The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1864, Page 4

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Bow York, Wednesday, December 21, 186% THE SIT We publish this morning the proclamation of Prest Gent Livooln calling for three bundred Rnore men to recruit the national. armies, Until the Ubi of February vext, in accordance with an act of Gon- gress, 1s allowed to fill the quotas of States and districts Dy voluntecring. Avy deficicnces remaining at that date ‘wii! be filled by drart, General Thomas is still following up the remnant of FRio0d’s defeated and demoralized rebel army, which 1s wontinually dwindling by straxgling and the captures thousand mide from it, From the commencement of the @grtinz, on Thursday, the 16th ivst., up to Bast Monday wight, General Thomas’ men had ‘made prisoners of nive thousand rebels, including four ‘amajor geverals and several brigadiers. Besides these their Bosses in killed and wounded are very considerable. The @attre Union losses up to Monday night were estimated Bo have been only a little over two thousand. Hood had @ixty-Ove pieces of artillery when the first attack ‘was msde on the morning of the 16th instant. OF these sixty-one pieces have been taken from fim. Our latest accounts represent him retreating fas rapidly as possible before bis pursuers. Up to Monday oight he had been driven to Duck river, about forty miles south cf Nasbvillo, and was crossing his Groops as rapidly as possibie, His further progress will ‘be much interfered with by all the streams in his front Doing bigh and the bridges destroyed. The important ‘Wnion posts of Murfreesboro, Knoxville and Chattanooga, fm Touvessee, and Bridgeport and Stevenson, in Ala ‘ama, remain in possession of our troops, notwithstand- fing reports to the contrary. In Kact Tennessee Generals Btoneman aad Burbridze buve routed the rebel Breckin- widge’s forces and captured the greater portion of his artiliery. General McCook is in pursuit of the detach mont of rebels from Hood's army, under Geve- ral Lyon, who moved into Kentucky, aud it is ‘thought that the most of them will be made prisoners. The rebel loss in the battle of Franklin, on the 30th ult., fs nid to bave been six thousand. They acknowledge a Joss of five thousand. The entire Union loss om that oc casion was nineteen hundred. In the defeat of Forrest, ©p the 15th inst., near Murfreesboro, bis loss was fifteen hundred in killed and wounded, who fell into the bands of Rousseau's men, We are thie morning without any additional intelligence from the army of Gencrai Sberman; but later news of hie success at Savannah may be hourly looked for. A despatch was received at the State Department in Washington yesterday from tbe Governor Geueral of Canada, announcing that ove of the St. Albans raiders had been rearrested, and that the remainder of them poon would be. A prociamation offering rewards for their apprebension has been issued. Volunteering for the frontier militia guard is very active in Canuda, The Provincials are somewhat excited by rumors that out- Tages are meditated by the Fenians. Among tho first acts of General Dana on assuming com. mand of hie new department, the headquarters ef which fare at Memphis, is the issuance of an order declaring wold after the Ist of January proximo all exemptions from military duty heretofore granted in the District of West Tennessee. All males between eightecn Bnd forty-five Mt for service, excefijng miuieters BF the Gospel, civil officers appointed directly by the President or & Cabinet officer, employes of the military Belograph and servants of army and navy officers, must @arol for military daty or feave the district. In another ‘order General Dana requires persons taking out licenses {Go soll liquor in the city of Memphis to pay an extra tax @ thirty dollars per month Nothing additional of much military tmportance has Aranspired since Jast reports in eitber of our armies rest Gog on the James river. The rebels continue their artillery Gre in the vicinity of the Dutch Gap canal, and they have Feeently opened with @ one hundred pound gun in the Wireotion of the military railroad running (rom City Point Bo the tert of the Army of the Potomac, but have yet done fo damage with it. To General, Grant's shotted salute of (ene bundred guns op-Bunday morning in honor of the suo- Benses of Generale Bhorman and Thomas the rebels | Pesponded in a few ineffective shots, Considerable firing Be ottil induiged to by the opposing pickets. A notorious Febel soout, named Waterbury gyvbo Lad for « long time raded all efforts to trap him, was recently mortally wounded by « Unior roldier. A Now Orleans despatch of the 15th states that during Lae week ending op the Oth inst. six blockade runuers wore captared by our xquedron off the conet of Texas. Woe yellow fover was prevailing to an alarming extent in C lveston, Texas, and there bad been two large fires in bus tewn previous to tbe Oth Inst. CONGRESS. ) the Senate yesterday Mr. Samner, from the Com- & ‘tee om Foreign Relation, reported a substitute for toe House reasiation Yo terminate the so-called Reol- pooolty treaty with Canada, It simply rehearses the foanner to which potice to terminate the tresty shall De given, declares that such notion ehall be jesued, and e President to communicate the game to the te wer ‘The payor was ordered to be printed. Dill creating the rack of Vice Admiral of Phe Navy was passed, and the ga\iant Farragut's promo- will probably be announced to morrow. The