The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Wodeme EXKL......4ecccceces sees ce eee cee 163 ooo New York, Tuesday, June 12, 1866. TO CARPENTERS. Proposals will be received until June 15 for the car- penter's work of the Hxxatp Bcipine now in course of ‘erection on Broadway, Park row and Ann street. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of John Kellum, architect, 179 Broadway, New York. CONGRESS. In the Senato yesterday the House bill to provide for the safe keeping of public money intrusted to disbursing officers was passed. It provides that public money shall be deposited with Assistant Treasurers of tho United States, and prescribes punishment for lending any money intrusted to @ disbursing officer. Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported the bill to con- tinue in force the Freedmen’s Bureau, with amend- menia, The section confirming the titles to Sea Island lands, under General Sherman’s order, is stricken out, and in Neu of it there is a provision by which, under certain circumstances, these lands can be recovered by the former owners, feveral bills wero reported, but no further action of any importunce transpired. In the House Mr. Ancona offered a preamble and reso- lution declaring the Fen‘an invasion patriotic and proper, and moving the repeal of the neutrality laws; several amendments and substitutes were offered in connexion with this, and the resolution, with an amendment, was Feierred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill to pro- vide for restoring the States to their fuil political rghts, which was reported by the Reconstruction Committee. During the discussion Mr. Grinnell indulged in vitupera- tive language towards Mr. Rousseau, and @ personal col- Ision was imminent, when Mr. Banks interfered by a call to order, and Mr. Grinnell was admonished by the Chair that his conduct was unparliamentary. The House, by a vote of 105 yeas to 19 nays, passed a rerolution declaring that Jeff Davis shall be kept in cus- tody and tried by the laws of the land. Judge Underwood, in chambers, at the Attorney Gen- eral’s office yesterday, heard the arguments of Messrs. O’Conor and Shea why Jeff Davis should be admitted to Bail. Attorney General Speed replied on the part of the government. Judge Underwood refused to admit the prisoner te bail on the ground that he was a prisoner of war. THE FENIANS. The investigation of the British invasion of Vermont is being rigorously pushed forward, and the disclosires so far leave but little doubt that ths English troops cap- tured and killed one or more Fenians, on the soil of Vermcnt, Mrs. Eccles, an American lady, and the wile of the gentieman at whose ho se General Spear mate his headquarters, was shot and killed on Sunday night by one of the British guard stationed around the building to capture any Fenians who might be lurking in that vicimty . ‘The disbandment of the army is nearly completed, General Barry has orders to furnish transportation home ‘to those who will give their parole not to take up arms again against a nation with which the United States is at peace. Every train from the border carries away a party of them bound forhome. Many of them arrived in this city yestertay from the front, and expressed themselves ready to start again when ordered. ‘The treatment of the prisoners on their way through the Canadian towns is very rough. They aro jocred and taunted, and in one instance one of them was very se- voroly maltreated by the mob. Commissioner Betts commenced yesterday the ex- amination into the charge preferred against Colonel W. R. Roberts, President of the Fenian Brotherhood, of having been conc:rned in tho fitting out of a military expedition to Canada, contrary to the neutrality laws of the United States, Colonel Roborts was cheered on making bis appearance in court, Four witnesses were examined for the prosecution, which was conducted by Mr, 8. G. Courtney, United States District Attorney, and Mr. Ethan Allen, United States Assistant District Attor ney. Mr. John McKeon and Mr. Smyth were for the de- feace. The case stands adjourned till this morning. : EUROPE. By the arrival of the steamship Scotia, from Queens- town, we have European advices two days later. The German question has assumed no new phase. Prussia has agreed to accept the invitation to the Confer- ence without conditions, Austria is ready to disarm, Provided security is given thatthe peace will be pre- served. Tho Conference will convene this week in Paris. The cotton markot, after along season cf depression, bas assumed a much stronger position, aud prices are advancing. Br-adstuffs were inactive, but prices unchanged. Consols closed at 8734 04. Five-twenties were quoted ab 663 a X. nhs THE CITY. The Board