The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1862, Page 4

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BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall.—472 Broad- way.—Ruacen Vara. + GATETTES CONCERT HALL, 616 are, 616 Broadway.—Daawixc an MUSIC HALL, 616 Broadway,—Sorzer Musi- PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, roadway. = Open daily from 10 A. M. ull9P ML en _ New York, Thursday, May 2: THE SITUATION A despatch from General McClellan to the War Department, last night, states that he is following close on the heels of the enemy; that all his camps have advanced in the pursuit. This tallies with the news received in the afternoon, that the at- tempt of the rebels to defend their position at ‘Bottom’s Bridge failed under the fatal effect of our artillery, which threw shell to an extent that was irresistible, and drove the enemy back. The head- quarters of General McClellan were within a few miles of Richmond at last accounts, and, as it was supposed that the rebels are going to risk a battle & front of Richmond (which may be doubtful), we shall soon hear either of a great battle, or of the Occupation of Richmond by General McClellan’s army. |, The members of the State Convention of North Carolina which haa recently been in session in Raleigh, and which has displayed such a decided hankering after the Union, were chosen by the People on the 28th of February, 1861, by an aggre- Bate unconditional Union majority of over sixty thousand. They stood, when elected, as fol- Jows:— Union men... . Becessionists.. important will be iy BF-OUR FORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE Panricuca.y REQUESTED TO SEAL atl Letters anp Pack- table by a vote of 83 against 43. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1862, under arms, and it is boasted that he could double that number. His finances may rest on a less sta- ble foundation, but he has, at any rate, enough and to spare for the time. Intervention, therefore, on behalf of the North, would be simply a nullity, for no alliance could add to its power or promote its ends.” It is alleged that Napoleon's ideas of a new transatlantic policy for France are likely to affect the destiny, for the time being, of Italy, the Papa) government and Mexico. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the Census report was presented, and a motion to print one hundred thousand copies referred to the Printing Commit- tee. A joint resolution giving the thanks of Con- gress to Flag Officer Farragut and the officers and men under his command was adopted. A bill amendatory of the Post Office Appropriation bill was passed. The Military Committee were in- structed to inquire into the expediency of grant- iag bounty lands to soldiers enlisted for three months and one year; also for pensions for the widows of soldiers who die in the service. A discussion then ensued as to the order of business, the Confiscation bill being the first subject in order; but it was laid aside and the Tax bill was taken up, and several amendments proposed by the Finance Committee agreed to. The Senate held an executive seasion and then ad- journed. In the House of Representatives, a bill providing for raising sunken vessels-of-war in Hampton Roads was referred. A resolution that Congress take a recess from Wednesday next to June 2 was laid on the table by a vote of 78 yeas to 46 naya. The Senate bill removing all disqualifications of color in carrying the mails was also laid on the The House then resumed the consideration of the Confiscation bill, and the debate continued till the adjournment. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We publish some highly important news from Mexico to-day, the main points of which are that the Juarez government has been overturned, and General Almonte, the agent of the French, for- mally elected President by a handful of votes. Juarez and his Cabinet had taken flight from the capital for their own safety. There had been a few skirmishes between the French and Mexicans, with unimportant results. The former were still steadily advancing on the capital. Guerilla bands were gathering in different parts of the mountains, We publish the proclamation of ‘‘the new Presi- dent,” as well as those of the other administrators of affairs. The vomito was making great havoc in Vera Cruz. The steamship Borussia, from Southampton on the 7th of May, arrived at this port last night. The news by the Scotia is four days later than our advices by the Borussia. The news of the capture of New Orleans was confirmed at Havana, by a steamer from Mobile, the Cuba, of 460 tons, bringing 1,000 bales of cot- ton. Another, from the same port, the California, 466 tons, arrived the day before, also with cotton, and with the news that Forts Jackson and St, Philip had surrendered on the 28th ult. A letter from Ireland, dated in Dublin on the 7th of May, says :—Notwithstanding the disheart- ening intelligence daily received from America, the peasantry are stillemigrating to that country. On Tuesdaya large number of people from Listo- wel and its neighborhood passed through Tralee en route for America. They appeared a fine, healthy looking people, and likely to succeed in the labor market of the New World. The Western (Connaught) Star writes:—Already the exodus has commenced. Numbers of the peasantry leave for America by every packet, and a large propor- tion of the passages are paid on the other side. We continue to receive numerous inquiries from small farmers and others anxious to proceed to Queensland or British Columbia. The applicants for free emigration are greatly on the increase. The same writer adds:—Archbishop Cullen and all the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland assem- bled yesterday in Dublin to ‘transact important business.”’ This is all the information on the sub- ject their organs are allowed to give; but it is un- derstood the critical state of the Papal Power was the subject of their deliberation. All the republican’ papers that applauded the proclamation of Gen. Hunter are now taking the back track. To-day the annual election will take place in Virginia. In the western section a Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General are to be chosen, for which offices respectively are no- minated Francis H. Pierpoint, the present Execu- tive; Daniel Paulsley, and James S. Wheat. There is no opposition ticket. What is to be done in re- bel Virginia we are not informed. There are no State officers, we believe, to be elected. Col. Isham N. Haynie, who has just been elected member of Congress in the Ninth district of Illi- nois, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Gen. John A. Logan, isa democrat. He served gallantly in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and received a wound which rendered him unfit to per- form military service. A letter from Richmond states that copies of the New York Tribune are regularly smuggled into the South, for the purpose of copying articles from it to keep the mind of the people inflamed against the North. The Nashville Union of the 18th instant says:— “Yesterday the streets were alive with drays and wagons hauling cotton from the depot to the ri- ver.” The Aldermanic Committee on Printing and Ad- vertising held another meeting yesterday, for the purpose of making a selection from the city news- papers in which to insert the Corporation adver- tisements. This meeting, unlike the former ones, was striotly private, all persons, including the representatives of the press, being excluded from the room; but it is understood that they are stil) waiting to hear from the Comptroller, who ha’ been applied to for a statement of the amounts paid to the weekly newspapers for Corporation advertising during the last two years. The com- mittee think they will be able to present their re- port to the Board of Aldermen at the meeting of that body on Monday next. The Board of Education met last evening, when the Committee on Sites and Schoolhouses offered a resolution that the sum of $27,000 be appropri- ated for the purchase of three lots of ground on the south side of Vandewater street, on which to erect a new schoolhouse for the Fourth ward. After a long debate, an amendment authorizing the school officers of said ward to expend $25,000 inthe purchase of the lots, or $26,000 in the pur- chase of lote on the opposite side of the street, ‘was adopted. The same committee also present- ed a report in favor of purchasing the lots Nos. 68 and 70 Monroe street, as a site for a primary school- house for the Seventh ward, for $13,500. Laid over, The Board then adjourned. In the General Sessions yesterday Francis Riordon was convicted of larceny from the person, he having been confederated with Mary Sullivan, who stole a pocketbook containing $6 from Mrs. Lucas, ina grocery store in Kighth avenue. The woman pleaded guilty a few days ago. Riordon was sent to the Penitentiary for two years, John Schad was placed on trial, charged with a misdemeanor in violating the law in reference to opening letters, with which he was entrusted to put in the Post Office by Rev. Mr. Klosterbaur; but as there was a technical failure in the proof he was aconitted. The Convention did not meet, for the reason that the people decided at the time the members were elected that no convention was necessary. But Governor Ellis and the Legislature thought differ- ent. Another election was ordered, and a seces- sion convention was chosen by a comparatively amall vote, and it was this latter body that passed the State over to the tender mercies of Jeff. Davis and his rebel confederacy. The Old North State is Union to the cere. Onur letters from London, Paris and Berlin, re- ceived by the Scotia, portray very accurately the expression of public feeling current in Europe on the ‘American question” up to the time of the de- Parture of that vessel from Liverpool. » Ramors with respect to a direct intervention in our war affairs by Napoleon, reports of an ap- Prosching allied intervention on the part of France and England, with speculations relative to an offer of mediation by the Emperor of France filled the minds of the people, and served to intensify the goterest in the progress of the war towards its termination, this event having become of abso- iutely vital importance tothe industrial classes, as well as of very great individual interest to the rulers of France and England. , The writers do not pretend to say what form the incervention idea isto assume, but all agree in at- faching some significance, with regard to its as- pect, to the result of M. Mercier’s late visit to Richmond. The Paris Patrie, of the 8th of May, ays:—‘‘We have reason to know that important conferences are going on at the present time, at Richmond, between Baron Mercier, the French Minister, and the government of the Southern States. The existence of a negotiation of that kind appears to indicate that the overtures made by the French representative to President Davis have in principle been favorably received.” Our intelligence from Washington, however, states that M. Mercier’s visit to Richmond was one of curiosity simply. The Paris correspondent of the London Post, ‘writing on the 6th instant, remarks:—‘‘M. Mer- cier’s visit to Richmond was not intended as an official visit, nor had he any official mission to perform. On the other hand, M. Mercier’s visft may not be unattended by most important re- pults.” 