The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1866, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, r = Volume XXXI. ez AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY. THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street. —S0LON SHINGLE. LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 ud 730 Broadway.—Taxs Day Arter tus Weppinc—Tux RISONER OF WAR, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, 0} ite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Tae BatLoox Wapoing—tu Wivow's Victim. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Sixc- a Dancixa, Buruxsques, &0.—Tue Pewave Cuenns ur Wasuivaros. GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tae Ovp Scaoou ov Miveragisy, Bautaps, Musicat Guas, &c., at the Fifth Avonue Opera House, Nos. 2and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite tan Hotel.—Ermiorian Sincina, Dancing, &¢.— *AWRICAINE DY THK GERMAN OPERA TROUPE, ‘ANTS' MINSTRELS, M way.—Dan Bavant's New Srv: ‘wes, Borixsquas, &c.—Txar' HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya,—Ermorian Mux. SPRuLST—BaLcans, BuRLEsQuES AND Paxtomiuns. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M Hall, 472 Broad- Nagao Comicat- x5 LECTURE BY JAMES T. BRADY—Before the Bloom- fagiale ‘Catholic Association, 761 Eighth avenue,—Sonas or IRELAND, New York, Tucsday, January 1866. THE NEWS. CONGRESS, Yostorday’s Congressional proceedings wore vory inter: esting. In the Senate the first report from the joint Reconstruction Committee was submit consisting of ‘& proposed constitutional amendment, ar to others heretofore suggested in the House of Representatives, to | | base Congiessiona! re the entire number of population, excoptic as are by State laws denied the votir count of race or | , oolor. A petition was presented from the Poston Board | of Trade, asking the ige of an act suspending the operations of t ern States a sufficient Boston merchants to enforce debts due them .n th laws of the South: of time to enable their demands for on the b enking out of the rebellion, A petition of the same character from the Chamber of Commerce of this city was presented some | days ago, Senator Clark called up tho bil preserib ng quailfications for jurors, prc mation or expression of opi reports, shall not disqualify for du'y, aad stipulat- ing for the removal from any District 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 seciion of which is designed to cover the case of Jeff. Davia, was objected to as cx post facto legisla'ion by Mr. Sumner, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, concurring with Jhim, and it was laid over till Thursday. The resolution to refer all documents relating to the representation of the ox-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 remaider of the open session. After speeches by several Senators, the proposed amend- ment of Mr. Cowan, to exclude Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri from the Bureau's jurisdiction, . was defeated by thirty-thre> mays 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 rgia, to Switzer. land; Goneral 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 noriheastorn frontier, to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Colum- Dia 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 penstons to certain soldiers of the war of 1812, granting bounties to the volunteers of 1861 and 1862, providing for payment of national sol 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 Fatls, and fér the admis. sion of Colorado as 4 State. Mr. Stovens offered, but subsequently withdrew, owing to absence of am opportu. nity to explain it, @ proposition that our goverument loan to the republic of Mexicoa sum sufficient to pre- vent the establishment of a Mexican monarchy. Reso- lutions calling for the trial of Jeff, Davis and other rebels by court martial were introduced and referred to the Judicury Committce. ‘hore was also introduced and referred to this comnittee a proyosed constitu. tional amendment to guad against the office of Presi dent becoming vacxnt by providing for the succession to it in Case of necessity of the Supreme Court Judges. The same committee were insirected to report whether furthor legisiation 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 providiny 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 tho 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 Reconstract.on Committee, President Johnson was requested to com- municate any official information he may have regarding proceeding 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 accept the gift of a carriage and horses offored to him by New York merchants, but, after some debate, was laid