of Councilmen were in session yestorday and tranzacted considerable routine bisinss. A reso- lution was adopted directing the Committee on National Affairs to ascertain the probable cost of a portrait of Lieutenant General Scott, to be placed in the Governor's room, and also that the committee consider the feasi- bility of establishing a gallery of patutings of distin- guished Americans. The Board concurred with tho Aldermen in donating a stand of regtmental colors at the cost of eight hundred dollars each to the following regi- ments:—The Second, Third, Seventh, Seventy-ainth, Kinety-fifth and Ninety-ninth regiments of the Natioval Guard, tho First and Third regiments of cavalry and the First regiment of artillery. A memorial has been sent to the Mayor and Common Counell of New York, signed by a large namber of pas- sengera by the Hoboken ferries, complaining of the in- suffict nt accommodations of the line. A party composed of Mr. J. W. Rich, Engineer of the Quarantine Board; Mr. A. W. Craven, Engineor of the Croton Aqueduct Board; Mr. Worthem, Engincer of the Board of Health; Dr. Swinburne, Health Officer, and Mr. &. W. Johnson, counsel to tho Quarantine Commissioners, proceeded down the bay yesterday for the purpose of making observations to determine the feasibility of erecting Quarantine Buildings on Weat Bank, according to an act of tho Legislature passed on the 21st of April, 1866. The Germans were engaged in a series of festivitics yesterday. The Turner associations, composing the Now York Turn District, held a district Turnfest at Jones’ Wood, whore about three or four thousand persons were in attendance. A number of German vocal societies were also assembled at Hamilton park, whore they engaged In 8 variety of musical exercises. General Duice, accompanied by his swite, took the four o'clock train yesterday afternoon for Philadelphia and ‘Washington. On his return it ts contemplated that several fé'es will bo given in his honor at different places in this city. A preliminary moeting of the Democratic General Committee for the ciection of dolegates and officers for the years 1866-67, was held last evening, and after dis- €. saion furtLer proceedings in oe matter were postponed for two weeks, A meeting of the New York City Bunday School and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church ‘was held last evening in the church in Bedford street, Mr. W. W. Cormoll in the chair. The act of incorporm tion was paswed in April last, and the first general re. port of the society was read and unanimously adopted by the meeting. ‘Twelve cases of nitro-glycerine arrived at thie port on Friday last, and the owner, Professor Baum, of Ham- burg, requested permission to land it It was stored by of the Fire Commissioners in a shanty on Eighty-third street and Ninth avenue. Mr, Moses Strauss, of 191 Ewen street, Brooklyn, yes- terday morning forgot his pisto!, which he usunity keeps under the head of his bed at night, and bis wilco om making the bed tossed the pistol on the floor, causing it to explode, and instantly killing their little child who was sitting near at the time Yesterday morning two handred oxcursioniste, the gusta and members of Company 6 of the First regiment of the National Guard, proceeded to Dudley's Grove and @njoyed themeelves thoroughly for a couple of hours. ‘They re-embarked for their homeward trip, whon a party of ronghs introduced themselves and commenced a gen- MX ioets Tle WH Woe bu kL oad. Ld — quelled the rioters, No further harm being done than the picking of various pockets by the rowdies, ‘The Court of Appeals in Brooklyn will probably ren- der next Saturday # decision in the cases of Gonzales and Pelicier, convicted of the murder of Jose Garcia Otero 10 the City Hall Park of Brovkiyn, in November last, Should the finding of the Supreme Court be su-tained & new trial will be granted; but should it be reversed, the day for the excution of the murderers will be immed- ately nama. Affairs remain unchanged at Quarantine. No now cases of cholera have occurred, and the report of the Health Officer, Dr, Bissell, sont in yesterday, was of a sati-fa ‘ory character. There is every indication that the mass meut- ing to be held this evening at Richmond, Staten Island, will be of @ very success/ul and demonstrative character, a8 showing the opposition of the people there to the action of the Board of Health. ‘The Protective aud Benovolont Society of "Longshore- men, No. 1, of Brooklyn, have presented the sum of fifteen hundred dollars towards the erection of a now Catholic church in South Brooklyn, of which the Rev. ‘A. J. Davis, at present attached to St, Peters’, is to be the pastor. ‘Tho annual examination of the senior class of the law school of the New York University