The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1860, Page 2

2 donds, nor cau it be expected ‘that busivess managed ig horantly, and consequently badiy, will be profitable any where The difioulty which has caused most of the Southern Very wel—we can do without them, Perhaps they do not bolieve it. Let us convince them. We can buy any articles that Pittsburg sends us elsewhere, or make it at home. Even coal, that universal article for which we factories to be uns rth ack than pay Pittsburg heavy sums, we can obtain nearer home, the mavagement of the works alt y are completed. avd get better article at that. Arkansas has millions 0 Tt arises trom undertakin itup Duilditigs and equiy bushels of good coal. He! for Arkansas, say wo. Let them with necessar, puto. us go to Arkansas for coal, and let us go to work at once roportion to the ani to increase the number and variety of articles which we Py aga make and can make athome. This is a kind of retort the company {s generally burdened when their bv are finished with « cash to ness wih. We probably should | u the Bouads oF truth if we asserted that four out of of the factor erected in Georgia or the South have undergone tus ex- perience, With this state of affairs existing, tae company cannot buy its raw material to advantage (2 begio with, and being pressed fo to be sold, no matte are comple and is almost a mencemoent an factory in G which will be felt in the rightquarter, and this is the kind We propose in answer to the Pittsburg election. AKBEST OF A NEGRO THIBP. os Aman giving his name as William Jordan, from Now York, was arrested in this city yesterday and committed to jail, charged with having stolen two likely negro men, the property of Mr. Solomon Newsom, residing ai or near Station No 12 Central Railroad (Davisboro, Washington county). It appears, from the information we have been uble to gather, that Jordan had recently arrived in Sa: vannah, by steamer from New York, and had made his ° ones - : don the negroes on . ry at Macon, which, by the t model, Py adat hong abhige vrai n extensivea stale for the eabunt. subscribed, | UGUaMAndNE that He wes oo anon eto thom and bid fair © run we same course of others which | 3 had stariod under similar circumsiances. Tue stock- | S€sin, run them off to one of the free States, and, divite holders, Lowever, seeing tho dauger likely to arise from | 7" SPORE Nell Hitman, | It Ta thes city, to a wagoner it, instead of gelling out their interest, thereby bring- | OF Unuace, at’ $1,600 cach.” The suspicises of the. pur- ing discredit on their enterprise, stepped forward and in. | Or BM having become aroused, oa bis arrival here be laid Grabarrasments Another factmay be stated abot iis | we cumstances before the Mayor, who Put the, police factory, to refute the generally entertained opinion that | Ubon the track of the sooundsel Sus te wee atyson the fanaa the managers here to conduct such estab- | Sand Bar Ferry road, having taken alarm at the dotay of When the Macon factory was drst started, it was under the pogerptrt meeting TA Nepean Oe ee eee the contro! of a man brought from New England at a | ms the affair BSS fe bis way to Savannah. —4ugusta high salary; but be soon couvincea the owners that he Ga.) C! wicle, Jan. 14. did pot understand our peopie, aud would not answer for | ( ‘hromicle, the place. A Georgian, born aad raised, was then ap- | Pointed as Lis successor, a position he still occupies with | credit to himself and satisfaction to the company. Tao | annual divideads are ten per cent, and we believe that every yard of goods that is made is sold ou the spot. This is not the only case of this kind in G Mr. Barring- ton King manages a factory at Roswell with marked suc- cess. Tho Augusta factories aro also profitable, we be. | lieve. Butit has not been our object to sbow what fac- | tories in the State pay ends, so inuch as to show that the reason why they don’t pay is entirely within our control. Every one is too apt to attribute a failure to any cause which docs not touch themseives, or bring the calculations they make iuto question. We are reagy to believe that labor is too high to manufacture successfull: and therefore adopt it as a conslusion, without giving the | matior at) nvinced by experience that we can | this branch of industry, it bo- ves independent of her’by, pur- | at both ends, emt at the com 4 We do not know a a has liad plenty of means to con- fuir dividends. Tho Wendell Phillips om the Lost Arts. ‘The hail of the Athenwum, in Brooklyn, was filied at am early hour Tuesday evening, to listen to the twelfth of the series of Mercantile Library lectures, delivered by Wea dell Phillips, Eaq. He commenced by remarking that he took his place in the course of Lyceum lectures with great satisfaction, be cause he felt the importance of this system of lectures. In | this land public opinion i@ stronger than the statute—with- out it the law being # dead record; and the press—the Herat» and the Tribune—more really the government than the Cabinet at Waghington. That man does not be- lieve his own opinions who does not listen to his opponent, ‘The Lyceum, unlike the pulpit, and more like the press, he welcomed as destined to take an important place im moulding the character and the policy of the nation. The subject of the “Lost Arts’ he took up rather as @ Buing it. COTTON MANUFACTURE IN CHICAGO, Fi cago Tribune, Jan. 13 st upon the fact that on was the atnount that last | the Cb twenty thousand b eh theradingmaytapsrir a corrective; for if there is any characteristic more promi- ane tat ee eee best | nent than auother in our age, it is self-concelt, He al- cotton mar getber with the fact t luded to the German, who always took off his hat with profound respect when he spoke of hitnself; and thus the | Niveteenth century and the American people were taking off their hats to themseives marvellously often. In regard to that range of arts having their root in the imag‘nation— hat an pmimnence in our own n ; bearer ore fab; Of tho cheaper | the fine arts, especially painting, sculpture, pootry—we Claas, aud save freight bot ways are content with only @ second rate position. AS an in- the distance between v one. temptation ance of this, he’ mentioned that the highest praise US and the seaboard. it will be : ti id be el rtist was real and practical not to win that practical solition | that could be conferred upon an artist he lakes. And as we are not to | He then gave illustrations of the antiquity pise the day of small | enterprise here that tends | per jokes, which were, some of Sa eee tetas | them, older than the New. Testament. Herodotus had Not long since | ence been consigered the Father of History. Ata Inter | period he had been considered as the Father of Lies. But | as our knowledge increased, and explained his state- nent, unlike many siocks now-a-days, he was goit | to par, and becoming again the Father of History. As steam power | ilustration of this, he spoke of the statement that Ar- Crepucation, aud has | Chimedes had burned the enemy's fleet with mirrors, ‘ouses forall he can | Wbichbad been considered as a lie until Buffon had tried 4 batting that we have | the experiment and set fire to oak plank. ‘Then it was Chicago Tribune, Jan, 13. | mitted to be true. He contended that we hal no right to is deny it until we had tried it. He spoke of glass having ES E: been found in the ruins of Pompeii. In China glass , Jannary 14.) tumblers had been found, which, when empty, appeared d man, thirty years we may welcome irection vi f utitity ced iu a small wa ton batting. His Litt and he has recent! On & more exten 3 growa oa patting manuf tura out. Some of lis manutactu: Seen is of remarkable excelieace MOVEMENTS OF FUGIT like a common tumbler, but when filled with a clear tluid, Teached thid | appeared to contain fishes. Malleable glass, according to He was owued by John Talbot, | independent records, had been asserted to have been y driving a dray— He spoke of differont kinds of glass being united, ging, but without | tly by melting one over the other, the edges perfectly distinct, The stained glass of three of age, quite city trom Noriolk, Vv in that city, aud 5 received there Liberty to go or ©: day he had an opportan. go NA ved | conturies ago was far superior to that of the sel trading to Norfol . The poli eut day. Egyptian glass had been mis searched the vessel, and heart quaked as bo lay | taxen for gems. Au interesting inquiry is whether anugly concealed; but he was not