The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1865, Page 4

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M. till lu New York, Banaeys} ‘December 17, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of ‘Bales of the Now York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper May 1, 1965. Hireavp... - $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 ooo teensy $1,095,000 871.220 New Yoru Herarp....... ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun Tho Mexican Minister in Washington Matamoros to the 10th inst., announcing {ican Geueral Escobedo, after withdrawing tror the siege of that town, and moving with his army to Monterey, Becupied the latter city and held it f e, bat Was Qnally compelled to le two diy Fial troops, one ported, wa a Arumor was is entirely discredited t Minister, now in this cil advices trom tou yesterday, but * he French d with Con , is so displ greasional action on Mexi: alfvirs that he does not Pesign returning to the natioual cap'tat, i Governor Jenkins, the new!y gted Excantive of @oorgia, was inaugurated at Milledgeville on Thursday fast. In his inaugural address he recognizes the supre- macy of the national over Stato lay e constitu tions of the United States and of Georgin are in unison, alludes to the present impoverished condition of the Btate, but believes that all will ere long be well again, ‘end compliments the nogroes on thoir good conduct during the excititg period of the rebellion. Provisional fovernor Johnson, in a despatch announcing the inaugu ation to the President, expresses confidence that there mill be entire harmony between -the iatter and Governor Tenkins. The Georgia Legislature adjourned on Friday (ill tho 16th of January, without electing United States Senators. * ‘Governor Bramietto, of Kentucky, on Friday sent a gmossage to the State Senate announcing that he had par- loned ex.dovernor Howes and others charged with imos against the Commonwealth, and rccommending e passage of an act by tho Legislature pardoning sll accused of treagon to the State, The telegraph, ‘pa despatch published in yesterday's Haran, informed that suoh an act had passed the lower houae by 4 vote Afty-seven to thirty-four, * Jm consequonce of the Legislature of Tonneasde having getused to admit negro testimony in the civil courts, Genera! Fiske, Assistant Commiesionor of the Freed- gen’s Buroau for that State, has issued an order which, 7m what we can make out of a foggy Nashville des eo provides for special courts, under his superin- jonice, to hear cases in which negroes arc interested. The election in Virginia to supersede the present State Wiloors, first appointed by ghe Legislature lo be held on Friday last, and afterwards postponed till Thursday next, bas been still further put off by that body, und is now set Agvn for the 10th of January. In the lower house yes- terday there was s debate on a resolution proposing measures for reuniting the State of West Virginia to the Old Dominion. The Judiciary Committee has been in- structed to report # bill for the admission of negro testi- mony in the courts. ! Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, recently vetoed @he bill passed by the Legislature, enacting what is @alled the Stay law, intended to relieve debtors from the pressure of claims, in the present exhausted condition of affairs in that State, by their croditors, and deciaring the Quspension, until the first of Jan¥ary, 1868, of all laws for the collection of debts. Tho’ Legislature, however, (has passed the bill over the Exechtive veto, We publish his morning the Governor's message, giving his reasons for of the measure, . Mayor Wallach, of Washington, has approved the act Of the Council of that city making an appointment for fan election to be held on Thursday next to take the sense ef the poople on the bill wow before Congress for per- 1g the negroes of the Disirict of Columbia to vote. © government and pedple of the proviuce of New @runswick have been seriovaly agitated recently by ap- @rekonsions of a Fenian raid from the United States. It fs sald that the first intimation wae given in # despatch [pf the Sth inst. from the British Minister in Washington fhe the Lieutenant Governor of the colony. The latter Yunctionary immodiately set in motion defensive opera- and started in person for the frontier. Organiza- of the volunteers was commenced, # war steamor despatched from Halifax to St. John, fresh disposi- were made of troops, the loca! authorities and bank of the threatened towns held excited consulta- ‘and for the time the from Canada to it there has not yet, so far as we aro informed, been y demonstration of the Brotherhood on that line. | Tho Canadians, it appoars, are not yet rondored hope jeas by the ill success which has ro far attended thoir to induce our government to renew the Reciproci- treaty, our Ottawa advices announcing that another | Avion ih to urge its renewal will shortly leave that city for Washington. A commissioner has heen appointed on Hebalf of the Canadian government to endeavor to facill- fate direct trade between the provinces and the coun es along the Mediterranean. Canada papers stato that fecent cfections in Newfoundland have gone iv favor pf the colonial confederation scheme. | Advices from Jamaica to December 6—fifteen days eter than those previously published—have been re. ee by the arrival of the steamship Montezuma at is port yesterday. None but journals that have