The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF PULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume ¥XXI. BROADWAY (THEA strect.—Dor; on, Tae Cru RE, Broadway, near Broome et on THe Hearts. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Powel Don Cassak DE BazaN—Wooncoca’s Lirrux Gax® IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Bup To's Gaxp Piano Concents. LD ScHoou OF MINSTRELSY, Fifth Avenue Opera House, nh strees.—MASKED Baiy, FRANGI 10 MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, opposite titan Hotel. Ei ry oP AN SINGING, Daxcita, &C.— ‘uour 4 Boby. NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery —Siva- | Danctna, Buresques, &¢.—Tae Workixa Giais oF YANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad> xono COMIGALITIRG, BURLESQUES, &C.—BURLESQUE WEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. Capitol buflding. The further consideration of the House bill in relation to the wit of habeas corpus, and the bill in relation to the qualification of jurors was postponed until to-day. In the House yesterday no business of much interest was transacted. The Senate bill to reimburse Missourt for expenditures in suppressing the rebellion was passed by a vote of 68 to 26. ‘The bill appropriates $6,715,089 65 for that purpose. The bill to regulate the pay of the army was reported back with a substitute and made a special order for Wednesday fortnight, A resolution was adopted directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether any legislation is necessary to mnake the shares in national banks liable to attachment and levy of execu- tion under State laws for theepayment of debts of the owners, The bill for the relief of army paymasters went over till to-morrow, after an interesting debate. The Agricultural College bill was passed. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were passed amending the charter of Brooklyn; authorizing the sale of certain lands in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and the extension of the Dry Dock and East.Broadway and Battery Rail- road; to provide for the appointment of the additional number of one hundred notaries public in and for the city of New York. The Senate refused to consider the resolution to adjourn sine die on the 14th inst, Bills to amend the Railroad law and to authorize the extension of railroad tracks m Grand and other streets of New NOLEY’S OPERA #01 —Ermorian Miy- | York wore made special orders. erkeLsr—BALLADS, PANTOMIMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. Open trom 104 M. ull lo P.M STITUTE, Astor Place.—Gnreat Fain or ti Anx’s Cuvncn, Eighth street, COOPER IN Lapis ov 87, COLUMBIA'S SCHOOL HOUSE, Twenty-fifth street, near Bigth avenue.—Lapiss’ Fair, TRE Seventh D.—Bucker's Minstets. ts, Brooklyn, THE FENIANS. We publish this moruing highly interes gence, illustrated by two handsome maps, of the move- we intelli. ments of the Fenisn vanguard in the vicinity of Campo- dello Isiand, avd of tho trial of the arrested Fenians in Canada, ‘The vs of the New Brunswick authorities are fully d, ond reinforcements of ships and men bad been Jed to tho Ray Of Fundy and St. Croix river arou hastily = Campobello Island and to watch the weaia rs in the harbor of Eastport. The British soT0n now comprises three vessels, while the fund ou the island have been materi- In spite the watchfulness of which have established a sort forces of and put to sea, tion, The United sh Consul were at a loss to account for either the escape or destmation of the ves- gel. The Fon astport are holding open convention in the town hail ting the arrival of other organiza- tions and recruiting new volun Many American veteran soldiers had joined their ranks, while numbers of bad abandoned the “cruel red,” the “green.”” amination of Murphy and his frionds at Corn- ducted in secret. They wore remanded for trial on Tuesday next. The examination of Shea took place at Toronto ray, Such demonstrations were made by his friends and the sympathizers with Fenian ism as led to the belief that a reseue would be attempted, and he was sent to jail under guard for fear of such an attempt being made. All reports to the effect that President Jobnson bas Assued or intends to issue a proclamation against any evasion of the neutrality laws are utterly untrne, He has Bot received intelligence of any such violation on the Part of (he Fenians A map of Campobello is published elsewhere this Morning, showing its strategic importance, with a full Cescription of the island, THE CONFEDERATION. Our New Brunswick correspondent sends us um inter: eating risumé of the proceedings of the Provincial Par- Jiament on the subject of confederation, which resulted in the violent disraption of the government, aa we Daye Deon advised by telegraph. The action of the Upper House in endorsing the Quebe> scheme was unexport- edly approved by the Governor, who had been con- sidered an antt-confederatic 9 the scheme were compelled to resign States Marshal and the proviueial vol ‘and were entistin, The wall was xen praying for home tion Created great indignation derationisis and aunexationists, ill Load, it ts believed, to the jou of the right of the home to thus arbitrarily legislate for the colonies, ace in the marilime provinces of British a the seme fe cireumstal odin our Be The confe among the ng pn of 1778, » scheme of