discovered. When the ancients bad the microscope and the telescope. It reached New Yc ved falling iato the | was gupposed that Jupiter's satellites liad never been seen clutches of the 3, sharks, sharp set for proy fee, to send back the t there found, like | until a few centuries ago, when a spectacle maker had in- nd, and ready for @ | vented the telescope. No, they had been seen by thou- ry. At Albany be | gands of ¢ lovg before that. He proceeded to quote actually fell into the hands o} se gentry—apo- | statements from history seeming to indicate conclusively liceman, who gaw bim at the station, Wh that the magnifying glass and the spy glass had been a night's lodging. The « faring his simple story, | Known to the ancients. There are works of the ancients, resolved if there Was any money to be made by a rendition | carved in figures so minute that a magnifring glass was man to his master, he would get it. Batia | requisite to distinguish them; and if so, @ magnifyiog glass ue lawyer, Who told him how | musthave been requisite to form them, And tne teati- noe to try the | mony is that they used “ artificial gems” in their work, uow on Lis Way | Another illustration of a lost art, is the immortal color of | the ancients, Modern artists have not yet succeeded in finding out how Raphacl and Titian obtained their colors. Ruskin bad showed to an audienco a scarlet margin, five ung fellow ved from Nik Wheeling, who recentiy came to this p erepioy ment in Grimsby, ©. W proved so handy at the forge fered $1 lay and board , aud clo » would w the man from He found , ina blacksmith shop, and | hundred yerrs old, and said we could not make so bright and grates a that he was | a color, or one to 1ust five years. A third illustration was This he | and no The very ent rung, now he metals, The ancients had some way of hardening brass harder than we could make iron, and could make ik as clastic asa Sheifeld blade. The art of temporingstee] bai | been known in India seyen hundred years xo farniliarly as to bave found its way into their novels, but had only Deen known here two centuries. We could not now get s0 good a sword blade in Shetlield as whuld be made of the proba es huW iu the Slaye Siates, Which | common irom on the banks of the (anges. uted as follows He quoted the contest between Richard and Sa bY ‘din, in which Richard cut the bar of iron, but | Saladin drew his scimetar across a downy cushion and | divided it, and then severed his scarf as it floated in the air. As to the mechanic arts, if the ancients knew only | the five mechanical powers—the pully, scrow, &c.—how | couia they have moved immense masses of stone, weigh- ing 5,000 tons, a distance of sixty miles? Herodotus states | that one of these immense masses had been brought for a temple 200 milez, when one of the workmen sighed, and the King said that an offering to God should come from willing minds, and that sigh had poisonod it; so District ot Columbia. .11,000 South Caroliaa, 10,000 ‘GE SALE OF NEGROK: On Tuesday last, says the Savannah &publican of the [4th inst, at Cuthbert, one,bundred and vight negroes e sold Je the b ‘of Messi < | that still lay there unused 400 years afterwards, the tes- Lockett raiirond contractors, one of wim istoseasod, | timony of @ heathen that a truly willing heart can alone ‘Tnere has probably uever been offered in Georgia so fiag | Make offerings to God. Ventilation, 8o young that it, had been said to bave lain in the cradle with Horace Mann, had been known to the ancients. The Egyptians had ven- { tiated the Pyramids; those barbarians had even venti- | Inted theirtombs, while we of this excessively enlightened nineteenth century had not yet learned to ventilate our dwelling houses. Arago says they had_ steamboats; that Out of the one nuadre lot of negroes at ove time hil ad twenty-Lve women. eight, only tea the remaining old, another thir thirty-two year prices paid” were enorn » cash, and the age ol the entire | ew 36: E ¢ broug! 500. eday | When Ulysses was carried home to Ithaca in a ship Previous, Atoaday General Tames’ W. Xometrong aati | which had neither oars nor sails, it must have been eighty-one negroes at Moutezuina. Tucy were an ordi. | Steamboat, | Rurope, invented canals en ae nary collection, just such as would be gathored on a plan- | Chine has baat 5 ae thee, Bo oth ie de War tation. There Were about twenty men, the remainder | Children, ve ha m 5,000 years | is one wypcoomt | Duilt as carly as Moses, 40 males long, 140 fect wide and Ke over $2,000 A gerochiseeg | about 40 feet deep; and it is stated in history that they and another a little younger $1,885, | PUtin Bluices, or gates, to pass from level to level—so eee see eerie, Wak atte; | that they had locks ag well ag canals. Then they had ’ ” | railways. ‘Thebes was an inland town, and yet it had a | trade with China; and there still exizta a road constructed | with square blocks of stone £0 placed as to form an » | artidcial level, and grooved for the wheels,as in the being women and chil Several of the men bri years brought $1 40: e terms were one added in the face of the notes. SACHUSETTS. ord Times of ti ere Wooduiaa, aud nt Parisian roads. Stephens says he has seen the with bis wife and child, recetved thing in Central America. Mr. Hobbs went to the hospital ety at the station bouse last night. | om and picked the Chubb & Bramah lock; His wife 33 as ute dark, | but Bramah and Chubb both concede that the principle and the ch s Toey come from | of that lockj was borrowed froman Egyptian lock 2,500 Massactiusetts, whe: | years old. ‘The Lancaster system of mutual instruction, vail Which made such a noise eighty years ago, was 1,200 SENDING NEGROES TO THE ky By waone- | years old’ upon the banks of the Ganges. Toetotalism, AL | quite new and not at all perfect yet, had been known im An exciting trial has just been concluded in Waynes. {| Hindostan for a hundred generations. Animal magnetism scout neyivania, In August last a dit. | and spiritual rappings were as old as the Delphic oracte. ite and color The water cure was Knownas long ago as the days of Au. gustus, for he was cured ofa neuralgia by a travelling ‘eek, who administered cold baths; and Pliny has left us scription of at least two of Preissnitz’s baths. He picture extant of a crowd of peop! looking up at some- thing having the appe nce of a fleet of balloons in the air. Mummies bad been found with their teeth exquisitely filled with gold. Akbab, a prince who reigned 309 years ago, tells us that some Jndiaa jugglers bung up over Delhi | at midnight a globe of fire, which made the streets as bright as the noonday sun—the Drummondllight, or per- haps the light that Mr. Paine is going to discover. In de- Vicacy of mannfacture the ancients exceeded us. Our | finest mustins are only eighty or ninety threads to the inch, and a mummy cloth is stil! extant with 610 threads of the 14th , a man by the inst., that, ac name of 4 county, while | to the inch, and Herodotus states thet it had been made crossing tl 5 Mountain into Adams county, was | with sixty strands in each thread and 360 threads to the seized by whose purpose, as declared by | inch. He could thus goon, much longer than the audi- thom, was to take bis life, believing that he was Logan, | ence would be willing to listen, showing that there is one of the captors of the late John E. Cook, of Harper's | nothing new under the sun. What distinguishes us in Zerry notoriety ing a number of letiers, receipts, | this age ig not, therefore, the amount we Know, but tho ere proved satisfactorily to . use we make of that knowledge. These arts had been @ person they had taken hint had by some means learned over the mauatain on that dey, loat, because they had been hidden in the bosoms of priests and kings, who wished not to bdonetit the people, that Logan de but to cheat them and overawe them. Qur arts could and as be (M; ription they had — potbe thus lost, because the printing press, the only great Feceived of the person of Logan, they were coatident when — iscovery of modern times, had made it impossible. It was. they took (Myers) that they had uold,as tbey said, — remarkable that printing had not been earlier known. Tn Of @ “scoundrel, whose body suould be cutin ten thousand — Nineveh bricks had deon found 4,000 years old, stamped | pieces!” Our / aut states that Mr. Myers was re- | with figares, making stereotype page, and bata step leased under promise that he would say nothin arrest that would reach the ears of Logan DASTARDLY Ov" A burly negro, named Win Cincinnati on the 14th inst., entering the house of John ‘Hagerty, near the « Front and Rose street, and brutally beat woman named O'Brien, one of the inmates, tered the house by a window that opened i room, and approaching the side parnon ang girl scream g about his from the art of printing; but it” took human nature thou- sands of years to make that step, aud when it was made civilization changed its charactor. Learning no longer skulked in the cloister or hid in the palace, but came out and joined hands with the people. Astrology and alche- my, in the servico of princes, had given place to my and chemistry for the benefit of the people. it] Fizhazh en. Sre nor iron, neither the cunning of the mechanic or the the girl's chemist, would save civilization; but it would be the di er bed, laid h c Vine thought from the New Testament of the brotherhood of man, that no man has a right to know anything which not make kaown to bis fellow ma rner of a young girl insensid’ THE PiTTSSUKG T The Brooklyn Police and Street Assaults. