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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR @reivR N. W. CORNER UF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, noar Broome -— ARMADALE. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Rotel, —Gaireitu GAuNT, OR JeaLOUSY. GERMAN STAD? THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Ou Baia D1KRCTOR—MADSCURNPFIFYR; ODER, 30 BEKOMNT wan unas Mane, QERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 614 Broudway.~ tux lst Waunsinnig—Diz Wurnke in Paris. STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.--Nus. Maxim Asnort’s Finst Gnanp Concert. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 585 Rrosdway, opposite te Motopoliian Hotel—IN mem Lrmiorias ENTERTAIN- wr3, SINGING, Dawomw@ AND BURLFSQUFS—METKORIC Boowrss ou Patsing Stans. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. ? and 4 Weat fwonty-fourth sireet,—Bupworti’s MINSTRELS. —UPHLOPLAN Mingreenay. BaLLaDs, wsqurs, 40, A Trir ro Tux Moos. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, ; alle the New York Hotel.—Lx tenis Soncs, Daw emorins, &0.—Maraivony—Suaraisé Party—' rarux. 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We have also # general news report, dated in London om the 2d of (econ ber tho state of health of tho ex-Empress of Mex garded aa hopeless, Maximilian is expected at Miramar, The report of the occupation of Matamoros by United States troops caused a marked sensation in Paris. Prince Adelbert, of Prussia, High Admiral of the Prumian navy, is to visit the United States in order to avudy our naval system and report improvoments for the Prasaian fleet, Ixtensive arrests of Fentans aro made in Ireland. ‘The Irish in Liverpool and Glasgow exhibit a “bad feeling,” and troops are likely to be sent from London to doth cities, ‘tho troops in London are to be confined to barracks during the great reform demonstration to-day (Monday). MISCELLANEOUS. ‘the accond session of the Thirty-ninth Congress assom- bles to-day, ‘There is no douht that # quorum wil! be present in doth houses, and most probably the Presi- deot's message will be received early in the afteruoon. Mr, Boutweil, at the republican caucus last night, said that a special committee should be appointed whose duty HK would te to inquire into the subject of an impeachment of the President, and the sugges- tion met with the hearty co-operation of all Presem, Thad Stevens. will introduce a resoiution at the earliest oppertunity after the assembling of Con- grows, for the appointment of a joint committees to in- vontigale the conduct and course of the President, and report what action will be necessary fur Congreas to take im the matter. It is also stated in Washington that Mr, Sobenck will introduce 4 bill soon to assemble the Fortieth Congress on the Sth day of March. A Washington despatch says that the government had information as long ago as last winter that Jolin H. Surratt had gone to Europe, a person who accompanied him om the voyage having communicated tho fact. A deanateh was received by the government yesterday an nowocing hie arrest at Aloxandria, Ecypt, and stating that there 15 no doubt of his identity. ‘the Rev. Charles E. Harris preached in the Norfolk atroot Methodist church yesterday on the immorality of tho lessons taught on the stage. Rev. Mr. Frothingham delivered a discourse at the Third Unitarian church, on Fortieth street, om the subject of extravagance. At Ply- mouth church, Brooklyn, Rev. Henry Ward Reocher ad- dregsed his congregation on the development of man- hood aad the standard by which men should be judged. He took occasion previous to his sermon to compliment the forthooming address by Fred Douglass, and remarked favorably on the right of female suffrage. Rev. Horatio Potter discoursed on the vices and !mmoralities of New York in $t. Lake’s church, on Hudson street, and the fev, thomas S. Preston delivered the tirst of a series of four lectures on the necessity of Christian unity, at St. Ann's church, in Eighth street. Arch Bishop McCloskey addressed a congregation at the Charch of Transfiguration, on Mutt streot, yesterday, on the oveasion of the closing of the mission which bas been in progress under tho auspices of the Dominican ‘ethoraat that church for the Inst three weaks, The Rev. B. O'Reilly delivered a lecture at the Catholle church of St, Peter and St. Paul, in Williamsburg, on the question, “Has the Chureh still Life for the Nations’ In the course of his remarks the reverend contloman said that wherever the Pope was compelled to resid, his residence would always be the centre of civili- ‘ation, and he would still do as he had done at Rome, gates to the French Canadian Convontion were ‘eniortainod at a banquot last evening by the New York members of the Association. Several patriotic toasts Were proposed, inciuding one to the President of the United States; Canada, the fortieth State in the Union, and prosperity to the New York Maxaip. Our correspondence from Panama is to November 23, and from Santiago, Chile, to November 1. The Peruvian elections ad ended in the triumph of Prado, Peace ne- gotiations with Spain were still going on. Spain had proposed to abandon the revolutionary claims, amount- ing to $90,000,000, and allow the courts of justice to sotile private claims; but it te believed, as Peru still conunues ber war preparations, that «hy. muld not ac. coapt the propositions, General Castitio was banished to Chitose. A raid on Caba ts warmly advocated by parties in Santiago, Chile, Senor Don Manuel Matta, « Chilean Congressman, had offered a resolution requesting the Oabinet Ministers to resign, and bitterly aveailing Presi. dont Perez, He was warmly urging its passage whon our correspondence closed. The Peruvian conspirators had