The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1862, Page 4

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AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No, #44 Brondway.—Sonas, Bow’ esqews, Daxcks, &c, ‘ATIONAL THEATRE Sonos, Dances, Bi MUSIC HALL, Canal MS, Se. GATETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Brosdway.-Drawixe Boo» ENTERTAINMENTS, PEOPLE'S MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.—Songs, Dances, Buniesquns, ao, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open daily trom 10 A. M. ull 10 P.M. New York, W Daily ‘Circulation of the New York Herald for Last Week. Monday, June 9. Tuesday, June 10. Wednesday, June 11 Thursday, June 12. Friday, June 13... Baturday, June 1. Daily Average... cccel 22,967 This is the largest circulation of any daily jour- fal in the world, and the largest in the history of the uewspaper preas. It is equal to the aggre- gate circulation of all the other daily journals in New York. THE SITUATION. News from Gen. McClellan's army was received nt the War Depur ment last evening, and was to four o'clock yesterday afternoon. There had been no especial movements of the troops up to that hour. The weather had been very fine, giving Prospects of the roads being soon in good order. The Union cavalry had made another demonstra- don to Ashland, and had surprised a party of rebels, whom they succeeded in driving off. Some of the rebels property was secured by our sol- diers. The guerilla parties were still hovering about in the rear of the Union army before Richmond. The operations of these men are more annoying than really dangerous; still at the same time, if Bot put a stop to, will be somewhat costly. That portion of General McClellan’s department Qow under General Dix has been extended so as 0 give him the control of the country in the vi- Cinity of Yorktown, Gloucester, Williamsburg and West Point. This change may operate somewhat Gisadvantageously to these roving marauders. The intelligence relative to the further reinforce- ment of Jackson and the dengerous condition of General Fremont’s corps, is of so unlikely a na- tare as to cast some doubt upon its authentici- ty. The movements of Jackson have been but gere raids, and the story about the Corinth, or Beauregard's army, being sent to hold the valley is very improbable, to say the least of it. The advices from otuer quarters contain nothing of public interest. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the Military Committee reported back the bill providing for an increase of the medical corps of the army. The amendment Bbolishing the office of brigade surgeon was agreed to. The report of the conference comntittee on the bill providing certain bounties was disagree’ to, and a new conference committee was ordered Wr. Chandler, of Michigan, offered a resoluti which was laid over, that the amount of lega! tender notes already authorized by law shall never be increased, but the Secretary of the Treasury be, ind he hereby is, authorized to issue ‘ten day: vertificates,’”’ bearing five per cent interest, in ad- lition to the fifty millions already authorized b, aw. The Pacific Railroad bill was then taken up siter some discussion, an amendment was agree? + fixing the point of commencement of the road on the one hundred:h paralic! of longitude, withi the Territory of Nebraska. Several other amend ments were adopted, a number of names were added to the list of corporators, and then the Se- pate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, a bill amenda, tory of the Patent Office law was passed. A synop- eis of the bill is given in our report of the Con- gressional proceedings. ‘The select Committee on Confiscation reported to the House Mr. Potter's bill, designating what classes of rebels shall for feit their slaves; but no further action was taken on the subject. The House then went into Com- mittee of the Whole on the bill to authorize the Assue of additional Treasury notes, and Mr.Spauld- fing, of the Committee of Ways and Means, ex- plained its provisions. The House concurred in the Senate’s substitute for Mr. Arnold’s bill, which forever prohibits slavery in the Territories now existing, or which may at any time hereafter bc formed or acquired. The Senate bill donating lands to the States and Territories for the estab- lishment of colleges of agriculture and the me- chanic arts was passed by a vote of eighty-nine twenty-five. The House then adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The British West India mail steamship Plantage- fiet, from Kingston, Jamaica, and Port au Prince, arrived here at noon yesterday. The news is of 0 importance. John Nethersole, Usq., a native Of England, but for many years a resident of the fgland of Jamaica, is reported dead. The Kings. fon Journal of the 19th of May sa The Meipping registry of Saturday last shows anoth cr arrival from the blockaded ports of the Southern ‘States—the sloop Fairfield, with a cargo of cotton, which will be offered for sale in this market. There are now in our harbor three vessels bearing the flag of the Confederate States—the Fairfield, the Water Witch and the Joserra.” There had been a great flood in the island; but the rivers were subsiding at the latest dates. The papers from Port an Prince, by the steamer Plantagenet, report that the wife and daughter