con- Gistontly upheld the policy of the Jamaica government avo roached us, and the information they afford as to Condition of the island, the oxtent and ramifications the negro plot, and the number of executions, is of he most meagro description. It appears, however, that Ot the dato of the last advices there were still some sixty to be tried, and previous papers speak of four pad five rebels being banged in one ovening. The pro- peedings appear to have been comducted with so much that not even the names of the condemned were to the newspapers, An addrocs to tho ms- whish bad beca ieswed by the colonel command. fefers to the way in which the sepoy rebels wore ot; bow they were ‘‘biown from the mouths of into their very forte and slaughtered j; ewopt, in fact, from the face of the carth,"’ adds that “some of the heroes who these brilliant deeds are now in Jamaica, feenact them If necessary.” Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, who was attacked paralysis on Friday evening in Washington, was (in that city Inet oigbt that be was NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1865. not oxpooted to live till this morning. He had continued unconscious from the time he was attacked with the disease, Tho position of the Fenian cause in roland, aa well aa the actual every day socia! condition of the inhabitants of that island, after six hundred and ninety-three years of British rule, are fully treated of In ® very interesting special correspondence which we publish in the HrraLp this morning. Tho matter is dated on board the steam- ship City of Boston, at sea,on the 4th instant, and in Dublin on the 2d. One portion of it contains some im- portant facts relative to the escape of the Head Centre Stephens and the anxious search made for bim on board the City of Boston by officers from a British frigate. The second loiter reports the melaacholy social aspect which is to be seen in the country at the present moment, and treats Fenianism as the effect of the “famine” rule of England, ‘There was a session of the Fenian Senate in this city yesterday. Inmportant matters, which itis not deemed dosirablo to make public, are said to be on tho tapis. The two newly arrived Senators were up hearing the Union square side of the controversy yesterday. The old mili- tary department having gone with the Senate, Mr. O’Ma- hony is reported to be getting up a new one for Union square. The Knights of St. Patrick have passed regolu- tions of non-intervention in the Fenian diffoulty. Tho Board of Councilmen held a short sossion yester- day. A resolution was adopted recognizing Mr. John Houghtaling as a member of the Board during the pros- ent year, he having roceived a certificate that he ‘re- cc¢ived tho largest number of votes. Hig seat was con- tested by Mr. O'Brien, The report of the Committee on Finance of the Board of Aldermen in reference to cre- ating a market stock for the purpose of erecting a market in the Kighteenth ward, was called up and occasioned a lively debate. The mandamus iasued by the Suprome Court compelling the Common Council to take action upon the matter was presented: Further proceedings on the subject were postponed till Monday. Tho skating season was {naugurated yesterday tn Now York, Brooklyn and New Jersey, The Park was not ready, in conaequence of the large extent of surface of the lakes; but to-morrow will doubtless see It in com- plete order. The Fifth Avenue Pofid was extensively visited, as were also the ponds in Brooklyn. Everything promises a fine season for the lovers of this healthful sport. Tho present season promises to be one of the gayest which we havo had for many years in the annals of Terpsichore, from the number of balis, military and civic, which are announced to take place in this city. There have already been held several very poptiar ones, notices of some of which will be found olsowhere in our columns, In the United States Circuit Court yeatorday Judge Shipman sentenced the Italian counterfeiter, Francisco Burghar, to Afleen years’ imprisonment, with hard labor, at Sing Sing, and to pay a fine of five thousand dollars. John Thomas, alias Kanc, found guilty before Judge Shipman of passing a bogus one hundred dollar bill, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment Henry Hitman, a grocer, doing business on the corner of York and Charles strects, Brooklyn, was yosterday committed for trial by United States Commissioner Jones on charge of having for aome time paat been im the habit of passing on his customers counterfoita of the quarter dollar currency notes. : A case was up beforo Judge Mullen, tn the Sapreme Court, during the three days just past, which possesses some interost as regards the coal trade and the reaponsi- bilities of parties who transacted business in this lino during the robellion, The case was entitled Easton vorsus Martin. In June, 1864, plaintiff furnished four barges and sent them to Baltimore, tho defendant con- tracting to have them laden with coal fram the Cumber- land mines. At this time Early's raid took place, rén- dering it impossible, as was alleged, for the defondant to. carry out the contract, For the delay and disappoint ment experienced by the plaintiff suit was brought for six thonaand dollars. The jury rondored a verdict for the plaintiff, giving nine hundrod dollars, Tho case will be taken to the Court of Appouls. Tho jury, in the case of John Hackett, tried in the Court of Oyer and Torminer, on