arrived udder guard at Valparaiso, General Kil patrick was to have been married to a Chilean Indy on tue 24 alt,, and General Vickers, an attaché of the lege tion, and a resident of Philadelphia, wae to have boen married on the 16th of November to the sister of Gen ora) Kilpatrick's intended bride. Tho news from Central America is not of special importance, The Guatemale Congress was to have met oo the 19th of November. On the Ist and 19th Hit harp shocks of egrthquaker were felt in Sal- vador Seiior Guzman had been elected President of of Nicaragua. In Bogota the Archbishop had been ex- Pelled the State by the Executive, and his palace and archives seiced. A movement was expected among Mosquero’s friends to revolutionize the government and mako him monarch. A complimentary resolution of respeot for the memory of Henry Chauncey and John L. Stephens, and of thanks to them and William H. Aspin- wail for their services in the projection of the Panama Railroad, has passed the Legiaintive Assembly of Panama, ‘Their portraits are to bo placed in tne reception room of the Exeoutive mansion. Letters from the city of Mexico, dated November 10, racolved at Washington, state that Marshal Bazaine had organized and armed two Mexican regiments, and Promuod that the French troops should not interfere with them, provided they would Aseiare for General Ortega and proclaim him President. Positive informa. tion of the occupation of Masatian on the 14th uit. by on ee Rane te & Francie. 4 Goons, pronounced by the King’s physician and bor medical men to be Asiatic cholera, broke out vio- Gentle 004 wuddonis ta the ilnad of 41. Tuome:. on ibe Caen TE EE TERE EEE NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1866. 17th inst. Four persons attacked died within twenty- four hours. The yellow fever and small pox also pre- vailed. A quarantine on all vessels from that island had been established at Santa Cruz. Our correspondent at Milledgeville, Ga., writes that the reasons for the rejection of the constitutional amead- ment by the Legislature of that State were that there were no guarantees given that a restoration of the State to’ the Union would follow its adoption, and that the people consider it the height of ingratitude to disfran- chise those who were lately their soldiers, They have begun to look calmly at the possibility of negro suffrage asa means of readmission, but it is still revolting to them. A bill has been under consideration in the Legis- lature looking to the establishment of common schools for whites and blacks throughout the State, and it is probable that it will be passed. Emigration from the North is encouraged, and much capital has already flowed in from that section. Sixteen of the Fenian prisoners confined at Montreal were transferred to Sweetsburg yesterday for trial. They were handcuffed and under charge of a guard of thirty policemen, The court before which they are tobe tried opens to-day, but their cases will not come up for some time, as the Grand Jury has not decided on the Dilla against them. On Saturday evening the ship Kate Dyer, on her way to this port, collided with the steamer Scotland when abont ten miles eouth of Fire Island. The ship was sunk almost immediately$ thirteen of the crew perishing with her. ‘The Scotland had her bow stove in, and was rumashore off Sandy Hook to keep from sinking. It ‘was not definitely ascertained who was to blame for the collision, the Captain of the Scotland and the pilot of the ‘Dyer both coming im for their share, in the opinion of passengers. The brig Wilhelm, bound for this port from Berdeaux, went ashore on Thursday night on the Romer shoals, and being abandoned by the Captain was taken possession of by the agent of the marine insurance companies, While endeavoring to save as much of the cargo as possible, Mr. Brown, of the Submarine Compaoy, came abvard, and drawing a pistol took possession. An injuaction was served on him on Sunday; but as, it is alleged, he paid no attention (o it, tho revenue cutter Crawford was sent down yestords The steamship Somerset, from Liverpool on the 17th ult, arrived at Baltimors yestert Among her pas- seugers was the Right Rev. W. R. Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland, who returns from a Drief visit to Europe for his Leaith, which is understood to be somewhat im- proved. The great suspension bridge at Cincinnati is pro- nounced a decided success. Fully one hundred thou sand persons 5 over it and back again yesterday, and the motion of the roadway was hardly perceptible, ‘The Meeting of Congress—The Business of the Session aud the Prospects. T closing session of the Thiriy-ninth Congcess will be opened to-day af noon, and its constitutional term will expire at noon on the 4th of March next. What with the ena- bling acts that may be deemed necessary to con- suminate the work of Southern reconstruction und the rectificattions demanded in our finan- cial and foreign affairs, there will be more than work enough to employ diligently the two houses during this limitation of three months which lies before them. The prospect is, how- ‘ever, that much in the way of legislation upon. other subjects which might be done will be left undone, from the precedence which will be given to the absorbing question of the Presi- dent’s distribution of the spoile during the late recess, ‘ At this caucus, as at the memorable one a year ago which shaped the organization of this Congress. and the “irrepressible conflict” with the President, the presiding, genius was that implacable radical familiarly known as “Old Thad Stevens.” On his motion a resolu- tion was unanimously adopted requesting the Senute to reject all appointments made during the late recess, through removals for political reagons, and it seemed to be understood in the