The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance. Monoy sent by mail will be ‘atthe risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. --No. 347 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway,—Sax. ‘ANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ Hall, 472 Broad- Dan Bryant's New STUMP Srexou—NxgRo ComicaLt- Buxtasques, &c.—Jexms tux Port. way. ums, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! Metropolitan Hotel. ~Erutorian L'Armicaine. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowory.—Srag- inc, Dancixa, BURLESQUES, £0.—Tux Fuxian’s DeKAM; OM, Inetanp Fees at? Last. 585 Broadway, opposite INGING, DANCING, &C.—~ TEMPLE OF MUSIC, corner of Grand and Crosby atreets.—Tuorrs & Ovenin's Minsrests or ALL Nations— Rexramurion; on, Tax Downrau or Homaua. GEORGE CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Tms Otp Scaoon or Muvsraxisr, B. Moca Gums, &c., at the Fifth Avewue Opera House, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. NEW NATIONAL CIRC! and 39 Bowery.—Eqous. ‘reiaN, GyunasTiO AND Acropatic Feats, &0.—MuLE. Mae pierre Zanraxtra, EQUESTRIENNE. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Puoresson Wiseman’s EvENiNGs OF MYsTERY AND Visi0Ns. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratorian Mrx- staeisy—Baviaps, Boriesques ann Panroumus. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till WP. M STUDIO BUILDINGS, Tenth street.—Exaisitiow oF Frexen, ENGLISH aND FLeMisa Pictones, New York, Thursday, December 14, 1865. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, sub- mitted a joint resolution, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, proposing an amendment to the constitution providing that no State can absolve its citizens from paramount aliegiance to the national gov- ernment. The House bill to prevent the introduction of the cattle disease into this country, by prohibiting the importation of cattle from Europe, was passed. The Tesolution requesting the Secretaries of War and the Treasury to give any information which they may possess in regard to certain persons who have not taken the prescribed oath and others whose positions are not provided for by law holding office under govern- ment was adopted, after being subjected to some amendment. A remonstrance of Governor Wells, of Louisiana, ava’nst the recognition of Messrs. Habn and Cutler as the Senators from that State was re- ceived and laid on the table. The Library Committee was instructed to inquire into the expediency of the Senate appointing a reporter for the Associated Press, During the consideration of this matter some of the Senators animadverted severely on the Associated Press reports, charging carelessness and inaccuracy in many cases, while others defended them. Mr. Wilson called up the bill introduced by him to maintain the freedom of the negroes in the Sonthern States, declaring null all Jaws of those States which recognize any inequality of civil rights on account of color, In advocating it he declared that the most cold-blooded atrocities are being Derpetrated upon the freedmen. He was replied to by voth democratic and republican Senators, and the discus- sion occupied a considerable portion of the day; but the Senato adjourned without taking any action on the bill, In the House of Representatives tho Senate's amend- ment to the resolution for a joint committee of fifteen to consider and report on the claims of the States lately in rebellion to representation in Congress at the present time was concurred in. The resolution, as it has now been adopted by both houses, permits debate on the merits of thes) claims, and does not prohibit the admission of the delegation from any one or more States until the cases of all have been reported upon. A joint resolution was adopted, after some debate, by a vote of ono hundred and eloven to fifty, requesting the President to suspend the mustering out of the officers of the Veteran Reserve corps until Congress shall have time to take action in regard to the matter. Bills were introduced and referred providing for the subdivision and sale of the valuable mineral lands of the government and ex- tending the benefits of the bountf land act of March, 1865, to ail soldiers and seamen who served during the war. Instructions were given to the Judiciary Com- mittee to inauire into the propriety of applying the eight hour system to laborers in government employ, and to the Military Committee to report with regard to measures for expediting the completion of the Pacific Railroad. It was directed that the committee to devise suitable action in reference to the death of President Lincoln consider the propriety of completing the Wash- ington National Monument so as to commemo- rate the virtues of both Washington and Lincoln. @soiutions declaring the right of the freedmen to tho priviteges of the elective franchise were introduced and referred to the select committes on the Southern States. The Judiciary Committee was instructed to in- quire into the expediency of a constitutional amend- mont prohibiting any State from refusing the privilege of voting to any of her population on account of color. The Printing Committee were directed to consider the propriety of printing a number of copies of the Presi- dent's Message and General Grant’s report in the German er EUROPE. The steamship City of Boston, from Queenstown on the 30th of November, arrived at this port yesterday, followed afew hours afterwards by the Cunard steam- ship Java, from Londonderry on the 3d instont. By these arrivals we are put in possession of European pews a week later, The Spanish government, it is reported, har refused to submit