The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARUH 8, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Tr AT J)_ | came aint te Pare Pari makes to important state VEW YORK HERALD. —— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR pee eae A OFFIO, Y cORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. = — ——— ARR TS a eeeeey eNO. OT MENTS THIS BVENING, EATERS. browdway, Foxry Wives. Lvow RUSHTON” fos, 723 W YORK THEATRE, N. aod 150 WER ye yo! ee BROADWAY street. —Tur Vict uesp Acoma WOOD'S THEATRES Hotel.—Aatoxewxxt; , opposite fhe St. Nicholas mE: Oe ANGE Suge ACADEMY OF TH ee dae oe Fam ERRRE FUARCATS), Irving SAN FRANCISOO MINSTRELS, igh, otal erator an Sneha aa ae JWNOCENCE aD \_ TONY PASTOR'S OPEKA HOUSE, EN tai Daxoinc, Bowcesquey, £0.—Tus /GBORGE CHRISTY'S—O.p Scuoor \Queernatey, ‘Bactas, Musicar Gams, dc.. 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Tn the Senate Mr. Sumey presented a petition for an Antornational copyright law. tne consideration of Sen- Stor Davis’ resolution to appoint ™ investigating com- mitieo to examine charges of frand agmast agonta of the Froodmen’s Bureau was postponed until to-@ay. A reso- lution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to in- quire what legisiation is necessary to protect officers of ‘the.army from arrest and prosecution by civil courts for acts done in obedience to orders from superior officers while in the United States servico was adopted. At one o'clock the pending constitutional amendment relative to representation was taken up, and Mr. Sumner, of Massa- chusetts, baving the floor, spoke at great length. Mr. Doolittle followed in a brief speech in faver of represen- tation according to the number of voters. The bill for the admission of Colorado. as a State was taken up, read @ second time, and made the special order for Monday mext. {n the House the Sonate bill regarding the Court of Claims was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill to continue the Freedmen’s Bureau bill in force ‘was referred to the same committee. Mr. Stevens asked" for the reimbursement of Pennsylvania for moneys expended for war purposes, The bill reimbursing ‘Miasouri for money similarly expended, which passed ‘the Sonate yesterday, was sent to the Committee on Ap Propriations. The House also concurred m the Senate resolution consonting to the transfer of Berkeley and Jef-. ferson counties from Virginia to West Virginia. The House, in Committee of the Whole, resumed the con- aidoration of the bill regulating trade with Canada. A sharp discussion arose on the subject, when Mr. Biaine, of Maine, declaring the bill to bo entirely Canadian, mot home, intereste moved to stnke out | Spnered slauge, which was not done, by a vote of 68 nays to $8 yous, A tribute to the memory of Gotuusi T. 3. Bowers was paid by Mr. Washburne, ‘The Reconstruction Committeo is continuing its labors ‘with zeal. Yesterday a large mass of testimony was submitted by the committee to Congress. It chiefly re- ferred to the condition of the States of Texas, Florida ‘and Louisiana, and embraced the evidence of Lieutenant Wilson Miller, Major. General David 8. Stanley, ex-Gov- omor William Marvin, Rev. W. Hobb, Thomas W. Conway, Goncral Doolittle, “Mr. John Covode and others. ‘ THE LEGISLATURE. A joint caucus of the Union members of the Lagisla- lature, held at Albany last night, discussed the Senate vii House resolutions on national affairs, the one aus- taining and the oiler denouncing President Johnson and his policy, and finally adopted the series endorsing the President by a vote of 44 to 43. The telegrams giving the ddaila of this important action of the caucus reached ws at a6 late an hour this morning that wo were unable to give them in full. The New York Legislature is the first to endorse the President, The select committee of the Senate to which was referred all resolutions rejative to national affairs have reported a series of resolutions, embracing the opinions that no rebellious State is entitled to repro- #eatatioa through other than delegates of unquestioned Tyalty; that cach house of Congress ts the sole judge of the qualifleations of its members; that the policy of the coantry should b» such as to make every subject of the government not only free, but equal before the law, and that suffrage in the District of Columbia should be ex- tended to whites and biacks alike. The resolutions wore made the special order for to-day. Bille were introduced providing for the widening of Third street, Brooklya, and the constructionof a railroad in Fifth avenue and other streets of New York. Bills setting aside the pler and slips at the foot of Broome street for market boata, and for the better protection of seamen in this port and harbor, passed the Senate. Bille to in- corporate the Bond Deposit Company of New York; to