The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. TERMS cash in advence. Monoy sent b; Qt the risk of the sender, None but bank bills current in Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Four coats percopy. Annual @ubseription price $14. il will be NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1865. despatch published in Wednesday's Hemate, to the | next. A resolution was adopted authgrising the Super. effect that Maximilian had cenveyed to the Emperor of | Vitors to mak euch increase in the bounties<e vol in- “4 toors as they may deom proper. The City Laspoctor's tho Fronoh the Northern States of Mexico, It is wald that | sos report was rooelved and ordered to bi printed. these are merely to bo held by Napoleom as seourity | 4 communication was sent im by the Mayor stating the for the payment te him of the indebtedness to the | intention of the New York Gaslight Gompany to increase Agheen 4 a their charges for lighting the city. Communications Froach nation which Maximilian has incurred im the | UCT DMNEO Ot te Magee setine re supply of the necessary military force to place him | in6 or ction of recru'ting booths, and rc amending the upon the throne as successor te the Montesumas, Ao- | withdrawal of all anch pormits herctefo.. grapted, and cording to this accouat Dr. Gwin is to be Louls Napoleon's | the passage of an ordinance to palletmonts in this city for other legalities, A was adopted Govornor General of these States, and the encorazement {tting the Colored Orphan Asylum trustecs to self of immigration to mem from the United Statos ind on which their old building was situated aud ts to receive particular attention, and is expected to re- ‘The New MWrance-Mexican Colemy—The Grand Scheme ef Louls Nupoicon. The news is confirmed. We wore right in our opinions concerning it, “Maximilian has conveyed by trustdeed to the Emperor Louls Napoleon Sovors, Sinaloa and other Biates of Northera Moxico,'to be held and governed by the latter under Mexican (French-Mexioan) protection, as security for the payment of the claims of France against Mexico,” &., and ovor these.“ceded States Dr. Gwin is Governor General and Vice Secretary (or Viceroy) of thé Emperor of the French, and is invested with plenary powers.” This intelligence from Sen Francisco ts at WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vatsus—Siz Duaares Me—Tas Juasar NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Suaunoce. fat) met SRRATES, Dias—Pave WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Hauzet, WALLACK’S THEATRE, BARN OMEN van pend THE SITUATION. Keancis P. Blair, Sr., arrived in Annapolis, Mé,, esterday, on bis return from his second visit to the vears in Adairai after General Terry's kopt Gre throughout lujury of Consequence to @ridiors, who were under cover. gra for wo hours soon after twelve o'clock on Wednes- Gay moraing, but with what result hae not boon ascer- feined. The rebels apparently intended a land attack on @ur forces north of the James river, as a co-operation th their fest, as Gonsiderndle movements of their troope wore observed; but their entire pian reoms to heave failed, Tho Union easualtios in the whole affair wore very slight. ‘The steamship United States arrived here yerterday from Savannah. There was a report that tho national Goroes, near Pacotaligo, South Carolina, had captured two (thousand rebels and thelr artillery. The steamship Re bocca Clyde, with her cargo Of food contributed by the poople of this city for the gufferers of Savannah, find roachod the tatier place, and the distribution nested and gladly welcomed supptios had een commenced. The Mayor of Savannah, in his speech Rooepting the donations, warmly thanked the people of North for thoir liverality, and paida high compll- ent to General Goary, military Governor of the city, and the ofcers and men under hia command, for thelt wise and impartial admintstration of affairs and the good order they have presorved. A domooratic paper of San Franciseo, sujpowed to be somewhat acquainted with the movements and designs of Gwin, California, makes & Of hor mu amu! umw DowEey THEATRE, Bowery.—Sree. Oar— Srucon—Naw Youx Finxmax—nost OF a "8 MUSEUM. Broadway —Two Ma! ‘ving Sxrixron—Dwaar—Le, id aree—Tux Union Faison and SDT ANTS MINOTRELS, Most ay.—Brmorian SALLE DIABOLIQUE, $08 Broadwey.—Roouat Haran’ Pinna deeb * 7 BROADWAY ATHZNAUM, No. 728 Brosdway.—Ma. Hacenre’s HOOLBY & oly te hee Lg 199 and 901 Bowory.—soues, Dancus, Buriesquas, &c. Bion. MEW YORK vB Open trom 10 A.M rebel capital. formidable forte, constructed in the most comypicte mam- ner, and containing altogether eighty-three guns, have been captured, and are now garrisoncd by sail- ors All these works, which the robela were four conatructing, Porter's bad beon run to=Wilmington, Gotwoon twelv ENTS Tus EVENING, wernre THEATRE, Broadway.—Tan Stazets or New Broadway.—Taa Livs In- jroadway.—Iaisa Heinass. "Geue—ta ALESQU 4S, i te ro INSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway. rt) or Y Bit—Om Husa |—Eruiorian Sonos, HH & CO.'9 MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, Byoedway.