House iti to extend the time for the withdraw! of cortain de. ‘iptions of merchandise from public stores was pasred. Ml Wwerensing the number of Wont Pot cadets \, NEW YORK HERALD, was referred to the Miliary Committes, A resolution « setting forth the barbarous manaer ta which our soldiers bave been trealed im rebel prisoss, aed instructing the Secretary of War to extend like treatment to prisoa- ers in our bands, was objected to and laid over, under the rules The Committees oo Manufactures wero ohirged with the consideration of the fact that our sbips-eall under flags of foreign manufacture, The resolution call- ing for information as to the arrest of Lieutenant Gov- ernor Jacob and Colouel Wolford, of Kentucky, was ptseed A conference committees was ordered on the amendments to the Freediman’s Bureau bill, and after an executive eession and the confirmation of several appolat- ments, the Sonate adjourned, In the House of Representatives the West Polat Appro- privtion Dill, and a bill making appropriations to the amount of over nigety millions of dollars, were reported by the Waye and Means Committee, The Defioiediey bill will be acted on to-day. The Senste bill oreating the grade of Vice Admiral in the navy was passed, as was alzo the bill authorizing oMfcers in the navy and marine corps, regular or volunteer, to be promoted for gallant conduct, and providing that Captain Winslow may be made a commodore, notwithstanding that the number of such officers is Limited. A resolution autborizing s com- mission to select sites for ome or more avy yards on the Northern lakes was agreed to, said commission to report om the fret Monday ia December next. The Seore tary of the Treasury was called on to state under what law merchandise ts permitted te pass from the United States through Camada and again into the United States: ‘also to commuaicate all ¢he facts regarding sales of gold by government agents, A resolution in favor of treating rebel prisoners of war in the same manner as our are treated in rebel prisons was adopted. In Committee | of the Whole several speeches on the war and politics Yrere delivered, and the House adjourned. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Cuba, from Queenstown on the 4th of December, reached this port early yesterday morning. Her news is two days later. ’ Ron, William 1. Dayton, United States Minister in France, died suddenly, of apoplexy, iu Paris, on the 1st fostant. Our special correspondence {rom Lendon, Paris, Berlin and Vienna contains some very important facts showing the difficalt diplomacy of the great European Powers arising from the settlement of the Dano.German and Italiana questions, and tne delicate relations which exist between Austria and Italy, Austria and Russia, and Fravce with each of the other continental Cabinets. The new Cabinet of Austcia announced that the greatest endeavor would be made to preserve the empire from a war, which seemed ‘‘inevitable.”” General Sherman’s advance into Georgia excited much ivterest in England. It was regarded aga brilliant yet dangerous movement. It was rumored in Paris that the United States govern- ment would goon recognize the empire of Mexico. Na- polecn was perfecting a plan for the joint workiog of the Mexican mines by France and Maximilian, Consols closed iu London on the 3d tostant at 89 1-16 a 8034 for money. The rebel cotton loan was slightly im- proved. The Liverpool cotton market closed &rm on the 3d instant, at an improvement on prices realized the day previous, Breadstuifs were steady. Provisions quiet and steady. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A San Fraucisco despatch gives a rumor, brought from Acapulco by the steamship Golden Age, that the imperial troops bad been defeated in front of the town of Chi Mexico, by the republicans, Juarez was besioged in the place by General Vicario, whose force General Alvarez attacked, gaining a victory and raising the siege. It was stated that Acupuico would probably be evacuated by the imperialists on the 11th fnst., after the fort, which was believed to be mined, bad been blown up. We are in possersion of files of the Correio Mercantil of Rio Janeiro to the 10th of November, Little or nothing is reported of the views apd designs of the gov- eroment of Brazil attendant on the seizure of the pirate Florida in the barbor of Babia, The official gazette of the 26th of Uctober states that by the French packet Beara the Brazilian government had sent full directions to its Minister of Legation in Washington to demand proper satisfaction for the oonduct of the com. mander of tbe Wachusett, No documents are, however, published. War continued between Bra- ril and Uruguay. General Flores appeared before Montevideo with three thousand men, but retired with- out assaulting the city. The blockade of Montevideo was ordered by Briail. A division of the Brazilian army hed marched into the territory of the Banda Oriental, ‘The Brarilian Minister baving notified that foreign vessels to Uruguay would be searched for contraband @ war, Englena denied that there was @ war, Brazil being merely ‘engnged in suppressing @ rebollion, So that General blores ot a ‘belligerent,”” but merely a rebel, in the eyes of Power which recoguizes Jett, Davis as a bel- ligerent, Commercia! matters are reported as not very active In the Board of Supervisors yesterday a resolution was adopted directing the Volunteer Committee to make ap- plication to the War Department for authority to compel Persons who my be questioned in relation to revising the enrolment of the county to make truthful answers, and also for power to enfarce @ penalty against those who are improperiy enrolled, and who, after due notice, refuse or neglect to cali on the proper officer to have a suitable correction made. Several biils were ordered to be paid, and the Board'then adjourned to Friday next, The Hoard of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon. A age was received from the Mayor, vetoing the reso- lution giving permission to Fawin R, Bennett and others to build a railroad through avenue © to the Cortlandt street ferry, The message was laid ou the table, under the rule. ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and disposed ofapumber of rontize papers. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in giving the Hudson River Ratiroad Company permieeon to extend their tracks through Chambers street and College place to Warren and other Streets, after which they adjourded to meet. at one o'clock to day. ‘The great Opdyke-Weed libel suit still occupies the attention of the Supreme Court in this city. Yesterday was the sixth day of the trial, and the court room was az crowded as ever, The examination of witnesses was continued, and the detatie of the evidence were quite spicy, The case will be continued at tes o'clock this foreneon. Im the United States Commissioner's Court yesterday’ the case of Ernst Goldenfoss, the alleged Prassian forger, ‘was again up before Commissioner White. The counsel was engaged tumming up the case, and it now only awaits tbe decision of the Commissioner, which bas been deferred, In the A. R. Lawrence will case, before the Surrogate yesterday, Mr. Norton, husband of the lady who is claimed to have been Mr, Lawrence’s daughier, was ‘under examination ail day, The Surrogate beld an even- fog session, and announced bis purpore to sit every day and evening, in order to finish this apparently intermina rial with the present month. The Surrogate has Gocided, in the estate of Terence Boyle, deceased, that arried on business (began in 1865) along and the profits are his; that the jon of partners canact exist between busband and wi ‘the wife's claim to the assets of her deceased husband, as ber own property, must be denied, and that ube is | merely s ereditor of his eetate as to the actual cash capi. | tal put by her into the business, with interest. In the case Of Bliss & Co, ve, Callaghan, yesterday, tn | the Superior Court, before Judge Monell, where the plain- tile sued to recover & balance of four thousand nine hundred and thirty-two doliars, alleged to be due them on the purchase of stocke, it transpired that five hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of stocks was bought for the defevdant without @ dollar passing bo- tween the parties. The trial, which would have proved ‘fan interesting one, was brought to an abrupt termina. tion by the sudden fliness of the plaiotiffy’ counsel, and bad to be sent to a referee for adjudication, ‘At & meeting of the Kings county Board of Sapervisors inst evening @ resolution was fadopted, by a vote of nine. teen to two, autborizing the payment hereafter of seven per cent interest on money borrowed to furnish a yolua- teer bounty fund. The Board bas recently been unable to obtain money for (His purpose on #ix per cent interest, ‘The quota of the Second and Third Congressional! districts (prioclpally comprized in the eity of Brooklyn) on the new.call of the Prosident for three hundred thousaud ad- ditional troops will be about four thousand, The Central Union Club of Brooklyn celebrated the election of Liccoln and Jobnson by # grand ooncert and ball at the Academy of Music lasteveoing. It was avery brilliawt afar. A letter 4 from Secretary Soward, who would have Leon present bad not oficial engagements prevented. Letters wero also received from Governors Johnson and Curtin, At eleven o'elrck Admiral Farra. got aod Governor Buckingham, of Connectiout, arrived and ma fow rewarke, ‘Ihe Adrnirai was received with great enthusiasm. Between six and seven o'clock yesterday mornin, fire broke out in the rear part of No. 86 Mercor street, ia ee yre ae Tr ‘The (wo edcining bulldwgs. Nos. 83 a:d 81, were some- what damaged by eater amd @falliag wall. The entire Josses are estimated at about fourteen tbousand duilars, Over Bive thousaud of which are covered by insurances. Ip the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Recorder Hoffman presiding, Petor Kiely, who was convicted om Friday of highway robbery, was sentenced to imprison. ment ia the State Prison for ten years and three months. Charies P, Engstroem, who pleaded guilty of mauslaugh- tor in the third degree, baving caused the death of Gporge Nickel by shooting bim, was sent to the State Prison for four years. Jobn Riley, indicted for larceny from the person, in picking the pockes of Sophia Winue on the 6th inet, in a Third avenue car, pleaded guilty to the charge. Fortunately she bad only Gfty cents in ber porter. unaie. One of the captains of police informed the Court that Riley was a confidesce operator, whereupon the Recorder went bim to the State Prison for two years and six months. Lewis Rattigan, who attempted to pass a coun- terfeit five doliar bill on the Bank of Owego at a store in Leonard street, pleaded guilty to fergery in the fourth degree, and was remanded for sentence, Erastus R. M- Garrett, who pleaded guilty last Thursday to one of four indictments for