caucus that the Senate. would cheerfully com- ply with this patriotic proposition. It next appears that Mr. Stevens gave notice of a bill regulating the tenure of office—providing that the President shall submit to the Senate all appointments made during the recess within twenty days after the convening of that body— that all appointees rejected by the Senate shall be ineligible to office for three years thereafler; that whenever it becomes necessary for the President to make removals for malfeasance in office or disability, he shall report his reasons for such removals to the Senate, and that in case of the rejec- tion of any person appointed by the Presi- dent—that is, in behalf of his peculiar resto- ration policy—the office shall revert to his predecessor; and all subordinate appointments made by persons so rejected shall tall in the same way with their rejection. By this bill, as we understand il, it is pro- posed to displace the bulk of the President's officeholders appointed during the late recess and to reinstate the radicals removed. At all events a new conflict on the spoils is apparent, just as we were beginning to console ourselves with the ides that the old conflict oa Sonth- ern restoration being settled there must be peace between Congress and the President. From the new Postmaster at Brooklyn to the new Internal Revenue Assessor #t San Francisco there will, we presume, be several thousand officeholders affected by this new scheme of reconstruction, and the railroads and the Washington hotels and boarding houses will atfeast be apt to realize something from the sensation. Bat the caucus in question, while giving pre- cedence to the President’s dispensation of the spoils, still condescended to touch upon other matters of some general importance. Thus a committee of ten, headed by Mr. Stevens, was appointed to arrange the business pro- gramme of the session, and in addition to this a resolution was adopted instructing the above committee to consider the propriety and expe- diency of so changing the law convening Con- gross as to have the two houses meet some- time prior to the first Monday in December. We conclude from this initial movement that a law will be passed in due time providing for the meeting of the Fortieth Congress close upon the heels of the retiving Thirty-ninth Congress, There can be no serious objections to this proposition in view of the paramount question of Southern reconstruction and restoration and in view of the fact that this business has reverted, through the late elections, absolutely into the hands of the majorities of the two houses which passed the pending constitutional amendment. Through the instractions of the people of the States known as the loyal States it bas thus become the first duty of Congress to provide such means and measures 4s will be best adapted to restore the excluded States on the basis of the amendment. First, through its ratification by three-fourths of the loyal States, and, secondly, by such consistent and effective enabling acts as will bring abont a speedy local reorganization of such of the States still excluded. Now, as between this day and the 4th of March it is manifest, from the introduction of this extraordinary embarrassment of the spoils, that there will be but e mall margin left for the reclamation of the South and euch other vital measures as the revision of our financial sys- tem, our internal and external taxes and our foreign affairs, an early meoting of the next Congress may become a public necessity from the failure of this to settle any of these im- Portant questions, Even in our old “piping times of peace” the annual appropriation bills Were as much as were generally allowed to the short session of Congress. Under the Present state of things, therofore, an early meeting of the Fortieth Congress can hardly fail to be acceptable or advantageous to the country. There is no sign as yet of @ purpose among the radicals to try the extreme measure of the President’s impoachment, nor do we fear any great evils to the country from new squab- ble over the President's patronage. It may result in so pruning down the Executive office in the matter of the spoils as to relieve it to a vast extent of those appliances of party cor- ruption which, since the time of General Jack- son, have more or less controlled all our Presi- dential elections. Here, indeed, is a great field for reform—a field in which the most accepta- ble and the beat work may be done in the puri- fication of our whole political system, In con- clusion, we fear no disastrous consequences to the country from the reassembling of Congress, not even in the proposed reconstruction of the present pernicious system of dispensing the spoils, We only hope that the revision will be broader and deeper than the superficial changes proposed by Mr. Stevens, so that our Presiden- tial elections will cease to be a game of party gamblers for the spoils in the President's hands, Threatened Execution of the Fenian Pris- oners in Canada, By the decision of the two courts in Toronto—- the Queen’s Bench and Common Pleas-—to which the cases of the Rev. Father McMabon and the other Fenian prisoners were referred on appli- cation fur a new trial, the fate of these gentle- men is sealed. They are to be hanged on the 13th inst. There is no further appeal left open to them, the Chief Justice having denied the application of their counsel to carry the case to the Court of Error. The Canadian govern- ment has thus invited the consequences which are almost sure to follow the judgment of its courts. Itis unnecessary to point out what these consequences are likely to be when we remember the sentiment of hostility to Great Britain which pervades all classes of the Amer- ican community. ‘Treachery, false dealing and