The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER UP FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XAXKL.......0.cceeeeesere sees NO, 18 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Hotel.—Brotuxx Sam—FRa Diavoro, THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue.—Exaiisn Como Oraxs—A Nigar ix Rome—Two Capa. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite tan Hotel. —KTHIOPLAN Dancuve, &0.— Tam Niagara Lear OF tam Busy Famitr. CHRISTY’S—Otp — Somoot Mt josiat, Guus, 0. ifn Avenue Opers tlouse, jest ‘Twenty-fourta aireet.—Sousamsu- GEORGE Battape, moan’s Bor. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 21 Bowery.—Sau Suaarcey’s Mivstag. anp Comsinarion Taours—Pusasant Nesoupons. RLEY WHITE'S COM IN TROUPE, sie agua, sae Hall, 473 Broadway—In 4. ery or Licht ane Lavceasie Ewreerainmexts, Comrs pz Batuet, 40 MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ‘Lapr or Lroms, TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. eighth and Fifty ninth streots Tung, Tuomas’ ONOUMSTHAL Gaupex Cocunts, commencing at 8 0' HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ernroriax Mie ermeter—Baiavs. Deaneases AnD PANTOMiNes NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 85 Broadway.—'‘Fan- magur Taromrnanr.”” LOWE'S ARONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, street and Sixth avenue.—BauLoonina, Ticu Fimeworks. Fifty-ninth Ror a0 * NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty: third street and Fourth avenue.—Exminition ov OuiGinal Worxa by Living Antists. New York, Monday, July 2, 1866. NOTICE 10 ADVER’ ? All advortisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- Priato headings ; but proper classification cannot bo neured after that hour. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrrxty Uxxatp must be handed in before ten o’clo'k every Wednesday evening. Its cir culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- perted in the Wrixty Henaxp will thus be seen by # large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THSE NAW Ss. EUROPE. The European news, dated to the 2ist of June, so anx- fously expected yesterday, had not arrived when the Huuravpv went to press this morning. Tho steamslips Bavaria, Bremen, City of Boston and Damascus aro duo at this port and off Father Point respectively. Our Paris correspondent, writing on June 14, an- nounces that the Palace of the Elysée, where Napoleon planned the coup d'état, bad been thrown open, with ‘all ite magnificent improvements. The building has been kept strictly closed during the past fifteen years, since the night on which the Prince President of the republic of France transferred himself into an Emperor. ‘The Empress Eugenie entertained the Grand Duchess Mario of Russ'a within its walls on the evening of its reopening. Prince Napoleon gave a dinner to the chief war correspondents of the Parw journals the same even- ing, ot the Palaig Royal; the vast power of Rumia «and the great power of the press being thus complimented by the imperial family at the same moment M. Michel Chevalier pomts out in ‘the columns of the Revue des Deus Mondes, of Paris, the danger to which Italy will be exposed in a war with Aus tria, owing to her depressed and burdened financial sys- tom. Aa interesting account of the armies and navies of the belligerent war Powors of Europe, in whom se much in- terest is contreing at present, is given tn our columns this morning. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Chiléan correspondence is dated June 2 Nothing 1s Known of the movements of the Spanish fect, though it ta believed they have abandoned the war and gone to Montevideo, A decree has been issued by the Pre- sidemt expelling Spanish subjects from Chile, Valparaiso is being strongly fortified The ves- sole of the American squadron recently on that coast aro now scattered in the Pacific, and will proba- Diy not reunite soon Admirat Pearson, with the flag- ship Powhattan and double-ender Wateree, are at Callao, Tho Mohoogo has gone to California, and may proceed as far ag Vancouver. The Nyack is at the Chin- cha islands, the Tuscarora ie here and the Suwanee leaves here to-night for Callao. The Dacotah is daily ‘expected, she having left Montevideo some weeks since, and wit! remain here some tine, The two Peruvian iron- clads Huescar and Independeacia wore last heard from mear the Straits of Magellan Congress met at Santiago On the 1st ultimo, President Pores’s message was received with hisses and derisive exclamation by the people as- wombled to hearit. A revolution is awaiting favorable opportunity to burst forth amovg the Chileans ’erea's government is very unpopular. From Lima the news is as lateas June 16, Lisutenant Commander L. Hl Nowman, United States steamer Nyack, died on the Sist of May. Our Pamama correspondence is to the 2d of Jone. ‘The place is unusually quiet, The pioneer steamer of the New Zealand Australian