over. The Roconstruction Committee presented the same report submitted to the Senate, and a long and earnost debate followed om the proposed constitutional amendment which {t contains, Mr. Stevens desiring to pross an im mediate vote on the question, which the democratic 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 Stato Legislature met at seven o'clock last evening. In the Senate the preliminary re- port of the State census for 1865 was presented and re- forred to the Apportionment Committer. The bill em 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 Assembly the report of the New York Prison Association was presented. Bills were introduced 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 Femal» Assistance Society, and to muthorize the towns on the line of the route to subscribe to and bold stock in the New York and Oswego Mid- fand Railroad Company. Mr. Littiojobn 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, An 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 is made by law; that our representatives in Congress be requested to urge the passage of an act appro- priating such a sam with a like eum which may hereaf. ter bo appropriated by the State, will be suMictent for the erection on some Isolated location in the bay of hospitais for tho reception of the sick, and warehouses for the storage of goods and merchandise arriving in the port of Now York in vessels subject to quarantine, and that the Commissioners of Quarantine be directed to report at an early day to the House an estimate for the construction of suitable eenorn for a permanent quarantine oni vo was also adopted calling Public Tastruction te seggrt - jug that merely the tor founded on newspaper i di i apy 1 Feat of vt what amendmonts are necessary to be made in present schoo! laws to seoure more effectually the educa | he would give twenty-four hours’ notice to the respec- we tion of every child in the State, dated.to the 7th of January. allies, are dence published to-day. A Paraguayan steamer, having despatches for Confederation, arrived at Corrientes, on the Parana, on the 28d of November last, and delivered the documents Though nothing positive concerning the nature of this mission had been learned, it was generally thought at first to mean peaco; but it seems not to have been al- Brazilians, it appears, have no great faith in the con- stancy of their Argentine and Uruguayan allies, who it is suspected aro liable at any time to turn around and | white in the ear espouse government scene of hostilities, allavailable troops and naval vessels, so’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 Argontinc consuls; for | Mr, Mills, Dr, Willetts, Dr. ‘ochran, Span: what cause ig not knowa. Pee : ii lien Sal = Freedmen’s Bureau for North Carolina, reports that the negroes generally of that State have made contracts for the year and are laboring industriously, that the holi- | be continacd to-day. days passed w.thout any ingurrectionary demonstrations on their part, and that their minds have become dis- abused of the erroneous impression that government in- tonds to distribute lands among them. remained cold, but did not approach the sevority of two weeks ago, atmosphert throughout the day. day. The Park was splondidly etsended, as-was the Fifth avonue pond. There will be a grand carnival on the lat- ter pond (o-dey. Last evening there was a vory suc- | had spent in. riotous living, the remainder being ro- ce sful one om Sylvan Lake, Hoboken. Roberts their repudiation of the lato O'Mahony Congress in this city. The twelve Senators issued an address to | Neisem and Charles Parkor, omployes of the steamship the circles before the adjournment of their late meeting 1m this-city. Itis rief, and gives interosting facts re- garding the contemplated military movement under General Sweeny and the Senatorial party. It is expected | and Charles Birge, on complaint of passing on Eighth An Trish poet ia about to produce a poem or ‘‘Marseillal-e Hymn’’—"Sweeny's Address to the Fenian Mon"—to be Sung by the Fenians around their camp fires. We give a remarkable stanza of this revolutionary lytic. noon and transacted a large amount of businels. A pe- Ution was recetved from residents of Eighty-sixth street, requesting the reopening of tho Eighty-sixth street fer- ty, which wag closed on the 10th inst, re eived fromthe Citizens’ Association against the pay- ment to City Inspector Boole of $9,650 for expenses 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. 