The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1865, Page 4

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General Grant telegraphs to the Secretary of War ex- tracts from General Terry’s despatches, giving the par- ticulars of the abandonment and blowing up of Forts Caswell and Campbell by the enemy, as well as the evacuation of the works on Smith’s Island and those at Smithville and Reeves’ Point. All the above places have Deon occupied by the navy. Altogether one hundred and sixty-two guns have been captured, together with a large number of small arms and quantities of ordnance and commissary stores, The total casualties since the commencement of the attack on Fort Fisher aro twelve officers and one hundred and seven men killed, and forty-five officers and four hundred and ninety men wounded, The hos- pital steamor 8, R. Spaulding arrived at this port last evening from Fort Fisher, bringing four hundred and forty-five wounded soldiers. A number of Unton gun- Doats bad gone up Cape Fear river, and were shelling the woods in order to dislodge the enemy. Tho remains of ono of the heroic dead of Fort Fisher also reached hero last ovening—General Louis Boll—who was killed in the assault of Sunday, the 15th. The remains aro in chargo of Lieutenant Sanford, of the lamented dec’ased’s staff, The body of Genoral Bell is to be conveyed to New ‘Hampshire, We havo tho important intelligence from Mexico, by way of San Francisco, California, bas been appointed a duke by Max- fmilian—at least that is tho story of Captain Beauregard, a brother of the rebel general, who has arrived at Mazatlan in the capacity of private secretary to the new duke, The Captain further reports that Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango and Lower California have been ceded to Napoleon by the Mexican that ex-Senator Gwin, of government, in paymont for the troops furnished by the French Emperor to subjugate Mexico, and that Mr. Gwin has been appointed Vicoroy over those States, and will Many Ameri. | soon enter upon the duties of his office. cans, who intended remaining in Mexico, are returning | to California, on account of the feeling existing against them on the part of the imperialists, In spite of the occasional success of Juarez, the imperial forces were gradually acquiring po 1n of tho country. The conduct of the Southern refugees in Canada, and their abure of that asylum, have been strongly denounced in the Canadian Parliament, A commission has also been appointed by that body to Inquire into tho failure of jus- tice in the case of the St. Albans raiders, as well as into the conduct of Justice Coursol and the Chief of Police. Meantime the Judge's judicial functions have beon sus- pended. Inthe Governor General's message to Parlia- ment, givigg the financial estimates for the current yoar, ‘fan item of $50,000 in golil is included, to make good the money improperly surrendered in the case of the St, Albans raiders, The decision in the Burley habeas corpus case is to be given on Friday morning. A band of guerillas at Mound City were routed, with the Joss of six killed and wounded, by a detacument of Union troops from Memphis on the 21st inst. By advices from New Orleans to the 15th inst, we learn that the rebel Gencral Forrest was reported to be con- centrating his forces at Houston, Miss., for a raid on Memphis. ‘The rebels are blaming Bragg, who was in command at ‘Wilmington, for allowing Fort Fisher to fall into our banda, They think that General Terry may be await. Ing reinforcements from General Sherman before resum ing active operations, The Goldsboro Journal, of the 17th, however, states that the Union forces were shelling Battery Gatlin, or Sugar Loaf, four miles from Fort Fishor, on the day previous. Another rebel Congress- man—Mr. Smith, of Alabaina—had expelled himself from the House of Representatives. Gold has reached a pro- mium of thirty-five hundred per cent in exchange for rebel currency. Tho Mobile papers say the people decline to bet the odds of onc against forty om the success of the rebel cause, The steamship Atlanta, Captain Jobn Pennington, from Mobile Bay 16th inst., arrived at this port yeaterday afternoon, having on board one thousand Dales of cotton on account of the rebel government, the Proceeds of which are to be expended in purchasing Diankets, clothing, &e., for the rebel prisoners now held by our government, The cotton is in charge of Capt. Frank G. Noyes, of Major Gen. Granger's staff, and was olivered to him on the 13th, by the rebel authorities at Mobile, outside of their obstructions, from their steamer ‘Waverley. There was nothing of any moment going on In the vicinity of Mobilo at the timo of the departure of tho Atlanta. Goneral Granger, with his army, waa still fn the neighborhood of Fast Pascagoula, The Atlanta brings as « passenger Capt. Norris, of Gen. Grant’s staff, CONGRESS. Inthe Senate yesterday, a memorial from the Phila- delphia Board of Trade, remonstrating against the repeal a duty on unsized paper, was presented. The Post © ee sipuvepriation bill wae reported by the Wioance !ttee without amendment. A bill establishing « ‘of mail steamers between the United States and NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1865. ° ‘The