prohibit our Mayor and Commonalty or Board of Supor- visors from disposing of any real estate of tho city; to incorporate the New York and Rondout Navigation Company; to improve the Broadway pavement, and Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn; to amend the Common BSohool act, and to increase salaries of Interproters in the Now York policeand district courts, were roported in tue Assombly, THE FENIANS. ‘The news from Ireland, though of a negative charac- tor, i# important. Up to tho 224 of February some hun- dreds of suspected Fenians had been arrested and thrown into prison, but no fighting of any kind had taken place, except the shooting of an odd policeman. Among the arrested persons were General Joha H. Gleason, of the United states Volunteer army, hws brother, Captain Glea- fon, and Vieo Head Centre P. J. McDonnell, of Dub- Hin—the Intter supposed to be, next to Stephens, the most important man in the Irish organization, Notwith. mianding the entire absence of an act of overt Hostility on the part of the Fenians, the Eng- Hah government wore relating none of their precantions. Forther reinforcementa were under orders for Ircland, ‘and there was a rumor that the English volunteer rifle. ‘men would be celled ont for duty. The London Times pudlishos a remarkable article, characterizing the Fenian Movement as virtually an American invasion of Ireland, pnd declaring that the conduct of the United States gov. ernment in permitting the open sale of the Fenian bonds padmits of no excuse, The Parle Pat Opinion Na- Pionale accord a warm support to the Fenians, and regard Sis as a favorable time for squaring up outstanding ac- pounts with England. * A Maes meeting of Fenians was held in Brooklyn last @vening on the grounds opposite the City Hall. There ‘were & couple of mands ore ted, from which the amomblage was addressed by severn! speakers. Colonel O'Mahony was provent and was enthusiastically received, | Im this city the Fenians are also active, Arms and Moneys are being collected in large quantities and moet ings held nightly. The Ocoan Steamship Firemen's Association have donated $3,000 to the cause. Demon- ptrations of significance have also taken place in Newark, [New Haven, Philadelphia, Paterson, Norwicn and other wiles, 9* EUROPE. ‘Tho Iqman stedmsbip City of New York, from Liver. pool February 21, via Queenstown February 22, arrived this port yesterfay. The addreas presented in the French Corps [ogisiati(, Bo anawer to the Emperor's spesoh, contained a strongly yrded paggerauh on the Mesican auesion On pho w & menta—one that Mr. Seward bad guarantoed United Stmes neutrality in Mexico on certain conditions another, that Maximilian bad made such arrangements ‘as would enable five thousand French troops to be re- called by the end of May. News from Antworp states that the Peruvian iron-clad Independencia had beon allowed to sail out of the Scheldt, whore she had been detained. ‘The difficulty between ‘Austria and Prussia was growing genie London money market United States five- twenties continued to advance. They touched 69% on the 22d ult.—the highest point they have ever reached THE CITY. ‘The inquest into the cause of the death of John Irwin, who was fatally stabbed in his liquor store, No, 68 Main street, Brooklyn, on the morning of the 26th ult., during a drunken fracas, was held yesterday afternoon by Coroner Lynch, of that city. After hearing testimony the jury retired, and after a short deliberation returned a vordict that deceased came to his death by stabs in- flicted with a knife in the hands of Joseph Ferguson, the brother-in-law of the deceased. The prisoner was remanded to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury of Kings county. Mr. James Collins, jeweller, of No. 98 Fourth street, Brooklyn, E. D;, who waa bratally beaten and robbed by some parties unknown, at his place of business, on last Saturday evening, expired yesterday morning, at three o'clock, at his residemve, Ng. 168 Concord street, near Weaghington, in that city. @ the post-morém examina. tion of the body it was discovered that his skull was fractured. deceased leaves a wife and three children, No clu bas been discovered to the per- petrators of the mur. In the case of thy steamer Meteor, arrested as being Chilean privates; and Called up inthe United States District Court ysterday morning before Judge Betts, Mr. Courtney, wpresenting the government, announced his readiness so proceed on the trial of the exceptions to the answorf the claimants, claiming that the excep- tions must disposed of first. Mr. Choate, represent- ing the aimants, stated that himself and Mr. Evarts wore oth engaged in another court, and at his request the District Attorney consented, and the case was set own for trial on the 20th inst. In the cases of the United States against Senor