The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No. 352 ———— Volume XxX... —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam, GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tax Ord Scnoo or Minsrretsy, Bactaps, Musioiw Gans, 3. at the Fifth Avenue Opera’ House, Nos, 2 and ¢ West Twenty-fourth st. NEW NATIONAL CIRCUS. 37 and $9 Rowery.—Raves. gaan, Grauwastic ap Acronatic Pxats—SLack anv Tigut Born Exsrorses, &c. 585 Broadway, opposite BAN FRANCISCO MINSTR iW Sixaing, Dancing, &c.— otal. — RTMLor ial ye Cincus. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 21 Rowery.—s wo, Danone, Buaiusques, &C—Tix DrMon's Raval oeerante. MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hal. 472 Broad: Dax Brrant's Nei MP — ‘Comical Tre Busines, ac.—Oun Tuuas Rocws, HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Pxorassox Wisraas's Bvewings or Mystany anp Visions, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eturorias Mix @ramier—Batians, Buaiesquas ix Pins OMIMES. mew uusR @pen trom Ib A Me wilt? COOPER IN! 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Advertisements for the Wrexry Wests must behanded im before ten o'clo’k every Wednesday evening. Its cir eulation among tho enterprising mechanics, farmors, Merohants, manufacturers and gevtiemon throughout the eountry is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- Sorted im the Werniy Hrnaxn will thus be seen by # largo Portion of the active and onergetic peonye of the United States. THE ANTI-SLAVERY AMENDMENT. Secretary Seward has officially announced that nott fications of the adoption by the Legislatures of twenty- soven States of tho amendment to the national constitu- tion abolishing and prohibiting slavery throughout tho country have been filed in the State Department; that, o number of States belng thirty-six, the amendment been ratified by three-fourths of them, and that it is erefore nowa part of the constitution, and valid to all Jntonts and purposes, ALABAMA. Tho State of Alabama has been relives «. her pro- visional government. Secretary Seward, in despatches to Provisional Governor Parsons ani the Goversior elect, Potifies them that the President is satisfied that the time Yas arrived when the people of Alabama can safely be rusted to tho govornment of officers of their own choice, Jad that he thereforo authorizes tho relinquiskinent of }xcoutive functions by Mr. Parsons, sud the sseumption ¥ them by the new Governor. CONGRESS. Both houses of Concress reassembled ycrterday. The proceedings in the Senate were of « business and routine order, and though many mattors of importance received attention, there was nothing of ap exciting nature under eonsideration, A petition of Vice Admiral Farragut and @ieven hundred other siaval officers for increase of pay was presented and referred to the Naval Commitics. Tho House bil appropriating thirty thouennd dollars to gett the Presidential Mansion was passed. The folnt committee appointed to devise proper testi- qponial proceedings in memory of President Lin- pola made a report, which was agroed to, providing for a oulocy on the virtues of the deceased by Secretary BABE, to be de ivered bofore the two houses on the 22th day of February next, the anniversary of tho lato President's birthday, Resolutions were adopted instruct- ing the Committee on Commerce to Inquire into the manner in which American veswels transferred to Britieh owners during the reboilion are now being refurnished with American registers, appropriating five handred thousand dollars for the relief of Indians of the South- @rn dopendencios, and ordering the payment to his widow pf the amount of money due the Iate Senator Collamer, of Vermont. Bills wore introduced and appropriately Yefortod for changer in the tenurs of offce of agsistant appraisers and examiners in Now York Custom House, it being, among the pro- made unlawful for employes to be engaged in business; providing for alterations in the mode of jure, and the originn! cognizance of cases in the urt of Claims, aud the United States Circuit and Dis- Courts; removing certain diaqual/ ications of jurors national courts; giving a million acres of lands for the efit of the District of Columbix public echoo!s; vecur- the volunteer bounties to army officers , after enlisting a8 privates, became com. missioned officers; for building a bridge over the Mississippi at 8 Loulr, ond to define the boundary between California, Nevada, Uwh and Arizona. Resolutions were introduced for the printing pf ton thousand copies of General Grani’® roport, in- ‘@iruoting the Military Committee to fnquire into Wve ex. Pediency of instituting a board of « inern (0 reliewe funmeritorious or inefficient officers of the r vay god give their places to those mort ¢) guished for Gorvice to the country during the rebellion, and for other Purposes of loss importance. After holding a short ex- @eulive session, the Senate, without taking ection on the (Boure resolution for a receas from Thursday next tli the Oth of January, adjourned. m In tho House of Representatives the credentials of Mr. Games M. Johnson, member elect from Arkanens, were ‘aud referred to the Committee on the Southern A motion to admit Mr. Johneon to the floor, ponding the action of the committee, wae made, but was not entertained, Thero were sieo referred to ; the Southern States Committee reolutione, intro. duced = by different gentlemen, providing that @o lately rebsilious Stare shall be entitled to im Congress nntil ite Legielsturo have. repudiated the rebel war debt and ail Gaime for slaves emancipated; declaring. that the should be admitted from those of them have rasified the antl-elavery constituttona! amend. repudiaved the rebel debt, parsed laws for the ‘of he freedmen ant complied with requirements of President Jchneop, and the theory that class rule and oriviocracy 14 mot hereafter be recognize? by law, that all should receive equal protection, ithout regard to docial position or race. Permiseon moked. bud refused, to introduce a resolution ‘nauir. 