of Thomas Il. Seymour
would have givenin 1854.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

The Constitutional Convention being now
fixed fact, and the time for preparation very
short we entreat our friends in every part oi
tbe State TO give earnest and active heed there
70 forthwith We have, first, to choose and
hold State Convention whereby to designate
sixteen of our ablest and best men to consul
tute our half of the thirty-two delegates at
large to be chosen in accordance with the wise
suggestion of Gov. Fenton. And we urge
Renublicans in every neighborhood to give
Instant heed to this matter. 1t Will not DO 10
nut up three or four Of the men who ought 10
be on the ticket and piece it out with twelve OF
thirteen of those who want to be. Our oppo'
nents will put forth their very strongest men,
with intent TO poll heavier vote in the whole
State than we can, and thereupon claim that
New-YOIk has ceased to be Republican. This
is one of the minor aspects Of the question, yet
it is important. Do let us nominate our very
best men, since nomination is an election
Aud we caunot do it if those who want to be
nominated are allowed to run the machine.
Each Senate district is TO choose, i'll addition,
four delegates. Let us resolve now that,
alike in our strong, in the doubtful ana
in the other districts, we will present four as
good men as we can persuade to run And
let It's not take No for an answer where emil
nent ability or eminent public service is in ques-
ton. We want no party Constitution; and we
shall have none if each party presents Its
worhiest and most valuable citizens for dele
gates. We believe both will do so, unless they
shall be thwarted by the intrigues and combt
nations of self-sccbing aspirants. To aver
this danger, let the People concert and act AZ
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

The "Law Gazette" project which the AS
sembly has so incOnsiderately indOrsed, attempts
to do good thing in very bad way. Let
us explain:
1t is expedient, desirable, necessary, say the
hackers of the project, that all legal advertise
ments-that is, advertisements required by
law-sbOuld be published in some one journal,
80 that all who wish to see them may know
where to look. Now, half of them are printed
where next to nobody sees them; and no
amount of search can find them all. He who
has reason to prefer secrecy to publicity may
substantially evade the legal requirement to
advertise.
This is quite true.
What then Does this establish the necessity
of establishing and endowing the Law Gazette 7
BY no means. Here is the true remedy for the
evil complained of:
Let an act be passed directing every one who
is required by law to advertise to insert his
advertisement in that journal which shall be
duly designated for the purpose, and which
shall be that daily paper Of largest circulation
which will 50 advertise at Che rates established
by law. Now let the Mayor, Controller, or
some other functionary, give notice that he is
prepared to feceive proposals from the
several Journals, accompanied by affidavits
setting forth their average daily circulation for
the last twelve months and let him, in due
tune, award tue advertising to that one Of
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29
MR. RUCHANANS OPINION.

James buchanan, ". i. f.J Is dDOuJ tlt ldot
man in the country of whom any person not
fossilized would ask an opinion of its affairs.
He had an opinion some years ago to
tho effect that the Government had
no right to suppress rebellion, and
his opinions since that day have not been re-
garded with tho profound veneratiOn he may
have considered their due. The people have
not thought his opinions worth the paper they
are written on. But number of gentlemen
whose opinions are equally mimpOrtant, and
whose antiquarian tastes must be maria,
have invited Mr.. Buchanan to dinner, with
the sinister design of making him pay for 1t
with an opinion. These gentlemen are Hester
Clymer, whose opinion is that he should be
Governor of Pennsylvania; j. Clancy
Jones, whose opinion is that ]. Clan
cy Jones would do better than j.
Lothrop Motley at the Court of Austria W.
b. Reed whose opinion concerns his grand
father and nobody else and a few others
whose opinions we find in their letter. In
the first place, they think dinner good
thing, and if they had stopped there the coun-
try would be unanimously with them. But
secondly, they believe the immediate future OF
&" the country to be full of peril" and they
wa1 from Mr. Buchanan " words of counsel"
and words of consolation" and, " if posi-
" bio (alas that if, words of hope"
And they go to him for these things because
he is "one who now survives (sic) as the last
"of American statesmen of the olden times"
Mr.. Buchanan's reply should convince this
Antiquarian Club that his opinions are at least
az valuable as Jack Bunsbys. He is panied
that he cannot meet them around the festive
board,r principally because his Democratic
predecessors in the most exalted office had
deemed it expedient to remain i'll private life
and not 90 to dinners. AS something of vast
Importance to the present condition of the
country, he gives them full opinion OF Sllas
Wright, who died in 1S41, and as natter of equal
value to himself he trusts that their opinion that
he is not at all responsible for the war "antci-
patcs the general sentiment OF future times
Then Mr.. Buchanan comes to the point, and
the words of counsel, of consolation. of hope,
no extends are these: "Adhcrc 10 the COnsti-
d" tuition of your country. Never despair" If
So why mott If not, Why SOP Con-
sidering that Mr. b. held that the Constitution
justified Secession, such an opinion as this Is
not likely to revoutionize Our politics. If the
despondcnt gentlemen who wanted m answer
have got it, we are rejoiced They will doubt
less be content with Mr. Buchanan'5 opinion,
for It is their own, and in this content we
shall leave them, not intruding our own
opinion, which, though it might not be cOnsola-
ton or hope. would certainly be counsel OF
very emphatic kind. The time has been that
| when the brains were out thC man would dle,
| and there an end-yct if the brains are out,
how can the man kpow he is dead" Tlis may
account for Mr.. Buchanans pertinaclous belief
| that he is alive.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