Monroe Doctrine~Th © Necessity of = | story prove true, there will be a big rush of China wes referred to the Post Office Committce, The | ferson Insurance Company, while it is alleged the place House bill to provide substitutes for Assistant Treasurers | was purchased by Mr. Precht, about @ month ago, for two in case of sickness or unavoidable absence from duty was hundred dollars, since which time very little had been passed. The bill reimbursing Missouri for war expendi- | added. The prisoner was committed to await an examli- tures was made the special order for Tuesday next. The | nation. resolution in relation to retaliation upon the rebels for | A verdict of accidental death was rendered yesterday the cruel treatment of Northern prisoners of war was by a coroner’s jury in the case of Daniel Sullivan, who then considered. Mr. Sumner offered a series of resolu- | died from injuries received on the 10th inst., by falling tions, asa substitute, adverse to rotalfation, and slong | from the cabin deck to the main deck of the ship Pea- debate ensued. The subject was finally laid aside until | body, while that vessel was lying at pier 14 East river. to-day, when the debate will be resumed. A Dill In the Irving assault and battery case Justice Dodge supplemental to the several enrolment acts was in- | yesterday decided to hold the accused parties—Louis troduced and referred to the Military Committee, It | Beiral, Matthew HL Moore, Owen James provides that persons enrolled and lable to be drafted | McDonald and James Clark—to ball in the sum of $500 may be accepted as substitutes; that no one furnishing a each to answer before the Court of Sessions, navy substitute shall be exempt unless the Board of En- | A sailor, namod Cluff, was committed for trial rolment accept said substitute; that all State or local | yesterday, in default of $1,000 bail, for attempting to bounties shall hereafter be paid in instalments, one-third | shoot Miss Emma Schwarts, residing at 190 Mott street, at mustering in, one-third at the middle of the term of | on Monday night, service, and one-third at tho end, unless sooner dis | Mr. William Branch, a well known stockbroker, was charged honorably; if killed, the balance to be pald to | accidentally killed yesterday by a brick falling froma the widow; that every district shall make up by addi- scaffold erected against a building in Broad street, tional draft or recruiting its loss from desertions and dis- ‘The ball was up yesterday, although the ice was in poor charges on account of physical disability existing before | Condition on the Park and most of the adjacent ponds, enlistment; that all deserters shall be disfranchised for- with the exception of the Fifth avenue, which, being ever, including all who have deserted heretofore who | sheltered, offered greater facilities for skaters, At the shall not report within sixty days, The Senate then ad- time we write the weather bids fair to be favorable for journed. them to-day. In the House of Representatives} the Judiciary Com- General Grant has accepted the present of a house, lot mittee was instructed to inquire whothor any legislation | and furniture from the citizens of Philadelphia Ina is necessary for the better security of the lives of travel- | letter addressed to the committee appointed to tender the lers on railroads. The Ways and Means Committee were | sift, ho alludes to his feelings of gratitude and pride in instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing the acceptance of go substantial a testimonial. He also the tariff on all articles used in the manufacture of paper. | accepts it as an evidence that the people are determined Poreign Waa: In the consideration of the Me. nrce doctrine, nent, we have urged the fact that this question was a natural point of agreement between the point on which the men of the freedom-laving ‘and progressive North could meet the pravd and brave men of the Southern States withom* where both could join hands in the brotherhood of a common and glorious cause. This argu- ment has been commented upon in a truly American spirit by one of the more influential journals of the rebel capital. Thus the idea is likely to be well considered in ‘both sections, and will therefore undoubtedly have a good effect. It is the idea upon whose adoption or rejec- tion practically by the people the future of this great nation will turn. Foreign wars can be recognized on every page of history as the definite force that binds communities into na- tions, that forces into unity separate peoples, that consolidates and strengthens the unity of those that hold loosely together, and that in- vigorates an already established nationality with the grandest spirit. War is a severe regi- men, a fierce treatment; but, like every other severe regimen or fierce treatment, while it is certain destruction to the puny—to those whose vital current runs low—it is life and a higher organization, a vigorous health, a more per- fect sympathy and oneness of all the parts in those who can stand it. This is so true that, great as the horrors of war unquestionably are, it is certain that there are times when it would be a wise statesmanship to invoke