of President Geftrard, of Hayti, had left that island for Jamaica, to take passage on the British West India mail steamer for Europe. William Muehl, a native of Baden-Baden, who was convicted in the United, States Circuit Court of this district of stealing letters, and sentenced to Sing Sing prison for the term of ten years, has been pardoned by President Lincoln, on proof of the prisoner’s insanity, and on condition that he be removed by his friends from the United States of America to Germany within thirty days after the date of his pardon. The daily receipt of silver at the International Exhibition in London exceeds four hundred weight, Very little gold is received, and the gold which is taken is principally in half sovereigns. A mass convention of the Union men of Indiana will meet to-day at Indianapolis. A bill to repeal the ‘‘ Personal Liberty Law’’ of Wisconsin was passed by the Assembly of that State on the 13th inst. by a vote of fifty-one ayes to twenty-five noes. There are"two brigadier generals in the Union army whose names veryoften get confounded in telegraphic despatches. One is Gen. Henry M. Naglee, commanding a brigade in Gen. McClellan's army, and the other is Gen. James S, Negley, who is with Gen. Halleck’s army. We are glad to see, from the letter in another column, that so much has been accomplished un- der the allotment law passed by Congress Decem- ber 24, 1861, and call especial attention to Mr. Cisco's report to the Commissioners, Messrs, Roosevelt, Dodge and Bronson, The annual festival of the New York Historical Society took place last night, at the building cor- ner of Eleventh street and Second avenue, before avery crowded audience. Luther Bradish pre- sided, and a very interesting paper on the siege of Boston was read by G. H. Moore, the Secreta- ry. Amodel of the Monitor was received from Mr. Rowland, the builder of the ‘‘ Yankee cheese box,’ and put up among the curiosities of the Society. Captain Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, was constitute@ an honorary member. An interesting paper was read on the ‘‘Departure of Col. Delancey from Westchester County,’ and a vote of thanks to its author passed. The assem- bly then adjourned to another room, where a bountiful supply of strawberries was dispensed. The Board of Supervisors were in session yes- terday, when a message was received from the Mayor, stating that he had withheld his signature to the resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Board appropriating $40,000 to the Commis- sioners of the New Court House. The Commis- sion is at present incomplete, and about seven weeks ago the Mayor nominated Mr. Timothy H. Churchill to fill the vacancy. The Board have not yet taken any action on the matter, and the Mayor has resolved to stop the supplies until the vacancy is filled. The usual course was ordered to be taken with the message. Supervisor Purdy offer- ed a resolution that the use of the chamber of the Board of Supervisors be offered to Thurlow Weed for the purpose of receiving those citizens anxious to pay their respects to him. It was unanimously adopted. After transacting some routine business the Board adjourned until Monday, the 30th inst. The market for beef cattle ruied rather heavy, both on Monday and yesterday, and the result of the two days’ sales was less favorable for the sellers than last week, there being a depreciation in prices of about half a cent per pound, varying from 7c. to Sc. 9 8}4e, with now and then a sale at higher prices. Milch cows were steady and unchanged. Veals were in moderate request at our previous quotations—to wit: 4c. a 5%4c. for common to good. Sheep and lambs were ac- tive and higher—$3 to $450a$6, according to quality. Swine were dull and heavy at 3c.a 3%e. for corn fed“and 3c.a3%¢c. for still fed. The receipts for the week were as follows:—4,485 beef cattle, 115 cows, 757 veals, 8,699 sheep and lambs, and 11,263 swine. Stocks were lower yesterday. Central fell 114 per cent, and the Western shares in proportion. Govern. ments were a 3 lower. As was anticipated, the rise in gold led to large receipta from vartous quarters, and the price declined 34 per cent. People who desire to avail themselves of the advance in the precious metal, and to sell their gold to the best advantage, must lose uo time. Exchange closed at 117440118. Money was in good demand at 4 a 5 per cent. The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of 1,600 bales, closing’stiff on the basis of Sic. a 311¢c. for middling uplands. Tho following statement regarding the movements of cotton, from September 1, 1860, to june 18, 1861, is from the circular of Messrs. William P Wright & Co.