4 The London Times, contradicting all its former predictions and assertions with regard to the ‘weakness and daily increasing exhaustion of the Dnion government and treasury, labors to prove that the rebels alone require foreign aid, comfort or advice; and that if such a calamity as interven- Bion should come on the country, it must come at Bheir instance. The writer says:—‘They (the (Washington Cabinet) have already possession of the seas, and the whole British navy conld give them nothing more. We might lend them moncy, of this, too, in some form or other, they have enough to allow ef a present gxpenditure of £300,000 a day. As to sending them men, all the \pifective troops now serving in England might be in New York without causing any perceptible ane in the fabulous numbers of the Northern armies. We might send them three times as many poldiers as we sent to Canada without adding above five per cent to their forces in the field. Wo ruler In the world, not even the first Napoleon, ever dis- posed of 80 many men or 80 much money as Abra- ham Lincoln, He has fully 650,000 troops now The market for beef cattle yesterday, being less bountifully supplied than last week, was more buoyant and prices ruled half a cent to a cent per pound higher, ranging from 7c. a 8%c.a 9c. The cattle were all sold by Tuesday night, and our re- port will probably in future appear in Wednesday morning's issue. Milch cows and veal calves are about the same. Sheep and lambs are reported dull at an average decline of 25. a 500. per head; the range of prices, however, is the same. Swine have sold at 354. a 3%c. for heavy corn fed, 234. @3%{c. for light do., and 3%4c. a 35(c. for still fed. The receipts were 3,393 beeves, 98 cows, 1,025 veals, 7,006 sheep and lambs, and 7,713 swine. The Commissioners of Emigration held their usual weekly meeting yesterday; but no business of public importance was transacted. The week- ly statement shows that 1,249 emigrants arrived at this port .during the week ending on the 2lst instant, making a total of 14,231 during the pre- sent year, against 28,093 to the same date in 1861. The number of inmates remaining on Ward's Island is 637. The Treasurer's report shows that there is a balance of $14,174 26 remaining in the bank to the credit of the Commissioners. ‘The stock market was lower yesterday, without any ob- vious causo. For some time past the short interest has been very small; it is believed to be increased. The ce- cline was equal to about % a1 por cent on the railway shares.and 2 0n Pacific Mail. Monoy was very easy at 3 @ 4 per cent. Exchange dull.’ The steamer’ took out $306,000 in gold. ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, with a better demand from the trade, witn sales of about 1,000 bales, on the basis of 27 4c. a 28c. for middling uplands, closing atthe latter figure. The flour market was heavy and again lower for common and middling brands, while high grades of extra were without change of moment, owing to the decided advance infreights. Wheat was somewhat less active, and prices at the close were heavy and ir- regular, sales in the meantime, however, having ‘been pretty freely made. Corn was heavy and lower, with sales of Wostern mixed at 47c. a 48c. for new, and at 48c. a 49c. for old, with some lots at 60c., in store and delivered. Pork was heavy and lower, with sales of mess at $12 25 a $12 3734, and of prime at $9 75 a $9 874. Sugars were quite steady and in good re- quest, with sales of 1,000 hhds. at full prices. Coffee was steady. A sale of 1,400 bags Rio was made on private terms. Freights were higher, and, though wheat was pretty freoly engaged, the aggregate amount fell below that of tho previous day. «To Liverpool it was taken at 10d. a 1014d., and at 11d. in bulk, aud at 11344. in ships’ bags, and flour at 23.1034. a3s. To London flour was taken at 3s. 6d., and wheat, in buik and bags, at 11d. a 114. The Sound Union Policy and the Solid Popularity of President Lincoln. The last proclamation of President Lincoln, we are sure, from the abundant evidence around us and the testimony of our newspaper ex- changes, has greatly strengthened and extended the public confidence of our loyal States in his sagacity, patriotism and firmness of purpose as the head of the government and the re- sponsible Commander-in-Chief of ourArmy and Navy. Bi There can be no doubt that the inspiration which produced the late. preposterous abolition manifesto from General Hunter was drawn from Washington. We apprehend, too, that Mr. Secretary Stanton (falling into the serious abo- lition mistake which was so fatal to Mr. Secre- tary Cameron as an aspiring politician) is largely responsible for. General Hun- ter’s sweeping