The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENYETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI.... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY _ THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—SoLoN Suincux—Live INDIAN. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Hyrocuonpriac—Too Moc ror Goop Natuxs. Matinee at 13g oCloek. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Buxp Tou's Gnaxp Piano Concanrs. “Matinee at Threo o'Clock, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Stwa- 3NG, Dancing, Burcesques. &c.—Tux Working Girts or New Youre. Matinee at 2g o'Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY’S—O1p Scmoon or Minsrrersy, Bat.aps, Musicat Gems, &c.. Fifth Avenue Overa House, ‘Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourta street, —Inx Car Drivers’ Srnaixs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite Netropolitan Hotel. Ermior aN Sinatng, DaNnsixa, &0.— ‘Tus Comatrres oN Wars anp Mrans. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Necro Comicauitixs, BuRLEsuEs, &C.—SHYLOCK; it Jew OF CHATHAM STREET. HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erutoriax Mite SIRELSY—LALans, BULLESQuESs AND PANTOMIMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM Of ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open trom IVA. M. ull 10 P. aes _ LECTURE BY MR. DE CORDOVA—Ar tax Twentr- winst Street Revoruxp Duron Cuvrcu. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Wednesday, April 18, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. Whe Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advertising of all the daily papers of this city for two years. In the first wolumn are the receipts for thirteen months, being the jyear 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second olumn are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months For the ending Dee, $1, 1304 Year 1865. £%,..8577,455 $662,192 + 260,960 301,841 251,812 284,412 163,177 222,715 128,056 177,204 109,595 173,646 62,644 164,461 67,550 126,380 94,928 101,793 60,922 17,556 48,968 77,088 Evening Expross, 62,350 68,742 New Yorker Demokrat. 21,052 25,734 ce eR + $1,878,267 $2,483,724 , This shows the Herat to bo, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- cating their business wants to the public, NOTE. ‘The Times and Tribune, in order to make a show of business, publish statements pretending that they aro from official returns to the Revenue Department. These statements are made up in the Tim-s and Tribune offices o suit their own purposes, and very curiously tho Times shows a larger business than the Tribune, and the Tritune @ larger business than the Times! But no’ returns of tho kind have ever been made to that department. Our table, given above, is taken from the official books and is strictly corroct in every par- ticular, Any one can satisfy himself on this point by inspecting the books at the Internal Revenue Office, THE FENIANS. Our Fenian news is becoming more and more inter- esting. General Meade and his staff left Philadelphia for Eastport yesterday, it is supposed for some purpose in connection with the Fenian movements going on there. The naval squadron for duty among the fisheries Bias been determined upon at Washington, and is tu con- sist of seven vessels, mounting in all fifty guns, to be commanded by an acting rear admiral. They are to rendezvous at Eastport by the 30th inst. and remain there until the Fenian excitement has subsided. They will then proceed to the fishing grounds on the British North American coast. The authorities at ‘Washington have forwarded instructions to Eastport to euforce strictly the neutrality laws, A schooner, with arms aboard for Killian, was seized by the Custom House officers there, but immediately released. Mr. Killian is reported as having said that there is no intention of in- vading the provinces, Fenians still arrive in large bodies. In New Brunswick the excitement still con- tinues. The British ship Simoom, with a battalion of regulars, arrived at St. Jobns yesterday; six hundred ected to-day at St. Stephens and St, An- ‘sides two companies of artillery and a company of engineers, It fs thought the new government wiil suspend tho writ of habeas corpus The trial at Cornwall is still conducted with closed doors, The volunteers are to be retained until the trials are over. Colonel O'Mahony visited the Germania Assembly 18, where the Fair of the Fenian Sisterhood is being last night, and delivered a short address on the Progress of the work. CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday a bill to define the number and r gulate the appointment of officers in tho navy was Feforred to (he Committee on Naval Affairs. A resolution ‘ed to the Committee on Military Affairs direct- Re Yog tho Secrotary of War to change the names of forts Yod arsenals now called after prominent rebels. The Wotlon to reconsider the vote refusing admission to Colo- ‘Fady Territory was taken up, but no action taken thereon. The Habeas Corpus bill was postponed. Tho bill for the Tolief ef naval contractors was under discussion when 6 adjourned, House the bill to reorganize and establish the was under consideration, the pending question gon the motion to amend the fourth section by out that portion relating to the Veteran Reserve The debate on the subject insted over two and the vote betng taken the motion was lost by of $4 to 30, A motion to repeal all acts authortz- ¢ organization of colored troops was lost. After » furthor