long labor. Hence the general complaint that
the Celt is indolent, thriftless, averse to i'm
proyement, and sullenly addicted to dirt aud
soualor. He has little more inducement to
industry and frugality than the slave had; but
the difference is one of degree rather than of
kind.
The radical remedy for the chronic discomfort
of Ireland is simple: MAKE HER LAWS JUST.
Abolish the Established Church, and let every
one support as well as enjoy the religion OF his
choice. Give the tenant a legal right to his
betterments by enacting that If his landlord
Increases his rent or orders him to go, he shall
nav the lust and fair valuation of the tenants
improvements which he thus cOnfiscates to hls
own use. Give the poor O real voice in max
ilg the laws whereby they are governed
Make them feel that though their ancestors
we're conquered, they are not serfs, but citizens.
If England shall seasOnaby resolve to treat
tie Irish masses justly, she may yet retain
Ter hold on the "sister isle ;" but, if not, she
will lose Ireland forever and it is quite prob
tble that the very next war wherein Great
Britain is engaged will witness resistless
mastering upon Irish soil of insurgent forces
,athered from every land where Irish hearts
lave found a home. 1t is probably not yet too
ate for England to cOnciliate the IRISH by
comprehensive JUSTICE but who shall say how
soon the opportunity may vanish never to re-
fuInV
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

Our Washington correspondence has reported
the efforts being made in particular Congress
district of Ohio to secure nominee for Gov
ernor therefrom, on the assumption that their
district has never, or not for many years, had
a candidate for Governor! We call this, " run
"ning the thing into the ground" The intended
candidate may be a good one; if so, this rea-
son for nominating him is sander on him a'
well as an insult to the people who are ex'
pected TO vote for him. When, o when, shall
we be able utterly to disregard the shrieks OF
locality" and nominate our very best men, nc
matter whether they happen to live on tina
side of a county line or the Other9
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

those of justice and right, depend upon 1t
"that man is your enemy. If he Is your
"friend, let him act with you. By every prln-
"ciple of gratitude, by every desire of secur-
"ity it behooves you to act with the Repub-
"lican party" And these words were an
swered with cheers, and have been echoed at
every meeting OF cOlored men since held-at
Savannah, at Jacksonville, at Norfolk.
Reconstruction, in the opinion of Wade Hamp-
ton, should mean the restoration of his class to
power by the submission of negro voters to its
leadership. The negroes understand that it
makes them the keepers of their own rights, and
they intend to trust, not the class which op-
posed, but the party which established, justice
FOR thnr rare
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29
Ay "IyTERyATT0NAL REGATTlp

Four young gentlemen Of Boston, well known
in rowing circles, have issued an appeal fof
subscriptions to send an American crew to
the regatta on the Seine next July. We print
their circular in another column, and advise the
rowing men and the public generally to have
nothing TO do with the scheme. The regatta is
not International, in any proper sense Of that
word. An American crew will not find an
English or French crew, representing British or
Gallo natiOnalities to contend against. They
may find an Oxford or Cambridge crew,
with which Yale or Harvard boat might
properly compete. Any such crew will be in
perfect condition. AS the race is to be in July,
no American crew can be. The objection
is decisive, but if it were not, there
is another which must be- The art OF
rowing is one of which we in this country
are learning the rudiments. In England il
has arrived at something very near perfection.
A contest between an American and an English
crew will he a contest between tyr0s and ex-
perts. If this statement be unpaatabe to our
rowing friends here, we are sorry; but when
such q prepOster0us plan as this is started,
we feel bound to tell the plain truth. The ex-
perience of Hammill in England last Summer
should have been lesson to our Oarsmen.
Probably an eight-Oar would be beaten as
badly as Hammill-it could not well suf-
fer defeat more ignominious. If the
very jealous and excellent gentlemen whose
enthusiasm has led them to conceive this pro-
ject will take the advice of one who has seen
a good deal of rowing on both sides of the
Atlantic they will abandon an enterprise which
cannot possibly result creditably to them. IL
they want to advance the real interests
of very admirable art, let them
send Mr.. CrOwninshield or Mr. Bacon to take
look at the Putney and Henley races on the
Thames-at the University match above all
and let those gentlemen engage and send over
to America two or three professional watermen
and trainers. BY their help we might in few
years be able to enter an international regatta
with chance of winning. AT present we can
not and money raised for such purpose will
be worse than wasted and we hope none will
be given.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