—" _ Receipts at the ports... Fxported to Great Britait Exported to France... Vxported to other foreign ports. Total... Taken by Northern epinner: tock on hand. ‘Total... ‘The whole amount received in Great Britain and in other parte of Europe, from the ist of September, 1861, to June 18,1863 (the present date), has been confined to cargoet which have run the blockade and has not reached 10,000 bales. The exvorta of 3,106,000 bales to Hurope last year, at tho then average value of $55 per Vale, amounted to $170,840,000. The present average value of Sic. per Ib., in New York, gives the cost of the average bale of 450 Ibs. at $139 50. Estimated by thie dard, the export of last year up to this date would amounted to an enormous sum of money. The rthern spinners, up to this date last year, took 266,000 bales, of the value of $14,630,000, loaving the small tock in Southern ports of 73,000 bales. The only sup- vlies spinners have obtained this year have been through ‘nportations (nearly all from Liverpeo!), and to con- cated and prize lots. The Kast India Surats, imported nh speculation, proved to be a failure, Its short and yeittle fibre was wholly unsuited to the condition of American machinery, while its inferior quality united t for the production of American goods. The mat of that received was reshipped to Engiand. The flour market was without material change in prices, while there was rather more activity, The selec i ns of shipping lots of Western wheat were scarce and rm. The views of holders wore abov» thore of buyers, whieh tended to restrict sales. Corn was firm at a changed prices, Pork was lower ond active, with sales £ mess at $10 80 @ $10 8744, and prime at $3 50 a $8 75. Sugars were active and closed at an advance of about ‘ic. per Ib, over the closing prices of last week, with sales of 2,600 hhde., 1,630 boxes and 1,509 bags. Coffee wos unchanged, Tho stock embraced 126,209 bags Rio ond Santos, and packages of all kinds, 176,612, including 14,900 mats and 2.563 bags Java. Freights were steady, with moderate engagements. Comma Trrvuixa iv Conorss.—All day Monday Congress was discussing whether or not Mrs. Lee's house should be used as a mili- tary hospital,and whether or not Gen. Banks allowed contrabands to ride in the army wagons. Splendid subjects these for the display of statesmanship! Buch debates, however, are the principal oceupation of the contemptible nincompoops of Congress now-a-days, The cause of Jeff. Davis has received more aid and comfort from the abolition legislation and criminal trifling’ of the present jackass Congress than from any other Northern agency, except ing, perhaps, the radical abolition party, which controls Congress, and tries to control the Pre- eident. If all men obtained their deserts, our Congressmen would fare very badly in this world aud the next, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1862. The Prospect Before Riehmond—Signs of Alarm in the Radical Abolition Camp. What is the prospect before Richmond? The public mind, with the advance of our army across the Chickahominy, was full of enthusi- asm; but this bas been changed by subsequent events and developments into all sorts of specu- lations and conjectures, and to some degree of public anxiety and impatience. In this connection our original radical “On to Richmond” contemporary, the New York Tribune, through its army correspondent at the “Seven Pines,” has undergone a wonderful change compared with its bloodthirsty hue and cry against General McClellan just after the rebel: evacuation of Manassas. Then McClel- lan had the most imposing army ever collected on this continent, while the rebel army which had slipped through his fingers was represent- ed at less than forty thousand men. Now, from the same source, we are told that (in front of Richmond) “the enemy are greatly superior to us in numbers;” that they are courageous, daring, savage, disciplined, well armed, and will desperately dispute “every inch of the way into Richmond,” and that ‘they consider that the coming battle will decide their fate;” that “they desire to fight,” and that “to march into Richmond we must pave our way with twenty thousand dead Southerners.” Hence the Tribune man calls lustily for reinforce- ments to General McClellan, and “on the in- stant,” and “in God’s name,” and says that “ it would have been economical, humano and politic te have given to McClellan all the dis" posable troops north and west of the Ohio’ when he commenced the invasion of Virginia.” Now, how are we to account for this great improvement in the musie of the Tribune since the rebel evacuation of Manassas? The answer is very simple. Some of our radical abolition republicans—and Greeley is among them—arg beginning to be apprehensive that seme serious disaster to General McClellan is within the range of probability; and should any disaster befall him they know where public opinion will fix the responsibility. Our loyal people, like our honest and sagacious President, have ajways had the fullest confidence in General McClellan. Not so, however, isit,or has it been, with our radical republicans. From the day when it was made apparent that General McClellan had repaired in our Potomac Army the damages of Bull run, and had rendered Washington perfectly safe by his military skili and incessant industry—from that day that abo- lition agitation and incessant clamor against his inactivity, timidity and loyalty eommenced which culminated in the breaking up of his Po- tomac Army into three or four separate armies, and in the derangement of his well laid plans for the capture of Richmond and the suppres- sion of the rebellion. He was not and would not become a wor- shipper among the nigger worshippers, an: they resolved to immolate him: Hence the cut- ting up of his Potomac Army into three or four separate camps, to make room for two or three military politicians. Hence the late disastrous repulse of Gen. Banks from the Shenandoah valley, and the general disarrangement of ali those beautiful plans which