The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, @FFICN N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU Volume XXXI sesereeceee MO 1D AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—So.vow SHinGur. LUOY BUSHTON'S . Ne tents and @s many unfinished houses, Lay 8 NEW YORKTHEATRE, Nos. 738 10 Broadway.—Tas Laoy Fags PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Sixc- AN CING, Lgl (SC. STKPAENS’ uw Exam Rute we Taman. erties - ¥ Musica Guus, £c., at the Fifth Avenue "Band 4 Weak Twenty-fourth sh BAN FRANCTROQ MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, te — on MT TRE toma Dawsixa, aa— AYANTS' MINS ag 472 Broad se eee a Meena BROOKLEN ACADEMY OF MUBIC.—Barmus Cox] WITH SUPPLEMEN ery 12, 1866. THE Nuws. OUR CLAIMS ON ENGLAND. We publish in full this morning the important diplo- ‘matic correspondence between Minister Adams and Farl Clarendos, the British Foreign Minister, on the subject of the Shenandoah’s ravages. In this correspondence all the circumstances leading to and arising out of the depre- dations of the Anglo-rebei cruisers are discussed by Mr. Adams with exhaustive minutoness and creat ability, and some new facts are brought telling effect, Earl Clarendon’s mainly of the arguments advanced by his pre- decesor (Earl Russell), and are chiefly romark- able for the concluding sentences, in which he closes the correspondence, lest it should “introduce acri- T. New Yerk, Friday, J replies consist ee ‘Poathaoess ane Erase | coy administration of the empire were mado public in the beginning of last month. They prescribe the duties, attributes and emoluments of the various civil officers subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the different departments, prefectures, municipalities, &c., of the empire, lay down ara, | the law governing elections, describe the qualifications of electors, and altogether present a very complete impe- rial set of political regulations, Our Cordova correspond- ent gives a description, which will well repay perusal, of his visit tothe settlement near that city presided over by the rebel General Sterling Price, formerly of Missouri, but now @ loyal subject of Maximilian I, who wen Tah, 18, GE malted 9 ahem pete the germ of an expectant city “ag large as Richmond or New Orleans."’ This juvenile town, out of Escare; om, | compliment to the Empress, is named Carlotta, and, though not presenting any particular attractions in itself, CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Taz Orn Somoor | is situated in» very rich agricultural region and in the midst of @ most magnificent landscape. The General, who is now a staunch imperialist, and sanguine of the success of the imperial régime, is very anxious, of course, to have his Southern friends settle in Mex:co, and pointed oyt at great length to our correspondent the inducements to do so which the country offered. Another to the States. of Naw York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, thepast few days of & plot.-being in course‘of perféetion there for the liberation of Jeff, Devis. Our correspondent describes the scheme,. according to reports, to contem- plate tho arrival there of the Intended rescuers singly, ‘on board trading vessels, so as to ward off suspicion. The authorities have consequently instituted searches of the craft in the harbor; but there have yet been no arrest made, as no person of @ suspicious appearance has been discovered. Governor Swann, of Maryland, yesterday submitted his message to the Legislature of that State, now con- vened in extra session. The present financial needs of the Commonwealth, growing out of the extraordinary demands produced by the rebellion, are given as the reason for calling the legislators together at present. The Governor approves the President’s reconstruction policy; 1 gratified at the total extinction of slavery, of which he says he was an advocate, but opposes universal negro suffrage, The most interesting portions of his forward with | message are given in our Supplement shcet Extracts of interest from the recent report on our State canals of Canal Commissioner Skinner are given in an- other portion of our present issue. Mr. Skinner alludes to suggestions which have been put forth to so enlarge the Erie canal as to make it a regular ship channel, so that grain and other produce may pass through it and mony between this country and the United States,” and | proceed to Europe by sea in the same bottoms in which asserts that “‘no armed vessel departed during the war from a British port to cruise against the commerce of the United States;’? but that, On the contrary, the obliga- they leave Chicago and other Western Inke ports. Though he does not favor the enterprise as immediately practicable, he thinks it worth¥ of consideration, and suggests the authorization by the Legislature of a com- tions of a neutral were “steadily and honestly discharged | ™ission to report on its feasibility, and a conference on by the government."’ CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday petitions were presented for | renort that if the subject between the Governors of this and the West- ern States. The busines community was shocked yesterday by the ir. Charles H. Carr, who had been en- negro suffrage, and asking that the Canadian Reciprocity gaged in brokerage transactions for many yeara past, at treaty be not renewed. The bill giving the appointment No. 30 Broad street, bad absconded to Europe, having of assistant assessors of internal revenue to the Secrotary previously drawn from the bank a sum of seventeen of the Treasury was taken up, und, after some dis- cussion, passed. A bill regulating the extra pay of volunteer officers mustered out of service was pre- sonted and ordered to be printed. Resolutions were adopted calling for information relative to negotiations | mut Carr's ‘partners. Rumors found in 1661 with the republican government of Mexico for tho privilege to march United Statés troops acrozs Mexi- thousand dollars, the property of the rm of which he wasa member. The firm suspended paymont yesterday morning ; but it is stated that the interruption of business witi only be temporary, the loss sustained affecting none joe that Mr, Carr had fled t Europe and forsaken his wife and family for the purpose ef joining.a young actress, who left the can territory from the Pacific to-Arizona, in regard to country a few days previous; but as yet these stories rest the printing of official advertisoments in the Wash- ington papers, accepting tho invitation to participate in the Paria Univeraal Exhibition, and to print ten thousand copies of the diplomatic correspondence. The bills to enlarge the powers of the Treodmen’s Bn- reau and to guarantee the frecdimen protection in their civil rights were reported from the Judiciary Commit- tee. The joint resolution offered on the previous day by Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, to provide provisional on no posilive foundation, ‘The Fenian Convention at Clinton Hal! has concluded its proceedings, It has returned to its old name of Fenian Brotherhood, with a Head Centre. Several clever debates and speeches characterized yesterday's proceedings. | An immenso gathering of our Irish citizens assembled last eventpg to dp honor td the delegates to the Fenian Convention, hich closed its proceedings yesterday. governments for the States which took part in | rhe demonstration was e most imposing one, the large the rebellion, was them taken up, and Mr. Reverdy | nay: of the Cooper Institute being jammed in overy part Johanson, of Maryland, proceeded to address the Senate atlength in opposition to it, his speech being of a very able character, and consuming the remainder of the seasion. During the course of the day's proceedings, Mr. Sumner, in answer to a question relative to the dura- tion of Secretary Seward’s present soa trip, stated that when the Secr-tary left Washington he expected to be absent three necks, In the House of Ropresontatives the credentials of James Farrow and John 1). Kennedy, as members from South Carvlina, were presented and referred to the Re- construction Committee. Resolutions wore adopted re- questing th) Secretary of the Navy to furnish a state. ment of the cost of the Pi ladelphia Yard since its establishmen! and au esiimate of the pr at value of the property there, and instructing the Territorial Committee to inquire into the expediency of ng the act orcanizing the Tor of Utah and distributing the land of the Mormon C onweallh amoag the adjavent Territories. A resolution was also adopted allowing the Committee on Militia a clerk, In offering this latter resolutwn Mr, Smith, of Keatucky, stated that the com- fore it the recomimendat on of the t, for a porfect oo Appropria on bill for thy year » Army Appropri ending June 30, 1 1 it was made the special order for Thursday of next we Kk. A Dill proposing an addi- @onal tax on cot was mrvduced and referred to the Ways and M Comraitter, Tae considers tion of the bill to extend the voting privilege to the negroes ‘0 the Detrict of Columbia was then resumed from the pfevious day. The debate over it, Which was conitaued te thy adjournmens, ted to a rope tition of the cuarzes by the republicans of the disloyalty ne War, Messte. Kelley, of 4, and Farnewort is, advancing and of New Jersey, and esers Nog them mm inquirin res » the had not been appeniot to bear claims loyal slave- Owuess for colored mea owing thy ice who were enlisted in th: national army. The ry states that tod in Dolaware and Maryland, the other States wor eident, owing to all the avail funds being required at the (ime to prosocate the TH" 1 EGISLATURE. aate yesterday the standing commit. you several bille which had been ding that for bringing ond coun'y wihin the Metropolitan Police d t, Notices were given of bills providing for tho f {he question of a convention to revise the State ons were app sus In the Slate § coustituton, for the tetir protection of seamen in this | ad to incorporate the New York Association of iremen and the National Warehouse and Seeu- ny. Bille were i ved, aniong several tniner iaterest, to incorpyrate the American terure of (he Justice and Clerk of the Eighth a! district of this city. the Groton Board to wt on the practicability of a Broadway underground ralitoad was adopted. Several measures of sows importance were noticed in the