counterfeiting the jtrade mark of the Atlantic White Lead Company,} was sentemced to the State Prison for two years, It appears that Garrott is a eomewbat notorious operator in class of forgeries. Kate Maley was convicted of hapdred dol- lars from Jesse Chatterton, a returned soldier, at a dis- feputable house in Mercer street. She.gras sentenced te the State Prisoa for two years. The jury disagreed in the case of Terrence Fay, who was charged with stealing & gold watch, the property of Michael Green, be having furnished evidence of his good character. The accused was discharged. Joho Darcy, jointly indicted with « Bumber of others for robbing Hiram W. Tibbetts, ate saloon in Seventh avenue, was acquitted, the complainant Dot being very positive as to the identity of Darcy. Wm. Muosch, indicted with two other men for robbing & soldier named Wm. Heory Kraf of one hundred and thirty-five dollars, at a lager bier saloon in Clinton street, on the 8th inst., was placed on trial in the afternoon. The Jury had not agreed upon a verdict in his case ata late bour last evening. Tho revision o/ the lists of the names of one hundred and thirty-three thousand persons im this city eurclied by the provost marshals as liable to gmilitary duty is Progressing rapidly under the supervision of the Super- visors’ Volunteering Committee, Over five hundred clerks are now employed in the work, aod it ts expected that the number will bave to be considerably increased. The new builaing for the Enroiment Board, in the City Hall Park, is completed, and will be ocoupied to day. ‘Three thousand déllara were stolen from the sale of @ coal office in Third avenue, near Thirtieth street, om last Friday night, No clue has yet been obtained to indicate who were the robbers, Thore were 2,433 emigrants landed here last week, making the total since January 1, 180,540, against 157,520 to the corresponding period last year. The commutation balance is $12,631 41. The gold market was excited and higher yesterday. The opening quotation was 224, and the closing one 22374. The stock market was higher in the morning, but fell off in the afternoon, Government securities were heavy. ‘The rise tn gold yesterday rendered commercial affairs altogether firmer; but the reluctance of buyers to take bold was regarded as evidence that they looked upon the Advance in gold’as only nominal and temporary, in view Of which holders manifested a willingness to concede something ie order to induce purchases. But trausac- tions were very modorate, and trade was confined to a few of the leading commodities. Petroleum was dull and lower, despite the advance in gold. On ’Change the flour market advanced 150. a'25c., with a moderate de mand, Wheat was in better demand and &. a So. higher, while corn and-oats were without decided change. Pork ‘without decided change, while beef and lard were firmer. Frrights were dull; whiskey higher. ‘The market for beef cattle opened heavy on Monday of thie week, under the combined influences of beavy receipts and iaclomegs weather, and all but the best fell off from 3c. tolc, per Ib, But the market yesterday ‘was firmer, with an active demand. Prices varied from 10c, to 200., with some Christmas steers at from 21c. to 25c. Milch cows geld at from $35 to $50 a $75. Veais were steady at 9c. a 13c.a léc. Sheep and lambs were scout the same, except for Christmas offerings, which sold at 12c.a13c. Hogs sold at 13c.a143{c. The total receipts were 7,020 beeves, 79 cows, 1,026 veals, 23,037 abeep and lambs, and 15,884 hogs.’ The Presidential Succcksion=The Pre- Mminary Manceuvres of the Chase and Seward Factions. The House of Representatives on Monday last, by a vote of sixty-eight to fifty-eight, on the motion of Mr. Winter Davis, Chairman on Foreign Affairs, adopted a resolution, declar- ing “that Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and pre- scribing the foreign policy of the United States, as well as in the recognition of new Powers and other things; and it is the constitutional duty of the Executive Department to respect that policy, not less in diplomatic negotiations than in the use of the national force when authonged by law;” and that “the propriety of any declaration of any foreign policy by Con- gress is sufficiently proved by the vote which pronounced it; and such proposition, while pending and undetermined, is not a fit topic for dipomatic explanation with any foreign Power.” Now, upon its face, this is a remonstrance from the House agalust the “diplomatic expla- nation” vouchsated to Louis Napoleon by the Secretary of State in reference to the unani- mous vote of the House at the last session in favor of the enforcement of the Monroe doo trine in Mexico; but this proceeding means something more. The bulk of the republican members voted against this remonstrance, no doubt to save appearances; butastill a sufficient number of the radicals voted with the mass of the democrats to carry the yesolution. Had more been wanted we presume they could have been procured. The great object in view on the part of Mr. Winter Davis and the radicals supporting him is to get Mr. Seward out of the Cabinet and a radical in his place, and for purposes which we will now proceed to explain. It must be apparent to every intelligent mind that the issues upon which the party in power and the outside oppositien elements will be re-- organized for the next Presidential contest will be new fssues, resulting from the suppression of the rebellion, the extinction of