Mac- Konna and Consul Rogers, which were to have been tried this month, by consent of all parties, have been post- poned to April to be heard before Judge Nelson, who then holds court on the circuit, The interminable Porter Stover litigation ia still before the courts. Judge Garvin has decided on a motion made before him at chambors that the former bad character of the plaintiff may be proved, and has allowed a com- mission to issue to take testimony from several witnesses in Boston for the purpose of impeaching Stover's char- acter, The Investigating Committeo of the Board of Saper- visors met yesterday again, but adjourned, at the request of th¢ iron men, becanse of the absence of counsel repre- senti their interest, to Monday evening next. Mr. Ely’s counsel explained that be did not intend to prose- cule the contractors for collusion before the committee, an( asked permission to go on, which the committee did nol, however, think proper to grant. He stated that Mayor Gunther will be the next witness, and that there area host of witnesses to be examined. another verdict against the city, growing out of the deft riots, was rendered yesterday in the Superior Court, tril term, part two, Justice Monell presiding. The plsintiff was Kenzie Brice, a colored man, whose effects ‘were destroyed by the rioters, A verdict m his favor for seven hundred and fifty dollars was rendered. The third meeting of the new Health Board was held yeaterday afternoon, at which several amendments to ‘the Health act were proposed, a number of clerks ap- Pointed, a réport of existing nuisances in tho district ro- ceived, a meeting with the butchers ordered, copies of contracts for the cleaning of the atrects and removal of dead animals called for, a committee of three appointed to compile a code of health ordinances, and the division of the city into sanitary districts referred tothe Superin- tendaat. The statement of deaths in the city for the past week shows the number to be four hundred and eighty-four, a decrease of seventy-cight from last week and an increase of nine from the corresponding week of ’ last yoar. . The Board of Education met yesterday Bue BQUYLEd w Vepeatonattrouing the Clerk of the Beard to ascertain what'nuisances, if any, are in existence in the vicinity of the city ward schools, and to Iay the facts connected therewith before the Board of Health, that that body may take immediateaction thereupon. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Commiasion- era of Emigration was held yesterday. The total num. ber of arrivals at this port from Europe since January 1 to date was eighteen thousand four hundred and seventy- ‘six, which is an increase of nearly ten thousand over the ‘Bumber reported to the same date in 1865, Aman named Garnett was brought before Commis- stoner Osborn, yesterday, on a charge of having bad in his possession a quantity of counterfeit currency. When taken into custody by the officer the accused had on his person three ten dollar counterfeit notes of a Pennayl- vania bank. The case was remanded till Friday. In the General Sessions jay Christian Walter, charged with causing the death of David Saffern, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the third degree and was sent t the State Prison for four years. Patrick MeCann, convicted of an attempt at robbery, and Lewis Isaace, a pickpocket, were each sentenced to the State Prison for five years by Judge Russel. Our New Jersey neighbors, fearful of the numerous bone boiling, slaughter pens and other similar nuisances, banished by the Metropolitan Health bill from this city, have taken steps to prevent their immigration to their soil, and have petitioned the Logislature to grant the Common Council of Jersey City power to abate such nulsances, P The ship Earl of Shaftsbury was burned yesterday at pier 47 East river. The lons is estimated at $100,000. Tho stock market Was buoyant yesterday and closed strong and active, Governments were dall but firm. Gold was steady, and closed ut 13334. ‘ MISCELLANEOUS. Our daten from Vera Cruz, Mexico, are to the 234 ult. They contain bat little of importance, but are interesting. An imperial oficial account of the battle of fan Ignacio makes it a signal victory‘ for the French and Austrians. Maximilian bas created the rank of Field Marshal in the army. Legal tender issues to the amount of twenty million dollars have been authorized. By way of “an Francisco we have news of the seizure of « freight train belonging ‘© American citizens by the imperial com- manider in Sonora, The Mexican general had prohibited further transportation through the province by Ame- ricans. Our latest previous dater from the Rio Plata stated that the allied armies of Brazil, Uroguay and the Argentine Confederation were concentrating before the Paraguayan stronghold at Humaita, and the situation