personal explanation relative to Mr. Conk Haukrupt bill the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the following bills were Jnosed:—Incorporating the Bond Deposit Company of Now York. Authorizing the appointment of censors to Jocate an asylum for the insane on the Hudson. Ri Rive to the Brooklyn and Nassau Railroad companies. ‘he Brooklyn and Greenpoint Avenue Railroad bill, fhe Niagara Ship Canal bill, with an amendment that Bho act shall not take effect until the Erie and Oswego wanals have been enlarged so as to pass boats two hun- Hired foot long and twenty-three feet wide, was passed. "Tne Crosstown and the Underground Railroad bills were Jost. In the Assombiy the bill regulating the hours of labor Wor drivers and conductors on stree 3 and omnibuses iin this city was passed. The bill re g to the tax pion of stockholders of banks was referred to the Judi- ‘elary Committee. A concurrent resolution to adjourn eine die on Friday was adopted The New York City Tax Levy bil was ordered ao ird readin, third reading. TE ’ ( Tho Conard steamship Persia, from Queenstown April +B, i@ due at this port, with three days’ Inter news. ! A general order from Superintendent Kennedy, of the Metropolitan Police, is published this morning, directing What » report of every drinking saloon In the various dis: Wricts where Nquor has been sold during the last twelve Ppvutus shall be rejurned Ww bis odice, for the purpose of NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. laying the same before the Board of Health, which, hav- ing been constituted a Board of Excise, has the power to determine who shall have licenses to soll liquor and who sball not. The order mentions particular points that are especially to be reported upon. At a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday a pro- test was received from a delegation of residents of York- ville against the removal of sundry nuisances to that locality. The question of the adulteration of milk was also discussed previous to adjournment. The strike on the city railroads continues with un- abated inconvenience to travellers. In the forenoon of yesterday the old hands on the Third avenue went to work on the understanding their demands would be com- plied with, but tied op again on hearing such was not the company’s intention. On the other lines of railroad ‘traffic was more or less irregular, and ceased altogether ateight P. M. A riot on a small scale took place about half-past five o'clock in the neighborhood of Thirtieth street and-Second avenue, Arrests were made, and the rioters separated without doing much injury. A meet- ing of the drivers took place in the Continental Hotel, ‘Thirty;fourth streot, at which enthusiastic speeches were made and subscriptions raised for the assistance of the strikers, Several cases of disease supposed to be ship fever have been discovered in Brooklyn, E. D., by which several deaths have occurred. Acase has been decided in Part 2 of the Supreme Court, by Judge Mason, which lays down the liability of the Croton Aqueduct Board for wages of their employes m repairing the streets under the McCool and Warnock contracts, The suit was brought by James Eagan against the city for salary as Inspector of Pavements from the 14th of August to the 21% of October, 1865—one hundred and twenty dollars. Judge Mason decided in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. It is said that number of similar cases have been depending upon this decision. Judge Ingraham has decided relative to the claims of Morris Ketchum & Company on the New York and New Haven Railroad Company as to the latter’s responsibility for the fraudulent issue of stock by Robert Schuyler, Tho decision is, ‘§udgment for defendants against tho plaintiffs for $100,576 65, with interest on $54,834 06, from April 10, 1866, and costs.” The case of Sureau Lamirande, a Frenchman, who is charged with having absconded with seven hundred thousand francs, the property of the Bank: of France, was expected to come up for hearing yesterday, under the Extradition law, before Commissioner Betts. It ap- Pears that Lamirande 1s detained in the hands of tho Sheriff of New York, at the suit of the bank ina civil action in one of the State courts; but as the bank is also the party who has prosecuted him criminally, it is likely there will be no difficulty in handing the defendant over to the United States authorities, to be dealt with accord- ing to the terms of the Extradition treaty. Commissioner Osborn took evidence yesterday in the case of the United States against several seamen who, it is alleged, had mutinied on board the ship Tanjore while on the voya¥s trom Hong Kong to New York. Accord ing to the testimony, the affair turned out to be rather asorious one, the captain having been obliged to fire upon the seamen for the purpose of restoring order. The examination will be resumed on Thursday, An important trial is now pending in the United States Court in Brooklyn, before Judge Benedict, in which George 8. Howe et al, owners of the ship Margarot Evans, are plaintiffs, and the owners of the steamboat Bridgeport are defendants, It is a case of collision during a fog, in which the steamer sunk the ship. The owners of the lattor claim $14,318 damages. A pickpocket named Rutherford was arrested in the act of plying his nimble fingers in Park row yeaterday and committed, + At a meeting of the Farmers’ Club yesterday, a lengthy discussion on the subject of trichine was the feature of the occasion, the majority of the disputants