The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1866, Page 4

4 : NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPER CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, OFFICE N. Ww. ADWAY_ THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome ‘SoLoN SHINGLE—LivE INDIAN, Matinee at 134. CY RUSHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE. Nos, 728 30 Broadway.—Tak Brack Domino-—Between You AND THE Post. D'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Tae DsBUTANTK—GLANCE AT New York—Ikisa ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Graxp Orentic, PDeawaric AND CONCERT PERFORMANCE FOR TH BENET jr DisaBLep Soxpiers. “y SAN FRANCISCO 3 ‘eiropolitan Hovel.— Gracian Atrs By Nari TRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite HOPIAN SINGING, DANCING, &0.— Antists. ' TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowerv.—Sinc- 356, Dancing, Rurvasques, &c.—Tue Mountaws Devin. Matinee at 24g o'Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tae Orn Scaoon STRELSY, BaLvaps, Musical, Gems, &c., at the Fifth “ Nos. Zund 4 West Twenty-fourth st. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- fway.—Dan Bryant s New Stomp Sri aro CoMicaLt- mies, Buxiesquxs, &c.—Tur Hor or Fasiion, MOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erntoriax Mine @reersy—Baisaps, BuuLesques aNp Panroumes. ‘NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @pen (rom 0AM. ull P.M New York, Saturday, February 10, 1866. THE SOUTH PACIFIC WAR. Highly important intelligonce regarding the war be- tween Spain on the one side, and on the other Chile, and, ‘we have now to add, Peru also, is furnished in our advices by the steamships which arrived here yesterday from Aspinwall and Europe. From Panama we have iad particulars of the alliance, heretofore alluded to in ur columns, lately entered into by Pera with Chile et the Spaniards. ‘The alliance had not only been ompleted, but war against Spain had been formally declared by Peru, and her flect had sailed to effect a Junction with that of Chile, with positive orders to imme- diately commence hostilities, The Peruvians were pre- ypared for any attack that might be made on their coast, ‘strong and well mounted batteries, said to be officered ‘an part by men who participated in our Jate war, , \baving been quietly constructed at assailable points, and hey had taken precautions for securing reprisals in case Meir enemy should succeed in getting a temporary foot- old in any locality. The embarkation of resident Span- fiards from Pern for foreign ports had been prohibited, jand passports were required of all persons leaving the ‘wovntry. The excitement of the Peruvians was of course ieroat, and the war fever ran high. It was expected that (Bolivia and Ecuador would alzo soon be added to Spain’s @rmed antagonis's A late report is to the effect that all ry els of the Spanish blockading fleet on the Chilean ‘evast had been concentrated at Valparaiso, and an early Dombardment of that city was regarded as among the ossivilities, General Kilpatrick, our Minister to Chile, Bad arrived at Callao, Pern. ,{ In Spain the news of the capture of the Spanish ‘teamer Covadonga by the Chileans has caused the smoxt violent ferment, A warlike address has been voted dy the Cortes, instructions have been despatched to the Spanish Admiral to avenge the national honor, and the ‘iatrid papers absolutely foam with rage. One of the amiliest of these journals asserts that “Spain puts up with Ansutts from nobody, and is not bound to show consider- ation for any country in the world.’’ A more violent con- temporary demands that “ wherevor a palace or a house ‘©+ « hut inbabited by these bastard children of ours, by wthese parrcides, may be seen, there must the Spanish phot fall’? whilst a provincial paper gravely warns france, England and the United States “to stand aside; dor whoever comes between Spain and her foes is Spain's Woe.” . ‘The Chilean meeting lately held in York had potted forth lively fears in Spain for the of Cuba, the generat exctement had i further ang- ted by the appearance off the Spanish coast of"two jrou-clad frigates, supposed to be the rams recently sup- tied by “Alabama” Laird to the Chilean government, THE MEXICAN QUESTION. ‘The correspondence and advices from Paris as to the Provent status of the Mexican question in the French eapital ars prequant, with promises of a pewcefil solo- Bion of the difficulty, The univers! impression appears @o ve that Napoleon bas abandoned Maximilian to his fate, and only waits for some loophole securing the Prench bondholders from loss to get out of Mexico as icky as possible, The official Blue Kook laid before the Corps Legislatif declares in the most unequivocal terms that the French troops are not in Mexico on the Privciple of intervention, and that as soon as possible they w.l) be withdrawn, La Pran ¢ repeals, in substance, ame declaration, with a saving clase about “those Dovncial measures ch ha associaied the eredit of France with that of Mexico,” and Dirats prophesies a speedy termination of the intervention, As acommencement of the final abandoninent of Maxt milisn, the semi-official papers are beginning to repa- responsibility for his acts, A significant aMicle of is natare from the Obnsti wiionnel is given in our Paris Beticr. Abundance of friendly compliments are show ered on the United States from all sides, aud the p wer of our reconstracied republic ix frankly acknow!