betokened an early and desperate engagement at that point. The steamship Havana arrrived from Rio Janerio yes- terday, with dates and our correspondence to Fobruary Quilt, by which it appears that the situation in that quarter remains unchanged. Humaita is not yet taken and operations are confined to skirmishemen she Parana river. It was supposed at Rio. Janciro, at the time the steamer left, that in all probability the conflict et Hamaita had began. It was estimated that the offec- tive force of the allies amounted to fifty-seven thousand men, and that it was concentrated In the vicinity of Corrientes, while an allied fleet of fifteen gunboats and steamers and one iron-clad was on the river at that point, The force of the Paraguayans was not known. The fort at Humaita is said to mount two hundred guns. An English neutrality built Brasilian iron-clad steamer ar. nived from Liverpool! on January 12, and was to be sent up the Plate river to the scene of hostilities, She is do- scribed as a very powerful engine of war. Our Havana advices mention a statement contained im a Porto Rico newspaper nnd credited to the Pasiama Star and Heraid to the effect that Commodore Nunes, com- manding tho Spanish equadron in the Pacific, had pro- posed an armistice to the Chilean government etipulat img for the return of the Covadonga and the Spanish prisoners of war and the appointment of commissioners on both sides to amicably adjust all ques- tions at fesue, The Chilean government is stated to have Tojected these overtures in a very summary manner. A subscription had been starte! in Cuba for the purpose of aidtng the Spanish government to defray the expenses of the war against the South Amorican republics; but the scheme had not met with any great success, The news from S& Thomas and the West Indies is to the 26th ult The British North Amegican Cominission- ers, who have bee engaged in an effort to establish trade with ‘om Indies, in len of that which they expect to lose this country by the expiration, onthe 17th Inst., of the Reciprocity treaty, were at St. Thomas Om the 20th pls aud left on the 24th for Porto Rigo, The cholera in Guaactoupe has been reduced to one or | Canadian Reciprocity—The New Scheme two cases daily, We have no dotails of the previously reported disaterous fire in tho island of Santa Cruz, as published in the Hxnax of tho 24h ult, The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, which met at Harrisburg yesterday, nominated Major General John W. Geary as their candidate for Governor in the October election. A lengthy series of resolutions was adopted, one of which, in referring to the President and his course, evaded all reference to the veto question. Another resolution, however, censured Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, who in Congress is among the sup- Porters of the President. Other resolutions approved the course of Congress on the subject of reconstruction, and reiterated the Monroe doctrine. ‘There has been no late important action by the Toxas Teconstruction convention. Both branches of the Newfoundland Legislature have accepted the Quebec confederation schome. It was thought that this decided action of Newfoundland would have its effect on the other maritime provinces. Large reinforcements of British troops are expectedsoon in Canada. | The rebel General John K. Jackson, of August, Geor- gia, (not Henry 8, our former Minister to Austya), died at Milledgeville on the 22d ult. | Colonel Lewis @. Pyles, Comptroller Genoral! elect of Florida, and formerly Colonel of the Second Flofida rebel infantry, died at Archer, Florida, on the 20t) ult., of Wounds reosived at the battle of Seven Pines in 1802, The Reconstruction Committee—{ts At- tempt to Assist the Republican Party im the New England Elections. | The Reconstruction Committee has given to the world a series of carefally chosen bxtracts from the evidence before it on the condition of the Southern States. There is now in the hands of the committee valuable mass of evidence as to the extent to which the Southern people are reccnstructed in their political sentiments. It is.a pity that it did not suit the purppses of the Fifteen to lay before the world. the whole of this evidence, or a digest of the whole of it. The information that would thus have been furnished would have been useful, and the peo- ple could have learned by it the exact politi- cal condition of the late confederacy.. But we could scarcely have expected anything so fair from a body so bitterly partisan, Instead of performing its plain duty in this matter, the committee has given selections from its ma- terial, chosen with an especial view to the effect they may have on the New England clec- tions. It sends out not a faithful report, butan electioneering document. 