The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1863, Page 6

NEW YUKK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1863.—TRIPLKE SHEKT. 6 — NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GUKDUN BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Orriga N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nassau sts. TERMS casa ia advance, Money sent by mail will bo at tho risk of the sender, Nowe but bank bills currcat {a Now York takon. THE DAILY HERALD, Tanwe centa por copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, ovory Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Aanual subscription price — . & Five Copies . Toa Copies, pen 15 Postage five ceuta per oopy for three month Wo NO NOTICE taken of snovymous correspondence. joations do aot roturn raocted Volume XXVIIT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING} BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brondway.—Ricaargan. WALLACE 'S THEAT&, Broadway.—Rosapace. WINTER Sgnnen. Broadway.—Karnirzy Mavoun- neen—Torion Mageimp. OLYMPIC THEATRI Broadway. —! M — Tusus’s No Suow Won is Fai, PSP ER: Mere NEW BOWERY THEATR —_ a New Youu Pitor—Tuax Bia on Bowery—Mazerra. 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The treatment of the Uniom prisoners at Rich- mond has been the theme of many comments in our columns of late, and the. miserable condition to which they were reduced for want of food and other necoasaries of life has been repeatedly de- scribed by our correspondents and others. An effort was made by oar government to relieve them, but with unheard of barbarity the attempt has been refused by the rebel authorities in Rich- mond. Tho steamer Convoy, which left Fortress Monroe {ast Saturday with provisions and clothing for our soldiers held as prisoners in Richmond, returned yesterday, bringing back the provisions and clothing, Col. Irving, who bad charge of the mat- ter, having béén refused the privilege of taking the rations to Richmond. Thus our unfortunate sole diers, numbering some twelve thousand, are left to perish of want in the prisons of the rebel capi- tal. Ifever there was a time when it became the solemn duty of the government to push its armies on to Richmond surely it is now. We must wait, however, to see whether the War Department ap- preciates the ne@tyity or not. The prisoners are being removed to Danville, some twenty-five hun- dred of them having already started for that place. An arrival from Richmond,of some released prison- ers on parole puts us in possession of the condi- tion of the Haratp correspondents, Messrs. Bulk- ley, Hendricks and Hart, prisoners in Castle Thun- der. They are permitted to purchase outside food enough to keep life going, although the prison fare is reduced to a starvation standard. The news from the Army ef thc Potomac is de- void of interest. On Sunday last, after Geueral Kilpatrick's force had retired from their recon- noiasance on the Rapidan, the enemy threw over two regiments on this side of the river, keeping them, however, under cover of their guns. No movements indicating an approaching conflict have been made. Everything is quiet, both in front and rear. A despatch from Chattanooga of the 17th says that on that morning the enemy brought a battery down to the river side and shelled the eamp of the One Hundred and Twonty-fifth Illinois, guarding the first six miles above there, killing the Rev. Mr. Senders, chaplain of the regiment. The rebels wore forced to retire after half an hour's practice by tho Second Minnesota battery. With this excep- tion all was quiet there. Our saval correspondence off Mobile gives some very interesting accounts of the cruise of the gunboat Gertrude in that vicinity, the captare of the blockade runner Warrior, and the discom- fitare of the rebel ram which attempted to dam- age te Union squadron. A map accompanies the statement, showing tho entrance to Mobile Bay, the position of ow blockading fleet and the rebo! defencen of the harbor. A despatch from Mobic on the 12th instant, ta the rebel Adjatant Aeparal, forwarded by Major General Maury, says what on the dag previous his troops dashed in above Bayeu Sere, on a plundering party of Yan- vees, three hundred stro.g, and drove them to thoy trou-clads with groat slaughter. We bronght off, he says, their wagon trains snd twenty-five prisoners. {t wae stated yosterday in Washington that the ‘atest news from East Tennessee is that the rebel | the Teath the funeral of 5: visor Da yoaterday, Mr. Tweed moved an adj ourameut of the question till ten o'clock this morning, which was carried. ‘Both Bosworth and McOuan were represented by counsel, ‘The Board of Education met last evening A report from the Special Committee on Teacher!’ Salaries was read, in favor of advancing the sala ries of teachors and janitors and clerks, and other employes of the Board, twenty per cent from Ja- ouary 1, 1864; also a report from the Committee on the Free Academy, in favor of increasing tho salarios of professors and teachers in that institu- tion in about an cqual ratio, After somé opposai- tion from Mr. Fare and others, and efforts to have the question divided, or postponed to tho next meeting, the two reports were adopted in succession, without much delay or any alteration The salary of the Clerk of the Board was thea voted to be increased from $3,500 to $4,000 a year The total amount added to the expenses of the Board by these increases will touch close upon $200,000 per aunum. After passing the resolution to raise the Clork’s salary the Board adjourned. The Plymouth Festival, in honor of Rev. H. W. Beecher, was continned iast evening, when he and Prof, Hitchcock made brief addresses. A report may be found elsewhere. A convention of rhilroad managers was held at the St, Nicholas Hotel yesterday. The meeting was numerously attended, and the principal aub- jects under consideration were the rates for which emigrants and other passengers wil! be carried over the different lines. 4 In the Charles Breuaing will, suit yesterday in the Surrogate’s Court the contestanta opened their case, opposing the will on the ground of for- gery. Witnesses were examined as to Breusing's handwriting and signaturo, In the estate of An- drew Harrison, deceased, the Surrogate held that proceedings to obtain an accounting from the ad- ministrator, who has become a lunatic, and ia in charge of a commission, must be taken in the Su- preme Court, The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday afternoon. The number of emigrants arrived last week was 1,600, making the whole number since January 1, 140,586, against 68,294 to the corres- ponding date last year, or more thai one hundred per cent more. The commutation balance now is $11,721 68. The censns of the State of Iowa taken last spring foots up 702,368—an increase of 27,420 over 1860. Fort DeKalb, on the south side of the Potomac river, will hereafter be known as Fort Strong, in memory of Major General George C. Strong, who died of wounds received in the assault upow Fort Wagner, Charleston harbor. There are 38,183 houses of worship in the United States, of which 12,814, or about thirty- three per cent, are in Rebeldom. Smallpox is prevalent in St. Louis. A severe fire occurred at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the 12th instant, destroying the Post Office, the St. Pierre Hotel and other valuable buildings. Loss $70,000. Venango, the county in Pennsylvania in which the petroleum wells are situated, has increased its voting population in two years from one thousand seven hundred and thirteen to six thousand two hundred and sixty-fivé. i Snow fell to the depth of from six to ten inches throughout Northern Iowa, Wisconsin and Minne- sota on the 13th inst. The supreme tribunal of Madrid has just given final judgment in a suit which had been under liti- gation two hundred and forty years, and which in-” volved the succession to the inheritance of Fran- cisco Pizarro, the famous invader aud conqueror of Peru in 1532. The Singapore (East Indies) Times of the 19th of September reports:—Died, on the 15th instant, at the residence’ of the United States Consul, Margaret A. Hinckley, wife of Captain Thomas J. Hinckley, aged thirty-six years. The gold market yesterday was again animated,aad sales commenced in the morning at an advance on the previous day’s prices,and before the it went up to 1513§, leaving off at 151}{. Stocks wer® better, and Prices advanced throughout the day, Governments cou- tinued frm. The banks paid another instalment of three million five bundred thousand dollars on their loan of thirty-five miilions to the government, and they yet hoid twenty-two millions of greenbacks to pay off tho balance of eight million five hundred thousand dollars. Brutal Action of the Rebel Government— A New Crusade fer the Union Prisoners. A telegram from Fortress Monroe informs us that the steamer which left there last Sat- urday, carrying clothing and provisions to the Union prisoners at Richmond, has been obliged to return with her cargo, since the rebel au- thorities refuse to permit Colonel Irving, who had charge of the steamer, to convey the sup- plies to the rebel capital. The war began with the refusal of the rebels to allow us to relieve the starving garrison of Fort Sumter. It ought to end with this rebel refusal to allow us to relieve our poor starving prisoners at “Richmond. We cannot relieve, but we can release them. Tho rebels will not exchange them, and, with barbarous brutality, they will neither feed these poor prisoners themselves nor permit us to supply them with food. This announcement must be made the signal