abolition edict. At all events the President’s revocation of this edict involves a reprimand to all its contrivers, and, if Mr. Stanton can be justly counted among them, every consideration of propriety de- mands on his part an explanation to the country. The President, in every possible way and by every possible device, has been embarrassed by the radical abolition “emancipation or separa- tion” faction, in order to inveigle him, drag him or thrust him into this destructive abolition programme of a war of extermination against Southern slavery at all hazards. President Lincoln, however, from the day when he left Springfield, en route for Washington, to the pre- sen®hour, has unflinchingly ‘pursued the “even tenor of his way” upon his own programme of fighting this war for the ‘integrity of the Union.” Upon this grand idea the six hundred thousand Union sol- diers now in the field have enlisted for this war; upon this sound, consistent and conservative war policy the great body of the people of our loyal States have rallied to the support of the administration. All this is thoroughly understood by our wide awake President; and hence the quiet and unobtrusive way in which he has baffled all the schemes and movements of our disunion aboli- tion radicals in the Cabinet, in Congress and in the army, to change this war for “ the integrity of the Union” into a war for the extirpation of Southern slavery. The important ultimatum kept steadily in view by the abolition radicals is the political power of the country; and, as they cannot secure this power with the restora- tion of the old Union, their object is simply to destroy it. Mr. Senator Sumner, in his noto- rious scheme proposing to reduce our rebellious States to the condition of Territories—in which condition their local institutions and their State boundaries would be swept away—has fairly indicated the wishes and purposes of the dis- organizing faction of which he is an anointed apostle. : This faction of disorganizers are still devoted to the Jacobin purpose of pushing this war into an abolition crusade, because they fully understand that, with the restoration of the revolted States as they were in the Union, there is an end of the political power of abolitionism. Every Southern State restoréd to the Union and to its representation in Congress as it was diminishes the power of abolitionism in both branches. Thus, with the restoration of the full representation from Vir- ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana, the radical anti-slave- ry element in both houses would be pretty effectually silenced. This is the special danger which just now threatens this abolition faction. Their game is to defeat the restoration of the old Union, to abolish slavery, to lay waste the South by fire and sword, and to drive this war into a regular Jacobin revolution, to secure the political power of the country and the enor- mous spoils and plunder of the government resulting from this war establishment. Against these destructive designs, however, the country feels secure with Honest Abraham Lincoln at the helm. In his appointment of that sound conservative Southern Union de- mocrat, Andrew Johnson, as Provisional Go- vernor of Tennessee, and of that conservative Southern old line Union whig, Edward Stanly, as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, President Lincoln cannot be misunderstood. His object is to give every possible encourage. ment and assurance to our revolted States that in returning to the Union they will return to its constitutional landmarks of protection and safety. We think that we may therefore congratulate our readers with the assurance that, after the and Corinth, so clear and satisfactory will the war policy of President Lincoln become to all the South that there will be a very speedy end to the secession falsehoods and deceptions by which the people of the South have been led astray, and to all the schemes and contrivances of our abolition disturbers to make this wara fanatical crusade against Southern slavery. The country will adhere to the Rresident, and still strengthen his hands for the Union. French Intrigues in Mexico—Overthrow of the Juarez Government. The news from Mexico which we publish this morning is of very greatimportance. It shows that the schemes of France for the overthrow of Mexican nationality and the establishment of aforeign monarchy are working exceedingly well for the present. The legitimate govern- ment of Juarez, pressed on all sides by party strife and the unyielding demands of the in- vaders, has been compelled to succumb. The President and his Cabinet have abandoned the capital, and there can he little doubt that the French, according to their own programme, are now in pessession of the ancient seat of govern- ment. Asa component part of the original French plan, the flight of Juarez has been inter- | preted into his abandonment of all claim to the government; and, inasmuch as one or two cities: had already “pronounced” in favor of Al- monte, the farce of a military election was per- formed, when the General was declared duly elected President of the republic, by some twenty-seven votes. Immediately after this Almonte addressed a proclamation, from Ori- zaba, to his fellow countrymen, giving them his most grateful thanks for the “honor and con- fidence” reposed in him, and promising soon to repeat the dose