belioving the disease to be caused by the use of pork in a raw or Pparboiled state, although no‘definite conclusion was ar- rived at. An improved hand fanning mill, patetited by Mr. George Leech, was exhibited. The steamship Jamaica Packet, of Glasgow, from Kingston, Jamaica, bound to New York, is ashore on Ab- secom beach, New Jersey. ‘ ‘The Inman line steamship Edinburg, commanded by Captain Halcrow, an experienced and popular master, will sailat noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool from pier 44 North river. ‘The depression in the gold market prevented much of {© movement in the general merchandise markets, yet nevertheless a fair trade was done, all things considered, especially in breadstuffs, Both flour and wheat were in active request, aud prices were higher, the former by ‘15e. a 25c, per bbl, and the latter 2c. a 3c. per bushel. Cotton was dull and drooping. A heavy stock depressed the sugar somewhat, but prices were not decidedly lower. Coffee was without material change. Petroleum was dull and nominal, On ’Chance flour was higher. Wheat higher. Corn firmer. Oats firmer. Pork lower. Beef steady. Lard unchanged. Butter and Cheese quict and somewhat nominal, MISCELLANEOUS. Dospatches from Mexico via New Orleans state that a wagon train from Panos to Monterey, guarded by four- teen hundred imperialiste, was attacked and captured by the liberals about the 4th instant. Two hundred French wore killed or captured, Emigrants from the United States aro arriving at Matamoros in large numbers. An imperial force under Joonigros attacked Canales near Cherco Escandido on the 6th inst., and worsted him, killing twenty-two and wounding a large number. Mata- moros is considered by the imperialists to be impreg- nable. By the arrival last night of the steamship Manhattan, from Vera Cruz on the 8th inst., via Havana on the 13th, we are placed in possession of our correspondence from those two places. The additional news from Mexico is unimportant, The Italian and Belgian ministers to Mex- ico arrived in the Manhattan. ‘An official despatch from the Secretary of War to Brovet Major General J. M. Brannan, Assistant Commis- sioner of the Freedman’s Bureau in Augusta, Ga., states, with the President's approval, that the late procla- mation does not remove martial law in the Southern States or operate in any way upon the Freedman’s Bu- reaut in the exercise of its legislative jurisdiction. Clement ©. Ciay was yesterday released by order of tho President, on condition that ho report when cailed for. The captain of the ship Eliza McLauchian, which ar- rived here yesterday, reports the loss and abandonment at sea of the ship Expross, of Liverpool, from New Orleans for St. John, N. B. One out of four men belong. ing to her, who had clung toa fraginent of the wreck, was picked up on the 4th inst., the other throe having been washed off, This survivor stated that the captain of the Express, his wife and somo of the crew left the shattered craft in a boat, Additional particulars of the Port au Prince conflagra- tion state that attempts were made afterwards to burn down the rest of the city. A case of Obiiem is mentioned by our correspondent as having occurred rocently, where ‘© party of several persons were discovered feasting on cooked infants. ‘The researches made for of! in Cuba have proved suc- cossful, the whole island being nearly one digging. The oll ig the same, as found by analyzation, as the Pennsyl- vanta petroleum, Captain Ezra Nyo, one of the first steameh{p captains in the Collins line of Atlantic steamers, died in Newark yesterday at noon, He it was who reseued the passen- gers of the wrecked ship Jessie Stephens, in 1554. ‘The Union Pacific Railroad ts now being laid at the rate of a mile a day in Nevada Territory, In Boston the keeper of a tobacco store, who was de tected setting fire to his premises on Monday night, at- tempted his own life, ineffectually, however. Reports from Toxas state that the crops in that State this year will be the largest over raised. ‘The report of Ole Ball's death ts contradicted. Frerrs or tun Civ Rients Br.—We begin to witness the fruits of the Civil Rights bill Tt has already caused the blood-of white people to be shed in Norfolk; it has been the cause of negroes in Boston filling places formerly occupied by white laborers; it has given Massachusetts negroes the right, or rather they have impudently assumed it, to take seats beside white Indies in railroad cars, when plenty of other seats are vacant. In short, it is continually inoreasing the bad feeling existing between whites and blacks in the North, while it is certainly not bringing them on bet- tor terms of amity and intimacy in the South. We foresee a great deal of trouble in this con- nection, even before the Civil Rights bill is put into practical execution, The Mexican Question—Its Absorption in Louis Napoleon’s European Designs. It is definitely settled that the French troops, in several three months instalments, are to be withdrawn from Mexico, and that Austria, if she can, is to supply the deficiencies thus re- sulting to Maximilian in order to sustain him on his imperial bed of Mexican roses. One of our city contemporaries, plucking up & little patriotic indignation, boldly suggests the forei- ble expulsion of the Austrians by the United States should that game be attempted, because Austria has not even a pretext for armed inter- vention against the Mexican people. We have not the slightest apprehension, however, that Austria will undertake to supply