7 4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DEVEMBER 19, 1865. outstandingrguestions, but not so about Mexico. | Fhe Great, ing of the President why Jeff, Davis has not beon aub- jected to trial, Mr, Thornton, democrat, of Iitnois, of- “fered a preamble and resolutions setting forth that any extension of the elective franchise by either the Prosi- dent or Congress would be an unwarranted assumption, which were tabled by « vole of one hun- dred and eleven to forty-six. A resolution was adopted requesting information of the President relative to the steps taken by Maximilian and his friends to ob- tain his recognition by our government as Emperor of Mexico, Bills were introduced and referred providing for national banking associations withdrawing thelr securities deposited with the United States Treasurer ‘and redeeming their circulation ; repealing all fishing bounty laws, consolidating the Indian tribes of the Indian Territory, authorizing the constreetion of a ra‘lroad bridge over tho Mississippi river at Quincy, Ilinvis, and to prohibit any person here- after being commissioned a civil or military ofMcer of the national government in Utah until he has filed a disa- vowal of the doctrines and practice of polygamy. The Territorial Committee was tmstructed to inquire into the whole subject of polygamy in Utah. A joint resolution was introduced and referred to the Judiciary Committee instructing the Secretary of the Interior to demand from the Stato of Llinois, the proceods of sales of lands granted to her by Congress in 1850 to aid in the construction of @ railroad from Chicago to Mobile, the stipulation re- quiring the road to be completed within ten years not having been complied with. The. Special Committee on the -Southera States was ipto the expediency of giving the freedmen-of the South the same civil and political rights’ that the whites enjoy. A resolution re-enunciating the bind- ing foree of the act requiring a certain oath to be taken by all government employes before entering on the discharge of their duties was adopted. The House concurred in the Senate arrange- ments for an orat‘on on the virtues of Prosident Linclon, A bill was passed appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars to Mre. Lincoln. A resolution endorsing the views of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to a contraction of the currency was adopted by a vote of one hundred and forty-four to six. The House then went into Committee of te Whole on the President's Message, and tio remg nder of the sossion was occupied in a speech on reconstruction by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. EUROPE. The Cunard steamship Cuba, from Liverpool Decomber Mand Queensiown ov the 10th, arrived at Halifax yes- terday, after amost rapid passage, bringing seven days later advices frem Europe. ‘The st amsbips Peruvian and America also arrived yesterday, the former at Portland and the latter at this port, with advices a few days earlier. Som: ides of the excited state of the pablic mind in France on iho Mexican question may be gathered from the fact that the accidental presence of one of Sherman’s aids-de-cemp (Genoral Schofield) in Paria, whither he went for the benedt of his health, has served to alarm Paris by rumors of impending war. The : panish government showed no tatention of aban- doning its b adstrong aggression in South America, Two more Fenians had been convicted and sentenced, the one to twenty years’ and the other to ten years’ penal servitude. Twenty thousand British troops were stat‘oved in Ireland, and, as an additional precaution, the Channel fleet had been ordered to winter off the coast, A special commission has been ordered to inquire into the Jamaica atrocities. United States five-twonties closed in London on the 9th inst, at 68% 0 64. MISCELLANEOUS, Our Wazhington despatches repeat the rumors hereto- fore noticed in our paper regarding the object of tho Fronch Minister's presence in this city at thie me. It is reported that the propositions on Mexican aflairs in- troduced into Conzress are 0 offensive to him that he will not return to Washington until after. receiving fur her inetructiona from the Emperor Napoleon. , Some additional items of interest, though no accounts: of new military movements of importance, in connec- tion with the war between Paraguay and Brazil and the allica aro contained in our files of lately received South Amer can pap:rs. The allied troops were still being pushed forward after the retreating Paraguayans, thongh tho complete dovastation of the abandoned country by the latter and « violent siorm and consequent rise of the rivers greatly retarded the pursuit, The Brazilian fleet had prooceded up the Parana river as far as Bolla Vista, Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, who was attacked with paralysis on Friday last, died yesterday in Washington, aged eeventy years, M@Corwin’s career is fumiliar to all Americans, he baving, during the Inst thirty-five years, been prominently before the public in various official positions of importance, including those of legis Jator and Governor in his own State, member of the House of Representatives and United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury in President Fillmore's Cabinet, and more recently Minister to Mexico, The sketch of his lie which we present this morning will be read with interest, Leop»ld 1, King of Belgium, died in Brussels on the 9th inst., in his soventy-fifth year. A sketch 13 also given in another column of his eventful life. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday, and con- curred with the Aldermen in adopting a resolution of thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Johnston Livingston do Peyster, for giving to New York the historic honor of falsing the firet Amorican flag over Richmond. Major General Hooker made a return yostorday to tho writ of habeas corpus issued in relation to Robert Martin, ‘one of the alleged city incendiaries, at present confined in Fort Lafayette, Tbe return refuses to produce Mortin, on tho ground that he is a military prisoner and outside the power of the civil law. Judgo Leonard, be- fore whom the case was argued, decided that tho body of Martin should be produced in court at eleven o'clock on Wednesday next, or ho would be compelled to issue an attachment against General Hooker for contempt of court. Judge Barnard yesterday dirccted that al! non-attend- ing jurors summoned for the Sapreme Court, Circuit, part second, shouldbe fined twenty-five dollars per day, and that no one should be excused for sickness except on affidavit. ‘The Strong divorce case did not procecd yesterday, owing to the sickness of one of the jury. It was post- Pponed until eleven o'clock this morning. Tho whole of yesterday was occupied in the Court of General Sessions in summing up the testimony adduced on the trial of John Ward, charged with shooting police- man Walker, in Seventeenth street, near Seventh ave- nue, on the 15th of August last, While District Attorney Hall was addressing the jury the counsel for the prisoner intorrupted him to inform the Court that an important item of newly digcovered evidence had just been furnished to him. It was proven by the poople that Ward was im possession of a pistol four months before the tragedy, which was ono of the circumstances felied upon for conviction, At the conclusion of Mr, Hall’s address officer Robertson was calied, and swore that the pistol was taken from Ward at that time and given to the magistrate. The Recordor presented the fucts and the law very clearly and con- ctsely, and the jury, after doliberating an hour anda half, rendered @ yordict of guilty of manslaughter? in the first degree, The verdict was based on the presumption that it was not proven whether the prisoner and his com- panions were perpetrating a felony or a misdemeanor upon the woman who was in the shop from which the prisoner ran. The Recorder remanded Ward for sen- tence, Notwithetending that there was a still further eleva. tion of the mercury yesterday, and that the weather was comparatively mild, the skating continued good at vari. ous places in the suburbs, and the ponds were thronged with ekatere, The tee remained firm and glassy on the Fifth avenue pond and the ponds in Brooklyn and Jer- Poy, which were well patronized; but in the Park it was still not in order, and those who wont thither to enjoy their favorite sport were again, a8 on Sunday, disap- polated. It in thought that even with continued cold » couple more days must elapse before the Park lakes will be in fit condition for use, ‘The first parate and review of the now Metropolitan Fire Department will taxo place to-morrow afternoon, unless something unexpected should oceur to render a postponement mecessary. The line will be formed on Fourteenth street, with the right ‘resting on Eighth ave- nue, ata quarter Dofore two o'clock, amd the route of march willbe through Fonrteanth street to’ Broadway, and down Broadway to and through the City Hall Park, where the parade will terminate. The department will be reviewed by the Fire Commissioners at the Motro. politan Hotel, snd by the Mayor and other members of the city government at the City Hall, Wo give today @ detailed tracing of tho Fenian trouble from its cradle to its present development. President Roberts countermands the order of President O'Mahony calling aCongress on the 24 of January, Several Circles publish their affiliations for one or the instructed to inquire | other aide. The Sonate yoatorday came tos final ad- Jourpmont, subject to the call of their President (Mr. Gbbons). Their new headquarters are boing operated by two or three secretaries, under the supervision of Colonel Roberts. The Union square partica are proparing for heavy work noxt woek. ‘ The New York Association for the Advancement of Science and Art hoid its frst annual meoting and eleo- tion of officers at ita rooms, in Cooper Institute, last evening. From the various reports which were read during the meeting, this association appears to be fast gaining in popularity and numbers, and, as was origin- ally intended, it will shortly be incorporated with the Cooper Union, and the means of encouraging and devel- oping the ends for which it waa designed will them be greatly enlarged. Alecture was delivered tn Clinton Hall last evening by A. Rew, who undertook to prove that Greenland was formerly part of South Amorica; that the carth was half ita present volume, and a variety of equally extraordi- nary theories, Tho plan of proof was from analogy, reasoning that the human brain is the model of all crea- tion, as the superior part of it. A store at No. 1,204 Broadway was entored on Sunday night by burglars, who blew open the safe; but the nolse of the explosion was great that they appear to have become alarmed leat they would be discovered, aa they fled immodiately aftor, without carrying off any of the procious booty which they came #o near sacuring. They? cecuped arrest ‘Tho captain of the Sanitary police of the city reports that during the'week ending on Saturday taat noticcs were nerved by the force under bis command for th Oleansing of gome five hundred unhealthy places, and that about the