for a new orusade, the object of which is the immediate capturo of the rebel capital. Let President Lincoln at once call upon the loyal States for @ special volunteer force of two hundred thousand mon for this express Purpose. The men ate ready for the call. Lot this force advance up the peniasula while the Army of the Potomac co-operates by « rapid forward movement. Let there be no delay for strategical or other reasons; but let this army have no other purpose than to give our sulfor- ing prisoners freedom by taking Richmond. There are those who are full of enthusiasm for the freedom of the blacks. A greater and more universal enthusiasm will be aroused in favor of this crusade for the freedom of the wretched Union captives in robel bonds No time could be better than the present for such 9 crusade. Genera! Longstreet is moving in that direction, Wo believe that the rebels aod that some skirmishing bas already occurred have recently groaily woakened the army of betwoon bis advance and General Burnside’s out- | Lee, and that Richmond ts practically defence- posts, but at what particular point was not | leas. Now is the time to strike quickly and knowy (aurely. The fathers, brothers, sons, relatives MIFCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the Toutonia off Cape Race on Monday evening we have European advices to the @th inst., one day later than the accounts pre: | viously received. Tho report that the Unit 4 States steamer Kear- saree had boen ordered to lenve the harbor of Cork fe confemed. Her commander, however, refneod to loave, and at last accounts was taking in coal. A doapatch from Bombay, dated Lith alt., re ports the cobel privateer Alabama cruising in the Bay of Hengal. {Lhe Liverpool cotton market was quict and slighty depressed. The Gonaty Caavnssere met yesterday to con sidor we ausution of the disputed retarns from ! and friends of the pri pers are all roa 0 go upon this crusade, and to furaish the necessary funds for the purpose. It need not—it should not—ocost the government a dollar. Tue Pre sident haa only to publish the call, and the people will do all tho rest. Forward to Rich mond! Release the starving patriots who languish ia the Richmond prisons! Annusr ov Jovaya R, Gropinas.—It was re- ported by telegraph yestorday that Joshua R. Giddings had besa arrested in Canada for kid- axpping We hope that tha Canwiaas will black men It is high time that be was ar- rested, now that he has commenced the ‘busi- neas of kidaapping white men, The Late Elections ta the Freo and Bor- der Slave States, aud Thets Significant Results. The elections in the free States this yoar, from Maine to California, bave gonc, with an unmistakable empbasia, in favor of tho sup- prosaion of the rebellion by force of arms, as the only road to the restoration of the Union and a substantial and durable peace. Tho popular tido began to sot in with the elections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island aad Connec- ticut, last apring; but it was with the majority of fifty thousand for the war from the border slave State of Kentucky, in August, that tho Geacral movement of public opinton became ® rosistiess food, sweeping away all obatruc- tions before it from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocoan Tn these elections of the free States and alave- holding Kentucky the people have decreed that, notwithstanding all the blunders, all tho shortcomings, all the harsh and arbitrary pro- ceedings, of the administration, and all the de- plorable proofs which it has furnished of its in- capacity in the conduct of the war, the adminis- tration must till be suatained in its efforts to put down the rebellion by force of arms. The copperhead peace faction, involved in this unanimous decree of the loyal States, has been signally rebuked, and its counsela—suggesting armistices, peace conventions and, peace upon any terms—have beon indignantly and scorn- fully rejected aa unworthy a free people. The conservative maases of the loyal States have resolved that, as the rebellious States will have it 80, the war shall go on; that the rebellion shall be crushed; that the government shall live, and not die; that its territorial integrity shall be maintained, and that the administra- tion constitutionally in power cannot and shall not be separated from the goverament. “Thus far we run before the wind.” But there have lately been eloctions held in two of the border slave States upon another issue— the issue of emancipation—and the results of these elections are very remarkable. The States to which we refer ard Missouri and Mary- land, in both of which the abolition radicals have carried the day. Nor can it be said that it was the dictatorial power of the adminis- tration that bro boul these results; for what are the facts? In Maryland one member