the places of the French troops with their withdrawal from Mexico. Nor do we suppose that Maximilian contemplates any further efforts to maintain his empire with the removal of the French troops, We dare say that he is now, and has been for some time, preparing for a return to “fatherland,” with the substantial profits in his possession of a good financial speculation; and that with the last of his movables, including his last conducta of silver, he will bring up thd rear of the French evacuation. In the very inception of this Austrian impe- rial establishment in Mexico under French protection—this “grand idea” of Napoleon, as Marshal Forey exprosses it—the important feature in it was the entanglement of Austria. It committed her tothe European policy of Na- poleon; it made her a subordinate to his schemes, a passive instrument in his hands, in regard to European affairs, His magnanimous peace of Villa Franca enabled him to decoy Austria into this Mexican snare; and now be- tween Prussia on the north and Italy in the south, to say nothing of Hungary, the House of Hapsburg is in no condition to spare a sin- gle regiment for the visionary empire of Maxi- milian in Mexico. Austria isso environed with dangers that her very existence, as one of the five great Powers, is imperilled. Let us suppose that Bismark, under the neu- trality protestations of France, pushes the present controversy between Prussia and Aus- tria concerning their joint robbery of those duchies from Denmark to the point of war, what shape is this war most likely to as- sume? The petty members of the Ger- man confederation will become involved on the one side or the other. Young Italy will setze the opportunity to pounce upon Venetia, and Hungary may rise again to the ery of independence. In the midst of this warlike reaction the countless legions of the Czar will be put in motion, and he will be free to choose whether they shall move for the Rhine or the Danube. Napoleon, however, will hardly wait for all these devolopments. He will see that his empire, his prestige and his policy demand instant intervention. He will move an army to the left bank of the Rhine and hold it; he will support King Victor Emanuel in a descent upon Venetia and cap- ture it; he will compel Austria to cede Venctia to Italy and to surrender the Danish duchies to Prussia for the sake of peace, and his reward will be the left bank of the Rbine on the one hand and the island of Sardinia, in compensa- tion for Venice, on the other. A “short, sharp and decisive campaign” may bring about these results without further complications, and to avoid further complications Napoleon, await- ing the signal, is doubtless prepared for quick and decisive action. He is in the Mexican copartnership with Austria, Maximilian is his protege, and yet Napoleon it is who is the prompter of Bismark behind the scenes, In view of these Napoleonic ideas looking to the reconstruction of the map of Rerope, for the enlargement of France and the perpetu- ation of his dynasty, the “grand idea” ot Na poleon involved in the Mexican adventure with Maximilian becomes a mere bagatetle. Napoleon may thus withdraw from Mexico not only without the loss of prestige but witha vastly increased reputation as the master of modern diplomacy. That he is hedging be- tween Prussia and Austria to bring them into collision, is apparent; that he ‘will succeed in this object, it is highly probable, and, if suc- cessful so far, that he will then step in and seize and carry off the lion’s share of the spoils, we cannot doubt. There is a chance for his defeat in the possi- ble appeal by Austria, as a last resort, to a conference of all the great Powers; but in any event the Emperor Francis Joseph is in no condition to indulge the Em- peror Max'milian in his Mexican bauble a day beyond his abandonment by the Em- petor Napoleon. That the orfyinal “grand idea” of the latter was a French political and commercial balance of power on this con- tinent may be set down as a fact in history ; but that it involved the entanglement of Austria, in view of certain Napoleonic designs in Europe, is now apparent. The succe#s of Jeif Davis might have saved Austria; but her humiliation follows his downfill; for, through Maximilian, she becomes the scapegoat of Napoleon. Her spoliation may be the next act in the drama. “Put not your trust in princes.” With the collapse of the glorious vision of Napoleon of a powerful foothold in this hemisphere on the ruins of two republics, he falls back upon.his European subordinates, His Mexican adven- ture is thus reduced to a mere trick in his European diplomacy; and the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico will be accepted by Austria as the end of her delusion, and by Maximilian as a warning to pack up and be off to meet the impending danger at-home. Be- yond the recegnition of his personal obliga- tions, the Mexican alliance between Napoleon and Austria ended with the capture of Jeif Davis. Prevention or Crvenry to Axmars.