war, with all its horrors, as a proper stimulant for national life. England has fought the battles of Europe for the past century, has hardly been at any time without a foreign war, and Eng- land is the one country of the Old World in which the national spirit of the people runs highest, We may even say that Great Britain is the one empire in which the people are most closely knit together; and foreign war has cer- tainly done it all—uniting in a common cause Scot, Saxon and Celt, each once animated by a fiercer sectional spirit than the world ever saw anywhere else. But there is more than this in favor of what we urge. National wars consolidate divided peoples, as all history proves; but it is also specially and particularly true that no people ever came safely through a great domestic or civil struggle except by means of foreign war. Foreign wars either close or immediately suc- ceed all the great civil wars of history that have been closed at all; and where such civil struggles have not been followed by foreign wars the people have dwindled, and have never for centuries taken their places in the number of the nations. This is no abstruse historical problem that requires deep research for its demonstration. It lies every- where on the surface—Greece, Rome, France, England, Italy, all demonstrate it, For ages Greece was the habitation of various and hos- tile tribes that only had a filmy bond of union in the traditions of the Trojan war. There were Spartans, Athenians, Messenians, Thebans, Arcadians, Beotians, and so on; but all of a sudden there comes the Persian war, and all these cities become Greece, and all these sepa- rate peoples have forgotten their chronic strifes and call themselves Greeks. In that foreign war they grew great; and that war was the birth of Grecian glory. It was, however, too short to have its full effect, and upon its cessa- tion the great Grecian people lapsed once more slowly into Lacedemonians, Athenians and Corinthians, But the process is repeated so often in Grecian history that it is like a game of open and shut. Alexander comes on the scene, and his time, in a foreign war that makes Greece more truly one and greater than ever; and but for his untimely death, which deprived Greece ot the benefit of his achievements, we should have heard much less of the proud power that was able to triumph over Greece only through the revival of those internecine struggles. Foreign wars also made the Roman people one again after the fierce civil struggles of Marius and Scylla; and in the glories of Pompey and COwesar all the old bitterness was finally forgotten; England, to come to later times, forgot her “Roses,” only while fighting the French; and, later still, it was only in the glory of Marlborough that the tyrannies of Charles, the triumphs of Cromwell and the meanness of James went for a time out of sight. France attempted to dethrone her royal master, and thereupon the secession of nearly the whole of the west of France seemed to threaten her existence. Never was there a flercer civil war than that of La Vendée, but yet never did a nation become more magnifi- cently knit into one Power than France was by the foreign wars that the Revolution brought about. There is always before our eyes one distin- guished instance of the converse. Italy is the European country whose centuries of civil strife did not end in a glorious foreign war, and it is, consequently, the country whose people, for the want of a common rallying point, have never yet come together; and, until they see this, and act on it sternly, never will. Let us have a wise regard to the examples both ways, and let it be kept before the people properly, that a foreign war, or such a vigorous foreign policy as shall bring the whole country out in preparation for war, is the only safe issue from our present position. Hienty Important (1F Trvr) rrom Mextce— By telegram from San Francisco—never a very reliable route—wo have startling news from people at Mazatlan, who have highly im- portant news from Mexico. It is stated that Captain Beauregard—brother of General Beauregard, the rebel—has arrived at Mazat- lan with o full budget of information. He re- ports that ex-Senator Gwin, of Califrnia, has been made a duke by Maximilian; that Mr. Gwin ia consequently a duchess; that Maxi- milian has ceded to Napoleon the rich territory of Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango and Lower California, in payment for the services of the French troops, and that Duke Gwin has been appointed viceroy over these States, to take care of them for Napoleon until we got ready to take them away from him. Now, this story may beyor may not be true. It is to be regretted, ever, that Captain Beauregard does not inform us what Duke Gwin is duke of, and whether he wears his Dlushing honors bravely or meckly, If the Messrs, Beaman, Rollins of New Hampshire, Robinson, | that the war shall go on until the Union is restored, and Baldwin of Massachusetts, and ‘Townsend of New York, | says that, although his family will occupy and enjoy the the circumstances attending the assault on Mr. | Joy a home fireside until the happy day of peace arrives. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, by Mr. Field, of Louisiana | Thestock market was higher yesterday, and specula- the question of privilege raised by Mr. Brooks, | rities were heavy. Gold was irregular, but firmer, and of Now York, on’ Monday, based on General | closed at 202%. his (Brooks) attack on the General in debate, wherein | yesterday than on the preceding day, yet business was General Butler was stigmatized asa “gold robber.”? Mr. | very dull, and the sales of merchandise were few. Prices from the charge preferred, and at the close of the dis- | decline in gold. Nearly everything was nominal, how- cussion the question of privilege was withdrawn, and go | ever, as values are controlled by the movement of gold. the opinion of Congress the seizure of the Chincha | and almost nominal. On ’Change the flour market was Islands by the Spanish authorities is a part of the French | qniet, and a further decline of 10c. was established. republics, was referred to the Committee on Foreign | drooping. Oats were lower, with, however, rather more Affairs, After the transaction of some unimportant busi- | doing. Pork was rather more active, but decidedly lower, THE LEGISLATURE. and heavy. Whiskey was quict and declining. Freights Inthe State Senate yesterday bills were reported to | @Wiet but firm. — ‘5! We have intimated that the inauguration of Onondaga Valley Railroad; to incorporate the New York Passenger and Baggage Company; and author- | probably be marked by such a reconstruction of his cabinet as will result in the transfer of mond and Suffolk counties, Bills were introduced | Mr, Seward to England, to relieve our minister t “al ies . ro: romped: mp pipes or “ee, Reeeey er Se gies there, Mr. Adams. We have briefly undertaken the Eighth regiment, New York; to remove the restric- tions as to fare on the Hudson River Railroad; also | Which will mark this mission of Mr. Seward, should it be given him; that it will be distin- proceeded to ballot for a regent of the University, Mr. Wm. H. Goodwi ivi . Isaac é a sb Mi ahi gh caeagee nat doctrine,and that among the consequences of government of Central Park was then taken up and | this policy Mr. Seward will loom up again as a adopted. The State bounty bill was then taken up and Regardless, however, of Presidential politics, The Senate Commitico on Cities and Villages mot | i¢ is to be hoped that Mr. Seward, on the true last evening to hear the statements of parties on $ of the New York {gpurance companies were repro- { will be transferred to England, to the relief of sented by cone favor of the bill. Its} Mr. Adams. The appointment and the plat- opponents were the Wllef Engineer and President realized, inasmuch as the Monroe doctrine is several others, The advocatos of the bill claim that the | 04 Of the national issues bich Mr. Li present department is governed extravagantly, that it is baisagtdces be) ig ahd ae the city. They claimed that a paid department, con- | that his second term will be signalized by the trolled by a commission beyond the reach of local | appointment of Mr. Seward to England, and orderly, but vastly more economical, By request of both partion the.cene was adjoumed fortwo weeks: trine, in its broadest application, it is not diffi- cult to perceive that the most important results tion of the State Bounty bill. No progress was made. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. of power in both hemispheres, As our Minister at London, on the heels of tially destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The pic- Sate, GAN SUD. He: veTRDER venllootony ee federacy, Mr. Seward will at once command the tally destroyed, ‘The lecture room and the philosophical | Special attention of all the diplomats and poten- instrament department, with most of the valuable doctrine of European non-intervention in the records of the Institution were destroyed, and the | g@airs of the independent States of this conti- museum was somewhat damaged—more, however, by known. The government, by the terms of the boquest of | American alliance, which, with our Northern Mr. Smithson, was made tho trust-e of the building de- | and Southern States reunited, will command government will rebuild the portion destroyed at its own | Holiey of peace and good will with our Cana- <. dian neighbors, but a policy repudiating the yesterday. The amount of ail the items is $6,926,502 61. ‘They adjourned to Monday week next. demanding his removal. Thus the fragile entente cordiale which, since the Crimean war, of cleaning the streets of the city for the past year amountod to $812,613 “ : * The bark Harvest Moon is londing, under dtrection of | MAY be rudely broken. In any event, Napo- Colonel Julian Allen, with provisions for the people of | leon will be left to settle his own accounts in Savannah. sails to-day. will be a quict evacuation. The same policy will be required of him and of Spain in refer- cated cotton from Savannah, are on their way to this wrt, and may be hourly looked for. ‘The greater portion 3 i gp gt canter! republics of South America. ‘and as soon as one thousand bales are received the sale Thus the United States, on the basis of the will be commenced. se " 1s aseutenadnienh republican balance of power—political, military bour, Gertrude