ndent represents it as ncy. The example of of ade the United thon whic respect for inst tations, nase on all sides by the pe jon of the Upper I f the New Bruns. in adopting the confederation resol tress is explained by the statement of our nt that the body is not elected by the peo- vinted by the Crown, and by no means rep. revailing seutiment ou the subject of con- fedoration. Among the curious argaments of those favoring con- federation one to the effect that the confederat province have power to secede from Great Britain and onnex th to the United States, as they de sire, while a ovinces they will not have by the It ts stated or pers © proviness in amont of @ colonial throne or pres king to rule the united Jerationiais are opposed to Tt is anticipated that the the home ¢ ootabl © prince impor The bitter ROPE. By the arrival yestentay of the French steathship Poreire at thie port, the Asia at Halifax, the North i and the Delaware at Boeton, we Barope to the 1st of April, two daya ed a Pre etill maint had Incte serious war a and Aue trin were in active war at Goneral Bene-tek wae appointed Coma er-in-Chief of the Austrian forces. Prussia had placed some of her most distin. ed army corps on awnr footing, and they vere Traiy g. and # ts again The very Jatest "from London Pirare cannot be ad Pruesia will “netually 1 . lercoly they May wrr.ngte.”” ernment had ordered the officers at the eniling Of sit war vessels, ht, for “ne guif and river St. to be in readiness for immediate service. ted as being heavily « a remonstranc 4 Contre Stephens eftitor of the Opin personally annonnend to the sate, of Paria, bis approach jug departure from # or 4 The Liverpoo! 1 re ed from the 20h to (ue evening of the of March, Console lowed in Lon. den March SI at 4 86% for m The market for Amorican sec rites is reported « all seeurl. {ioe dull and dre Ce hy CONGRESS ” tn th Senate the Judiciary Comm. ttee wae dieharged Jrom further CShaideratlon Of a Pesolition iaquiriag wint jogisiation if necessary to protect army officers from tia Hilty to the civil courts for acta done in the performance pf military daty, the subject being covered by the bill Plroady reported from the committes, A fesotution was Wéopjed probidjtiag the sale of soirituous liauors in the | In the Assembly bills providing for a railroad in Essex and other streets im New York; to incorporate the Met- ropolitan Improvement Company of New York; to au- x | thorize the construction of a railroad in certam streets of New York; to authorize the Comptroller of the city of New York to raise money by loan; to incorporate the Brooklyn Improvement Company, and to amend the act relative to the sewerage and WASHINGTON HALL, Fourth and South } drainage act in New York city, were passed. Bills tofin- corporate the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School and Missionary Society of New York city, and to merease the salary of firomen in thé Metropolitan Fire District, were reported. A resolution was introduced authorizing the Governor to confer brevet rank in certain cases on offl- cers of the National Gtard. THE CITY. ‘The Quarantixo Commissioners of this port yesterday received from the Navy Department am answer to their request asking for the uso of one or more United States vessels for hospital purposes, The Department will al- low this city the us» of the Saratoga or Portsmouth, or both ships, if necessary; but is of the opinion that naval huilks are uot proper vessels on board of which to place the sick. numberof complaints were received at the ‘ters of the Board of Health yesterday by the clerk of the Complains Bureau, Several swiil milk cow stables, such as that on Fifty-fifth street, in this city, and the Bergen street and Stuyvesant stables of Brooklyn, are complained of as intolerable nuisances. The drivers on the third and Sixth Avenue Railroads yesterday struck for higher wages, and during the greater portion of the day, on the former, and the entire m the latter, traifit was stopped. The present rate vages is but two do§ars, and the demand made is for lifty cents extra, The drivers on the other lines are determined to follow the example of those on the rall- ronds above mentioned. Towards evening a compromise was effected with a few of the drivers on the Third Ave- nue Railroad, but as the larger portion held out, traffic was but imperfectly resuined, Several of the drivers were badly beaten by the alleged strikers, In the United States Commussioner’s office, before Com- missioner Osborn, yesterday, the case of John Rosser, charged with attempting to scuttle the ship Charles sue, was again brought forward. No final result has been arrived at, as the Commissioner resorves his judg- ment upon a point of law raised by defendant’s counsel as to whether any offence cognizable by the statutes bas been committed, The eharge against F. C, Bryan, cap- tain of the Washington Booth, of having assaulted his second officer, will be resumed to-day, when further tes- mony is to be taken. The Schuyler frauds cage, in the suit brought by the New York and New Haven Railroad Company against Morris Ketchum & Co., was concluded yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Ingraham. It was coutended that Mr. Ketchum eoald not recover, on ac- count of his negiigeaco in not knowing of the frauds, and on the otherPand it was argued that the gentleman: could