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. \« The New Orleans & read in an exchange Complaints are frequently made to the police, but with- coho i Vidsburg, ths | out effect, of the aseauits and abuses to which respectabiy Upon readin; a item yesterday, itoccurred to | @ressed ehildren cre almost daily subjected at the haads us that we had seon od many articles lying on the | Of juvenile rowdies in various parts of Brooklyn. Fre banguettes in fi an Now « quently the little sleighs, skater and caps of young boya | &fe Seized upon and rnn away with by these growing ean- eye ies Pittsbarg. Well, we ad that Putebu didates for Sing Sing. But one of the most recent oat- spreads herself in New Orleans very extensively. Pitts- | paee, commit Sats burg coal isin alinoet every grate, and we observe Pitts. | T8°* oi ae on Satarday morning last, in Jay street, burg plows, Pitsburg harrows, Pittsburg stoves, Pitts- | 0° Jad of tem years of age, eclipses all the acta of petty theft. Two young ruifians seized him on his way to school, burg engines, and Tushar Putsburg, stared usin the face wherever Back we came and | threw him down in the streat, ad completely covered im read:— The republicans have@lected their candidates Dy | ina heap of snew—cap, boots and ali--then decamped. large majoritics in Pittsburg.” It stuck vs that there | New, as frequentif as these outrages have been commit. was something incongruous between the Pi ted, a policeman bas never been found convenient or in factured articles and (he products of the In{ls about Piite burg and this news \t@m. Pittsburg, we thought, tias a very direct connection with New Orleans and siavery. ‘Will some republicans up in the black city—black by sox and iron, we mean—prove to 1s that Mittsbe no" gup- ported by slave labor, through the prolucts to Ww allnde, in just ag direct and positive a manner, thous p raps not to the same c ‘ew Orleans is. * * Jeans labelled » and Wwe Cont of the thing, to take a stroll about town, keeping an e Curios! a | any of the adjacent streets; bi | repair te the station house in Washington street, and there | they will find those “guardians” taking especial caro that no one Tens away with the stove. In fact a policeman is | rarely seen in either Jay, Pearl, Tillary, Adams or Was! ington street, except in the station house in the Inst nam: Street, Will those “gentlemen, who sit at home at erse,’ condercend to protect quiet and inoffensive chitdren from Jot the aggrioved paronta Lol iM cut loose from t vs send no moro _ the assaults of street prowling miscreants, or must the pa orders there for p’ TroWS, engines. putnps, | rents Ke in wait far the offenders and inflict upon the: ells, cuains, or co care not for us theysay. | summery chastieement? A BROOKLY SITE. NEW YORK H INTERESTING FROM MEXICO. Our Mexico City Correspondence. Mxxioo, Jan. 1, 1860, Jesuit Hopes of a Monarchy—Chance of a War with the United States—A New Organ to Advocate it—Miramon's Triumphs over Generals Valle and Rocha—Expeted At tack of Vera Cruz by the President—French Money Claims and ther Use~The McLane Treaty Tarig—Ommerciat Exactions at Zacatecas—An English Testimonial to Mad, Gourges—Brutality of Marques, do. A monarchy in Mexico is now tho visiom of the clergy, and the way to get it is by a war with the United States. ‘The war fever has suffered no abatement since the de- parture of the last mail. The journals speak of it every day as ‘ impending,” as ‘ unavoidable, as “ politic,” &c. In tho gossiping circles the war is regarded as a thing already accomplished. The ‘bad faith’ of the United States, in recognizing and treating with Juarez, has broken all obligations of the “ supreme government” to respoct the detailed stipulations of the last treaty; and the gross and degrading insult given to Mexico by the United States can only be atoned for by a humble apology or by blood. It is hero believed the United States are too stupid to apologise, and therefore a war must ensue. It is argued by many, and even in the official paper, that a war with the United States would bring the ald of the Catholic countries of Europe to Mexico, and that as the United ‘States are losing their own central attracting power, aud therefore their influence abroad, a Roman Catholic mon- archy in Mexico is not only a thing of casy accomplish- ment, but that it bas become a great necesity for the benetit of conservatism in America, and it is the duty of all good Catholics to throw their influence in favor of this scheme. An official declaration cannot be given until the return of Miramon, but all the are every day saying it must be done. Now, is this all 38 talk? lexico herself is contemptivly weak; bi Kk as she is, she is quite as strong for foreign war as the United ‘Slates will be after one or two more Harper's Ferry rows. In taking her present position she unquestionably has the active support of the Jesuits throughout America. In case of war she will have tho secret if not the open and armed support of France—of Spain certainly. The French Minister, Mons. de Gabriac, declares France will openly aid the monarchist party in Mexico; and although this as- sertion of his is contradicted by the avowed neutrality of the French government, still we have seen all the professions of France’ latterly turn out quite as false as those of the representative that nation in Mexico, The clergy say that thi assurances from France; and either they are dei we bave been lied to by France ia her avowals of ueutral- ity on the Mexican question. It is excessively difficult to fee Wurough this quecr busmess, but I must say things ap- pear as if Gabrisc and the clergy were going to come out right, at least in their present assertions. A new French- Spanish paper is announced, and the first number is to binke its appearance to-morrow. The leading editor is a Freneb ju pility, the Marquez de Sard," This paper ly to the Gabriac | policy —war and the supremacy of the Romish y It may be that this Marquez de Sard is a charlatan, that Gabriac is a lying kuave and the clergy are ail fools, but it looks as if they were not such, aud that we are only verdant. Everything favors the war feeling in Mexico. Miramon bas again triumphed over very superior forces, posted in the strongest natural positions in the whole country, With some four thousand men he bas beaten Valle and Rocha, two of the best oflicers of the constitutionalists, with over thousand men, located jn positions of their own selec- in tuose deep’ barrancas between Guadalajara and Persone who have been in those barrancas and tio Colima. examined their commanding eminences inform me that five bundred men well” managed should have been able to have turned all of Miramon’s force. But ten times five hundred bave mot done it, aithough beaded by Valle and Rocha, the former the most popular native oflicer in the whole ‘liberal army. Miramon bas cut bis way through the barrancas of Aten- queque and Beltran, and arrived on the 22d ult. in Colima. ‘The details of this defeat of the constitutionalists so far only reach us through the reports of the victors, With ail due allowance for party exaggeration we still find the constitutiopalists were beaten most thoroughly, It is roortifying to be forced to witness such entire want of talent as exists among the military men of the liberal who are 80 vain and so conceited. It is a pity that wise such as the liberals of Mexico have has not better nders, for if it be left to them