Awombiy. Among fem were bifls to amend the Metropolitan Paid Fire tgeriment act und the Kecier faws, to authorize the loan of a million end a talfof doliars aud the dyvation of cue handred thousand acres: of land to tie a.itomdack Railroad Company, to regulate freight aod-travebon the Long ‘Island Retiroad, wo eon: flr title to reel evtate acquired through alieu couvey. tance, to incrense the rates of legal advertin'ng aud to re. doce the foes of euerogy oa and the expenses of adminis. tering on estates, A auiober of bills were Introduced, ail of which, however, Lave already been noticed in oar columns. ‘Thore to po ent gag companies charging reat on mates ond now-r ote holding matkot stands were among them, The resolution requesting our Coogress men to vote for the bil! inereu ng the bounties of volna: teers who enilsted before 1863 was adopted. MISCELLANEOU In our city of Mexieo and Cont thia morning w furnished a very in “g collection of intelligence foum that portion of aan territory over whieh Maximilian claims to exercice dominion, including accounts of the progress of bis goverament in the at temp’ to render ite foundations «table, and furtuer items feagand ng the colonization operations of the cx-Southera evbels Of tis country, Odile a! regulations for the home letters published vived from the mission to the | » | Mining Compauy and to extend to January | The resolution requesting | immediately after tho doors were opened. A considerable number of the gentler sex were present, who vied with their attendants in manifestations of enthusiasm when- ever Ircland’s cause was hopefully portrayed. Among the delegates on the platform where Colonel O'Mahony, Head Contre, and D. B. Killian, his Treasurer, There were numerous speakers, and the speeches were all eloquont and inapiriting. An excellent band of music was also in attendancs, On the last trip of the steamer Moses. Taylor, from San Francisco to San Juan, an tnsane Fenian ahot two Eng- lishmen who ventured to deny their having acy Fenian proclivities, He was wounded himself, and jumped overboard. On being rescued and hauled on board he would havo been instantly lynched had not some of the passengers interfered and held him over to be deal: with according to the law. In the United States Court yesterday, before Commis- sioner Stilwell, the case of the United States against Captain Enoch M, Peabody, of the ship Neptune, was heard, The defendant was arrested on the charge of cruelty and assault and battery on the high seas upon a colores aman of the name of Richards, Richards stated that almost during the entire voyage from Liver pool to Now York he was beaten daily by the prisoner with an iron belaying pm, He presented the appearance of having being brutally treated, aud his physician certifies that he is maimed for life. The praoner not being ready to go on with the examination, itwas, on his application, adjourned until Monday next at ewoo'closk, The prisoner gave bail for his appenr- ance in the eum of three thousand dolinra, LU js reported thal several civil saits have been commenced ygainst the captain by the crew and also by Richards Further indicatiuns of « shocking state of aTa'ra hay. prevaliedon tward of Captain Vembody’s ship, the Neptune, during the tate passage from Laverpoo! to this port were fnrninhed yesterday in an investigation before Gover of the case of Mrs, Mary A. Gilroy, one of © passengers, the particulars of which appear upploment sheet. In this latter affair, howover, tit is charged on the surgeon of the ship. Mrs Gilroy gave birth to a child on Tuesday last, while the vessel was lying of Sandy Hook, but received no atton tion whatever, a alleged, and was left to lie alone and completoly neglected. Between this neglect and the cold, the miserable woman wan almost dead when on the following day the Neptune came up tober pier. The coroner's jury, in their verdict, censure the ship's sur- geon, Dr. Herrick, as well a8 the Emigration Commis. sivners, | An action was yesterday tried in the Snpreme Court, before Judge Barnard, by William Twoinley, to recover from J. 8 Underhill, a bower manufacturer, of this city, damages laid at twonty thousand dollars On the 24 of Pobruary, 1864, w) ntift was engaged, with othore, in removing éwo tron clamps on a track from the | premises of defendant, he fractured his leg by the | breaking of the truck. Judgo Barnard granted a non | sult, on the ground that direct negligence had not beea | proved against the defendant The case of Leonard Appleby against the Firemon's Jund Insurance Company, brought to recover « policy of | insurance for (en thousand dollars, and which was tried before Judge Batcom in 1864, a verdict being given for plaintiff, was argued yesterday on exceptions before the generaiéorm of the Supreme Court. The decision was reserved. Inthe case of Henry Hamon vernus Arther Gentil, which was an ection $0 recover gold ana carrenoy allegct to hare been intrusted by the plamtif te the defendant, and ¢0 rave been converted by the latterte hie ewn uane, a vordict .was -yesterday rendered awariing to Mt. Hamon over sit thousand dollars, tie vatue of the gold in greenbagks. ‘The jury in (he case of Crillcy ncainst