The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, =< Volume XXXI.. = _—— = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street. SOLON SHINGLE. LUOY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 get 730 Broadway.—Tugw Day Arrer tax Weppinc—Tae nisonma OF WAR, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel Tux BaLtoox Wavping—tax Wivow's Victis. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixc- me, Dancina, Buaizsques, &¢.—Tux Peaace Cienss ur Wasuiveros. GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tae Oup Scaoou ov Minstazisy, Bautips, Musicat Guas, &c., at the Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos. 2and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broxdway, opposite tan Hotel.—Etmiorian Sunaina, Danciva, &¢.— PAPRICAINK DY THR GeRMaN Opera TROUPE, YANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- an Bavant’s New Stump Sreecu—Nsgro Comioau- wigs, Borixsquss, &c.—Tuat's My Sistea. HOOLEY’'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Eraiorian Mux. stauist—BaLcads, BugLesques AND PAytowimns. W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. eo bk neti pare LECTURE BY JAMES T. BRADY—RBefore the Bloom- f Catholic Association, 781 Eighth avenue.—Sonas or RELAND. New York, Tuesday, January 23, 1866. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. Yostorday’s Congressional proceedings wore very inter- esting. In the Senate the first report from the joint Reconstruction Committee was submitted, 1 & proposed constitutional amendment, similar to others heretofore suggested in the House of Ri tatives, to base Congiessiona! rej tion on the entire number sisting of of population, except h persons as are ti laws denied the voting privilege on account of color, A petition was presented from the Poston Board of Trade, asking the ‘passage of an act suspending the operations of the ern States a suflicient Boston merchants to ent debts due them .n the South on the b e laws of the South of time to enable demanis for ing out of the rebellion, A petition of the aime character from the Chamber of Commerce of this city was presented som» days ago, Senator Clark called up tho bil prescrib ng Quailfcations for jurors, providiug (hat merely the tor mation or expression of opinion, founded on newspaper reports, shall not disqualify for jury duly, aad stipulat- ing for the removal from any Di or Circuit Court of the United States to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of trials for crimos the penalty of which may be death. This bill, the latter section of which is designed to cover the case of Jeff, Davia, was objected to as cx post facto legislation by Mr. Sumner, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, concurring with him, and it was laid over till Thursday, The resolution to ‘refer all documents relating to the representation of tho ex-rebel States to the Reconstruction Committee was adopt-d. The bill enlarging the powers of the Freed- men’s Bureau was then taken up, and its consideration occupied the remai:der of the open session. After speeches by several Senators, the proposed amend- ment of Mr. Cowan, to excinde Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri from the Bureau's jurisdiction, was defeated by thirty-thre> Rays to eleven yeas. Several other amendments were Proposed and rejected, An amendment restricting the Bureau's military jurisdiction to the exercise of the officers belonging to it was adopted. Without conclud- ing action on the bill, the Senate went into executive session, and conlirmed several Presidential nominations, including those for foreign Ministers of Mr. Bigelow to France; Mr. George Harrington, of Ge rgin, to Switzer. land; General Kilpatrick to Chile; George H. Y-aman, of Kentucky, to Denmark, and Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, to Prussia, On the opening of the doors the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a large number of matters were introduced and referred, including bills Providing for the defence of our northeastern frontior, to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Colum- bia by requiring a residence of one year previous to elec. tion, to prevent counterfeiting of national currency, for the establishment of a new navy yard on Delaware river, giving pensions to certain soldiers of the war of 1812, granting bounties to the volunteers of 1861 and 1862, providing for payment of national svl diers kept in prison by the rebels, requiring every Person on taking office under the national government to subscribe to the oath of allegiance, for the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Fails, and fér the admis- sion of Colorado as a State, Mr. Stovens offered, but subsequently withdrew, owing to absence of am opportu- nity to explain it, proposition that our goverament loan to the