of the Cabinet (Mr. Chase) advocated the radical abolition movement; but another (Mr. Postmaster General Blair) quite as ac- tively opposed it, and positively asserted that President Linooln’s policy was not that of the radicals. In Missouri President Lincoln bim- self, in avery marked and in a very offensive manner to the radicals, defined bls position to be against them;.and-yet the radicals have car- ried the State. Henceforth, in Missouri and in Maryland, emancipation will be the ordor of the day till the work is accomplished. Wesay, even so letit be. The people of each of the States of the Union have the right to. determine the question for themselves; and if they choose to abolish slavery they will only be following the precedents of New York, New Jersey, Penn- aylvania and others pf the “old thirteen.” Nor is there anything very startling in this popular revolution in Maryland and Missouri in favor of emancipation. In both these States, under the increasing pressure of free white la- bor, slavery had, in fact, become an incum- brance before this war broke out. But the war has given wings to. slave property all along the border, and has taken ‘away all the safeguards of the institution. Slavery must die in all the border States; nor can it escape even in the cotton States a completegnd terribleoverthrow, except through the speedy submission of those States to the protection of the federal consti- tution. In Alabama and Georgia alone there are now, we dare say, more than a million of slaves, that have been brought in for safety from the so-called border States. The number has been reported at eighteen hundred thou- sand. At this rate the institution will die of a surfeit in the cotton States in the course of another year; but in any event this concentra- tion of the slaves of the South in the cotton States is suggestive of a more terrible danger than that of an immediate and unqualified sub- mission to the “Lincoln goverument.” But while these late clections in the free States and the border slave States have shown that neither the disorganizing factions of the day, aor the blunders of the administratios, nor the institution of slavery ilself. shall arrest the great work of restoring the Union or stand in the way, we find that these grand popular manifestations teach us something more. They show that in reference to the Presi- dential election the Union army, or “the soldiers’ vote,” holds the balance of power, Thus, notwithstanding the prodigious finsacial and fanatical agencies employed by Mr. Chase to, secure the inside track, and in spite of the kindly inclinations of the people towards President Lincola, some popular hero of the war—some such man as McClellan, Rosecrans, Grant, Meade, Banks, Gillmore or Thomas, or some new Napoleon not yet de- veloped—in commanding the soldiers’ vote, may carry off the prize. Even Fremont, as a soldier, would probably to-day, in the republican camp, Prove strong enough to spoil the calculations of Mr. Chase. We conclude that this war, like all our other wars of any magnitude, will give usa military chieftain or two for the Presi- dency; and it is probable that the first one of our new batch of heroes will atep iato the shoes of Mr. Lincoln at the close of his pre- sent term. Finally, in regard to our foreign relations, these late elections in the free States and in the border slave States have developed that tre- mendows and pervading popular determina- tion to maintain the cause of the coun- try which characterized the French people, noder their first republic, against the combined monarchies of Europe. This terrible energy on the part of our loyal States, together with their unlimited capacities and resources for war, may well admonish the Western Powors of Burope to stand olear of any on- tangling alliances with Jef. Davis, and to pre- pare for some concessions to the Monroo doc- The rebellion, within a fow montha, if ; aot withia a few weeks, will go lb pieces. It ia exhausted and caunot stand. A military leader will probably succeed President Lin- coln at Wasbington, and, witha mitlign vateran | soldiers at his back, from Maine to Texas, ho ay God it expediont aud judicious to give them some active employment. Eagiand and trine i Tignes ward, On account of keep kim there. le baa spent a Hifetme in | The Proabtitty of Active Operations at which occurred | running underground railroads and kidoapping Chattanvoge and on the Rapida Our yesterday's despatches from the Army of the Potomac biuted darkly at the possibility of immediate active operations on the Rapidan, and our despatohes from the army under Gene. | | ral Thomas declared that the campaiga would not be closed “without a deolsive and bloody struggle for the possession of Chattanooga and East Tennessee.” Such concurrent promoni- tions of battle