not at aware of those frauds without stepping out of his regular daties as director. Mr. Ketchum was placed upon the stand and testified as to his connection with the saltroad company. Judge In- grakam reserved his decision. Corporation Counsel O'Gorman moved yesterday, be- fore Judge Monell, of the Superior Court, for a new trial in the case of Goorge and Anne Greer, whose property was destroyed during the draft riots, Verdicts were ered in their favor by two jaries in the Superior amounting in the agerogate to forty-seven thoa- sand dollars, the husband, who was meroly a life owner in the estate, getting the larger verdict. The total value of the property, us proved on trial, was asserted to be only thirty-seven thousand dollars, and yet the verdicts were ten thousand dollars in excess of that amount. Mr. O'Gorman, Corporation Counsel, moved for & new trial, on the ground that the verdicts were oxeessive. ln the General Sessions yesterday Daniel McGregor, charged with stealing one handred and seventy dollars worth of clothing from Henry H. Jones, pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to the State Prison for one year. Commissioner Betts yesterday committed for trial four men charged with mutinoas conduct on boerd the bark Hiarry, while on the voyage from Liverpool to New York. Tt was given ta evidence that the accused) refused to work, that one of the men said he could not do duty at ni the rigging unless a lantern were sent up to him. Judge Harpard yestertay appointed Mr. George A. Os. good one of the recewers of the Columbian Insurance Company, toaet in conjunction with Mr, Leffinewell, ‘Tho malls for the Germa’ States and Northern Rurope, via Bremen, dy the United ates mail steamship Atlantic, a ii of tho No.) American Lloyds’ line, will at the Post Office on Frilay, 13th inst., at three P.M. The stock market was firm yesterday, includ.ng gov- ernments Gold closed at 12734. There was some little improvement m the condi- tion of commercial affairs yesterday, thoagh it was scarcely discernible, and it was conined mastly to do- niestic prod ‘Thore waa greater activity and some firmness in the breadstofis market; bat there was no cepecial change in other things, Cotton was doll and drooping. Petroleum wes nearly nominal Sugar un- changed. Coffee firm ine, but heavy for common grades, On ‘Change four was steady. Wheat was firmer, Corn higher, ate higher, Pork irregular. Lard and whiskey dull sad nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. Tn the Dis! Court of the United States, at Alexan, dria, Va, J Underwood presiding, an important de- cision was rendered yostorday. ‘Thomas Garvin was im- prisoned some time ago by the Provost Court under the Freedmen's Bureau law, and his counsel sued out an ap- plication for a writ of habeas corpus, uncer the supposi- ion that the President's proclamation restored that writ, The cw argued before Judge Underwood, who da cided that the proclamation did mot restore the writ, Ontors have been issued from the War Department to the Assistant Commissoners in the Southern States to nform the people that the l'resident’s proclamation does not release them from the operations of military law. ‘his order ie cautiously worded, and not intended to go beyond the elretes it refers to, A large Spanish man-of.war sailed some time ago from an Roglieh port for the Pacific coast, Admiral Quesada, it ie now known, goes owt in her to take command of the Spanish Pactic squadron. Ho hag orders to attack the Indepeadencia and Huersar, Silver and copper to the value of $600,000 havo been captured im the , Pacific and landed in Spain. ‘The brig Star of Hope, from Boston; the bark Carmen and brig Cyclone, both English, and throe other “vessels, names unknown, Were totally wrecked in the late gale on the Gulf const, No lives wore lost, The schooner Wim. Coggins, bound for New York from Prince Edward Island, was burned by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamp on the 8th inst. The British bark Sir George Grey was wrecked on Cockburn’s Island, in the Pacific, on February 20. The Mississippi steamer Northern Light was sink yesterday near La Crosse, Wis. A terri wholesale mardor of coven portons was dis ered im Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. The bodies fa Mr Deering, who lived og his farm at Point House road and James lane, inthe lower section of the city, luls wife, niece and four children, were found shockingly mutilated and hid ina barn and corn crib. It is sup- posed & German laborer and a boy who had been hired on the farm committed the horrible deed for plunder. It is thought the deod occurred on Friday last, Only one member of the family was saved, « tant relative. Mayor McMichael has issued a proclama- tion offering $1,000 reward for the arrest of the mur- derer. The execution of William Grady, for the murder of Fergus Collins, took place yesterday at Elizabeth, N. J., Areport of the affair, together with the several points in the case, we publish to-day, Grady, the condemned, died firm, and to the last moment protested his inno- cence. He elicited from those who witnessed the exe- cution a strong feeling of sympathy. Green, the Malden murderer, is to be hung to-morrow. A fire occurred at Pithole on Tuesday, which destroyed Property of the Titusville Pipe Company to the amount of $15,000, Nearly one thousand barrels of oil