line had arrived, and wou!d oommenco her regular trips om the 24th. There was nvtt- img of intercst in Central America. Despatches from Galveston, feras, give Mexican news to the 33d of June. Bagdad had been evacuated by the imperialists aod occupied by the liderailn, Mejia had sont for General Escobedo to receive the surrender of Matamoros. Seven hundred liberals oocupied Huervite @né a force was organizing to attack Tampico, A statement regarding Bxcive iawe that were in fore Previous to the present one, goes to show that the latter fe not, comparatively, aa strict and rignd in ite provisions: and penaltios as generally supposed. Excise laws of various characters and objects bave been enacted before ‘and since the State organization, which contained pro visions, restrictions, penalties and remedies in most re- epects more rigorous and severe than the present law. ‘The Excise law was & complete failure in the city \ es. terday, The large reiniorcement of injanctions teaued by Jadge Cardozo battered the law so complo'oly that a stranger would not have believed that much » law had been enacted. There was bu: little drunkenness and only « few arrests, An interesting history of 8. Stephen's Episcopal burch, corner of Broome and Chrystie streets, was girem yesterday morning by tho rector, Rev. Dr. Trica It ‘was his Inst sermon in that edifics (which ha» been sold), faad the con regation, It is thought, will soon be perma pently settied at the French church im Tweaty second strost, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, The Rev. 0. B. Frothingham delivered a sermon yes. teorday at the Unitarian Congregationalist churoh on the subject of the “Pestilence.” In the course of Lis remarks the reverend gontiomen said that pestilence proposes death to superstition and to the piety that drops on ite Knoes instead of using Ita feet and hands, and to the devo- tion that pats up prayers instead of putting down inno rance. We read the meaning of the pestilence differently. It ts obvious it comes to teach us the primary value of oor social condition. It charges us to live decently, cleanly and temperately, or wo shall die, The Jaws pf health must be observed. It is absolutely necessary to have whotesome habits, The arrow may fly, the pestilence may walk, but we mast be made to feel the necessity of living tike rational creaturca. Men and women ebould | } be clean for the joy of it The new Church of the Redeomer, in Brooklyn. wae formally opened by Bishop 0. T. Quintord. The celebration of the Fostival of St Peer and St Paul was Conducted with great solemnity in thy Ca churehes yesterday, The services Yaulista, corner of Fifty-ninth street wore unasua ly attractive. 4a aaniyoroay tenary of Methodism in America was held last evening 1m the Brookiyn Acadomy of Musio, Tho spacious odi- fice was filled to repletion, and a large select choir occu- pled seats upon the stage and sung choice piecos of sacred music at intervals, The Rev. Dr. Foster, of New Yerk, dolivered a discourse upon the “Centenary of American Methodism.” Miss Elia Van Wie gave a spiritual éance yesterday afternoon and evening at No. 814 Broadway. In the evening the medium fainted away while bound in her cabinet. The spirits failed to come to hor relief. The audience became indignant, and Colonel Goodwin, her master of coremonies, was taken into custody for prac- tising @ fraud on the publiq, _ Our Toronto (Canada West) correspondent, writing on the yun 27, states that the publio mind was considerably exercised by the discussion of the merits and conduct of the different officers of the Queen who had command of the military operating agalast the Fenians at and near Fort Erie, during the recent invasion. A court of in- quiry had been demanded by Colonel Booker, who re- colved so much blame at first, and it was expected that tho investization would lead to some curious revelations implicating Colonel Peacocke, of the Forty-seventh rogi- ment (regular) of infantry, and even General Napier bim- self. Tho condition, appearance, conduct and treatment of the ninety-six prisonors confined tn the old jail of To- ronto on charges of participation in or connection with the Fenian raid are described, Biographical sketches of the two alleged Fenian clergymen, Protestant and Catho- lio, confined im the prison, are aizo given. Our Monteeal correspondent says there is groat oppo- sition to Mr, Gatt’s Guancial budget, The mechanics’ and citizens’ aocieties are holding meetings to protest against It, Our Saratoga correspondent gives furthor interesting {tems concerning the movements and enjoyment of fash- jonable society there, The races, which commence on the 284 of July, promise to be the most popular of all amusements at the gay watering place. Our correspondent at Lake Mumphramagog writes from the seat of the piscatorial war and gives an into- resting account of the situation, This lake is scarcely inferior to Lako George in