its claims againat Chile to arbitration. It is pressing forward warlike preparations, and England and France seem disposed to take hostile ground against it. Prussii Is0 despatched a ship-of-war to the scene of conflict. Stephens, the Irish Fenian Head Centre, remained at large, though frantic efforts were being made to recap- ture him. The City of Boston, Hibernian and other vessels bound for this country had been intercepted and searched by British mon-of-war, It was believed he had escaped to Paris. The special commission for the trial of the other captured Fenians wasin session in Dublin. aby, proprietor of the Irish People newspaper, had been found guilty and sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. In the London money market on the 2d inst, United States five-twenties had advanced to 647% a 65. MISCELLANEOUS. Q@eneral Grant has irsued an order for the discharge from the army of all civilians except clerks, and to sub- @iitute for them, when necessary, men detailed from the army. Later and interesting Mexican news is contained in our Gespatohes by the steamship Columbia, which arrived hero yesterday from Havana. From the 10th to the 23d of November twenty-two hundred additional French troops arrived at Vera Cruz, and on the Ist of the present month three thousand more were daily looked for. There had also been heavy arrivals from France of war munitions for the imperialists. Notwith- standing all these accessions, our Vera Cruz cor respondent looks on the imperial prospects as Father gloomy. With the last instalment of ‘troops the cholera was introduced into that city from Burope. in the interior the ropublicams were still ac tive, and had met with some successes, Mr, Romero, the Mexican Minister in Washington, has been officially @dvied that the republican General Escobedo, after tem- porarily abandoning the slege of Matamoros, moved with ‘Bis force to Monterey, to occupy that city. The condi- ‘tion of affairs along the Rio Grande frontier is said to be most encouraging for the republicans, ‘News of interest from Peru and other South American ‘@epublica, but nothing later from Chile, is furnished in per eerreapondence by the steamship Baltic, which pevived here yesterday, from Aspinwall on tho 4th inst. Fhe Baltte brought to this port nearly eight hundred Jhourand Goflars in speci. In Peru, Canseco, the leader \ Df the late gueceasful revolution, and the present Presi- Jont, was busily engaged in endeavoring to restore order Jont of the governmental chaos. He had formed his Cabi- ymet and caused the removal of a number of the repro. [goatatives abrnsd of the dennced wovernment of the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DUMBER 14, 1865. fugitive President Peset, including the Peruvian Minis- tor in Washington and the Peruvian Conaul in this city. President Canseco had also issued a decree announcing that all the late government officials are to be subjected to trial, and had made a demand on the British Charge for the surrender of ox-President Pezet and others of them who took refuge on boarda British man-of-war; but the demand came too late, as the vessol had sailed. There was a rumor, which, how- ever, did not receive much credence, that the Spanish Minister had threatened hostilities if the treaty of Spain with the old government were not ratified by the new one. Revolutionary operations were progressing m the republic of Bolivia, where there had been some severe fighting. The revolutionists in the interior of Colombia | had failed, and matters were again comparatively quiet there, From Central America there is nothing of special importance. From Rio Janeiro our advices are to the 8th of Novem- ber, and from Buenos Ayres to the 30th of October. No turther fighting between the Paraguayans and the allies js reported; but the latter were carrying on the cam- paign vigorously, pushing in pursuit of the former, who were retreating. One division of the Brazilian army had reached the river Uruguay and commenced crossing over into the province of Carrientes. The Emperor of Brazil was expected to return to his capital from the scene of war on the 12th of November. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, but without transacting any businsas adjourned to meet again at three o’clock this afternoon. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and con- curred with tho Aldermen in granting the use of the triangular piece of ground situated om the junction of Sixth avenue and Broadway, for the purpose of erecting ‘bronze life-size statues of Fulton and Morse, A resolu- tion was adopted directing the Comptroller to pay the bill of Alexander Brandon, amounting to three thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars, for decorating the City Hall and the various stands around for the Fourth of July celebration, After disposing of a number of routine papers, the Board adjourned to meet this after- noon at three o'clcck Governor Fenton has dismissed the charges against Mr. John &. Develin, Corporation Counsel of this city, on the ground that the evidence is {usufficient to warrant his removal from office, and has suspended further ac- tion in the cases of Comptroller Brennan and City In- spector Boole until the assembling of the Legislature, when, as he announces in an official ‘statement, he will lay the subject before that body for its action. Mayor Gunther has vetoed, on the ground of the charges being exorbitant, a resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors on the 98th ult, endorsing a bill of fifteen hundred dollars for printing five thousand copies of the new Election law and circulars ang notices to the inspeotors and canvassers of