—Open from 10P. HIPPOTHEA Sitraaen AMERICAN THBATRE, ‘Xo Fourteenth rRIAR, jeomano Enreneainasnre— ah, Benatar. —Barism, —_—_— ne or PAPA TONY, as a ~ It Is sald be reports that among the tebe! leaders, iacluding Jeff. Davis himself, thire is a ttrong focting in favor of making peace on the best terms that can be obtained. Admiral Porter, in « spirited despatch dated on the POth imat., briefly details the work that has been accom- olished by the navy at the mouth of Cape Foar river nce the fall of Fort Fisher. The entire chain of rebel works in that vicinity, including eight or ten of the most hands of hours troops had secured pos- session of Fort Fisher. The total number of guns cap- sured tn all tho Cape Fear river forts is one hundred and sixty-cight, most of them being heavy oncs, The Adm/ral announces the fact that several of these were the eele- brated Armstrong guns, which the British govern- moet claims the exclusive right to use, end states that the immense supplies of English goods that into Wilinington beyond credence. The rebels left in the forts large quan- tities of stores and provisions, on which (! for es ate now gubsisiing. A te! to @ rebel officer, saying that if Forts Fisher and Caswell wore pot Leld he would have to abandon Ric bmond, was Picked up soon after the taking of those places, To tho” blockade runners already mentioned as captured by Admiral Portor's forces have ‘established themselves at the entrance we have to add Cag, and another whose name is unknown, from Ber. muds, with valuable cargoes of arms and clothing for the rebola The Ow! attempted to ron the 20th, but, apparently becoming suspicious of a Change in the position of aTuirs, ran out again and made feer escape. The transport steamer Genera! Lyon arrived here yesterday from Fort Fisher with five hundred fede! prirouers om board, Our James river despatches give further very inter. (sting particulare of the attempted rebel naval raid on {est Monday night, by which the quiet which had 90 long preraited in that vicinity was suddenly disturbed. The rebel fleet, enid to have been commanded by Captain Seremes, consisted of the iron clade Virginia, Rihmond tad Fredericksburg, three wooden rams and two smaller wooden vensels, and the design We supposed to have been to each” City Point and destroy the immenre amount of -@hipping and supplics collected there. But in this they @id mot succeed. §=The Fredericksburg passed most of the Union batteries and obstructions; and Richmond got aground, turned beck and rejoined them. @someat between all the vessels of the revel Bee and their Iand works on the one side, ani thePnion vatterice on the other was then commenced his was continued from early on Tuesday morning till one o'clock In the afternoon. About Geyoroak & sbeli from one of the Union guns exploded im ‘Pro magazine of the revel ram Drewry, and blew her up, During the day the rebels also opened all their batteries ta front of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth corps, heavy without effecting national There was heavy firing almost ational ram from General Lee since the national the Charlotte, on the night of but the Virginia he Frederickeberg from length #0 authoritatively and circumstantially detalled that it can no longer be questioned. Accordingly, for. the information of our read- ors, we submit to them this morning an explan- atory map of this new French colony, ands suggestive biographical sketch of its ploueer Governor General, Dr. Gwia, Such a man in such s place, at such a crisis as this, may well attract the attention of the people, and the gov- ernment of the United States. Dr. Gwin, an active, speculative politician, originally from Missis- sippl, of the order of Southern fire-eaters and their pro-slavery flibustering propaganda, was for eleven yeara, dating from the admission of the State, one of the Senators of Californis in Congress, and # controlling spirit of the demo-. cratic party of the commonwealth. Through his power over the numerous ‘appropriations, jobs and offices, incident to a new, prosperous, gold bearing State, he gathered: around himself a large body of retainers of the ultra Southern democratic school. Among these restless ele- ments he can doubtless still commands con~ siderable body of feHowers. Herein lies the secret of his appointment to this new French colony adjoining California. ‘The silver mines of Sonora are proverbialy rich; but thus far they have remained unde- veleped, and only partially explored, im conse- quence’ of the terrible Apaches. A French squadron of African chaseeurs will soon abate this nuisance, not only in Sonora, but in all the other States of the colony. Thus secured in money te purchase another site, The Board ad- sult in developing their great natural resources and Pye tue on Monday next, q Councilmen met yesterday, the President, establishing their prosperity. An agency for tho pur- presiding. Resolutions were adopted forbid- pose of promoting this desiza has been oponed in San roctiom of any more tents for recruiting pur- Francisco, Tho States embraced in this surrender to. the {ke present, and instructing the Committee on French Emperor are Sonora, Durango, Sinaloa, Chihua- pa | Affaire oer hte the Fives of rescind ing all permite for the erection alldings, tents or hua and Lower Culifornia, comprising altogether an area other places for recruiting purposes, and report at their of three hundred and sev five thousand five hundred | oyriest convenience. The Mayor sent in a communica- square miles, and containing a population of about six | tion vetoing