its bold scenery, and although one of the most romantic spots in the country and a wonderful place for fishing, is really hardly known among the public, and as a summer retreat is visited by fow of the fashionables, The Senate of tho Fenian Brotherhood have issued an address to the mombers of that orgauization in this city. The residents on 126th strect have entered a protest to the City Council against the construction of a railroad in that street, A totter from the Eighteonth United States infantry regiment now in Dakota Territory, on their march to Fort Laramie, will be luteresting to all, and especially to those who haye friends in that regiment, A fire occurred in Fast Boston yesterday morning, in- volving a loss of $150,000. The Equilibriam of Europe—The Game of Napoleon. In the recent very instructive and important letter of Louis Napoleon to his Minister of Foreign Affairs, touching the proposed (bul defeated) European Peace Conference, he says, if the Conference had been held “you (M. Drouyn de Lhuys) were to have declared in my name that I reject all ides of territorial aggrandizoment as long as the balance of power in Europe is not broken;” and again he says, “In the war which is on the point of breaking out we have only two interests—the preservation of the European equilibrium and the maintenance of the work which wo have contributed to build up in Italy.” But, in view of the Conference, the Emperor had contem- plated a reotification of the. European equili- briam, which, with the cession of those Danish Duchies, &., would bave made Prussia the most powerful of the German States; which would have taken the beautiful and important military province of Venetia from Austria; which would have reformed the smaller Ger- man States into a sort of independent confede- ration as against Austria and Prussia, and which would have restored the eastern bound- ary of France at least to the left bank of the Rhine. This was the Earopean equilibrium contem- plated by Napoleon as a peace arrangement. Now that war has superseded or is to super- sede the rejected Conference, while holding himself pledged to support the cause of Italy against Austria, he has no other interest than the preservation of the European equilibrium, which he broadly intimates must necessarily involve the balance of power to France. Hé does not mean the equilibrium of the old dynasties and the Bourbons, which was broken up by the first French republic, the consulate and the empire; nor the equilibrium re-estab- lished by the Holy Alliance in 1815, tor he “detests” those trenties; but he means a Na- poleonic equilibrium, subject hereafter to the judgment of imperial France, as the arbiter of the Continent. The equilibrium contemplated by Napoleon the Third is most probably something like that which existed under Napoleon the First, in 1811, when his son by Maria Louisa was pro- claimed in his cradle, with a salute in Paris of s hundred guns, King of Rome. At that time the French Empire was at the meridian of ite glory. Imaddition to the eighty-six depart- ments of France proper, it embraced three de- partments slong the Alps, fifteen beyond the Rhine, fifteen beyond the Alps, in Upper and Central Italy, and seven Mlyzrian provinces, be- sides exercising control in Spain, ia the Italian kingdoms, in Switzerland, and In the Confedera- tion of the Rhine. At the same time French codes and French ideas were predominant at Warsaw, at Milan, at Naples, in Holland (an- nexed to France in 18410), in Westphalia, Ba- varia, and in Sweden, to whom a French king was given in the person of Marshal Berna- dotte. In brief, at thet day of his imperial splendor, the “equilibrinm” held by the first Napoleon comprebended the whole of Europe, between England and the Mediterranean in one direction and England end Russia in the other. By ihe treaties of 1815 this magnificent im- perial establishment, with the Emperor himsclf, was utterly overthrown and cast out, and France was reduced back to its comparatively modest limits of France under Louis XVL, while the kingdoms and princtpalities wrested from her were so distributed as to form a new “equilibrium” wy lee the Holy Alliance. Those treatios of 1616 Lave been pretty generally die regarded by the parties concerned in reference to the extension of thelr own boundaries; bu ‘xceptin the gracious pe th eturn to the of France wad the empire, and in perm|ttin the spolintion of Ausiria for the benefit of the new kingdom of llaly, aad exvept m their con rent given to the annexation of Savoy to France, havo held the omplre to the lumilia- tions imposed by the Congress of Vienna and Paris, In fact, the outlawry of 1815 against | the Bonapartes, though practically recognised asa dead letter, still remaing @ treaty unto | peated. ° The Buropean equilibrium, the ¢, Fesult> | ing from those treaties of 1815, so naturally | j and justly detested by Louls Napoleon, is not | the equilibrium he