the: charge of killing John Groon, at thre o'clock. yesterday brought in a vor- dict of murder In the Orst degree, and the prisoner was remanded for sentence. In the case of Ecgar St. Joun versus Timothy Daly, triod in the @ourt 6f Common Ploas on Friday, wherein the plaintiff sued to rocover over eloven hundrod dol- lara, allogod to be due on promissory notes given for the good will of a livery stable in East Seventy-first street, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant. Tho trial of a cage of alleged outrage on a young lady, by s physician of Brooklyn, was concluded tn the Court of Sessions, in that city, on Friday, The accused was a Dr. Joseph 8. Walters, and the complainant Miss Lucy 3. Jonos, of. Wost Springficld, Massachusetts. The offence was charged to have been committed in the fall of 1864, while the Iady was on a visit to hor brother in Brooklyn, and while Dr. Walters was attending her professionally. CoiMMerable testimony was taken, including that of the accuser horself, and the jury, aftor tong deliberation, found the Doctor guilty, but recommended him to mercy. William Varley, alias ‘Reddy tho Blacksmith,'’ keeper of a saloon at No. 7 Chatham square, was yes- terday arraigned in the Tombs Police Court, and required to givo one thousand dollars bail to answer a charge of having, on tho 6th of August Inst, at the house of « Broad street banking firm, falsely sworn that a atrange man who accompanicd him was a certain Charies £. Aikens, named ina bill of exchange, drawo in Mata- moros, Mexico, and payuble in London, which was pre- sonted to this house to be cashed, and which, as the firm allogo, they did cash, on the strength of Varley’s statement that tho stranger who accompanied him was really the Aikeng named in the bill. It subsequently appeared, however, as now alleged, that the bill of ex- change had been lost by the genuine Charles EK. Aikons, and that by tho time it reached London from the Broad atroet house in this.clty payment on it had boon stopped by him. The individual who is supposed to have personated Mr. Aikens in the affair, and who, by endorsing his name on the draft, has rendered himaelf liable to the charge of forgery, has not yet been arrested, Ayoung gentlemen named H. M. Fay, formerly at assistant of the Davenport Brothers in their alleged apiritualistic 'egerdemain exhibitions, porformed a oum- bor of tricks, ud sapplomented | he with an explana- tory lecture, before a small assemblage in par Tnatt tute Inst night, in exposure, ag he stated, of the hum. buggery and deception practised om the public by his Tate associates, Another meeting of members of the Sixteenth New York cavalry regiment was held in this city last night to complete arrangements for pressing their claims for the toward offered for the capture of Booth, the asaaasin of President Lincoln. The applications are to be trans- mitted to the War Department next week. The Second regiment of Maine cavalry, numbering five hundred men, arrived here from Pensacola on Fri- day last, and left the same day for Portland, where they will bo mustered out and discharged. “the Figntp Con: necticut Volugteers, numbering two hundred and seventy-threo mon, from City Point, Va, also arrived hore on Friday, and left that ovening for Hartford. About twelve thousand gallons of whiskey, seized on board a veasol Lying at the foot of North Fourth street, Brooklyn, E. D., in August last, and confiscated by gov- ernment for ovasion of the internal revenue, was sold at auction {n that city yesterday, aud brought two dollars and thirty-three cents per gallon. A fire in Chicago yesterday, which originated in a building known ag Lincoln Hall, on tho corner of Frank. lin and Lake streets, and extended to tho adjoining atructuros, destroyed two hundred and fifty thousand doliara worth of property, on about half of which there were insurances. A number of buildings, including the Post Office, were destroyed by a fire yesterday in the village af Lima, Liv- ingeton county, in this State, Considerable mail matter was burned. Tho total losses ate estimated at twenty thousand dollars, ‘Tho steamer Peorless caught fire on the Mississippi tiver yesterday, and was entirely consumed, with a full cargo which sho had on board. The boat alone was valued at sixty thousand dollars, ‘The etock market was firm yesterday, and closed with a rising tondoncy. Governments were steady. Gold closed at 146, ‘The ‘markets wore generally quiet yosterday; but nearly all descriptions of both foreign and domestic goods were firm. Cotton was rather casfer. Groceries were dull, Petroloum was active at full prices. On ‘Change Hour was steady. Wheat was 2c, » Sc, better. Corn was steady, Onts were unchanged. Pork was ir- reguiar. Lard was steady. Whiskey was in fair de- mand and steady. Heraur or Iurvpenca—Members of Congress voting against the measures of Andrew John- son’s administration and thon asking bim for appointmenta President Johnsen’s Management of His Restoration Policy and the Radicals. The coolness, adroitness and akill exhibited by President Johnson in managing his policy constitute one of the most striking features of the times. He has not only reserved all the wea- pons necessary to fortify his position, but has made himself 80 completely master of the situ- ation that be is able to shape events in spite of the opposition of the revolutionary radicals in Congress. The latter, under the lead of Mr. Stevens, marked out