the Brooklyn Ferry Company yestorday gave a verdict in favor of the | tater, The plaintiff? waa father of a young man | drowned by @ collision between the ferryboat Ne braska and a amall row boat, in the East river, in 1864 | In cons-quence of the funeral of Supervisor Pardy | 10 day, the different bravehes of the Supreme, Superior, | Common Pleas and Marne Courts will not sit. In some iN be tramencted at cham!ers. cvs, Jr., brother of Mre. Strone, one Of the partes to the inte Strong diverce sult, whose diMowlty with Mr. Cram, the counsel of Mr, 8tromy, was | noltced yesterday's Hanitn, appeared gomerday nt the | Tombs Poles Conrt, tn accordance with the foquirements | of Justice Hogan's decision, ond entered into a bond to | keep the peace for sit monte Hofer doing fo, tow. { ever, he made au alidarit Fegariiny Ube tro ble betwee a dimsesif and Me, Cram, which wili be found in rati in owr War Department order for the muster out of |: Supplemont of to-day. In this be denies receiving the letter which Mr, Cram says he wrote to him. Joseph Matthews, who had been on trial for the pre- vious two days in Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer, for the murder of John Keevy on the 13th of September last, was yesterday found guilty of murder, with a recommendation for mercy. ‘The sixth of a series of lectures on the subject of the currency, indebtedness and resources of the nation, under the auspices of the Geographical and Statistical Society, was delivered last night at Clinton Hall, by Mr. George A Potter. Coroner Lynch, of Brooklyn, yesterday concluded his inquest in the ease of William H. Russ, the chief actor in the recent Clinton street shooting affair, Several witnesses were examined; but few new facts were elicited, Mise Dayton’s statement was not taken, on account of her low physical condition. Her left side is paralyzed and her recovery ts merely possible. The verdict of the jury was that ‘‘the deceased came to his death by inflammation of the membranes of the brain, superinduced by a pisto! shot wound inflicted by his own hands.” Mr. Henry B. Dunne, superintendent of the New York and Schuylkill Coal Company, was murdered by three men about three miles from Pottsville, Pa., on Wednesday night. The murderers escaped. is ‘A fire-early yesterday morning in Binghamton de- of Finch & Ce, and the drockery store of Halt & Co,, on Court street, entailing a'total’ loss of Gfty-two thousand ‘but closed at advancing prices, Gold was dull at 188%; at the close, : > * Important Rumors from ‘Washington. We have private intelligence from Washing- ton of great importance. It refers to rumors of the positive determination of the President to reconstruct his Cabinet, retaining probably but two of the present members. We regard this information as important; but we confess we have long been prepared for it. The Cabinet of the late administration was a war Cabinet. It had to deal with the rebellion with a bard hand, and its foreign policy was signalized more by adroitness than vigor and decision. Mr. Stanton, as Secretary of War, was the Hercules of the period. His labors in bringing out armies, in supplying and trans- porting them, in furnishing them with material, and in the performance of the other duties of his station, were ceaseless and untiring. He deserves credit for all this, and he will receive it from the country. But the war cloud has passed. The bright sunshine of peace is upon our land. The man who was a good war min- ister during a war cannot be expected to be a good peace minister during a peace. The en- mities, hatreds and jealousies, and the martinet practice inseparable from the position of Mia- ister of War, render the same man an unfit, however conscientious, counsellor for the Ex- ecutive. Therefore we think the President will accept Mr. Stanion’s resignation of his port- folio, tendered, we learn, some time sinee. In the office of Secretary of State Mr. Seward did all that emergencies demanded. We were undergoing @ fearful internal struggle. Foreign nations were covertly assisting the foe in ‘money, men, armed ships and subsistence. ‘It ‘was necessary to keep these unfriendly Powers from recognizing the Southern confederacy, and Mr. Seward, with admirable diplomatic Jinesse, succeeded in holding them back. Al- thongh he never allowed the dignity of the nation to be infringed upon, yet he was obliged to temporize, conciliate or gently remonatrate whenever foreign governments threw ont o menace or committed an act in violation of settled American principles. The necessity for this has passed away. The country does not now require any temporizing in its foreign policy. It demands the recognition of its po- sition among the first Powers of the earth, and its foreign Giplomacy musi bencetorth be based Asa war Secretary of upon that foundation. State Mr. Seward was shrewd, calculating, Incky. As a peace Secretary Mr. Seward will searcely be qualified to cope with foreign gov- ernments in handling those great questions of American policy which will arise with the new era of our nation’s existence. Therefore the Presifient will be jostifed in accepting Mr. Seward's resignation as goon as that statesman returns from his (our in Southern climes, where he has gone to avoid present complications at home. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Welles, de- serves credit for not committing more blunders than he did, and, on the whole, considering the magnitude of the occasion, acquitted himself with respectability, Cabinet officer, and, as the navy on Its present peace establishment is altogethor different from the navy during the war, Mr. Welles can very well be spared from the circle of the Pro- sident’s counsellors, Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Intorfor, and Mr. Speed, Attorney General, are undoubtedly gentlemen of ability, but they are also iden- tified with the war policy of the late adminis- traiion, and their places as advisers of the Ex- ecutive can be filed by men more adapted to the present situation of the country. Mr. MoCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury, will undoubtedly be retained, no matter what Cabinet changes may be made. He is too valuablo to tho nation to be lost. Mr. Denison, Postmaster General, will also remain, as he is @ good officer, and is among the President's ‘The sbove comprises the rumors that us from Whsbington. Wo hope they will. be realized. A reconstruction of the Cabinet is de- manded for many reasons. Among the moat potent are: that it will harmonizs the conffict- ing interests which now impode tho aotion of the general government; will break up the feuds that exist between membors of the dif- ferent dupartments; will facilitate the opera- tions of the chief of our armies by removing ono of the obstacles to their sucooss; will bring tho Freeulive and Concregs together npon amicabis terms, and, in short, be pro- duct ve of incaleulable beat ) unberosts and our “cneral for iva vulicy. He likewise was a war to our domestic Reconstruction—The Real Force of the | their head, are making as much mischief as Constitutional Amendment. Daniel Webster on » memorable occasion compared a question that had been before Congress many days to a ship in a storm when the navigators had lost the knowledge of their position, and which, driven hither and thither by this or that contrary wind, tossed on the turbulent waters, was fairly lost on the pathleas waste when the calm came. He thought it necessary to do in Congress as the sailors did on the sea—astop and take the bearings, and find out where they were before they sttempted to go on. Congress would act wisely to imitate that great example now. For certainly the paramount question of the day—the object above all others upon which Congress should act intelligently—the grand problem of the pacification of the country and the restoration of the Southern people to their natural condi- tion under the law—is utterly lost in that body. No one in Congress knows where it is, or seems to have even glimmerings of the true position or state of the great question over which every Congtessional jackdaw chatters and gabbles-all day long. Blockheads from every point of the compass drive at the subject with- ‘ent knowing how it stands, where it is or what they want to do with it. ‘Now there is one | proposition to secure nigger suffrage, now another, and there are motions before Congress for constitutional amendments of every possible nature and shade, and withal there does not appear to be a single man there with the mind to perceive that all this is froth and fury and mere waste of words. Yet the fact is that all this clamor and radical fuss is unnecessary. It is unnecessary, because the whole point at issue is, in fact, definitely and positively settled and established by the constitutional amendment already ratified and accepted as part of the organic law. The recently adopted constitutional amendment is in two sections. The first section abolishes slavery within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, and the second gives to Congress the power to make that abolition a practical fact, and to carry out the first section in all its force. The words of this second section are:—“Con- gress shall have the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.” Now a simple consideration of the circumstances under which these words became a part of the national compact will explain exactly what the words mean, and will show that they abundantly provide for all the necessities of the case. It will show that these words record in the constitution the resulis of a great war; that they are the change that the war has stamped upon that instrument—the measure ot how much has been given upon the part of the South and acquired by the North. They are the constitutional guarantee that Congress shall have the power to arrange the new con- ditions of soviety in the Sonth, especially so far as relates to the position of the negro race; that, in fact, which was the prime eause of all the trouble. The words, indeed, bear- their interpretation upon their face, but the consideration of the legal aspects of the main facts of our recent history enforces and im- presses their interpretation. « The South made war on the. government and attempted to destroy the country. This is not opinion. Tt was our Northern view of the war, and the