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. Aldermen requesting the New York Members of Con- before the Hoase in relation to a new General Post Office Birthday, whereupon Mr. Pullman said he did not wish to serve on any committee with a gentleman who sold his birthright for a mesa of pottage. Pallman was excused from serving upon the committee, Kesolutions were adopted directing the Street Com- missioner toe piers on the North and East rivers renumbered. | Tue Comptroller sent a communication received from the | Corporation Counsel, stating that the appropriation of | ton thousand dollars was insufficient for opening strects, | and that fifty thousand dollars would be acquired for that purpose, The paper was referred. The President | announced the standing committees for the year, (NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1866, cur | that he desired to bearany argument on tho matter | ‘The Mooting of’ the #repch Chambers— | of — 7 re ll. ‘aiting in Wastington for the Speech 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 tho respective sides of the Rio Grande. mi cesecring pert” nanibocel skeet. cas baabedent’ | rae uttered falee end forged ends, with intent to twenty, and consisted principally of soldiers of the One | or alcohol, was postponed till the 80th inst, In refer- Hundred and Eighteenth United States colored regiment, | once to an action in which Collector D: at 4 for 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 beinga few killed and wounded in the engagement. The captors were sholled by | of the prosecution, and that if other counsel were to be a French war vessel on the day following thoir occupa- engaged it must be with the " & the tion of the town, but were not driven out. They how- District Attorney's appro 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 toits owners. General Weitzel also sent a guard of men to Bagdad to preserve order. imperial commander at Matamoros, has commenced DEW | tended that the evidence was not such as should induce earthworks and the mounting of additional guns, and the Court to mnt fe has sont a rather threatening lotter to General Weitzel, hold 'bis client for trial. He enid it) was who on his side is putting Brownsville in a condition to bo prepared for whatever may occur. General Mejia, the By the steamship Liberty, which arrived at this port yesterday from Havana, we have Vera Cruz advicos to the 13th inst, They show, among other things, a de- be entered upon. Evidence for the captain will be given plorable condition of the imperialists at the Pacific port of Acapulco, the republican chief Alvarez having them completely hemmed in and cut off from supplies. Be- sides this, fever was prevailing among them to a foarful extent, and many of the troops were deserting to tho republicans, Inthe 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 eight o'clock this morning. The news is Its chief points were ¢m- braced in our telegraphic summary from Halifax, pub- ished in the Heap on Sunday, Addit onal particutars relative to the rumors noticed in he Herat of Sunday and yesterday, of prospects of an carly termination of the war between Paraguay and the given in our Rio Janeiro correspon- om board a measonger from President Lopez, with President Mitre, of the Argentine in his charge to the chief naval officer of the allies. lowed to cause any cessation of allied operations, The 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 sky continucd unclouded, and the and invigorating, §hough sharp, There wae 6xcellent skating on all tho ponds yester- California Fenians have telegraphed to President. o be the winding up manifesto of tho present campaicn. The Board of Aldermen hold a session yesterday aftor- A protest was ocurred in the Albany investigations. Communications It gives the number of recorded births in the The Board of Councilmen held a short session yester- ay, and concurred tn the resolutions adopted by the ress to endeavor to effect the passage of the bill now in this city, The Prosident announced the Committce { Arrangements on the Celebration of Washington's On motion Mr. to repair Tompkins park and te have A meeting of the Health Commissioners was held yes terday, at which tho probability of the cholera was dic- cussed, and the Resident Physician, in accordance with « | resolution adopted by the Board, was appointed to pro- ceed to Albany and call the attention of the Governor and Legisiature to the matter, A resolution was also adopted inviting the Mayor and Health Oficer of Brook- lyn to attend a meeting of the Board to be called for tho 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 Colambian Marine Insurance Com- pany, one of the oldest of the joint stock marine insurance institutions of thie city; was announced yesterday. Its Uabilities aro estimated to reach six million dotlars; but Mr. Phelps, the agent of the company, says that the assets will be sufficient