their plans in caucus, marshalled their forces and deliberately as- sailed the President's policy; yet he continues hia efforts at restoration perfectly regardless of their action, and pays no more attention to thelr antics than General Grant to an army firing popguns at his columns, Thus far the fanatics in Congress have not in the least dis- turbed his equanimity, nor caused him to abate a particle in his polioy to restore the South to its full relations in the Union. Mr. Stevens presented his resolution in the repub- lican caucus on Saturday night, and then succeeded in making it the party shibboleth. It was endorsed and passed by the House of Representatives on Monday, and that, too, in the faee of the fact that Ste- vens openly asserted that he intended to de- feat the policy of the President in the. treat- ment of the Southern States, This was accom- plishe@. before Mr. Johnson hod gent in his Message, That document was sent to Congress on the following day, without the least modif- cation or allusion to the opposition presented, just as though nothing had happened. The Message, backed by public opinion, has already had its effect in both houses, as seen by the action of the Senate in modifying Stevens’ resolution, and in the change in front of nine- teen republican membors of the lower House, Whild we see in all this the reaction in favor of Andrew Johnson’s policy, we also have another evidence of his coolness and deter- mination to stand by his policy, as announced in his communication, which we published the other day, to the Provisional Governor of Geor- gia, Congross commenced its session on the 4th inst, On that day the republioans in the Houso voted in a body for a resolution directly attack- ing the President’s plan of reconstruction. Such at least was the interpretation which the public placed upon that resolution and the avowed object of the radicals in passing it.. Yot, in tho face of this, and while its adoption was pending in the Senate, the President, on the 11th inst., or just one week after the action of the Houso referred to, aent a despatch to Governor John- son, of Georgia, stating, “We are under obli- gations to you for tho noble, efficient and patri- otic manner in which you have discharged your duties of Provisional Governor, and you will be sustained by the government.” There is no mistaking the meaning of that despatob. Its langnage is too plain to admit of but one interpretation. It is conclusive that the Presi- dent intends to push on his work of reorganiza- tion as heretofore marked ‘out regardless of what the radicals may do in Congress or what obstacles they may try to throwin-his way, It proves that he is notin the least alarmed at the array of the revolutionary faction in Con- greas, but sees his way clear and defies their fury. Conscious of the strength ot his position, he stands firm and immovable. Not only does this communication reveal his determination to place the-machinery ofthe local and civil gov- ernments in a position that wilt give thom tho same control of their local affairs that is enjoyed by other States, but other portions of the despatch givo somo idea of, his position in regard to the question of admitting Southern representatives in’ Can- gress. He requests that tho Governor elect of Georgia shall be inaugurated, and thon asks “Why ean’t you elect a Senator?” He certainly would not ask the election of a Senator unless he desired his admission in the United States Senite; nor would he be anxious about tho in- auguration of the Governor or election of Senator if he contemplated ylelding to the radicals and adopting their plans of treating the Southern States as so many conquered Ter- ritories, The fow words in that despatch are full of meaning, significant and important. We advise ull such theorists as Stevens, Kelley, Sumner, Wilson and Chandler to put itin their pipe and smoke it, and see the defeat that awaits thom if they continue to press their re- voltittonary schemes. It is in this quict but effective yay that Andrew Johnsen will press.on the work of res- toration. There can be no doubt of the final result. Already. wo see its effect upon Con- gress. The Senate has rejected:the most ob- jectionable portion of Stevens’ resolution, ond three republican Senatoré came out in direst opposition to the whole. The effort to revive the rejected portion in the House and make it applicable to that body found nineteen repub- licans who voted for the original resolution arrayed against it. Thus the charm is broken, and an opening made which cannot fail to pro- duce other changes at no distant day. The re- passage by the House of the portion of the origi- ‘formers should take their diplomas, to the President, and will undoubtedly receive his veto, Tho change which has taken place in both houses during the first ten days of the session indicates very clearly that by the time a bill is matuxed by the committee and passed in both houses a sufficient number of the republicans will be found voting with the democrats to susiain the President to prevent ita passage over the Prosident’s veto in either body. By that time Andrew Johnson’s skilful management, backed aa he is by the people, will work such a revolution that the radicals will be unable to override his veto or prevent the admission of all Southorn representatives who have not made too objectionable records during the rebellion, They can postpone the admission of the representatives; but