republic of Mexico a sum sufficient to pre- vent the establishment of a Mexican monarchy. Reso- lutions calling for the trial of Jef, Davis and other rebels by court martial were introduced and referred to the Judiomry Committee. ‘hore was also introduced and referred to this comuittee a projosed constitu. tional amendmont to gua against the olfice of Presi dent becoming vacant by provid'ng for the succession to it in Case of necessity of the Supreme Court Judges, The same committee were insiracied to report whether further legislation is necessary t» compel employes of the government in the Southern States to take the test oath, The Military Committee were directed to report on the expediency of providing for the Payment of national goldiers from the da‘e of their discharge until thoy were relieved of duty. The Ways and Means Committee were instructed to con sider the propriety of levying the internal revenue tax on tobaeco On the raw leaf and of reducing the tax on common cigars and manufactured tobacco, Mr, Grider, democrat, of Kentucky, introduced resolutions favoring the immediate admission of the Southern Re- presentatives, which were referred to the Reconstruct.on Committee. President Johnson was requested to com- municate any official information he may have regarding proceadinge of the Congress of Colombia in honor of Presi- dont Juarez, of Mexico, A resolution was introduced com- mending the refusal of President Johnson to adcept the gift of a carriage and horses offered to him by New York merchants, but, after some debate, was laid over. The Reconstruction Committeo presented the same report submitted to the Senate, and a long and earnest debate followed om the proposed constitutional amendment which i$ contains, Mr. Stevens desiring to prov an im mediate vote on the question, which the demooratic members strongly opposed. Finally the report was or- dered to be printed, and was made the special order for to day, after which the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. Both branches of our State Legislature met at seven o'clock last evening. In the Senate the preliminery re- port of the State census for 18965 was presented and re- forred to the Apportionment Committee. The billem powering the managers of the Five Points House of In. dustry to bind out children, with their consent, was ordered to a third reading. In the Ansembly the report of the New York Prison Association was presented. Bills were introducsd to change the name of the New York Free Academy to New York Free College, to revive and extend the charter of the Now York Female Assistance Society, and to authorize the towns on the line of the route to subscribe fo and bold stock in the New York and Oswego Mid- fand Railroad Company. Mr. Littlojobn introduced a pories of resolutions, which were adopted, in rela- tion to our quarantine arrangements, proposing that the Governor bo requested to ask the national government, in viow of the threatened approach of the cholera, to piace gratuitously and temporarily at the disposal of the Quarantine Commissioners such hulks or vessels as may be needed for quarantine purposes, until some other provision ts made by law; that our representatives in Congress be requested to ge the passage of an act appro- priating such a sum as, with» ke eum which may hereaf- tor bo appropriated by the State, will be sufficient for the erection on some isolated location in the bay of hospitals for the reception of the sick, and warehouses for the storage of goods and merchandise arriving in the port of New York in vessela subject to quarantine, and that the Commissioners of Quarantine be directed to report at an early day to tho Hover an estimate for the construction of ealtable secon soons for a permanent quarantine emab:the eat fo Shon was also adopted calling apm te wth Frecdmen's Bureau for North Carolma, reports that the negroes generally of that State have made contracts for the yoar and aro laboring industriously;, that the holi- days passed w.thout any insurrectionary demonstrations on their part, and that their minds have become dis- abused of the erroneous impression that government in- tends to distribute lands among them. remained cold, but did not approach the sevority of two weeks ago. sky continucd unclouded, and the ceaeepiet leds sod invigorating, {hough sharp,) Unroughout the day. day. The Park was splondidly attended, as-wes the Fifth avenue pond. There will be a grand carnival on the lat- ter pond (to-day. Last evening there was a vory suc- ce.sful one om Sylvan Lake, Hoboken, Roberts their repudiation of the late O’Mahoay Congress in this city, The twelve Senators issued an address to the circles before the adjournment of their late meeting im this city. It is Brief, and gives interesting facta re- garding the contemplated - military movement under General