1t has garbled the testimony, choosing for present publication only such’ parts as it deoms likely to inflame the public mind against the Sonth, and so to strengthen the position of the republican party in opposing the restoration of those States. It will gratify every true friend of the coun- try to find that this partisan committee gding through all the evidence before it with this partisan purpose in view has been able to say 80 little. It will reassure all men and give a new faith in the ultimate success of the good cause to find that this notorious Fifteen—this radical inquisition bas not been able after all ita labors to put forward one good’substantial | argument against reconstruction. Opinions are given. General Grierson “thinks” that if the disloyal had been more severely dealt with there would have been more loyalty in the South at present. It may be very important that General Grierson thinks this, and yet very sensible persons may doubt if the best sort of loyalty is made in that way. Géneral Grier- son is cognizant that slaves have been told that when the sokdiers went away they “would be just as much slaves as ever.” This proves that there aie men down there who will tell lies, Batis the fact that there are some Mars ina given community to deprive all the de- cent men in that community of the benefits of law. and to entail upon the whole country the evils of anarchy. General Saxton also tes- tifies. This soldier has always been one of the military pets of the radical party. He is “a hero that never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows.” He isa major general, though it is notorious that he was never in a fight. He owes his promotion not to gal- lant services, but to a happy choice of political views.’ It shows the reckless disrespect that the radicals have for what is good and great, and for public opinion, when they set up the expressions of such a man against the very positive declarations of men like Grant and Sherman. Testimony from General Thomas is included to give weight and one good name to the docu- ment. But in giving the honest soldicr’s story they had to give the good with the bad, and though here and there a sentence in what Thomas says indicates that rebel thoughts are still strong in the South, there is so much that is the other way that these utterances of one man will alone well nigh destroy the radical position that the Southern States must be kept out on account of the sentiments of the people. Thomas, interrogated as to the foel- ing immediately after Lee’s surrender, says that the universal report made to him was “to the effect that the mass of the people were very happy at the downfall of the rebellion, and at thelr prospect of soon getting again under the constitution and government of the United States.” The “mass of the people” then were not very good rebels at that time, and if they now feel less happy at the prospect of getting under our government, is not the inference inevitable that it is the course of the radical Congress that has made the change? “People in Alabama,” says Thomas, “think they have had a fair trial in their attempt to gain their independence, and have tailed com- pletely,” and that is the whole point on which reconstruction turns, and the only point of which we require to be sure, in order to.be peertain that: restoration is eafe and proper. The people are satisfied that their attempt was @ failure, and have thrown away all the thoughts and hopes it gave rise to. Beside this declaration of General Thomas, and the similar one previously made by Gene- ral Grant, all the statements of the radicals the other way are trivial and trashy. We might, if any point were to be gained by it, admit the truth of all the radicals say in this document, and inquire—What then? When you have shown all this, what have you proved? What has all this got to do with reconstruction? with consti- tutional rights and national policy? Nothing whatever, All this rehash of the idle gabble of Schurz is impudently irrelevant as to the great question before the country. It is an examina- tion of the pitiful points of a people's life, of their prejudices, their emall vices, their likes and dislikes—things with which the law does not meddle in countries less despotic than Austria. And all these little points are quoted against the South, and « great party tolls us that these are reasons why the nation should not re-establish itself in its former strength, and should not restore eleven great States to their natural places Did » great party ever before put forth anything 00 Lost tm imkgeility | ae thist 1 Before Congress. A very important bill is before the House of Representatives, providing new regulations of reciprocities in trade between the United States and the British North American provinces. The still existing arrangements with them, known as the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, will