it must perish and fail into utter contempt before long. Miramon is expected back here before tbe 10th instant, and ail the arrangements are made for his immediate de- scent upon Vera Cruz, A portion of the military train has already been despatched to Jalapa and Robles, N grete and others are organizing forces for the campaign. ‘The French Minister has all his pretiminary arrangements made to commence barassing Vera Croz about the French reclamations eo £00n as the French fleet arrives, which, it i8 supposed, will take place very soon, if, indeed, the vessels are not already at Sacrificios. The Vera Cruz go- vernment have paid off in full all of the French Conven- tion tosilence the opposition of Gabriac; but that bas failed. Gabriac has got together between one and two millions of French claimz, and it is said be will try to adopt the Jecker $15,000,000 Ioan to tho clergy, and endeavor to force the whole batch upon the constitutionalists, The echeme is one worthy of Gabriac’s diplomacy—a pice of jow party trickery—and if it succeeds will be ine greatest piece of villainy ever practised upon Mexico. The object of all this ig to reduce Vera Cruz to the rule of the clergy. ‘The question is can we allow this prece of injustice to be car- ried out to the ruin of a gevernment which we haye given 4 political existence by our recognition’? With decency we capnot, but will we, nevertheless? That is the question, Amongst the negotiations of Mr. McLane at Vera Cruz, one of his efforts deserves special mention, and that is in favor of a low taril. High tariffs have cursed and de- moralized the public service in Mexico quite as much ag the army or clergy. They have given rise to the contra- band trade, and that system of venality which, starting in the revenue service, bas cugrafted itself upon every other branch of public administration, Mr. Mathew, i learn, co-operates fully with Mr. McLane in this business, and it is to be hoped, if anything is accomplished for the cause of liberal institutions in Mexico, a low tariff will be one of the things first secared to us. Tn Zacatecas Woll and Velez have subjected the foreign commerce to the most atrocious exactions. Woll was the first to lay the place under contribution, in the name of “Jaw and order.”’ He forced the foreign merchants to eccount for allthe duties they had paid to the constitu- tional government in the previous thirteen months. He then put on extra taxes, and left the place to take care of itself. Velez next went there, and following in the foot- steps of Woll, bas filched tbe last penny out of the foreign merchants, and he, too, left the place to take care of it- self on the 20th uit. A gentleman just down from Zaca- tecas says there is now not one single adherent of the clergy in that State, and that it is only held in subjection by brute force, and there is where the clergy are so much superior to the libera's. They have the brute force, and thefalent to dircet it. The will of the nation ts unqnes- tionably with the liberals, but they want one great man to direct them, and that, unfortunately, they have not got. The whole northern country is anti-clergy. When Woil entered Zacaveeas several of the banished friars re- turned with him, but they were hooted out of the city by the little boys. Mr. Mathew, in the name of bis goverument, has pre- rented a very handsome gold wateh and chain to Mad. jourges, for the services she rendered at Tacabaya to the vitims of that horrible massacre, and for coming forward so nobly and giving her testimony to the American Con. sul, setting forth the facts of that barbarous transaction. The present {s a very neat one; and certainly never was 4a Mark of esteem ixed upon any one who merited it more than this kindbearted and noble old lady. Her daring and disinterestedness would adorn any jady, and enuoble most men. A few days after this present was made Madame Gourges had occasion to xo tothe palace on business. She met Marquez in his room, apd no sooner did the wretch see her than he hit her several violent blows in the face, disiiguring hor very much. And what do you think’ Men, or rather animais in men’s dress, stood by and did nothing. What is more: the French Minister gays sho deserved it, for having taken the present from Mr. Mathew. Can you believe this’ Whether you can or not, ’tis true. On Chrismas ‘day Gen. Minon moved out from Pacbla to attack Carvajal at Tiascala. On the following a battle took place, in which Minon was completely beaten, with the loss of sixty killed and many prigoners, all the officers of whom were put to death ina manner that is ioo beastly for description, and which reflects great Giscredit upon Juarez tor giving a commission to a roving, cutthroat, and robber like Carvajal. Amonget the vic- tims of this defeat of the clergy was Dosa, of Arquelles, the man who executed the poor dcctors at Tacubaya, in April last, He was shot, hang afterwards, and his body figured in the most barbarous manner. Such barbari- 's dO great injury to a good cause, although the victim in this case Was a monster that disgraced the world. Mr. Wagner, the Prussian Muister to Mexico, has not arrived here yet. He was at last dates waiting at Jalapa for & chance to slip through without being robbed. His expectations are doomed to disappointment, such as met the Irishwan who sat down on the side of Niagara river to wait for all the water to run by, As the fountains of that river, tbe springs from which flow our brigand hordes are now so numerous and so prolific that the nata- ral outlet will never exhaust them. They must be cut in another place. From all accounts Mr. Wagner is not a wonderful man in any way exc eating. What is against him is, his reported friendship for Gabriac. If this be the case, alas tor the poor Dutchman in Mexico. A party of cooks, barbers, tailors, &c., were seized the other mgbt for conspiring. The oilicial paper the foliow- ing day noticed that a deep conspiracy had been discover- ed, in which a North American was taking the lead. It turns out the party ‘‘all got drunk togetner,” and the North American, just like the rogue, who is a blacksmith, proposed to free’ Mexico from the clergy. This was re- Ported by the waiter to the police—and presto, the whole party were carried off to prison, where most of them re- main incomuntcado, Besides this conspiracy we have not bad another one for days. Marquez is still in limbo, and many of the clergy say they think he will have to Nang. Miramon is too much for the clergy, and ergo, they throw away poor Marquez and stick to Miramoa. army, a Mrx100, Jan, 5, 1860. Diplomacy and Partisanship of the French Minister—The Devis of the Liberals—Scraping up claims agains: Jua- re—Preparing fora Miramon Ovation—Troops of Val- laiva Killing the Priests—Shocking Relaliations on the Lay Supporters of the Church—Conflicting Reports from the Intertor—Foreign Intervention Required, 0. How can France be neutral in the affairs of Mexico if abe continue to sustain her Minister to Mexico in all his partisan acta? France bas said that she is neutral; but she sustains her Minister, and her Minister is the most vio- jent and unprincipied partisan the clergy‘centrahst party have. In times past I have given you many proofs of this, Thave now eccasion to expose another disreputable act of the French Minister aad his political speculating associ- ates, Munoz, Ledo & Co. It 's already known to you that the oonyen- tion (diplomatic) made by Moxico some years ago for the payment of French claimants against this country has already been paid off in full by the Juarez govern- ment at Vera Cruz, notwithstanding their beggared trea- eury, The Juarez government have paid the money like honest men, not making any excuses such as the clergy do, to rob foreigners, and give cause for new reclama- tons, The strict compliance of the Juarez government with the stipulation of the French convention disappoint. ed the Freceh Minister, who is determined to have a row with the people of Vera Cruzat allhagards. The old Oya vention being paid, he has now just completed an addition to it, of something over $460,000, and this he proposes to recover of the Vera Crug government just as he has the balance due on the old conyention, which was reduced to $250,000 at the close of the Comoniort rule. The now addition is one of those daring fraads that throws into greater disgrace the mercenary dipiomacy of the French government in America, which, while it stead fastiy favors absolute ideas, never for one ‘moment loses aight of tho almighty dollar. The new addition is to be collected of the Eben of Vera Cruz, according to the stipulations of the old convention, It is renere: hee the clergy that Juarez will not agree to the swindle and offer resistance, and if so that the French flect will take ex trome measures, and these at the very moment when Mira- mon will be attacking Vera Cruz from this side by land. This hope has caused the clergy to agree to the conven: tion, and it 1s said that some of their ministers of govern- ment bave interests in the swindle. Now, if France be TOE ARAL TS Hemeeah Soee, BOW, OO ‘she continue to Bu] M. de Deides the addition to the French Convention I have already spoken of, Gabriac bas collectod togethor some $2,000, ot French reciamations. If the ‘ addition’ , dodge tails to bring Vera Cruz into the hands of the clergy, these reclamations are to be pressed at once against t! Vera Cruz people. Gabriac says Vera Cruz must be con- sidered the treasury ef whe nation. If he bo su A the French government will give avery bad of their nevtrality. ‘The loyal authorities of this capital are preparing a tri- ‘umphal entry for their hero President, Miramon, now ex- pected to arrive bere to-morrow, The affair will bo the grandest one of the Season. It is to cover one whole day, and they say Miramon will move at once upon Vera Cruz; 80 that it is more than probable my next letier to you wile tind its way out of the country by Tampico, as within the next ten days Vera Cruz must be cut off from here, unless Juarez and Miramnon come togethor, which may happen, though I think the tendency of the times is to carry the war on uot ouly to the extermination of the coustitutional- ists, but to the waging of a devastating war upon the United States. Villaiva bas recently committed some acts rather shock- ing to the nerves of the clergy. Six days ago he entered ‘4 small town in the district of Cuantla, and after laying contributious on the populace, sacking the churches and smashing the various saints that adorned them, he quietiy allowed his soldiers to kiil two of the priests. The priests are horrified at this symptom of the times, and are Hocking in here from the surroundipg towns. With ali their tricks, the priests are discovering that public opinion is likety to tambie over and crush them. When Woll took ‘Zacatecas, the Guadalupe friars entered the town with his victorious army, but were actually hooted out by the boys of the place, and obliged to fly after one day's stay. ‘The natural limits of the clergy are every day decreasipg, and with a few more Carava- jals and Villaivas the clergy wili soon be reduced to the ‘walls of Mexico, The only misfortune in all this is that these roving clergy slayers are men too demoralized to set up anything better in the places made vacant by the destruction of churches. Reports from the interior conflict as to the svecesses of Miramon in the first place, and as to the movements of Arremberi in the second. Although defeated, it would appear that Valle and Rocha were not completely broken up, as at first reported, and it is said they will Be able to move on Guadalajara ag soon as the clergy forces are drawn off for the Vera Cruz campaign. A few days ago Arremberi was reported near Zacatecas, and ‘likely to take the place. Since then he has been reported driven back; but I think that, all the same, we may be certain Zacatecas will be in the hands of the constitutionalists in this month, and that by the time Mira mon is fairly before Vera Cruz the whole interior will again be swarming with the red blouses from the frontier and Northern States. A person who has just arrived from the North informs ‘me that is certain to be the case, and he says, ‘this time they will be stronger than ever.” This certainly is the very funniest country under the sun, when compared with all others. Civil war bas become the normal condition in which this country exists, and from which it will never be free uptil that blessed day when the country shall be un- der a different rule than that of the mongrel Moxican. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Mxxrco, Jan. 1, 1860. Sketch of the Actual Condition of the Country—Absolute Ne- cessity for Foreign Intervention—Catholic Intrigues for the Establishment of a Monarchy—Expected Attack of Mi- ramon on Vera Cruz—French Influence and Financial Pressure on Juarez, &c. AS a person having some pecuniary interest in Mexico— amassed here after a long residence—I cannot resist the temptation of giving you some facts and speculative ideas regarding this country. You will excuse me if I omit to burthen you with a long detail of documentary proof in substantiation of the following propositions, known well enough by those who have studied this country for any length of time:— 1. The people of Mexico cannot govern themselves, and require assistance. 2. The United States do not wish to annex Mexico. They have discovered that extension, especially under their system, is not strength, but, on the contrary, that it weakens cobesion, from its centrifugal force 8. England has repeatedly disclaimed all desire to in- terfore, but at the same time has expressed an earnest desire to eee Mexico subject to some settled government, not only for the interests of her own subjects—waich are great—but also for the great good that would arise for commercial interests throughout the world, and for the sake of humanity and civilization, 4. Laying England and the United States to one side, no other nation can interfere in the affairs of Mexico without imeuring, at no very remote day, terrible strifes between the people whose government may intervene in Mexico and the Anglo Saxon race, who have beaten down all op- position, and incorporated all other white races within their own in the rest of the North American continent. I regret to believe that the intrigues of M. de Gabrisc, if permitted to go on, may insure this ultimate strife. Now we seo by their actions that the United States dread amal. gamation with the Mexicans, and, [ must say, not without reason, and do not wish to Annex the country. England does not wish to interfere here, and France or Spain cannot without insuring future trouble and immediate danger to liberal institutions on the American continent. ‘The country as it is now, and as it is certain to remain under the direction of its own governments, is good for for nothing for either Americans, English, other foreigners, or even the natives themselves. Itis relapsing into bar- barism and fast approaching a period when it will cease to be a safe abode for civilized man. I perceive but one practical solution, but one remei foreign mtervention, singly, if the United States wish it, or combined with Eogiand if desirable, and with France adaed if politic. Euther of these powers, singly, is able to furnish the means of establishing a stable government in Mexico; but only the United States is capable of doing it without exciting jealousies, and, excepting England, no other power can intervene in Mexico without inguring a future collision of races, more bloody if not more disas- trons than the present civil war. . The echeme of an intervention !3 not only feasible bat exceedingly easy of execution, and, planned by men ofin- | telligence. would relieve the United States from all risk of harm by the collision of its institutions with the rotten po- litical parties which bave dragged Mexico to her present degraded state. Au armed intervention in Mexico, eupporting a liberal form of government emanating from a restricted suftrage— that is, such as precludes the felon and the inferior races from becoming citizens of the United States—iustituted for ten or fifteen years, would bring this country toa position in which she could be of more advantage w the United States than asa State or conquered colony of any other country. In less than five years after the establishment of a liberal government the great influence of the country would be in the hands of farmers, merchants, mechanics, miners, and other industrial classes there, mostly Ameri: cans or other foreigners, and not in the possession of the worthless and unprincipled of the land, asat present. That this country would flourish with an armed intervention ‘no one can doubt who knows the least of Mexico, and for one J am satified that without it we will go on perishing as we have since theearly years of this country. Recollect what J tell you:— It is useless to think of Mexico establishing peace by