axme 1 Word cleansed, in acéordanoe with notices previously served. f ‘There were four hundred and alsty-aix deaths in te city during last wook, being an {norease of five over the week previous and twenty-five less than occurred in tho corresponding week last year, A terrible catastrophe ocurred yesterday in @ build- ing near the Arsenal, in Washington. While @ number of workmen wore engaged in sorting and arranging am- munition an explosion occurred, instantly demolishing the building, Icilling eight men, and 60 soriously injuring several others that they are not expected to eurvive, A fire occurred last evening in a turp*ntino distillery in Furman strect, Brooklyn, which reaulled in a loss of bout ten thousand dollara on machinery, building and stock. An interesting pigeon shooting match camo off at Greenvilie yesterday between Joh Taylor, the cham- pion, and William Leeds, the “Jorsey Boy,” which re- sulted in a victory for tho latter, ‘The stock markot was unecttled yesterday. Govern- ments wore dull and a shade lowor, Gold closed at 14614 The markots were fairly active, as a general thing, yesterday and the weok before, with a good inquiry for merchandise, at protty full prices. Grocories continued dull, Cotton was in fair request. Petroleum was active’ and firm. On ’Chango fiowr was lowor, Grain was also declining, wheat and corn ruling docidedly lower, Pork was irregular, again closiug in buyer's favor, Beef was without special change. Lard was more active and firmer. Whiskey was dui! and nominal. The War Party in Congress. The extraordinary proceedings of Congress with regard to Mexico the first days of the ses- sion cannot fail to produce a etartling effect on the other side of the Ailantic. Maximilian, too, a3 well as his master, will find in them matter for serious thought. Our correspondent in Mexico says that the appointment of Major General Logan as Minister to the Juarez gov+ ernment, and the emphatic words of General Grant. against the French-Ansirian ocoupa- tion of that neighboring republic, “pro- | duced @ profound sonsation.”. If ° these mutterings of the storm’ had such an effect, what . effect will tho ection of! Congress have both in Mexico’and France t The President’s appointment of Logan was full of meaning. None of our prominent mili- tary men have spoken more earnestly against the usurpation in México, Then be was ap- pointed after a long interval in which we had no Minister residing there, and at the very time when the fortunes of Juarez were represented to be atthe lowest ebb. It was a broad bint, conveyed in the mildest manner possible, of the fixed policy of this country as understood by the Monroe dootrine. It was a notice to the’ Emperors Napoleon and Maximilian, to leavo the territory of our sister republic, in order to avoid trouble with the United States, Tho language of our reticent but frank General-ia- Chief, referred to as having produced a pro- found sensation, was in response to the follow- ing, uttered at a public meeting at which he was present :— European ambition had striven to establish another empire over a sister repeblic, Maximilian, by strange arms, has been forced upon her brave and unwilling people, Fouler wrougs nover out human rights than the present occupation of Mexico bj We sympathize with our sister republic tn ber hour of need, and firmly believe in her coming deliverance. General Grant’s reply waa:— Lhope that you will excuses mo from doing sagping mere than thanking you; but there is one sentiment uttered thet is mine, and that is the one touching tho future of Mexico. Wo might refer to the President's Messago, which, though moderate in tone, is very de- cided as to the’ principle of American policy; and we might notice the unanimity with which the press, publio speakers and the people everywhere express themselves on this sub- ject. But the movement in Congreas is the most important of any, snd calls tor special attention. f bs On the 14th of this month Mr. Wada, of Obio, introduced the following preamble and reso- lutions in the Senate, and Mr, Solienck, of the same State, in the House:— ‘Whereas in a letter of instructions dated July 8, 1962, directed to General Forey, commanding tho French forces in Meaico, Emperor of the French indjoated the policy concert the affairs of this continent by de- clating that it was his intention ¢ establish a monarchy in Mexico, high would resto" 16 thd Latin on the Atlantic all their strengt! and , gumrantee security to tl West India colonies aud those of 3; secure the jntor. cata and establish the influence of France in the centro of America, and prevent the people of the United States from taking postession of the Gulfcf Mexico, from which =, would command the Antilles and South America, and eo become the only dispensers of the products of the New World; and whereas, in pursuance of said policy, an attempt been made to establish @ monarchy tn Mexico, contrary to the wishes of the ie, and to eup port Maximilian im his usurpation by European soldiers and jeroas, among other ‘acta contrary to the spirit of and humanity, the go-calied Emperor of Mexico, and Teruiption dated September 5, 1865, Nes re-established slavery in his domin- apd by a decree dated Octo! 8, 1966, M1 jated the usages of civilized wari to the Mexican republican troops the bs n i his of liigerents, and ordering their execution wherever found within twenty-fours after capturo; therefore be it Resolved by the House of entatives of the United States, in Congress assomblod—First, That we contemplate the present condition of affairs in # republic of Mexico with the most profound polici- tide, Second, That the attempt to subvert one of the repttblican governments of this continent by a foreign Power, and to establish on ita