Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
‘Ww YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. nt New York, Friday, February 17, 1865. THE SITUATION. General Sherman, the terror of rebels, still moves Meved that she will be ablo to do much damage to American shipping if she gots started in her meditated career. It was thought she would go to Nassau before taking on board her guns. The sealing of the port of Wilmington against the English-rebel_ blockade runners has been a fear- ful the little of Nassau, New Providence pondent informs us that complete stagnation in trade has suddenly + blow to town in Island, Bahamas, Our corres- cceeded to the great commercial activi ty which so lately prevailed there. In its harbor onthe and pending the question om this propositien the Hose adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. favorably for a railroad in Christopher and other streets in this city; for the construction of a railroad (supposed ..No. 47 | York, A bill was introduced authorizing horse railroads in this State, except in New York and Brovidys, io in instructing Reprosentatives from this Sate in Con- Gress to oppose the passage of the Niagara Ship adopted on the 10th inst., was passed. The original Dill steadily aud majestically across the State of South | contains a clause submitting to the people the question Monday Inst seventeen miles north of Branch. | fF # State tax to the same amount, in caso the people should reject the first law, The bill providing for taxing capital of the State, while his right was immedi- | capital of the bank, was ordered to a third reading. ately in front of the city of Charleston, only two | In the Assembly a memorial, transmitted through the ‘ i of the Battery extension to the charge of the Pilot Com- Tuesday last—it i indicated = by the Rich: | missioners was received. Bills were introduced for a rail mond papers that his cavalry had reached the to regulate the storage of inflammable materials in Brook- maiming link botween Charleston and the rebel capital. | 'Y8-_ 4 bill was passed legalizing the acts of towns and His troopers were believed to be also im the vicinity | to, ‘The report of the Quarantine Commissioners was received. of the railroads communicating betwben South Ca- rolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, and Later and very interesting Mexican news ts contained im our Havana and city. of Mexico despatches, brought by of captured Union soldiers, The rebel papers admit that | Havana on the 11th inst, Our correspondents confirm there is nothing to stop Sherman’s army, and expect } our previously publisked reports ‘that ex-Senator Gwin's States have entirely failed, Maximilian, who was at first Augusta, Columbia and Ral: , aidattas ape Malaigh. somewhat inclined to promote them, finally, on under- We have rdceived Fort Fisher despatches giving ad- ditional details of the movement towards Wilmington, | mit thelr prosecution. Mr. Gwin designed to sottle these N. C., om Jast Saturday, by the national forces, announced | Tich regtons with refugee rebels from our Southern States, 3 ‘ ferring as colonists Austrians and Belgians, large num- sively those of Gen. Terry's command ; but the operations | bers of whom are now on their wag to the land of the Schofield. They were most successful, and what the two proving irreooncilable, Mr. Gwin left Mexico for Paris, via Havana, as has already been stated in the terminated in a permanent advance, the Union | perialists still continues in the Southern States, with lines being moved forward two miles, after considerable | #pparently no decided success either way, and affairs ganized conditi portance from Works wore immediately thrown up on it almost asstrong | Havana by mate arom ae Marne ON si Union casualties during the day were only about ten | of the wreeking and total loss, on the Ist ult., ona reef Killed and fifty wounded. off that coast, of the American brig Lizzie, Captain Bar- Our Consul at London has informed the government of | parkinson was also wrecked on the same reef on the 234 the sailing from Kingstown, Ireland, of the steamer Ajax, | of December, and becamo a total loss. All the persons Her armament had gonoor would go out in a sailing vessel. ae wae ayecial mecting of bait gas oe v wi easagt Notwithstanding the fact that she is small, it is be- yates eae) eens meareke vor Teor renee suggesting that the Legislative committee bo invited to examine the differont parks and public places in the city, A series of resolations, in accordance with the Mayor's suggestions, were presented and laid over. A resolution Park with kerosene oil, in order to test the difforence in expense and lighting power between oll and gas, the dred dollars, The Board of Councilmen did not meet yesterday, a will hold a meeting, however, on Monday next. ‘The application of the Prussian Consul General for the abouta hundred sailing vessels recently engaged inthe | charged with forgeries to a large amount on the Berm contraband trade “with our Southern rebels, and | 82d Hamburg Railroad Company, was again before was produced by the defence to show that the prosecu- there is now no market. The rebel pirate | tion had caught the wrong man, and that it was not the Tallahassee, now called the at Nassau inthe beginning of this month, and the atten- | the sald rafiroad company. The case will be resumed at tion of the Governor had been called to her by the United | “evee o'clock to-day. The United States gunboat Honduras } our city governmental affairs met yesterday, pursuant to arrived there on the Sist ult., and her commander asked | adjournment; but in consequence of the absence of one On Tucsday, in the court at Montreal, the rebel ey een ee ee ore ee ee muster rolls brought from Richmond by the mes- senger Cameron were presented by the counsel of the | was