commenced yester- day afternoon before a board of examiners appointed by the Supreme Court and will be continued each afteruoon of the week. Duncan, Sherman & Co. commenced an action in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, before Judge Daly, tor $5,000 in gold which they allege they paid to Mr. Robert Baile, a broker of this city, through mstake during the course of a business transaction. The answer is a genera! denial, and the case is still on, Judge Potter will preside for the remainder of the term in part one of the Supreme Court, Circuit, which will open hereafter at ten o'clock instead of half-past ten o'clock A. M. In the General Sessions yesterday, James Taylor, charged with breaking into the premises of Christopher Barth, 483 Broome street, and stealing $40 worth of calf skin«, pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary, and was sent to the State Prison for Ove years. James G. Taylor, who was convicted last week of attempting to kill officer McCullough, was sent to the Sing Sing Prison for two years. John Edwards, who was guilty of an attempt at rape, was sentenced to the State Pricon for two years and six months, who stole a horse and wagon worth $530 from Wm. Stivers, pleaded guilty to an attenpt at iarceny and were sent to the State Prison for the same period. John Smith and John White, Tho stock market was dull yesterday, but closed strong. Gold, after opening at 187%, closed at 14054. There was but hitle activity er buoyancy in commer- cial circles yesterday, and the business done was mode- rate, save in a few exceptional cases, The Javorable news from the Liverpool cotton market stimulated av active movement here and prices advanced about 2c., which was the most noticeable event of the day in busi- ness places, Sugar was dull, but unchanced. Coffee quietand nominal. On ’Change the low grades of flour were again decidedly lower. Wheat and corn were also lower. Oats were heavy. Rye firm. Pork higher. Beef steady. Lard dull and heavy and whiskey nominal, MISCELLANEOUS. The State Senate will meet to-day, at Albany, under the proclamation of the Governor, for the purpose of trying the case of Judge Smith, County Judge of Oneida county, who is charged with malfeasance in office aud collusion with bounty brokers, &c, The counsel for the prosecution are Messrs, Sedgwick aud Waterman; for the defendant, Messra, Ira Schafer and Henry Smith, of Albany. ‘The North Carolina State Convention were in session yesterday, but adjourned at an early hour as a mark of respect to the memory of General “cott. A despatch from the commandant of the Spanish squadron in the South Pacific Seas, which announces the bombardment of Valparaiso to the Minister of Spain at Washington, is published in the columns of the Hzmatp this morning. Commodore Nufies concludes his despatch by saying that the honor of Spain having been covered with glory the fleet will abandon the waters of the Fouth Pacific, The Chilean Secretary of Foreign Affairs has issued & circular to the representatives of Chile abroad, officially notifying them of the bomberdment of Valparaiso by the Spantards, with the views of the Chilean govern- ‘ment on the matter, and instructing them to bring the affair to the notice of the Foreign Ministers of the coun- tries to which they are respectively accredited. A prize fight was quashed by the police yesterday evening at the corner of Washington and Cana! streets, in Jersey City. A challenge had beon given and ac- cepted between a professional named Coagrove and an aspirant to the belt in the State of New Jersey. Cosgrove bad time to pommel his man well before the guardians of the law interfered. An old man named David White was beaten to death by robbers.near Baltimore on Sunday night. His daugh- ter and grandgon were also beaten, and the latter very seriously injured. A woollen factory and the Crawfordsville and Evans- Ville freight depot wero burned on Sunday afternoon at Terre Haute, Tho lose in the factory is $75,000, the lose in the depot being unknown. The Reconstra Adjust: Foreign Policy the Card for President Johnson. The proposed amendment of the federal con- stitution, providing for the reconstruction and res.oration of the lately rebellious States, will doubtless pass the House of Representatives in the form adopted by the Senate. In this form, therefore, it will be submitted to the States for thelr ratifications, Whether it will succeed or failin securing the required endorsements of three-fourths of all the States or even of the States represented in Congress, is a question which will remain for the legislatures of the several States to determine. With the transfer of the whole subject to the States, however, Congress and the administration, at least