election. The Mayor says the work could have been done for far less, and that he has good reason to believe that not more than half the number of copies charged for were printed. Wilham Snelling was yesterday under examination in the United States Commissioner's Office, before Commis. sioner Osborn, on a charge of having in October last, on board the American ship Valley Forge, of which he was t the time mate, and which was then lying in the Ene- li-h Channel, caused the death of a seaman named Kar. vey by striking him, After hearing considerable testi- mony the case was adjourned over till this morning. Stephen Kearney, Thomas Malone and Patrick Fuarral, under examination before United States Commissioner Betts on a charge of stealing a quantity of rope from the steamer Thomas Colyer, were yesterday committed for trial. . In the Strong divorce trial yesterday there were no new developments of very great interest. Dr. Gunning S. Bedford was examined at considerable length upon the causes and consequences of irregularity gattending the maternal period, Aclerk of the City Inspector's office testified that there is no record in the books of the birth or death of a child of Peter and Mary Strong at the time of the alleged abortion. In the afternoon session coun- sel for the defence wished to introduce the records of the previous criminal proceedings as teetimony in the present suit; but the Court decided to exclude them. During the trial of a case yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Mullen, brought by 8. 8. Richards against Charles G. Vatterson, for the recovery of one thousand dollars, with interost, loaned to the latter, which he alleged was already paid, plaintif’s counsel indulged in some personal remarks regarding the de- fendant, which so exasperated him that, springing to his feet, he struck the lawyer a blow inthe face. ‘the pugil- istic offender was fined fifty dollars, which he promptly paid. He subsequently had the satisfaction of having a verdict rendered in his favor. A suit for ten thousand dollars damages for injuries re. ceived by a little boy named Louis Funck, in November, 1864, by being ran over, on the corner of Thirteenth street and avenue A, by a horse and wagon belonging to A man named Andrew Masset, was yesterday before Judge Mullen, of the Supreme Court, but resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The suit of Margaret Tinkie against the Knickerbocker Stage Company, for five thousand dollars damages for injuries received while getfing out of % stage, was con- cluded yesterday in the Superior Court, before Judge Robertson; but the jury's verdict has not yet been ren- dered. Over sixteen prisoners were disposed of yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, before Recorder Hollman. Henry Kreutzer, indicted for attempting to perpetrate a rape upon a litue girl, pleaded guilty, and was sent to the State Prison for five years, Michael Dunn pleaded guilty toa similar offence, and was remanded for sen- tence. John Wilkinson, who pleaded guilty toan attempt to steal two hundred and forty dollars, and Christian Fos ter and George Green, who were charged with burglary, pleaded guilty toan attempt at burglary, were sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. Joseph Santos, a Cuban, was convicted of stealing two carpets from 17 Stuyvesant street, and was sent to the State Prison for two years. John F. Myers, Bridget Dowd and Adolphus Boeker, charged avith different offences, were each sent to the Penitentiary for one year. Mary Fitz- patrick, who pleaded guilty to attempting to steal two hundred dollars worth of clothing, was sent to the Pen itentiary for six months, The case of Zeno Burnham, charged with being a mock auctioneer, was set down for next Tuesday. The examination before United States Commissioner Jackson, in Jersey City, of the charges againet James Hughes, a bounty broker, of.swindling volunteers ont of large sums of money, was concluded y rday, there being considerable additional testimony taken. ‘The Commissioner required Hughes to give bail for his ap pearance for trial in the gum of twelve hundred dollars on each complaint, amounting altogether to thirty thou- sand dollars, which not being forthcoming, he was com- ‘Mitted to prison, None of the evidence introduced in this investigation implicated Mr. Marcus Cicero Stanley in the transactions with which Hughes is charged. ‘The Fenians are hard at work canvassing the respec. tive merits of the new and old systemsof administration. ‘The claims of cach are pretty fully before them, and they are beginning to gravitate in accordance with their convictions or sympathies. The new President, Colonel W. R. Roberts, has iesued his formal opening address, ‘The Senators bad a session yesterday, and two or more members heretofore absent are on their way to join them, No matters of importance are given to the public, An- other session will be held to-day, Considerable anxiety is felt by the Canadians regarding the danger from Fenian raids to which their new capital, mbjected; and our correspondent in that hat the government is taking precautionary military measures by filling up the volunteer organiza. tions, arming and drilling the department clerke, and making such dispositions of regular troops that they could readily be made available in case of emergency. An agent of the Canadian gevernment who has recently been to Washington to ascertain if there was not » possi- bility of inducing our government to renew the Reci- Procity treaty has returned to Ottawa and reported to the provincial officials that they must look elsewhere than to the United States for trade concessions. The Commissioners