fact that we prevailed establishes that it is fur us the legal view of the war. By the fact of attempting the life of the nation the South put its own political existence in jeo- pardy, and, in fact, as determined by the result, forfelted that political existence. And this, to go aside from the argument, was the light in which the whole South saw the result at the first glance when the war was over. The South wt the close of the war had no political rights that we could be required to respect, and the best it could claim for its position was that it stood, under the law of nations, as a con- quered enemy, But the South could not justly complain of this, for it had itself invited the state that suspended all civil rights, and it must be content with the position in which it was found when the war powers once more gave way and we returned to the government of civil law. One of our asserted principles in the war was that the slaves shonld be made free. That was declared by proclamation, and, lest a proclamation made during war should not hold good for pe: sleps were taken to put thet pari of our Northern war platform into the Coustitution, Thus it was positively deiermined by the aation thai the abolition of slavery should be a result of our victory, and that another result of our victary should be. that Congress should have one more specific special power given to it—ihe power to so as to carry out in arrange Southern socie letter aad spirit the intention of the country, that the South shonld again stand on a level with the North only after its society was reor- ganized by a fall revision of the position ot the negro. Force is implied in all organization of so- olety, and just now the force is on our side. Tt is to carry out the Northern will as expressed by that resuit of the war—the constitu. tional amendment. The Northern victor, having put down his enemy by force, offers the two propositions of the amendment as bis will, as the condition on which bis con- quered enemy may have the foot removed from his breast and stand erect again, and even come fairly in as anequal. That is the real force of the constitutional amendment, and the section that gives Congress the power for “ap- propriate legislation” is not less significant than that which formally abolishes slavery. Since the abolition of slavery restores all men to the natural condition, Congress has to regu- Inte the positions of each by the necessary laws. Let itnow, therefore, simply passe law regulat- ing the-wnffrage, snd thus determine what the ‘real position of the negro is. ‘The President has done his part fully and in- tolligently, The only difficulty is with Coa- | gress, which has becn led or dfiven astray by the radicals, There is no necessary conflict between Congress and the President, and if Congress will oarty out the amendment it will carry out the policy of immediate reconstrac- tion, whicb is all the President desires. If Con- gress should pass such a law, and give the euf- iinge to negroes who had fought in the war, to those who can read and write, who own pro- perty andre nvembers of Cristian churches, it will meet tho views of the country and it will settle the whole question. It can then order a new election in the South aud send home the Taombers that ft now refuses to admll, and tho new membora could be in theie places in two menths, For ali dita Congress bas the power; bat the radicals. wie Scmncr and Stevens at St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati; fm the latter city producing L’Africaine with im- mense success, In all this time, so full was the repertoire and so strong the company that only on one or two occasions was an opera repeated, and then by the imper- ative demand of the public. The cost of this enterprise must have been immense. Most of the artists sre entirely new to the American public, having been engaged by Grau in Eu- rope last year. As our readers are aware— having been kept acquainted with the progress possible, and do not desire this settlement, The Oficial Correspondence About Mexico. A mass of papers have been communicated to the Senate by the State Department relative to Mexico. They bring the correspondence between the Mexican Minister, Mr. Romero, and Mr. Seward, and that with Mr. Bigelow, our Minister at Paris, and the French government, up to as lates period as last month. Every phase of the question as there exhibited we have anticipated in the columns of the Hzsatp. ‘This paper only published an account of the arrival here of @ secret agent of Maximilian, and the manceuvres of that gentleman and the French Minister to obtain a quasi recognition of the person called Emperor of Mexico. We gave a circumstantial account of the person, the proceedings and the whole transaction, as we have about other matters relative to Mexico. The fact was denied at the Havana, depends upon the chances of Impres- sario Grau’s being able to obtain a theatre at for the reception of his choice troupe in the coming spring. the statement. The officis! correspondence now published shows we were ‘correct. The | ‘Minister, for an intesyiew with the President, “only to hand a complimentary-or congratula- | ¢ctua' tory letter” to