slavery, the policy of the administration in the work of re- constructing the Union, and the tremendous pressure of that financial crisis which, with the ending or continuation of the war, is sure to come. Accordingly at least a year or two must elapse before either the party in or the party out of power can take its position or arrange its plans of the battle for the succession. In the meantime, however, between the two great faetions of the republican camp, the radical Chase faction and the conservative or tempori- uing Seward facti®f, there is “an irrepressible conflict,” the settlement of which has evidently been resolved upon by the radioals as the first thing in order. This conflict between Chase and Seward commenced with their appointment to the Cabinet in 1861. Assuming that Mr. Lin- coln, in any event, was good only for one term, Mr. Seward, as Secretary of State, and Mr. Chase, as Secretary of the Trea- sury, began to lay their plans and their wires for the campaign of 1864. But Seward, with his slippery counsels, his temporizing for- eign policy and bis voluminous diplomatic correspondence, was no match against the ener- getic Chase, his radical policy and his “green- backs; and so the Premier was speedily ruled off the course. Then, however, by a dexterous flank movement in support of Mr. Lincoln fora second term, the Secretary of Siate and bis fotainers turned {he tables on the Chancellor WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, ‘of the first in the Baltimore Con- vention, and next in manipulating him out of the Cabinet. This latter achievement, in view of the vext political campaign, was at the time regarded as a great success for Seward; but, as events have since turned out, it was a victory on the other side. Mr. Chase, in becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, we will assume, ceased to be a Presidential candidate. Nor do we suppose that anybody counts upon the contingency of Mr. Seward’s nomination as the administration perty nominee in 1868, But each of these two wen etill remains as the head of his faction and the embodiment of its poliey, and each of these factions depends upon its leader to secure the inside track for the succession. The policy of Seward is conservative—it is the policy of getting along as smoothly and as near the old order of things as possible; the policy of read- mitting the rebellious States quietly and with- out any new cerembnies, and of letting slavery die an easy death. The poliey of Mr. Chase and the radicals, on the other hand, is the policy of making the abolition of slavery the inexorable condition precedent ia the resto- ration of the rebel States. _ Upon these issues the radicals have resolved that Mr. Seward shall be superseded and disarmed asa party leader. Hence this House resolution of cen- sure. Such a resolution in the British House of Commons would be instantly ebeyed as an authoritative order for a change of the Cabinet; but we presume that Mr. Seward will hold on and await some further developments of ‘the radical game. The odds are heavily against him. Mr. Chief Justice Chase has the game in hishands. With the managers of the republican party, and a majerity of its members in both branches of Congress, and with the controlliog elements of the party throughout the country at his back, be is now in a position of positive security and immense strength. He can, if possessed of the requisite qualifications, play the part of a Machiavelli, a Richelieu, or a Metternich, in giving shape and direction to the great ques- tions, the vast combinations and the drifting revolutionary elements within’ his grasp. We think tbat, with the means in bis bands, he has shown the energy and strength required to con- trol the present administration, to shape its policy, to prepare its platform and to nominate the party cendidate for 1868. But the first-step demanded by the radicals in this direction is the retirement of Mr. Seward from the State De- partment. This is the true interpretation of the House resolution of Mr. Winter Davis. The Weed-Opdyke trial now progressing before one of our city courts is but a side movement in the same game. The master and his man are both to be sent into Coventry. Chase and his fac- tion, through the power which they possess in both houses of Congress, may protract or shorten the struggle at their pleasure; but Mr. Seward and his faithful squire will surely be disarmed and dismissed. This may appear a small business in the midst of the grand military operations of the day, of our victorious armies and naval squad- rons, East and West, but the radical abolition politicians, as we approach the closing battles of the war, seem to realize the necessity of speédy action in order to clear the way for their policy of reconstruction, and for the Presi- dential succession, We conclude that Mr. Seward will shortly find it convenient to retire from the State Department, and that his good man Friday’s occupation is already gone. Born Sines Szen.