to meet all these and leave a handsome surplus, It was found necessary to clove the concern in consequence of recent very heavy losses, ite payments on account of Anglo-rebel piratical depre- dations alone, it is sald, aggregating over & million dollars, ‘The tibet case in which Mr. A. T. Stewart, the woll known dry goods merchant, is the complainant, and Mesers. Matsell & Mackellar are the defendants, waa brought up before Judge Dowling, at the Tombs Police tive counsel. of Napoleon on Mexico. In the United States Ciroult Court, yesterday, before} From our European news by thé Asia it ap- Judge Shipman anda jury, William Kano withdrew his Plea of not guilty, and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having uttered forged vouchers against the United States, and was remanded for sen- tenee, The trial of William Chase Barnoy, Reginald Chauncey and Bentham J. Fabian, who are accused of evade payment of tax on about three hundred barrels recovery of duties alleged to have been illegally levied, Judge Shipman said that in cases in which the govern- ment had an interest he would only recognize the Dis- trict Attorney as the person responsible for the conduct and by bis consent. The case of Captain Peabody, who is accused of having ill-treated seamen and passengers on board the ship Nep- tune, was again resumed yesterday in the United States Commissioner's office, before Commissioner Stilwell. Captain Peabody's counsel, in a lengthened address, con- owing to the firmness and resolution of the captain that the ship, which got disabled at sea, greatly to the danger of the passengers’ lives, was ever brought safoly into port. At the conclusion of this argument the Com- missioner expressed the opinion that the defence should to-day, Judge Sutherland has granted an attachment agains the husband in the case of Ellen A. Price against Joel f Price, to show cause why alimony has not been paid ac cording to a legal decree. The defence in this motion was, that the wife being deceased, she did not require all- mony; but the lady herself was brought into court and bodily refuted the assertion. The General Term of the Supreme Court will meet for decisions on the 8d of February. Charles Abernethy and Seth B. Hunt brought snits yes- torday in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Car- dozo, against the Society of the Church of the Puritans, to tost the right of the latter to sell pows owned in deed by the former for alleged non-payment of taxes, The litigation seems to be a sequel to the political excitement that prevailed in that church a few years ago owing to the peculiar doctrines fulminated from the pulpit by its pastor. : In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Samuel B, Vance, charged with cutting John H. Payner with a ra- zor, on the 2d of September, pleaded guilty to an assault with a dangerous weapon. John C. Leonard was con- victed of an assault and battery on Louis Meyer, of 3744 Bowery, the complainant alleging that he discharged a pistol at him. Emil Geroline, indicted for cutting Charles Westfield in the leg with a knife, on the 28th of October, in North William street, was convicted of an assault, Theso prisoners were remanded for sentence. Charles Hegler, charged with firing a pistol at’Martin Harrowhut, 345 Greenwich street, on the 30th of November, was ac- quilted, it having been shown that he had no intention toshoot him. Rot Kelly, indicted for cutting Thomas a knife, was also acquitted, as he acted in self-defence. Harvey McLean, colored, madéa charge of ropbery against Daniel and Solomon Johnson; but tho evidence was so slight that the jury returned a verdict of acquiltal without leaving their seats, The triat of Francisco Gene Salvador, alias Pellicer, alias Martinez, was continued yesterday in the Kings county Court of Oyer aud Terminer, The ontire day was taken up in receiving testimony for tho prosecution. Vice Consul De Arcy, Madam Flores, Ellen Sullivan and Frank Vola gave their testimony. The counsel for the prisoner tried, but in vain, to shake the evidence of the Jast witness, His testimony isimportant, The trial wilt- Boforo the trial of Pellicer commenced Charles Sclimidt was arraigned to plead to the indictment charg- ing bim with the death of Herman Weichner. He pleaded not guilty, and. counsol wasassigned him. _ The following were among yestorday's commitments by the city police justices;—James 0. Craig, a youth of eighteen, lately employed in the office of the New Haven Steamboat Company, 31 Peck elip, om charge of having. appropriated to his own/use the proceeds of a check for ‘one thousand dollars, with which he was intrusted by the agent of the company to get cashed, and five hundred doliars