resumed yesterday inthe Court of Common Pleas, Bt. Albans raiders. ‘hese purported to be certified by Anumber of witnesses were examined, and the testi- ferent members of the theatrical profession who were Secrotary of State, and contained the names, as regularly | in attendance. The defence will close to-day with the fendants. A document over the signature of “C. C. Clay, the Count’s title, and them the ease will be given to the Jr., Com., C. 8. A.,”” was also presented. It contains the a eae Tucker yesterday deelded, in the matter of Atvans and other Vermont towns, Two marshals from | intestate, not being entitled to share in the distribution of the asects of an estate (there being a miuor obild, taking charge of the prisoners in case they are surreD- | to letters of administration as a kinsman. He is a dered. stranger, and can only receive letters after citing the ‘The trial of Bernard Friery, charged with the murder ous and interesting disclosures regarding financial and | ce piarry Yasarus, ie progressing rapidly. A number of currency is now considered of lees value than the old; | Closed ite case. The defence will open this morning. there is no money, even of this worthless char. | The evidence was very interesting, acter, in the Treasury to settle the immense outstanding parts of the Nosth held a meeting last evening, at the accounts, and taxation is declared to be as heavy as the | Cooper Institute, to express their sympathy with the the Richmond despotism, and to adopt an address and oes by wholesale having received an ad = if ‘a . peng? resolutions of condolence with them, as well as to speak on them to volunteer ie now being warmly discussed. | arms and submit to the national authority. The attend ‘We have also accounts of rebel military movements in | ance was not very large. ‘at Savannah by General Sherman, reached this port yee San Sern ee terday. She is the first of the fleet to arrive, EUROPEAN NEWS. answer the complaint of attempting to pass at a saloon fost, arrived at Halifax yesterday, with European intelli. | ‘9 Fourteenth streets afty dollar Treasury note altered Gence one day later, the bili would easily deceive # careless obervor. It was resolved at a mecting of the Kings county Su- try, supposed to indicate no early termination of our | Pervisors last evening to commence to-day paying the war, had cansed an improvement in cotton and rather | following bounties and rates of hand money:—To volun- Joon was unchanged. hundred dollars hand money ; for two years, four hundred Rumble, charged in the Court of Quoen’s Bench with | dollars bounty and seventy-five dollars hand money; for the equipment and arming of the English-rebel steamer | hand money. Rappahannock, has been acquitted. ‘The coroner’s jury, im the case of the disastrous petro- Buopherd had beaten the French horse Expross by one | *@y in their verdict that they believe the firo to have Bundred yards. been the work of some unknown incendiary, and recom- Bine and throo-cighths to eighty-nine anda half for | bis apprehension. Money. Tho Liverpool cotton market was buoyant, One branch of the Legislature of Illinois has passed a the finer qualitics, Breadstuffs and provisions were quiet | Purchase, on behalf of the State, of the grounds in fend stoady. which repose the remains of Stephen A. Douglas, jémg that tho “steamshtp Bremen, for New York, put into thrown off the track near the town of Guelph, on the ‘owes on the 30th ult., the master being dead,’’ is erron- | 15th instant, and one ear, containing betwoon thirty and “which sailed hence for Anjers in November last, ia the | feet bigh. Bix persons, among whom was the Hon, M ‘Vousel that put into Cowes with the master dead, HL. Foley, wore seriously injured. years past, has beon conspicuous in the State Legistature, In the Sonate yesterday, bills suthorizing a settlement | Congress and in national and State conventions as & all sales of merchandise one-half per coat was offered, Im the State Senate yesterday bills were reported to be in Broadway) in cortain streets and avenues in New crease the rate of fare fifty per cent. A resolution Canal bill, A bounty bill, supplemental to the bill Carolina, ‘The advance of his left wing was on | of aState debt to pay bounties, while this on» provides ville, and within fifty miles of Columbia, the | penx stock to the individual holder, instead of on the miles distent, and threatening i, On the next day— } New York Chamber of Commerce, relative to the transfer road in Twenty-sixth and other stroots, Now York; and Northeastern Railroad, and thus severed the last re- cities heretofore adopted with reference to raising boun- of Florence, the important point of convergence MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. a@ear which town wero recently confined a large number the steamship Eagle, which arrived here yestorday, from shat the national fiag wili soon be floating over Charles. | #hemes for the colonization of the Northérn Mexican standing the whole scope of the project, refusing to per- tm yeeterday’s Hunazv. The troops engaged were exclu- This the Mexican Emperor would not consent to, he pre- ‘were directed in person by his superior officer, General | Monmtezumas, The disagreement in this matter between ‘at first appeared to be only a reconnoissance in force | tyesrp, The war botween the republicans and the im- severe skirmishing. The new ground was held, and | C#quently remain in the usual terrorized and disor- as those in front to which the rebels fell back. The | Our correspondence from Bolize, Honduras, informs us nard, from Belize for this port. The English brig John which, it is not doubted, is intended for a rebel pirate. | 00 board of both vessels were saved. the Mayor in reference to the proposed new Capitol, and with the view of fixing upon a site for the new building. was offered