from the city of Mexico. The French troops had had aslight skirmish with the Mexicans, in which the latter were routed, and the French were continuing their march to the capital. This is doubtless with the inten- tion of installing the new President; but unless we are very much mistaken his accession to the Presidential chair will not pacify the republic. In the great majority of the Mexican States the people are greatly irritated against the injustice of the French invasion, and, although they may not be able to make any organized opposition in the field, they will resolve themselves into guerilla bands, and ravage and devastate the country wherever their enemies penetrate. Guerilla warfare is best suited to the roving and unsteady Mexicans, and when collected in bands of this kind they become very formida- ble and destructive to their enemies. This is the way in which the Spaniards have conducted a good deal of their fighting in Spain, and they have bequeathed the system as an inheritance to their Mexican descendants, who greatly excel ‘their progenitors in the beauties of the art. Their intimate knowledge of .lo- calities will greatly facilitate their opora. tions, and the French, with alt their dash and military ability, will find Mexico a very differ- ent kind of a place from the beautiful France they have left behind them. Moreover, the vo- mito season is just beginning, and foreign- ers in the country are dying like sheep. The English and Spaniards, alarmed at the virulence of the terrible epidemic, are getting out of the country as fast as they can. The serious nature of this scourge may be imagined when it is seen that among the sick Spanish soldiers brought back to Havana in the war steamers there were no less than eight hundred and fifty prostrate men out of a very few regiments. The French are certainly in the healthier highlands; but this will not altogether exempt them from the diseases of the climate; and, what with guerillas, fever, vomito, the quarrels of their officers and the expenses of the expedition, Louis Napoleon will, in the end, find that he has not made a very profitable investment in Mexico. Thus far the monarchical plan is in the as. cendant. Almonte may be but the shadow of the Archduke Maximilian, whose election can any day be forced through by the aid of French bayonets, on the French system of “ free, uni- versal suffrage.” We await further intelligence of the denouement of this hazardous game. In the meantime the Mexicans must thank them- selves for the new degradation. Their intes- tine discords and dissensions have paved the way for these outrages, which, however, have hitherto been kept from their country by the wholesome fear which foreign nations had of the powerful arm of the united republic of North America. Now civil war is raging within our own borders, and European despots may safely exercise their brief authority. The day of settlement, however, will come, and sooner, perhaps, than Europe imagines. Rev. Dr. Cuzever Devouncinc THE Presi- pent.—-The Evening Post of Tuesday contained areport of a sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Cheever on Sunday evening, in which he de- nounced the President in advance for his pro- clamation disavowing the abolition proclama- tion of General Hunter, emancipating the negro slaves of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. No doubt Cheever had an inkling of what the President would do, and therefore cursed him beforehand, lest he should have to wait for another week. He said if the President inter- posed in the matter it would be “madness and wickedness concentrated.” Again he says:— “If he now hastens to disavow and forbid this grand, righteous and benevolent action against slavery, it will be an insult to the country, a dis- grace to himself and to the government, a crime against humanity and God.” The President has nobly hastened to disavow and forbid the action of General Hunter, and therefore, according to Rev. Dr. Cheever, he has insulted the country, disgraced himself and the government, and committed a crime against humanity and God. He concludes by praying God in mercy to protect the country from such madmen and such guilt. Perhaps the radical abolitionists, who have received such a blow between the eyes by the hard fist of Honest Abe Lincoln, will now begin to think of carrying out their original idea of “superseding” him in favor of some usurper, as proposed about a year ago in the editorial columns of the New. York Times. Meantime, would it not be well to. com. mit to safe keeping such propagators ef sedi- tion as this Cheever, whom humanity forbids to be at large during this war, on the same principle that it directs dogs in thestreets to be muagled during the hot weather, and dogs actually mad to be disposed of in a still more effectual manner? Toreats or THR Raptcars IN Concress Acaixst tHe Government.