were to supersede the plans of Gen. McClellan for the recovery of Richmond and the State of Virginia to the Union. Mr. Senator Wilson and his radical as- sociates had decreed that no more troops were wanted, and recruiting had been for some time suspended when this repulse of Gen. Banks fell like a bombshell into the War Office. Mr. Secretary Stanton was thus persuaded of the expediency of calling ous fifty thousand ad ditional troops. But why not one hundred and fifty, or two hundred thousand, in order to bring this war to an end at once? With this additional force on hand as month ago, Rich- mond, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and every other place in the South of any importance to this rebebiion, would be now in our possession. As it is, without going further, Gen. McClellan evidently needs reinforcements, when he might just as well have had in hie camp to-day an overwhelming army of two hundred and fifty thousand men as the more limited force now under his command. We charge all these drawbacks upon our abolition radical faction and their domineering party chiefs at Washington. The President has held them in check as far as possible; but con- trolling, as they do, the lawmaking power of Congress, the President has been compelled to handle them somewhat delicately. We are in- clined to the opinion, on the other hand, that the Secretary of War has lent a too willing ear in some cases to these abolition radicals; but, believing that he is at length convinced of these expensive biunders, and realizes the dif. ficult position of the army of Gen. McClellan, we feel assured that the necessary measures for a crowning victory at Richmond, and a speedy end to the war, are under way. and will be actively carried out. Out of their own mouths our abolition disorganizers are con- demued; and to save themselves from the pos- sible consequences of tueir folly aud treachery they come in at the eleventh hour for reinforce- ments to the army of General McClellan. Mayor Oppyke on Corporation Apvertix- 1nG.—We published yesterday the severe re- buke of the impudent attempt to spend Corpo- ration money upon papers of no circulation, with which Mayor Gpdyke accompanied his veto of the resolution making s German organ a Corporation paper. The Mayor states a well known fact when he says (bat over ninety thou- saad dollars of the public money is squanggred every year upon papers never read and seldom heard of by our citizens, and that, for one- third of this sum, the Corporation advertise- ments might have a much larger circulation in a leading paper. The Heraiy now publishes over one huudred and twenty-two thonsand copies daily, and will soon publish over one hundred and {ifty thousand. The combined circulation of the papers to which the city now pays ninety thousand dollara a year does not amount to over thirty thousand copies, and many of the Corporation papers count their circulation only by hundreds. The Aldermen and Common Councilmen, who passed the resolution vetoed by the Mayor, were not ignorant of these plain facts and figures. They had just been supplied, at their own request, with sworn statements of the circulation of all the papers in this city, and they attempted, knowingly and with malice prepense, to add another to the number of those sucking journals which exist only by pickings from the city treasury. This is hardly to be wondered at, however; for the proceed- ings of the Aldermen and their assoviates re- cently have been characterized only by extra- vagance, impudence and ignorance; and Boole and Genet appesr to be the loaders of this gang of public spoilers. The Gordian Knot of Napolcon’s Destiny. Woe publish to-day a very remarkable letter from General Prim to Napoleon, in reply to an autograph letter from the Emperor on the Mexicea expedition. It has been translated for the Heratp from the Spanish papers, and now for the first time is printed in this country. It is polite and respectful, but the honest, straightforward utterance of an inte?li- gent, candid soldier. It contains some salutary truths which Napoleon will do well to lay to heart before he takes another atep in a course that must prove fatal to him unless he speedily recedes from his position. General Prim fully corroborates the views of Sir C. Wyke con- tained in his deapaiches to Earl Russell. It is clear that no considerable portion of the peo- ple are in favor of a monarchy, much lesa of one imposed upon the country by foreign bayonets. “There are very few men of monarchical sentiments” in Mexico, says General Prim, and the reasons he assigns are very conclusive. Under the dominion of the Spaniards the Mexicans never knew monarchy except through vice- roys, and at the revolution, when the Spanish powor was overthrown, there were no vast in- terests of nobility nor. any moral interests left behind to form a party for the resuscitation of monarchy. Nor is there anything to cause the present generation to desire the re-establish- ment of institutions which it never knew. All the habits and the very janguage of the coun- try are republican. Even where the allied ar- mies were present to protect the people in the expression of their sentiments there was no man found to raise his voice in favor of a king. General Prim significantly hints that “the proximity of the United States” has caused an