of Emigration held a meeting yos- terday, but did not transact any. business of importance. A discussion took piace in regard to emigrants going to the South, it being urged that the wages offered by the planters wero entirely too low to constitute an induce. ment for white laborers to proceed thither, One of the Commissioners stated that a number of emigrants had recently been swindled outside the Castle Garden gates by bangers-on, the ewindlers in some cages wearing the uniform of the Soldiers’ Messenger corps. ‘Tho regular monthly meeting of the Shipowners’ Aaro- ciation was held yesterday afternoon at their rooms in Pine street, The committee appointed to consider the matter of the North river steamboats running too close to the piers reported that there was no law to prevent them doing #0, and their report was accepted. Beyond this and the regular reports of the officers nothing of Consequence was under consideration. A meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held yesterday in the Madison avenue Bavtist church, at which addresses were delivered and sugges- tions made by » number of gentlemen in regard to the dest plans for prosecuting missionary operations in vari- ous parts of the world After a free interchange of views, on motion, a committee of nine was appointed to report the most efficient means of enlarging the sphere of Baptist miasionary labor in France, Germany, Italy ‘and Syria. In the evening the Rev. Mr. Ides delivered a discourse, A supper was given at the Steuben House ast aight, by the German Democratic Union Contral Committee, in honor ofthe Hon. John T. Hoffman, Mayor elect, which was quite a select affair, @ number of distinguished per- eons being in attendance, One bundred and eighty-five men of the Forty-firat (Mozart) New York regiment arrived in this city yester- wil new and superbly appointed Sound steamer Old Colony, for the Newport line, started. on her first trip from this city last evening. she carried on her trial ex- cursion a large number of passengers, including several gentlemen of prominence and representatives of the city 7 caleiie Sian le yesterday in the case of Peter MoGeraty, who died at the New York Hospital on ‘Tuesday night from the effect of blows inflicted with an axe, on the night of the 25th ult, at 46 Mulberry street, as alleged, by his roommate, a deformed man, fifty years of age, named Michaol Healy. On the eonclusion of the inquisition Healy was committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. Sergeant John 8. Young, of the detective force, was yesterday promoted to a captaincy by the Police Com- missioners, and assigned to the command of the detec- tive squad, of which he has bad charge for many years. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Governments were a fraction higher. Gold closed at 1463, a 14554. The rise in gold and the better tone of the European advices occasioned more buoyancy and firmness in com- mercial circles yesterday, and prices were gonerally higher. Cotton and petroleum were favorably affected, and prices were decidedly higher, On ’Change flour was higher. Grain was also higher. Pork was irregular. Boof was steady. Lard was firmer. Butter and cheese were dull and heavy. Whiskey was nominally a shade lower. . ‘The market for beef cattle was scarcely so firm this week as last, though wo do not quote any marked reduc- tion in prices. Strictly prime cattle, which were in lim- ited supply, sold at full prices; but other kinds were rather lower. The few Christmas steors offercd went at 19¢. a 20c.; but other grades varied all the way from 9c, to 18c, a 18%¢., as to qual- ity. Milch cows were without change. Veals wero in fine demand, and prices varied from 73¢0. to 14c. Sheep and lambs were rather firmer, prices ranging from $4 to $8 per head. Hogs were also firmer, varying from 14. to 11%c. The total receipts were 6,719 beeves, 105 cows, 518 veals, 16,193 sheep and lambs, and 15,206 hogs Congress—The Stevens Resolution as Adopted—The Senate on the Fgecdmen’s Rights. K The House adopted yesterday the Stevens joint resolution as amended by the Senate--to wit: by striking out all that portion which pro- posed to hold the two houses in regard to the elections, &c., of Southern members to either subject to the action of the joint committee, and which, meantime, proposed to refer all papers and motions in regard to such elections for Congress to the joint committee without debate. The Senate simply refused to surren- der to a joint committee its constitutional right to jndge for itself of the elections of its own members, and the gag upon discussion which the Stevens resolution, as sent over from the House, proposed to accomplish. As adopted, the resolution provides a joint committce of nine members of the House and six of the Senate to inquire into the political condi- tion of the Inte insurgent States, and to report thereon to the two houses. As passed by the House, the resolution, if carried through, with or without the Executive approval. would have been a law of the land, turning over both houses and the President, bound hand and foot, into the hands of an inquisitorial joint committee, with which alone should rest the admission of any member from any one of the excluded Southern States into either house. As pruned by the Senate each house is left free to decide upon the elections of its members, debate is not cut off, and the resolution, in- stead of being thrust into the face of the Pres!