- etzet. A tens peaceful view of the Mexican situation appears to b> obtaining grodnd at ont nitional eapital. Or n advices represent that in Congressional eir ace to evacna tion aro regarded as evasive and disingenuons, and it is Ahouglt that he does not really intend to withdraw his @roops unless our government will recognize Maximilian @r enter into some other compromise in the matter, Divuy military men enteriain the opinion that our force ‘on tho Rio Grande will be increased at once, and that our fe Tuirs there will be immediately placed « war footing. Wille the question of war or peace Is disoussed pro pnd con, the entente cordiale between the Frew h I @ion and our leading public men bas suffered no decline, A brilliant bail was given in Washington Inst night by fhe Marquis Montholon, the French Miniser, which was Biionded by a large Dumber of our most prominent citi- geod, including tenators, Repreve army and avy officers, and many others of distinction, * Meantime Mexican aifiirs on the Riv Grande still wear ® confused aspect, The rigorous proceedings inaaga gated iu Texas by General Wetzel ‘or the puntshment of ned in the as arrests annon carried into seized. The Mexican guy Americans who may have been Piagdul rad are being continued. have been mady, and some pieces Moevas by the raiders have bee gepidlican chiefs, Escobedo, Cortina, Catieles and Men- don, with their forces, have disappeared the Rio Prande frontier, and their whercabouty, on | 4th inst. , as a mystery, There were rume at President Doarex had made Cortina General-in-Chief, and that the oi hors were besieging Monterey and Tany The im- P-rislists of the border were expecting 9 reinforcement pi two thousand French troops. Goneral Weitzet ie suc- Fredo n command of the United States forces on the Pio Grande by Colonel Brown. EUROPE. " The Cunard steamship Anstratasian, from Liverpool January 27 and Queenstown January 28, axcived bere Desierday, with two days later news Though the escape of Prim, the Spanish insergent it, into Portugal is now placed beyond a doubt, the Becnpen ‘Was still uneasy, and martial law continaed » be vigorously enforced. Russia had sought the mediation of Prussia te enable hor to resume diplomatic relations with the Pope. ) United States five-twenties were quoted at 66 a 66%¢ im fondo on January 27, CONGRESS. } bo the Senate yesterday petitions for 4 protective tasitl yond for a reduction of the tax on agricultural imple. wore presented. The credentials of Mr. Goorge Houston as Senator from Alabama were prosented Waid om the table. A resolation was adopted calling the Seoretary of War fora compendium of medical atiaies collected during the rebellion. Mr. Garrett OMpred a resolution calling fora committee to in- qnte Charges of fraad against the Treasury Depart. fh at -ottom ements. and arged its adoption. contending NEW YORK HEKALD,, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10), 1866. city and Aspinwall, in competition with the Pacific Mai! | advantages to be derived would not suffice to | The Cholera in Politics—Motropolitan Stoamship Company, is given in to-day’d Huma. The ‘now enterprise is entitled the Now York and San Fran- cisco Mail Steamship Company, has a capital of four million dollars, and bas six steamers ready to be put in that thege officials had been guilty of the grossest cor- ruption, Be was replied to, among others, by Mr, Fea- sendem, who stated that many of these charged had been thoroughly inquired into, aud had proved wholly groundless, The resolution was discussed, without being disposed of, till the expiration of the morving hour, when the reprosentation basis constitutional amendment ‘Again came up, and Mr, Reverdy Johnson took the floor im opposition to it, his speech consuming nearly the whole of the remainder of the session. The Senate ad- journed ti!! Monday. In the House of Representatives tho bill enlarging the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau, as amended by the Sevate, was taken up and concurred in, So the bill’ now only needs the Preaident’s signature to become a law. Consideration of the Naval Appropmation bill was re- sumed, and it also was passed, after being considerably amended. Of the appropriations for the New York Navy Yard, nine hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars were stricken out, and the total amount retained was one million and three hundred and forty-one thou- sand dollars. The greater part of the appropriations for the Boston yard were retained, nearly all of those for the Philadelphia yard, and all of those for the Washing- ton yard. Those for the Norfolk and Pensacola yards were nearly all stricken out. A message was received from the President, in response to a resolution of in- quiry, stating that 1t would be incompatible with the public service to furnish at present the information calied for relative to the charges ayaint Jeff. Davis and other leading rebels, Some time was spent in considera- tion of private bills, and also of the General Bankrupt bill, which latter was not disposed of, A bill to give cor- tain army officers three months extra pay was intro- duced, During the course of the day’s proceedings Major Generals Osterhaus, Crook and Ward all appeared on the floor, and were introduced to the members and enthusiastically received. The House will be in session to-day. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a communication from the Land Office Commissioners, adverse to the claims of the Stockbridge Indians, was presented. Notice was given, among others, of bills to provide for filling vacancies in the office of our City Tax Commissioners and to pro- vent ashes and garbage being thrown into our streets, Bills were introduced to incorporate the Fulton Ferry and West Thirty-second Street Railroad and to authorize the sale of our present and purchase of other quarantine property. A resolution authorizing a joint ballot of the two houses on next Friday for a Metropolitan Police Commissioner to succeed Mr. McMurray, whose term ex- pires on the 1st of March proximo, was offered and laid ever. Tho Senate adjourned till Monday evening. ‘The Assembly proceedings were quite interesting. A communication from the State Medical Society favoring the Metropolitan H alth bill as it passed the Senate was presented, This bill was reported. to the House, with amendments, and a minority report on it, recommending the Senate bill, unamended, was also submitted. There was a discussion of considerable length on the question of receiving this latter; but finally it was accepted, and both reports were referred to the Committee of the Whole, and the bill was made the special order for next Tucsday. A few other bills were reported from committees, among them that to amend the act relating to destitute Catholic chil- dren in this city. Several new matters were introduced, including bills to authorize our Supervisors to raise money by tax, confirming the act of our Common Council authorizing the extension of the Third Avenue Railroad track, and incorporating the Now York Annual Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Metro- politan Transit Company. A resolution concurring with the Chamber of Commerce of this city in recommend- ing Congress to mcrease the pay of naval officers was in- troduced and referred to the Federal Relations Commit- tee. A preamble and resolutions regarding the French Emperor's recent remarks on the Mexican question were offered, but what was their parport, or what disposition was made of them, we are unable to state, as the tole- graph, after giving us a few lines of them, broke off the report abruptly, ia the middle of a sentence, and bas not yet resumed the connection. THE CITY. The snow storm which commenced on Thursday night continued through a good part of yesterday, till a fleecy covering of about four inches had accumulated onthe ground. It{afforded, however, but poor promise of sleighing, as it was succeeded by a mild, thawing temperatire and showers of rain, placing the streets of the city again ina shocking condition, The pavements were once more seas of mud, slush and filth, and pedes- trians, horses and vehicles floundered wildly through the Hquid compound, Late at night another fall of snow set in, and continued at an early hour this morning. A well attended meeting of the United Service Society was held lust evening at Masonic Hail, 114 Kast ‘Thirteenth street, at which resolutions endorsing the policy of President Johnson were adopted. A speech was made by Colonel W. 8. Hillyer, on the condition and general sontiment of the Southern people as ascertained by him on a recent trip thronghont the late seceded States, A committee of thirteen, comprising several of the most Prominent representatives of the army from this vicin- ity, was appointed to form a basis of reorganization and to make preparations for a general demonstration in favor of the policy of Presitent Johnson. ‘The case of Senor MacKenna, charged with a bréach of the neutzality laws of the United States, is eet down for hearing in the United States Cireuit Coart, before Jndge Shipman, on Wednesday next, In this morning's paper we publish a reply of Marshal Marray to the com- munication of Senor MacKenna which appeared in yes- terday’s Henan, Mr. Frederick Wood, a carriage maker of this city, yesterday had a verdict rendered in his favor in the Sn- preme Court, before Judge Clerke, in an action brought to tecover a vehicle, valued at four hundred and fifty dollars, some time ago seat to Baflalo by him in pursu- anee of a parchase made by a man representing bimself ua Asa C. Talcott, son of a wealthy merchant of the lat- tor piace, and nephew of Dean Richmond. A check on Taleott senior was given in payment; but it was soon found, as alleged, that the purchaser was a swindler, and that his representations were false. Judge G. G. Barpard, in the Court of Oyer and Termi- ner, ¥ “ay, sent several prisoners for different offences to the State Prieon and the Penitentary, The Grand Jury presented to the court a resolution in which they state that the collision between an express car of the Harlem Railroad Company and a passenger car of the Third Avenue Railrond, on the 6th of December last, at the junction near Fifth street, which resulted in the death of » youn man, was occasioned by the absence of lights on tn ss car, ond they recommend that the proper authorities should use all necessary means to pre- serve the lives and limbs of the citizens from sueh occur- renees in future, An action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas yestorday, by the owner of a canal boat sunk im the ’ c river by colliding with the draw of a bridge, to re ron a marine imeurance for a voyage between Relleville, N. J., and Philadelphia, Another case involving the rights of dramatists and heir works came before the Marine Court yesterday, Mr. Andrews, an actor, claimed that he was the author of “Monte Cristo,” and brought an action agunst Mrs. Wood to what he said was due to him from her production of this play, The action was dismissed, ‘on the ground that he could not prove that it was his version wii eh had been produced. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Francis Dafly, for burglary, was sept to the State Prison for five years, Adam Smith, who stole « horse and wagon, was sont to Sing Sing for two years, The trial of Charles Koch, charged with defranding the Manhattaa Gas Com- pany, by introducing a false connection with the main pipe in his premises, was commenced, and will be con claded this morning. In the Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday, before Jodge Dikeman, the following prisoners were sen tenced:-—Joseph Fisher (colored), convicted of burglary in the second degree; sent to State Prison for five years and ix months G. W. Wilson and Frank Richards, for burglary, State Prison for two years and six months each. ‘The latter, a young man, succeeded in surreptitiously teaving the court room, and made good his escape. James McGinnis, who pleaded guilty to 9 charge of as- saalt and battery with intent to Kill, was sentenced to the State Prison for five years and six montha, In the Brooklya City Court yesterday, before Judge Reynolds, Thomas Collins, a returned volunteer, con- victed of am assault with a ragor, with intent to kill policoman RH. Andrews, of the Forty-third precinet, ‘was sent to State Prison for the term of two years and ‘six months, The Ninety-sixth rogiment of New York Volunteers, numbering five hundred and thirty officers and men, Col- one! Moffat commanding, arrived in this city yesterday ‘morning, and soon afer proceeded to Hart's Ifand, where they will receive their nal papers. A sketch of the new line of steamships which le soon to commence ruuning on the California lige, between thie F ‘The Inman tne, steamship Etna, Captain Tibbitts, will sail to-day at noon for Queenstown and Liverpool from pier 44 North river, Mails close at the Post Office at half- The steamer Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s lino, will sail at three P, M. to-day for Galveston. Tho fine steamship Missouri, Captain Sherman, belong- ing to Garrison & Allen’s Atlantic and Mississippi steam- ship line, will sail at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct from pier No. 8 North river. ‘The stock market opened strong yesterday, and after- wards declined, but closed firm. Gold weakened to 13934 8 13936 at the close, Business was dull yesterday, and in many articles scarcely anything was done, as a general thing, but domestic produce was irregular. Petroleum was dull and almost nominal, Groceries wore Cotton was dull and lower. was active and at ful! prices, Wheat was unchanged. Corn was dull, heavy and lower. easier. Pork was irregular. Lard was steady. Whiskey was inactive and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. In pursuance of orders, General Hooker, commanding Department of the East, has just caused the military districts in seven States to be discontinued. In our Washington news will be found interesting memoranda of the conference in Washington between the Congressional Committee of Ways and Means and representatives of the Canadian government in reference to propositions of the latter for a renewal of the Reci- procity treaty. As already announced in our columns, the Canadians have been completely unsuccessful in their efforts, and the conference was a few days ago ter- Imported goods were firm On 'Change flour Oats were a shade The Reconstruction Convention of Texas, the only State now remaining under a provisional government, assemblod at Austin on Thursday of this week, in pursu- ance of the proclamation of Provisional Governor Ham- ilton, and organized. It will recognize the abolition of slavery and give the benofits of the courts to the freed- men, and some of the members are in favor of granting A State constitution for Nebraska has been framed, and is to be submitted to the people of that Torritory on the 2d of June next, when an election for State officers A coroner's inquest was held yesterday at Bloomfleld, N. J., upon the body of the man killed by the railroad catastrophe near that place on Thursday, The jury cen- sured the company for culpable nogloct as to the state of the bridge, the unsoundness of which caused the acci- A fire occurred on Thursday night in the works of the Kingsland Oil Company, at Greenpoint, Long Ialand, destroying about twenty-five thousand dollars worth of property, principally machinery. A tobacoo warehouse at New London, Connecticut, and twenty thousand dollars worth of tobacco which it con- tained, were totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night. It is reported that oil has recently been struck near Hartly, Australia, and that wells yielding one hudred and forty gallons per day are now in operation there, Important from the South Pacific and in it by that.means greater wealth than its Spanish conquerors ever dreamed of in their most golden visions. We yesterday received important news, by the arrival of the New York from Aspinwall, and the Australasian from Liverpool, concern- |: ing the Spanish-Chilean war from both the countries immediately interested therein. The news:from Aspinwall states that Peru had concluded a treaty of alliance with Chile, and that the Pesnvian and Chilean fleets were concentrating for s combined attack upon the Spanish squadron, which at last accounts. was off Valparaiso. The adjoining republics of Bolivia and Kouador were also expected to join the alliance against the’ mother country, It may therefore be expected that all the South Ameriean republics on the Pacific will com- bine and make common cause in the war with tenable purpose for the maintenance of vast foreign dependencies—whether they ate colo- nies in fact or in name—than the oxtension of tho trade of the mother country. Nationshold their colonies purely and simply as customers, and regard their political relations principally as they entitle them to especial priviloges and favors. And the question of colonies is as to whether or no the trade gained by such peculiar privileges is sufficient to pay fhe necessary expenses that the mother country is put to. .That would have become a very important question. as between Mexico and France. High as the trad between the two countries would proba- bly have gone, there would always have boen, from many. influences, a beavy score on the other side, - Why, then, should France build up a trade with Mexico, having always such a heavy possibility against it, when she could build up a better and larger trade, unembar- rassed by any such doubts or difficulties, but possessing on the