ruins @ monarchy, sus: eb f by European ronets, is opposed to the declared policy of the United States government, offen. sive to our people and contrary to the spirit of our insti- tutions. Third, ‘That the President of the United States be requested to take such steps concerning this grave matter Ali vindicate the recognized policy and protect the honoP ind interests of our government, ‘The matter was referred to the Committees of the Senate and House on Foreign Affairs. Other resolutions were submitted by Senutors and members to the same effect; all of which were well received. In truth, there appears to be but one opinion, These gentlomen have » keen perception of the ay the popular current mine. We suppose the rosolutions. asking the President for information regarding Mexico will be responded to immediately after the ad- journment, and we have no donbt the reso- lutions referred to the Committees on Foreign Affairs will soon be acted upon. Congress is reticent with regard to England. Members seem to think we oan afford to wait awhile for # settlement of the Alabama olaims and othot They evidently act upon the impression that this affair requires am carly solution. This earnest- ness on the part of Congress, taken in connec- tion with public sewtiment and the emphatic declarations of our gmat generals, must create a sensation in Europe and make the Emperor Napoleon very unoasy. Thore is one feature in this Moxican move- mont in Congress wortlty of serious notice. The men who take a load In it are nearly all extreme radicals. They are emphatically the war party. They made ao much money out of our civil war, and acquired euch power in the country, that they are ready to plungo.us into another war. Their immense contracts are onded by the suppreasion of the rebellion. Thoy will not give up these spoils it they oan hold on to them. They know, too, that with the restoration of peace their political power wanes, The Jacobins of the French Revolution plunged. France into « war with all Europe for the purpose of holding power and to cover up their atrocious crimes. "They dreaded tho reaction that peace would ‘bring, and consequently kept the countey ins continual state of war. Human nature “is the aémo throughout all times, and. history is oon Btantly. Geing. repeated, Oar Ameripan Ja- cobins have the same cbaracter as those of France, and if they wero not restrained would do doeds as infamous ‘as did their prototypes. The Sumners, Wades and Stevenses are the Robespierres, Couthons and Marats of this rev- olutionary poriod in Amorioa. It will require all tho moderation and firmness of President Johnson to prevent us from being precipitated into a great foreign war by this olass of men, who want great contracts and to secure a long lease of political power. There is no de- nying the fact that @ vory ticklish state of affairs oxista on the Rio Grando border. A sparis, an accident, may light up the flames of war. But, as we sald before, we have con- fidence in the moderation, firmness and saga- city of the President to oarry us through tho difficulty. What, then, it may be asked, shall we aban- don Mexico and the Monroedoctrinc? By no means, The French and the Austrian arch- duke must leave. Their ocoupation of Mexico under falee pretences is @ standing insult to thie country. A great people like the Ameri- cans cannot live under such a monace—under euch a defiance to our long established and cherished policy. In reality, French interven- tion {sa part of the war, as General Sheridan expreased it, and the war will not be properly closed up while the French and Austrians remain on this continent. But we think our purpose can be accomplished without a war. Tf not, wo are ready for it, and have no fear of the result. We Inow our own resources aré equal to any emergency. We have no fear of Kuglaad, She would be too glad to see Francé ‘and the United States at war, for she would profit by it, The most effective way of ‘aolving the difficulty will he to’ pass @ non- intercoume act with France, If Napoleon’ con- tinues to end troops to Mexico—nay, if he will | not give our government to understand that he will withdraw within a reasonable time, a non- intercourse act ought to be passed, This im- monse market for, Franeh goods being closed, tho Emperor would soon feel the presaure upon the working and commercial classes, It would be a positive benefit to us by cutting off a vast amount of extravagancoand stimulating our own manufactures. This would prove an earthquake under the feet of the imperial dynasty. We rather suspeot the shrewd Emperor would: abandon his ridiculous theories about the Latin race on this continent, and take away hia Latin troops to put down revolution at home, We have said repeatedly that it ap- peared to us that Mexico would be the Moscow to tho third Napoleon. Looking at the signs of the times, we are persuaded it will be so unless he withdraws within a short time from America. . Ewrararion Sourawarv.—The following is a statement showing the number of emigrants ar- rived at this port from January 1 to December 16, 1885, together with the destinations of the aame up to and inoluding the month of Octo- ber :— January... March | sBeees 23 3 Ber PrSZ8SeseSSSzecs*ekes oS Total. 