desires, He wants some- | thing nearer the imperial status of France of 1811, To this end be bas gained an important | point in the rupture fomented between Austr'a 1 ant Proest hand and on the an Austria aad NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 4% 1866, ks a ee A a ee Italy on the other, In a war confined to these belligerents the intervention of France will be decisive, and a word from Napoleon may re- store peace. But what, said Talleyrand, over threw Napoleon the First? “Spain, Rusela and the Pope.” Spain may now be thrown out of the account; the Pope has ceased among the European States to be an object of fear and jealousy, and has become an object of charity ; but the Rusala of to-day is not the Russia which will admit, on any possible terms, of another Napoleonio campaign, even half way from Paris to Moscow. Between England and Russia, as with the frat Napoleon in 1811, the present Napoleon, we may say, holds the Continent in his grasp; but between Russia and England, the French Emperor and Empire may egain be overthrown. As goes Russia in this European Continental imbroglio, so will go the balance of power. Inrome of the Government. It is estimated by the Treasury Department that the income of the government from all sources for the fiscal year which ended Satur- day, June 30, will reach the enormous sum of five hundred and fifty millions of dollars. Of this three hundre’ and fifteen millions are de- rived from the internal revenue, and two hun- dred and thirty-five millions from other sources, One hundred and seventy millions came from customs, Five or six years ago, just previous to the war, the total incomo of the government, and consequently the exponditures, did not reach onc-seventh or one-eighth of this sum. Sixty or seventy millions a year was oon- sidered then a large revenue, What a revolu- tion in our financial affairs, as woll as in our social and political condition, within the brief period of a few years! Tho customs yield nearly three times the amount of our entire revenue anterior to tbe war. Ono hundred and seventy millions a year in the way of duties on foreign importations ought to be pro- tection enough to home manufactures; yet we hear the rich manufacturers of New England and Pennsylvania crying out lustily for more. It is tine that the masaes of the people—the consumers—who have to pay this in increased high prices, and that the great agricultural interests of the Wost and Middle States, and of the South, if it had a voico in the matter, should look into a system of legislation that benefits a few and a particular section at the expense of the rest of the country. Congress has been for some time, and is now, under tho control of New England and Pennsylvania protectionists. It will be well for the mass of the people everywhere, and particularly in the West, to remember this at the approaching Congressional elections. This great country, notwithstandiag its many and varied interests, has been governed long enough for the benofit of one class and 9 small section. The statement ofsuch an extraor inary amount of revenue must be highly gratifying to evory American, for it shows the won lertul resources of the country, and our ahility to mort without difficulty all our liabilities, or to pay the entire national debt within a reasonable period. These resources, too, will increase evory year, and the burden of debt become lesa weighty, if we have peace and a restored Union, and if our finances be properly managed. But with all these means and wealth, with all our capa- bilities and the bright prospect before us, we may throw away the advantages we possess” and be plunged into bankruptcy and ruin. The imbecility, corruption and reckless ex- travagance of Congress are the evils we have most to fear. The members of the present Congress are, for the most part, as ignorant of the duties of legislation, and especially of national finances, as children. They are mere. local politicians and cannot raise themselves up to the height of great national or inter- national questions. Their vision is limited to mere party politics and their own selfish schemes. Any one who has taken notice of their proceedings during the prosent session can come to no other conclusion. Then, as to corruption and reckless extravagance, we have only to look over the list of bills passed and before that body to be convinced that it is the most corrupt and reckless Congress that ever sat in Washington. Tens of millions are appropri- ated with less thought or consideration than a few thousand dollars were in former times, and that for the most infamous jobs. Tho very almosphere of Washington reeks with corrup- tion. We state what is notorious to every one acquainted with that city or watches what is going on there. Here, then, lies the danger, that all our resources may be dissipated and only help to ake a corrapt and extravagant Congress more corrupt and reckless