resolutions granting permission to ocrtain hundred thousand. We publish » map of them in this | Parti-s to erect recruiting tenta. The Mayor states that pin ae if the recruits obtained were credited to the city he moraing's edition, weuld not object; but it was well known that thow ‘The Attorney General of Canada on Wednesday intro- | tents furnished facilities to agents fromother localities duced inte the Provincial Parliament a bill to avert fur- | to procure recruits, besides disfiguring the city, He ther rebel raids from that colony; to prevent the manu- | submitted er smo asi beri Soca any person to open. is city ja recrul facture and shipment of arms for the robels, and giving | ooo, cner piace than the city and oounty of New Notice to those rebele who acters gare ae York, or to induce any persdh to enlist ase substitute tality to leave the country. for apy person other than « resident of this city and ‘A recent reconnoissance of. @ detachment of Goneral } Cunty, under a penalty of not lem than one thousand nor ‘ ‘more than five thousand dollara, The paper was referred Sheridan's army of the Shenandoah valley succeeded in to the Committes on Ordinances, The Board eoncurred Gaining some valuable laformation regarding the loca | with the Aldermen in giving permission to the trustecs tion and designs of the enemy. In the vicinity ef Wood. | of the Colored Orpham Asytum to sell thelr property in stock a rebel camp was surprised, and a number of Ros, pbectien pymvtanrinysca Marys ® building further . W jution was propriating seven ser’ command wore captured; but the Union troome| TW.titg ave handed dollar for the eslebration of Were subsequently attacked by a superior rebel force, | washington’s birthday; also @ resolution furnishing the and, after s spirited fight, in which they lost several in members of the Common Council with badges, maps and killed, wounded and captured, they were compelled to other articles requisite for the performance of their off- relinquish their hold on Roseer’s men and fall back, “it! duties ‘The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met Our despatches from Newborn, N. C., state that thetm-} yrergay, The report of the Committee of the Whole portant bridge on the Weldon ratiroad over the Roanoke | contained a letter froma Dr. Ives, President of the Insti- river was almost entirely swept away by the late fresheta [ tution forthe Protection of Roman Catholic Children, This is a very serious interference with the transporta- | stating that the typhus fever has broken out virulently tion of rebel army supplies, It ia said that monthe will faa eae i nbs tactoee cterte at onan be required to Tonal i. Large numbers of runaway | dren ao affected. The Board agreed to the request, ‘The slaves are constantly coming into tre Union lines in | number of knmates at present reported in the inatitu- North Carolina for the purpose of enlisting in the army. | tions is 7,229, The number admitted last week was ‘A despatch from Eastport, Mise, confinns she report | {09 mgr uc et “ps od a rr ame nr that the Righteeath Tennessee rebel cavalry, numbering Patrick Doyle, convicted of passing counterfeit fifty about six hundred men, have sent fintelligence into the | dollar Treasury notes, waa yesterday sentenced by Judge Union lines of their desire to surrender, take the oath of | Smalley, in the United Staten Ciroult Court, to ten years ‘The blockade runner steamer Talisman, under thecom- | court for having spurious fractional currency {a their mand ef Captain Knox, from Wilmington, N. C., bound | possession, , to Bermuda, with a cargo of four hundred and fifty bales | _ In the Supreme Court, circuit, yesterday, before Judge Leonard, Martin W. Brett recovered three thousand of cotton, foundered about the 28th ult., when some | gov40 hundred and fifty dollars damages for an alleged three hundred and fifty miles to the westward of Bermu- | failure on the part of Louis Renaud to deliver fifty thou- da, All the crew and passengers, numbering thirty-nine | sand bushels of oats at a time agreed upon. persons, were taleen off by the schooner Orville, Captain | 12 Ee ee PL Seay ener seme Marrone Giles, and landed-at Bermuda on the ist inet. The Or- | Orn Deore Toaes Barnard, yenerdan, the pistes whe sued the defendant on a promissory note, recovered a ville was from Philadelphia hound to New Orleans, verdict for nine hundred dollars. Jeff. Davis, it appears, haga regular Cabinet crisis on The Historical Society of this city held # special meet- his hands at present, in addition to his other troubles, | {0% at their rooms lust evening in respoct to the memory Besides the resignationot his War Secretary, Mr. Seddon, siting te Fa Page rae bra tint eig which hag already Deon announced, it is reported | ehair. Resolutions were presented by tho Kev. Dr. that his Secretary of State, Judah P, Benjamin, | Ferris, Chancetior of the University, which were unapi- and Assistant Socretary of War, Judge Campbell, | ™ousty atopted. Address~s appropriate to the cocaston word delivered by Mr. Charles P, Kirkland, Professor Smith, Williain Cullen Bryant, Enq., Hon. George Ban- not yot boon accopted om Tuestay last. Generals Bragg, | eroct and Rev. Dr. Osgood. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb and Gustavus W. Smith and | Owing to the absence of an important witness, tho Governor Letcher have all beeu mentioned as likely to Dunae te ae ngs bl cua R pire Pr as alley |, was abot on Wedner evenin, jeu) qoeeeed: ign. Tiyeye wees ©, gogney Mp, Pate chat Paavitans im a house on the corucr ee Ougret oe poem Breckinridge had been assigned te the Trans Missisalpp! | paid atrocts, was yesterday postpoued til! this forenoon. department. General Gordon has succeeded to the | Velverton baw not yet been arrested. The qoman Kitty command of General Karly, the troops of which oe tn deinen nia ib cise @ Ca ja of the ecinet police as a witnems, Intely confronting General Sheridan im the Shenandoah | 7," Coens Jury yesterday rendered a verdict that valley, are now, it appears, in front of the left of the | William H. Johaoson, who was severely boaten in a Army of the Potomac, in the vicinity of Petersburg. | drinking house in Chatham street, near Roosevelt, on Resolutions requesting-Jef Davis to appoint commis | t¢ night Of the 18th inst, and who died In tho Ne York Hoxpital on last Tuesday, came to hin death from sionors to megotiate with the goverment fat Warhington | 51) an tng: head tnfiicted L pe rheteichagsny tary for peace were presented in the rebel House of Represen- | and that Thomas Ovhen and Patrick Hoffron were acces- tatives a fow days ago, and referred to the Voreign Rela- | sorles, Cohen was committed to the Pombs; but Siem tions Committee by an almost unanimous votm ict wa mit me re peer oe = a CONGRESS. ao a The Senate yesterday passed the bill authorizing the | An inquest was yesterday held tn tlre case of John Secretary of the Treasury to issue $200,000,000 of Treas | Connegan, the soldier found murdered on Governor's ury notes In lieu of Londs, aa provided in the act of June Island on last Saturday evening; but the evidence failed to show by whom he was killed. 90, 1864, The Military Academy amd Post OMce Appr | the inquont in the case of Mr, Horace Cushing, who, priation bills wore also paseed, Resolutions of the | tt hae been reported, killed himself by jumping from a Rhode Inland Legislature, tn favor of the constitctionat | second story window, at 18 West Thirty-third street, bas been postponed till the 34 of February. eed Pret bielng Shey ery, ere Fee ee | APE | os Goneneh Menlomia Be Satagiesves tithe city Hen from W. H. Webb, asking for increased compens® | trom Washington yesierday, on hie way to Lowell, Maes 0 ) Maas., tion for building the iron-clad Dunderborg, was referred | top y:hich place he will leave to-day, Wo the Naval Committe. The renolution atvisiog reiali- | theodore Yates, convicted in the Brooklyn Court of ation in the treatment of prisoners of war wae diacus@@t, | Ovorand Terminer of the murder of policeman Charles and after an executive sescion the Senate adjourned, Gurren, seha yestendapidentenced. to death: Judge. Bal: Iu the House of Representatives the bill for she relief | ora briefly addressed the wretched man on the enormity of collectors of customs, for omissions under the act | c¢ the crime he had Committed, In concluding, the Judge temporarily increasing the dutiee on import, WA | Dronounced the last acntence of the law: that he, Theo- passed. Bille providing for the erection of a fog bell OF | adore Yates, be taken back to the jail from whence be bed trumpet on Governor's Island; defining the limits’ of bedn’brought into court, and on the 17th day of Mi national bank issues, éod proposing @ tax on the issues | 1.91 be taken therefrom to the place of execution, and @f wld fusthutions on and after the Ist of May next, | snore hanged until he is dead. were introduced. A mew Defigiency seperation ‘bu, ‘There has been another change made'tn regard te the drafted eo aa to overcome the Benate'e objection to the | number of men te be furnished by Brooklyn under the Increase of compensation of the employes of the House, | president's last eall for troops, The quotas of the tecond was reported by the Ways and Means Committee and | gud Third Congressional districts together are now fed passed. The Dill proposing to admit members of the | a4 fone thousand mise hundred and thirteen, (he Second Cabinet to sedis In the House wae discussed, and Ms fur- | district being required to supply three thousand one hua- ther cousideration postponed till Friday next. Am in- | dreq aod seventy-two men, and the Third one thousand quiry into the origin of the Gre at the Smithomian Insti- | 94. on hundred and forty-one. tution was ordered, and the Mouse adjourned The extensive fire at Buffale, noticed in yentorday'a THE LEGISLATURE Haar, was subdued at a late hour on Wodnenday night, Ib tho State Senate yesterday petitions im relation to | After burning a numbor of buil@inge Three dremen were the communications between the Fourteenth and Fif. | Killed by the falling of a wall. The value of the property teenth wards ef New York; aleo for the straightening of b sole is estimated at sovem hundred and fifty thou- the boundarics of Greenwood Cemetery, were presented, | Sead doliars. Billa were reported to establish a State instHution for the General Walbridge has accepted the invitation of the blind, Rnd relative to the pay of clerks and others em: | Jegislative Committee on Federal Nalations, and fe ployed in the sevesal New York city departments, the be goree her the commities and Logisiature this evening intter being read and adopted. The Stato