—In the United States Senate on Tuesday last, Mr. Grimes, abolition- ist, of Iowa, in speaking to a postpone. ment of the Confiscation bill, said, “ If the sole purpose of the haste on this bill was to get at expulsion of the rebel armies from Richmond | the Tax bill. he was in no hurry; for he thought other things more important than to hurry to tax our people. Before we proceed to tax our people heavily he wanted some policy of government settled,so that the people may know it. He, as the representative of a sove- reign State, wanted to know what the policy of the government was going to be.” It is evident that this barbed and poisoned arrow is directed against the President for his recent statesmanlike and patriotic proclama- tion, Another abolitionist, Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, who, before the civil war broke out, said in his place in the Senate that he was most anxious for a little bloodletting, now says he is opposed to the Tax bill. It thus ap- pears that the delay and obstruction of the Tax bill are threatened by the radicals in Con- gress in order to embarrass the government and the operations of the war, in consequence of the conservative course adopted by the President in disowning the abolition proclamation of Hunter. There is something more than even this in the language of Senator Grimes. It contains a menace of secessioa, or nullification, or some- thing of that sort, on the part of Iowa, if the President will not succumb to the desperate’ faction. ‘The government is reminded that Towa is a “sovereign State’—the identical language used by Southern traitors in Congress before ‘they left it and set up a new govern- ment. But if Senator Grimes and the radicals proceed to carry out their threats, either of ob- structing the Tax bill or nullifying it after it becomes a law, they will be met by a loyal people at the ballot box and punished as they deserve. The people will not stand their dis- loyalty to the Union and the constitution much longer. Let them beware. . Startuina PRooLaMation oF THE GOVERNOR or Arxansas.—The proclamation, which we publish in another column, from the Governor of Arkansas, will startle Jeff. Davis and his rebel Cabinet, as, no doubt, it,will take most of our readers by surprise. Following close upon the heels of the action of the Governor of North Carolina, it looks like concert between these States and Tennessee, and perhaps other rebel- lious States, to return to the Union and aban- don Jeff. Davis, in whom they have found a selfish tyrant, who used them for his own pur- poses, but when the hour of danger came aban- doned them to their fate, as he will soon pro- bably abandon Virginia, like a squeezed orange. The flower of the youth of Arkansas fought for the rebel flag on the bloodiest fields of Missouri under Price and Van Dorn; and, when the Union forces entered Arkansas, instead of send- ing reinforcements to aid the army led by those generals, Jeff. Davis ordered their forces to» cross the Mississippi to reinforce Beau- regard. It is no wonder that the Go- vernor of Arkansas should’ feel indignant. For his part, he does not see what is the differ- ence between the tyranny of Jeff. Davis and that of Lincoln. There are two essential points of difference, however, which Governor Rector cannot fail to understand. The tyranny of Lincoln is only in the imagination; that of Jeff. Davis is real; and, while Lincoln is able to punish or protect Arkansas, just as its own con- duct may induce him, Davis is powerless either to save or to destroy. The idea of the misguided South from the beginning was that it was fighting for State rights, when the fact ia that State rights have been trampled in the dust by Jeff. Davis & Co. It is evident that Governor Rector would say more if he dared. What he has said two Ar- kansas journals have pronounced treason; and no doubt it is treason to King Jeff. But will the rebel President and his government dare to arrest hin? They have cowered before the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, and they will do so again in the case of Governor Rector. This is evidently the beginning of the end. Important From New Orieans.—We publish- eda despatch yesterday containing intelligence from New Orleans by way of Camp Moore, where Lovell's force is poste, and thence to Memphis and Cairo, from which it appears that General Butler took possession of the office of the Consul of the Netherlands, searched the person of the Consul, and took from him the key of a bank vault, in which were $800,000, transferred by the Citizens’ Bank to Hope’s Bank of Amsterdam, intended for the payment of the interest on the Confederate bonds. General Butler, it is added, took posses- sion also of the French and Spanish Consulates, and placed a military force in each. No doubt the rebels and the sympathizers with them in France and England will make a great noise over this transaction. The agents of King Jeffin Europe will endeavor to use it so as to embroil the United States with foreign Powers; and the Emperor of the French perhaps will take ad- vantage of it to aid him in his intervention schemes, Certainly Napoleon will now have a chance, if it be his purpose, to mix himself up with our civil war. Yet he has no just ground of complaint against us for the action of Gene- ral Butler. If the Consuls of foreign nations will take part in the civil war, so far as to give aid to the enemy, they must take the conse- quences. If they receive on deposit Contede- rate funds to sustain the credit of Confederate bonds, they are clearly implicated as violators of the neutrality of the nations which have ac- credited them, and the funds so deposited are the legal prize of the United States. What the charges are against the French and Spanish Consuls we are left to conjecture; but if they are guilty of any acts of hostility to the United States they are amenable to the law, of na- tions, like other foreigners, and their officers cannot protect them against the consequences. Mystertovs OntciN oF THE PRocLaMaTion or Gexerat, Hunter.