expire on the 17th instant, and all our bor der people are glad of it; for in its operation its advantages have been reaped by, the Cana- dians and their provincia} neighbors. The sub- stitute proposed in Congress is, first, a schedule of duties upon British provincial products, and, secondly, a system of reciprocities, including, ou our side, the concessions of the free naviga- tien of Lake Michigan, the Saut Ste. Marie canal between Lakes Superior and Huron, and the right of way over certain New England railroads, in exchange for the free navigation of the St. Lawrence and the Canadian canals around the rapids of that river, and the transit over certain Canadian railroads, and the right of way down the St. Johns river to the lumber men of Maine. This dill further proposes to give the provincials the privilege of the New England sonst line, for the purposes of fishing and curing their fish, in exchange for the same privilege to Yankee fishermen along the coasts of her Majesty’s seaboard provinces. The bill farther proposes the abolition of the fishing bounties now allowed to the New England fisherman to the extent of three.or four hundred thousand dollars a year—a bonus which has for many years been @ sectional bone of conten- tion. ise aie: tie Such are the general features of the bill. Its details cover a schedule of tariff regula- tions to which the provincials may object, and they may protest against the surrender of theft fishing coasts, to a distance of three miles from which our fishermen are now excluded; but we presume, from the free conferences that have taken place between the. representatives or ambassadors of the provinces concerned and the Committee of Ways and Means, that the bill is substantially a new treaty agreed upon, and, with some slight modifications, will be adopted. Meantime the provincials interested, who have had a taste of the blessings of free trade with “the Yankees” under this expiring Re- “ciprocity treaty, are called upon to consider the question of their “manifest destiny” in the proposition from Queen ,Victoria for a North American confederation under the viceroyalty of a member of her family. This movement contemplates a consolidation which has been already declined by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; but it is not thus to be abandoned. An agitation will be apt to follow, which in due time will gravitate to the easy, natural and advantageous solution of annexation to the United States. ‘Treaties or no treaties, the laws of trade and the political spirit of the age are steadily carrying our provincial neigh- hors in this direction. Prorossp City Improvement.—There are a good many people greatly exercised just now about city improvements. The location of the new Post Office, for instance, is the subject of a great deal of discussion. Some want it here, some there. For our part we are perfectly satisfied with any location that will best suit the public convenieace. One morning paper ‘witnts ® post‘office In the City Hall Park. Very well. It is not a bad location, although it will cut off one of the breathing places of the city. Union square is also suggested as.'an excellent place. We are satisfied with Union square, although, being so far removed from the centre of business, its location in that neighborhood will involve considerable expense to many of our citizens whose business places are down town. No matter for that; if it subserves the general good we are content. Indeed, if the Post Office be located at Coney Island and the public are in any way benefited, we are per- fectiy content to see it located there, though it may be some little inconvenience to ourselves to send for our mail matter to that inhospitable region of sand and surf. Let the new Post Office be erected where the city will be mo: benefited, and it is all right. We have no ob- jection to offer. The widening of Ann street is another ques- tion of apparently great moment, if we can judge from the amount of discussion provoked upon the subject. A little penny paper de- nounces the idea as an incipient swindle, and, in other such strong terms, condemns it. In various quarters this improvement is com- mended by some and opposed by others, Very good. If it be of any importance to the city to widen Ann street we are in favor of it. If anything can be gained by shutting it up altogether, we are quite willing to see it made acul de sac. Anything for the public good has our approval, whether in the location of the Post Office, opening streets or closing them, or any other measure which can be regarded as an improvement to the metropolis, and o benefit to the citizens at large. Free Lire Poticress ror Firewen.