—A bill is before the Legislature to incorporate “The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.” It gives to the corporation powers almoat as extensive as those intrusted to the Health Commissionors, which are plenary and indisputable. Its oMcors and agents have authority to prevent and to punish cruelty to animals as the Health Board have to sum- marily suppress a nuisance. This is a good measure for several reasons. Among the most prominent are, that it will prevent the over- crowding of horse cars and omnibuses, and that it will put a stop to the horrible cruelty to horses every day witnessed on Broadway. In the first instance, it will also be of service to bipeds as well as quadrapeds, as by limiting the nam- ber of passengers it affords them more com- fortable accommodations and at the same time rednoes the chances for the depredations of pickpockets. In the second case, it will save the poor animals from falling down at almost every other step upon the slippery and treacherous Russ pavement, by ordering that prime cause of much cruelty to horse-flesh to be taken up and its place supplied with material affording & better foothold. As the Board of Health have power to abate any nuisance prejudicial to human health, so will the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have power to suppress anything prejudicial to the welfare of that noble creature, the horse. We hope the bill will pass and the corporation commence operations immediately. The City Organ of Advertisers—The Herald Against the Times and Tribune Combined. The following is a statement of the number of advertisements contained respectively in the Heratp, Times and Tribune, of yesterday’s date:— ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE HERALD, TRIBUNE, APRIL 17, 1866. TIMES AND Whole Number. + 1,828 Times. 680 ‘Tribune 480 Of the accuracy of the above statement any one can satisfy himself who takes the trouble to count the number of advertisements con- tained in the issues of the several papers of the above date. It must be remembered also that from the number against the Heraxp should be deducted the advertisements of those silly theatrical managers who some time ago con- cluded to withdraw their advertisements from the columns of this journal and to keep them inserted in an extended form in the columns of our contemporaries. But this is of no possi- ble account to us. Deducible from the above figures are these facts:—That the Heratp yester- day contained nearly twice as many advertise- mentsas the Times, nearly three times as many as the Tribune, and one hundred and sixly-three more than both combined. These figures show which paper is the organ of the business pub- Ke of New York. They talk business in its plainest sense; and ‘he Heratp advertisements being all paid for, cash in advance, we are never ata loss to cast a cash balance with every day’s issue. The Heratp advertisements are all presented in a neat and compact and yet sufficiently conspicuous form. We are thereby enabled to furnish more really news matter every morning than either of our con- temporaries. Now, how is it with the Times and the Tribune? They both brag of an extensive enlargement of their dimensions. They pretend to ape the London papers in size, if notin brains. This is nothing but affording a more spacious area in which to hide an advertisement. It only shows it up in a waste of dreary matter. Like the blanket sheets of olden time an advertise- ment in their columns appears like a wander- ing Indian on the horizon of a prairie; it is only by a mirage of startling capitals and shocking bad woodcuts that it is ever enabled to loom up before the publie eye. Many of the adver- tisements in the columns of the Times and the Tribune are both indecent and disreputable, and such as can never find a place mm our columns at any price. Others are a disgrace to any metropolitan newspaper, whole columns being devoted to blanks, showbill type, stereo- type headings or ridiculous cuts. Such blotches upon the progressively neat newspaper typography of the day can never be seen in the Heratp. The Tribune widens its columns, and, like a gaping bullfrog, proclaims itself the largest newspaper in the world, a veritable London Times in Yankee- land. We should rather take it to be, from the number of caricatures among its advertise- ments, a reprint of the London Punch, or Paris Charivari, or German Blatherskite—if that’s the proper name—or any other foreign caricaturist, than a copy of such a respectable newspaper, 80 far as ils typographical appearance goes, as the London Times. Some of the Tribune’s il- Tustrations are unique. Who would ever ex- pect to see in the Tribune a cartcature of poor old Barnum, dressed in fiesh-colored tights, making somersault evolutions in a cireus from the back of his woolly horse under terrific headway? Who would ever expect to see in the same columns a picture of the poor old showman’s “Fat Baby” sitting bestride a patent baby jumper? We confess we never ex- pected to see the advertising columns of a me- tropolitan newspaper marred by such unseemly exhibitions. But the Tribune has to fill up its advertising columns with cuts and blanks, and the Times has to do the same, with the addi- tion of dirty advertisements. What a contrast this presents to the handsome, attractive, busi- ness-like appearance of the advertising columns of the Herat. Mors Txovste ror Joux Butt.—We learn that the recent troubles in the island of Ja- maica among the negroes and whites have aroused an unusual feeling of alarm among the inhabitants of other British West India islands, The latest intelligence from the island of St. Vincent is to the effect that more troops from the British government are demanded, for the reason that the English capitalisis have de- clared that they will withdraw all their capital from those islands unless their interests’ are secured by the presence of British troops. ‘Thus from the north and the south we see poor England pestered with annoyances, while from the east and the west she is threatened with more momentous dangers. What will happen next? Tae Press axp tHe Cuotena.