of which he, im company with a companion, covered; Richard Wilson, a boot-black, aged seventeen, on a charge of burglariously entering and robbing the cigar storo 187 Pearl street; William Smith, Charles Champion, on charge of stealing and secreting, daring a late voyage from this port, considerable portions of her cargo, some of which was recovered, and John Townsend avenue shopkeopers counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Fall River Bank. John McDonald, the person who was seriously injured during a free Aight in Brooklyn last Tuesday night, died at his residence in that city yesterday morning from the offects of his injaries, Four men, charged with having awaiting the rosult of the Corsucr's investigation. The last uprising of their countrymen was celebratod last night by th» Poles residing in this city at a place in Eaeex strect, where addresses were delivered in the Polish and Rosgian languages, and a resolution was Adopted to form a revolutionary club. A national soldiers’ and sailors’ convention assembled in Washington yesterday, about one handred delegates from various States being present. A permanent organi- zation was effected, and othpr businoss was transacted. General Logan was chosen President. The City Inspector reports that there have been 434 deaths in this city during the past week, a decrease of six as compared with the mortality of the previous woek, and 34 leas than during the corresponding werk last year, Of the deaths recorded 193 were of children leas than five years of ago, The diseases were:—Consump- tion, 64; infantile convulsions, 33; marasmus, 18; pere- tonitis, 21; scarlotina, 20; croup, 16; typhus fever, 12; diptheria, 14, and from external canses, 35. The inter- ments in the Potter's Field were 87, and there wore 61 deaths in the different public institations. The stock market was firm yesterday morning, but closed heavy. Governments were dull. Gold closed at 138% a 1989y. ‘There was but @ moderate degree of activity in any department of trade yesterday, and asa general thing the markots were dull and heavy. Groceries were dull, but without essential change, Cotton was dull and heavy. Petroleum was dall aod nominal. On ‘Change flour was again dall and lower, Wheat was nominally lower. Corn was entirely nominal, Pork was lower. Whiskey was steady. Lard was heavy, Our New Nowirry.—It would seem that this | republic is about to attempt a rival:y with the 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 they 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. Clafiin, the largest nerchant 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 af_iz of “Baronet,” “K. ©. B.,” and #0 forth, we might have inscribed on the cards of our new nobility, W. B. Astor, forty mil- lions; John Jones, seventeen millions; Augustus Adolphus Brown, ten millions; Theophilus Robinson, twelve millions; Hieronymus Dry Goods, the largest merchant on the globe, and 80 On. Our new nobility, who bave visited the White House in connection with the New York col- Court, yesterday afternoon. The only persons examined were Mr. A. T, Gtewart, the complainant, Mr. Wm. G. Lambert and Mr. Courtland Palmer, merchants of this city, Thelr testimony went to show that, from the read- ing of the article in question, they were fed to believe that Mr. Stowers was the person referred to, The case lectorsbip, evidently agree with Burns ip the iden that Hee mavens got fora ate and a’ that, and @’ that; and especially for the WOR Caged WROD srevmED Tudse Dowling stine ' collectorehio of the vor} of Now York. tion deputies had held a meeting to the Mexican question.” important subject. It is generally we have reason to anticipate that the occasion may seem to demand. significant leading article in the offi ing French journals and periodicals. the evacuation of Mexico.” From who is showing himself at the same owes everything;” and that “it is ev impossible.” The French journals, “journalistic paragraph.” * All these are but straws, and ye sufficient to mark a decided change in pears that the French Senate and Corps Legis- latif had been summoned to assemble ow the 22d January (yesterday) and that the opposi- at which “they had decided to direct their efforts chiefly At the same time, from information received from Washington, we Infer that the Committee om Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives will withhold any report or recommendation in reference to this Mexican controversy, until they shall have learned what the Emperor Napoleon has had to say to his Legislative Chambers upon this very believed that his speech will embrace the declaration of a purpose’to abandon his imperial Mexican enterprise, and an explanation to cover his