—Since General Dix’s excel- lent order in relation to our frontier was so soon nullified by the President it might appear a natural subject for regret that it was ever issued at all. But we do not regret its issue, nor the issue of the order by which it was re- scinded. Taken together, the two orders put us properly before the world on this important question. General Dix’s order shows the real sentiment of the country and of the people, and shows bow strongly men of high position and spotless character feel in relation to the violation of our soil and the shameless conduct of the Canadian authorities. On the other hand, the President’s order shows the moral force of our government. It shows that the government can tell the people that it will not do what it thinks is not right, however great the provocation may be; and that is the best reproof that we can give to those mistaken persons who hold that this is a country in which the spirit of the mob rules. Such is the relation of the two orders on the surface. But we incline to the opinion that the President’s order was not due to this high moral view. It was due rather to the influence of Mr. Seward, one of the cand'dates for the succession, and was aimed against General Dix as another candidate for the succession. Gene- ral Dix’s order was so clearly the expression of the people’s thought, it thrilled so with our real American nationality, and was so much in keeping with the various orders that have made this distinguished soldier’s name a power in the gountry, that it at once excited the alarm of the small clique which adheres to the Secre- tary of State, and hence the attempt to foist upon the people the notion that General Dix was too basty—had done what was very im- proper. But the result will be to show that General Dix is the man who, as distinguished from all others, best represents our nationality, and this will make him stronger than ever here and throughout the country. Perroteu Lrrerary Prvarens.—Ever since the Heratp published the therough and gra- phic report from its special correspondent relative to the Pennsylvania oil regions, some two months since, newspaper correspondents and the Bobemian literati in this city and else- where have seized the occasion to flood the news ‘stands with periodicals and fill whole pages of newspepers with articles on the sub- jeet of petroleum and the oil territories. Al- though many columns have been devoted to the matter, there is scarcely @ new fact of im- portance concerning the oil regions of Penn- sylvania given by these literary pilferers which was not furnished by the Heratp correapond- ent, nor is any new field opened which was not covered by the same writer, One pam- phieteer, pretending to be a German philoso- pher, gets Out work and stoals all bis mate- nial facts from the Herat, typographical im- perfections included, with the impudence of an original Teutonic Mephistopheles. So clear a oase-of literary robbery receives no encourage- ment from the influential and growing interest which is, as it were, only beginning to develop itself in Western Pennsylvania and other parts of the country. The Hena.p has always beon in advance in developing the magnificent re- sources‘of our grea} republic, and will gon- tinwe to be, v Ithasever been the dream of the: Rassian monarcby since the days of Peter the Great that the possession of Constantinople was a hereditary right, obtained and strengthened by the fact that the Czar of Russla is the legiti- mate head of the Greek Church. To get hold of the Turkish capital, command the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean and drive the Osmanlis eastward into Asia, has been a duty which has devolved asa legacy to the occupants of the Russian throne. Nicholas attempted te carry out the idea at a time when he thought that England and France could not form an alliance, and that he could crush the power of England alone. But he made a great political mistake, for they did combine. France pushed England into the Crimean war, and then reaped all the glory ef its success, The present Emperor Alexander seems to be wiser than his father, and he evi- dently thinks that now is the proper time to get possession of Constantinople, He may be right. France and Hogland have been guilty of so many unfriendly acts towards this coun- try since the war began that they are regarded with hostility and hatred. Russia has been ever friendly to us—in fact the only leading European government which hes maintained an uuqualified neutrality, and which, in many other respects, enjoys the good will of the American people, and weuld receive their fullest sympathy in any undertaking tohumble the treacherous powers of Western Europe. These Powers are notin a position just now to resist the shock of such a war as the Czar could hurl upon them. Apart from the hostility of this country, the affairs of France, in Mexico, are so complicated, and the danger to her com- merce from the threatened privateering attacks of the republican authorities of Mexico is so great, that a European imbroglio would be most inopportune, It is surprising that the Russian Minister and consuls in this country have not assured the Czar of the feelings of our people in regard to @ war with the Western Powers, and notified him that the goldén opportunity is approacb- ing to accomplish the grand hefeditary idea of his race. That they have not done so shows that the Russian. agents and representatives here are entirely unfit for their positions. All the sympathies of our people‘are with Russia. There is not a friendly sentiment existing to- wards England or France from the duplicity exhibited by these governments for the ‘last four years. We are closing up our accounts with the rebellion very rapidly, and will soon be ready to inflict condign punishment upon France and England. By next summer we shall be drawing in our pickets aud remarshal- ling our armies for a more congenial warfare than the present fraternal