for the remainder of this year, will be relieved of their reconstruction labors. This Congressional proposition for the amend- ment of the constitution, meantime, as modified by the Senate, is an ingeniously contrived party platform for the coming tall elections. It pro- poses to make it part of the supreme law of the land that whites and blacks born or naturalized in-the United States are citizens of the Union and of the State in which they may reside, and shall have equality under the law ; that repre- sentation in Congress shall be regulated by the restrictions of the several States in the mat- ter of voting; that a large schedule of men, who, as former officials under the government of the United States, have been guilty of violat- ing their oaths by joining in rebellion, shall hereafter be excluded from all federal offices, unless absolved by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress ; that the national debt and the bounties and pensions of Union soldiers shall be held sacred and that all rebel debts and all claims for losses of slaves by the late war shall be utterly repudiated. It is further proposed in a supplemental bill that the now excluded §tates respectively, on ac- cepting and ratifying the conditions laid down, shall not only be readmitted into Congress, but shall have a credit of ten years in reference to their quota of the national debt. This is, we say, a strong platform upon which to go before the people of the Northern States. There is nothing here obnoxious to public opinion in the way of negro suffrage, while the alternative suggested will be satisfactory to the North, There are no vindictive penalties here against rebels and traitors, but conditional exclusions, which cannot be resisted euccoss- fully before the people who put down the re- bellion, The same may be said of the propo sitions touching the national debt, the debts of the rebellion and the four millions of liberated Southern slivos. Upon this platform the repub- lican party adhering to this Congress can carry our approaching Northern State elec'ions as Yasy gad last xeon, if there be no other sharply NEW YOKK HERALD, TUMSDAY, JUNE 12, 1866. dofined issue brought in sexson before the th» peopl. The republican supporters of President Jobnson, as against Congress, can mike no fight against this platform, for it is the President’s own policy. It is a compromise platform against which Johnson republicans cannot even quarrel with the radicals before the people, although the hatrod of the radicals against Johnson may continue as intense us .on the eve of the late Connecticut election, The President’s reconstruction policy thus being appropriated by the radicals as their own thunder, what is heto dot How is he to eseape the inglorious fizzling out of Tyler and Fillmore, those accidentsl men who stand in history as instructive monuments of the folly of ambition without sagacity or pinck? We can tell him. President Johnson may fully retrieve himself in a bold stroke ia his foreign policy for a new and popular issue. Let him advise Mr. Seward, as President Lincoln advised Montgomery Blair, that his time has come; and let the other members of the present Cabinet be givena gentle hint to the same purpose; and then give us a new Cabinet adapted to. the new dispe:- sation. Senator Fessenden, in reducing the crude and iggpracticable reconstruction schems of Thaddeus Stevens to a practical shape, and, in his masterly report on the sub- ject, has shown that he is a practical states- man and near enongh in principle to the adminisiration to be advanced to the State Department. Let him, then, be so sppointe. In the next place, in considvration of his pub- lic services, let Mr. Seward be sent to take the place of Mr. Adams as our Minister to England, and with the alternative to that gov ernment of the payment of the indemnities dye for the spoliations of Anglo-rebel cruisers upoa our commerce_or his immodiate return bom». This will bring the money or muke a popu ar issue. Assuming that England will reiuse payment, all that the Pres.dent will have to do to raise for his admin stration a powerful par'y will be to submit the facts to Congress, with a recommendation for the seizure of the Canadas in the way of reprisals. By this course of action President Johnson, instead of fizzling out like Tyler and Fillmore, may rise in the support of the p-ople to the towering altitude of Old Hickory. Great men rise from the seizure of great oppor'unities, and here is one for President Johnson, upon which, if boldly seized, in the midst of all the stirring events and excitements of the diy, he may ride the popular whirlwind and direct the storm. A settlement with England of ths character would not only rally the three hun- dred