the Presi- dent is so completely the master of the situ- ation that he will ultimately eucceed. Such at least are the indications trom the change in tone already taken place in Congress. A New York Conservatoire of Music. The time has come when this great metro- politan olty should have a grand masical-in- stitute similar te the QGonservatoire of Paris. Now York is the contre of oommetoe, of wealth, of ideas and of art in general, and It ought.to be of musioal education and excellence in par- ticular... It-should. give the laws of taste and method to the whole country, 24 Paris does to. the European world. At present we have no standard, no great achool devoted to music, no diplomas entitling teachers to call them- selves professors, or porformors and aingers to assume tho profession as such. The academies of music are Improperly go-called; they are merely theatres, or at best opora houses, where any one can perform or sing who knows the rudiments of the art and has the presump- tion to appear befoge the public. So far from being schools, as the name implies, thoy do not even cultivate a correct taste, because in too many casos thoy are managed by unscrupu- lows foreign adventurers and speculators, who look. only to making money by employ- ing cheap and imporfect artists. The same may be said of the teachers of singing and music. Tho hundreds of this class, with a few oxoeptions, who presume to teach our children are mere adventurers— mere tyros—who are almost as much in need of a master as their pupils. The taste for music is universal in this country, but it needs proper cultivation. Thero is scarcely a house that has not a piano in it; and even the ohil- dren of our mechanics take lessons in music. Fabulous sums of money are spent annually for the poorest kind of instruction. Yet there is no country in the world where the desire for & good musical eduoation is so general, where the capacity for acquiring it is greater, or where the means of paying for it is 50 abund- ant ar would be 90 fracly apent, We want a highor standard of art and better instructors; and the way to obtain those is by having a musical institute of tho highest order, from whieb all professors; public singers and per- The conservatoires-of Europe—of whioh. that of Paris stands first—are established to proserve the principles of musical art.in their, purity and to impart the highest education. Nearly all the groat singers, instrumental performers and composers have been. pupils of one or other of — these establishments. Most of the great cities have one, though the one at Paris is considered pre- em‘nent. The most famous artists regard it an honor to have been pupils of this, The first, institution of this kind was established at Na+ ples as far back as tho yoar 1350, and with a view of giving to the churches and convents he musicians they wanted. Others followed after a considerable lapse of time, The first ones were badly organized, and needed both professors and pupils. In 1576 amother con- servatoire was founded in Naples, and the most renowned masters of Italy were taught there. The most celebrated. composers of the age came from the schools of Naples. Afterwards Venice created like institutions, and in 1771 there were four in that city. The Conservatoire of Paris was established in 1793, under the republic, and, strange to say, in the midst of the discordant horrors of that revolutionary perlod. In that year the Convention created the National Institute of Music, But in 1795 the title of Conservatoire was given io, i}. A law of the Sixteenth Thermidor, year. sarce, fixed the number of -professors at one. hundred. and fifteen and the pupils at six hundreds ‘The ex- pense of the establishment was two hundred and forty thousand francs o year. In 1802 the number of professors’ and the annual ayount to support the institution were m@uced. Gossee, Méhul and Chorubini wore inspectors of the Consorvatoire about that time, All the pupils lived ‘outside “the institution ex- cept twelve girls and the same number of boys, who received a support as pensionnaires. It is ona grand scale. - There is a hall where they give concerts and play opera, a smaller hall which is used for school exercises, and a library which is open not only for the pupils, nal resolution rejected in the Senate, together with the complexion of the Howe portion of the joint committee, reveals the fact that the radicals intend to pi schemes to the ugmont extent, Qut 6Fnind mémbers én that committee six are known to be extreme mon, and only three who voted against reviving that portion of Stevens’ resolution stricken out In the Senate. The composition of this committee in important, as it will, in a measure, give the country as well as the President some idea, not only of the delay, but the obsiacles which will be thrown in the way of reconstruction. If the Senate portion should have an eqns! prepon- derance of the radical element, then we may look for a postponement of the question of ad- mitting Southern representatives for a long period, or until one house or the other has be- come disgusted with its operations. But if, as we trust will be the case, the Senate portion Presents sufficient conservative element to overbalance the radicals on the House commit- tee, then we may look for an early solution of the question. The Senate caucus which is to select the members of this committec has, there- fore, an important task to perform, and the people