directing the Street Commissioner to light the cost of the experiment not to exceed twenty-five hnn- quorum not being present at the call of the roll. They 3d inst. there were lying idie over thirty steamers and | extradition of Fordinand August Voightman, alias Hille, tho, warehouses are filed. with: gots’ fox’ Which |} Ueto ee manne Whe remedy. Friceaes Chameleon, was | prisonor, but his brother, who had been in the employ of Se hm Tho State Senate committee for the investigation of permission to anchor im the harbor, but was refused. of the counsel no business was transacted, and an ad- ‘The libel satt of Count Joannes against Horace Greeley Mes ti rahi Cexetinry of Wile, wat Beajiontn, vale | ant en ney SORE, SRSLY eee commissioned officers in the rebel army, of the de- | examination of Professor Lieber as to the genuineness of instractions to Lieutenant Bennett Young for raids on St. | the estate of James L. Kennedy, that the brother of an this city have arrived in Montreal for the purpove of | ying no guardian), ie not entitled, under the statute, Our files of late rebel papers present some very curi- | Mfant and the pablie administrator. military matters in Jeff, Davie’ dominions Their new | witnesses were examined yesterday, and the prosecution ‘Tho layal Georgians of the city of New York and other people can stand. The proposal to conscript the ne- | loyal people of their native State, now struggling against decision in the rebel Congress, the scheme of calling words of encouragement, inviting them to lay down their North Carolina, and preparations made to oppose the | _ Theshooner Lottie, with a.cargo of the cotton captured Two men were Rast night arrested and locked up to Tho steamship Buropa, from Queenstown on the 5th from atwo. The alteration had beon well executed, and The Intost news received in England from this coun- unfavorably affected United States securities, The rebel | teers for three years, six hundred dollars bounty and one & violation of the Foreign Enlistment act, by aiding in | one year, three hundred dollars bounty and fifty dollars In tho groat Paris trotting match the American horse | Jeum conflagration in Philadelphia on the 8th instant, Consola closed im London on the 4th inst, at cighty- | mend that the city authorities offer a large reward for ‘with an advance of from half a penny to # penny on | Dill appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars for the ‘The dospatch from Portland im yesterday's paper, stat- Atrain on the Grand Trunk Rajlroad, Canada, was fous, The fact ins that the Bremen sailing ship Bremes, | forty passengers, tumbled down an embankment twenty CONGRESS. eat, & Riis, wae St ea "Sf the claims of the; Colonization Society, and extending | defender of slavery against all unconstitational inter- ‘ef the army was introduced and referred to the Military Committe. The bill to break @owm the Camden and pais 17 and the Reval Appropriation Gavery in all the States and Borriories of the United Staten Occupied the remainder of the sessiom, The first |“ the proposition to strive eat the wort “white” Warmed wan inid amide tl Saturday, and the consideration Thnk eeterygoncb ofc if as ee ee souri Legissture has Deen defeated in the Constitutional © Hous of Representatives passed by © large M* | Convention of that State by & vote of twenty yess to Pority the Senate dill cotabiishing a line of mail steamers | twenty-eight nays A proposition to permit colored per- Between San Francisco and China, touching at Japas and | sone to vote and bold vile was also lost by twelve yous pote che In Committee of the Whole the | 4 inirty.two nays. eon eign dpen WN Amendstory of the Intornal ‘The stock market tmproved yesterday. Governments Bevon: Tewumed, and © number of amend- | were higher. Gold was weak and excited, and closed at ts adopted. The proposed increase of tax on the bills | go4yg, State banks was rejected The amendment proposed ‘Ths fall in gold yesterday unsettled the markets for the Committee of Ways and Means, assessing a duty of | many commodities, and caused some decline in prices. per cent on all excess of incomes over $000, anda duty | Foreign goods were very quiet, with gonerally a wide ‘Wf ton per cont on the excons over $5,000, was amended | difference in the views of buyers and sellers, Domestic aa to also collect tho duty ov incomes derived from produce was irregular, Cotton was lower, Crud» Potro- ik and other dividends, and to collect ten per cent | leum was lower, but refined was firmor. On ‘Change the Qely on an gxcoss over 65,000. Anamoudment to tax | flour market waaauite active. aad an advance of tom NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1865. conte was cotabliched. Wheat ruled quiet but very firm. The operations of the ex-Senatos, as recorded Oats and cora were dull, and scarcely so@rm. The pork | in our his views on market was less active and lower, Beef was dull | the state of this nation—are more than ordi- and heavy, while lard was moderately active a4 provious narily interesting, and, whatever becomes of ratea, Whiskey was steady. Preighewere avich °% | his trip to Europe, our readers will be well re- enemy paid by # perusal of his thoughts on our own General Sherman's Progress—South Caro- civil war, in whigh be bas t 2 bis part and Mina Cut on Both < * Aggording to the information we derlyg from | made the fren migiako 8¢ his Lig, the Xichmond journals of General Shertian’s} rhe St. Albans Ratacrs Before the progress in South Carolina, his advance into Canada Courts. the “bowels of the land” of chivalry is a repe-| Aftersome delay the rebel sympathizers at tition of his triumphal march through Georgia. | Montreal have been gladdenod by the sight of Swamps, declared to be impassable except to | ® messenger from Jeff. Davis, who appears as & the reptiles which inhabit them, rivers, supposed | witness for the defence in the case of the St to be unfordable, and batteries’on their banks, | Albans raiders. This witness is named Camoron, believed to be unapproachable by “the Yan- | and brings with him a copy of the roster of the kees,” are but trifling obstructions to Sherman’s | rebel army. Ho also produces copies of a lettor veterans. Covering a swarth some forty or | of instructions addressed to one of the raiders fifty miles in extent, their greatest difficulty ap- by Seddon, the rebel Secretary of War, cer- pears to be to find the enemy. The Richmond | tified by Benjamin, the rebel Secretary of State, journals assure their uneasy readers that | and stamped with the rebel goal These por- Wheeler is punishing the invader; that Wade | tentious documents, so long and anxiously ex- Hampton has gone to the rescue; that Beaure- | pected, are introduced to prove that tho St gard is biding his time, having around him the | Albans raiders belonged to the rebel army. “ubiquitous army of General Hood;” tbat | The Montreal court has been adjourned from Hardee is also on hand with a strong force, and | day to day in order to receive them. Several that a general engagement may at sny moment | rebel messengers have been captured in the be expected; but still the progress of Sherman, | sttempt to bring them through our lines, The right and left, is onward, and #° line of ukir- | fuss over their safe reception issomething won- mishors olears the track. derful. And yet what bearing have they upon Thus, from the reluctant sdmissions of the | the case?’ What, in the name of law, have the | enemy, Columbia is cut off from Angusta, Canada courts to do with’ them? while Charleston is out off from Columbia, and | Admit that the documents brought from Rich- also from the roads which Jead to Wilmington | mond prove that the St Albans raiders be- and Richmond. In other words, Charleston is | longed to the rebel army, what influence can completely isolated, in a millitary sense, not | this fact have upon the decision of the Canadian only from Georgia, on the one side, and North | judgest These judges are simply asked to sur- Carolina on the other, but from the western | render the raiders under the provisions of grain producing section of South Carolina itself, | the treaty between these United States by Sherman’s cavalry, which has tapped the|and Canadas. If the raiders were rebel Wilmington Railway junction at Florence, and | soldiers, we want them; if they were not by his infantry, in occupation of the roads | rebel soldiers, we want them. In either case, around Branchville. At the same.time Gen- | too, the Canadian authorities are bound to give eral Gillmore, with the army lately under Gen- | them up. Whether they were rebel soldiers or eral Foster, has approached near enough to | not, they have violated the neutrality laws. Charleston to render the capture or evacuation | Whether they were rebel soldiers or not, they of the city inevitable, unless speedily strength- | must be regarded as outlaws under the terms ened by Beauregard; while the difficulty to | of the Queen’s proclamation forbidding the Toutant, in falling back to Charleston, is pre- | organization of hostile expeditions by Unionists cisely the difficulty of Pemberton at Vicksburg, | or rebels upon British soil. The Canada courts and of Hardee at Savannah—thé scarcity of | have simply the right to inquire whether or provisions and his isolation from any source of | not the St. Albans raiders did organize such an supply. expedition in defiance of the Queen’s order. Even where he is, as we understand the rebel | Further than that the courts have no right to despatches touching upon his movements, Beau- | proceed in an examination. It makes no diffe- regard is detached from his sources of supply, | rence whether the raiders were rebel soldiers excepting rice and sweet potatoes. South Caro- | or rebel guerillas, black or white, rich or poor, lina is divided into two broadly defined geo- | foreigners or natives, Protestants or Roman graphical sections. The first is the diluvial | Catholics, in debt or out of debt, well dressed section, extending back a hundred miles, | or shabby, handsome or ugly, bearded or more or less, from the seaboard—a region | shaved, blue-eyed or black-eyed, intelligent or which is almost an unbroken dead level of | stupid. All these particulars might be interest-, swamps and sandy pine barrens, The products | ing; but they are not within the scope of the of this section are mainly rice, Indian corn, sea | judicial examination of the case. The raiders island cotton and sweet potatoes, The other | have violated the Queen’s laws and our laws. section is an upland, primitive formation, | We demand them under the extradition treaty, flanked by a range of immense hills of sand | because they have been guilty of acrime. All and pebbles, which at one time marked the | thatthe Canadian judges have to ascertain is shore line of the Atlantic Ocean. This upper | whether there is reasonable proof of their guilt. bread and meat producing section is under the | Why, then, do these judges dally with the case? control of Sherman’s army, and the correspond- | Why do they make themselves defendants of ing country behind it, in Georgia on the one | the raiders? Certainly Englishmen ought to be side and North Carolina on the other. the last to defend those who have defied It follows, therefore, that while Sherman | English laws, Why do the Canadian authorities holds s region which may feed his army, Bean- | assume so obnoxious a position? regard and Charleston are reduced to the Take the evidence from Richmond at its best swamps and pine barrens of the seaboard sec- | and it amounts to nothing; but the hesitation tion for their supplies, Doubtless those low- | of the Canadian courts amounts to a great deal. lands