thousand American Fenians in support of the President, but the great body of our native born citizens of all parties, What is President Johnson’s policy in regard to those Anglo-rebel spoliations? The country would like to know. The Fenian Movement and its Probable Resalts. The Fenian movement on Canada, which was designed by the leaders as a base from which to carry out their plans for the liberation of Ireland, has failed for the present. The United States government, by the rigid exercise of the neutrality laws, accomplished what in ali probability the military power of the British government in Canada would have failed to do. There appeared to have been no want of men, nor of determination, nor of the necessary ‘supplies, on the part of the Fenians; but while tbe men reached the frontior in large numbers their munitions, arms and provisions—amount- ing, it is said, to fifty thousand small arms and eighty tons of ammunition—were seized by the officials of our governnient, and the men were therefore left powerless. We cannot bo sur- prised that under these circumstances, the Fenian movement on Canada has collapsed. It would be too much to expect that the Fenians could contend successfully against two powerful nations. Such of the British troops as they met on Canadian soil they de- feated at Limestone Ridge; but the United States regulara, provost marshals and district attorneys and detectives in the rear were too much for them. From all the facts developed in this case it seems evi- dent that had it not been for the interference of the government there would have been fifty thonsand men thrown into Canada; that Montreal and Ottawa would have been in possession of the invaders be- fore this time, and that in less than six months there would not be a British flag flying tie British soil in North America, There would not have been a foothold left from which to start bank robbers, hotel burners, assassins or other emissaries to aid in the destruction of this government, all of which Canada far- nished with so much alacrity during the rebel- lion. However, the government saw fit to show its magnanimity and set an example to other na- tions as to what strict neutrality really means, and hence it laid a heavy hand upon the Fe- nians just at the moment when they were about to pay off the old score. The leaders of the Fenian movement, and perhaps nine-tenths of their followers, too, were men who fuught under the flag of the republic against the’ rebellion. The leaders, being loyal citizens and good sol- diers, who did as much to majatain the exist- ence of the country in the late war as any other class of the community, did not wish to come into collision with the government, and hence when they found that edicts and procla- mations were issued against the violation of the neutrality laws they submitted to the ex- igencies and disbanded their men for the pres- ent. Tho slurs cast upon the movement by the partisan press who have styled it » failure and a fiasco areall nonsense. They are indiscreet and improper. The Fenian idea, though baffl:d now, is not a failure. It will retain a signifi- cance that may be noticeable by and by in the politics of the country. Viewing it in its most discouraging aspect it is a great and serious movement, the results whereof remain to be developed. It may be that the leading men who entered upon the Canadian invasion were not animated solely by a desire to free Ireland, though that was of course the main object, but that some thought of ven- geance against Canada entered into their plans. They doubtless gathered hope for the success of their movement from the general hostility entertained by the whole American people towards the British government arising from the course pursued towards us during the re- bellion. The Fenian leaders, as we have said, were among the best fighting element in the war for the Union, and in the invasion of Canada they must have soca both opportunity for retaliation for the wrongs done to this couniry and hopy for their native land. The Fenian orgauizution, according to the | statem —— ‘he loaders and the general senti- men’ of the m: is still full of vi and will no dott eho at ebtie’ a ( and very probably wit. some force at the next elections; but In the meateens jt is clearly the duty of President Johnson, now ¢hat he has ex- tended such beneficent service to Grint Britain as to save her principal colony from shaipils- tion, to demand without reservation or deny fall payment for all the damage done to our commerce by the piratical rdide of the Ala bama and other Confederate cruisers fitted out in Britwh poris, This is the least rotarn he can ask from England for having done what no other government in the world would have dared to do in the face of the popular senti- mnt of hostility to any interference with the punishment of Canada tor her treacherous con- duct towards us in the late rebellion. The Fenians seem to find consolation in the fact that they have not been defeated by the mili- tary power of England, but by the action of their own government, We have urgent claims against the British government, which bave not yet been settled hy the diplomatio machinery worked by Mr. Seward. Now 1s the time, there- io:, for the President to demand a quid pro quo. He has preserved Canada for the English goverzmont ; let lfm insist that the Alabama claims shall be settled at once. FenmanisM In Crry Poxrrics.