- dent as a demand for a surrender, is complete as it stands, in being reduced from the form of a law to a simple parliamentary agreement be- tween the two houses, and nothing more. Thus far, then, the Senate is entitled to some credit for maintaining its own rights and pro- tecting the President against the radical fe- naticism of the original Stevens-Raymond cancus resolution. But so far as the excluded States are concerned, they are turned over into the keeping of this joint committee, and their prospects of an early admission into either house are, therefore, exceedingly slim. There was no necessity whatever for this joint special commitice, each house having « regular Com- mittee on Elections; so that the departure from the usual proceedings in regard to questiona- ble elections mean: nothing more nor less than a new and rigid inquisition, with new and rigid conditions, in reference to the Southern States. One of these conditions precedent is proba- bly foreshadowed in the bill of Mr. Wilson, which was under discussion yesterday in the Senate, providing to maintain the freedom of the inhabitants of the States lately in rebellion. The object of the bill is to abolish all the slave codes and negro laws of said States making discriminations between whites and blacks prejudicial to the rights of the latter as citizens entitled to equal protection under the laws. There may be justice in this, but if these inequalities in the local regulations of the States concerned are to be removed before these Siates can come back into Congress, Senator Sumner’s plan of reducing said States to the status of unorganized Territories will be the shortest method for accomplishing the work. The views of Senator Sherman touching the equal rights of the Southern emancipated blacks were of a more practical character than the premature and visionary schemes of Wil- son’s crude bill. There is, however, one point touched upon by Senator Sherman regarding which there should be a fair understanding. When a suffi- cient number of the Southern Legislatures to make the ratification complete shall have rati- fied the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery and providing for the enforcement by Congress of the freedom of the blacks, it is probable that the President will proclaim the fact to the country, and that said amendment has thus become part and parcel of the supreme law of the land. In this event Congress must recognize the Southern States concerned as legitimate members of the Union, or declare their action and the President’s action upon the amendment as good for nothing, Ifa State Legislature is valid to ratify the amendment it is valid for the election of ite United States Senators. We cannot make it flesh in the one case and fish in the other. Upon this question, for his own protection, the President has the right to demand a clear understanding with the two houses of Congress, There wore yesterday some other incidental proceedings in both branches uoon various phases of the negro question, all tending to develop the difficulties that lic in the way of Scuthern reconstruction as proposed by North- ern radicals. Their schemes of Southern social reorganization preparatory to the recognition of the excluded States look to their exclusion, not for months, but for years to come; while the programme of President Johnson, with every day’s developments, brings into broad relief his superior sagacity and consistency as a patriot and a statesman, Mexico—Europeam end American Policy in Comfiict, The Emperor Napoleon and all the Euro- pean Powers, which, directly or indirectly, abetted the flagrant assault upon our American system of government and policy while we were engaged in a gigantic civil war, must now eee that the unfriendly effort to establish a European balance of power on this continent is utterly futile. The occurrences of the last few days ought to convince them that we both comprehend their policy and are determined to defeat it. The President's Message, though moderate in tone and not dwelling specifically upon any case of European interference in the affairs of this continent, is very clear as to the principle we hold and must maintain. The initiatory proceedings and temper of Congress are more emphatic. These are very significant and cannot be misunderstood. The terse and decided declarations of General Grant, General Sherman and many other prominent officers of both the army and the navy are full of mean- ing. The decided language of the press and of public speakers everywhere demand the en- forcement of the Monroe Doctrine. Upon no subject was there ever such unanimity ef sen- timent among the people as upon this, The public mind is directed more particularly to Mexico just now because that is a case more directly to the point—one in which we are more immediately concerned at present, But there are other cases involved to which we shall pay attention in due time, Above all we must have the general principle establishod that the American political system is unique, and entirely detached from and independent of the European system, and that, as the great Power of this continent, we cannot it European interference with its institutions or destiny. Visionary theorists, assuming to be states- men, like Lemartine and others of his stripe, foolishly imagine we do not understand this question in all its magnitude and bearings. They think we are mere politicians of the day, not looking to the future, and that we talk loud for effect when we do not act up to it, The American people are eminently practical, and they understand political questions intui- tively much better than the soi-disant visionary statesmen of Europe. Mr. Lamartine lately pudlished a quantity of wordy trash upon the Moxican question; at the same time he ex- plaias in a measure the motives that lie at the bottom of French intervention in