intense hatred of monarchy in Mexico; and he adds:—“Therefore, aud for other reasons which cannot be hidden from the deep penetra- tion of your Imperial Majesty, you will un- derstand that the vastly prevuiling opinion of this country is not and cannot be monarchi_ cal.” What the “other reasons” are is not stated; but there can be little doubt that in this delicate manner the General warns the Emperor of the danger of coming into colli- sion with the United States. He tells him that at great cost of treasure and blood he may bring Maximilian to the capital of Mexico. But cui bono? He would have po other support than a few rich, and the beaten exiles who never dreamt of a monarchy till they were banished the coun- try. And then he utters this pregnant predic- tion:—“ The monarch will fall from the throne raised by your Majesty, as other potentates of the earth will fall the day that the imperial mantle of your Majesty ceases to shield and envelop them.’”’ These views are full of good sense, and General Prim is evidently a sound statesman as well as a brave and skilful sol- dier. Subjoined to this letter is an extract from snother letier, on the other side of the question, written by a friend of Almonte, from Orizaba, toa friend in this city, who has sent it to us for publication. According to the latter Al- monte is the Solomon of Mexico, and wisdom will die with him. He is the man for the crisis, who will renovate all things by achieving a reyolution by the aid of Freuach arms and by overthrowing the government of Juarez, though it is both the government de faclo and ce jure of the country; and it contends that, as the Mexican Congress has issued a manifesto against the French, the Emperor must issue a counter manifesto, as well to stir up the passions of the French peo- ple and army as to justify himself before the world. Napoleon, it concludes, must fight to the last, till he has conquered Mexico, or be dis- graced, ruined and dethroned. There can be no doubt that Almonte and those persons in his interest will do their ut- most tofmduce Napoleon to enter into their views, and to support them at any expense. But the Emperor is sagacious, and can see as far into a millstone as any other living man. He will be swayed ultimately by his own interests, and not by the interests of General Almonte orof the Archduke Maximilian. He has got himself into one of the greatest dilemmas that any crowned head was ever placed in; but he is just the man who knows how to extricate him- self out of such a scrape. He kas, however, but two courses to follow, and he must adopt either one or the other, or go to the wall, The prestige of Freuch arms must be restored at any sacrifice. First, he may face the music in Mexico, con- tending with all the difliculties of distance, climate, mountainous regions with fortified passes, and, above all, a people fighting for their independence, their freedom, their every- thing. Bitterly as they fought against Ameri- can troops in the campaign of 1846-7, they wil! fight ten times more desperately now; for we did not seek to subvert their liberties or med- dle with their independence. The outrageous audacity of Napoleon in urging a war to en. slave them will unite the people as one man; and it is beginning to move and unite the American public. As soon as their domestic troubles are settled (aud that cannot be now very long) they will espouse the Mexican cause with a vehemence that will astonish the Emperor of the French and his army. Indeed the tendency of the proceedings of Napoleon is to hagtén the re- union of North and South. From Mr. Rost's letter to the Confederate government, as well as from the Southern press, it is evident that there is the deepest disgust at the course of Na- poleon towards the South. “He has played with the rebellion as a cat does with a mouse, and he has deceived and disappointed the leaders in their hour of need. They would, therefore, have every motive to settle the quarrel with the government at Washington, which they could do without humiliation. To repel from the American continent the common foe of demo- cratic institutions, in his attempt to inaugurate monarchy as the ruling idea in America, would be arallying cry and a bond of Union which would awake all the old patriotism of the nation. To complete the conquest of Mexico it would be necessary for France to first conquer the reunited American people, from Maine to Texas. To do this never entered into the dreams of Napoleon, who knows from his agents in this country that before next fall we shall have more iron-clad gunboats than France and England combined. The only other alternative left to the ruler of France is to create a quarrel with England out of the Mexican imbroglio, and invade her at once. Spain is not a foe worthy of his steel. But in England he has the mortal foe of his uncle and of his own dynasty—the hereditary enemy of France for many hundred years. With that greedy and aggressive Power he has accounts to settle reaghing back for sevora, centuries. By invading her, as he can success- | empt from taxation, although they produce fully do with his iron-clad fleet, he would become @ second William the Conqueror, and, carrying out the unfinished programme of his unele, establish in Europe such an empire as it has never yet seen. He is the man of destiny towhom the First