Crossman ened an old gentler ioe David Harrison, who is the posscaror of largo means and | 804 commercial—in North and South America. lies in New York, to recover three thousand dollars’ | Louis Napoleon on this side of the Atlantic; nor damages for an alleged assault on her by striking her | will American diplomacy against him stop le to in consequence of which she was rendered unable Russia, to active ifestations of sympathy attend to her ordinary avocations. The affair grew out maa with young Italy and the progressive demo- from the house of the plaintiff an old lady named Mrs. | cratic elements of the European continent, the Dayton, relict of Dr. Dayton, who, the defence alleged, | consequence of which may extend to a new hor husband and the domestics. Defendant, at tho urgent solicitation of Mr. Dayton, finally succeeded in | Construction of the map of Europe. In this protection. Plaintiffs counsol endeavored to show that | success of the great American republic in over- the old Indy was non compos mentis, and consequently | coming the most formidable internal rebellion doing. will impart a new and powerful impulse to The trial of Theodore Yates, In the Court of Oyer and democratic ideas and movements in the Old with the murder of Charles Curran, an officer of the Forty-second police precinet, commenced yesterday. | reaction even the British aristocracy, so in- October last, discharged a pistol at the officer, inflicting on him a wound which caused his death a fow days after. | *FY and its popular institutions, may be com- pelled to sarrender. evening of the affray, and, without any evident cause, according to the most reliable testimony, discharged ® | changes touching the balance of power on this Kenney. He ran away, and was seized by the unforta- nate deceased, a very esteemed member of the police proclamation by President Lincoln of the Mon- head, inflicting @ wound which resulted in his death ina | ture policy, and from his, appointment of Mr. fow days afterward. The case, so far asthe testimony | Seward to England, there to explain it as the and the Judge's charge, the care will be given to the jury. ‘The Millspaugh-Adama case is drawing to a close, The | Pesn States. That the United Stwtes will gloriously emerge from this grand rnovement were appointed a select committee to inquire into | magnificent present, he does not expect or desire to en- The House then resumed the consideration of | tive fecling for a rise was developed. Government secu- Butler’s letter to him, asking explanations concerning There was rather more doing in commercial circles Boutwell, of Massachusetts, vindicated General Butler | of almost everything were lower, in sympathy with the the matter ended. A joint resolution declaring thatin | Cotton was dull and 6c. per Ib. lower. Petroleum quict and Austrian scheme to subvert the Spanish-American | Wheat also declined 2c. a 3¢., while corn was dull and ness the House adjourned. while bocf was dull and scarcely so firm. Lard was dull increase the rates of pilotago in New York; alsoamend- | mpe Next Presidency—Mr. Seward’s Pro- in New York; for the construction of tho ' 3 President Lincoln’s second term of office will izing the appointment of Measurers in Queens, Rich- to towns and villages; to provide an armory for i) h to foreshadow the decisive American policy amending the Brooklyn Sewerage act. Tho Senate thon guished by a broad enforcement of the Monroe Butts seven votes. The Dill for the regulation and promising candidate for the next Presidency. debated until the hour of adjournmont the Metropolitan Fire Department Dill. Several American plaiform of the Monroe doctrine, form, too, may be regarded as very likely tobe of the New York and Bfooklyn Fire Departments and inefficient, and that {t conduces largely to crime in | Coln has been re-elected. Assuming, therefore, politics, will prove not only much more efficient ard | (hat his programme will be the Monroe doc- ‘The Assembly Jast night was occupied in the considorn- will follow in the rectification of the balances ‘Tho Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, was par- the suppression of the so-called Southern con- the exception of five or six pictures, was to- tates of Europe; as the champion of the Monroe instruments was also burned. The original archives and water than fire. ‘The full extent of the loss is not yet | D€2¢ he will doubtless be supported by a South stroyed. If not protected by insvrance, of course the | yniversal respect. He will proclaim the The Board of Supervisors adopted the county tax levy " ‘ pretensions of Maximilian in Mexico, and According to the report of the City Inspector the cost has subsisted between England and France, Colonel Allen is going in the Fulton, which | Mexico, and in this dilemma his only course One steamer and three schooners, laden with confls- ence to their interference in the affairs of the of this cotton arriving here is to be stored in Brooklyn, Monroe doctrine, will establish an American In the Superior Court yesterday, before Justice Bar- belongs to one of the oldest and most respectable fami | This will dispose of the grasping designs of several blows and violently wrenching her fingers, &c., here. It will extend