contrary double benefits, and, Our advices from Enrope by the Australasian inform us at the samo time of the startling effect produced in Madrid by the intelligence of the destruction of the Spanish man-of-war Covadonga by the Chileans and the subsequent suicide of Admiral Pareja. The ministry and the press received the news with the utmost excitement and indignation, and active mea- sures ‘were in preparation to wipe out the dis- grace that the arms of Spain had received in the Pacific. It is proposed to immediately increase the war standing of Spain to a degree which will crush out at once all resistance on the part of the South American republics. The campaign against Chile is, in fact, to be prose- cuted with the utmost vigor. Curiously enough this news reaches us at the very moment when the popular sentiment of the United, States has relapsed into com- placency over the sagacious and peaceful policy which Napoleon intends regarding Mexico. Spain, although she had the wisdom to retire from Mexico and afterwards from St. Domingo, how madly rushes into war with Chile. She met with a reverse, and in her chagrin is determined to prosecute the war with renewed vigor and energy. Chile aided by Peru, she will find an antagonist united and organized, with a disciplined navy already as formidable as the Spanish squadron. Is she now to act in opposition to the prudent dictates whieh controlled her con- duct under the circumstances which led to her withdrawal from Mexico and St. Domingo, and wage a war founded apon a mere punc- tilio, and certain to be attended with difficul- ties and an expense prejudicial to her finances and her political powef? With serious inter- nal troubles, amounting almost to @ revolu- tion at home, a war with nations three thou- sand miles distant will inevitably lead to bankruptcy and the probable overthrow of the government at Madrid. ties, supplying her on advantageous terms with those of which she stands in need? Why should she seek by difficult and dangerous paths, and by armies, to open a way for her merchants in Mexico when she can put them in relation with a richer people, without difi- culty or danger at all, by a commercial treaty. Tue Last Kick or tar Uxperoxounp Rant RoAD.—Notwithstanding the admirable and conclusive report of Chief Engineer Craven,’ showing the impracticability of the under- ground failroad, we notice that the Albany Legislature, lobby and some of the city presses are still urging the passage of the bill. While the Hxratp has conscientiously opposed the Utopian scheme. It throws cash imto circula- tion which might otherwise remain locked ap in the coffers of the rich, and is in that ways compensate for the damages arising from con- structing halfa mile of the road. We had sup- posed the measure shelved forever; but in these efforts of its friends to keep the thing alive we see the expiring throea—the last kick of the gasping humbug. Those legislators who show their contempt for public opinion by keeping the concern any longer before the Legislature should be remembered when the time for re-election arrives. The Commercial Aspect of the Franco- Mexican Question—Our Commorcial Re- lations with France. The announcement that the French troops are to leave Mexico will be received with more satisfaction throughout the country than any other piece of European news has been in a great while, for, as the troops go, no one can doubt that Maximilian must follow closely, and that thus we will be entirely rid of this European attempt to control the destinies of an American State. France, in thus withdraw- | ing her forces, though Yate, acts wisely, and the more wisely because the only legitimate or profitable object that ehe could have in Mexico can be better seoured by the establishment of more intimate commercial relations with the United States, There was byt one practical permanent ad- vantage that France could have hoped to secure in the appropriation of Mexico. In every re- spect except a commercial one that colonial empire would have been a burden and an evil; more a burden than Canada is to Great Britain, and as much an evil to the French people as the original possession of the same country and of Peru was to the people of Spain. Mexico would have made her appearance on the wrong side of the government accounts annually, and her mines would have proved a delusion to the people, would have demoralized the industrious laborers at the loom and delvers in the vineyard, and would, by caus- ing @ neglect of the proper resources of France, have caused a reduction in her na- tional wealth greater than all the gold and silver would supply. But, commercially, the venture might, perhaps, have been a good one, and more than have restored the balance. Napoleon points to the: fact that al- ready the commerce between France and Mexico had been raised from twenty to over seventy millions of francs. That is, perhaps, only an indication of the direction that the change in the commercial relations of the two countries would take. It would have gone a great deal higher, and France, keeping to her- self the exclusive trade with her extensive and naturally rich dependency, would have found Indeed there is in the present age no other while giving a market for her own commodi- Commerce between France and the United States, though assuredly great, has probably not reached a fraction of the development of which it is capable. The annual gain of French agriculture, manufactures and business activity generally reaches in all probability two thousand million dollars. One quarter of this—five hundred million dollars—is in wines, cotton, woollen and silk manufactures, jewelry, bronzes, porcelain, leather and gloves; and though all of these are articles that we constantly bay from France, and many