still. Our only hope is in the people—is that they will be snfficiently enlightened to return at the forthcoming elections a different and better set of men. But we not only need a thorough change In Congress, but want more capable administrative officers, Mr. McCulloch, doabt- leas, is a very vespeotable man and good country banker, but can he grasp the vast subject of national finance? Oh, how much in need of statesmen is this great country! Im- agine » man like Mr. Gladstone having the control of our resources—of an income of : five hundred and fifty millions, and what would he do with it? Taxation would be lightened, our legal tender currency would soon be at par with gold, and the national debt would be but 4 trifle, and would be put fn process of liqal- dation at once. Our actual situation may be compared to that of rich argosy freighted fall of the most valuable treasure, but in the hands of incapable officers and a stupid crow. We ought to begin to retrench in every de- partment of the government, and reduce the revenue down to three bundred millions Toking two hundred and fifty millions a year burden of taxation would be an im- monse relief. Three hundred millions ought ample to pay the interest on the debt, nt expenses of the government, and to srgin of twenty or thirty millions as cnent sinking fund to extinguish the In tot, if legal tenders were to be used | of the national bank circulation for our curceney, three hundred millions of the interest Searing bonds could be bought up or retired at once, and the amount thus saved could be applied as a sinking fund. We urge upon the people to consider, and tho new con- from the our have & perm: in | servative national party to take ap these vital quostions in © ol. If new candidates for Congress or any respectable party will go into the next elections upon the platform of re- trenchmeat, abolition of the national bank system, and 4 thorough change of the present corrupt and imbecil: Congress, suceess will follow, \s'form would beat all the arg Dla {cats orn cous Pach rday in Congress. In Congress Saturday is usually considered a dies non, or sort of holiday. In the commenoc- ment or mildle of a session it would be diff- cult to have it set apart for the consideration of any serious business. There can be no more certain indication, therefore, that honora- ble members are intent upon a speedy adjourn- ment than when the measures fixed for disous- sion on that day are of an important character. The work done in both houses on Saturday last shows how eager they are to finish up the session. In the Senate Mr. Wilson called up the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, and moved that the Senate insist on its amendments and agree to the committee of conference oalled for by the House; which was so ordered. The points in dispute between the two houses relate to the disposition of the Sea Island cotton lands. The Honse probibits the surrender of the lands held by the freedmen under General Sherman’s order, while the bill passed by the Senate has provisions under which the former owners may resume possession of thom, except in oases where they have been sold for United States taxes, The Senate view would seem to be that dictated by usage and sound policy. General Sherman’s order transferring these lands was intended to apply only to a state of war. It would be contrary to the general interests, as well as to the practice of all civilized govern- ments, to give permanency to # measure of this character, when the exigency which called for it has passed away. We trust, therefore, that the Senato’s amendments will be agreed to. The resolution adopted on the motion of Mr. Poland, calling for a copy of the official oath filed by Albert Elmore, recently nominated by the President and confirmed by the Sonate as Collector at Mobile, shows the loose manner in which business is frequently disposed of by that body. The allegation against Elmore is that he at one time held office under the rebel government. We ourselves know nothing as to the correct- ness or incorreo‘ness of the statement; but we are not the less entitled to say that the inquiry into Elmore’s antecedsnts should have been made previous to, and not after, his confirma- tion. Mr. Wade introduced a bill of consider able importance in regard to Utah, and which, through certain changes in the mode of seleot- ing grand and petit jurors, aims at nothing less than upsetting the whole of the existing social, religious and judicial institutions of that Territory, As the republicans are, as a party, rather tender-footed in treading upon the “debatable ground” of polygamy, it is not likely that anything further will be done in the matter this session, After some other busi- ness of minor-importance the Senate took up the Indian Appropriation bill, in the considera- tion of which the remainder of tho afternoon was spent—on the whole a very dull aad ardu- ous day’s work for