Napoleon has bequeathed the legacy of avenging Waterloo and 8t. Helena. If he does not take the tide of fortune at the flood he wilt soon find himself a stranded wreck, washed ashore upon the same lonely rock where his uncle gnawed out his heart. Russia would not interfere with his enterprise— indeed could not in time. Prussia, by any feeble hostility she could offer, would only pro- voke the seizure of her Rhenish border; and the rest of Germany is in too revolutionary a condition to permit any movement of its princes against France. The game of Napoleon, there- fore—the sure and winning game—is to attack England at once; and that he will do it is ex- tremely probable. It is his only salvation. But, whatever course the Emperor of the French may take, it now becomes the solemn duty of the President of the United States, and of his Secretary of State, to issue a strong manifesto against any further steps on the part of France to carry out its scheme of Mexican conquest. Let ourancient friend and ally have fair warning; for there is nothing surer written in the book of fate than that the people of the United States will never permit the conquest of Mexico by any European Power. If Na- poileon persists in the attempt it will assuredly result in his downfall and the ruin of his dynasty. The Tribare and the Courrier des Etats Unis—A Siorm in # Teapot. There is a very nice little quarrel going on at present between the Tribune and the Courrier des Ltats Unis concerning the French expedition to Mexico, the United States Army, General Prim, seces- sion, the Emperor Napoleon and the allied commissioners. In fact, the row is about every- thing in general, and nothing in particular. It appears that the Cowvier, in publishing the official accounts of the defeat of the French army in front of Puebla, expressed a hope that, notwithstanding the losses sustained, the forces of Gen. Lorencez—-which it calls “our army”— would be able to rally and to take revenge on the Mexicans. The Zribune regards this as a violent act of rebellion against the United States government, and, with its usual furious- noss and ferocity, bellows out that the Courrier should be suppressed, because it is favoring se- cession. This is of a piece with the daily stu- pidity of the Tribune. The Courrier des Etats Unis has never professed to be a national American newspaper, in the proper sense of the term. It is only nomiually a kind of demi- semi-oflicial organ of the French inhabitants, ‘aboring bard to make it believed that it de- fends the policy of the Emperor. In proof of this, it attacks General Prim, runs foul of the Mexicans, gets into a controversy with Grocley, and does many other foolish things. To keep up an appearance of respectability, and to adorn its columns with the tatest Parisian gossip, it keeps a correspondent in the Wrench capital, who manages to get access to the laundry and servant halls of the Tuileries. He thus snatches up little bits of scandal, which he throws into iorm and sends over here to amuse and edify the readers of the Courrier. These are the facts about this paper. In its own sphere and for the purpose intended it is a good enough kind of sheet—far ahead of the vindictive Tribune in energy and enterprise. As for the political views of this French newspaper, it is plain that the Tribune knows nothing at all about them. Instead of being an organ of the Emperor Napoleon, the Courrier, in our opinion, is really and truly in the in- terest of the Orleans family and dynasty. While pretending to support the plans of the Emperor, it is secretly doing everything in its power to overturn his empire and to briny back the Bourbons to their former influence. For this reason it is urging ou Napoleon to per- severe in his foolish enterprise in Mexico, and exciting the French people to believe that the campaign will be an easy one, well knowing all the while that, if the invading army could even reach the city of Mexico, they would be only at the commencement of their troubles, and that their entrance there would be as disastrous to them as was the advance into Moscow of the troops of the First Napoleon, The moral support which the Mexicans are now receiving from the United States will work wonders among them, while the glory which has already crowned their arms will lead them to fight with terrible energy against the French. If Napoleon should be unwise enough to eend fifty thousand more Tureos, marines and Zouaves to accomplish the destruction of the sister republic, they will be met by a hundred thousand Mexicans, and driven into the sea; and, if the Mexicans are not enough for the armies of their invaders, we will be ready to send them ali the assisi- ance of which they may stand in need, in the shape of soldiers, sirips-of-war, money, and all the elements to insure the certain expulsion of the French in double quick time. The result of so disastrous a defeat—which would most certainly follow our interference— would create guch jremendous excitement in Frafce that nothing could save Napoleon's throne. The people would instantly rise in re- volution, and that would be the end of the Mexican invasion and of the dynasty of Louis Napoleon. bis, then, is the shrewd game which the Courrier is playing in favor of the house of Or- leans, by thus urging on Napoleon to his pre- mature destiny. The two noble princes now serving with sv much distinction in the federal army are every day rising more proudly before the European horizon, while the church party and the Orleanists in France are earnestly watching their career. Napoleon has, there- fore, great reason to be cautious in his every agt; for, if he make a» false step and should cause the arms of France to be further turnished in Mexico, it will be the certain sig- nal for his overthrow and the restoration of the heirs of the hotire of Orleans to their ancestral inheritance. The Courrier des Kials Unis is the active agent of this programme on this side o/ the Atlantic, and this is the cause of the tilt between that paper and the insane Zribune. Tun Tax Brut. x Coxoness.