—The potitical organs of this city have all mide a great mis- take about the Fenians, The democratic papers have abused them and the republican papers bave abused them. But the Fenians are by no means dead, and it is not improb« ble that they will hold the ci'y politicians rigidly accounta- ble at the next election. There is plenty of time to organize a Fenian party during the summer and to run a Fenian ticket independ- ent of all political parties, Should this be done, as it probably will be, under the leader- ship of Fe:nundo and Benjamin Wood, the regular machines will be very badly smasted. A Feninn ticket would be supported, not only by the Fenions, but by all sympathizers with Fenisnism, who rather outnumber the Fonians themselves, Thus the political leaders may be leit without a corporal’s guard and the green banner may float in triumph over the City Hall. Fexny Srats or Tames Unper tam Excise Law.—The new Excise law presents several curious phases in its operation which might amuse and instruct our philosophers. It wis intended, as the collective wisdom of the State at Albany said, to promote the cause of tem- perance. The officers appointed to execute the law evidently so understand it, as is seen by the marvellous zeal with which they carry it ont, So cnxious are these tonscientious officials to execute the law strictly that they will not only not allow strong drinks or even diluted beer to go down the throats of people at prohibited places or tim>s, but they are de- termined not to let it go through the porcs of the skin, According to our report in yester- day’s paper an unscrupulous barber attenfpted to get round the law by inserting bay rum into the system through the pores of the skin of one of bis customers. The guardians of the law, with remarkable shrewdness, saw that the pretence of using bay rum on the chin of a shaved man was only to cover up a wicked pur- pose to convey intoxicating liquor otherwise than down the throat. Another curious thing about this Excise law is that near seven thou- sand grog shops have been licensed, and we suppose a great many more will be li- censed, swelling immensely the revenue of the city from this source beyond what it ever was before. We do not know the amount, but it must be considerable, probably a million of dollars. Thus we see this positive advantage in the temperance. movement. The temper ance societies estimated that under the old Taw thirty millions of dollars’ worth of liquors and beer were consumed yearly in the city. Under the present law it would be safe to cal- culate that there will be forty millions at leagt, thus increasing the revenue in that proportion. The natural operation of the law is to muke people more thirsty and more determined to allay that thirst by entering back doors, by laying in a larger private stock for Sundays, and by a rush to the suburbs where the bever- age can be obtained. In fact our high spirited citizens will not be balked by the @xcise offi- cera, and drink out of spite and defiance to our legislative Solons, Every day there are fresh and singular developments in this excise busi- ness and we shall continue to watch them wiih profound interest. More Muppixs m Mexico.—We are authori- tatively assured from one quarter that Secre- tary Seward refused to receive the staff officers of Santa Anna and that their mission to Wash- ington was a perfect failure. From another quarter we are just as authoritatively informed that Secretary Seward, during his recent trip to Auburn, stopped at Elizabethport, had a long interview with Santa Anna and settled the whole business. What are we to believe? Then it further appears that Santa Anna has disposed of two of his vast estates at St, Thomas for an immense amount of money and has come to this country supplied with plenty of hard dollars and ready for earnest work. Certainly he would not sell his estates for less than their value if he only came here on a pleasure trip, as some persons assert, But there is another fact that deepens the Mexican muddle and gives ita new color. It seems that both