were made to produce last year immense | Were the raiders Union men, and did the quantities of rice, Indian corn and sweet pota- | rebels request their punishment, who can toes; but between our forces at Beaufort, and | doubt that speedy ce would be meted out the rebel army and citizens of Charleston, and | by those very persohs who are now 80 dilatory Lee’s army at Richmond, it is probable that | in the administration of their own laws? From this section of South Carolina bas but little left | top to bottom Canada sympathizes with the of sweet potatoes, rice or Indian corn. It must | rebels. Other justices besides Coursol will be so, when General Lee appeals to Georgia as | have to be removed before her authorities will his last resource for provisions. To the travel- | observe the neutrality they profess. Since the ler, the whole country from Petersburg, all the | beginning of the war England has sided with way through to Savannah, by the lowland rail- | the traitors. Her neutrality laws have been road route, appears a barren, hideous, starving | transparent shams. In England the authorities and almost uninhabited wilderness of swamps | have made furious efforts to seize rebel vesgels, and pine woods. just after the rebel vessels have sailed away to In cugting off the richer grain and meat | rob and burn our merchantmen. In the colo- regions on the west and the south, General | nial ports of England the neutrality laws are so Sherman, in the first place, secures the city of | interpreted as to mean coal, arms and provi- Charleston and the rebel forces intrenching, | sions for rebel pirates, and nothing for United unless they shall contrive to work their way | States frigates. In Canads the same laws are out of the toils that are closing around them; carried out in the same spirit. These St. Albans and secondly, in conjunction with General | raiders, or, more properly, these St. Albans rob- Terry in North Carolina, he reduces General bers, murderers and incendiaries, should have Lee to the alternative of the evacuation of | been surrendered to this government long ago. Richmond or the perils of starvation. The fall | By this time they should have been hung as of Richmond will not be long behind the fall of | spies, if they belonged to the rebel army, or Charleston. hung as guerillas, if they acted independently of the rebel authorities, But, as the Canadian Ivrergstixo From Mexico—Fartore oF Dr. | courts are conducted, it is very doubtful when Gwm’s Pxosrcrs—The news from Mexico, | we shall get hold of these men, or whether we contained in the letters of our corres | shan ever get hold of them at all. Astute Pondents, and published this morning, i8 | counsel for the defence may state to the court of a highly interesting character. Accord- | that Seddon’s evidence, or Jeff. Davis’ evidence, ing to these advices, the great scheme of | or Ronjamin’s evidence, or General Lee’s evi- Dr. Gwin for colonizing Sonora with ex- | dence is necessary, and then the court will ad- hausted rebels has fallen through. The Emr | journ until these witnesses can be induced to peror Maximilian would have nothing to do | pear or the war is over. Nothing would sur- with the forlorn and adventurous Gwin. Not prise us after the reception of this testimony withstanding the patronage and friendship of | fom Richmond. If the judges are so obtuse or M. Montholon, backed by the efforts of all the | 4, prejudiced as not to understand the plain secessionists at the Mexican capital, the Em-/| iow of the matter, they will certainly b 5 ly be com- peror was firm and resolute in rejecting all the | pistely at the of th 1 for th pletely ai mercy ¢ counsel for the offers and propositions of “the Senator from | jaiders throughout the whole affair. California.” Maximilian has thus shown some a wisdom. The troubles he now has to contend | Currovs Pnases or City Lire.—Two inter- with from the insurrectionary movements of | esting trials are now in progress in our courts. dissatisfied Mexicans would be as nothing com- | The trial of Bernard Friery for the murder of pared to what he would have to suffer at the | Harry Lazaras, in the Court of Genesal Ses- hands of the fire-caters of the South if they | sions, attracts great crowds of sporting men, once got s footing in his dominions. Besides, | professors of the manly art of self-defence, men any encouragement of secession fillbusters in | about town, innkeepers and that class of peo- his empire—men known to be deadly hostile to | ple. The Joannes’ libe} enit against Horace the government of the Unifed States—would | Greeley, in the Court of Common Pleas, draws naturally have been regarded here as an un- | equal crowds of theatrical and musical critics, friendly act on the part of Maximilian’s gov- | editors, actors, managers, agents and dramatic ernment. The true solution of the matter | people generally. A short time ago, in the case seems to us to lie in the fact that the Emperor | of Opdyke versus Weed,we had similar crowds of is desirous of consolidating the strength of his | politicians from all parts of the city and the State. rule by cultivating friendly relations with our | It is a peculiarity of this great metropolis government, as he well knows that without the | that each class of inhabitants attends to what- consent of this repubfie his throne and soeptre | ever happens to interest it, irrespective of the ‘would not be of much value, imteresé of any other class. A murder case might Dr. Gwin’s mission is thus ended for the time ee Se er eases a Deing, and he has started for Burope a sadder in New York the one is as interesting as if not a wiser man. That he still has some faint | the other, and we have to give equally full re- hopes of ultimate success, however, appears | ports of both in order to satisfy our varied from the fact that he is now