Sweeny and the Senatorial party. to be the winding up manifesto of the present campaicn. An Trish poet is about to produce a poem or ‘‘Marseillal:¢ Hymn"'—"Sweeny's Address to the Fenian Mon" —to be sung by the Fonians around their camp fires. We give a remarkable stanza of this revolutionary lyric. alot Pable Taatructiog te goggrt - NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4%, 1866, what amendments are necessary to be made in our | that if he desired to hear any argument on the matter The Meeting of the #ropch Chambers— | of " prosent school laws to seoure more effectually the educa | he would give twenty-four hours’ notice to the respec-| Waiting in Wastington for the Specoh tion of every child in the State, MEXIOO. Despatches from Brownsville, Texas, of the 16th inst. give later and more satisfactory details of the capture from the Mexican imperialists, on the 5th, of the town of Bagdad, and indicate the existence of rather delicate relations between the United States and imperial com- Manders on the respective sides of the Rio Grande. The capturing party numbered about one hundred and twenty, and consisted principatly of soldiers of the One Hundred and Eighteenth United States colored regiment, and they made prisoners of over four hundred imperial- ists and took four pieces of artillery. They also at- tempted to get possession of the imperial gunboat Anto- nio; but in this they failed, there being a few killed and wounded in the engagement. The captors were shelled by a French war vessel on the day following their occupa- tion of the town, but were not driven out. They how- ever loft voluntarily soon after, having previously plun- dered the place, and sent their spoil over into Texas, where some of it was seized by General Weitzel and re- turned to its owners. General Weitzel also sent a guard of men to Bagdad to preserve order. General Mejia, the imperial commander at Matamoros, has commenced now earthworks and the mounting of additional guns, and has sent a rather threatening lotter to General Weitzel, who on his side is putting Brownsville in a condition to be prepared for whatever may occur. By the steamship Liberty, which arrived at this port yesterday from Havana, we have Vera Cruz advices to tho 13th inst, They show, among other things, a de- plorable condition of the imperialists at the Pacific port of Acapulco, the republican chief Alvarez having them completely hemmed in and out off from aupplies. Be- sides this, fever was prevailing among them to a fearful extent, and many of the troops were deserting to the republicans, In “the interior fighting is still going on, the imperialists qlaiming additional victories; but the spirit and energy of the republicans seem to be not in the least relaxed. MISCELLANEOUS. The European mails, with our newspaper files, By the Asia reached Boston from Halifax yesterday afternoon, and were despatched for this city in the evening. They are due at cight o'clock this morning. Tbe news is dated.to the 7th of January. braced in our telegraphic summary from Halifax, pub- lished in the Herat on Sunday, Its chief points were em- Addit onal particutars relative to the ramors noticed in the Heraup of Sunday and yesterday, of prospects of an carly termination of the war between Paraguay and the allies, are given in our Rio Janciro dence published to-day, A Paraguayan steamer, having on board a messonger from President Lopez, despatches for President Mitre, of the Argentine Confederation, arrived at Corrientes, on the Parana, on the 28d of November last, and delivered the documents in his charge to the chief naval officer of the allies. Though nothing positive concerning the nature of this mission had been learned, it was generally thought at first to mean peace; but it seems not to have been al- lowed tu causo any cessation of allied operations. The Brazilians, it appears, have no great faith in the con- stancy of their Argentine and Uruguayan allies, who it is suspected are liable at any time to turn around and espouse government scene of hostilities, allavailable troops and naval vessels, 80° as to be pre- pared even for desertion by its present friends, Lopez continued his efforts to resist the advance up the Para- guay river to his capital of the allies; but he was defi- cient in proper sailors to man his vessela, It is said that he has imprisoned the Spgnish and Argentine consuls, for What cause is not knowa, correspon- with the cause of Paraguay. ‘The Brazilian is therefore pushing forward to the with all possible rapidity, Colonel Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner of the The temperature yestorday in this city and vicinity There was excellent skating on all the ponds yoster- California Fenians have telegraphed to President It is oxpected The Board of Aldermen held a session yesterday aftor- noon and transacted