Juares and Romero are full blooded In- dians, while Santa Anna comes from Spanish stock. This accounts in some measure for Ro- mero’s evident jealousy of the veteran general. In this country we have never recognized the Indians as citizens, and we do not do so even now, when we are trying so hard to manufac- tare citizens out of the negroes. It becomes a question, therefore, whether we can approve of an Indian governmentyor Mexico. This dis- tinction of blood, color and caste, once fairly opened, will cause more muddies in Mexico than any other, and Santa Anna, who belongs to the superior race, will probably get the best of it. Francia Competitors —The Chevalier Train has just organized an American Credit Foncier, which, if well managed, will take in a great deal of money and a great many people. But the Chevalier Train has a formidable compe- titor in the Chevalier Jewett, who has the im- mense gold mines of Colorado for a base of operations. If the Chevalier Jewett should organize « Credit Foncier the Chevalier Train will find him a rival worthy of his steel. Shot ty. a Policeman, ‘onc nstem, Mass. June 10, 1966. Weikel, who was shot by the police iast night, died at three ofeinet (his mernin= ‘ “EUROPE. Arrival of the Scotia with Two Days Later News. The German War Question Unchanged. Preparations for the Great Con- ference. ~ Prussia Accepts the Conference Without Conditions. DEATH OF THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, he. ke. ke. The royal mail steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, which left Liverpool at 11 o’clock on the morning of the 24, and Queenstown on the evening of the 3d of June, arrived bere early this morning. ‘The political news is unchanged. The news is unim- Portant, b It is stated that Chill had suppressed its legation in. Paris as woll as in London and Washington. The Earl of Chesterfield died on tho evening of the ‘1st inst. Tho steamers Merrimac, Germania and New York ar- rived at Southampton and the Kangaroo at Liverpool on the Slst of May, TH“ GERMAN QUESTION. Preparations for the Congress. According to a Berlin despatch, Russia, in reply to the mvitation for a conference, accedes to the desire ex- Pressed in the letters of invitation that the armed Powers sho ld not make further military movements during the deliberations, ‘The Vienna journals publish news from Paris stating that, during tho late Gnancial panic in London, Earl Cowloy, by order of his ernment, solicited tho ener- getic mediation o° the Emperor Napoeon in favor of peace, and received from his Majesty the following re- ply :—In the years of 1859 and 1864 England opposed my in Teference tothe Venetian and Schieswig- folstein questions. Now England wants peace. I also desire peace; but as the most favorable opportunitics have been frittered away, and as the conflicting Interests have been permitted to rach a point at which bani most clash { can no longer assume the responsibility of events. A Paris despatch of the 8)at says:—Prince Gortechakoff is expected to arrive here on the Sth of June, and Count Bismark is also expected in Paris shortly. ‘The first sitting of the conterence will place before th: end of next wock. All the Powers, in their replies accepting the invitation to the Concress, havo ; iven an assu:ance that they will take measures to prevent the occurrence of any act of hostility until a definite decision has been arrived at by the conference. roply, the Conference without con- ‘The Prussian the ditions, It simply adds that the im of war has been caused not b; ‘Schl folstein question. Em Napoleon of the Confereenco, second plenipoten- Saxony. Tho Paris Prese believes that the bs ha ? Rive “ieLbuye — as shock be unsuccessful in inducing Austria and Prussian to diaarm, or sho.ld reject the proposal f oral reform, Prussia would conclude that tho Diet 1s not The to the wig Holstein Committee and considered as the introduc- tion to a political execution agaivet Prussia, A Paris despatch of June 1 says:—Karl Clarendon, Prince Gorts:hakoff, Count Bismark and Genoral Lamar- mora have oflicially announced that they will shortly ar- tive in Paris for the opening of the Conference. ‘The'reply of Prussia accepting the invilation to the Conference was the figt to arrive, and this fact is looked upon as a sign of the peaceful mtentione of that Power. The Prussian joshi ge deciared in their reply that it ‘was ready to disarm as soon as the military measurcs threatening Prussia were discontinued. Apprehensions are entertained that all the seven Powers which have becn invited will not take part in the conference, as Austria, in accepting the invitation, inaists gn the condition that the Venotian question shall not be discussed. Py rd poe of the 2d Js simon, hopelees