were also burned. Two hundred and forty-seven post offices were re- opened in the South during the month of March. One hundred and thirty-nine new offices were established, thirty-six discontinued and the names of twenty-five changed. The flood in the Mississippi is passing off, and the crevasses 1n Louisiana are being closed, An expedition from Campeachy against Tobasco Bar ‘was being fitted out when the schooner Pacific left Mex- ico, on the 24th ult. Guerilla warfare still continues. Captain R, B. Winder, ex-Confederate, was released yesterday by orders from Washington. He had been im- prisoned for several months at Richmond. Senator Doolittle was severely censured in the Wisconsin Legislature on the night of the 10th inst, for disobeying their instructions in voting against the Civil Rights bill. ‘They declare it is his duty to resign. The ice having broken a’ St, Paul, Minn; the Mis- sissippi river 18 now open to that point. Niggerheads and Copperheads Again at Their Work. The same class of men who, prior to our late civil war, were engaged in disturbing the quiet and peace of the country, are once more at their work of fomenting strife. The radical negro-worshipping journals, under the lead cf the Chicago representative of that class, are urging Congress to impeach the” Presi- dent, while the copperhead and rebel organ in this city openly counsels non-enforce- ment of the laws of Congress on the part of the Executive, and urges the forcible admission of the Southern representatives into Congress, even atthe point of the bayonet. This rebel sheet, which never failed to speak a good word in behalf of the Southern confederacy or to sneer at the North during the war, now urges the President to “fix a day for the represenia- tives of the Southern States to take their seats in Congress,” and, “should violence be offered them, let the President send a detachment of federal troops to preserva order in the Capi- tol.” It is in this manner that the nigger- head journals, in their cry for impeachment, and the copperhead organs, for the use of bay- onets in Congress, are playing into each others’ hands and leading us onward towards another bloody revolution. It is the same spirit that brought on our late war, that plunged the country into a life and death struggle, and made it necessary to sacrifice both life and treasure to prevent the destruction ‘of the Union. If they are permitted to continue their work we shall be again plunged into a war; but if another revolution is the result it will not be confined to the South, but will extend all over the North. The niggerhead and copper- head journals are pursuing the very course that will decide where the straggle will be. Onur late war was fought by the Union-loving people. The rebellion was put down by the people in spite of and even against the in- teigues of the politicians. Having once made great sacrifices for the country, they will mark the men and the factions who are trying to bring on another strife; and if a revolution comes these who have been foremost in fomenting it will fin@ that they cannot escape the penelty nor avert the wrath of an indignant publie. The people have pat down one rebellion, have put an.end to one revolu- tion, and are new anxious for peace, quiet and harmony. But if this boon is refused by the politicians, if this is prevented by the agita- tors throughout the country, whether they are of that class which the Chicago paper repre- sents or of that which follows the lead ot the rebel organ in this city, or of both combined, it will make but little difference. If the people find it necessary to again assert ther’ majesty in defence of the Union, they will see to it that.all such disorganizing and revolutionary agencies are removed from their midst. Presi- dent Johnson has wisely taken his stand on the side of the people, and with them oceu- pies the medium ground between the two factions who are now laboring to bring on another revolution by the cry ot impeach- ment and the use of bayonets. All that he has to do is to hold fast to the policy which he has chosen and so ably defended. Time will vin- dicate and the pesple sustain him. He may not be able to accomplish much with this Con- gress; butif he adheres firmly to his present policy, makes the issue plain before the people, and uses the means at his disposal to sustain himself, he need have no fear in regard to the next Congress. But in order that the issue may be made plain and distinct he must do something be- sides talk and write messages. It is true that they are necessary, but will be of little avail unless followed up with practical deeds. He is surrounded with officeholders, from mem- bers of his Cabinet down, who are intriguing against him and conspiring together for the defeat of his policy. The country is swarm- ing with internal revenue and other officers who are openly thwarting the measures of his administration. If ail this is allowed to go on, and the President takes no steps to arrest it, he will find that they will befog the issues at the fall elections the same as they did in New Hampshire and Connecticut, and Andrew Jolnson will be swamped by neglecting to use the means at his disposal, Nothing would bet- ter please the extreme niggerhead faction on the one hand, and the copperhead on the other, than for bim to retain his enemies in the Cabinet and offices