from these two sources may seem significant; but we have no great faith in either, It is v8 possible that positive or- dera up to any extreme of absurdity may go from the War Department ¢o generals in the d; and that, therefdre, ia an element in the consideration of these matters upon which wo cannot reagon. But, that disturbing element aside, we need not expect a battle at present in either of those places. No one can suppose that an officer of General Meade’s judgment, left to bis discretion, would hold his army in idleness in a geason fit for active operations merely to enter upon a campaign ina season totally unfit for it. The country caa very woll remember what the early days of December brought forth last year through active opera- tions in Virginia; and, though Gencral Meade, may not noed the lesson, we might eupposo that even the War Departmeat could under- atand it. As for the position of affairs at Chattanooga, our strength there just now lies in our ability to atand atill—to take our own time, and not to move until we are completely ready. Thia Southwestern struggle will turn in some de- gree upon the question of reinforcements and eupplies. How acarce food is in the confede- racy we all know, and it is now perfectly cer- tain that the Southern goverament is unable to supply sufficient rations to its anmies. Nor can the armies live upon the country; for if there wero food in the land the commissary would not be without it. Moreover, when the Southern armies retreated before Grant and Rosecrans they drove bofore them out of Tennessee and Mississippi into Alabama not less thana million negroes. Every one of these swarthy fellows Gghts in our cause whenever. he geta a dinner, and is able to make the scarcity of provisions greater. And with the food question in this position now.two months after the harvest— what will it be before the winter is over? Nor is the Southern government in any better posi- tion with respect to its ability to reinforce its armies. Restricted to 9 narrow tertitory, whose population ia already drained, it can only rein- force ono army at the expense of another; and reinforcement of this kind bas an inevitable limit. But, while the rebel army in the Southwest ia without the ability to improve its condition, and is in a condition that will every day grow worse, it is all the other way with General Grant. He can wait until his lines of communication are perfect, until his army is in a proper con- dition in every respect, until his plans are mature, and be is able to move as he pleases, and crush the confederacy by one grand blow. He will not go too slow, and he cannot go too carefully. He should not fight a battle whose result will be doubtful when the battle begins; for it gin bis power to be as certain of the result of his battle before he fights it as he can be after it is fought. Since he has it invhis power to do all this with time, and certainly cannot do it all just now, we do not expect that he will fight very soon. & Cabinet Crisis at the Acadomy—Dipio- matic Dificalttes About « Domino. The most illustrious personages are the of- tenest in hot water. Tobe great is generally to be miserable. Napoleon the First squab- bled with his marshals. Napoleon the Little is bothered with his family, and especially with his Moxican telations. Queen Victoria is con- stantly worried by her ministers, and par- ticularly by Lord Palmerston, who repeats at eighty the amorous peccadilloes which dis- tinguished him at eighteen. President Lincoln has a great deal of trouble with his Cabinet, where Chase and Seward snarl and fight, as ‘tis their nature to. How, then, could Maretzek expect to escape the penalty of greatness? He is tho king of operatic im- pressarios, and his head now lies as uneasily as any other caput that wearsa crown. Thaye is ® serious cabinet crisis at the Academy of Music. The largest, if not the most important, of Maretzek’s assistants threatens to desert him at the heur of need. Medori is the malcontent. The difficutly is all about a domino. It ap- pears that Maretzek intends to revive the celebrated opera “Don Giovanni” to-mor- row evening. Medori was to sing in this opera; but, in order to do herself justice, she thinks that she requires «a new domino. Maretzek refuses to buy her a new domino, on the ground that he has a domi- no in his wardrobe which is quite new enough for the ocoasion. Medori, unlike the majority of ber charming sex, insists upon having her own way and her new domino, Maretzek holds out the old domino, asa sort of olive branch, in one hand, and, raising the other band to- wards Heaven, vows that she must take that or the consequences. Medori declares, with the fury of Norma and the steadfast resolution of Lucrezia Borgia, that she will not sing to-mor- tow evening unless the new domino is