to a close alliance with of an attempt being made by the defendant to remove was starved and otherwise ill treated by the plaintif, | oraop of things in France, and an extensive re- removing her, and conveyed her to his own house for view of the subject we cannot doubt that the or utterly unable to understand what she was saying in the records of all the nations of the earth, Terminer, Brooklyn, Judge Barnard presiding, charged World. Under the pressure of this popular The prisoner is indicted for having, on the first day of | tonsoly anxious for the destruction of this coun- wards. Yatos was attending a political meeting on tho Such are the momentous and comprehensive pistol Into the crowd, slightly wounding a man named | oontinent and that of Europe, from the formal force, at whom he fired, tho ball taking effect In the roe doctrine in its broadest latitude, as his fu- goes, was closed, and to-morrow, after the summing UP | basis of our future negotiations with the Buro- counsel were ehgagod yesterday in summing up the evi- dence, which was listened to with marked attention by | within the next four years, is moraViy certain; the audience. The most intense interest was manifested | Hut ft is not so certain that the reward to Mr. as to the result. Judge Leonard’ insinioted the jury © | Seward will be the next Presidency. From fa wealod verdict at ten o'clock this morning. v eanrtiek Price, charged with defrauding the goverienell the armies and the horoes of this/war new poli- to the amonnt of $2,121 for supplies alleged to have beon tical elements and combinatior.s will take the supplied to soldiers, was admitted to bail in the United | fleld, and, regardless of parties, the statesman Statos Ciroult Court yesterday by Commissionor Stilwell, | or aspiring politician who “is not with them, 5 tn will be swept away. It will: enffice for the pre- H. Johnson, who wns beaten ata saloon in dates street, wile chgaged in a quarrel, on Wednos. | Sent, however, that Mr. Sev/ard, in his chances ay night Iast, died at the New York Hospital yesterday for the mission to Englay’4, as the champion of from the effects of the injuries received. The Coroner | the Monroe doctrine, Pins the opportunity of will hold an inquest to-day. leading in © new mv ,vement of popular ideas, ‘Tho proprietor of & grocery sore tn Jory wt, | which will place Wim in tho front rank of the named Henry Precht, has beon arrested for setting fire to the premises on Tuesday morning last. There was an ee a" the nineteenth century, insurance of siz hundred dollars on the atank i» the Jaf. . rebels to Mexico, in hopes of getting titles and hard cash, Duke Gwin is a clever sort of and of the imperative necessity th, *t every Eu-| 9 man, and undoubtedly he caught the idea of ropean Power should be driven fron” this cont!- | going to Mexico from the Hzpatp. Jeff. Davis might have been a duke and a viceroy by this time had he taken our advice. As it is, there two parties to the present war; that it .W®8 ® | is a chance left for him if he will cut his stick before General Beauregard slips off to join his brother, the captain, The cession of several Mexican States to the French will only make derogation to the high spirit of either, and) our labor less difficult when we come to drive fie French away. There is a declaration known as the Monroe doctrine, which will, enforved by and by, and then all this ym of States and creating of dukedoms will be at an end pn this continent forever. Neverthe- less, we wih Duke Gwin joy of his title, if he has it, and if he will encourage rebel immigra- tion, draw off the whole rebel army, organize his viceroyalty into American States, and get everything ready for the‘proper act of Con- gress, we will annex them to the United States as soon as we see that they are in good con- dition. European Encroachments in America— How to Checkmate Them. The war in the United States has given a splendid opportunity to the Powers of Europe to carry out their favorite design of territorial aggrandisement on this continent. Were it not for the fact that we were engaged in a gigantic civil strife, Napoleon would never have dared to play the broad farce of establishing an empire in republican Mexico. Spain, too, was em- boldened by our intestine feuds to reassert her authority in St. Domingo, and to replace the flag of that republic by the royal standard of Castile. Not satisfied with the lesson that the people of that country have given her, she is now making further pretensions to the Chincha Islands, an integral part of the territory of Peru. We now learn that the Italian govern- ment is also seeking to get a foothold on this continent by establishing a colony somewhere on the borders of the republic of Uruguay. All these encroachments of the Powers of Eu- rope are the result of a belief on their part, now being rapidly dissipated, that the disrup- tion of the United States would be final and complete, and that there would no longer be a united and powerful nation to call them to an account for their insolent aggressions. In this they reckoned without their host. We are now far more powerful than we ever were before, and in every way prepared to wage war on a vast and expensive scale. The