resolved to appeal | classes of readers. A paper which is read by to the Emperor of the French, But we opine | everybody must publish the news which pleases that he will not have much more success at the | everybody. Of itself life is more interesting Tuileries than he had at the Imperial Palace of | than a libel; but while many will read with the Mexico. Louis Napoleon will not venture to | closest attention the details of the killing of embroil himself in a war with this country. It | poor Lazarus, others will peruse with intense would be fatal to his prospects and the future | amusement the details of the careers and prac- hopes of his dynasty. He had rather throw | tices of the parties in the so-called libel. We Gwin overboard, together with the expiring | recommend our reports to the perussl of our Southern gonfederacy which he rovreseats. | readers, Covowm, Paagr Wrunaun.—Some months ago, while the above mumed oflcer was in so tive service in the national srmy, and in good repute for gallantry and the exticient discharge of his duty as acolonel of cavalry, #¢ published a letter relating to him which purporled w 2% and which we supposed waa, written by Sir Foray Wandheni, MP The ieiier contained geome statements decidedly derogatory to the character of Colonel Wyndham, and had they been true the publication of the letter tended to benefit the national service. We supposed them to be true at the time the letter was writ- ten; but we are now convinced that they were false, and the malicious inventions of some enemy to Colonel Wyndham. We have seen & letter from Sir Peroy Wyndham, M. P., denying that he ever wrote the letter in question, and the same denial has been made in the London papers, We make this statement as a simple act of justice to Colonel Wyndham. ry On, vor Tae Exsows or Tas Mixcio.—The editor of the Times yesterday, in an editorial article on petroleum, said, “In the United States the oil is probably vegetable; in Canada, of animal origin.” > LIEDERKRANZ AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIG Grand Display of Fun, Masic, Beauty and Fashion. PROCESSION OF PRINCE CARNIVAL. i TY SCHNAUTZ QUADRILLa a, &e., &e. ~ Arion, the eldest child of Licderkranz, gave # grand fancy display at the Academy of Music on Thursday of last week. The entire beau monde of the motropolis was there. Merchants, bankers, brokers, lawyers, doctors, and some say even divines, circulated through the spa- lous building with faces masked and costumed in all the styles worn by human beings since the creation of the world. The most fashionable ladies of our city graced the occasion with their presence, and the affair ‘was unanimously pronounced tobe superb in point of drees, decorations, dancing, music, fun, humbug, gym- nastic feats, and, in short, in everything that could oon- tribute to render a ploasure-loving assembly delighted and happy. It was the origination of German intellect, and that German love of frolic and devilmont which the light-hearted sons of Toutonia always carry with them in their wanderings through ‘this vale of tears,” and which no misfortunes or adversities seem competent to entirely destroy. Last night the Academy of Music was again the scene of @ grand bal masque, very similar in its character and fully equal in every respect to that of the Arion Society. ‘The German Liederkranz, another musical association, more anclent than the Arions, claim the honor of getting it up and directing it to a successful consummation, WHO OR WHAT IS LIRDERKRANZ? Liederkranz is the parent of Arion. The latter (not he of the dolphin’s back, but his modern namesake) was born in 1854. Liederkranz came into being in this city as far back as 1847, and consequently can claim the very respectable age of eighteen years, as well as the great:r honor of sending into the world the gay and festive Arion, a splendid ‘‘chip of the old block,” or, more properly speaking, a huge limb of the parental trunk. Unlike Arion, Liederkranz is not named after some fabled genius said to have flourished in @ remote age of antiquity, and famed in song and story. Liederkranz cometh not of Grecian nor of Roman extraction. He stands on his own pins, and is altogether of German derivation. In Faderland it is the popular name of singing clubs, and, translated, literally means simply “a wreath of songs’’—a very appropriate mame for a society whose im is the cultivation of vocal mpusic and the promotion of social enjoyment. “Tall trees from little acorns grow.”” It started with an organization of fifteen or twenty gen- tlemen, and has kept on increasing in numbers until now it has a roll of members more than eight hundred strong, among whom are many of the most bie German residents of the city. In 1860 it was chartered by the ‘Legislature, and two or three year ago the society was able to build a fine club house at Nos 31 and 33 Fourth street. The present board of officers are Charles Lellmann, President; Max Goep and L. Kammerer, Vice Presidents; George Nembach and W. Rasmus, Secretaries; L, A. Grasse, Treasurer; Director, A. Paur. reporter arri' nthe Acad abo arter Our ved at the Academy at a qui before nine o'clock, and early as the hour was the build- ing, excepting the e, Was pretty well crowded. The parquet seats and all the chairs in the first, seoond and third tiers were occupied by ® most fashionable and elegantly dressed collection Of spectators, principall: fadies The lobbies were almost impassable wit! people, and i was with the utmost difficulty one could advance or retreat without damaging the costly dreeses of the ladies. Elbowing his way throagh the throng, our special succeeded in gaining the room of the ing committoe by a subterranean passage, and, after laying aside his great coat, hat, &c., in a place safety, advanced boldly on the stage’ on '& grand recon- noissance. Standing