Mexico. What he says about giving the Latin race a prominence and making it a Power on this continent to check the influence and growth of the great American republic is sheer non- sense, There are fur more of the Latin race in this conglomerate and cosmopolitan republi- can empire of the United States than in Mexico and all Central America, apart from the Indians, and they certainly are not Latins, Louis Napoleon cared little about the race; it was the political power to which he looked. He would not care if his agent, Meximilian, were to import half the Teutons of Germany, without a single Frenchman or Spaniard, so ihat the empire would be established. He had other and higher motives. First, his throne resting upon a revolutionary foundation and the ruins of a republic, he looks with jealousy on the growth and diffusion of republican ideas and institations, They are a standing reproach {to monarchy, particularly to a monarchy like his, which elevated itself upon a victory over republican ideas. His mercurial subjects might some day, in his lifetime or that of his heir, make inconvenient comparisons between imperialism and republicanism. Think- ing there was a good opportunity during our civil war to throw discredit upon and weaken ihe republican sentiment, he undertook the enterprise of erecting an empire on the Ameri- can continent and on our border, This scheme was fnvored by all the Old World menarchies for the some reasons. But besides this he had a purely French and Napoleonic idea. Mexico is a rich mineral country—perbaps the richest in the world. He wanted to have acontrol over this wealth for the special benefit of French commerce. Above all, looking to the futore, be knew that this portion of the Ameri- can continent, including the contiguous partsof Central America—upon which he had designs aleo—i« to be, within no distant day, the high- way of the greatest commerce in the world. As the First Napoleon went to Egypt with a view of arresting the progress of England in the East, and diverting a portion of the valu- able trade of that rich region, so the Third Na- poleon sturted upon the Quixotic project of checking the onward march of the United States, and controlling the Isthmus routes be- tween the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Such undoubtedly were the prime motives of Louis Napoleon’s Mexi- ean policy, and such were the anticipated re- sults as contemplated in the fuiure. But a change has come over the spirit of his dream, probably, by this time. If not it will come as soon as he learns the determined atti- tude of this country and the unanimous senti- ment of the people. The administration itself has been forbearing, both in action and expres- sion, on this matter, because it was understood that Napoleon wanted time to get out of the Mexican dilemma gracefully. This impression has been conveyed no doubt by the agents or representatives of his Majesty, and both the government and the people of the United States, remembering the ancient friendship of France, did not wish to press Napoleon and the brave, high spirited French people too closely in such a delicate business. The best feeling existe in this country towards France apart from this question. The opinion is gaining ground, however, that there isa want of sincerity in the representations about Napo- leon intending to withdraw from Mexico, and that he only wants to gain time till the republican government be utterly driven out, and there be mo other on the soil than that of Maximilian. The people con- sequently are becoming impatient, and our public men are beginning to talk very deter- minediy. This is but the prelude to action. ‘The administration could not stem the tide of nopulpr sentiment when onge gat init even ib rooted in the American mind than this, and the country would go to war if necessary to main- tain it. We hope the Emperor Napoleon will seriously consider these things, and act in s manner that the old friendship of the two coun- tries may be peepetuated. A military man who stands in tho highest position, when asked short time since if a hundred thousand men would be sufficient to drive the French out of Mexico, re- plied, “Yes, sir; more than enough; twenty thousand of my veterans would do it.” He did not underrate the bravery of French soldiers, but he looked to the fact that we should have the mass of the Mexican people with usin such # war, and should have @ superior base and better means of operation. If needed, however, we could raise several hundred thousand men—a great many of them veterans—almost at the tap of the drum. The world has witnessed the military and naval power as well as the boundless resour- ces of the United States, and we need not dwell on them to show how capable we are to meet any contest. This country will avoid war if possible ; but we cannot shut our eyes to the possibility of such an event. Looking at the situation of things on the Rio Grande, and at the apirit of our people and the army, it is not improbable that something may occur to lead to a conflict. Where an unfriendly or hos- tile spirit exists difficulties are likely to arise ; and frequently great wars follow trivial events under euch circumstances. We regard it, then, of the highest importance that our government should have a perfect understanding with the Emperor Napoleon at once as to his position in Mexico, and as to the fixed policy of this coun- try regarding the affairs of the American con- tinent. A New President for the Ferocious Fe- mians. Tho affairs of the ferocious Fenians appear to be in a complete Donnybrook muddle. Instead of abusing and destroying the vile and bloody Saxon, the O’Mahony and Roberts cliques are defaming and attacking each other. Practically speaking, the Irish republic in this country is without a government. O’Mahony has been tried, condemned and deposed by the Fenian Council of Ten, and yet at least half the Brotherhood refuse to recognize Mr. Roberts, who has been voted by his nine colleagues into OMahony’s patent leather boots and sofa- cushioned chair of State. The quarrel between the two factions increases in bitterness hourly, and such elegant epithets as “traitor,” “swindler,” “thief” and “spy,” are bandied about quite indiscriminately. The only person who, by common consent, can settle these terrible difficulties is Mr. James Stephens, ‘the C. E. of the I. R.