Bounty bill | ®t eight o’cler! he Assembly chamber at Albany, om was then ordored to a third reading. ‘The select commit. | the proposed amendment to the constitution abolishing teo to whom were entrusted the consideration of the sub. | #avery. Ject reported a bill pé@viding for raising the money by | The severe cold weather of the past two days has put direct tax, in case the Loan bill did not receive the sanc- the fce ta excollent condition, and all the ponds in and tlon of the people; also another bill, in case that both of | sround the city were yesterday crowded with skaters, Om thone were rejected, authorizing towne and counties to | the Fifth avenue pond there was another grand carnival Poy bounties, but not amending the clause for three hua. | during the afternoon and evening, dred, four hundred and six bundred doliars for one, two The House of Representatives of the Now Jersey La- and three year men. Bills were noticed to create a mew | gislatare yesterday @ucceeded in effecting an organiza- ward in New York; to tncreaso the capital stock of the | tion, by means ef a compromise between the two politt- Manhattan GasCompany. Bilis were introduced enabling | cal parties, making @ division of the ofcera The husband and wifeto be witnesses for or against each | Speaker, Clerk and Doorkeeper elected are republicans, other; for s new Capitol; for an extension of the tracks | and the Assistant Clerk, Assistant Doorkesper aud Ba- of the Dry Dock aud East Broadway Railroad. The bill | grossing Clerk are democrats. to pay the members of the New York Common Council ‘The Bank of Crawford County, at Meadvitle, Pa, was two thousand five hundred dollars per year wasthen | robbed yesterday morning of one hundred and Gfty taken up in Committee of the Whole, when an amend. } thousand dojlars in national bonds, ment was moved abolishing tho Board of Councilmen, Colonel North, New York tate agent during the whereupon progress was reported and tho Senate ad- fall vn Ty Toul We late ket: of soldiers, Journed. ‘and who has been for rome time c! with the com~ Tu tho Assembly the Bounty bill was taken up, de- | mission of frauds, before @ military court, wae bated and ordered to @ third reading, when the House # yesterday unconditi ly Foleased by the Secretary of adjourned. War. , MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘Tho aubject of forming aunion of British Colambia The committee of the Stato Legilature appointed to | aud Vancouver's Island te boing @pitated by tho nowspa- Inventigate the atfairs of our city government met yeator. | pete aud public meetings of those Colonies, day at No, 41 Chambers street. None of (ho heads of The stock market was dull yesterday morning, but departments wero prosent, and @ Feces Of (wo hours | stronger in tho afternoon, Government nccurition wore was taken for the purpose @f proaaring their atlondance, | quiet, Gold was active, and closed at 2065. The Mayor pres*=-ed bis communication sueponding City There was but little change im commorctal affaira you. Ingpector Boots, and stated he would be in attendance | terday, the steadiness Of gold preventing any marked whon requested, Upon reassembling the afternoon was | changes in the prices of goods. Foreign goods wero vory spent In the discussion by connsal of the duty and powor | quit; but im some kinds of domesttc produce a {nir trade the committes, The Chairman decided that evidence | was consummated at'prices showing but little change. should be given, and coungol bs aliowed to appear in in. | Petroleum and cotton were steady, On ‘Change the veatigniing the several departments, An adjournment | breedetaMs market ruled quiet, and values of all kinds took place until half-past ten o'clock this morning were unchanged, Pork was dull and lower, oxcept old In the Board of Aldermen yesterday the ordinnno> to | mons, which advanced. Doef and lard wero steady In provant reorulting Im this oly for othor pisces wae da. | prio, with & fair inquiry, Whiskey war war while vo | cused fur sometime, and then laid over Ul Monday | froights wore withgut material change ri and wholesome climate, the fertile lands, and the fascinating Mexican senoritas of those re- gions, will unquestionably attract a large body of adventurers from California, New Mexico and Texas, under a gallof ‘he French impe- rial Governor General, or Vi 103, Dr. Gwin. Thus the abounding mineral and .agricultural riches of his imperial domains, some twq bun- dred and fifty thousand square miles in extent, willbe rapidly developed, and {ils grand colony, if not interrupted, will speedily become, in its products of gold, silver and copper, cot- ton, tobacco, sugar and wines, a fruitful source of wealth te France. But the designs of Louls Napoleon do not stop here. They extend from the head of the Gulf of California down to Central America, and they comprehend, first, a great naval and commercial establishment on the Pacific; and, secondly, the isthmus commercial route of Tehuantepec. Eight or ten years ago, as will be remembered in connection with that mys- terious French adventurer, Count Bouillon, the attention of Napoleon was attracted to Sonora, and even before that day, if we are not mis- taken, he found time to produce # pamphlet on the commercial advantages of a ship canal ecross the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. At all events, we may safely pronounce this colonial adventure of Louis Napoleon in Nortwestern Mexico as a flank movement upon the State of California, and as covering the grand scheme for the naval and commercial supremacy of the Pacific Ocean. We reject the idea that this thing on the part of Dr. Gwin is but a cunning diversion in sup- port of Jeff. Davis and his Southern confede- racy. Gwin is evidently after a confederacy on his own account, and, to save himself, he will avoid all entangling alliances with Davia. At the same time there appears to be a counter movement on foot at Richmond against Max!