re- treat satisfactory to France, At all events, receipt of the Emperor’s speech will be promptly followed by such action on the part of Congress as the That the Emperor's speech will define a line of policy on his part satisfactory to our gov- ernment we have reason to believe from a late cial Moni- teur, and from eimilar articles from other lead- The pur- pose of Napoleon thus suggested we find very broadly expressed in the Paris correspondence of the Independance Belge of December 31, in which the writer says:—“We expect soon to see in the journals which are the recipients of governmental inspiration, a note which may permit us to see, in no very distant future, the same authority it further appears that “the highest circles” in Paris “gre becoming enlightened as to Mexico and very indignant as to Maximilian, time both incapable and ungrateful to France, to whom he ‘en regret- ted that in the framing of his government precedents rendered all relations with Juarez it further appears, are quite disgusted with the indiffer- ence and ingratitude of Austria, the Power most directly interested in Maximilian’s adven- ture, but a Power which has given nothing towards his support except an occasional t they are the wind, and this change in reference to Mexico may involve a change of Louis Napoleo: n’s policy in reference to Italy, the Pope, the Papal States, Venice and-Austria. It is evident that ‘Austria regards with suspicion this Mexican present to Maximilian, that Napoleon bogins to feel that it is a bad investment, and that Maxi milian is doing all that he can to tables upon his master, like the mock | Como, with his extravagant. presents _penditures. But, in addition to all these embar- turn the Prince of and ex- rasements, the Emperor of the French is called upon to determine how his experimental empire in Mexico can be sustained recognition in any shape or form at fon le.” when its Washing- has been officially pronounced “impracti- We cannot, therefore, resist the con- that, as Napoleon at Villa Franca mada |. when the Italian war began to assume proportions beyond his original ostimates, so now with his Mexican scheme, involving him in unlooked for complications, he will gratefully withdraw. We dare say, indeed, that the two houses of Congress, in waiting for his antici- pated announcement of this purpose, 80 upon official information. are doing Meantime the liberals in Mexico, having re- ‘duced their predatory warfare to something like a regular system of operations, continue to give Maximilian abandant employment. If he advances his troops to the extremities of his empire the liberals are up in the interior, and playing the mischief even in the suburbs of his capital; as he withdraws his forces from been implicated in the affair, are now under arrest, | ‘the borders into the Interior again, the liberals reoccupy the country behind him. In fact, his authority in Mexico is limited to the places and roads occupied and commanded by his soldiers, and every exposed detachment is liable at any moment to be cut off by the in- visible. bat omnipresent Juarists. The Mexi- cans, through half a dozen generations, have been trained to this business. It is mal condition. thing else. Thus, against twenty their nor- They have never known any- or thirty thousand French, Belgians, Tarcos, and native renegades, the liberals can keep Maximilian busy for twenty years to come. The savage alternative of their extermination only makes the matter worse for Maximilian. Two hun- dred of his Belgians, taken prisoners, have protesied against this barbarous system of re- venge. They say that “they came to Mexico , solely in order to act as a guard to our princesa, but whom you (Maximilian) have forced to fight against principles iden tical with our own;” and that, had the liberals followed the law of retaliation, their lives would have been sacrificed. “Breuer,” in behalf and fellow Belgian prisoners, in a rem of himself onstrance “to the representatives of the Belgian nation,” published in a liberal paper in the central State of Michoacan, calls upon them to inter- vene, and says that the Belgian Legi to return home, that they have had ion desire enough of “this iniquitous war,” and he calls “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 difi- culty of the Monroe doctrine, the Emperor of | the French has had enough of bis 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 ment that the experiment is to be abandoned, with certain indemnities to France. Regard- ing Louis Napoleon as a sagacious statesman, we can, as matters now stand, reach ao other conclusion. Boston asp New Yous Gratrrcepe.