furnish- ed. Maretzek shrugs his shoulders, cocks his American beaver over his Italian nose, and replies that if she does not sing he will break off her engagement and begin « suit to recover the salary he has paid her in advance. That is the way the matter stands at this present writ- . As all the negotiations of the affair have been conducted in the Italian language and the highest possible tone of voice, the whole musi- eal world bas by this time heard of the dire event. With all our gallantry—and if we are ro- markable for anything it is- for that—we are rather of the opinion that Marétzek holds a better band than Madame Medori in this little game of dominoes. One of the best established of women’s rights is certainly the right to ask for a new dress; but men and managers un- doubtedly bave the right to refuse, if they have a sufficient excuse for refusing. It seems | to us that Maroizek has a snfilcient excuse. This excuae is not the old doming. Itt the prin- | ciple of the thing. With alt he its, Medori | is only an employe, and mis -vbmit to the | rales of the profession. Sor her to refuse to | | ing because Marateck refuses to give be anew | ioe ia preposterous Tf abe appears ia the ! old domidd. snd it doos oot Gt her, or basa patch in tho back, or ia a little ragged qbont the bottom, abe oan appeal to the public and hold Marewek responsible. | domino is too amail for ber Probably it &as i France may profitably accept this aa ono of | made for alady of tho ordinary wize, If so he the warnings of our tate elections public will accnse Medori, ead blame the 04 Porhaps the oll fp tamor for not providing against all coutiagcaclos by manufacturing bis garments with broad Scams aad tucks, 60 that they may be let out or taken In, to fit either a giaut or a dwarf, as the case may require. Our audionces are very kind, and such mistakes may be easily ex- plained. But in no potat of view do thoy jus- lify Modori ia refusing to sing. If Marotzek did not pay her the galary agroed upon it would be quite a different matter. Tben she might declare a atrike, and we should sustain her, aa wo did the oar drivers and the ma- chinists, But Marotzek gives her twenty-five hundred dollars @ month in gold, and in ad- vao Sho pockets her specie before sha fa- vors us wilh a aingle mote. Under these cir- cumstances it ia aa absurd for her to refuse to sing because ashe cannot have a new domino as for a geucral to cefuse to Aight because be can- not bave a new pair of epaulets. Besides this, Maretzek has another aed still more importaot advantage. If Medori will not sing Maretzek can get another prima donna who will. Medori is a large woman, and has a fine voice; but there is Madame Virginia Lo- tini, who isa larger woman, and has evena better voice; and if Modori breaks her coa- teact Marotvok may engage Loriui, and pay ber out of Medort’s forfeited salary. This aspect of the question has possitily not occurred to the horoine of the domino difficulty; but it haa oo- curred to Maretzek and the public. Now that wo remind her of it in a friendly way, Madame Medori will doubtless look at the affair in a new light. If she leaves the Academy, Maret- vak will be brokea neither in heart aor io pocket. Ali the other artists will rémain faithful to him. They know that it is theic interest to do 0. Mazroteni, the leading member of the troupe, is a mild, peaceable mano, who will never give aid and comfort to a rebellion of this sort. If his naturally amiable and loyal disposition did not prevent him, the ap- parition of Brignoli would. Woe believe that ono reason why the President does not employ Goa. McClellan is the reflection that all our other generals will do their duty more energetically for fear lest this mighty captain should be appointed in thoir places if they fail. What McClellan Is to our generals Brignoli is to our tenors. The managers keep him in reserve in case of any disaffection, knowing that ho is competent to stand in the busking of ang of our artists. But Lorini is a Brignoli in crino- line, and can supersede Medori as easily as the operatic McClellan could supersede Mazzoleni. That is the advantage of having plenty of good artists hovering about the Academy. The mal- contents may suffer; but the managers and the public receive ao detriment. We thereforeex- pect to hear “Don Giovanni” to-morrow night, and we do not care a piu for the prima donna’s domino. Should Medori decline to siag with- out a new domino, let us have Lorini in the old domino, and we will shut our eyes to the patches and tatters, aad, uolike most opera goers, listen attentively to the exquisite music. - A New Paase ov Tas Mexicaw: Quaanoni— {¢ is ramored in Paris that the Emperor Na- poleon will propose to this goverament to récoguize Maximilian of Austria when he shall have assumed the throne of