strife. We shall be calling off our blockading squadrons, then no longer needed, and arraying them in one grand fleet for any emergency. The London papers boasted recently that if we wanted a fight with England we should travel three thousand miles to accomplish it, now that she has virtually re- signed Canada, Well, it will not take very long to do that with our fast sailing vessels. We coula land two hundred thousand veterans upon her shores—say the-west'coast of Ireland— in three wecks; and we will be in a position to doit if necessary before the summer solstice, Now, thereforo, is the tithe for the Russian Ozir to carry out his designs upon Constantinople. Tne Honduras Muddle. Some weeks since the readers of the Hzraip were informed of the existerice of a great mud- dle in Australia, which was giving tho British government considerable trouble. Another, on asmaller scale geographically, but a larger and deeper one politically, has turned up in Honduras, and may lead, before it is cleared up, to complications feom which it will task the whole ability of the British Foreign Office to ex- tricate itself. The Emperor Maximilian, not yet in undisturbed possession of his throne, has commenced ealarging his dominions, aud has asserted his authority over Yucatan as an in- tegral part of Mexico, including the British terrilefy of Honduras, and annexed both to his empire. The peninsula of Yucatan has for some time past maiatained an independent ex- istence, adopted a lioeral constitution, and traded with the world on this footing. The British have not been slow to take advantage of this circumstance, for they have established here, as in Honduras, flourishing settlements aleng the east coast, opposite Ambergris Key. In Honduras they have for many years claimed the rights of ownership by conquest in the manner stated by our intelligent corres- pondent at Belize, published in yesterday’s Heraup. The territory is a large one—threo hundred and vinoty miles in length and one hundred and fifiy in breadth—and was dis- covered by Columbus exactly three huedred and sixty-two years ago. The Bay of Honduras is that in which British enterprise has been chiefly employed. Into this falls the river Belize, at the month ef Which is the town of the same name, with a population of two or three hundred white people and about double that number of blacks, The principal business of the country is mahogany cutting, prosecuted at times, and, according to the demand, with great assiduity. Logwood, cochineal, hides, cedar and turtle are also exported in considerable quantities. Besides all this, of late years Belize has been made the depot of British manufactures and foreign merchandise consigned to certain parts of Central America. The value of the imports is about three millions of dollars annually, and of the exports about four millions. Several hundred veesels visit Belize in the course of the year, of which the largest number are British. The weights and measures are also British, and the public revenue is about one hundred thousand dollars. 1t is governed by a governor, legislature and an oxecutive council. The former receives a salary of nine thousand dollars per nunum. There are judges, courts, clerks, and twenty-three civil officers of various ranks, with salaries from one thousand dollars to three thousand dollars. It is, therefore, a regular colony in all respects, self-governing like the ‘other British possessions, and depen- dent like them on the crown. It fs very clear, then, that Maximilian has made « regular attack on an established British colony, with a more complete organization than even. that of Mexico, and bas annexed it to his empire with- out any ceremony. 4 We think wo see the finger of Louis Napo- Jeon in this affair, The southern boundary of Honduras is the State of Nicarngua, and the eastern is the Caribbean Ses. The schemes of the French Emperor for a transit across the isthmus, either by a ship canal or railway by the Nicaragua routo; are by no moags at an end, and the extension of the power of Maxt milian in that direction secures “him @ seauge n'est penser ae plans, should he again take them up. At any rate we have now before us the spee tacle of the absorption, by a stroke of the pea, of ao important and flourishing Buitish colony, by an Austrian adventurer, placed on a throue by another adventurer of the same class, and both where they do not belong. It rematué te be seen what will be the action of the British government, Will it kiss the band that smite it,employ Lord Russell in a billet doux cer- Tespondence, issue @ proclamation of new trality, and forthwith commence sdpplying the Juarists with arms to overthrow Maximilian, or. give up their mahogoay trade, “cut stick and yeavet” The Rebel Press and the Recont Vie tories. Generally the rebel press of this city ex- cites only the indignation of every patriotie person in whose way its pernicious issues may fall; but it is difficult to see how its antics im relation to the reoont great triumphs of the | Union cause can move anything but laughter, The best news that the friends of the Union bave received for many a day—the news of the * destruction of Hood’s army and of Sherman's victorious march to Savannah—stimulate the World and the News to contortions that, ia pitiful extravagance, equal those of a mangy” cur laboring under the double effects of colte and turpentine. It is wonderful to see how they jump and halloo, and run round the cer- ner and stamp, and swear