—We are giad to notice that our rich insurance compa- nies have opened their purses and created a fand for the purpose of conferring, free of ox- pense, life policies upon the members of the Metropolitan Fire Department and allowing a certain amount per week to those who may be injured in the performance of their duties. The insurance companies should have done this long ago. They are particularly interested in the effectiveness of the fire department, and are especially benefited by the fearlessness and courage displayed by our gallant firemen during « conflagration. It is, however, bétter Yate than never, and it is @ hopeful sign to see opulent corporations like our fire insurance companies contribute to so praiseworthy a pur- pose as the one we refer to. Now, while our fire insurance companies are in this liberal mood, it is not out of place to suggest to our marine insurance companies the creation of a fund for the benefit of the surviving families of those officers of vessels who may perish in their efforts to save human life and property at sea; and aleo to reward those deserving of especial commendation for heroism displayed amid the perils of tempest and shipwreck. Personal Intelligence, Lieatenant Gonera!U. 8. Grant and staff, accompanied by Generals Vingont and Nichols, of the War Departinent; RB. Washburne, of Iilinois, and others, are at the st. Nicholas Hotel, en rowle to West Point to attend the fune- ral of Colonel Bowers, Bart 67 rm Vatsen Assocurion.—This club net ite amen! terpeichorran enter soment on Tuesday even- ingrat Jones) Assembly Rooms — The ef ror wee in query fepeat folly ap to Ue standard ay Se “4 Ny fooetend tive uations it ew se wwe fa on (Na purge vob loved MEXICO. Opinions in Mexico of Napoleon’s Promise to Withdraw His Troops. — Apprehensions of a War Between the United States and France. Imperialist Account of the Battle of San Ignacio. Important Movement of French Troops in the Direction of the Bio Grande. Maximilian Creates the Grade of Field Marshal in the Mexican Army—Gen. Mejia to Have the First Baton. 20,000,000 of Legal Tender Paper OGurrency to be Issued by the Imperial Government. Max’s Belgian Auxiliaries Re- fuse to Fight. Indignities to Liberal Prisoners of War. &. &e. &o. ‘The steamship Vera Cruz, Captain Murray, from Vora Cruz on the 23d ult., via Havana March 1, arrived at this port yesterday. ‘We are under obligations to Purser Littlejobn, of the Vera Cruz, for the prompt delivory of our despatches. The news detailed in our correspondence will be found of interest. Our Vera Cruz Correspondence. Vera Cruz, Feb. 11, 1866. Tampico has not been taken by the liberal General Mendez. Mendez delayed, and the position was reinforced. Business, in a mercantile point of view, is so dull at Tam- pico that some of the merchants there expect to have to close their establishments. All thejcountry in the neigh- borhood of Tampico ts entirely in possession of the libe- rals, “At last accounts communication had been cut off with San Luis Potosi, but it is probable that by this time it has been reopened, in consequence of imperial move- ments in that quarter, General Parrodi lately passed through Queretaro on route for the city of Mexico, Saliatiorra is being fortified. According to La Esperansa, detachments of troops are to be stationed at different points in Fluarteca. The Boletin (liberal mewspaper in Tiacatalpam) on- nounces the appointment of the republican General D. Porfirio Diaz as General-in-Chief of the line of the East, Goneral Garcia will remain as second in command. ‘The man who recently represented himself here aa General Forrest, late of the rebel army, is now reported to have been the veritable Quantrell, whose rilla op- erations during the continuance of the Southern rebel- shot, but the terfered in . The Belgiana say that yy are will to give op their arms then endeavoring to prevent his further advance in the direction of the intorior. The peoplé of this neighborhood are having a good deal to say about a new locomotive, from the works of Danforth, Cook & Co., of Paterson, N. J., United States, which has just been put in operation to run between here and Madollin. The newspaper La Idea Liberal bas been suspended for one month from the 84 ult, On Saturday last the merchants of Vera Croz held a mecting for the purpose of remonsirating against the enforcement of a new decree issued with the view of bringing money in immediately to the imperial Treasury. Somé of the merchants heh that the decree, being of a retroactive character, is injurious to the commerce of the country and dangerous as a precedent. The Peijaro Verds, a Mexican newspaper, denounces the distribution of Protestant Bibles in Mexico, as atso the circulation of a Protestant almanac, which has been circulated, charging the Catholics with idolatry in their reverence of the saints. Sometime ago General Mejia was authorized by the imperial government to draw against the Vera Cruz Custom