him frem Maximilien, was the point at which the Mexican affair culminated, The curt reply of the President that he did not know of such a person as the Emperor Maxi- milian embraced the whole question and showed tbe fixed policy of this country. The whole correspondence and the position of the government to-day accord with the President’s answer. We know only of one government of Mexico, and that is the republican government of which Mr. Romero is the representative. Maximilian is only a filibuster in the eyes of this country. Being an archduke of Austria, and being placed where he is and kept there by French bayonets, does not change bis char- acter or alter the fact. William Walker, Colonel Kinney or Lopez was not more a filibuster than this royal adventurer andusurper. If our gov- ernment were so disposed it could send a force toaid President Juarez to drive out the filibuster, and France or any other Power would have no right to question us for doing so. If France chooses to lend Maximilian aid against the native and legitimate government, we certainly have as good or a better right to assist that government in sustaining itself, In fact, the ill-natured reply of the French Minister, Druyn de Lhuys, to Mr. Bigelow seems to admit that when he said he had nothing to do with Mexico, and that our redress for anything wrong there Jay with Juarez or Maximilian. It may not be that our government will exercise this right of direct interposition in favor of the republican authorities of Mexico; bnt the time may come when our citizens will be allowed to volunteer for that purpose. Unless the imperial farce be soon concladed, and the actors’ in it return to, Europe, anch 2 contingency is quite probable. In that cave ifty thonsand or # hundred thon- sand veterans would flock to the Rio Grande in a very short time. Juarez is not without means here even now, and should our govern- ment raise its finger merely to permit aid being given to him he could obtain all the resources be needs. It will be. wise for the: Hmperor Napoleon and his protégé Maximilian te weigh well the consequences that may follow #'pro- longed usurpation in Mexico. deliberately robbed the White House. The tone of the article to which we refer may be judged from the fact that it repeatedly refers to Mrs. Lincoln as “ the bereaved beneficiary” in a most insolent and impudent style, and speaks of “her (not always) winning ways.” It charges that “for the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated in the last four years for alleged repairs and furniture for the White House there is now actually nothing to show on the premises,” and goes on to state that the government property was criminally taken away; that “ninety boxes” were furnished “to pack up the removed traps,” and that “ it required fifteen carts to remove the luggage from the White Honse.” Becoming bolder as he proceeds with bis slanders, the spirit of Wilkes Booth says that “dt is a notorious fact that the thirty thousand dollars lately appropriated to furnish the Ex- ecutive mansion will nearly all be absorbed by the creditors of the persons who occupied that house ten months ago.” As if this were not enough the spirit of Wilkes Booth adds:— “This family (Mr. Lincoln’s), the head of whick literally run on his ‘honesty,’ exhibited for four years that reckless disregard of expenditures which would have been positively dishonest, only that they, like all radical republicans, thought ‘they had a life lease of the Treasury, and that there was no end to the sudden influx | of greenbacks that fairly flooded. the White proceeds to moralize upon “this example of the showy whoddiness of a suddenly raised family—honest, perhaps, but poor vertainly.” ‘We lack words to fitly characterize this inf. mous effort to befoul the reputation of our martyred President and his afflicted family, we ask the Grand Jury to take prompt in the matter and punish the paper that bas thus disgraced American and the American people. That paper is the organ of the Manhattan Club, the president of which—Mr. John Vam Buren—is certainly « gentleman. We ask him if the Manhattan Club is to permit these horrible libels to pass unnoticed, and if the members of that club are to continue to sustain by their money and their patronage paper that calls the lamented Lincoln e thief and his wife an accomplice? And we ask, also, it such a publication can be made in this city of New York without some public mani- festation of the reprobation and disgust of our citizens? The spirit of Wilkes Booth must indeed be very prevalent if so outrageous a violation of decency, morality, truth, propriety end the sanctities which surround the honored dead and the afflicted mourners is permitted to pass unrebuked and unpunished. Let the Grand Jury take this case in hand at once. Waar Saovtp sx Doxe wits Juvy. Davis anp rae Orage Reaei. Prisoners !