of them that we can get better there than else- where, yet the average annual trade from France to this conntry, in all articles together, ranges below forty millions. Of the peculiar products of France we buy « very great deul Jess than we might be indueed to buy, and a great deal less also than there is demand for— supply in this place only meeting demand by excessively high and forbidding prices. Of one handred and sixty million dollars worth of wine annually made in France, about three million dollars worth comes to the United States in an active year. It is certain that this trade alone might be developed with benefit on every hand to an incalculable extent, and we might become not only France’s best cus- tomer for wine, but a customer better than all others together. And, as it is estimated that France could actually produce a great deal more wine than she now does, this increase of the American demand, by stimulating that latent power, would be a real and positive source of wealth. It is the same with all other French products. The real extent of the trade in them that might be developed here at present hardly guessed at even by the merchants who reap a continual harvest of exorbitant profita. On the other hand France has an equal need of our products, especially of such staples as cotton and tobacco, The fall exploration of the possibilities of a market in. this direction would stimulate in France doth the plough and the loom, and would give that thrifty people good reason to rejoice that the Mexican expedition had been both an- dertaken and given up. Since the Emperor cannot give France a new colonial customer on this side the Atlantic, be may find » great deal better, richer, and less troublesome one in the United States. Congress should for alittle Senators who, like him, train with the anti- Weed faction. But they were unable to change its features and finally went for it, together with @ portion of the democratic side. The bill, as it passed that body, creates a Metropolitan Health Board, to be composed/of the four Po- lice Commissioners of this city and four physi- cians, three to be taken from this city and one from Brooklyn. It is against this feature of the bill that the Governor and bis anti-Weed asso- ciates are directing all their fire. The Tribune has taken up the G@ght in earnest in behalf of the Iatter—the object being to exclude the Police Commissioners from the board and give the Governor the power to appoint the Health Board, subject to the confirmation of the Senate. have renewed their tight with increased. vigor iti thé"Adsonibly, and have carried their point in the party caucus by a vote of sixty-three to eleven.. Thus, while the Weed faction has full control in the Senate, it can only muster eleven votes in the Assembly. The result will be that the House: will pass the bill giving the Gov- ernor the power to appoint the Board, while the Senate stands committed against that policy and in favor of the Police Commissioners being members.of that Board. Now ali this contest and struggle for the mastery simply means po- Titical power and supremacy; in fact, such it is admitted to. be by the partisans on each side. The idea that the threatened visitation of the cholera or the: health of the city bad anything to do with the measure was hooted down in the caucus. Ifthe bill becomesa law, with a proviso that the Governor shall appoint the members of the Board, the radicals consider under the belief that their political life or death depends upon their securing it. amusing and important game for those who are playing it; but what is to be done in the meantime to protect this city against the the opening of spring. Nearly one-half of the session has already expired, and nothing has tn te A NR ea The New Steamshtp Line. COMPANY—STATEMENT OF ITS AND PLANS, CAPITAL, SHIPPING, ETO. ’ During three or four weeks past there has been muc& said upon the street regarding the new line of steamships soon to be placed upon the route between this'city and San Francisco, via Aspinwall and Panama, in competition with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s line, for the lucrative traffic between the Atlantic States and Califor nia and Oregon, In view of these statements we have taken the trouble to obfain the accurate data regarding the organization and capital of the new company, and of the capacity of the steamers to be employed by {t for the transportation of passengers and freight, as well as of their general fitners for tho service required of them. ‘The new company, which is ealled the ‘New York and San Francisco Mail Steamship Company,” is organized under the laws of the State of New York, with a capitas Of $4,000,000, of which $2,600,000 is taken'by the “Now York Mail Steamship Company” in payment for the six steamships named below and one-half of their wharf property im this city. The cash value of the ships and other property thus transferred to the new company is estimated at $3,100,000, or $600,000 in excess ofthe sum paid for it, the benefits of whieh accrue to the stock of the new company, of which the New York Mail Steamship Company is the largest owner. Of the remaining $1,500,000 of capital (all of which will be the working capital of the company) $1,200,000 is to be taken by wealthy capitalists in this and the Now England’ States, and $300,000 fe to be offered to the merchants of California in sume ef one thousand dollars to five thousand dollars. ©f the one million two hundred thousand dollars, more than one million bas already been taken, There are nine directors of the com- pany, as follows:—Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts; William Sprague, of Rhode Island; G. V. Fox, of Washington; William H, Aspinwall, William 8, Williams, James