throughout the country. We are astonighed that Mr. Johnson, with his long political career, does not realize that the only way to make an administration success fui is to seoure harmony in every department and a cordial co-operation of all its officials throughout the country. It is bis duty to com- mence with his Cabinet at once, and remove every member who is not in accord with him, and extend this work to every office in the length and breadth of the land. He cannot com- mence too sooa for bis own good or for the success of bis administration. He must know that in these modern times, with the vaet in- erease of federal officeholders since the war, he can make but little headway in shaping the policy of the party conventions with all these officials conspiring with Congress against him. Let him do his duty to himself, to the country and to the people, who universally approve his course, by as boldly sustaining his policy im this manner as he has heen in defend- ing it otherwise, and he will have made the ebild Wo voare of aco, who was om @ visit to a dim 4 Wesue a9 plain phat there can be no mistaking gn L_ii44.g.gegs-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sas ' patient discussion of grievances. And if the the result, But, in order to be successful, he | to be employed off the coasts of British North | Americas. Indeed, it is not Tullkoly that the must not lose any more time. Delay is dan- gerous, and may prove disastrous. . ———————_——— | The Fenian Trouble in Maine—Attitude of British Men-of-War, There seems to be imminent danger of a col- lision on our Eastern border. Our news des- patches indicate the nature of this danger. Some days ago we {published the story that several vessels, with some thousands of Fenians, had left this port on a secret expedition. The current report was that they were going to the Bermudas, but a portion of this Fenian fleet seems to, have turned up at Eastport in Maine, the last foothold on American soil. Some of the disorderly elements even seem to have got over the line into New Brunswick and cut the communication with the Canadian cities. Rather the communication was cut; there does not appear tp be any evidence that it was not cut by the Fenians of the loyal province, and it may easily have been done by those from the British srmy who are said to have seized this occasion to desert in large numbers. There is no evidence that afty violation of the neutrality has taken place from our side, On the con- trary, thé Fenian ships reported as touching at Eastport on their way to some other point were detained there by the Custom ‘House 4n- thorities, Thus all the effervescent fury was rendered harmless; due notice wos gfven to the New Brugswick-authorities tp, strengthen their frontier posts, and teey availed themselves of this notice by reinforcing and adopting other measures to defend Campobello island, op- posite to Eastport, which it was said the Fe- nians intended to seize, But the British naval authorities, as if fearful that the neutrality would not be violated, have adopted the very course most calculated to precipitate a collision. The latest news from Eastport represents two British men-of- war as assuming a hostile attitude there, with their steam up, ports open, and every prepara- tion made for the commission of any act against the peace of our soil or waters that the rash- ness of a hot-headed officer may suggest. All the elements are ready, and it needs only the insult of this British menace to' awaken in the disturbed quarter a spirit that will not be laid without the shedding of blood. If the Fenians have chosen New Brunswick or Nova Scotia for their theatre of operations, they may have been led to do so by the consideration that the people of those pro- vinecs scem less imbued with that spirit of truculent loyalty to British dictation so manifest. in Canada; but undoubtedly another considera- tion had a large share in leading them that way. That is just now the sphere in which American hostility to everything British is most likely to be felt. It is the district in which the fishermen are a great power, and in which the question of the fisheries is the all-important one of the day. Fenianism desires to be present at the very point where Great Britain and the United States are likely, if anywhere, to be in hostile contact. It may be assumed that their presence in such sphere will not tend to cool the temper of the people or lead to a more British authorities—as hot-headed as the Fenians in this matter—shall meet them half way, it is probable that those disorderly per- sons may succeed in compromising the rela- tions of the two governments, — Our relations with Great Britain are friendly, and her ships have the right to our harbors, and we have always recognized that right, and always shall, in the amplest spirit of hos- pitality—not following in this the niggardly example so often set us by British authorities themselves, But an indelicate ase of that priv- ilege at the present time is dangerous. A mis- taken display of power in oar waters; the foolish assumption of an attitude that shipsonly assume in the waters of an eneuy; the menace of open ports and pointed guns, all this can only irri@xte, and cannot conduce: to that mod- eration and mutual deference of nations toward each other so. doubly necessary where there are two possible causes of trouble. If there is co!. lision, it will be not only the fault of the Fenians, but of the British naval authorities We bave amply provided against violations of the neutrality from our side, and such provision within our own waters certainly must be left to us or we cannot be held responsible. ph ian Ee ns ins CN Peo SSE ST LE SI ae aC ee eT Rn SL re Sere a Tue Next Execrion.