- milian, Napoleon and Dr, Gwis, and in favor of a reunion of the North and South on the basis ofthe Monroe doctrine, Whether the rebels begin to fear the desertion of their disheartened followers to join the fortunes of Dr. Gwin’s oon- federacy, or whather they are casting about for some diplomatic half-way house of submission, we shall probably soon learn from old Mr, Blair, and certainly, before long, from General Grant. The opportunity presented to the administration for a-bold and successful stroke of American diplomacy and statesmanship is a splendid one. Will it be permitted to slip sway? This is the question which Mr, Seward and President Lincoln are now called to answer, and which should at once command the attention of and a bold and positive line of setion from both houses of Congress. have resigned. Mr. Seddon’s resignation had Tas Lussoxs or tae Wan—North and South went into this war in mutual ignorance” of each other’s power. At the South it was thonght the North would not fight, and we thought the South could not. Our ideas of Southern men had been gathered from our acquaintance with the. Southern politicians. We thought they were all empty blusterers, lke Toombs, and Wigfall, and Pryor. Southern men also thought that the Northern dougb- faces whom they met in Congress really repre- sented us, and that the whole people was as cowardly and moan as they know those men to be. Both have had their eyes opened. Even Bull run began to convince all. It was a bat- tle fa which both urmies wore whipped. The Southern soldiers had given way—it was thought that all was lost, and every Southerner there saw that Northern men would fight. Then there was a reinforcement of the rebel army; the tide was turned, and our men went toward Washington in full rout, also oon- vinced that Southern men would fight, These ealutary lessons have been repeated to our mutual benefit on s hundred flelds since then, and now we are convinced that the Southern men aro ® race whom none but .we could conquer, and tho South is satisflod that the Northern people are as brave as any on earth, and possessed of tho most unconquorable reso- lution, What, then, has been tho result of tho wart It has practised the strength of both sections of tho nation, and shown us exactly what ft fs. In thie war, then, we may seo, if wo will, with all its horrors, agroat beneficent fact: it has trained us and made us ready for war, Pugillste train sixty daya to fight one, and wo thus trained in four yoars of strife, well brosthed and trimmod of all superfluous flesh, aro now ready for the poworful foreign antagonists with whom {tis our obvions dos ting to fight Tho divinity that shapes our onds has almost. without our own knowledge, life and property, the rich mines, the delightful | made us for that combat, and let us wel- come it as theend of the training, alweys harder than the fight Let us be up to our grander destiny soon. ‘The Last Device of the Rebele—Peace end the Monroe Dectrine. The rebel leaders are hard fighters and shrewd Giplomstists, Their confederacy is a mere ehell; but they are pithn 2. qa ysl monse deal of noise inorder to induce us to believe that it is os solid as brass. They havo but one.army left; but they are making the most of it, and carrying on thelr plans ite shelter. They have no longer of ald from abroad; but they still chorish the hope. that they can trick France or into relleving them. Two movements recent; inaugurated at Richmond combine to form very pleasant little scheme to prolong the war. 0 first of these movements is the appoint- ment of Goneral Leo as copmander-in-chief, by of thelr papers about. the Monroe doctrine and the fine time we shall have in enforcing it, both in Canada and Mexico, when the rebel- /not amounted to much: during this war, since they are now beaten at every point aud hem- med inte s single city, closely besieged by « superior force. Their cunning is of that sort which usually overreaches itself, and they will | find it to be so when they consider the prao- tical effects of the two movements which wo have described. In order to make Lee the commander-in-chief they have had te abuse Jeff Davis in the most tnmitigated terms. The Southern people bave listened to this abuse, have not rebuked it,’ thoroughly sympa- thized with it. So far #0’ good; but when they come tothe next step they will discover that the people are no more. aixious to be shot under Lee than under Davis. The Southern people joined in the tirade against Davis be- ‘cause he has robbed and murdered themfwith- out mercy; dragged them through an ocean of blood and tears, and failed to supply them with the brilliant and beautiful independence which he promised. As soon as General Lee attempts to go on with this, kind