a large amount of busines, A pe- Ution was received from residents of Eighty-sixth street, requesting the reoponing of the Eighty-sixth street fer- ty, which wag closed on the 10th inst. re eived from the (itizens’ Association against the pay- ment to City Inspector Boole of $9,650 for expenses iocurred in the Albany investigations. Communications were received from the City Inspector containing ap- pointments of Health Wardens and Assistants for the Seventh and Nineteenth wards, which were confirmed. Tae City Inspector's annual report for 1865 was also res ceived. It gives the number of recorded births in the ety during the year as 5,722, the marriages as 2,733 and the deaths as 24,833. The publication of ten thou- sand copies of “Valentine's Manual” for the year was authorized. A protest was The Board of Councilmen held a short session yester- day, and concurred in the resolutions adopted by the Aldormen requesting the New York Members of Con- gress to ondaavor to effect the passage of the bill now before the House in relation to a new General Post Otfice in this city, ‘The President announced the Commitice of Arrangements on the Celebration of Washington's Birthday, whereupon Mr, Pullman said he did not wish to serve ou any committee with a gentleman who sold his birthright for a mesa of pottage. Paliman was excused from’ serving upon the committee, Resolutions were adopted directing m On motion Mr. the Street Com. to repair Tompkins park and tq bave wer terday, at which tho probability of the cholera was dic- cussed, and the Resident Physician, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the Board, was appointed to pro- ceed to Albany and call the attention of the Governor and Legisiature to the matter. adopted inviting the Mayor and Health OMcer of Brook- lyn to attend a meoting of the Board to be called for tho A resolution was also purpose of taking steps to procure a proper place for the Purification of vessels arriving at this port. The British bark Diadem, under the command of Cap- tain Hannam, which sailed from this port on the Sth inst. for Liverpool, with a cargo of petroleum, spirits of turpentine and staves, was capsized during the gale of the 9th inst,, and the captain's wife and two boys belong- ing to the crew were drowned. Captain Hannam and four of the crew afterwards died from exposure. The survivors arrived in this city yesterday. The failure of the Columbian Marine Insurance Com pany, one of the oldest of the joint stock marine insurance institutions of thie city; was announced yesterday. Its liabilities aro estimated to reach six million dotlars; but Mr. Phelps, the agent of the company, says that the assets will be sufficient to mect ail these and leave a handsome surplus. Tt was found necessary to clove up the concern in consequence of recent very heavy losses, its payments on account of Anglo-rebel piratical depre- dations alone, it is said, aggregating over & million dollars, The libel case in which Mr. A. T. Stewart, the well Known dry goods merchant, is the complainant, and Messrs. Matsoll & Mackellar are the defendants, was brought up before Judge Dowling, at the Tombs Police Court, yesterday afternoon. The only persons examined wore Mr. A. T, Gtewart, the complainast, Mr. Wm. G. Lambert and Mr. Courtland Palmer, merchants of this city, Their testimony went to show that, from the read- ing of the article in question, they wore led to believe that Mr, Stewart was tho person referred to, The case Weg cegied WUbET prevment Judse Dowling Bovine | lower. Corn was entirely nominal. ‘be continued to-day. | the markots were dull and heavy. the piers on the North and Kast rivers renumbered. | hut without essential change. Tue Comptroller sent a communication received from the | Corporation Counsel, stating that the appropriation of ton thousand dollars was insufficient for opening streets, and that fifty thousand dollars would be acquired for that purpose, The papor was referred. The President | announced the standing committees for the year, A meeting of the Health Commissioners was held yes | republic is about to attempt a rival:y with the tive counsel. of Napoleon on acannon aon William Kane witharew his oy eee eons ty 4 ipman and a Jury, bg pears that the French Senaie and Corps Legis- bls of not guilty, an¢ pended gully le an ndicimest | Tor bed been summoned poten gy charging him having uttered forged vouchers : ms against the United States, and was remanded for sen- | 22d January (yesterday) and that the opposi- tenee, The trial of William Chase Barney, Reginald | tion deputies had held a meeting at which Canteens snd Reatians ¢ Ieee tow We ene “they had decided to direct their efforts chiefly having utte and forged bonds, with intent to xican question.” came evade payment of tax on about throe hundred barrels pedro oe oth, all padigs hreng