Mexico, and that as an inducement France will promise to withdraw from that country. It is supposed by many that it was to make such a proposal, through the proper channel, that Marshal Forey came to this city. It is known that the Freach Minister came here to confer with the Marshal, and it is likely that through him will’ be made the representations to our government. It is of courge needless for us to dwell upon the fact that any such proposal as above de- scribed we could never entertain for a mo- ment. This government cannot recognize any empire in Mexico, because it has never ceased towrecognize the Mexican republic.. We are in athicable relations with the Mexican govern- ment, and could not betray it in favor of the proposed empire, which, if put in operation, backed by a hundred thousand French troops, would fall the moment these soldiers wera withdrawo. The French command but a limit- ed portion of the Mexican territory. To obtain & unanimous vote upon the subject of the pro- posed change of government in that coun- try would entail upon them its eatire conquest. If-they make a semblance of going through this vote, and place Maximiliao upon the throne they shall bave, we might say, fraudulently erected, we can never act so uan- dignified a part as to recognize or aid the scheme, merely that we may have the pleasure of seeing France withdraw from this continent. It must be apparent to all that Napoloon is at any rate obliged to abandon the Mexican expedition as soon as he possibly can. He must do this to save his prestige at home, and be enabled to prepare for the plans he has evi- dently formed for a grand struggle with Russia. In this he will meet with universal sympathy; in his present scheme he meets with universal condemnation, and he must fee! that he has 00 choice in the matter. This fact alone would deter our government frem any recognition of Maximilian. But there is aa ob; to such astep much more important. We refer to the Monroe doctrine, which wo cannot stultify. Thus, if Napoloon is sc unreasonable as to make any such proposal as it ie asserted he will or has made, this government can but give a flat refusal, even at tho risk of rousing the deepestirs of the French moneroh. We ean in no way admit, oven indireotly, « monarchy or dmpire in Moxtco. Lange Crrma—Pamowir or Tarn Growin. The growth of large cities is as mach governed by aatural laws aa is that of the human frame, Their business centres occupy towarda theit extremities the same orgasic relation as that of the heart. Any disturbance of the principles of natural development which should regulate them must result in unsightly deformities, In Europe these facts are well understood We have but to take up the maps of its priuci- pal cities to see bow gradual and regular Las been their growth. With them there is rarely an undue preponderance of one part at the ex- pense of the others. It is trne that the aristo- cracy select particular quarters; but thay do not control the spread of popniation. The great business centres do that. They vitalize nvigh- | borhoods according to their wants; but they do | 60 graduaily, aad not by speculative efforts \ The consequence ts that all the siroota aa | avenues of Kuropeaa cities radiate froma a | mon polat, whlob governs, aa it ware, tr whole internal eoonomy, ard leaves no gapa to be bull over by a backward movomeut of | ypis ation Boon in New York, aotwi af Wuilding speculators he city’s vatnral guard _thetr still io horsemanship. | There was the usual presence of a oumber of rude nue all influences at work. They lay out flew streets q and euburbs; but ghey cannot force population into them. Can there be better evidence of this than the slow growth of such places as Harlem, Yonkers, Manhattanville, Morriseale aod Fordbam? On the other hand, Brooklyas New Jersey aud Hoboken owo the unprece- dented increase of their population to the fact that they are within easy reach of tho great business centre of New York. How preposterous is it then to seek to diver’ the stream of population to the upper end of the island, when even the obstacles of two large rivers cannot prevent the operation of the oatural influences to which we refer. Im tho course of time a shifting of the centre of business itself may offect what is dosired by those interested; but that period is fardistant. In the meantime the construction of the twelve new avenues proposed to gun parallel betwoon the two rivers, would no! ly bo a profligate waste of the public money, but a monstrous and unjus- lifable interference with the rights of private property. It would cut up'the beautiful region lying between the Kingsbridge road and the viver, and which is ono of the lungs of thie crowded metropolis, and this without a rea- sonable pretext; for the construction of a ingle additional