—The communi- cations transmitted to Congress in answer to a resolution of that body, with regard to Jeff, Davis and the other prominent rebel prisoners, give us 9 clear idea of the case of these mea and the situation of the government with re- ference to it. The Secretary of War holds them as prisoners captured in war, and awaits the action of the proper authorities of the United States before be transfers them to the civil power or releases them, as the case may be. ‘That is all he has to do in the matter. Attor- ney General Speed states the charges upon which they are held and the object in holding them. He thinks they ought to be tried, but secs difficulties in the way, and he seems to hold the opinion that it would be better to let them go than to “violate the plain meantag of the constitution or infringe in the least par- ticular the living spirit of that instrument.” Chiet Justice Chase refuses to try them, be- canse be cannot or will not hold a court within tht limits of the rebel States, where only they can be tried, The President has performed his duty “in the cave, and now leaves it with Congress. It is = complicated case for that body to act upon. Constiintionally these prisoners cannot be tried by laws made after (he offence was committed. Ac- cording to that instrament they ought to be tried under the laws and forms existing. Yet we see what difficulties are in the way. Suppose the Southern States were fully re- stored, all the United States courts were per- forming their functions again, and these men were brought up for trial, is it cortain they would be convicted? Is it not as likely they would be acquitted? Would it not be better, then, not to try them atall than to fail ina conviction? The effect of such a decision would be very disastrous, and the government ought to hesitate before taking the risk. For there and other reasons we agree with General Cox, of Obio, that it would be better to let these rebels go. Mercy is an attribute nations may use with good effect as well as in- dividuals, Magnanimity will do more to re- store the country and hold it together in the bonds of amity than vengeance. These men have no disposition, probably, to be trouble- some hereaftcr, and if they should have they are utterly powerless to do harm. Let Con- gresa, then, relieve itself, the President and the judiciary at once of this Tae Crry Fisanctat Bupeer.—The financial budget for the ensuing fiscal year has been issued. From this it appears that our citizens are to be taxed for the support of the city gov- ernment and the payment of the interest on and redemption of the city debt abont eight millions of dollars. The whole esti- mated expenditures for the year amount to ten millions; but there are some two millions revenue from various sources. We need not now slop to inquire why the revenue of this great city isso meagre when it has such vast resources, nor why among the items of expendi- ture we see the sum of fifty thousand dollars set down for advertising, the most of which goes to the support of partisan and private presses. We need not, in fact, go into any par- ticulars to show the extravagance and waste im the public expenditures, for the subject is now threadbare, and every taxpayer knows it by heart. But we do care about one thing, and that the Legislature at Albany can attend to. We want a board of commissioners appointed by the Legislature, who shall exercise a super- visory and surveilling power over all our mu- nicipal affairs. We want this board tobe com- posed of high-minded, honorable and respon- sible citizens, in whose integrity the people have implicit reliance. There will be nome cessity for disturbing those in office who do their duty. Brennan makes « very good Comp- troller. Let him alone. Cornoll fills the office of Street Inspector acceptably. Let him alone. Tweed dances with infinite grace among all sorts of city affairs, from s Supervisor down and up, outside and in the middle. Let , 40 aroused enutty, aueaion. It islet to that body, which onat |o¢ tala Lat “him slona nee ibe take some action one way or the other. The | of these, or all them, shonld become shortest and: wisest course is that advocated | corraps, or be ‘found lasy or inoompe- by Mr, Cox—to let thom go. tent, let the commissioners. have power to ui 4 turn either or the whole batch of them, out of Tan Ganaresr Opunaric Kerntiriox OF THR } ogee, and supply thelr places with capable Aox.--It will be seem by our Cincinnati mon. Let us have this commission, with the correspondence and telegrams in another columo that Manager Grau will this week complete his operatic tour in the Wost with his now compeny of. Italian artists, and will return to New York in « day or two en roule for Havana. Grau has cer- tainly undertaken and carried out the greatest operatic expedition of the present age, With © company numbering about eighty-five per- sons, and @ respectable fortune in the line of costames and properties, he. has -travelled through the principal cities of the West during a goason Of over two months, in which time bo ave nontly seventy performances in Chicags, Maury, the ex-rebel, writes to Ben Wood from Mexico:—“You onght to have sent me money. Tt ia hard to financier on nothing indefinitely.” We know that Ren Wood obtained a check for twenty-five thousand dollars from Montreal while the rebel conspiracy there was ia pro- ress, and here is a chance for him to retura some of itte the rebels threugh Maury. We do aot knew Qew much more money be re