162,918 It appears from the above that the emigra- tion to the Southern States has already set in, with @ fair prospect that within o period not very remote the number will equal that which annually goes toward the fertile prairies of the Great West. It is vory rarely that we have found in the statistios of foreign immigration any considerable body of persons whose desti- nation has been turned toward the sunny South. The end of the war and the abolition of slavery are changing the ourrent of emigration, and the attention of foreign agriculturista ts now directed toward our Southern section, and we frequently hear of large settlements, particu. larly of Germans, springing up in the South; and {tis natural that it should be 40; for no other part of the world furnféhes more attractions for the bardy immigrant than the luxuriant soil and balmy climate of our Southern latitudes. There is field in our cotton, tobacco, rice and pagar producing regions for the employment of whole armies of hardy pioneers, and it is grati- fying to observe that the resources of the South stand in so flattering an attitude for speedy de- velopment. Coronavo Juwsrr ann 4: Conaness or Sove-, REIUNS—It secms by late accounts from Paris that Colorado Jewett -is at work boring the |. Emperor and diplomats about getting up ® congress of ‘sovereigns, The congress that Colotado most neods is « Songress of golden sovereigns in his pocket, by which he will be enabled to setile what pecuniary difficulties he may have with the sovereians in this country. Absorbing Question Day. There are » considerable number of ques tions which now perplex the public mind on both sides of the Atlantic. The Mexicam ques- tion, the Brazilian question, the question be- tween Spain and Chile, the Fenian question in Ireland, the question as to whom we are to consider the President of the Irish republic im America, the question whether there be any Trish republic anywhere, the negro suffrage question, the question raised by Brother Beecher as to the existence of Hades, the cur- rency question, the question in regard to the status of the Southern States, Napoleon’s ques- tion as to the future of Belgium, the question of the admission of Southern delegates to Con- gress, the question as to whether or not the antislavery amendment to the constitution is adopted, the question-ef municipal reform, the question of the operatie head centre of this country, the question of the New York Col- lectorship, the free trade question, the question of what side the Chevalier Raymond is going to take next, the question as to the Chevalier Wikoff’s real mission to Kurope, thé ‘question. whether: Juarez: is or is. not the Mexican Preaident—these are some of the thdst proininont of thé issues now disctissed. Before Oily Gammon pacited up his tree and ship and went off to the country with a stage carpenter for his leading artist, there was a very interesting question pending in connec- tion with the opera,and all the papers were more or less full of it. But now the great, ab- sorbing question, which throws all others into the shade and agitates all classes and condi- tions of men and women, is whether Joyce Heth in breeches is to have a silver plate pre- sented to him, with a letter complimenting him upon tho energy he displays in combating his difficulties, and the devotion to art which he exhibits in manufacturing bumbugs. For our part we decidedly think that this question ought to be settled at once. There is & committee in existence, a ready to sign the letter, and we have no doubt that the silver plate recently offered to Oily Gammon can easily be borrowed for the occasion. The precedent established by the laugha- ble presentation ceremonies at the Academy catacombs makes the claims of Joyce Heth in breeches to a sim‘lar vote of thavks wholly irrefutable. When we consider the matter calmly we discover that the only proof of Oily Gammon’s devotion to art is the num- ber of artists whose voices he hns destroyed. Late advices from Europe jnform us that Me- dori has bad to retire from the stage, and that Frezzolini’s organ is leaving her. In these in- stances wo aee the lamentable effects of a sea- gon or two at the Academy catacombs. Frez- zolini and Medori were fine singers once; but they came‘here and their voices were ruined. Poor Rovere is still another case in point., He might have lived fifty years longer had not Oily Gammon engaged him; but he went to the catacombs, caught cold and died, a martyr to Oily Gammon and the vast Opera House. Two or three of the troupe that have just beer singing here were very excellent artists when they first appeared. We remember them when they had no cracks im their voices and gang quite agreeably. Alas! who would have recog- nized these artists among the squalling and shouting horde that filled the stage of the cata- combs in The African and allowed the stage carpenter to carry off all the laurels! MisyKel- logg is another victim. She promised to become a vory fair ginger, and if she had followed Patti’s example and visited Europe she might have caused almost an equal furor, after a fow years of study and practice in Italy; but instead of this.she chose to remain in the cata- combs, and we do not perceive any increase inher fame. Manager Grau’s company is a convincing proof that there is nothing in the air of this country deleterious to good voices. His artists, according to competent critics, eing better than when they first arrived. But then Grau bas carefully kept them away from Oily Gammon and away from the catacombs, and this explains their present admirable con- dition. But to return to our Joyce Heth in breeches and his silver plate. If a number of persons can be found so inimical to artists as to attempt to reward Oily Gammon for destroy- ing them, why should not the same persons unite to do honor to Joyce Heth in breeches, who has originated @ combination to crush out all kinds of professional people, from the actors on the stage to the musicians in the orchesirat We have shown beyond a peradventure that Oily Gammon bas done nothing in his line of . busines’ which Joyee Heth ‘in breeches has not’ more than equalled. If Oily Gammon has been amusing the public for twenty years, Joyoe Heth in breeches has amused it for