the Saturday. In the House equal industry and anxiety to hurry ap matters were shown. After the busi- ness of the morning hour the consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed. On the question of the two several amendments inoreasing the duties on squares of steel, or iron measures, from six to ten and six to nine cents per pound, @ mart discussion ensued between the repre- sentatives of tho manufacturing and agrioul- tural interests, which finally resulted in the adoption of Mr. Morrill’s proposition increasing tbe duty to nine cents. On a proposed amend- ment of the paragraph about railroad iron, im- posing on all iron imported and fitted by pat- tern for railroads and inclined planes s duty of one cent per pound, another contest took Place with the defenders of the home manafac- turing interest. Mr. Griswold, commenting on an effort of Mr. Wilson to make the duty seventy cents per one hundred pounds, asserted that the home manufacturers of railroad iron had been losing money for the last three or four years. When asked for the proof of this statement the honorable member evaded the question. Mr. Raymond opposed the increase in the duty. The great complaint which ho made against protection, he said, was not that it was wrong in principle, but that there was no end of it, Mr. Garfield demanded that tho iron interests of the country should not be eaten up and destroyed by the interests of the foreign manufacturers; while Mr. Allison brought forward some powerful arguments to show the impolicy of increasing the duty, Mr. Stevens, in a few brief but pungent remarks, replied to the speeches made against the in- crease, After stating that the reason England was able to send her iron over as she does was because the price of labor was only about one-third what itis here, he contended that it was at Inbor Keself that the advocates of reduc- tion were striking. An allusion to Mr. Kasson, of Towa, brought that gentleman to his legs. He defined in forcible terms the distinction be- tween rational protectionists and prohibition- iota, and said that he was for defensive measnres against other countries in the tn- terest of our own, but he was not for entirely annihilating the privilege of a free people to have competition in the markets in which they are compelled to buy and sell. If that was to be a free trader he gloried in the title. The discussion on the closed with the adoption of the original proposition, meking the duty one cent per pound. From tn¢ deteat of Mr. Wilson’s amendment, and the subsequent additions of duty made on serap iron, railway frogs and steel, it is evident that itis the determination of the radicals to pass the bill with as large an increase of pro- tection as possible to the Eastern States and Peunsylvania, This is to be done not merely with @ viow to revenue, but, as the radical organs give us to understand, as 8 test for the President, more especially in regard to Penn- sylvania, where protection is the predominant idea. In the event of Mr, Johnson the bill the calculation is that it will shelve him among the people of Pennsylvania, and so weaken the ofinnces of the success of the new party movement. It is certain, therefore, that’ even ebould the bill require three or four more weeks’ labor on it to bring it to the point de- sired the radicals will not consent to an ad- journment until they have accomplished their work, All this is very well asa clever piece of tactics, bat they may overshoot the mark. Public opinion in the West runs in a directly opposite current to their views, The Western people are producers, not manufacturers, and the Tariff bill will require a good deal of te'mming before it can accommodate the two extremes, Tae Mant. dents on 125th street and vicinity are in a state of considerable excitemont and indignation on ! account of the loving down of rails through the street, apon which they apprehend that steam and cattle trains are to be run, much to the injury of their property and to their great personal discomfort, The rails, so far as laid down, mysteriously disappeared a few oven- ings since, whereupon the President of the High Bridge Horse Railroad Company comes out with a card, in which he states the said rails were laid under a contract made with the company, and with the knowledge and consent of the owners of the property immediately opposite to where the same were laid. We infer from this that the citizens must have misappre- hended the purpose for which the rails were laid. Remonstrances, however, have been pre- pared and will be presented to the Common Council this evening, when it is probable some light will be thrown upon what appears now to be a very curious railroad muddle, Ta» New Post Orvice.