—We have received at this office a contribution of two dollars for the two pilots who rescued the crew ae ratlabt Bit fy” Sod Be GGA Be Goet The . , was bound to New York with her pas- | ling to advise ‘ct their favor any rolaxation of sengers, and yet in Boston people contiibuted | the rigor of the law. We do not altogether agree with the Seore- tary of the Treasury in his view of this matter, Thd law by which a vessel once transferred from t®e American flag to a foreign one—ex- cept in spcific cases mentioned—was forbid- den to be registered in the United States, was passed as eatly as the year 1797. At that time our commerc* Was & mere cipher com- pared with what it wow 1s. The voyages of our merchant ships wer® then confined to s relatively limited sphere, 22d the circumnavi- gation of the globe was scarcei¥ ever attempted by our ships. Steam navigatiod was entirely unknown. The idea of the occm’tence of rebellion as prodigious as that throwgh which the country has just passed could scarcely have been conceived. In short, the entire aspect of Amerivan commerce has since 4 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 Amerf- 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 saved. We observe that some 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- lars apiece, and they have received only one dollar. We boast a great deal about our su- premacy as a commercial metropolia; but here is a case in which our merchants leave them- selves open to the charge of positive mean- ness. They flaunt before the world their wealth as counted by millions, and yet they take no notice of these brave fellows who ex- posed their lives to rescue the crew and pas- sengers of a ship almost within sight of the metropolis itself. We hope that this stigma will not be permitted to rest upon the reputa- tion of our representative commercial bodies, but that something will be done to mark the appreciation in which the disinterested ser- vices of the New York pilots in this case are held. Siam, indi. hin: d Japan—Interest- ing Nows m the East. The intelligence from the East, which we published yesterday in the letter of our Bang- kok correspondent and our extracts from Asiatic papers, was of unusual interest. Our correspondent shows that a vast field for Ameri- can enterprise is open in Siam. The country exports rice, sugar, pepper, horns, hides and other articles, and imports almost all its luxu- ries and comforts. A good market for all sorts of muslins, cloths, hardware, machinery, arms, crockery, jewelry and miscellaneous ar- ticles exists there, and if properly developed will prove very profitable. The imports have doubled in amount since 1859; but on account of our war the English bave had a monopoly of the trade and its benefits. Before the war the tonnage of our vessels engaged in com- merce with Siam Was within four thousand tons, of the English tonnage; but the rebellion, en- couraged by English merchants, drove us out of the business altogether. As the time is approaching .for @. revision of the. treaty between this government and the Siamese, our correapqndent calls the attention of our Commercial classes fo.the important interests involved, and suggests that an ombassy of high character should be sent to sce that our commercial intercourse is put upon sn equal footing with that of England and of Russia. His letter is exceedingly valuable to those con- cerned in commerce and manufactures, and we hope that it will lead to some pragtical ant juilcidus actiofi in the mattor, = From India we learn that the convention be- tween England and Tarkoy relative to the overtand telegraph has been signed at Con- stantinople. Thus, while the Latin race, under the patronage of the Emperor Napoleon, is making unsuccessful efforts to establish Ger- | man prince upon the rains of a Mexican re- public, the Anglo-Saxon race is pushing those inestimable blessings—the telegraph and the railroad—into the remotest parts of the eartit. In such enterprises the Russians cordially join, and that government has recently placed a war steamer at the service of the Collins Com- pany, and has issued special instructions to the Russian authorities to render the company every possible assistance. In the same budget comes the intelligence that Sir Rutherford Alcock, the English Am bassador, has consented to ask permission fing. The exigencies of the case demanded it, The nation was unsble to protect their vessels on the high seas. Their ships were at the mercy of a fow but formide- ble craisers 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 congwith 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 8 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- poo), while she was owned and her insurance was paid here. In short, itis 9 reasonable view of the