republics of Central and South America all look to us as their natural protector against the incursions of their powerful European enemies. It is now our duty to extend to them the assistance and protection of which they may stand in need. It will be remembered that after the South American revolution, which resulted in the independence of those former Spanish colonies, a proposition was made in Spain to colonize them, and the aid of England was sought in the matter. Tho proposition met with warm opposition, Mr. Canning taking decided stand against it, The scheme was at once seen through here, and, of course, violently de- nounced. John Quincy Adams, then the Presi- dent of the United States, at once proposed that ® congress of all the Central and South Ameri- can republics should meet at Panama, to con- cert measures for the common defence—the United States sonding 9 commissioner, with fall powers, to take part in the proceedings. This was the origin of what is known as the Monroe doctrine, President Monroe was the first to propose it in one of his last messages; |. but John Quincy Adams, who succeeded him, gave the idea this practical form. It is now time to revive something of this kind. The emergency demands it, and the State Department should not hesitate to act. Let a general congress of all the Central and closes the bitterest of all the dissensions, up to | South American States be called at Panama or some other central place, to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, against the encroach- ing Powers of Europe. Then let the United States send a special commissioner or am- bassador to represent our nation in that congress and to co-operate with the other republigs for the common defence, on the basis of the Monroe doctrine. In this way we would immediately checkmate the European Powers, and they would soon find it to their advantage to abandon all pretensions to power or terri- tory on this continent. A splendid opportunity is now offered to Mr. Seward to dispose of the question of foreign aggression on republican independence in America, Let him immediately appoint a com- missioner to visit all the South American re- publics, and to unite them in a general con- gress on the Monroe doctrine. Such an act would startle all Enrope and attract general attention to the statesman that should propose it. This is the very thing that will suit Mr. Seward; for, being known to be firm on the Monroe doctrine, his opinions wilt be far more respected when he goes to Europe to represent the republic there. Amusements. #t is Solon Shingle, not Mr. John Owens, who is about to leave the Broadway theatre. Mr. Owens will remain for the balance of the season; but Solon Shingle has mado a fortune by barrelling “apple sass,” and is going to retire withJt. He takes the Live Indian along with him to do odd chores. They cam be seen together ‘at the theatre for the last time this evening. Mrs. John Wood's Olympic is doing #0 well with the Stroots of Now York that the fair manageross is about to cross the raging East river and imspect the streeta of Brooklym She will appear at the Brooklyn Academy, to-night and to-morrow night only, as Pocahontas, in Brougham’s capital burlesque, and will be supported by several leading members of the Olympic company. BROADWAY ATHRNABUM, Mr. Hackott will repeat at this ostablishment to-night the entertainment given on Monday evening, for the benefit of the Shakspere Monument Fund. The enter. taiament is a melange admirably calculated to interest and amuse. In some introductory reflections on elo- quence Mr, Hackett reads, with great force and effect, the lines from the third book of the “Iliad,” contrasting the speoches of Ulysses andMenelaus, He reads extracts from Hamlet, from Henry IV., and gives inaitations of Kean and Macready, His story of Nimrod Wildfire, the Kentuckian, his Yankee Story and his Frenchman's Criticism on Macbeth—ench admirable alone—display bis great powers as a most versatile dialectician. THRATRE FRANCAISE. This pleasant resort of the French residents of the city was well filled Inst night by its customary critical but good natured audience, The programme comprived: three happy little morceau of French comedy—Un Mart Brula, Les Femmes qui Pleurent and Les Eztases—all of which wors admirably rendered, she principal parts bo- ing given by MM. Juignet and Larmet, Madamo Larmet and Mile, Larsch. The two Indies named were especially good in the little domestic picture of the wives who weep, and after that manner get all their whims gratibed through the td of ware, Mr. Wechrung gave a re- mat je exhibition of @ peculiar vocal power, This announced as @ “natural flutist,” Is appa- a whistlor; but he whistles with all the richness pnd and fluency thas the ablest players give to the REWS FROM THE GULF, Arrival of the Atlanta from Mobile Bay with a Cargo of Cotton for General W. R. W. Beale, Rebel Agent. The steamship Atlanty, from Mobile Day January 16, arrived at this port direct yesterday. She brings one thousand bales of cotton on account of the rebel govern- ment, in charge of Captain F. G. Noyes, and consigned t¢ General W. R, W. Beale, the sebel agent in this city. ‘The proceeds of the sale of the octton are