herself. Take the country alone by yourselves, if you will, or jointly with England, or England and France if you preter, but take us for the sake of civilization, from our present anarchy AN ENGLISH RES{DENT. Facts About Navy Lieutenants. O THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The truth of the article which appeared in your issue of to-day, signed U.S. N., in so far as relates to the pay of navy ofllcers being entirely insuflicient to meet necessary expenses, is and has been admitted by the public for some time past. Hence no reply would be made by us, if the writer had not Jeft the subject per se, and instituted un- called for comparisons between surgeons, chief engineers and pursers, by inference that the three former grades are much better paid pro rata than lieutenants. True, Surgeons, pursers and chief engineers receive more pay after a certain number of years’ service'than lieutenants; but it must be remembered that they have then reached their ultimate positions, and that thereafter no age or length of service can in any way increase their rank or emoluments. Whereas in csse of Lieutenants the door ig open ior prowotion up to the command of a squadron, with a large, comfortable cabin and all the Perquisites. Again, the writer, in stating the of years which heutenants have been in the service, does not inform the public that he counts such service from the date of entering the naval schoo! as boys, and that seve- ral yeare of that time they are being educated, and at the government expense—a privilege and perquisite not ac- corded to any other class of villcers. If the nayal schoo! was open to and provided for the education of boys for all grades of officers of the navy, then there world be justice in instituting comparisons as regards the length of Ume in the service between the staf! and line officers. Under existing circumstances, the staf officers are edu. cation professionally and otherwise before entering the navy, and without expense to government, and the ser- ‘viees of many of them demands more pay outside than in the service at ail times and ia If the promotion of line officers has been stayed by the action of their own numbers, by Loge, 3 » Ke. ly engineers ‘and experience it no faclt of the staff, and no reason wi scientific attainments and long should be kept back in rank or pay. We have never of any position given to the line, and never Moreover we cnow of no occasion in which the staff officers havo failed to co-operate for the mutual good of all and for the interests of the navy. ‘the same spirit kad always been manifested by all line }, the pay of lieutenants would baye been increased tures years ago. STAFY, MATTERS IN EUROPE. Our Lendon Correspondence. Lonpon, Dec. 30, 1859. Disasters to Steamships in the Past Year—Literary Progress anda Literary Reunion—Sam Lover Sings a Song— Shakspere in America—An Explanation of Albert Smith's Ilness—Magazine Profits and Editors’ Chances, &c ‘The Board of Trade inquiry on the loss of the British mail steamer Paramatta has just closed, and resulted ia the taking away of Captain Baynton's certificate for twelve months, It has been @ disastrous year in steamship navigation, and very remarkable; some three or four of the finest steamers in the British mail service have been wrecked in consequence of misconduct or incompetency of the commanders, and one or two of these laid their ribs and keels on the iron bound coasts of North America. Literary affaira at the cloge of the year are very activo, On the 23d inst. I was a guest of the vice-chairman, Alfrod B. Richards, Ksq., at the Rounion Literary Club, on the occasion of the annual supper. James Lowe, editor of the Critic, was in the chair. There wore pre- sent at least one hundred members of the Club, together with about baif a dozen guosts, the chairman and v.ce- chairman and two other offloers of the Ciub being alons privileged to invite one or two of their friends. Samuel Lover, Esq. (Rory O'Moore), was one of the convines, aad stated afterwards that it was the second most de- lightful evening he had ever passed. I can only ro- member some of the names. Robert, otherwise Bob Brough, Frank Tsifourd, Godfrey Turner, Alfred Mellon, Byron the dramatist, Toulins the art-critic, reviewer, journalist and historian (the spoilt favorite of the Club), George Augustus Sala, Blanchard, Colonel Addison, Hol- Ungsbead, Ernest Hart, Durham the sculptor, Morgan Jobn O'Covaell, Pliny Miles of New York, and many others were present. The music was delightful, aud cm- braced the servioes of G. Perrin, one of the finest tenors of the day, Herr Lutzer, Lazarus, Grattan Cooke, &c., &c. Lover sang two of bis newest ballads. One on the Eng- lishman’s double barrel (beer and rifle) was exooedingly neat, and the singer gave it with good yoice and perfect taste. Mr. Lover is now seventy years of age. The Chairman proposed “the Clab,” in a clever and hu- morous speech, and the Vice Chairman “Literature.” In this speech Mr. Richards dwelt forcibly on the effect of Shakspere’s name upon the great American people. He alluded toa burlesque lately produced upon the Britisl slage, wherein the effigy of the bard was made to rise up rap door, asa reproach to those who took such any table rapping, the spirit of Shakspere would be evoked were hostilities about to commence between Eug land and the United States, and forbid the fratricidal strife. Americans never would or could forget that they were common partakers of that glorious heirsaip of ini mortal fame. I was glad to note the applause tuat fol lowed this sentiment ‘The toast of the “* Army and Navy’? was coupled with the Volunteers, of whota many were present. *< The Fine Arts,”’ *‘ the Drama,”’ &e., followed. “« The Medica! Profession and the Sciences’’ was admi- rably responded to by Mr. Ernest Hart, one of the most promising pathologists of the day. Then the club presented, by the hands of the Chair- man, Mr. Lowe, testimonials to Siessrs. Levey and Bates, the honorary secretary and treasurer, in recognition of their vaicable services. I did not wait until the end, but 1 was told that the meeting did not entirely break up until six the next morning. It is only once a year, and literary men are accustomed to late hours. I was sorry to miss, amongst other good things, two or three songs from R. Brough, who is the prince of fellows, with a heart big cnough to supply the whole of any ordinary club, and as comic, when in the vein, as he is genial and full of genius. his club consists of between 200 and 300 members, comprising much of the working wit and talent of Lon- don. It consists of authors, journalists, dramatists, art- ists, actors and singers, and includes in the number many members of the learned professions. There are several editors of uewspapers in the club. The club room, which is at the Bedford Hotel, Maiden lane, is open every night, but the club only meets formally three times a week. Altogether, it is the most go-ahead literary and artistic club in this country. It does more in the world than ity old athenwums, and such like fossil repositories of used- up intellects. it is not wealthy, but rich insoul. It is not proud, but exclusive, inasmuch’ as uo haughty-airs and snobbish graces are allowed. Thackeray is not amember, nor Mr. Dickens, nor Albert Smith, nor was the late Lord Macaulay. The first two are, I am told, not particularly “wanted ; the third, a capital fellow, is, or was until his gad illness, too busy, and the fourth attained fame and celebrity, be- fore the Reunion Club was started. & Apropos of Albert Smith,some wicked wight has spread a report that his illnes was feigned, to see what the world would say, and to geta holiday. I could pardon it, were it true, and go would the public. We all remember the story in the Arabian Nights, wherein the Suitan’s fa- yorite and his wife, the Sultana’s favorite, feign death alternately to obtain fresh gifts fromtheir patron and roness respectively. In this way, Albert might ave got tired of bis daily meed of fame, and have wish- oa Start a new stock by a coup de théaire. No such luck, fear. 1 do not think that the Cornhill Magazine will succeed, in spite of the enormous putting which has ushered tho first number into the world: It is said that £600 has been given to Sala for twelve articles! Without questioning anything which pays authors so well, I want to know how the dulness of ‘Trol- lope,” the worst thing ever written by the otherwise inimitable Father Prout, Thackeray-and water of