await their action with some anxiety. After all, the public can afford to allow the radicals all the comfort an@ consolation which they can dérive in having so large a represen- tation on the joint committee. They can prob- ably delay restoration; but we imagine that thiey will find {( impossible to either move the President, ewetve him one fota from his fixed policy, or affect tlie finul result. If they adopt & policy treating the Southern States as conquered Torritories, it will have to be done by the pas- ange of a bill by both houses, It will then go but to the public, Fhe Bo Parig Conservatoire is 9 opment bf the musical giory of France. Its method is adopted in all countries. In this musical sanctuary they hear what can be heard nowhere else so well--the master pieces of Morart, | of Beetheven, of oar and of other great compouem. ~ There. me musica} schools in other cities of ame, d there are conservatoires in Milan, Vienna, Prague, War- saw, Madrid, Munich, Bertin, Cologne and Leip- sic. Shall we not have one in this groat city-- the metropolis of a mighty republican empire and of the American continent? Shall not the third largest city in the civilized world have one? In Europe they establish and maintain such public institutions through government snb- ventions; we, for the most part, by individual means and subscriptions. Witness the numer- ous churches, hospitals, charitable institu. ‘tions, colleges, schools and other institutions which are spread over the whole country. There is nothing in this way that cannot be secomplished through the liberality, public Spirit and wealth of our citizens. We have seen what an éducational institution of a high order bas done in the Inte war. Every one appreciates now the Military Academy of West Poiat. We see what a proud position Paris ocoupiéw “through her Conservatoire, . Academie des Sciences, and other institutions of the highest order. But nothing small will do. We must have a conservatoire of the most thorough and elevated character. The pro- fessors, teachers, singers and instrumental per- formers—even the performers in the orchestras of our opera houses—should be required to have diplomas from this institute. and all others should be deel te’ gat GBikee a as quacks, the samo as uneducated doctors are. We start the idea, and hope our wealthy and public-spirited citizens will carry it out. We might even ap- peal to the selfish motives of our people; for, besides’ the gratification and advantage this would be to their families, it would increase the proatige, power and wealth of New York. Such institations have done very much in making Paris the attractive city it is—in mak- ing it, in fact, the centre of all that is refined and enjoyable in Europe. We lay down no plen at present, but call upon our citizens to take the matter up, discuss it thoroughly with all the light that can be obtgined from Europe, raise the money, get a propér charter from the Legislature and establish a National Conservatoire in the city of New York. — Our Foreign Oorrespondence—Cottou and Labor in the East. By the very interegting letters from Egypt and India givea in our issue a few days ago, our readers may trace the effects of our war in that remote quarter of the globe, and see another of the ways in which the dismomber- ment. and rain of the United States was ex- peeted.to build ap the British empire, Upon the first cottes ombarrassments, when the war and the blockade atopped the supply of the groat etaple, and it was feared that the English mills would stand still, and the distress of the laboring olasses would require severely repressive measures, the importance of getting cotton elsewhere became apparent, It will be remembered that India and Egypt wore the places especially named then as lands that might eventually rival us in the cultivation of this product. The topic made its noise in the British papers, and went out of sight in due time. - And now our correspondent In the Kast shows us the operations of those schemes in the places at which the experiment was made. At Bombay it seems to have given rise to an epidemic of speculation, and to have turned the heads of business men as effectually as the hoads of every olass in France were once turned by the grand Mississippi scheme of the financier Law. While the growth of cotton wont on in the interior overy one at Pombay went crazy witli the notion that there would not be room at that city for its shipment, and companies wore organized to reclatm marsh lands in its precincts, The shares of these com- panics were sought with such avidity that they ran to the greatest height, and men who held them became millionaires as the “reclamation” went on and the cotton business grew; but sud- denly the war in the United States came to an end, the prico of cotton came down, the re- claimed lands were not needed, the million- aires became beggars in a day, and that par- ticular part of British India awoke from its dream of aggrandizoment and commercial glory founded on rivalry with the United States. The cotton produced in India was at best tar inferior to the staple produced here, and that grown in Eyypt was poorer astill—so poor in fact as to-be worthless for any but the coarser qualities'of goods. The oulture in Egypt has been abandoned since the conclusion of our war; and {it was never carriod on with any apocial vigor or promise in consequence of the unfavorable condition that labor is under in that