avenue, parallel with the railroad and ruoning round by Spuyten Duyvil to Har- fem, would suffice for all the- wants of our population for another half century. in shore, Q0 grounds of necessity, either present or proa- pective, have been established in support of tho proposed scheme, whilst against it are errayed oonsiderations which should induce every good citizen to give his strenuous oppo- sition to it. The Russian Officers. TA DRPARTUBE OF RUSSIAN OFFICERS FOR RUROTS IN THE BTBAMSHIP OHINA-—-THBY ARE BSOORTRD DOWN THE BAY—SCENKS ON BOARD OF THM BOAF, BTO., ETO. ‘The mail stoamship Obina, which left this port yoster- day, took out a delegation of officers comnected with the Russian fleet which has beon lying in the North river uring the past two months, Bofore toaving their ships their brothor officers doter- mined to make their departure ag agreeable as possible, aod during the morning mado all necessary arrangomente to carry out the programme in a fitting maonor. Soon efter eleven o%clock @ tugboat came alongside uf the Admiral's ship—where the officers assembled during the forencen—and made fast until euch timoas it was nocossary to leave for theChiva, The tug was gayly decked {rom stem to stern with the the national colors of Russia and the United States, and preaonted a five appearance. ‘An bour and a ha:i was agreeably spent by (he officers with their Admiral iu the cabin of the fagebip, and, after indutging in a few apecches and partaking of a litv?e wine, the officers, at twelve o'cleok, embarked on boardof the tugboat and procosded to the China, which was lytag aif the Cunard dock, Jersey City. ‘The band belonging to the flagsbip was on board of the tugboat, and at intervals discoursed a aumber of Russian and American airs in fine atyle, which were heartily ag- plauded by those on board of the boat, A fow minute ater twolve 0% tho China's anchor was weighed, and 10 # short the aoble vessel wae Gliding down the bay, accompanied by tho tugboat. as thoy passed thé fla:ship a salute was Ored, which wap acknowledged by the dipping of the colors of the boat, fab- lowed by a Russian air, The trip down the bay was ef the most agreeable an- ture, and it was uot until the Ghina was approaching Bandy Hook that the @fficors were notified to got aboard, Altor a boarty ebakiog of hands the tug went alongsiée Of the stémmer, and the officers proceeded on board, emsid ‘the hearty cheers und wishes for safe arrival nome of those of board of the tugboat, ‘The tug then boaded hOmoward, and in the course of am hour and @ half arrived at the dagsbip, the party on beard being highly delighted with their trip. We understand that tho Russians leave on busioess of importance connected with their governmont, end wilt Fetara agaia ie the course of a few months. ‘They will sleotoform (he Oser of the kind treatment foceived at the hands of the American people during thetr stay in New York, ™ ——— ‘The Last Oall for MESTING AT THE FIPTH AVENUE HOTSL. On Tuesday evening a meeting was held at the Fifth street, Brooklyn, pear the Post office. Apartments have been fitted up suitable for the purpose in viow, ang evorything is now arranged to proceed to business. The I He i i i i Ey i ie i it a i I management of Mr. |. B. Lent, was opened to the pubiie’ last evening for the Cret time this season. The house was crowded in overy part, even to the passageways, end the “bil! of fare’? preseated to its numerous patrons formance began et half-past seven 'ciook. The areod entree, by the whole troupe of about « dozen horses, wae © beautiful dispiay aad gave fuli opportunity to the accomplisned riders wo exhibis The programms was in overy way an admirably selected one, and it is dus to the company"to say that all its members acquitied themselyay with rare ability. Mr. Robort Btickney’s succoms wae perfect, as was that of Madame Louise. The atulstie (oata of Mesars King and Rocholie, including tho difewls equilibrium of and position ow the perche equipyise, ware marvols of Will in thelr way. The gymaastica by the Australian Family gave much satisfaction, as 4d the woadertul intelligence of the horse Abdallah. Mr Cham Shay, tbe Chinese balancer, deserves prominen! meat iva, The poriormance of Mr. Melville (a the bareback scons, aod the wonderful aud starting posturieg of Mong, Troohe!ia oa Vechelle peritlouse, or dangerous ladder, wore among the most stirring scenes of the evening, and drew forub uproarious applause In short, thore was much te commend and vory little to osudema in the performaan oot imps ia the upper galleries 0 attaation to their hooting avd bell wo tuink that tho Broadway Amphitheal aob eclat, end tf the managers taks cre to Kooy wo the oharector with which they BAYS slariot inno « oothing te provout their “imatitution’ Crom twset vermagoné and entirely sucocasful one mage {