—Since the appearance of the President's proclamation disavowing the action of General Hunter, and declaring his ignorance of the source whence the General was inspired, there has been much speculation on the subject in political and social circles, and the opinion has been very generally ex- pressed that Hunter’s proclamation was not from his own mere motion, but that he was di. rected to pursue this extraordinary eourse by & portion of the Cabinet, their object being to commit the President to the emancipation scheme of the abolitionists, litsle dreaming that Mr. Lincoin would have the pluck to repu- diate the proclamation. That an old West Point officer of the regalar army, whose maxim is to obey orders, a known conservative, too, and withal a man of prudence and senso, should be guilty of the folly not only of usurp- ing the functions of the President, but of pre. tending to abolish the constitution of his own mere will, aad without any authority from Washington, is almost too much for human credibility, The vublic mind therefore turne instinctively to a portion of the Cabinet es a ¢ origin of the proclamation. os The policy of the a*olition leaders is not to restore the Union as it was, not to. restore the Southern States as States, but as mere Territo- ries, which would have no voice in the halls of Congress, because, if the Southern States were restored, the sceptre would fall from the hands of the radicals: their power in Congress and out of it would be at an end. Hence it is that they are alarmed at the prospect of Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas and other Southern States being speedily restosed to the Union and sending members to Congress again It would suit a portion of the Cabinst—suit Sumner, Grimes, Chandler and the rest—to hold the Southern States as conquered Territo- ries; for that would both enable them to abolish slavery and leave power and the offices in their hands; but if the Southern States should be re- stored as States, then the days of abolition rule would be numbered. Therefore it is that the revolutionary radicals desire the defeat of our armies in the field, and the permanent separ?. -tion of North and South, unless their emancipa- :tion scheme be accomplished, and the So. ‘ern s0il be restored ag.s80 much territory without State organizations. But the firmness and courage of the President have baffied their trea- sonable machinations. Mr. J. 8. Raney at Tux Coorxe Insrirote.—The great horse tamer announces three of his amusing and instruc. tive entertainments at the Cooper Institute, for the 27th, 29th and 30th of thia month. These will be the only ex- hibitions that he can give during the present season, as be is about to retire to his farm in Ohio. No perform- ances, if such they can be calied, have ever excited more interest, or have been more closely followed up: by the public, both hero and abroad, than theso of Mr.. Rarey. From the highest to the lowest, all ranks and classes have testified the same curiosity in regard to: them. Of course, success such as this could not fail to bring forth a plentiful crop of imitators. One fellow had the impa- dence to go to Madrid, and, assuming the name of our oolebrated countryman, to’ exhibit before the Court amd aristocracy. He made ’a large sum by the operation, thouch he showed but little acquaintance with Mr. Ra- rey’s modus operandi. Another tried to play off the same cheat in Rome; but some Americans who happened to be there at the time,and who were Leora 2 acquainted with Rarey, exposed him,and ho left in disgrace. In their experiments upon the horse, Rurey’s imitators have not been more fortunate. In almost every instance tley have met with fractures and accidents of one or ‘another, cagsaities inevitable from their imperfect acquaintance with the principles on which Mr. Rarey’s sysiem is founded. The approaching exhibitions will be of a much more interesting character than any that have hitherto been given here. Mr. Rarey bas a varietyof new feats and experiences to. develop that ho has picked up during his tour abroad, and. which will tendto strengthen public confidence in the unerring results of his system. Taz Brianout anp Gorrscuark Concert Trours.— “Le Roi est Mort: Vive le Roi.” No sconer 4@ the termination of the musical season announced by one impresario than othors start up to take It will be seen by an advertisemont im 3 to-day that a grand matine: is to be givem | at Niblo’sSaloon on Saturday by Mr. Gottschalk and the leading mombers.of the late opera troupe. This is the first of another series of concerts which is to be:given im all our principal cities by a new combination of artists, under the orders of Signor Brignoli and Mr. Gottechalk,. who yestorday signed contract, undertaking, for their joint account; all-therisks and responsibilities of the en- terprise. They have engaged Miss Kellogg, Signor Susinty. Signor Francosco Amodie, Signor Muzio (as conductor), ‘and aro in negotiation with several other loading artists. It is their intention to give operas or parts of operas in all their entertainments. They commence, as wo- have already stated, on Saturday next, when the * Fighs del Rogimento’’ will be given, Mr. Gottschalk performing several of his most admired compositions between the acts. The combination promises well, and will help to a the long musical interval between this‘and u . ACADEMY oF Music.