—The physi- cians on board the ship England, at Halifax, have at length definitely decided that the dis- ease which compelled the vessel to put into that port is genuine Asiatic cholera. This dreadful scourge is, therefore, at our very doors, and it behooves us to adopt every pre- caution. Governor Fenton should issue his proclamation; the Board of Health should re. double their vigor, and our citizens should be especially careful in regard to cleanliness and diet. There is no necessity, however, for any- thing like a panic. Those papors that are try- ing to excite the public about the cholera are either working in the interests of speculators or are edited by persons of such weak minds as to be frightened ont of their wits at the ap- proach of danger. It must be remembered that the cholera is not the uncontrollable pestilence it used to be. Means have deen found to prevent it, to check il, to eure it and to drive it away. Let us do our utmost to give it no chance ofa footing in this metropolis; but if it should come hero let us ‘be prepared for it and get rid of it as quickly as possible. The press has a duty to perform in connection with this matter; bat that duly fs not to scare the public and drive people out of the city, On the contrary, it is to calm the public mind and to encourage our authorities to more earnest efforts to keep the city clean and heglthy. If any editors are frightened they should leave the country and intrust their papers to ablor and steadier hands. The War in South America. Our letters from Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, published yesterday, giving @n accu- rate detail of the present condition of the Plate war, indicate the possibility that we may once more have a notable application of the old rule, that the battle is not always to the strongest. When it was known that the repub- lies of the Argentine Confederation, the Ori- ental republic and Brazil were all united on one side against the single State of Paraguay on the other, it seemed as if the result must be only a question of time, and that the combined strength of the many must inevitably soon crush out the comparatively little resistance that Paraguay could make. But that was a too hasty view; and there is some promise in the present state of affairs that the determina- tion, courage and energy which Paraguay brings to the contest may yet be more than a match for the numbers and the great array of power on paper made hy her encmies. The allied interest suffers from causes incl- dent to the unwieldiness of tbe alliance, want of direction, purpose and spirit. The position of the allies has its analogies with the position in which we ourselves stood during the first years ot the war against the rebellion. As we did, they suffer from the blundering inefficiency of officials in every position. They suffer from corruption in contracts to such an extent that it is hinted the real question now is not-as to the movement or power of forces, but whether the Paraguayan army or the Brazilian treasury can hold out the longest; and while the ex- penditure is on the largest scale, the army suffers for the want of quartermasters’ stores, commissary stores and everything else, Another remarkable similarity with our own situation is found in the fact that a distin- guished man of the allies promises to end the war “in thirty days.” In our own case a similar promise was made for sixty days. Though the time is different the point is the same, In each case it shows clearly that the men charged with the direction of affairs do not appreciate the struggle they have under- taken. That isa grave fact for nations which wage war, While the allied generals promise much and do nothing, the Paraguayans are all earnest- ness and activity. They have improved the time given by the slow motions of their adver- saries in the fortification of a position on the Paraguay river. This position must be taken before the allies can reach the Paraguayan capital; before they can inflict any damaging blow on the defiant republic. All the ap- proaches by water are obstructed; the river is said to be filled with torpedoes, and the ob- structed points are covered with heavy guns. The approach by land is equally difficult, and the twenty-one miles of hostile territory that the allies must traverse to reach Humaita is re- ported as filled with a series of fortifications, by which the Paraguayan army will retire, step by step, fighting all the way. If the Paraguayans show in the defence of those forts the same valor-shown in every fight of this war, it will be many a day yet before the allies get into the stronghold on the Para- guay river. It must be remembered that the comparison we have made between the allies and the United States holds good only to a cer- tain extent. Though we blundered and did all very stupidly at first, we did better afterwards, and came out victors finally. We must not as- sume that the allies will do this also. They must improve their management sooner than we did or it will be useless. If something is not accomplished in a very short time the un- natural alliance will tumble to pieces. The republics that now fight side by side with Brazil will go over. And as there is but little probability of such a change in the conduct of the war, all the chances now are that Paraguay will come out the conqueror in this struggle. Tue Frrentroy Exprosion mw San Francis- co—Giycenine Acamn aT is Murprxovus Worx.