—that is to say, the Chief Executive of the Irish Rebels. We have already published full accounts of the recent miraculous escape of this gentleman from a Dublin prison, and the conjectures in regard to his whereabouts. The best authori- ties assure us that he has crossed over from Treland to Paris, and is expected in this coun- try by every steamer. At Paris he will meet with Mr. John Mitchel, the Fenian Armbassa- dor, who was sent off with thirty thousand dollars in gold some time ago. As the troubles between O’Muhony and his rivals in the Brotherhood have been of long standing, the Chief Executive must know all about them, and Mitchel is likely to post him upon every detail which has escaped the Head Centre’s memory. Under these circumstances it Is more than probable that when the famous Stephens comes to this country he will bring Mitchel along with him, and that he will at once end all the quarrels of the Brotherhood here by removing both O'Mahony and Roberts and appointing the gallant, irascible and vexatious Mitchel in their stead. With John Mitchel as its new president the Irish republic in New York would become at once formidable and respectable. Mitchel can write and fight, and plot and rebel, and rule and make money, and scare the British lion better than any other Fenian who can be nemed. He has had a large and varied expe- rience of rebellions and insurrections. He hag been in jail and out of jail on both continents, and is an Jrish patriot of the first whiskey and water. His name alone would be a tower of strength. The British government would know just what to expect when he took charge of affairs. John Mitchel, unlike John O’Mabony, would not be satisfied with a revo- lution without a fight. He would feed the Fenians on vitriol to keep them in martial trim, and blow up the Senate with a keg of powder if they dared to question his authority. Daily parades, weekly ructions and monthly invasions of (Canada would form part of his programme and maintain the warlike spirit of his followers. After every fight he would call loudly for more subscriptions, and, instead of being forced to peddle scraps of waste paper, called bonds, the funds would roll in upon him like @ flood. Neither would he allow the Fenian excitement to die out after a single outburst. He would nurse it and fan it and stir it up continually. Here is the great Irish republic without an organ. Does any one suppose that Mitchel would allow that? His first move would be to start a national news- paper, fill it full of blood and thunder edito- rials every week, and whip the lion and the unicorn up one column and down another until he had fairly exhausted those royal beasts. As for subscribers, every Irish wo- man, and Irish man, and Irish child would be compelled to take this paper and pay for it, under penalty of being treated as an ally of England. There would be some- thing grand, imposing and picturesque in an Irish republic with Mitchel -at its head. He would ride up Broadway on a big horse, with 4 sword at his side and a feather in his bat and the green flag flaunting defiance to his foes. No one would dare to ridicule the Brotherhood or to throw cold water upon any of its pro- ceedings were this doughty duellist its repre- sentative, As for trasting the Fenian funds anywhere about the Tribune office, Mitchel would laugh such an idea to scorn. He would take care of the money ; he would take care of is oll bis life: but he would xive the Irjeb peo- ple something to show for it tm the forni of | parades, processions, reviews and a mw now and then, instead of absorbing it all like a sponge or squandering it upon a grest house in Union square. For these reasons ve hope that John Mitchel will come over from France in the same ship with the C. E. of the I R. and be immediately chosen the new Feniaa Preai- dent. a Sram ano Cunz—Taz Forure Poucr op tas Spanise Government.—Our latestadvices from Europe indicate that the reportal back- ) out of Spain on the Chilean question was in- correct. Lest there should be any migake on — the subject the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs has taken the trouble to declare in twe — and dignity of Spain in South America, His colleague, of the Marine, not to be behind hand, announces that the crews of «ll priva teers not manned and offcered by Chilean, will be treated as pirates by the Spanish an rect. If Spain backed out of Mexico when the French went there, and backed out of Si Domingo after an enormous expenditure of men and money, she is not likely to maintal her position in Chile in the face of the rey monstrances of all Europe and the new statu of America. Her own people are dissatisfio and almost in open rebellion, her exchequer ! bankrupt, and overshadowing her attempte aggression on the South American continen as the recent comments of the Madrid Kpoc have shown us, is the spectre of this great r public, “accustomed to action, possessing gro military resources, proud of her triumphs én” of the spectacle she has just presented to tl: world, and assource of anxiety to the stronge nations of Europe.” Evidently, if the repo of the Spanish back-out is not true at the pr | sent moment, the Spanish government w — begin to see in a very short time the neceasi | of making it true. | Wantep—-A Head Centre for the Irish B public. f American Dramatic Founp Assoctation.