countty: Labor, as our, correspondent shows, is now in the Bast as it has been-for hundreds of years—ia tho lowest state, and not in its least miserable condition in the British dominions. At Bombay it is shown that the laboring clasees.are ina. worse state than we in this country can conceive possible even with all the experience of the disorganizing influ- ences of emancipation. Will not the London Times give to this subject some of those homi- lies that it loves to give to us on the various terrible results of our wart The Condition of Ireland—A Fenian Bill of Indictment Against English Rule. We present to-day a picture of the Irish peo- ple at home, the fidelity of which we cannot doubt, and which even the most sanguine must regard as gloomy. Our correspondent, writing on the spot, depicts the condition to which centuries of misrule have reduced a people whose gontus has brightened the annals of the human race, whose noble qualities are recog- niged in every land under the san, and who can be crushed only in that island which they desire to call their own. The facts that we give make a species of Fenian bill of indictment against English rule over the Irish people. They show that for nearly seven hundred years the experiment of English rule in tho Green Isle has been tried, and ‘that to-day the Trish rofer to their oppres- sors only as the “ English enemy.” In all that time the nationality of the people has not given way—it is vital still; they are not absorbed, and do not meet the other race even in amity. ‘Their refusal to be reconciled with their comdi- tion—their restlessness under it—ty, diss. | vantageous legislation of Brgiafd—the selfish, arrogant, not to say anwise policy of that na- tion, ne aprarefit wherever its policy is felt— al Suis making a waste of the country; ary at 4 igs scarcely so much the question whether the English or Irish shall govern the country, as whether the Irish shall exist in it at all, or be driven out to make room for the fat cattle of English landowners. England has hit upon the practical means to extirpate that “pela peasantry” that was once regarded as “a nation’s pride.” Her means in Ireland have been simple, and she even hopes apparently to extend them to England aha drive the people out from that country too, She starts with the assumption, as argued the other day in the London Times, that bread is better than a national spirit, bacon better than freedom, and beer better than the elective franchise. On this platform she deprives the people of politi- cal existence, and then she deprives them of the bread, bacon and beer for which they gave up all elee. | In view of what is shown to be the condi- tion of the Irish people at home, it cannot be | wondered at that peasantry, tradesmen and mechanics have been fairly stampeded to this country; nor can it be wondered at that there should be Fenian socioties, or any other socie- ties whose object is to secure the freedom of Ireland. HoWevor ridiculous the antics of cer- tain foolish men in our midst may have made this cause appear, the great fect remains that there are all the reasons in the world why every Irishman should hate end with all his might strive against England as the oppressor of his country. But Ireland is not to be liberated in Union sdnare. “In native swords and ne- tive ranks the only hope of freedom dwells,” and the ranks must be formed on the apot where the tyranny has been exercised. (Ae ea er enema ety y WEE Mexibia Qucstiod—Prench Reim= forcements to Maximilian. <The recent arrival at Vora Cruz of over two * thonsand French troops for the reinforcement of Mapsimilian’s constantly diminishing armies naturay'ly suggests the inquiry, what does all this mean? The landing day after day on the Magican yr0ast of French soldiers—Algerines, Arabs, Tu,tcos, Nubians, Austrians, Belgians and what 110t—together with mortars, sloge guns, fixed m umunition, wagons and supplies, suroly looks ke anything but a contemplated evacuation om the part of Louls Napoleon. And thon from 6 ur Vera Cruz correspondent it appears that the , French officers talk as though sent there, not te fight the Mexicans, but the United States ; ¢ha + they are “down on the Yankoos ;”” that the, y boast “they can whip the United States all to , Pieces ;” that “the South- ern people will rise’, again when they got the chance,” and that “fps chance the French pro- pose to give thom by dt ‘olaring war against the United States,” and eoao , how did’ these Fn neh officers got these fy notions into their: r heads? “They must pad duoh observati om 4 May be made with- out the fear of incurring. ti ¢ Uspleasure of Maxt- milian. or bis. master, or:tito}" would not be ut- tered, Are we, then, to infor tlk t Louis Napoleor is preparing for an “irrep: ve conflict” with the United States, while soothig g our Secretary . of Siate with his fine promis °s of an early evacuation? Looking at the {simple fact of these French reinforcements: and, French boast- ings, together with Maximilian’s yvar of exter- mination against the, liberals, it \'s difficult to avoid the conclusion that nothing ba 't the diplo- macy of Goneral Grant will re-est sblish the Mexican ropublic in the Mexicgn cap ital. We find, however, from his late Message to Congress, that President Johnson remains un- shaker in his faith in the Monroe doctrine, and from the resent proceedings in both ho uses it ‘is apparent that Congress is not in the mood for granting an indefinite