—We published yesterday a telegraphic account of a terrific explosion in San Fran- cisco, by which fifteen or twenty persons were killed and many others wounded. The parti- culars are not very full, and the cause of the explosion is regarded as mysterious. It seems, however, that the freight agent of the Pacific Mail Company avers that two boxes, each measuring about four cubic feet, were taken from the steamer’s deck to the place where the explosion occurred, and that both were “stained with oil.” One of the boxes was destined for Idaho City and the other for Los Angeles. These facts, we believe, establish a complete solution of the mystery. The boxes, no doubt, contained the new blasting ofl called nitro-glycerine, the explosive effects of which we experienced in this city at the Wyoming Hotel, Greeenwich street, on Sunday forenoon, the 5th of November last. On that sad occasion a scientific investi- gation was had, and it was decided that the disaster was occasioned by the new blasting material we have mentioned; that it was ofa light yellow oily fluid, and a compound of glycerine and nitric acid. It is a German in- vention, and has been used successfully in Europe, but never, to our knowledge, in this country. So far as we have heard, it has only served here as an infernal machine to destroy the lives of persons unacquainted with its tre- mendous power and who are obliged to handle it without being cautioned against its dan- gerous character. We hoid, therefore, that it is the duty of Congress to make the introduction of this murderous compound into this country, without due safeguards, a crime punishable with the utmost severity. A precaution hke this is necessary not only for the safety of those engaged in the business of mining, but of those who are liable to come in contact with it while in transitu. Union Pacific Ratiroad. Omura, N. T., April 16, 1866, Government commissioners examined and accepted the second section of the Union Pacidc Railroad today. The track is now being taid at the rate of one mile por day. Court Calendar—This Day. Scrarwe Covrt—Generat Term,.—Balance of merated motions and ferred causoa. Noa, 60, 61, 62, 65, 86, 57, 68, 59, 00, 61, 62, 65, 06, 67, 68. Scrriam Covet—Cievit.—Part 1~Same as "raat non-enu- With the exception of 493 struck off, O61 added Fe ane, Ge te ic watr enat tren Ps amare et le a MEXICO. Rumored Successes of the Liberals. Reported Defeat of Micjia and Capture of Bagdad. AN IMPERIAL WAGON TRAIN CAPTURED. ° Two Hundred French Soldiers Killed. &. &. ke. ‘The steamship Manhattan, Captain Turner, from Vora Cruz on the 8th instant and Havana on the 13th, arrived ‘at this port last night. She brings as passengers Count do la Tour, Minis. ter from Italy to Mexico, and Mr. Blondel de Bol- denbreck, Minister from Belgium to Mexico; also the Count de Podenagz, a distinguished officer. Mr. George W. Ray, from Havana, and Deputy Grand Wistor ot the Third Masonic district of the State of New York, and Master of Excelsior Lodge, at sea on the morning of the 16th, of consumption. ‘The purser will accept our thanks for prompt dolivery of our despatches, Our Havane Correspondence. Havana, April 12, 1808. The steamer Manhattan arrived late yesterday from Vera Cruz. The dates from that port are to the 6th, and from the capital to the 2d inst. I give you an abstract of the news from Mexico, which is not important. The Manhattan is to sail in the afternoon. * NURVA LEON. Letters from Monterey to the Ist of March announce the departure for Villa Santiago or Huajaco of the cavalry regiment of the Empress, and troops under Duiroga, to make a night attack on a band of one hundred and fifty Suarists under Davila. mee &: Escobedo was af Yinarey AJ San Pedro de Yturbide Uo had many liitorviews with J. J. de la Garza, who has gone to take the command of the bands of Tamaulipas, The merchants that took refuge at Saltillo to receive their goods have returned, and the authorities pretend to impose a triple contribution of one-half per cont for public works, another half per cent for public instruction, and a quarter per cent for the municipality. These burdens joined to the expense of forwardiny the goods to and fro, besides the injury sustained, are ruinous to trade JACA. ou. The robel chiefs Subera and Guzman havo been appro- hended at Chilapa, in company with those namod Sanchez and Segura, who harbored thom. They were the authors of the pronunciamento in July, 1865. ‘SAN LUIS POTOSI, Colonel Dapin is opening bis campaign i Taman pag by defeating Garza, as he obtained a complete trium| at Horcasitas, ‘Tho countra-guerilla had» left Tula on the 5th of March, and were marching to- wards Tampico, when on the llth they met with some dragoons hidden in the brainbles at tho limite of the ‘chosen by the imperialists, who captured four men and ten horses, On the 12th the countra- erillas continued their march to Horcasitas, At ono jeague’s distance the forces were divided, part of them crossing the wood to reach the road to Con- cepcion, where they found two hundred and fifty horsemen ready formed under I, de la Garza, brother of the general in command at Victoria, ‘The imporialist pickets of the vanguard rushed on the leave the place before it was properly garrisoned, and. that bis troops had not suffered so much as had been re- THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THR NORTHWEST. The cantons of Abasolo and Guerrero had been subdued the allies—! and Indians. Morales, chief of the Caratzumares of San Lorenzo entered