—The constitution of the United States, now abolished by the action of the radicals in Congress, will be re-enacted in the next election. More Axgricay Mex-or-War Wantep on THE Fisnina Grounps.—We have already chronicled the fact that a considerable fleet of British men- o@war have left England for this side of the Atlantic, supposed to be destined for the fish- ing grounds. This movement calls for imme- diate and vigorous measures on the part of the American government. It demands the pres- ence on the fishing grounds of a fleet of Ameri- can men-of-war able to cope with the English and project tho rights of our hardy fishermen. We should not suffer defeat upon any position we may attempt to maintain in this matter on account of insufficiency of naval strength. We should be successfal from the beginning, and no repetition of the Chesapeake agd Shannon affair permitted. The arrogance of English navy officers is proverbial, and there is no knowing at what moment they may fire the first shot. We should have ready a naval force sufficient to take the bull by the horns from the start. It is no doubt very pleasant to have large fleets in the Mediterranean and on other agree- able stations, bat they are of no practical use at this juncture. They are wanted at points where a hereditary enemy presents a menacing attitude. They are wanted on the turbulent waters of the Banks of Newfoundland, in the Bays of Fundy and Chaleur, and not upon the placid waters of the Mediterranean. We trust the government will immediately order to the fishing grounds those fleew vow doing fancy duty abroad. ‘Tne Sovriern States.—The admission of the Sonthern States will be settled in the next elections by the votes of the Northern people. Ewotasn’s Part in tue European Duvricur- ty.—The London Times is very uneasy lest the British government and people should be dragged into the Prussian and Austrian quar- fel. It declares that war between these Powers is inevitable, and begs that England will hold aloof. The Times need not be in the least de- gree alarmed. Fingland has no idea of inter fering. What -with the fright which the Fe- nians have crated, and many other little out- side accoun'e to be setiled, England bas quite enough to do, and has no relish for a foreign war iust how. Her fleet is much more likely: America and Ireland for a little time to come than in the Baltic or Mediterranean, and if the exchequer is to be further embarrassed than it is by the present heavy expense of maintaining and transporting regulars and militia, it will not be in the service of Prussia. England, in fact, has quite as much on. hand touching her domestic affairs as she can well attend to at present. Ocean Yachting Matches—The America Prize Cup. Our recent allusion to the prize cup won by the famous yacht America has recalled the at- tention of yachtmen on both sides the At- lantic to this almost forgotten trophy. We re- publish in another column this morning the comments which Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, the English organ in such matters, has seen fit to make in reply to the Heratp article. While American yachtmen are becoming more and more eager for ocean matches, the yachtmen of England have lately been losing interest in this phase of the glorious pastime, This Jack of epirit isso marked that it is regarded as “a danger as serious as ever sappg/, the foundation of a national institution.” It seems that at wost of the races in Brith waters the yachts are left entirely to the care of professionals, as a racehorse is entrusted to its jockey, and the owners “are content to look on and admire, and gradually become little better than pas- sengers on board their vessels, without any incentive to become thorough working hands, practical sailors, good helmsmen and average navigators.” As another instance of this want of enterprise, itis related that Captain P, C. Lovett, of the Royal Thames,Yacht Club, proposed an ocean race from Plymouth to Gibraltar; but although the project created some excitement and was talked about at all the clubs, it had to be abandoned because only three vessels, in- cluding that of Captain Lovett, entered for the contest, and all of them belonged to Captain Lovett’s own club, although there are twenty royal clubs in the United Kingdom, No wonder that this state of affairs is regarded a8 decidedly dangerous to the very existence of yacting as a national institution, The victory of the America, at Cowes, on the 22d of August, 1851, roused the English yacht- men to a sense of the inferiority of their vessels. They purchased the America, although they did not know how to sail her, and used heras a model for their shipwrights. All the novelties in her hull, spars, gear, canvas and ballast were carefully imitated. " ‘Their “old-fashioned yachts looked like tea boxes alongside of the Americanized beauties that sprang forth from almost every yacht building slip in the kingdom.” In fact; as this Yachting Magazine confesses, they “swallowed