—Several mevtings of the national and local committees engaged upon the duty of selecting and purchasing 9 site for the new Post Office in this city have been held, and the business is in the way of being settled in a manner satisfactory to al! parties and tothe public. The site that has been proposed, namely, the lower end of the Park, will, no doubt, be chosen, and a more eligible one could not be selected. The plot of ground extonds from the narrow point of the Park three hundred and seventy-five feet, back on Broadway, and the same extent on Park row, and is three hundred and seventy feet and two inches. across the Park, the entire aroa being equal to twenty-six city lots. Tho esti- mated value of the land is one and a half mil- lion of dollars, but it is offered to the government for half a million. It is proposed that the government shall expend a million and a half on the buildings, which will include a Post Office and accommo- dation for the United States courts, The committees are at present deliberating upon the matter of the reversal of the buiidings afler they shall cease to be used by the gov- ernment for the purposes contemplated ; but we do not apprehend any difficulty on that point, as the gentlemen composing the several committees seom to be snimated by a cordial and unanimous dosire to close the bargain at once. It seems to be a fair transaction on all sides. The governmont obtains the most eligi- ble site in the city at one-third its value for ita postal edifice, and the city obtains a magni- ficent structure, built at government expe.se, which will prove both a splendid ornament and a monument to the prosperity and rapid growth and expansion of the metropolis. In this connection a word of caution to the gov- ernment in making its contracts for the build- ing may not be inappropriate. With the experience of our own new Court House be- fore it, the government should make the most stringent provisions in regard to the tims at which the building shall be completed, other- wise the present generation may nct enjoy the Gatiataction of seeing it finished. A new Post Office being absolutely demanded, the sooner the government gets rid of the present rat trap the better. Tas Pants Exurrioy ayp American Bxnwrt- ons.—In the House on Saturday last Mr. Banks, from the Committee of Conference on the Paris Exhibition bill, made a report recommending the changing of the bill.so as to substitute the word “currency” for “coin”.in the appropria- tion seotion, thus virtually reducing the amount appropriated for expenses from $205,000 te $156,000. The report was adopted, and, by the terms of the bill as now passed, $156,000 are given by the government to defray the ex- penses of those who may wish to exhibit their wares and manufactures at the Paris Exhibition. That is, of course, if there should happen to be any exhibition in 1867, as proposed. This is an extremely doubtful mater, for it is not only possible but highty probable that by the time eet for the grand display of the articles of peace at Paris we shall be witnessing through- out all Burope a grander exhibition of the arts of war. The poople of Europe may, by the time selected, be absorbed in war to the ex- clusion of all poaceful exhibitions. Mr. Banks should make provision in his bill for this sort ofan emergency. He has displayed his usual good sense in separating this question from that of the Mexican muddle, aad commendable hibition, and sarround it with such conditions that some minor officer of one of the depart- ments shall not apply it to the defraying of tie, perrete expenses for « summer tour to Gnamar Ax» Ravuono—Tan Kerra axo be a virtue in reference to the political ground ‘and lofty tumbling and nicely balanced two- horse act of that famous equestrian, the Hon. TF intended to distract, divide and defeat the Union party which elected Lincola and Jobn- son,” and that “such experiments on popular credulity are not only dishonest; they can hardly fail to recoil on the heads of their authors.” The question under discussion, as we understand it, is party fidelity, and such an issue between Greeley and Raymond is calcu- lated to “bring down the house.” We think it most likely, however, that Mr. Raymond, when put to the test of s choice between this Doolittle and Dixon national party move- ment and another republican nomination for Congress, will bo apt to turn his back upon Doolittle and Dixon. We guess that Mr. Ray- mond is hedging for another nomination for Congress, and that Greeley is trying to flank him, and not without some probability of suc- cess. “It is s pretty quarrel as it stands, and it would be a pity to spoil it.” Hoboken io s THs —— betes: are STPAMER. — James Thompson, who w a in yesterday's Hematp, i not an omploré of the Bremen Beamehip Company, but a supposed Now York who was representod as being emploved on the docks oalaoent to the Mromon Diet AD MEXICO. ptnente ep tebte ‘The Evacuation of Bagded — Negro Troops Fighting on the Liberal Side ‘The Surrender of Matamoros by the Im pertalists Impending—General Getty Sent for to Protect the Americans—The Citizens Fleeing into Texas, de. Gazvzsron, June 