—Miss Emelia J, Boughton, whose appearance was announced some weeks since, but was postponed on account of illness, makes her debut posi- tively to-night. The role she has chosen is a dificult one—that of Violetta, in the ‘Traviata’’—and conside- rable curissity is expressed as to the manner in which she will acquit hersolf. Hor father, Mr. &.C. Boughton, and Signor Morino sustain tho two principal male parts. shoula this performance succeed it is proposed to give soveral others. Mrs8 Getur’s Conckrt.—To-night Miss Madoline Gellie gives a concert at Niblo’s Saloon, assisted by Miss Mary Gellic, Signor Ardavavi, Julius Werner, Louis Shsiber and other artists. The programme is an excellent one. Iavinc Hatt.—The concert for the Catholic Library Association will take place at Irving Hall to-night, upoa which occasion the popular artists Miss Mina Geary and Mr. Gustavus Geary, together with J. R. Thomas, Mrs. Mozart, Mrs.S$.C. Campbell, Honrt appy, the violinist, and C. Berge, will appear. Mr. W. Berge, the organist of the church of St. Francis Xavier, will conduct the concert. Wivtes Garpay.—A new drama, especially written for ‘Miss Bateman, was produced at this establishment last evening. It is entitled “‘Rosa Gregorio, or the Corsicam Vendetta.” In style itis somewhat more of a sensa- tional character than the line of pieces usually produced at this establishment. The plot of the drama is as fol- lows:—The Corsican families of Grogorio and Spagazzi, after a deadly feud of a century, agree to a peace, om condition that Gregorio’s daughter is betrothed to Spa- gazzi’sson. This compact was settled while Rosa Grego- rio (Miss Bateman) was a child. She, however, soma time after the signing of the bond, had boen secretly mar- ried to Albert (Mr. J. W. Wallack, Jr.),a noble French officer, away in thearmy. The timo set apart for her bond marriage with Spagazzi's son is near, and she is just expecting her real husband, when the play opens. the curtain rises on & mountain scene at sunrise, as viewed from the front of Gregorio’s house. Rosa who has risen early, goos to meet her real hus! and. while absent her brother Antonia (Mr. E. Acams) un- expectedly returns. He has been in the army and knows Albert, who outranks him. From conversutious ataformer period the brother suspects that Albort is: Rosa's lover. Rosa, however, keeps him in ignerance. That night is set apart for the marriage with the S| vi’s, and the two families assemble at Gregorio's be ‘Albert algo arrives, and, moeting Rosa, agrees to bear her off from Corsica at midnight. The brother overbeara- the plan, challenges Albert after he had parted -with Rosa, and a duel ensues, In this combat, some good sword practice is shown by both acto stabs Albert and throws him into the lak act Rosa parts with her ignorant of the di her part of the fronted by ber brother, Miss Bateman’s acting hore was In the third jorsing, and, fan, announces what he has done. good, She accuses him of assassinating her husband, arouses her sleeping fathor and begs him to kill her. Albert, however, is not but is picked. up by some fishermen, and is by medical aid resuscitated. He learns that his wife is to be-tried by tho Vendotta—a kind of lynch law court—and know- ing her condenMation to be cortain without his evidence, weak and wounded as he ia, he is devermined to bear the documents making her his lawful wife to the place ot trial himself, Tn the fifth or last act tied and found guilty, but the Vendetta breaks up in sanguinary- discord, during which Albert arrives with a body of French ‘troops, claims his wise, proves his right, and all buds well, the whole of tte characters werd falrlp acted, and. hew scenery pretty and eilective. The piece was a success. Hovoa.to. 1m Brave—THe ADJUTANT OF Tite THIRTY-<QTRs New Yor Raament.--In our advertising columns wil) be soon & communication from the officers of the Thirty. third regiment of this State, from which it appears tha® the officers of that gallant regitaent, upon which and the Seventh Maine depended in a critical moment the fate of the day at Williamsburg, have presonted thoir Adjutant with a horse, in token of his gallantry in the field at thas battle, and thoir high appreciation of his character ag.am officer anda gentleman. To hin belongs. the high honae of being the first to plant the flag upon. tho rebel fort. at Williamsburg. Lieutenant, Sutton formerly belonged ta the Seventh regimont, and accompanied it to Washington when the capital was in. poril, He drilled and tramed the Thirty-third so as to.onable {t to win untading laurels at Williamsburg. Beis.one of many from the Seventh rogiment Now York Stato Militia who have distinguished themselves in varipus volunteer rogimonts in the prorent war, The fact is 2ighly creditable to the Seventh, ‘nin eile An Appeal to the Farmers of the North. Fortress Moxron, May 21, 1862. ‘We call wpon the farmers of the North for supplies of butter and eggs to be sont hore to the care of Dra. Hunt and MeCoy, of the Chosapeako and Mill Creek Hospitala, Sponges, oiled silk, rage, bandages, lint and driod fruit ate also urgently needed. In the name of our Buffering eoldiors T make this appeal. Mrs, JOHN HARRIS, Secrotary,