the Jate streagth or weakness, and lucubrations of old Crimean fogeys upon “Defences” will ever pay at this "price? It won't pay. Fifty Macaulays could not haye done it, with fifty peerages to boot. Flunkeyism cannot do it, even in the colossal frame of Titmarsh. Smith and Elder can’t do it. You could hardly do it in America. Barnum couldn't do it. Blondin could not do it. Ni gave the New York Hgnatp could do it, and you would seo the Corn- hill Magazine at Cairo first . I predict a year’s life to this magazine, and then the bantling will die of neglect and being overlain, like one of the twins of Solomon's Judgment, by a too heavy pa- rent. A twopenny number of Bob Broagh’s serials, the “Welcome Guest,” is infinitely better reading. ‘Mr. Thackeray's “Scholars,” and “Ladies and Gentlemen,” are too select and limited to pay the requisite number of shillings. Besides, are they not as stupid as the stuf thus catered for them by the great lecturer, who so need- leesly reserved the copyright of his lectures in America, according to your dictum. Our Paris Correspondence. F Paris, Dec. 29, 1859. New Year's Feasts and New Year's Gifts—Hopes of the La- ates, the Juveniles and the Servants—Scenesin the City and Raypy Faces—Splendor of the Stores—Presentations at Court—Description of Some-of the Ladies’ Dresses—The Booths Jor the Sale of Wares—Aristecratic Equipages— Peculiarities of the French Character—Prince Jerome's Health— Gift from a Jew, de. The great, great day of the year—the Jour de U'An—is fast bearing dowr upon us, and in another forty-eight hours we shall be suffering all the impoverishment of pre- senting each of our friends, acquaintances, domestics and trading outsiders with those inflictions called étrennes—the pleasing punishment common to this auspicious day. Well, I suppoge it is good to seem to possess a virtue, though we have it not; and to smile and smile again while we perform these self-imposed sacrifices on the altar of friendship and good will, even though in our se- cret heart we wince at the inroads on our privy purse. But, truth to say, the whole thing is universally admitted to be aterrible bore, and in many instances a formida- ble tax. In theory it is a sort of saturnalia for the gentler sex, for every gentleman of her acquaintance ts expected to present the lady en this occasion some souvenir of his reepect. Bnt in reality the ladies do not derive the adyan. tage they seem to from the custom, for they in their turn must play the amiable to the junior members of the va- rious families of their friends aud acquaintances, uot to mention their humble dependents. So the whole system works in & vicious circle ; like the Kilkenny cats, cach is eating the other's tail. Everybody is made poorer, and none richer, except the happy shopkeeper, who receives the money in lieu of bis wares. Of course all sorts of centretemps occasionally take place in this exchange of presents, and it has occasionally happened that a party, after his ¢renne has passed throngh the banda of a score of sympathizing friends, hag received his original purchase back again in the form of a New Year's gift, selected expressly to suit his taste. It is a period when every species of servant ison his very best behaviour, for he knows the air is full of pre- cious gifts, and so prescriptive is his claim that, without avery fit and substantial cause, it is quite impossible to deprive bim of it. Bold would be the employer who, on any trivial ground, should abstain from presenting this annual tribute; for if he escaped payment in moal he would—io use an old English adage—scarcely do so in mtli—the employé managing to destroy property con- Sicerably more valuable than the price of his étrenne. All bankers, merchants and shopkeepers make on this occasion a substantial present to every officia! in their em- Ploy, from the highest to the lowest. The lowest trades men, the meanost vender of goods, the highest dignitary of the church or the law, the humbiest Houtenant and the most puistant marechal, the peddler with his pack, and the Prince in bis palace, up to the Prince of Princes—the monarch of all France—all observe the custom of ™making presents to all beneath them; and it may be imagived, therefore, how great is the invention, inge- nuity and artistic variety demanded at the bands of tho fabricant to supply 90 many necessities. Of course, in many instances, the étrenne assumes the more useful shape of the circulating medium—a shape which, if all parties could speak out, probably is most generally pre- ferred. Having thos alluded to this ancien! custom, I miay take the opportunity of stating that the cheerfal and brilllant aspect it serves to impart to the oapital is imposing fn the extreme. Happy the stranger who for tho first time visits Paris at this season, The whole city seems to sing with the voice of melody, every one im it appearing to live but for the day thereof. For threo or four days before the old year passes into the abyss of its many predecessors, an@ gives place to tho new fledgling, born of so many hopes, those great thoroughfares, the Boulevards—more eape- cially im the evening—assumo a holiday dress. At aff times, even in their deshabille, they are beautiful; but when adorned in ali that rich” apparel with which they leve to array themselves in honor of the approaching new year, they may, indeed, be said to be perfectly revissante. From the place St. Antoine to the portico of the Made- leine, a distance of some three or four miles, the visiter walks through a rogion of spleador and of wealth im every variety such as beggars description. Imagine a magnificent trotoir on which two carriages abreast might safely drive, a pathway of asphaltum as level aga billiard table, for the feet, aad the whole winding route thick with intermivable shops, whose lofty fronts of plate glass, litup by innumerable gas reflectors, dis- lay riches of toxture,of .ert, of gsinerals of motais Such as Eastern or tale never The creme de la crime is hoarded up for this season. Uphol. sterers, furriers, sculptors, workers in ebeonesterie, jewel- lers, silversmiths, and venders of porcel meats with their golden digo fs gouop and arrayed ital got up and array f , and the oye quite ‘acties, an {rom chop to shop tt passes on, to one woadertuh exhibition after another. Ferbaps one of the most attractive of these noble magazins, all glistening under the strong gas burners, is the Compagnie Lyonnaise, on the Boulevard des Capucines, which delights to array itself in magnificent manteauz de Court, as appropriate merchan- “the Empress bas given notice that on the day follow. ven on . ing the Jour de U.An she is ready to receive at the Palace of the Tuileries alt ladies who have Lie idee J pre- sented, provided they are adorned with proper court appendage. The Compagnie Lyonnaise, therefore, which exbibitea at the great Industrial Exhibition in 1856 some splendid specimens of this courtly wear, comes eut om the present occasion with some rich samples, which al- with his works, The speaker said that without | most dazzle the eye to behold. ‘There is ove | observed of crimson velvet, all interwo- ven with goid brocade, and fringed with a golden thread five inches in depth. Itcan scarcely measure thaa four metres ana a half in length, and must require a small corps d’armée to support tt. Iremarked another similar, but the gold embroidery was ou a white sik brocade. There were mauy becide of rich flowered silk, aud aM so daintily arranged that as they fell from their pevestals—the apex of which ‘was cunningly made to represent the short waists which are now the prescribed mode—ove might almost fancy the peacock dames of the imperial balls were bodily before You, torsing ier colted heads and flashing their bright eyes ip ul f , cballeng ag the world to depr' ‘herefore relieved ie buts called bar- privileges to come forth and plant themselves for iaposition with the most aristocratic merce ‘They wre neat erections of unpaint- a frontage varying from six to twenty feet. y are coveted in from’ the weather by a boarded roof, the eaves of which project, and at night many of these pigmy marchands wake themselves a shako down usderbeath the goods, and boidiy trust themselves te the guardianship of the police. Fortunately they bave not to confront the intense cold to which Paris has lately been subjected. The weather is so mild that to-day I met many of the persons promenadivg carrying weir hats in weir bands. The streets, too, have at length given way