House for $100,000. He did sodraw, Within the last few days some of said drafts have been paid. Fifty thousand dollars were lately sent to General Mejia, by the French vessel-of-war Adonis. It is esitmated that the income of the Custom House of Vera Cruz is from $15,000 to $20,000 per day. This is a high figure even on the average. Importations have very oa, fallen off lately. It is reported that the Emperor Maximilian has just decided that the Mexican army shall for the future have three field marshals, and that General Mejia, who com- mands the corps d’armée on the Rio Grande, will shortly be promoted to the new grade in reward of his services gf my yy ee have heard he: ing the last few days we have ro, amon, the mercantile classes, a variety of opinions wtpesaset on the all absorbing topic of the hour—“Will there or will there not be a war between France and tho United States?’ Some were of opinion that such @ war was not je and that the Archduke Maximilian would ere succomb to the reality of the ominous threat- ‘Qnings of the present moment. Others have advanced ideas of an exciting character, in offect that a war is inevitable and that within a short time to come feavy reinforcements will arrive, together with an abundance of material of war. When those, in the first instance, were ‘cornered,’ as tt were, for’ the reasons which led them to express themselves aa referred to above, it was found by your correepondent that thoy had been readii and even carefully studying the New Youx Haran, and that they had od its ideas ag their own, while on the other hand the parties who said ‘that « war was inevitable seemed to reiterate the santi- ps Tp tn Fp ater | ', Cot thé not unfounded manifold to hand, and observing the Ia of shot and shell and (other stores at Vera * seem as though the French did not intend to depart in peace, but rather that they to stand upon the order of their — goin in preference to at once. Besides we know, thioage good authority, that Marshal Bazaine intimated in the course of a private conversation in the = of Mexico, 3 i § z z z ce petineet sot under any ii redound to tho enlightened nation like France Te‘pormis us soldions abroad, In'a foreign land, to sustain acts like these? It will not do for Frenchmen to say thas France is not responsible for this; ihe county opting epazae bat he Fo Manmninas Maing: He cannot control the soldiers who come out here to protect the chief of the lator’, rin from Napol Psd ae ent a iberal | to be driven Gras but ge et same time that they were a Hy j a I E i j i i i i : i +4 i tl Fr i E z tl i Hh ii sf i [i I i i BS F i i 8 zg . e a) i Hh ube are i iy ' ‘i i 5 3 ti s age ise this city, was suspended dj suspension ts to last for one month. It was made on count of the Noticiow daring to criticise and expose the falsity of assertions made by French newspapers pub- Kished in this country. Bach one of the newspapers of the class to which the Noticioso belonged are as lighted candies in dark means ef them the hberals fet a little light, if not snuffed out—and, by the way, the been very busy with thelr snuffing opera! a darkness gathers around the spot_ where the light ex- isted It has been remarked that those whose deeds vil prefer darkness. How aptly is this supported in that on the very morning when the Noticioso was the native Mexicans, bound with cords and guarded soldiors with fixed bayonets, were driven through the streets of Vera Cruz. Im tely afterward these mem were sentenced to be shot, their crime being that two of the party were taken while trying a rafiroad train, being soldiers < E [ j f i sie Ei 5 ; 5 & E Stace the suspension‘of the ‘aeragge two other news- papers have been started in this city. friends of the newspapers are determined existence as tong as “ ‘THR OPERA i : i z f rf a 4 z | Hel é 3 DETAILS OF THE FIGHT AT BAN IGNACIO, ‘This morming the following was published in the off- cial newspaper of this department :— ‘Taxcaycicvano, Jan 30, 1866. To his Excel Tun ov War, &c., &c.:— f r ) & lency Mixister Thave the honor to inform your Excell my arrival at Uroapan, which was on the month, I received information through in. Immediately im, and to this end retired my forces to of the Department ot Jalisco, When ™my command into two columps; the Colonel Farquet i 2 itft i 3 i it, being ‘composed of 450 juata battalion, 100 of the Ytnrbide battal regiment of Michoacan and 200 of this colamn was also ‘The second colu FR 3 i i # i 3 s s z F HH az ip 4 Fy tb 3 $ eit mt aH iEy ti i 3 3 peetae ari fH rf Lu i i : it : rr Bs id | gat Us T lont twent; tire Ried of the petellion of the Empa- . wounded bart RAMON MENDEZ, General, ‘Vena Ones, Feb. 21, 186m ‘THA WHOLE FIELD AND THE LAST LOOK AT Tr. Lot thie particular despatch be regarded as an intel- ligent passenger on the point of leaving Vora Cruz im Fe ee eeen ena ooh