—The Tax bill is not yet passed, but it ought to be. When it becomes a law its many curious complications wil] produce endless discussions, which will materially affect the next Congressional elec- tions. Aswthe bill now stands it saddles one hundred millions of dollars of taxes upon the commercial States, the State of New York be- ing especially burthened. The agricultural States, om the contrary, are almost totally ox- about fifteen bundred million dollars worth og raw material per annum. The New England manufacturing States are taxed about three per cent, but are benefitted by the tariff from thirty to forty per cent. These facts show that there is @ screw loose somewhere about this bill. It should be immediately passed, however, and then we can amend it by and by. The sailor's rule of “any port in a storm” may be aptly psraphrased into any sort ofa tax bill during » national crisis. Tax Mooxrain Tors 1x SummeR.—Many of our citizens wilt prefer the mountain tops to the watering places this summer. If they visit the Kaatskills, the Green or the White Mountainsy they can hardly gowrong. The Kaatskills are delightfully cool during the heated term of July and August. The Green Mountains, im Vermont, are quite as enjoyable, and at the pleasant little town of Man- chester excursionists will find most ex- cellent accommodations—at the Equinox House espefially. The White Mountains of New Hampshire are too well known to need praise. A visit to either or all of these mountain tope will be found much more beneficial to body and mind, pocket and soul, than s sojourn at Newport, Saratoga or Sharon Springs, where fashionable rowdyism runs rampant. M. De Buavmonr,one of three Freuch officers lately taken prisoners by the rebels, but who afterwards es- caped from Richinond, called yesterday to correct @ statement alleged to have been made by his cousia, one of the attaches of the Wrench Legation. It appears that instead of rebuking the conduct of his cousim, M. De Beaumont, of the Legation, has expressed his satisfae- tioa with the correctness of the statemonat published by the three officers on their return from Richmond. AcADEMY OF MustIO—Last NiG at 0? THB OPERA SEASON.<— | ‘This evening Mr. Ulizaun takes his benefit, with the same | extensive and varied artistic corabination with which he has carried on the operations of the week. The brilliant. success Obtained by the new prima donna, Madame Bor- chard, in the ‘Trovatore,” has induced the management to repeat the whole of the opera on the present occasion, notwithstanding that the performances will be necessa- rily long. It is @ pity that this lady made ber debut se jate in the season. Her fine natural gifts and porfess artistic training would havo filled a void that has beem audly felt during the winter. The rest of the programme embraces scenas from “L'Elisir d’Amore,” by Madame Herrmann, several pianoforte solos by Gottschalk, anda umber of tours de legerdemain by tho great Prestidigita- tor, who will explain on this occasion, according to @ eng standing promise, his manner of performing the celebrated ring trick. Ife leaves shortly for Hurope, and this will be positively the last porformauce that he wilt givein New York. Cremorne Garpexs.—The entertainment at these Gar- deus deserve and must ultimately insure suecess. Suche @ combination of talent is rarely brought together at one time, each separate departme.t being equal to the ordi- nary exhibitions. Last evening the performances com- menced with a grand vocal and instrumental concert, Mile. Carlotta Pattt sang several pieces, among which was the ‘Amour Polka,” the happy conceit of Signor Mozio, and being peculiarly suited to her voice was rea- dered in 4 charming manner. She was deservedly ea- cored. Madame Strakoreh sang two pretty ballads, and Signori Sbriglia and Ardavani also performod selectiong from the operas. Mr. Thomas Baker conducted the orchestra ani presided at the pianoforte. The bailet, waich followed the concert, was also good. The lovers of the Spanish school could’ desire mothing better than the dances of tho beautiful Cubas, with her talented and well dreseod corps de taille, and the admirers of tbe Italian school muss Lave been pleased with Signorita Theleur’s graceful movements. Mr. Baker's Promenade Concerts are alse attractive, the grand Military Union Fantasia being both ingenious and effective. The solo pieces seomed to t+ great satis‘action, and were repeatedly applauded. The performances of the equestrian school embraced some good artists, all the ribaidry of the ordinary circus being entirely taken out of the programme. Each entertain- ment is complete in fiself, and has @ peculiar advant in not bewug so long as to weary audience. grounds were brilliantly illuminated, the Chinese da and promenade orchestra in tho centre quite an object of attraction. ACADEMY oF Mvsic.