m to he Conference ensuring peace, and says that every day makes it m jear that the three Powers are not likely to submit thetr disputes to their neighbors in such ‘@ way as to admit of a jement. It 1s now stated that Austria couples her acceptance of the Conference with condtions that practically amount to a refusal, She declares tho cession of Venetia utterly inadmissable, Italy thus demands what Ausiria declares thrown down the gauntlet to Prussia by making over Holstein to the Confedoration and ordering General Ga- blenz to convoke the States of that Duchy. Tt is stated that the Prussians had erected batteries —— mountains which extend in the direcion of jachod, on the frontier. A royal decree had been published at Berlin, stating that should it become necessary in the event of war to complete the regimental cadres this will be done without calling out the old classes of the landwehr. Id the i hostil eo-called ers were Sir J, Packington and Mr. Lowe, 0 Opposition to the government scheme for rediatribut- ing the seate, and Mr. Goschen and the Attorney Gen- eral in support 0: the Measure. On the Lat instant the debate was forther continued principal speak: and adjourned till the 4th, when it was the di- vision would take i oy on Captain motion for postponement of the question, Rumoré were current that ifthe government obtained a in ie Dill would be withdrawn; but if they were Fd apt - vooute 2 dissolution of Par! even adv adi amen. Mr. Griffiths Jos i government intended taking stops to reconcile iscrepancy British Admiral on one side and robably tako |" | ! : # i i i pt. nd Re yn to the Viceroy of The Suita: Ledeen ¢ pt the firman establ 1D, Authentic advices had. broken out among the returning between Bichor and Mecca, Boxnay, May 22.—Cotton flat, Dhollcrab, 260 rapes, Bxchange'on 23, 14d. Freighis Being Ke ‘ay Si aia quiet. Exchange, 2s. Commercial Intelligence. a decrease reserve of notes of £415,455, while the deposits show a heavy increase, Tho Times city article says the peculiar features of the bank returns were with some disappointment on Friday, and coupled with the leas hopeful tone of the Continental advices they caused all the markets to aX. The discount ecenad at the bank was dally bocom- ing more modorate, and in the open market choice bilis could-be negotiated at eight por cent. In the Stock Ex- change loans on government securities were offered ab pom to be for transmission to the United fe quote 5-20 bonds 66 4 a 66%, Ilinotw shares 78% — %, Ene do. 45% a 46, Vi other stocks there are no oq LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. 4 Lavenroot, June 2—A, M. The aces Swale says:—The cotton market, after has agsul ry much stronger position, and during the last three days a la business has becn done at advancing prices. On the demand revived upon advices of large shipments of gold from the United States and of reduced receipts and exports, but on Monday the disposition evident on the part peat fog RON pe hg jonsions the a1 of the Consolidated Bank. On Tuceday begesl i a 4) a 2 i t B ; e f Hy if ik i 4 P 2 E i Se fi & F : FE 3 te roport:—Breadatufls Tron quiet; re ie sti ; good common 1s. lower, Linseed pny but Linseed cake dull; New York in barrels, £1 irits of Turpentine 47e. 6d. a 488. for American. ed petroleum 2s, 25d. ; spirit, 1a 4d. a 1a. 3d. after considerable fiuctuationa, closes at 428. 420, 94. for P. Y. C. Linseed oll, after declining to 348. Cloted irks at 36s," Sperm oll Indctive at £126. od £48. THE LATEST a ot 2 June 2, 1808, Consois closed at 8534 a 85%{, ex dividend. Ammnican Stocks, —United five-twenties, 04% @ ps rene Railroad, 7644 @ 77; Erie Railroad, 168 . Livarroot, June 2—Evening. Corrox.—Sales to-day 000 including 8,000 ers. The market is firmer in advance of one-half poany per pound, occasioned by late advices from America. ling Uplands quoted about 14d. BReapercrra —The market is quiet. Provistoxy. --The market is inactive, with a slight advance, Mistakes in Gold Transactions. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—PaRT I. Before Judge Daly. Duncan, Sherman & Co., v8. Robert Baile.—The plain- tif_fé in this case seek to recover, with interest, the i Ht Bis FY { ie ef Z of [ Tallow firmer, Tua te fa insured inthe Yor, Jamey City and Yonkers, and New a ee News from the Pacine. Sax Fraxcisco, June 6, 1866. ‘The Western Union To! es york Pal ‘One and fity thousand pounds of shi grede wool was sold during the pant week, ai-preee ‘Tanging from 170, to Zle, nd. is Eis'Praxctson, June 8, 1808. A Portland (Oregon) despatch states that the majority in Oregon is eight hundred and nine, with counties to hear from. Senate stands ‘Union to eight democrats. Both parties claim a majort- ‘@ direct succession to the - Djiddah | report