to the unwearied attacks of the army of scavengers, and, on the whole, I uever remember to have seen the feason of the barreques under more genial ‘circumstances, The wares they offer differ little from year to year in va- riety, and one is almost surprised to see the rapidity with which they efféct sales. But the prices are modest ant the stores abundant. Toys there are of every conestv- able shape and form and variety. Lilliputian machinery for carpentery, railways, uphoistery, &c.; in- struments of incredible cheapness; gingerbread by the ton; oranges by the million; glass and porcelain ornaments, stationery, counterfeit jewelry, coate, hats, brustiee, balloons, ke.,&c.,&c. ‘The din these petty ‘marchands keep up, a8 they discourse on the beauty and especially the cheapness ct their wares, is like that of Babel, and. how tbey find lungs to support the continual strain is a mystery. uy As yet the crowd of holiday folk has not got leave of absence, and the class of persons which throng the Boule- vards is of a different stamp, as may be seen from tha splendid equi, which, void of their owners, form a double row the western side of the trwvir. The children are home for the Christmas holidays, and every- where are seen buzzing, Like flies in summer round ® honey pot, over the various attractions of the ‘The parents may, on the contrary, be seen making their way into those aristocratic temples—for they can be termed nothing less—sacred to the manufacture of chocolate, aud pressing through the crowd of innumerable votaries whe throng the way, to effect their various purchases for the Jour det’ An, which will come forth as petites surprises. [t is no easy office to accomplish, for the shops are fali to the doorway, and, in spite of the most energetic good will on the ‘part of the pretty shopwomen, many are obliged to postpone their purchases till another day. The Satriqué de chocolat is a spectalité, and though, in the splea- dor of its vares. corbeilics and beautiful boxes it rivals, and, toacertain degree, much resembles, the magnificent store- houses for on-bons, it must not be confounded with them. ‘This is the season of harvest for both of these specialities, and a rich one they make of it; all France, from the septuagenarian to the suckling, being ready to apend its last franc for a sweetmeat. Tt is at times like these when all the better qualities of the French character take a promment position. In mat- ters of business that character cannot bear comparison with the Anglo-Saxon. It is deficient in that love of truth, that straightforwerdness and frankness which it is to be forever remain the characteristics of our origin. But the Frencn in ail the prettinesses of life, if I may so call them, are recond to none. Their amiability to chil- dren amounts to the most charming and pardonabie weak- ness. Every one, however venerable his years, seems ready with a kina word and a kind office for the geuera- tion coming on, and no amount of expense within his Means restrains the ‘parent’s affections at this season. It ig interesting to watch the serious diligence with which poor men wander from stall to stall at Giroux’s, inquiring, examining and collecting for the young fry of their house- hold. It pervades all ranks; old women in very humble life may be seen with their spectacles poring over the bar- at nightfall, when the work of the day is done, care- fully inspecting and selecting the prettiest and best for their grandchildren. The cries and cackle of infant hu- manity seem to fill the whole air, only broken by the fond laugh and joyous greeting which acts as a welcome accom- iment from ‘ir seniors. It is in fact the children’s. Jubilee, and it is difficult to ar whether they or the “chil- dren of larger growth” are the happier while it ,jasts. I could wish no American a more agreeable relaxation thaa a week’s holiday in Paris at the Jour del’An, Prince Jorome has entirely rallied, and no further bul- letins wi)l be issued. The Duchess of Hamilton had a | interview with his Imperial Highness yesterday, at speaks of his recovery a3 one of the most extraordinary on record. All inflammation hag left him, and although considerably enfeebled by tho severe remedies he haa submitted to, the Prince gives indications of making a run- nag ‘Aght of it for a few more years. Rothschild has just made his annual gift of 30,000 kilogrammes of bread to the administration of Public As- —” ° a ee ee ae capital. lame Penco, having recovered from her illuess, and the new telor, Guiglini, appear to-night in “tl varitani,”? Scandal in High Life in France. COUNT DE MORNY AND COUNT MIGEON IN A DIVORCE surr. [Paris (Dec. 30) correspondence of London News.] The extraordinary divorce case of Count Migeon has terminated in a decision against him by the Court of Ap- peal on every point, and will probably be followed by a prosecution for forgery. When I shortly mentioned this matter a few days ago, only knew that the Court had prohibited any report, on account of the name of Count de Morny having been pronounced by M. Jules Favre; that M. Berryer, counsel for Madame Migeon, had acci Count Migeon of forging the date of a letter received by him from Qount de Morny, and that M. Jules Favre, who was ill in bed, had written to M. Devienne, the first pre- sident of the Imperial Court, requesting that a day might be appointed for him to reply to the very serious charge against his client. Iam now acquainted with the facts of the case. Count Migeon, the son of a manufacturer in the Haut Rhin, ibherited a very bandsomo fortune from his father; his title, as it came out at a recent trial at Colmar, is a foreign one, pur- chased for money. He entered political life at an early age, and attained the honor of representing his native de- partment both in the Legislature and in the Council Gene- ral. His popularity among the electors was unbounded. At will be remembered that after having once been elect- ed a8 a government candidate, the government, for rea- sons which did not clearly appear at the trial, withdrew its patronage from him, and that he was twice trium- phantly returned m spite of a most unscrupulous opposi- sion on the part of the prefects and other functionaries of the Haut Rhin. After the last election he was prosecuted and sentenced to fine and imprisonment ior illegally wear- mg the decoration of the Legion of Honor. He had in reality received @ promise of the decoration, but a sudden change of government took place before’ it could be registered ; he"had worn the ribbon unchallenged as long as he remained in favor with the powers that now Bre; and as the prosecution was clearly an act of spite and vengeance, on account of his having deen elected by the ‘independent votes of tho department, it was thought a hard case, and public sympathy was with him. Last session he was expelled the Houso— in spite of ap eloquent protest by M. Emile Ollivier against the davgerous precedent created—on the ground that he Was unworthy Wo sit ip it. On that occasion allusion was Made wa letier written by himto the Emperor, which Was not made public, but the contents ef which, as it will be seen, have now transpired. In 1858 M. Migeon married Mile. Marie Lautier, 8 young girlof good family and fortune, 'eizutren Years of ago, and jast out of a Marseilles convent, where fhe had finished er eduoation, he being tweniy years older. One child was the fruit of the union. ‘In 1855. Madamo Migeon, whose letters antecedently to that date exhibited a most ardent affection for her husband, dis- covered thata woman who acted as his secretary was in fact bis mistress, and had been se for many years be- fore his marriage. Thereupon she lett the touse, obtained first a separation as far as property was concerned, and subsequently a divorce @ mensi a toro « de corps) which is the fullest diyorce allowe: yy French law, on fhe ground of adaltery committed in the conjugal domicile. Both in the Court of First Instance and of Appeal a question was raised whethor Madame might not have kuown, or onght not from circumstances to have inferred, that the female secretary ‘was an old mistress, and whetber she was not a consemé- re etd her being in the house. fubsidiary grounds for a divorce. re, counsel urged that tho husband pane tea had grievonsly insulted his wife and wounded her dignity asa woman, by show- ing to several persons a copy of his letter Emperor. In that letler Count Migeon ‘oll the Bue cr tha Gort de Morny had for “oy Emperce that This mistress” Qe sitter 1