cloee up to the rear wall, and look- ing towards the grand entrance, the spectacle in front and on either side wes truly brillant, The vast building presented one grand scene of light, beauty and magnifi- cence. THB DECORATIONS were arranged by Mr, M. K. Maximilian, the same artist who furnished the ornamentation for the Japanese, Prince of Wales and Arion bails. His arrangements Inst night do ope he credit. The interior was given the appearande of a grand carnival scene. The second and ird tiers were festooned with entirely new draperies in carnival colors, surrounding a number of amusing oil paintings, representing a ty te subjects, ‘well calculated to excite the merriment of the spectator. In one place the spectator beheld a painting of “Punch and Judy” teaching two cockroaches to dance. In another appeared the bust of a well known actress, with lite imps playing sad frolice with her cranium. In another an astronomer was seen taking observations through glass, before which stands a clown intercepting the view. A DIVING BRLL. From the dome was si uded a fancy «ving bell, made of muslin and French delaine, of red, white and blue colors, and studded with gold stars. The summit of the diving bell was clutched in the talons of an American engle, and the sides were ornamented with the heads of wild ‘and tame beasts, such as tigers, bears, lions and cows, together with a few busts evidently Intended to Tepresent those portions of the anatomy of giants, THE STAGE. The stage was so arranged ae to magnificent tent, with a beautiful garden scene on the rear wall, infront of which was the name ‘Liederkranz,” in letters of fire, and the representation of a harp, formed of hundreds of gas lights ingeniously arranged. | Besides the flood of light thus concentrated on the stage six large chandeliers, festooned with baskets of artificial flowers, illuminated the vast tent, and added to the bril- Nancy of the grand sene. ‘At one side of the tent was to be seen a large painting, ‘ten feet square, of the Queen of the Carnival, and at the other side a painting oi equal proportions representing the grand fancy dress ball of tue" pera in Paris. Just in front of the stage hung down figure of old St. Nicholas sitting on a tunes of drapery made up of the national colora Beneath this figure, and fastened to each side of the proscenium boxes, was the following order of dancin, ited on Farge sheets of canvass about and three feet wide :— resent the view of a THE MUSICIANS ‘wore under the direction of Messrs. Bernstein and Dietz, and. Of the third tier at each side near the . Anticipating, we will say that the music was admirable, though from its high location the effect was necessarily not so perfect as it would have been under other circomstances, The committee were obliged to | thus elevate the musicians, on account of the want of room elsewhere. ON WITH THE DANCE. ‘The saltatory of the formance did mot com- mence till long after nine o'clock, when the orchestras struck up a grand march, to the music of which the mas- jueraders promenaded around the stage. The scene about is time waa highly exciting. The floor was cov With ® veut amomblagg of jhe aoe sickly Bughste deonontraions "Masks were, ilistic trations. were Cudeavoring te ‘unmask each other in vain attempts at recoyuition, and those freo of dieguise were continually salulng aad ex- changing hocial civilities. The dance finally commenced with a Polot ve which almost the entire company on the floor § not excepting the divines to ‘whore Moore's Hines, Opt wa gaa Paw 01 wisely ait aaa ane eae of aan was followed out strict!y, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, &c., succeeding each other in & That slow iaehion’ ‘The qudrileaod <—— the smooth waltz, to whose floating sound Like dreams we Py gliding Bround, seemed to be the most enjoyed by the company. THE STRANGE FEATURES of tho night were many, too numerous in fact to admit of desoription. But we may glance at a fow of the mere prominent noveities that were introduced. camo the grand PROCESSION OF PRINCE CARNIVAL, which made its app’arance about eleven o'clock, ing from behind the tent at tho bask of the si 4 two or three cirsuite of the floor in tho following "1, A drum major ton fect high, with cocked hat amd nose, 2, Fitteon pan tn white and spangled dresses, 3. The Ta ear peeblesvomboend ot kitches Amazons, with Dole kettles and pans on their heads and fort, browwan, aires ‘&c., in their hands. “ea mammoth Bologna aed ct snenge. Ye i ecription ‘On to Richmond,” and a littie smart darkey, ‘The Nimes was the hour glass. The Sun by a re) tive of old Sol, when he don't dazzle you to look him t= the face, The World had nothing in cular to nate it, except a ball of small dimensions, wi circulated with as much difficulty through the proces sion as ite original does with the peop! ‘The Zeitung was shown in the character of a weather vane, Each of the men representing a carried an ta stand on his head, and a hu; quill in his hand. ‘T.