of business the people will array themselves against bim. They do not want more war for disunion under another leader. They want peace under anybody who will give it to them forthwith. Look at the people of Savannah, and you will see the whole Southern people exemplified. They are heartily tired and sick of the rebellion, and by showing them how to abuse Jeff. Davis the rebel leaders have shown them just the way to get rid of Lee. if he shall turn out to be a fighter instead of a peacemaker. The fact that Lee will probably inaugurate his rule by putting negroes into the army will add to his unpopularity and hasten the downfall of the confederacy. The hurrah about the Monroe doctrine is not a-more successful bit of diplomacy. It cute | both ways, like’a two-edged sword. The rebel leaders miean it all for effect in Europe; but they forget that the Southern people are listen- ing, reflecting, deciding, The day for Euro- pean recognition has past forever. England and Fratice would not interfere when they could, and now they could not if they would. ‘They refused to aid the rebellion when it was strong, and now they dare not ally themselves with its weakness. At-one time Eurepe and the rebels together might have been too power- ful for the North; but now we have erushed the rebellion almost lifeless, and can defy the rest of the world. All the shrewdsarti- cles upon the . Monroe doctrine in the rebel papers, therefore, go for nought when they go to Europe. Napoleon and Palmerston may sigh, and wish they had intervened, and declare what they would have done had they’known that the war would end in thie way; but that wil do the rebels no good and us no harm. Siill those articles upon the “Monroé® doctrine: are not without their infuence. It were a pity that so much fine writing, to say nothing of the ink and paper, should,.be wasted. The glowing pictures. of reunion; the statistics of the immense forces of the réunited nation; the eloquent descriptions of our bold advance northward to Canada and southward to Mexico; the glittering adjectivcs showered upon our soldiers and sallors, and the contemptuous epithets applied to the myrmi- dons of monarchy—all these have a tremen, dous effect, but it is upon the minds of the the idea of uniting the armtfes of the North and South to sweep monarchy from this confinent we did not do so to benefit the rebel- lion. On fhe contrary, we knew that the Southern poopleiwere always the most devoted to the Monroe doctrine, and wo were sure that they would be-eager to enter upon such a cru- sade. They are so to-day... They see thalln @isunion there is weakness, in union there is strength. While diplomatically appealing to Europe the rebel leaders have converted thoir own people to Unienism. Both in their abuse of Jeff. Davis and their hurrabs for the Monroe doctrine, they have destroyed their own chances and opened'the way for a speedy Union peace. After the nullification troubles the men of South Carolina and Massachusetts fought shoul- der to shouldor in Mexico, and they will cemont their brotherhood in the same manner after the close of this rebellion. Tavrtow Ween on Orriciat, Conrcrrion.— We printed yosterday ® comprehensive letter from Mr. Thurlow Weod, in which he refused to be acandidate for United States Senator; denied that he was endeavoring to settle the suits against Henderson; announcod that ho thought Honderson guilty and wanted him punished, and delivered an admirable sermon against offi- cial corruption. That he did all this in » quar- tor of a column proves him to be # great man. Indeed, after wo had perused his sermon upon corruption we oould not but regret that such beautiful sentiments were not to be repeated in the Senate chambor. It is delightful to soe the old reform and indignantly condemn the vices of their youth; but it would be more olight{al to seo Mr. Thurlow Woed illustrating his o-yn prooopts in somo oxalted office. If wo supported him bofore on account of his talents, WY now support him on account of his virtue, "Wr road his totter ts as good “ts gomng to huroh, The seal with which he devotes himself to the task of punishing bad mon, shows that ho has every requisite for a martyr and 9 gaint. Bot how muah grander would Mr. Thurlow Weed appear te his new character of the svenging angel wore he clad in the Senatorial toga. Do what yan, will, a frock coat, with its swinging talls, caa- not be made to seem sublime. We advise Mr, Wood to change his mind about the Seaate and stick to bis text about official corruptions, Unkind people «sy that politicians who stay Out of office make more money than those whe Qocept office; bul as Mr. Weed has made money enough, and evidently has az earnest, sincere and Christian desire to prevent other people from getting rich at the expense of the govere- ment, we urge him to enter the Senate and thus give hie denunciations double weight apd bis virtuous thunders the authority of Olympus iteelt The Health of the City—The Necessity o8 @ Sanitary Commiseton. Vacoimation bas for many years past bees so general in this country that the rea) hom rors of the smallpox have not beon felt, and {t is possible, therefore, that the people de not entertain a proper fear of that loathsome disease. This may have made many negligent in relation to vaccination who, however, are aware of its general necessity, and