of alcohol, was postponed till the 80th inst, In refer. received from Washington, ence to an aotion in which Collector Draper is sued for | We infer that the Committee om Foreign Affairs recovery of duties alleged to have been illegally levied, | of the House of Representatives will withhold Judge Shipman said ¢hat in cases in which the govern- | any report or recommendation in reference to ment had an interest he would only recognize the Dis- trict Attorney as the person responaible for the conduct this Mexican controversy, until they shall have of the prosecution, and that if other counsel were to be engaged it must be with the District Attorney's approval and by bis consent. The case of Captain Peabody, who is accused of having | that his speech will embrace the declaration ill-treated seamen and passengers on board the ship Nep- purpose to abandon Mexican tune, was again resumed yesterday in the United States bathe bed bis Imperial Commissioner’s office, before Commissioner Stilwell. Captain Peabody's counsel, in a lengthened address, con- | treat satisfactory to France. At all evenis, tended that the evidence was not such as should induce | we have reason to anticipate that the receipt of the Court to hold his client for trial. He said it was | the Emperor's speech will be promptly followed owing to the firmness and resolution of the captain that ph by such action on the part of Congress as the ship, which got disabled at sea, greatly to the danger of the passengers’ lives, was ever brought safely occasion may seem to demand. into port, At the conclusion of thie argument the Com-| That the Emperor's epeech will define a line missioner expressed the opinion that the defence should | of policy on his part satisfactory to our gov- be entered upon. Evidence for the captain will be given | ernment we have reason to believe from a late ee significant leading article in the official Moni- Judge Sutherland has granted an attachment agains the husband in the case of Ellen A. Price against Joo t | “ur, and from similar articles from other leed- Price, to show cause why alimony has not been paid ac | ing French journals and periodicals. The pur- cording to a legal decree. The defence in this motion | pose of Napoleon thus suggested we find very was, that the wife being deceased, she did not require ali- broadly expressed in the Paris correspondence mony; but the Indy hersolf was brought into court 84} oF the Independance Belge of December 31, in bodily refuted the assertion. ‘Tho General ‘Term of the Supreme Court will meet for | Which the writer says:—“We expect soon to see decisions on the 84 of February. in the journals which are the recipients of Charles Abernethy and Seth B. Hunt brought snits yes- | governmental inspiration, a note which may torday in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Car- | permit us to see, in no very distant future, dozo, against the Society of tho Church of the Puritans, | the evacuation of Mexico.” From the to tost the right of the latter to soll pows owned in deed re SS See se by the former for alleged non-payment of taxes, Tho | thority it further appears that “the highest litigation seems to be a sequel to the political excitement | Circles” in Paris “are becoming enlightened as that provailed in that church a few years ago owing to | to Mexico and very indignant as to Maximilian, the peculiar doctrines fulminated from the pulpit by its who is showing himself at the same time both pastor. ; Tn the Gourt of General Sessions yesterday Samuel B, | ineapable and ungratoful to France, to whom he Vance, charged with cutting John H. Payner with a ra. | Wes everything;” and that “it is even regret- zor, on the 2d of September, pleaded guilty toan assault | ted that in the framing of his government with a dangerous weapon. John C. Leonard was con- | precedents rendered all relations with Juarez victed of an assault and battery on Louis Meyer, of 373% | + 1 ” rther Dowecy; the ootiiisttaut”sileatiig, Bay Keglecmaigeasg fee ‘the biel emi fs pistol at him. Emil Geroline, indicted for cutting Charles | ®PPC®TS, are quite disgusted w indiffer Westfield in the log with a knife, on the 28th of October, | Cnce and ingratitude of Austria, the Power in North William street, was convicted of an assault. | most directly interested in Maximilian’s adven- cen prcesctd ee Oe ve ape bering ture, but a Power which has given nothing egler, charged w ing a pi 4 in Harrow! occasional 845 Greenwich street, on the 30th of November, was ac- samara hie. support ge ad a quitted, it having boen shown that he had no intention | ‘Journalistic paragraph.’ toshoot him. Robegg Kelly, indicted for cutting Thomas All these are but straws, and yet they are White in the ear a knife, was also acquitted, as he | sufficient to mark a decided change in the wind, acted in solf-defence. Harvey McLean, colored, madéa | and this change in reference to Mexico may charge of ropbery against Daniel and Solomon Johnson; bat the ovidence was 00 slight that the jury retarned a | 2VOlve & change of Louls Napoleon's policy verdict of acquittal without leaving their seats, in reference to Italy, the Pope, the Papal The triat of Francisco Gone Salvador, alias Pellicer, | States, Venice and-Austria. It is evident that alias Martinez, was continued yesterday in the Kings | Austria regards with suspicion this Merican county Court of Oyer aud Terminer, The ontire day | pregent to imilian, poleon begins was taken up in receiving testimony for tho prosecution. ¥ bi Soak tie ve feel that it is a bad investment, and that Maxi- Mr. Mills, Dr, Willetts, Dr. Cochran, Dr. Ayres, Spanish a all that be the Vice Consul De Arcy, Medam Flores, Ellen Sullivan and | Milian is doing can to turo Frank Vola gave their testimony. The counsel for the | tables upon his master, like the mock Prince of prisoner tried, but in vain, to shake the evidence of the | Como, with his extravagant presents and ex- Inst witness, His testimony is important. The trial. wilt: penditures. But, in addition to all these ombar- - | rasementa, the Emperor of the French is called Bofore the trial of Pellicer commenced Charles Schmidt was arraigned to plead to the indictmont charg. | Upon to determine how his experimental ing him with the death of Herman Weichner. He | empire in Mexico can be sustained when its eee oe fad counsol wasassigned him. —__| recognition in any shape or form at Washing- wore among yesterday's commitments been officially pronounced “impracti- by the city police justices ;—James 0. Craig, a youth of oP We resist the eighteen, lately employed in the office of the New Haven e cannot, therefore, = Steamboat Company, $1 Peck slip, on charge of having that, as Napoleon at Villa Franea made appropriated to his own'use the proceeds of a check for when the Italian war began to assume ‘one thousand dollars, with which he was intrusted by | proportions beyond his original estimates, the agent of the company to Ret cashed, and five hundred | now with his Mexican acheme, involving im ta doliars of which -he, im company with a companion, lookea for compli he will : had spent in riotous living, the remainder being ro. | UHloo! plications, he will gravefully covered; Richard Wilson, a boot-biack, aged seventcen, | Withdraw. We dare say, indeed, that the two ona chargo of burglariously entering and robbing | houses of Congress, in waiting for his anticl- tho cigar store 187 Pearl street; William Smith, Charles | pated announcement of this purpose, are doing Nelson and Charlies Parker, omployes of tho steamship 80 upon official information. Champion, on chargo of stealing and secreting, during a late voyage from this port, considerable portions of her Meantime the liberals in Mexico, heving re- cargo, some of which was recovered, and John Townsend | @uced their predatory warfare to something and Charles Birge, on complaint of passing on Eighth | like a regular system of operations, continue avenuo shopkeepers counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Maximilian aba n Pal cer Bank Soedeemeey is toms So. Selene ah John McDonald, the person who was seriously injured his ire the libe . in the during a free fight in Brooklyn last Tuesday night, died empire rails are up interior, at his residence iu that city yesterday morning from the | aud playing the mischief even in the suburbs effects of his injuries, Four men, charged with having | of his capital; as he withdraws his forces from dren implicated in the affair, aro now under arrest, | ‘the borders into the interior again, the liberals awaiting the rosult of the Corsacr's investigation, Hig. reoceupy the country behind him. In fact, his The last uprising of their couatrymon was celebrated last night by th» Poles residing in this city ata piace in | 2uthority in Mexico is limited to the places Ese-x strect, where addresses were delivered in the | and roads occupied and commanded by his DS as Ae Russian mnesions - @ resolution was soldiers, and every exposed detachment is oped to form 6 tovelavensry club, liable at any moment to be cut off by the in- A national soldiers’ and sailors’ convention assomblod . in Washington yosterdny, about one hundred delogates | Visible but omnipresent Juariats. The Mexi- from various States being present, A permanent organi. | Cans, through half a dozen generations, have zation was effected, and othpr businoss was transacted, | been trained to this business. It is their nor- General Logan was chosen President. mal condition. They have never known any- The City Inspector reports that thore have been 64 | thing else, Thus, against twenty or thirty deaths in this city during the past week, a decrease of ri h, Be Ta an cai six