—Last night was presented the opera of ‘Linda di Chamounix”’ before @ very full house and with a very excellent cast. Miss Kellogg sang the role of Linda, rendering the pathetic musio of this beau- tiful opera with exquisite taste and focling. Madame d’Angri, in the role of Pierotto, though said tobe very hoarse, ably sustained Miss Keilogg; 80 well, in fact, that the hoarseness complained of was net very perceptibles ospecially in the beautiful duo in the second act, which was delightfully given: Aimodio, as Linda’s father, was very good, though perhaps a litte timid. Ho is a care- fulactor,and though not possessing a voice of great power, yet sings with so much taste that we may call him without fear of contradiction a good artist. In the closing scene of the second act he was capital. Brignolt is like tho weather—variable, He can do much better than he did last night, for ho has done botter oftea. Burtii was excellent as the Marquis. playing the tole ad- mirably. Altogether the Fon om was good, and preciable, and deserving of the app!ause bestowed by audience, Hermann promises to let us inte the secret of the ring trick to-night, though we fancy that, even after bis expianation, it will romain as great a inysiery as over. At the conclusion of the opera Miss Keilogg e composition by Signor Muzic, entitled the Polke Amor.” Of course it was good, particularly when sung by an artist whose sweet voice would throw @ charm round the fitmsiest air imaginable. ‘To-night Mr, ilman takes his benedt. Georoe Camry Repivives.—Our old friend George Christy has, we are glad te see, renounced hia errant ‘fe, and taken the old Canterbury, 585 Broadway, which he opens on Monday next, under the title of ‘‘The New Mall of Minstrelsy."" His former admirers and patroma will no doubt give him an enthusiastic welcome, The Tart. FASUION PLEASURE GROUND ASSOCTATION. Turspar, June 17—Purse $500, mile heats, best three in five, in barnoss, D. Pfifor entered black mare Sunnyside. H. Woodruff entered b. wa. James D. Mi First Heat.—W! the time arrived for the horses to start, Sunnyside and Princess only came up for the word. Ed. Eddy, having cuffed himself only a few days ago in his exercise, was lamo and unable to contend with the others, The betting previous to the start was de- cidedly iu fayor of Sunvyside, one hundred to thirty being freoly offercd on hor for the race. The nags came up under very fine headway, aod tok the word on a square, steady trot; but before they had gone fifty yards Princoss slipped up, and Sunnyside opened quite a gap on her on the tur; yet before Sunnyside reached the quarter pole sho, too, broke up, having cast a shoe ‘vom one of her fore feet. She floundéred about for some time aftorwars, giving Princess a lead of at least fifty yards, They were a long time in making the first quar- tor, forty three seconds being consumed in going thas distance, Princess passed the balf mile polo in 1:20 nearly eighty yards ahead of the black mare, and it was by every one that the flag would fallin hor however; for when Princess crossed he score Suanyaie was in by several longths, and she camo up the homestretch on as pretty a pacing gait as wap over shown either by Jus. K. Polk, Hero or Pocahontas. t judges were puzzled how to decide the A great) many [ete D particularly those who had taken jong odds, declarod that sunnyside had paced all the way from the back- stretch, and should be distanced, while others were of Opinion ‘that any penaity for her mishap would be de- cidodly arbitrary ov the part of the judges. The dis- tance judge was consulted, and bis opinion was that the driver of Sonnyside had done all in his power to tho mare to trot, but could not, and the judges then cided that Princess wou the heat, and that Sunnyside was entitled to anothor show for the purse. Second Heat.~Tho layers of the long odds were willing to draw thoir bets and pay a slight per centage. The haga, as before, had a good start, and went to tho quare ter pole ata very moderate gait, Princesa a couple of jengths in front, in forty seconds. As they began to im- crease their speed Princess broke, and the black mare jod abont thirty feet to the balf mile pole—time, 1:19, From there to the stand the speed was very ch increased. Princess closed np finely on the mare, and made an interesting contest all way to the score, Sunnyside reaching there balf a longth in front, the last haif of the mile being tro ted ia 1:16 and the heat in 2:34, Third Heat.—Sunnysice wont off with the lead, carry- ing Princess to a break just af passing the quarter pole, in thirty eight seconds, and leading threo lengths to the half mile pe i:l4. She won the heat by half a dozen lengths in 2:30. Firth Hoot. —This was a counterpart of the proved’ heat. Sunnyside led to the quarter pols in thirty eig! aud a half seconds; to the hal mile po! 1ilAye, and catne home an easy winuer by several lengths in 2:32). Court Calendar=—This Day. Sr preme Cocet, Onn —Vart 1—Nos, 1777, 6040, 6047, 2 66, 96, 197T, 226%. 2265, 2260, 2271, 2278, a 279, “1281, 22! 6, 2287, 2250. Pars No, 342, ai 2258 added to & @mdar ef Tucsday, June 17,