A. Raynor, A. C. Kingsland, Jr., and Jacob B. Jewett, of New York. The remaining place is at present reserved for a» prominent banker in California, to whom it has been offered by letter, and whose reply will soom + be racelved. If not accepted by him it is to be offered to Calvin Burr, Esq., a wealthy capitalist of this city. The capagity of the company’s steamships for the transportation of passengers and freight is as follows:— Health B! An effort has been made during every ses- sion of the Legisleture for the lqst six or seven years to secure the passage of a Health Bill for this city. On eachand every occasion the measure has been defeated in one house or the other. One year it willpass the Assembly, and be defeated in the Senate. Another year the Senators will approve tle measure, but the Assemblymen reject it. Thus it vibrates back and forth between the two houses, its fate in- evitably the same in the end.. Unfortunately the measure is so managed that the politics of the city, instead of the health of our people, is the great point aimed at. The Albany legisla- tors and the lobby look upon it as a rich placer. The party managers desire to make it a formi- dable machine to aid them in carrying out their party schemes, and direct all their efforts to accomplish this object. They care nothing for the health of the city, and only consider the political power and political patronage which oan be derived from a department of that kind. It is upon this rock that the mea- sure is shipwrecked at every session. Its fate in the past bids fair to be its. fate in the future, until it is: divested of all party or partisan character, and considered only as a measure for the health, and not the politics, of this metro- lis: bas a ER as this scheme has been 4 pet measure of the republican party, it might be supposed that it would have been certain of becoming a law at any period for the last three or four years, that party having had a working majority in both branches of the Legislature, and some of the time two-thirds of each house ; but the fact that it has not passed proves the cross purposes and the antagonism which exists between the factions of that party in the State. This jealousy and contest between the factions in the republican party has de- feated it heretofore, and the same thing is cropping out this year to a greater extent than on any former occasion. The contest between the cliques is waxing warm, and although a great deal has been said on both sides, we have been unable to obtain’a correct idea of the real position of affairs until the republican caucus in the House on Tuesday evening. It seems that the Weed, Seward and Raymond wing of the republican party have proposed a health bill which suits their purposes, and which has* been approved by nearly a unanimous vote in the Senate. It was opposed at the several stages of its consideration in that body by the Governor and those oa i] send wqn) wang Mississippl, fron-kere Merrimac, iron-screw The above is exclusive of the store rooms, ice rooms and baggage rooms, which are arranged: mm each of the steamers with ample capacity for the requirements of the eervice. In addition: the steamers sent to the Pacific are to be fitted with cattle rooms upon the forward guards, in the same manner as those now running in that service, The passengors’ state rooms are spacious and well ventilated. The New York Mail Steamship Company, which has a capital of $2,000,000 paid in (with the privilege to in- crease it to $4,000,000) and a surplus of $1,000,000, will continue the line between Now York and New Orleans with the steamers which they will still own and others which they will build. This company will also run the line between New Orleans and Aspinwall, for which service they will build two ships of small size and-well adapted to that-trade. City Intelligence. ‘Tax Licoux Mxpat which the American Numismatic and Archwological Soctety have had in preparation will be issued on Monday next, the anniversary of the birth of’ the Iamented statesman. The society, fully imbued “with the apirit of the occasion, have appointed Dr. —— iL. Perine as for the purpose of going to Wash. ington to attend Capote we < gag dima dent Johnson an elegant copy of the ‘Toe Soumers’ Concent ann PRRPORMANCK AT THE Aca- DEMY oF Music.—The entertainment which has ‘been ar- ranged under the patronage of many prominent persons, for the benefit of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Employment thy of Mose, Ths programme van excellent one aa wi m™; . 1e o an excel ope, Although defeated in the Senate, the radicals | SUupuoss repay all such at may expend a dollar in the seworthy object of the amie by purchasing a ticket. of will be distributed among the mont destitute of the disabled véterans in the birthday of President Lincoln. Drxo or Hrs Ixsvraxs.—On the 17th of November last Humphrey Desmond, a tad fourteen years of age, then employed in the looking glass frame manufactory 448 Water street, was accidentally canght in the belting of the wheel, and sustained a compound freeture of the right arm and other injuries, trom the effects of which he died in the New Y ital at am early hour yes- terday morning. Coroner Collin held am inquest on the body, and the rendered a verdict of accidental death, Tux Gsxuax Dewocricy.