terribly that the good news is a tissue of lies through aad through, and that the man who says it is nota tissue of lies is a scoundrel, a liar and a “patriot.” Yes, a patriot. The News is at last honest on one point—it accepts with the best grace it mgy the designatiqn of a rebel paper, and admits distinctly and in plain terms its “disloyalty.” Against all that it hates, more . over, it uses the adjective “patriotic.” This is progress. General Sherman, the News says, ise Hart In Sherman’s despatch were these words:— “We have completely destroyed all the rail roads leading into Savannab, and invested the city.” Now, as General Shermaa was on the spot, and as he has haf some little experience in military matters, we modestly assume thas the statement is true. But the News has examined the matter, and finds that Savannah is not invested, and declares that General Sherman’s statement Is “a fraud upon the pope- lar intelligence.” Some facts in relation te affairs mear Savannah, quite unpalatable te the rebels, have lately been made publie, and the News calls those who publish these facts “wretched panderers to public folly”—~ public folly being the delight with which the people hear of the triumph of our arms. Rich- mond papers stated a few days ago. that there: had been a second or third battle betweom the © rebel forees and Foster; but they suppressed all statements of the regult, under the pretence that they did not know it. The News thinks that wo may conclude that the result was against the Union forces. Before Sherman could: resch + the sea and “enter on the enjoyment of a bage,” says this good rebel, he “found it necessary” to capture a fort. So it was not so much of a.euc- cess aftep all. And the worst is that our gov- ernment has got to goon im the same way and”; capture fort after fort, and when it has captured the last one of course the European Powers will recognize the confederacy. How can they © help it? But the Nevs is not satisfied with declaring Sherman a liar: it declares that Thomas isa Nar too. It does not believe that there has been any battle in Tennessee at all. And i quietly informs its readers that it must awalt “more trustworthgintelligeace” than Thoma’ despatches before it will believe that there has been any battle. For, says the News, only the other day some one said that Milroy had gained @ victory, and there had not been any battle; then some one said tha} the guoboays hed whipped Hood, and it was not true; now come” oue says that Thomas has whipped Hood, and that is even more ridiculous than the other stories, and of course we do net believe it. As for all the official’ despatches, says this same News, they are “extracts from the Dlatierskite of the Herat,” Two or three of the thousands of persons captured by Thomes are cavalry generale—and that indicates that Thomas had captured Hood’s cavalry ottposte—and that is all there is of the great victory. Hood had altogether sixty- five pieces of artillery, and Thomas has cap- tured fiity-four of them. ‘The News does not tell us whether the cavalry had all these. The World is tamer than the News. It a@- mits that there bas been a battle. More than that, it admits that Hood has been apparently beaten; but it has got an “if.” As thus:—If Chattanooga has been evacuated, as the rebels say it has; if Hood can get there and occupy it; if he can, once in it, hold it, then “the rebel campaign in the West’—this very cam- paign from which Hood is now running for his life—will, all things considered, be a deci@ed strategic’ success;” and the writer knew all the time that Chattanooga had not been evadu- ated at all. We had oxpected thege sheets to be a litle louder on the mew call for men than they are. But that has got to come. Of course, now that they have got their old cue, they will not fail te use it, and we shall have resistance to the draft urged in every possible form and figure of speech. But they will do no harm, for they have no influence, and there will be no draft. Every one knows that the States, in view of our present splendid .prospects, will fill up their various quotas without such a necessity; but the diatribes of the rebel press will not be Jess violent or laughable on that account. FRA DIAVOLO. Tonight, for the firet time in this country, the amended Italian version of Pra Diavolo wil! be produced atthe Academy. This 18 the second grand novelty whiem Mr. Maretaek has introduced this season, and the fact thee 4t follows (mmodiately alter Don Sebastian, the most coatiy and laborious 6pora which hae been put apou cum atace for a long tine, speaks satisfactorily for the enter. price of the tmprrseario, and his desire to furnish thas olaes of works which is moat popular hora, Wo have bo‘ore remarked upon the noveltion intro@hoed by the composer into the opera ia the form which will be pre wonted tonight, Alwayr a favorite among the comie operas, as It comes now retouched by the haud of Auber after #0 maoy years have elopeod since it was com pored—an opportunity, we may say, aflorded to‘ few of tho great composers—it will be found & gem rendered more brilliant by the workmanebip bestowed upon \ Tt will no doubt be received with pier and Interees, All the goenery and costumer, we und d, ATO pre picod expressly for this opera.” To morrow we sball able to speak Of ite succoRs, It boing already @ oatablished favorite. irk Awona Ti Monsons.—Arvemus Ward's secome and last matinee on the above subject comes off to-day, Dodworth Hall, at puree o'clock. 5