to be expended in purchasing blankets, clothing; &¢., for the rebel sab diers now held by us as prisoners. The present carge was delivered on board the Atlanta om January 18 by the Tebel authorities at Mobile. Their steamer Waverley steamed outside of the obstructions in the bay and trans forred the cotton to the Atlanta under fiagof truce ané with all the ceremonies. The Atlanta brings no news of importaxce. General Granger's forces were stil! in the vicinity of East Pasca We sre indebted to Purser 8. P. Young for Mofile pa Pers and other favors. NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS, &C.. Camo, Tll., Jan. 23, 1885, The steamer St. Nicholas, from New Orleans on tha 15h inst., en route for Loutsville, with sixty-seven bales of cotton, has passed here. ‘ A private letter from Pascagoula states that Genceat: Granger's forces have fallen back for the present te within the limits of the town, the roads Since tho storm» having become so bad as to render it impossible to trans port supplies to the position formerly held by them. The steamships Morning Star and Fung Shuey, from Now York, arrived at New Orleans on the 15th inst, Commander Palmer, commanding the Gulf blockading squadron, has returned to New Orleans from Mobile Bay. Captain Reynolds and others, captured’ by guerillas om the steamer Verango, have been’ released and sent te Vicksburg. ‘There was but little inquiry for cotton in New Orleans, buyers offering still lower figures, but holders declining to make further concessions. Prime sugar was gelling at 22}¢c. and prime molasses at $1223. ‘The rebel General Forrest was reported tobe concen- trating his forces at Houston, Miss., with a view of make ing a raid into Memphis, . The Missouri State Convention. Sr. Louis, Jan, 24, 1865, Tho State Convention yesterday, in Committee of the Whole, adopted a Bill of Rights, of which the: following are the principal features:— Sections twelve and thirteen define in what mannes religious corporations can be established in the State, and how gifts and sales of lands can be made to minis ters and religious denominations. Section fourteen declares that all cloctions shallibe free and open. Section fifteen provides that courts of justice: shall be open to every person, and certain remedies afforded fos every injury to property or character. Section sixteen provides that no property shall be taken or applied to the public usegwithout just com- pensation. Section seventeen provides that the right of triat by jary shall remain inviolate. Section eighteen defines the rights of persons before the courts. Section twenty-two declares that the writ of habeas corpus cannot be suspended except in cases of rebéliiom or invasion. Section twenty-three provides that persons shalt be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures. Sections twenty-five and twenty-six refer to treasom. against the State and federal constitution. New York Artists’ Reception » The artists of New York, with their numerous friends from all parts of the country, held their annual reception in this city last evening, beginning at seven o'clock, a8 Dodworth’s Studio Building, No, 212 Fifth avenue, The spacious hall of exhibition was brilliantly illuminated, and the visitors, male and female, were of the élite of our metropolitan society. Although the evening was & very cold one, and feathery snow flakes began to fal— soon after the rooms were opened, the assembly of ladies, dressed in all the magnificent toilets of the season, wap as large and as beautiful as on any previous year, The artist who labors diligently with his pencil, his pallet and. his brush, throughout the weary year, perfecting one com ception of an imaginative mind, must always be buoyed. up by the hope that the anniversary reception will rol on in the due course of time, when fair forms and liquid eyes will speak approbation of his continuous effort. The collection of pictures on exhibition last night wapy not very large, but there were many pieces of a superior, order of ‘merit, These seemed to attract the audience as by intuition. Bierstadt was represented by one of hip. delicate landscape pieces, which was greatly admired. { “Cloud Towers,” a trifle, by Bugene Benson, isa very meritorious piece; and 80 is “La Duéna,” by George HL » Hall. We observed that a fruit piece by Cranch, and the: “Little Flower Girl,” attracted much attention, Tait» broods of young chickens are extremely natural, though perhaps a little over-colored, The ‘“Brigand’s Daughter’® ‘ of the Abruzzi is vigorous conception, and is well exe cuted. Of McEnteo’s beautiful picture representing the foliage othe trees in autumn, too mveh cannot be said. We think ita highly successful delineation of nature Wo can only mention two other pieces, though all are worthy of praise. We allude to Gignoux’s charming icture of a “Swiss Lake,” and Cropsey’s “ Vernom. . alley,” with Mounts Adam and Eve, and the : mountains in the distance, These two pieces are d’aeuvres in themselves. c The reception was a moet successful one, and continued ¢ until alate hour. A fine band of music was in attend } ance, and lent its harmony to the gayety of the scene, /) Messrs. 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