—Masqueraders generally. ar. next novelty was a stork and frog on stilts, The rk was about ten fect high, and chased the frog skil- fully about the floor. e Schnautz quadrille, or card quadrille, was another feature worthy of mention. Sixteen men, dressed a& cards, danced a regular quadrille, and occasioned much merriment. . Early in the morning @ series of acrobatic feats were performed, but the hour at which we write is 80 close om to the time for going to press that we are obliged to com clude our report rather abruptly. ‘The floor committee consisted of the following gentle- :—Messra, L. Geilfuss, Otto Zarkersboz, Goorge @, Scholler, H. Rose, C. Hozelt, C. B. hmidt, Berchman, Guluffer, Ernst, Franke, T. Burger, Richsor, Steins. THE ST. ALBANS RAIDERS. Montreat, Fob. 15, 1868. Cameron, the rebel messenger from Richmond, arrived here yesterday and was examined before the Court. The counsel for the prisoners produced the muster rolls of the rebels, among which tho names of the prisoners appear. He also produced two copies of a tet- ter of instructions to Captain Young, dated June, 186%, signed “Seddons,” all of which are certified to by Mz. Benjamin, under the rebel seal. Tho witness stated that he received this paper from the rebel Secretary of State on the 4th inst., who affixed hia signature to it in his presonce. The witnoss also stated that President Davis expressed surprise at the result of the Burley caso. Other witnesses were examined, who proved that the prisoners resided at the Canada Falls in the winter of 1868 and 1864. Another witness isto arrive from Richmond with the classification of the prisoners, when the case on the paré of the defence will be definitely closed. ‘The prosecution say they have only two or three more witnesses to examine, which they will do to-morrow. Moyrerat, Feb. 16, 1868. ‘Two marshals from New York havo arrived to take the prisoners in case they are surrendered. LIRUTENANT YOUNG'S COMMISSION. ‘The folowing is the document in which Licutenans ‘Young professes to have received his instructions for the raid upon St Albans:— ‘MEM. YOR LIEUTENANT BENNETT B. YOUNG, CB 4 Your report of your doings under your instructionse® the 16th of June last, from the secretary of War, covering the list of the twenty Confederate soldiers who are es- caped prisoners, collected and enrolled by you under the instructions, is received. Your suggestion for a rald upom the most accessible towns in Vermont, commencing with St. Albans, is approved, and you are authorized and re quired to act in conformity with that suggestion. © ©. © CLAY, Jr., Com. C. 8. A Oct, 6, 1864, The following is the comment of the Toronto Globe, of the 14th, upon this document :— ‘The court at Montreal was yesterday occupied in hear- ing witnesses for the defence in the case of the St. Al bans raiders. A remarkable document, purporting to be @ sort of “commission” from (. ©. Clay to Bennets Young, authorizing him to make the raid upon St. Ab bang, will be found in our special despatch. ose whe believe that this peculiar “commission” fs re, and not a desperate resort thought of after the failure to get @ passage through to Richmond, will probably see in it am illustration of the kind of innocent refugee Mr. Clay has been so our country. Geb! News from the Pacific Coast. Sax Francisco, Feb. 13, 1868. The steamer Constftution sailed for Panama to-day, with six hundred passengers for New York, and $1,336,000 in gold, of which $794,000 is for New York. The opposition steamer, Moses Taylor, also took abouws the same number of passengers. ‘Two steamers have arrived from Oregon and Victoria with a few days, but bring very little treasure, the severity of the winter having checked mining opors- s. The San Francisco branch mint is closed for the adjust- ment of accounts, owing to the death of the melter an@ refiner, Mr. Denio, and a dispute as to the power to tem Porarily fill the vacancy. Theatrical. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Mrs. F. W. Lander appoared as the Lady of Lyons fast evening, with Mr. William Wheatley as Claude Melnotte, ‘The house was exceedingly crowded. Indeed, the aud ence was even larger than upon Mrs. Lander's opening night. This may, probably, be owing to the fact that Mr. Wheatley—who plays too seldom—was announced to act with her; but we prefer to believe that the public are be- ginning to fully appreciate Mra. Lander’s exquisite act tng We confess that we were afraid, at one time, that she was too good to be popular; but thus far her engage ment hae been extremely successful, and last night was the proof that still greater succcases are to come. Mrs. Lander’s impersonation of Pauline was more fer- vent, forcible and dramatic than that of any other char- acter in which she has yet appeared, While not so delt- cately shaded as her Leonie, nor so beautifully finished as her Adrienne, it was, perhaps, even more than those excellent parts. In the more tm) scenes she rose with the situation and deciaimed Bulwor’e lines with unexpected force and spirit, Since we do not eo mach ae Mr. Fe cones play, hgh BO more eraphatic in stating that she 6 with her mows ‘complétely and surprised the rather criti- cal assemblage into enthusiastic ap} Mr, Wheatley gave us acarefu! and earn:st Clande Melnotte, faithful io ‘every detail to the traditions of the stage. No actor of the cid school conn, younger lays, could bot have. sat in Sit aban ae Sa tr ee hero quite as well as be acted the part Miss Mary ‘Wells was the Madame Deschapelles, and Mra. Farren the Widow Meinotte, Mesare. Nunan, Hagan, Burnett and Beoks were also in the cast, To-night Mra. Lander will pe opted the Counters, in Love. ¢ Bolle’s Stratagem ia in preparation. We hope that Camille will be announced ‘WINTER GARDEN. Last evening the voteran General Scott, ac- companied by his family and # large party of frien is, visited the Winter Garden to witness Mr. Booth's per- formaneo of Hamlet, After the first act the national anthem was played, and the general, who we were re Joloed to #e8 looking in excellent health and xpiritn, was ‘compelled to come forward from the privacy uf Bis Inv and acknowledge the enthusiastic greetings of the hous & ————— Fire on de TomPEineviLee, 8. 1, Feb, 10, 1865. ‘The handsome stables and barns attached 10 the feet dence of Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt, on the Clive ruad, were completely destroyed by fire last night. The Staten Island Fire Department were on the ground and saved considerable property. The loss is estimated at from ton to fifteen thousand dollars, Arm ms Colone! James F. Hat rat, Now York Vot- wate (raster has been commissiened by his Bx. collgasy Governor Fynien aa Colonel o% that