humble pie with the pleasantest.of grimaces,” and “forthwith rushed into framing and plank- ing, pulling to pieces and building up again, putting sterns where bows had been, and almost vice versa; for surely such transforma- tions never had been seen in shipwrights’ hands asin the first few years afler the America’s visit.” But now, after all these alterations, the English yachtmen believe that their vessels are the best in the world. As the yachting writer says:—“We heve obtained class of yachts that may be studied with advantage as models of naval architecture, such as the science, skill and practical experience of our builders might be expected to produce; and we may now be said to possess a yacht fleet as nearly approaching to perfection as possible.” It is upon this. very point that we desire to un- deceive the English yachtmen, and for that, reason we have reminded them of the America champion cup, which was presented.to the New York Yacht Club by the owners of the America “as a perpetual challenge cup for all organ- ized yacht clubs of any foreign country.” This challenge to British yaclitmen has not yet been accepted, although it has been open for several years. Enthusiastic Eaglidhmen still “fondly cherish the idea that the cup will still travel back across the Atlantic and yet be shown in British waters,” and flitter themselves that they “have the means, the talent and the plugk to do it;” but none of them-has yet been hold enough to make the attempt. We invite them to come and try; we promise them the moat cordial welcome; but we assure them that it will be much harder work to take back the cup than it ‘was to win it on that memorable day when the America was ahead and all the English yachis nowhere. If the English yachts have been immensely improved since 1851, so have those of this country. They may have equalled the model which we then sent over to them ; but we have surpassed it long ago. Our yachimen, too, are in far better case than ever before. The furor for ocean matches, which has died away in England, is in fall force here. Last season, when Captain Lovett tried in vain to get some- body to race with him. to Gibraltar, half a dozen ocean races were sailed here, and if the gallant captain had been on hand with his yacht he would have found plenty of American yachtmen ready to accept his challenge. The English sneer about the “comparatively smooth Long Island Sound” has long since lost all its application. The days of duckpond yachling are over on this side the Atlantic. The Yachting Magazine hopes that Captain Lovett “ will again bring forward his spirited programme this year,” and that “it will be met with that plucky support it so well deserves.” This hope we most cordially re-echo ; for we are assured that the race to Gibraltar is merely preliminary to the organization of “a fleet of powerful schooners to cross the Atlantic and wake up Uncle Sam in the bay of New York.” When they arrive they will find Uncle Sam wide awake and ready to greet them most hos- pitably. But whether or not “the man and ship will still be forthcoming—British built, British sailed and under a British burgee— that will bring back that cnp to our island seas” is quite another question. Undoubtedly “the yacht—andj her owner—that accomplishes this feat will place the club he represents at the head of every yacht club, and will need neither granite pedestal nor marble tablet to perpetuate his fame;” but it will be time enough to order the pedestal and the tablet after the triumph is achieved. The New York Yacht Clab will furnis « Yankee ship and a Yankee crew to secure and retain the cup which the America won. Let the English yachts come; the «ooner the better. If they put off the expedition for another year they may find a fleet of American. yachts ready to compete with thom on their own’ waters in 1867, The Paris Exposition will be held in that year, and many Arericans will go abroad Some of them will goin their own yachts, and | & show the Englishyen not one but a dozen French Emperor will offer a prize cup for yachts in connection with the Exposition, At any rate, with the prospect of such races ahead, the season of 1866 ought to be remarkably brilliant. Our yachtmen should display re- newed ardor and energy, and besides the an- nual reception, review and squadron cruise, there should be a number of ocean matches ar- ranged by way of practice for the grand com- test that is to decide the relative superiority of America and England. Important Diplomatic Mission, Undoubtedly the fate of Mexico is soon to be settled one way or the other. This must be obvious to all who have taken note of the remarkable party of diplomats and millionaires that left this city for Vera Cruz on Monday last, This party was composed of Don Luis de Ar- royo, Messrs. Erneston Barron and J. P. O’Sal- livan, and the irrepressible Chevalier Wikof. Don Luis de Arroyo is a member of Maxi, milian’s government—part of the imperial machine—and, withal, a very worthy and re- spectable part. He has been on his travels taking note how imperial and other Mexican stock stands with the American people, and goes home to report, He detected and exposed Estvan while here, and he also saw the Presi- dent. He will be able to give his imperial master some practical views and sound counsel Mr. Barron is a member of the house of Barron, Forbes & Co., @ free financial lance, ready to accept a Mexican peerage, if such a thing seems worth while, or otherwise to be a mere millionaire in a Mexican republic. Feeling, perhaps, that there may be little to choose between the two, he goes particularly to see if the empire will pay. Mr. O'Sullivan is said not to be a Fenian. He is interested in railroads in Mexico city, in railroads out of Mexico city, and in a line of Mexican steamers for the Pacific coast. He has no doubt seen Mr. Marshall O. Roberts, who bas a great many ships to.sell, The Chevalier Wikoff goes out | on general account. True to the instincts of a roving diplomatist, he goes to the country where thete seems to be the most promising field for the éxercise of his peculiar ability. He is just from St, Cloud, where he saw the Emperor of France, and it is fit that he should study, as a philosopher aud @ historian, the other extreme of imperial exis‘ence. By com- parison of such extremes philoso; "by gives to the world its wisest lessons and may render even the most humble contented with his 1ot From the four gentlemen named the Empe* ror Max may draw all that it is necessary for him to know in his present difficulties, From Arroyo he may get the sentiments of the American people and their President; from the Chevalier Wikoff the views of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and from Barron and O'Sullivan he may find out how he is regarded by that most sensitive barometer of the state of governments—the money interest of the world. He will find out the extent to which Marshall O. Roberts is ready’ to veature his - ships, as well as how much farther the money owners and loaners of Europe will go with him, With such a concentration of intelligence to guide him he must be able to take a positive course. We believe that the result of all will be thet he will go boldly to the people and put the ques tion of empire oz republic to the vote. In that case the republie will of course be chosen,.«md' Maxiniilian may even be made its President. | Such a course, with such results, would! smash to: pieces all the elements of opposition.! We would. then reeognize his government at once, for we would have no ground on whiel, to refuse. There would be left only one ob- noxious point—that of the relations of the government-to France. But we could not m fairness object to the little republic’s having. such a great advantage in life as that; for it is a great sdvantage, since it is certain that, however rich the Mexiean placers may have been, and whedever they yielded to the Spanish. during three hundred years, Mexico has in the last three years found her richest placer to be. in Paris. All her other placers together never yielded as this one has; and shall we deprive her of it? No. Let her have the republic and Max for President through half a dozen terms if she likes. We shall never object to a good republican government working the Paris placer to the greatest possible extent, and we are quite sure that the Mexicans will not object either, Bap Poricy.—It is bad policy for the War Department to retain any negroes in the army. Such soldiers will some day be the nucleus of nigger insurrections in the South, as they once were in St. Domingo. Out soldiers should all be white men. Tux Cuouera axp Tue WALL Street Bears — There is no class of persons so prone to take advantage of any pub’ic misfortune to attaim their own objects as the bulls and bears of Wall street. During the rebellion every litle Union disaster was magnified into soraething terrible, and the prices of gold and stoc ks were sent up or down accordingly. In de fault of having no rebellion material to work vipon, the stockjobbers of Wall street have sei:ed upon the report that the cholera was comin g bither- ward, and on the strength of that the bears the other day smashed down stocks fur or five per cent. We do not care for either: the bulls or the bears, and if people who know aothing about the dodges and fluctuations of the stock market venture into it and get their fingers burned, it is their own faalt. The effort to excite a panic here upon the re- port that the cholera was coming is to be em phatically deprecated. There is really no dan- ger to be apprehended at present upon thas score. The single case reported yesterday was proven by two er three of our most bxperi enced physicians, after a post mortem examination, to be no case of cholera at all. Prantation Maxsers—The radicals end radical journals seem to be picking up the old plantation manners once so much in favor with the radicals of the South, See Tribune— “liar,” “scoundrel,” &e. pared mass meeting of ‘wnants is to take Tompking square, to which yot only the German Dave started this movemer,t, but also the Hug! ment, are invited. ‘Tar Souptmns ann Sartssea’ Reumr Socrery.—It hay comet the knowledge of the gentlemen in charge the Soldiers and Sailors: Relief Soclety, at No. 136 Canal kéreet, that there are, ‘over three hundred disabled Ger- toan veterans of the ear, a# well as (he widows and or. phans of this class, in this city, clearly entitied to aid and assistance, thyy make an appeal to the charitably isposed to join Usem in contribating t the relief fund now being raise¢, for thie specific purpose. ) Fam yor tae Daenrere Carorey of Caanum- Cash fait will be held this evening at St, wehMIt Ouse, fth street, ‘Tox, ba’