thiriy years. ‘If Oily Gammon bas combated financial end other difficulties, responsibilities and ember- rassments, 0 has Joyce Heth in breeches, as witness his troubles with the Jeronte Clock Company. If Oily Gammon bas built an imjiq- tion tree and a bogus ship, Joyce Heth in breeches has turned out a Feejee mermaid and a woolley horse, to say nothing of the What is it? and the Circassian beauty. If Oily Gam- mon has published a book detailing his scrapes and escapes, Joyce Heth in breeches has not been behindhand in publicly confessing the particulars of bis curious career. In short, there is no point in the history of one of these worthies that cannot be matched by tho other, Like Oily Gammon, Joyce Heth in breeches has dabbled in opera; and like Joyce Heth in breeches, Oily Gammon has exhibited natural curiosities to astonished audionces. ‘The craving that Oily Gammon has for lager beer is not more remarkable than the natural fondness of Joyce Heth in breeches for brandy and water, when it cheers, but not incbrintes. It may be truly said of them, as of Saul and | Jonathan, that they are lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in presentations of voles of thanks and borrowed silver plate they should not be divided. We therefore call upon the who signed the letter and gave the plate to Olly Gammon not to consider their congenial labors ended until Joyce Heth in breeches has been similarly complimented. And we beg leave to suggest that, if the same silver plate cannot be again procured, one of “praas or of tin will be cheaper and quite as sppropriate. Wantep—A commercin! school in Waahing- ton where members of Congress can be taught that the whole interests of the nation do not lie in the negro, but that the country has a vital interest in the development of its com- mercial relations and vowes. il cas Se. No Skating in the Park Yesterday— Crowds Knjoying Themselves on the Fifth Avenue Pond, éec. c%@ Sunday a hope was indulged im that the ice ip the \Park would be fit by the following day for skatin> Yesterday morning, at an early hour, several persons ,Weceeded to the lake, but much to their disap- pointment they ascertained that tho ice was not yes wtvong enough. In fact, so fine did the afternoon be- come that the surface of the ice, under the influence of gleams of sunshine, became wet, thus reducing the ,ice’s thickness and diminishing the chanco- of skatems being able to occupy themselves at thelr favorita’ amusement. The Park presented a protty sceme. The sun, struggling through the clouds, came it now and again, and glowed upon rock and deff and shrubs with splendid effect. The whole placa, even in its winter garb, was pleasant to looks ‘at, Those who have a taste for the beautiful in nature can find in tixe Park much to occupy their attention. AS this time of @e year few places out of doors claim the meritof beingestiractive. But this cannot be said of the Park. The viei} ors who went there yeaterday for the purpose of %, not being able, from the cause men- tioned, to” take: at healthful reereation, spread them- selves over the nied ty and seormed to: i: and art which the p@.ce 80 who came in appeared to escape through clegaut works of art, ° r the Gieap- polntment they felt’ sti nt having the opportunity lash over the ico with alf the dexterits the most accomplished ska&ors. Should the frost to-day and to-morrow. Wo may export afternoon of Thursday the lake ice will be thick enougt to bear up thonsands of akagets, for whose accommoca- tion and eafety every arrangement will be made. ‘The following instructions @nd regulations with respeet to Park skating have beem leaned :— 3 Do not go on the ice except by the paths p¥ovided for that purpose. Uso the foot scrapers om the gang plan& Sefore step- ping on the ice, Do not drop any tobacoo, cigar stumps, paper, nut- sholls or other articlos on the ice, Avoid crowds, Even thick tee is Hable 9 cravk, and if a number of persons crowd on one side of a cuke of iow it may suddoniy tip and endanger the livesyof allupon it. Do not go ta the vicinity of men engaged’ in oleanng the ice, 3 Cautions froma Park keeper should be*immodiately complied with, ‘The want of civil attention or the charging more than the prescribed rates by the keepers of thg refreshment or skate houses should be reported to a Park keeper. ‘Any want of civilattention on t ¢ part ofa Park Ik may be reported tothe Captain, at the station om the lake, or to the Comptroller of the Park. A ball will be hoisted om the flagstatf of the old arsenal in the Park whenever the ice is in condition for skating on either the Inke or the pond. A ball will be hoisted en tho flagstaff at the Mount St. Vincent Buildings when the ice on the Harlem Lake is in condition for skating. The national fag w.ll be set on the dagstal at the Ladies’ Cottage, at the pond, at a point near the south beach of the lake, and at the cottage at the Harlem Lake, whenever persons can go upon the ice with safety or skate without seriously injuring it. No one can remain upon the ice with safety, or with proper regard to the general interset in matntalsing itim ood order for skating, when the national flag is not fy~ ing ow the fixgstaff. Ared flag hoisted on the fagstatt indicates that it im dangerous to go upon the ice, Tt will not be displayed unless there is an absotute neccesity that the ice be cleared. designot for the the length se xbich sty Sieg with These regulations are prescribed with the placing such restrictions only e9 are necessary for preservation of the ice in the best condition for the gome~ Tal enjoyment, and it is hoped thet they may be 6o will~ ingly observed by all that a resort to other meagures.to secure, their observance will never be required, Tas Pars, December, 1865. ¥LIYTH