—The General Committee of the German Democratic Union party was oranized om ‘Thursday evening last at the Germania Assembly Rooms by the lection of the following offiecre for the ensuing ear: — . . President—Jobn J. Freedman, of the Twenty-first ward. Vier Prerident:—Valentine Cook, of the Twentieth ward; George Rauch, of the Righth ward, Secretary—Magnus Gross, of the Eleventh wi Treamrer—Dr, Wm. Schirmer, of the Fifteenth ward. Evenmxa Scnoot, Exnmrriox,—The closing exercises of the Nineteenth Ward Evening school took place last evening, in the school building. They consisted of sing- ing, declamation, dial ogaes, and: addresses from gentle- men in attendance. Notwithstanding the unfavorabiq ature of the weather there was a large number of the friends of the children present. ‘Phe exercises were gone through in a manner highly creditable to the papils and teachers. Tiunteexta Warp Evexine Sciiot. Despite the miser. able state of the weather, on Thursday evening last there was a very pleasant time at the evening school of the Thirteenth ward, in be a street, the occasion boing the awarding of certificates and preminms to the more deserving — Short ee nm ome nongs were Suny a very agreeable time ly was enjoyed, The princi Mies White, with pg © oo certotihed und obhsine niet, Mis R.A. Daltow and others, were untiring in. their efforts to have every- thing pass off smoothty,, and it is but justice to say that their efforts were cntitely successful. Meersc or tHe Voenveg Associates, —This aesocia- tion, which is composed of the ex-officers and men of the Soventy-first regiment, National Guard, held a pre- liminary meeting last evening at the armory in Centre street. Colonel Wm. H Allen was chowen President, and Colonel H. F. Liebenan Secretary pro fem. ‘The ob- ject of the meoting was then stated by Colonel Allen ax boing twofoll—i. ¢, to perpetaate the memory of the first Colonel of the regimeut, Vosburg, and to erect a monument to bis memory; also t act in concert with the Seventy-first regiment As a military body. several new members ed the rolls, A vote of thanks was given to the officers of Company FE for the ase of the rooms; alse tothe Hexac for notice of the meeting. Owing to the in- clemency of the weather the attendance was not so large: aa was expected. After the transaction of other bust. ness of minor importance the meeting adjoarned to noxt Friday evening, the 16th thet, Tue Gerwax Cooms.—These gentlemen, who .are re- Prevented by a proteetive organization, which ber been in existence since Inst Augast, helt a ball at the Harmonie Garden, in Kesex street, last night, which, in ite way, was quite a sueressful aflair, The or: man Cooks’ Society is composed of about sixty members; but the nusaber of German cooks employed te the hotels in this city is quite large. This was the first aginwal ball of the German cooks, SviciDR RY Sitoorine.—Jobn M. Hall, reid ng at No. & Harrison street, commitied suicide about foar o'clock yesterday afternoon by shooting himse’. Deceased placed OF core to his head and WILK Sth effect ax to — almost at once. He leavon% wife and five dren. Daovres Dran—A man named. Michael O'Brien dropped dead yesterday while cailir ge for & drink in the liquor store of Paul Madden. Deer aged war for a long time conneeted with the muntcip appotice of the Sixth ward, He was fifty-one years of age. that they will be able to control the party in the State. If, on the other -hand, the Board is constituted as the Senate has fixed it, then the Weed-Raymond wing is expected to be master of the political situation, Thus the war of cliques and factions goes on, with a fair pros- pect of the measure dropping somewhere be- tween the two houses. Each wing of the party is struggling like a drowning man for a straw, This contest for the mastery may be a very ravages of the cholera? We are threatened with a visit from that dread scourge on been done to provide adequate quarantine facilities for our bay, while the measure to place the city in a condition to stay its mission of death is now being thrown back and forth by the politicians like a shuttlecock. What we want is the adoption of some efficient sani- tary measure which will enable us to place this metropolis in a condition to stay the ravages of the cholera. This should be done imme- diately, and before the approach of warm weather, or that scourge will have aceom- plished its work of devastation long before anything is done toward regulating the sani- tary affairs of this locality. Ifthe Albany poli- ticians are determined to make everything sub- servient to party, then let them pass a resolu- tion conferring all the powers which are now vested in the Board of Health and Health Com- missioners, on the latter, until the question be- twe-n the factions is settled. The Commis- sioners can then go to work purifying, cleans ing and regulating the city. We can then be prepared for the worst, and the political cliqnes can quarrel over the Metropolitan Health De- partment just as long they please. Nobody but themactves will care what they do, which con- quers, or whether, like the Kilkenny cats, they destroy each other, with their health department measure included. We should then be amply Amuneme: wes. THR MATINEE 4 TODAY. Arrangements have been r gade by the managers of some of the most attractive ayd'woll ordered places of amusement in the city for ' Ae complete entertainment of their crowds of friends, purtiontariy the Indies ond young folk, at bridiant mr Ainee performances (his after neon, At the Brondemy the Aire Mr, Jotin R Owens will appear in the fine thi Ae act comedy Solon Shingle, at a great family m9 ginee, Mr Owens will play Solon in the Bowery, at palf-paattwov’elock. Johnny Meck Das @ aptondi A gncews th the establishien', At (he matiner to" ay Tony Pastor's finds wil see the Sheep Stea' pr, che Tombs Lawyer, Matranonia! Sweets, the Mow sain Devil and & triple broadswort combat. 2 pfoduce some quizzical interh py A cto, heigl a Porro ra Fabia ‘tee iwerden. ‘ of the condition of this Fo Rags aa the quarantine, and that with- delay. Ualess we have. relief soon the cholera will have full sway in its mission here, and ita rvvages exceed of any former | Apvick 10 Dowsiwa—Stick to your fried, ronsted and sewed, and lot slope, fly