Costhuiriache peo the empire. The head rebels ran away at is approach without making any resistance. Morales Sa his bey bp on the 1 a entered Concepcion, which place was to be garrisoned permanent force and, one hundred and of Indians—two hundred infantry COAHUILA. enthusiastically in praise of the Parras fifty cavalry. The Era speaks very orp defence made at by Lieut. don, whe orders not to render up the place on any account what- ever. This was at five in the morning; at nine the report arrived at the city that his superior had been defeated. Shortly the enemy, uumbering one thousand five hundred, advanced, confident that it would be un, necessary to’ spend a single cartridge. Bartidon, wi had = only forty-four men, twenty-six = train soldiers and one howitzer, ‘without ‘ammuni one bayonet and some carbines, closed hit up in the redoubt. The howitzer was located in the tower, so as to be seen by the enemy, at least to com- mand respect if not to kesp them at bay. men were situated in the highest parts, in order to make the evemy believe that he had a large forte at command. When the liberals found the fort so well prepared they did not think it an easy task to take it, and sent parliament, demanding him to surrender under ample id intimating that ali resistance would prove ‘uitiess, The answer was that if they felt sure that th could take the place they might at once set about it An attack was made and successfully repulsed by that handiul of Frenchmen. To a second intimation the same reply was given, with only this difference—that he would not receive any further truce. The enemy thea laid sioge to the place, which lasted forty hours, with- out any wavering on’ tho side of the defenders; but such an obstinate defence naturally thinned their numbers, and they wouid-all have been annihilated had Captain Saussior Dot just arrived in time to their assist- ance. The enemy did not even tarry to count the num- ber of the salvors, but took to their heels before they had all arnved. Relatively, their loss was very con- siderable. MISCELLANEOUS. The Pajaro Verd» of the 26th March says that General Almonte was to leave in the English packet, On the 26th a vrand dinner had been given him. ‘The Emperor has commuted the sentence of death of the assassin Agustin Morales to ten years’ imprison ment, A condueta of three millions left Mexico for Vora Cras on the 30th, to go by the Fronch steamer. ‘The Apache Indians have given a great deal of trouble to Sonora. These raids have been practised for many years. One farm alouc in Durango had daring the period of twenty-five years furnished them with at least two hondred thousand horses, mules, &c. ‘The Emperor has ordered a magnificent garden to bo constructed near his palace at a cost of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. According to a letter from Morelia of the 23th, thore was no doubt that the Juarist chief Salorio was s\ot on the 25th, between that town and Tacambaro, by another chief, in conformity with the command of Regules. ‘The Mericano of the 30th says that Playa Colorada on the Lake of Caiman, in the Pacific, has been declared a “a Bavispo, Sonora, six individuals have availed them- selves of the amnesty, denying their culpabitity in the affair of the 11th and 12th of December, The liberals had again abandoned Cindad del Matz; _ of them came from Tamaulipas and the rest be- longed to the force of Gareta Cadena, ‘The Porvenor of the 25th sates that it had been re- 4 guerillas were spreading in Zacatocas, It was also said that Commandant Mena had beon defeated by Garcia Cadena; and as French troops had been sont im the direction ‘of Juchipila, there seemed to be some foundation the report. The News. New Onusase, April 17, 1858. Advices from Brownsville say it was reported there that the liberais had captured a wagon train petweon Paros and Monterey with $200,000, and killed and captured about two hundred Frouch soldiers fhe train, consisting of one hundred and fifty wagons, left Monterey about the Ist of April, with supplies and money for Matamoros, escorted by one thousand four hundred tur perialists. General Canales and othors, with about two thousand four hundred liberals and Navajos, with the liberal cavalry, loft Camargo on the 3d to intercept the train. Mejia bad left Matamoros to mect the approachin: small column, General Olivera commanding Matamoros during his absence, well provided against any attack, The Courier snys:—It is rumored that the train from Monterey has already been attacked and captured twelve miles above Matamoros ; feuted ; that Matamoros will be that Bagelad bas been taken; but none of these are reliable. ‘The Matamoros Rancher speaks encon General Gylty’s administration on the grants are continually arriving at Mata States in large numbers. The Matamoros Ranchero of the 13th says the Imperial forces under Jooningros arrived at Cherco Escandido on Sunday last, twenty-two leacues from Matan ingly of . Em ores from the short distance beyond that point Canales endeavored to dispute his , Dut War repulsed by Lopes’ reat: mont, losing twenty-two killed and a large 1 r wounded, Two hundred wagons accompany the J ‘expedition, which ta, provided with every req ine a thorough and active campaign, specie train leaves Monterey soon under Treams for General Mejin ts how with Jooningros, arranging, for opening the campaign against the Gomes ona for mores, which roy attack. Victoria, Saltillo,’ Monte- are fortified. ° to be fs tp fi rawn in the direction of Lugorys} rating ver, and ory }