may oxplein, te gome extent, the fact that.smallpox is new more prevalent in our city than’ tt: bas:bevs in s great many years, But we incline to the opinion that we may-find @ hetter explace- tiom of: this prevalence in the fact that.we have « large population who are olther utterly ignorant of the great prophylactic, or have never been within reach of it. In short, it fe rather.more than probable that the preseat ravages of this disease here are due to the want in our city-government of any thorough or well regulated sanitary system—a system that should force upon every newly landed emigrant protection against the smalipox—thet should carry the same protection into all the viler neighborhoods of the city, inte the filthy alleys and courts where the gig of the regu. lar practitioner is mever seen; and that shoul@ furnish to society, in that way, as complete. protection against the possible evils of thie pestilence as the police furnish against the possible evils of the bludgeon and dagger frome our city ruffians. Such a commission is one ef the great wante of this city. Another Legislature should not adjourn without furnishing us with a well regu’ lated, properly constituted, vigorous, honest, earncst sanitary commission, composed of competent men, and endowed with power te direct or to do aj! that » rational regard for the health of this great metropells may require. Just now wo see some neceasity for this in the spread of a single dicease. Butif the ravages of that diseaso shall once fix the attention of the people upon this important subject, that * one disease will pass out of thought in the com sideration of tho great necessity of such am organization, and of tho very beneficial effects it would have upon tho health and general prosperity of our clty. In the preseat war we have ceen in one marked instance the great effect upon the health of a city of the entorce-. ment of only one point in a proper sanitesy system. New Orleans had never been more than one year in“ten without cases of yellow fever, and in some years the fever had bee terribly fatal. It was relied upon by the rebel, as the Yellow Jack who was to drive the United States troops out in due time, and accomplish what the Southern soldiers had failed in. But, in the hands of our military authorities; rigl& cleanliness was enforced. The decaying ani-. mal or vegetable matter, from which the hot sum had been’ accustomed te breed the fever, was “not permitted to accumulate, and there wasno fever. This shows. what cleanliness will do, and if we can have the application in this city, through the great heat of our ehort summer, of all the parts of a good, — sanitary system,.the difference between whet our city will be and what it is in respect te health will be quite as positive. Our city ought. to be perfectly healthy throughout the year and with proper arrangements can be. We can only hope to have proper sanitary arrangements here by the establishment of o sanitary commission for the metropolitan dis- trict, bounded, say, just as the Metropolitan Police district is. Such an arrangement would avoid all the conflict and questions of jurisdio- tion that arise from time to time between the Boards of Health of Brooklyn aad this city, aad would give control for all sanitary purposes of . our harbor. No sanitary system oould*be pep fect without this, since the nateral relations of the two cities are go intimate. Such » commis sion would blow up at once an infinite spread’ ul aint matter into the bands of « commission woald. also with the evident growth of our mi pel system; and such » commission mission may be. Under such a system our senitery interests would be properly cared for for the first time, and it should be initiated» without delay. Ovr Navat Power Aproap.—It has bees protty distinctly intimated lately that we are te have a more decided exhibition of our naval: power in foreign waters; that our Pacie, Medl- terrancan and other foreign squadrons were to’ be inoreased by.some of the larger ships of dar navy, and that an admiral was to overlook our maritime interests in Europe, This is a geod. idea, and should be carried out without detay.' Now that the Southern ports are really Closed, | the vonsels absolutely necessary here are the ; smaller ones of our navy, the light draught and | wieldy vessels, that can manceuvre and be use ful in the rivers. Thus we can, without detrly ment to our home interests, add to our foreign squadrons the Wabash, Colorado and all simi lar ships. By this means wo could, even while still in the flerce grapple with the ! give convincing evidence to the outer F of our rest naval power, The affect of this; would be good. Those stronger foreign fleets could look after our national, interests pro- perly, and there could bo no more Alsbames or Floridas afloat; and, moreover, such an eo tablishmont would have a good influence upon * tho navy ftaelf, as tt would cortainly always be A praetical school to keep officers and mon efficient and fully ap to their duties. ’ ———_—$ ee Nimo's Ganvsx.—To-morrow aight is the ys of (he fino Irish drama, the Shamrock, Noxt wok Mr. and Mrs, Williaa will appear in another programme, The Shamrock has done quite aa well a8 OGnld be ‘and ita muccess ought to be satisfeciory to all concerned, Thowe who have not seen! should avail themnctves of Huis lant ahaace i t ER?