as compared with the inortality of the provions wos, | ‘housand French, Belgians, Turcos, and native and 34 loas than during the corresponding wek last | renegades, the liberals can keep Maximilian yoar, Of the deaths recorded 193 were of children lees | busy for twenty years to come. The savage than five years of age, The diseases were:—Consump- | alternative of their extermination only makes tion, 64; infantile convulsions, 33; marasmus, 18; pre: | the matter worse for Maximilian. Two hun- tonitis, 21; scartotina, 20; croup, 16; typhus fever, 12; | a4 op hi Bel diptheria, 14, and from external causes, 35. The intor. | ed of his Belgians, taken prisoners, have ments in the Potter's Field were 37, and there were 61 | protested against this barbarous system of re- deaths in the different public institations. venge. They say that “they came to Mexico The stock market was firm yesterday morning, but ' golely in order to act as a guard to our closed heavy. Governments were dull. Gold closed at | Heincess, but whom you (Maximilian) have 138% a 1383¢. 7 . ‘Thero was but a moderate degres of activity in any | forced ine against principles identical with Aopartinent of trade yesterday, and asa general thing | Our own;” and that, had the liberals followed Groceries were dull, | the law of retaliation, their lives would have vce sca pre x ae pi Aga and | been sacrificed. “Breuer,” in behalf of himself avy. Petroleum a jominal. On ‘Change ” four wos again dull and lower. Wheat was nominally | SN4 put hs diene a a erm Pork lower, , Lard was heavy, Whiskey was steady. en published in a liberal paper in the central Over New Nopirry.—It would seem that this bonny . o pommcgre an bane Spodsg — to return home, that they have had enough of “this iniquitous war,” and he calis “in the name of Belgium, whose honest confidence has been abused.” If such are the sentiments of Maximilian’s originally devoted Belgians, it may be imagined that his French soldiers are not over- anxious to remain in his somewhat too danger- ous and unprofitable service, and it may be supposed, too, that, apart from the great diffi- culty of the Monroe doctrine, the Emperor of | the French has had enough of his German Em- peror and empire over the Mexicans. The em- pire is a failure, and we expect in Napoleon's speech, which was doubtless delivered yester- day to his legislative bodies, the announce- ment that the experiment is to be abandoned, with certain indemnities to France. Regard- and 10 forth, we might have inscribed on the | 128 es cer" pence es tae cards of our new nobility, W. B, Astor, forty mil- | 7@ A@ s# matters os: = lions; John Jones, seventeen millions; Augustus conel 1 ER ST SA SE eh Adolphus Brown, ten millions; Theophilus | Boston ayp New Youn Gratirove.—We have Robinson, twelve millions; Hieronymus Dry | received at this office a contribution of two Goods, the largest merchant on the globe, and | gojjars for the two pilots who resoued the crew 80 on. and passengers of the ship Mary A. Boardman Our new nobility, who bave visited the White | in our harbor on one of the coldest House in connection with the New York col- | of this season. We perceive that old monarchies in the establishment of a new nobility, based not upon hereditary titles, as in the Old World, but upon what the individuals are supposed to represent on the books of the Internal Revenue assessor. A committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce waited upon the President the other day, as our Wash- ington correspondent relates, and sent in their cards, with the number of millions thoy were worth appended to their names; for example, “F, 8, Winston, President Mutual Insurance Company, representing seventeen millions dol- lars; R. H. Burdell, President of the Erie Rail- road, representing sixty millions; H. B. Claflin, the largest merchant on the globe.” This im- mediately suggests the idea of novel titles of nobility. Instead of using the prefix of “Lord” or “Sir,” or the affix of “Baronet,” “K. 0. B.,” idea thousand dollars donéted in Boston for the Wee Gawehe gota for a taane porate Ape op badger end a’ thet, and 0’ that; end especially for the tad crew of the Fredonia, which was catlentgrehtn of the vory ot New York. wrecked off that coast « shogs time seo. Both The , Was bound to New York witb her pas- sengers, and yet in Boston people conti*buted thus liberally to reward the British capta:®, while in the case of the wreck of the Boardman in the waters of New York harbor, the extent of the contribution to the two pilots who risked their lives to save the sufferers, who must have inevitably perished but for their gallantry, is one dollar a head, which has been sent to us— about six cents for the life of every person sal , NON members of the New York Chamber of Commerce who visited Pre- sident Johnson last week, represented