subject to excuse, if not d, the conduct of American ship-owners matter, for the reason that, while they protected their own interests at no expense to the gov- ment, they kept open our commerce with for- eign countries and enabled us to receive, al- belt under a quasi-foreign flag, materials of - war—saltpetre, for one article—that helped us to carry on the conflict successfully. It must be remembered, also, that all theae vessels, although ostracized by the Secretary of the Treasury, are still owned by American citizens; that they still, in comprise & portion of the American me marine; that they. are insured in American insurance companies, and that all losses are paid by those companies, In reality, our commerce has not been depreciated by the inot of these vessels adopting in an oxtremity another flag. The same amount of capital and the same number of vessels remain here. What the government may have lost by the non-receipt of tonnage duties from them, while under another fag, is a mere bagatelle when cof pared with what it may receive after our com- nietce is again fully restored to tts later flour ishing condition. If ithe necessary to revise the navigation laws in order to restore them ta the old flag, now that they again seck its pro- tection, by all means do 90; and thus we shall from the Emperor of China for the laying of a | ers and flags of railroad from Canton to Pekin. This will en- oe aga. ne sud wo howe apy tirely revolutionize the Celestials, and do py =a ali" oh” oe mirror = more to civilize them than a dozen wars or @ | the triumphal car of the Porsian Decpas, wouie pate million missionaries. A railroad is now in | {hum sug CM Me. a's seagate actual operation in Turkey, and our corres. } cont scroll of gas jets the following ption:— pondent there recently sent usa graphic de- scription of its route. More singular still, 9 street railroad is being built at Calcutta, and the cars for it were manufactured in this city, of the American pattern, and inscribed in the Hindostanee language, but in the American style. Japan sympathizes in these new move- ments, though in a very limited degree; but the opening of two new ports on the terms of the existing tariff, although effected by the display of a strong English and French force, proves that the idea of Oriental excle siveness is being rapidly dissipated. In a word, all through the East the indteations of ® magnificent change for the better are readily 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 any 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, and, although we have gained compensating advan- tages, still we cannot now afford to waste valuable time by keeping heif of the nation out of the Union to gratify radical theorists and fanatical politicians. eveveceeegrorocoreeacosnts cceebeeee New Youk Free Deranrwent Fenn. OLE LO NT TOCE RENE DOLO DED IONE PORE: Between these two lines was 4 large eagle, and under them the hi hi axes, band, eet plate va ickly taken posecssion and the form was qu! \y en of by a bewildering crowd of promenaders and dancers. re were twenty-five dances and as many prome- rammé, which were net ie ‘wee sma’ hours” had were three committees—namety, and Police Committee, of which ex. Ganther was chairman; the Floor Mr. Daniel Slote, Chairman, and the Saloon Mr. Henry B. Venn, Chairman. The of Souk tat eae of Sonmtens colors, inthe order im ch they are placed. police arrangements, under the superintendence of Captain Brackett, were condacted aad order and en, it every whore: There could have been no jess than five thousmad Present, and that there were one oght hundred tickets |, eneh admittis and two ladies, five thousand will ft actual number that attended the Academy evening The scene from the second tier brilfiancy and . The numerous. platform below ¢ — ae the mazes whirling round im the or dashing. Trane's eas fal eee cy H Hl i i : Es i : 2: . Has Our Mercantile Marine Actually Deetined? The subject of the apparent decline inthe American mercantile marine is attracting the | many other distinguished gentersem were if attracting attention of Congress anc the commercial com- munity. The Secretary of the Treasury has submitted to Congress a statement that ship- ping to the amount of nine hundred theusand tons has disappeared feom our lists during the past five years, from all causes; eight bundred thousand tons transferred to foreign owners, and about one hundred and ten thensand tons destroyed by rebel cruisers. The aggregate amount of American tonnage before the war was, in round numbers, five “millions of tons, mat admirably got up. ‘acurred, regarding, ae it mast Governor 0.flig arrived here 10-4ay, ‘0 '« eon te on mn é = ie, pa ny Ne mossyge » pale |