Let every Republican voter in Connections
make up his mind that he has got three things
to do to elect Gov. Hawley, the State ticket,
and his candidate for Congress First. he
must vote next Monday-the whole ticket,
and nothing but the ticket, resolutely
refusing to Scratch good names at Demo-
cratic dictatOn. Second, he must do his best
to see that his Republican neighbOrs vote, and
that the full strength of his town or district il
poled. Third, he must make it his business, as
far as he can, to prevent the COpperheads from
polling illegal votes, and cheating lis of vic
tory which is certain with hard work and fair
play. These are important duties which can
not be left to Committees. Every man must
make himself a Committee. In the two
secular days thatremain for the can
vass each Republican can do much,
and if our friends in Connecticut will permit
us to quote the advice of James Buchanan,
we shall say adhere steadily to the COnsti-
tuition of your country" (amended to prohibit
Slavery "exert all your power and influ.
"ence in disseminating and enforcing its gen.
"eral principles, by means of the press public
"speeches, private conversations, and In every
"other honorable manner; and employ the
"same untiring energy in exposing and con-
"demning every departure from its Drecepts.
"Never despair for the time will surely come
"when these shall triumph and control the ad-
"ministration of the Government" Utilize
everything Even the 0. p. +. can be made to
help us in our campaign.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

Nothing of late date testifies in more prac-
teal way to progress as the fact that the
new police of New-Orleans are to be cOnsti-
tuted without distinction of color. The justice
Of this reform is perfect; the retribution it con-
tains is pOetical. Not many months ago a mob
of savage white policemen massacred the unof-
Tending blacks of New Orleans. The moral con
sequences Of this martyrdom have come to pass
in good time. If exMayor Monroe now dares
to misbchaye himself he is liable to be collared
be a black policeman. But at all events he
and others may get justice where they only
dealt out murder.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

The Mobile Daily Tribune, in its criticism OF
the plan of Reconstruction adopted by Congress-
somewhat digresses to pay personal comph-
ment-as follows:
Horace Greeley that philosopher who teaches by pre-
cept than by example and whom we regard as ora
of the most abominable villains belched 10 the SUR
face rotten age Horace Greeley says In effect that
the Military bill devised to bully the Southern people
into compliance with the demands OF the Rumpan party
to make us say the robbers GOD bless you for th5
watches YOU have stolen from US! take q few more We
will put you in the way OF getting Them"
Our Mobile namesake should not display
excessive amiability at the expense of strict
veracity Before all else be true! after that.
be as polite as you possibly can.
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

The Spanish authorities in Cuba are allow
ing the enlistment of volunteers for the army
of Macmillan. What would the Spanish Gov
ernment say if a Cuban insurrection, having
control of three or four towns of the island,
should be openly aided by Republican Gov
emment of MexicO2 The case may arrive
sooner than the Spanish Government imagncs,
and in such case Spain, by her present con
duct, has beforehand forfeited all right to
cnmnlain
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

Accustomed as we are to receiving contra
dictOry reports from Mexico, we have rarely
to present in one issue statements so widely
divergent as those which we publish this
morning An Imperialist dispatch from Vera
Cruz claims that the Imperial Government has
an army of 1900 in the City of Mexico, and
5000 in Puebla, and that the Republican Gen.
PorfiriO Diaz, at the head of only 5000 men, is
almost besieged at Huamantla. This we con-
slider palpable and gross untruth A dispatch
from San Luis de POtosi states, on the side of
the Republicans, that the defeat of Maximilian
is certain and the chances of his escape slight 4;
it even claims to know that Maximilian, or the
commander of the Imperial forces has offered
TO surrender the entire army. This, we are
afraid, is too good to be entirely correct, and
we await a confirmation or correction of this
report
New-York tribune., 1867-03-29

Mr.. James Mcpherson Clerk of the House Of
Representatives announces q Political Manual for
for 1867 for use in the coming campaign, North and
South 1t will contain the Presidents proclamations
orders and speeches, the Reconstruction laws votea
on impeachment Judicial opinions, State Conven'
tons. and other matters of immediate interest all
classified and indexed. The volume is in press and
will be issued in few weeks price 70 cents in paper
and Al in cloth. Orders should be sent to Mr. Nc
Pherson at Washington. The accuracy of the work
can be depended upon and it will be invaluable as
compendium of political measures and personalities