them- selves as worth seventeen millions of dollars; and we do not perceive that either the Cham- ber or the Board of Underwriters, or any other body representing the commercial interests of this community, has done anything towards re- warding these two brave New York pilots for the fearful risk they ran in the cause of hu- manity. They ought to get ten thousand dol- - § appreciation in which the disinterested ser- vices of the New York pilots in this case are held. Siam, india, China and Japan—Interest- ing News from the East. will prove very profitable. doubled in amount since 1859; but on account of our war the English bave had a monopoly of the trade and its bonefita. Before the war the tonnage of our vessels engaged in com- merce with Siam Was within four thousand tons: Hil z { i i f i i i ! word, all through the East the : i : : i { i «28 2 z Ey Re ® magnificent change for the better are readity observable ; and as this country recovers from the natural exhaustion of a long and gigantic war, and takes a more active part in Asiatic enterprises, the developments will be most ex- traordinary. This is another argument, if eny be needed, for the immediate pacification and reorganization of the country upen President Jobnson’s plan. We have just lost four years of commercial progress by the war, valuable time by keeping helf of the nation out of the Union to gratify radical theorists and fanatical politicians. Has Our Mercantile Marine Actually Deetined? The subject of the apparent decline inthe American mercantile marine is attracting the attention of Congress anc the commercial com- munity. The Secretary of the Troasuyy hax submitted to Congress a statement that ship- and about one hundred and ten thensand tons destroyed by rebel cruisers. Thy aggregate ‘on oqalvaleg for f" and Be sbdald bé @awi, ling to ndviso {2 thelr favor any relaxation of the rigor of the law. | We do not altogether agree with the Seore- tary of the Treasury in his view of this matter, thé law by which a vessel once transferred from tite American flag to a foreign one—ex- cept in sp.clfic cases mentioned—was forbid- den to be rFegistered in the United States, was passed as eatly as the year 1797, At that time our commerce? Was & mere cipher com- pared with what it ow fs. The voyages of our merchant ships wer then confined to relatively limited sphere, 04d the circumnavi- gation of the globe was scarcei.¥ ever attempted by our ships. Steam navigatio# was entirely unknown. The idea of the ocem’tence of a rebellion as prodigious as that throwgh which the country has just passed could s.arcely have been conceived. In short, the entire aspect of American commerce has since that time been completely revolutionized. What was then but an infant has now assumed gigan- tic proportions. It should be further remarked in this connection that it was no fault of Amori- can ship-owners that they transferred their fing. The exigencies of the case demanded it. The nation was unable to protect their vessels on the high seas. ‘Their ships were at the mercy of a few but formide- blecraisers of the enemy, and they obviated the difficulty by adopting, what military men do in emergencies, a species of strategy when they have not the strength to copgwith a foe. Another point: These ship-owners did not transfer their flag to the enemy; they did not adopt the ensign of the adversary as a protec- tion. On the contrary, they inourred a double penalty by being discovered sailing under false colors. Some sailed under the British flag, some under the French; others again, in- discriminately, under the flags of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, and almost every other known flag. Some vessels that hailed from Hong Kong, China, were built and owned in Boston; and one, re- cently lost on this coast, hailed from Liver- pool, while she was owned and her insurance was paid here. In short, itis a reasonable view of the subject to excuse, if not d, the conduct of American ship-owners matter, for the reason that, while they protected own interests at no expense to the gov- us to carry on the conflict successfully. It must be remembered, also, that all these vessels, although ostracized by the Secretary of the Treasury, are still owned by American citigens; that they still, in comprise & | f i i Z 3 i i i i 3 = j i é from mere i a bagatelle it may receive after our com- fully restored to its Inte flour condition. If it be necessary to revise the navigation laws in order to restore them to the old flag, now that they again seck its pro- tection, by all means do 0; and thus we shall be carrying out, not only on land, but upon the eas, President Johnson's admirable recon Amacai Ball of the New York Fire De- Tus acapauy or” useto CROWDED WITH TES BEAUTY A#D PASHIOW OF THR METROFOLIS. 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