— grand matinee, with “Arrah na Pogue” as t attraction, will be given this (Thursday) aft noon at Niblo’s Garden, in aid of the Americ Dramatic Fund Association. This is a’ tr praiseworthy object, and deserves the hea and substantial approbation of our citize” The Dramatic Fund Association is an institut” established for the purpose of relieving the pe niary necessities of superannuated and indig: actors, and as but few actors can lay up mor enough to smooth their pathway down the |) of life from the pitiful salaries now allow them by theatrical managers, it is truly duty of the public to help swell the fund | tended for the benefit of the aged and indig in the fraternity. The larger the house, the) fore, at the matinee to-day, the more signal rebuke our citizens will bestow upon the gardness of the managers. Waxtsp--An Irish Republic for the H Centre. City Intelligence. Covnsx or Lectures FoR THE BENE#rT oF THA Poo ‘The first of a series of six lectures for the benef of poor took place in the Thirteenth street Presbyte church, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, on Tue evening. The subject was “Domestic Happiness.’ was handled ina humorous, instructive and interes manner. The next Icoture of the course takes | ae potmtny ae ebb Rittodges an eloquent aoe § iy a an eloquent will be the orator on the occasion. ' The proceeds of lectures are to be spplicd towards relieving the nec ties of the poor in this city. Farm vor rae Bxxxrre or tae Caurcn or rie Ri recriox.—A Ladies’ Fair has been opened in Gibs— Building, corner of Thirteenth street and Broadway the benefit of the Protestant Epi Church of Resurrection, ASS Thirty-fit god are avenue, Rev. Edwai Flagg, rector. al commenced about four years by Rev. Mr. F with two families, and now numbers about eighty ilies, The Fair is held for the purpose of raising f to secure the church and parsonage property now « pied by the rector and co! tion. The arrangen of the Fair are tasteful and the refreshments ample Far i Am oF Tax Cauca or THE MxpiaTor.- ladies of the Church of the Mediator (Rev. Dr. Ir rector), corner of Lexinyton avenue and Thirtieth st are holding a Fair, which will continue to-day an morrow. "there is a pleasing variety of articles sui \ for holiday gifts. Masomic,—Kane's Lodge of Freemasons took px sion of their new and handsome apartments in Kill) building, Broadway, near Twenty-third street, on * day evemng. When fally furnished this lodge room be tho finest in the country. expense has spared upon the organ, decorations and furniture collation was provided at the opening. Bax. ov THe Ceortta Crus,—A party of young gt) men belonging to the leading classes of the metro and calling themselves the Cecelia Club, in compli to Miss Cecelia L. King, of this city, gave a ball evening at Irving Hall, which was one of the beat I | ed and one of the most recherche affairs of the entire! son. ‘Tux Base Bart Coxverniox.—The ninth annual) vention of the National Association took place a) Cooper Institute last evening. The attendance — numerons than at any previous convention, ovgr 0 clubs being represented, including clubs from suct tant points as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, St Louis. and land, Me. The proceedings were of conside interest to the fraternity, and the action taken a tageons to the interests of the reports {Gloves President, John Wildey, of First Vice Prealden +, M, Rogers’ of of the game. After) of committees, &c., the with, the result bei) the Mutual the Lowell; Obituary. MRE. CHARLE® DILLON, WIFR OF THE BNC TRAGEDIAN, Mr. Charles Dillon, the English tragedian, arri: this conntry a few days since. On the trip out hi wan taken ill with what was supposed to be Pc fever; but on landing here it turned to a violent fo typhoid fever, of which sbe died on Tuesday Inet a!) night. Mrs. Dillon was a bandsom Lyi We, twenty. —_ She went ov the stage after her! to Mr. Dillon, and haa played minor parts in his dies, She is to be buried to-day from St. Mark’s ct where funeral services will be pronounced at elev M. by Rev. Dr. Alexander Dillon. THE ORIGINAL OF SIMON SUGGS. Every reader of our comic literature will rem Jonce Hooper and his inimitable “Georgia Scenes “adventures of Simon Suggs’'—two books with real genuine American hu than any half dozen works i or twongo, He has tately by the original of one of bis greatest char: ‘Hie name wae Bird H. Young. He apoosa county, Ala., and seventy yt_ age at the time of his death. It ts aid that Simon was a faithful portrait of He was a wild spendthrift in youth, and a confirmed advi manhood. He fad a big generous beart, but ‘virtues, h of Dr, Elisha Hunt ae Ta’ Mass., Dec, 1: Dr. Elisha Huntington, formerly Lieutenant of the State, and many years Mayor of Lowell, di few iiness, aged sixty-nine resident 1 General W. W. Morris will leave more today by special tram. Upon their arri Jorsey depot a military escort will accompa here it will |i Peay To une Oly Hall, RO ie in state ui .. The then be to Trinity church, where “ine services will ake place at half-past (welve P.M, Canal Bridge Acc; Burvaro, ‘The river street bridge over the canal this morning while a drove of cattle was upon it. of the cattle were drowned. A wagon loaded wit sank, the horne attached to it eupg, and (be detr jont. i Deo, 18, 1) broke th