AVENUR POND. The pond at the Fi‘tl avenne was frozen suMcientty: thick to enable bundreds of skaters to traverse t from end to end, Members of the New York. Skati Club mustered in force. They have erected: at Fi Avenue Pond a Srialy b ilt shed in Which they assemble, Froui the top of this structure float the Stars and Birigen aud @ flag bearing the name of the club, While the was being travelied over in all directions by skaters of every age their evolutions were witnesséd by hundreds of spectators who were either unable or did not care te imitato the ex: lo. befere them; but they were loud i= thir praise of the graceful matiner in which the ladies slid along, without apparently trkt the gentlemen, whose efforts at the most difficult feats some. times brought them in sudden contact with the suriace. When @ skater got an a when he: donty camo to griet by loving lis balance, of be now aud then did, and tumbled at length * pe ioc, be was bang ierine' posers laughter of the bystanders, who jocosely told him to ba steady and not to go on “apiling’’ bis clothes. But if he off without broken bones he did not cero much -about the injury, to his garments. The amusement was t up to an advanced hour in the evening. akating oxcitement {5 on tho increase. A day more Will probably see It at its highest pressure, SKATING IN BROOKLYN. Therewas glorious akating yesterday at alt the ponda— Vaion, Capitctine, Chichester’s and . Waslington—ie Brooklyn. The ice I sufficiently thick to warrant the botief that there wiil be few or no inte! ions of this gay sport during the wintor, The balla were hotated early in tho moraing, and the skaters—old and young, mate and fomale—-soon embraced the opportunity of im- proving the firet akating of the soason. TUE UNION POND. ‘Tho Union Pond, in Williamsburg, was parlicularly no- ticeable throughout the day for the galaxy of female attendants, and aome of these, we understand, are from tho fashionable circles of New York, who ‘the se- clusion of aprivate pond to mixing with tho crowded masses on tho public ponds in New York and elsewhere. Last night the pond was briltiantly lighted, the ice was clear aad smooth, and @ splendid band of music en~ Jivened the scene by discoursing airs from the aolect and poptlar music of the day. There was also a grand ay of fireworks, which furnis! quite «treat to all present. The gathering in the evening was numerous, including a fair proportion of both sexes, who all ap- peared to enjoy themselves highly, ‘Tits WASHINGTON FOND. ‘The Washington Pond opened yesterday under new msnagement, With proper spirit and enterprise it can b- rendered popular tp the people of South i , Mr, H, Freuce, is ds all ip hie porerto meet the popular requiremente, sitting rooms have beea repaired and other ments nade for the accommodation of both sexes. A band of mrsic will be on the pond evory night; there will be firework: displays and gaia occasions at intervals, to maken vi in the order of enterteinm-nts, The well. known skater, John Englor, Jr., who challenges the world in art of skating, has been engaged, and will be on the every aficrnoon aud evoning to. vhow his skill and instruction to the uninitiated, ‘UNF CALTTOLINE LAKE, ‘Tho Capitoline Lake, Fulton avenne, is the Iargost of the skating poady in Brooklyn, and is fullyap tothe other ponds in poiutof accommodations. ‘The eS Mare of the moet liberal character, and com tal kate ald refreshment roome and a aah ealeee for ladies, The pond will be brilti lighted cas Ho night aud a band of music will be in attendance. - ho large ouniver of persons who were on the luke yes- tervday evinces that the subseription bi dy ‘been libe ‘patronzed. The arrengements for the preservation of order and the protectig of ite patrons are on the most ample scale, Thore wilt ho skating (here to-day. The or two ‘Tire present pi The Confederation Scheme in Ni land, “© % ye TO THE Evrive Ov THE HERALD. Ia yaslartay's Mecano you day the Canadiah papers re- port that the Iato elections in Newfoundtand had beew fa torable to the confederation scheme. Tile is incorrect. The Commercial Journc! of St. Johns, N. F.. Nov, saya “the reautt of the late election shows that 4 ist growing dislike among our peopic of the schome for the confederation of the provinces, the majority of the representatives ——. being greater in the new Legia- lature thon in the Inte My private alvices f e thet there ty a strong fee?- ing fm fuvor of wanexation to the Uni in Newfoundland. Mr. Shea, w a by a comperatively obscure person, whe oppored = The Penneyivanta Pau rita, DY , he rovy union of Peunayivante, to be composed of fom do vating soeieties throughout the State, to-day by the electign of John 1, Rogers, MAILS FOR EUROPE. Lieutenant General Grent’s History on the WareInteresting Intelligence from the South—The Fenian Imbrogito—Late News from Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, &ec., Ke. ‘Vho Cunard Mail Steamship Asie, Captein Andersom, will leave Boeton on Wedneatay for TAverpoot. ‘The wails for Enrope mil close in this city at a quar far-past one and at halfpost five o' tock this after- noon. ‘Tou New Youre hastn- Faition for Rurope—will be publishod at oloven o'clock this trorning. It will contein The highly important Report of Liew. tenant General Grant, giving ® detailed history of the ‘War from the tine of his appointment to the command to the close of the contest; Tnterosting Intelligence from the Southern States; 'ull report of the Fenian Imbrogiie in the United ftates; Further details of the Jamaica Re- vgs ‘Abstract of the proceedings of C 3 Latoang important News from Mexico, Central America and the ‘Wost Indies, and accounts offe!! interesting events of the week. Single copies, in wrappers, roady for mailing, ny conte