30, 1866 ‘A sloop has arrived from Brownsville, bringing fles of Matamoros and Brownsville papers to the 28d of Juaa, Doing the first arrival since the battle of Camargo. Bagdad was evacuated by the imperial foross, and the Uberais had assumed the government of that place ‘Two companies of negroes fought on the mde of the Liberals in the battle of Camargo. ‘The convoy captured was valued at one million and @ half doliars, The owners, who went (rom Matamoros to treat with the liberals for ita redemption, were arrested ‘by Escobedo and «ransom demanded for their release, ‘The reports concerning the specie train are very com- tradictory, The most euthentic say it has returned to Monterey. Caravajal took command of the forces im front of Matay ‘moros, demanding its surrender. Mejia refused to ous render to Caravajal, but sent for Escobedo to come and receive the city. Meantime Bsoobedo was marohiag to the asraalt. « Mejia sent for General Getty, who went over to confer with the imperial general. anked that & he eurreudered the city te Caravajal, if he (General Getty) would protect the Amorican cltizens, ‘The latter eat swered‘, ‘That is what I'am here for.”” ‘Tho citizens were fleoing to the Texas side of the riven On the 22d the Custom House was kept open all night te facilitate their departure, Esoobedo is endeavoring to pass the captured train into Texas. ‘Tho Brownsville Courier thinks that some arrangement will be made to hand the city of Matamoros over to Caravajal., ‘The above dotails are all circumstantial and reliatte. Organization of an Expedition Against Tampteo- The People Rising tn all Di- rections in Behalf of the Republic, de. Wasmunarox, July 1, 1966. Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister, has recived a let- tor from Tampico, June 10, from which the following & ‘an extract: — The pecple of Huesutia, all other towns In the Huesutla district, have risen again in favor of the ropub- Ho and Prosident Juares, ax you will see by the enclosed slip, taken from the government organ of this city, of the 26th ult,, styled the J-is. Seven hundred woll armed Liberal troops now oecupy Hvesatla, while a force of one thousand is being orgapized ut Victoria, now In our pos. session, to move against this place. ‘The capture of Tam- pi o is feasible, If our troops come with a force of sevea or oight hundred men, as it 18 garrisoned by impresed Mexicans, who will not fight avaiast their own brothers, T bave just had an interview with a friend from Huas- i toca, who informs me that our force: have five plooes of x jery at Huesutla, two of which were captured from h» eaomy. ‘The mperialists n.ake no resistance, and all hopes for the ompire are now blasted. Huesutla Lad sent three hundred men against Fanloy- toa, an important oity in this Stato, whoro there is & small i ita force, which whl surrender without struggle. CANADA. Great Upposition to the Financial Bad- Mowrnrat, Jaly 1, 1866. I learn that the opposition to Mr. Galt’s financial budget is tremendous throughout Western Canada. The reopening of Parliament on Tucsday evening will be the signal for a most exciting debate, In the matter of the extradition of Danicl B. Merritt, the alleged Ogdensburg forger, s singular irregularity seems to have taken place, When discharged the other day on the technical ground of the clerical error, he was Coursol’s coirt The Governor General's signature to the extradition paper having in the meantime beoa ob- tained upona report from Judge Smith. Hence « con- filct of Canadian law leaves Merritt, unfortunately for bim, in the hands of the United States authorities under sre Lagoa he om ragten ep a ert at the Cooper . ze Cnn gle ge ed Fong = why Sy AcaDant fo 4 Framax —While Hook and Ladder Com- pany No. 2 was proceeding to the alarm of fireat Fir- i i I i LE a a f af i on morning an officer reported the Third street bridge, which cromes the Gowanus creek, as being In « very dangerous Nowe from New ‘Ortenns. New Onvaawe, July 1, 1906 Genvrals Steadman and Fullerton, Comiutesionor (or investigating the affairs of the Fre dmen's lureaa, ant corps of correspondents arrived this evening. ‘Two justices, arrested at Vidalia, La, under the Civt Righta bill, have boon brought here for trial. Sailed, steamers George Washington and Virgin for New York. Arrived, steamers George Cromwell, New York. In latitede 29 degrees 42 minutes, longitade 76 dogroes 52 minutes, the steamer Morning Btar paasd @ wreck, supposed to have been a schooner, waterlogged and partally burved. News from messer. Nasevinun, July 1, 1866. The Fourth of July ia to be celebrated at Basley Springs, where General Thomas’ great cavalry charge was made in the battle of Nashville, Cari Sehirs aod others are expected to be present. om bridge at Decatur will be completed o@ Goneral Fiske has retarned after several with Gonoral Kwell, He reports tho comiition ot shite, eoc.ally and politically, aa rary ancourae\!pe.