term of grave to Maximilian. It is as certain as the rising of to- morrow’s sun that he must make up his mind for a voluntary retirement or a forcible expul- sion from Mexico. He cannotstay there. His im- perial usurpation, as aptly described by Gen. Logan, is an offshoot of the late rebellion, and intended for the same purpose—the overthrow of the political, military and commercial power of the United States—and his empire will not much longer be tolerated. That it cannot be recognized by our present administration Louis Napoleon has. been officially informed; that the republic atill is recognized at Washington is patent to all the world. Why, then, do French troops continue to go into Mexico, in- stead of going out, if Louis Napoleon has not resolved to hold the country, peace or wart This isa delicate question and difficult te answer. We, however, are not prepared te relinquish the idea that Louis Napoleon will in good, time quietly withdraw his man Maxt- milian and all his imperial houschold and trap- pings and gewgaws from Mexico, The Prost dent says that the correspondence with the French government on the subject will, at the propontime, be:laid before Congress, meaning that proper time has not yet come. Why not? Because, perhaps, the high contracting parties may be ongaged.in negotiating @ peace- ablo settlement, the exact terms and details of whioh have not yet been agreed upon, Ne- poleon, in consideration of his withdrawal of, Maximilian, may have asked some commercial concessionsand some equivalents for his con- tingent expenses, and these matters may be under debate. Atall events, in the very sig- nificant remark of the President that at the proper time the correspondence with France on this Mexioan question will be laid before the two houses, we are gatisfled that something is going on through the Depariment of State which promises a satisfactory settlement with- out an appeal to the Department of War. We look for the confirmation of this opinion in the President's answer to the late Senate resolution asking for the correspondence in question. We attach the highest importance to the hint com veyed in his Measage that the information de- sired will be forthcoming at the proper time. A Pororar Movement ror Concress.—Take @ recess for nine months, and thus give the Presi- dent an opportunity to Complete hie work of restoration. Fine-Arts, James Hart's new landscape, taken near Cayuga Lake, {s now on oxh'‘bition st Goupti's, White the picture was in progress we had occasion to speak favorably of hag In ite dnished state it more than fulfils its promise. Asa specimen of our American landscape’ school we 4a not know a work on which we erould sooner base the pretensions of our artista to superiority, It would be impoastbie to find a more faithful transcript of nature. To freshness of feeling, an oye for pastoral beauty, and oxqaisitely nzcdral treatment, it will compare favorayly with thg abst efforts of the modgra Europes Schools. Tish great pily 421 fe. Hart does not exhibit shroads { for fo katistiod (tint his merite would attract otk greater attention than they do hero, When we compare the works of Lambinet and other foreign painters of the same class with these admirable productions of his, we cannot but feel that in one department of art at least we have nothing to learn from the European schools, In the same collection as the above are to be found several genre pictures by American artists, two especially by Irving and Guy, which show that the progress wo are making in art is not confined to landscape painting alone, With the exception of a tendency to oxaggerate in color, Mr. Irving may be said to be in composition, drawing an@ finish a very successful imitator of the school which boasts of Meissonier and Fiche as its leading ornamenta. Mr. Guy, young artist of rw promise, fs making rapid strides towards a sueceasful rivalry with the class of pictures which Edouard Frere has made Bo popular hero. With a little more liberality of encouragement om the part of our art patrons we have no doubt that to figure as im landscape painting tho American schoo! wilt goon establish for itself a more aatisfnotory position tham it has hitherto occupied. The interior decorations.of the now chapel erected for the use of the Russian Embassy in London are ina vory refined and elegant style of art. The dome is painted with @ series of the twelve Apostles. These pictures occupy the whole circle of the side of the dome; they aro each oncloged ina circle band of green with a - lino, and the background thus enclosed is of gold; that some intention has boon felt of making these heade resemble the figures in Mosaic, which belong to the old Byzantine, and indeed Latin, style of decoration. — The Herald Maps—! 10 THE BOITOR OF THE, In the brillfant campaign which ended with the sur- rondor of Vickaburg the Engineer department of Gen- eral Grant's army consisted of himself, his clear-hoaded Chief of Staff, General Rawiins, a few rough river pilots, and a map of the Mississippi, cut out of the New York vaolds Any rat boldness, pen the whole with bis natut ireloae energy sod ond pr Feshes accomplished, without the ‘aid of cumbersome fancy-acience, the most brilliant an@ important achievement of the by — itand failed. Grant it hi Setence tried The Nova Scotian Outward Bound. Powrann, Mo., Dec. 16, 1866, ‘Tho stoamaip Nova Acotian, Captain Wytie, galled tow Liverpool a vind o'clock this evening \