ill-concealed malignancy on the part of the English government during our war have planted in the hearts of the American people the seeds of retribution. Not only secretly, but practically, the English government was our enemy in the great struggle for national existenee in which we have been recently en- gaged and which culminated in a great tri- umpb. We cannot be expected, governed as we are by human instincts, to feel any acule sympathy. with Great Britain in her present difficulty, which appears to menace the exist- ence of her empire, and it would be requiring ,| too much of us to demand any interference with such measures as the Fenians may be driven to adopt towards the British possessions in Canada in their present exasperation agains! the colonial government, ri There are few who believe that the con- demned men in Toronto have heen fairly tried or who acquiesce in the ruling of the Canadian courts, There is no denying the fact that their execution will be regarded here as a judicial murder, and the probability is that if it is curried ont there will be a feartal retri- bution exacted upon Canadian soil, which no effort ou the part of the United States aathori- ties can ward off. The frish portion of our population, pev- | meating as it does all classes and inierests of the community, exercises a marked influence | upon political affairs, and in the pre: unsettled condition of parties shrewd po ticiuns see the value of courting that influence. + Aport from the natural feeling of animosity to | ihe Britizh government, nuvtared and strength- ened by its conduct toward us daring the rebel- lion, there is a selfish motive stimulating political parties (o cultivate the support of ihe citizens of Irish birth and obtain what is calied the Irish vote, and it is not at all improbable that # practical recognition of the movement for the independence of freland, with snch aid and comfort as can be extended to it, will become | a teat qnestion in the succes* of any pariy which wspires to supremacy. in view of these facis the action of the Canadian government in reapect fo the condemned Fenians is fraught with danger. It is no secret that the branch oi the Fenian organization cherishing designs apon Canada is strong in numbers and holds at its disposal all the arm+ and ammunition intended to be used. in the invasion of last June, and since restored by the Uniied States government to the Fenian representatives. The efforts to dispose of them to Santa Anna, which it is said were made by the President of that branch of the Fenian association, for a filibustering raid into Mexico having tailed, the arma are no doubt still at the command of the Fenians, and from the reports which are daily received from various pointa in the West and on the frontier | there is apparently an intention to renew the | attack upon Canada which was attempted under such inauspicious circumstances last summer. The Canadian government is awak- ened to this danger, for troops are being rapidly concentrated on the frontier. Fears of a rescue of the prisoners are evidently enter- tained; but in the present exasperated condi- tion of the Fenian clement and the sympathy everywhere felt for the men doomed to-death, events may result in more disastrous conse- quences to Canada than the rescue of the pris- oners. There is no more sensitive point upon which to try men’s passions than their religions prejudices, and it happens that in the condem- nation of a Catholic priest (Father McMahon), who was manifestly engaged in the perform- ance of his clerical duties, that spot is touched in the present case, and the severity of his condemnation is more bitterly felt because of the immunity extended to a clergyman of the Episcopal faith (Mr. Lumsden), against whom it ia believed the testimony of guilt was more conclusive, It does not seem that any possible good can come from the execution of these men, Jf it is Intended to repress Fonianism it is @ grave ‘mistake; for it will tend to increase its influence tenfold and gather sround it the sympathies of the American people to a degree that the Canadian authorities may have reason to re- gtet when it is too late to remedy the evil pro- voked by their raskness in carrying oat the sentence of doath upon the Fenian prisoners. There can be and is no question es to the in- dispensableness of a epecial military education for the officers of an army. The schools of St. Cyr and Saumur, of Woolwich and West Point, and the rest (including naval academies), attest in Europe and America the universal recogni- tion of this fact. And even the few brilliant exceptions in the Federal and Confederate ar- mies during our late civil conflict prove the general rule that mere civilians, “political generals,” for instance, must yield precedence to those who have regularly studied the art of war, But although less widely and more recently acknowledged, education in a general sense is of inestimable advantage to the rank and file of an army. Any nation will find ita solid basis of military power. We use the word education in its true etymological signification, by no means narrowing it to instruction in either the lower or the higher branches of learn- ing. Thestudies pursued at the primary school or at the university are but means to the end of educating, of drawing forth the mental and moral powers. Education breaks up the masses into individuals. It trains each one to think, to will, to act, in obedience to the spirit and the letter of law. An army composed of indi- viduals thus truly educated voluntarily and intelligently submits to that discipline without which no army, however brave and enthusiastic, is invincible. The ideas with which the old French republic inspired its tierce young armies were an edu- cation for them, and rendered them irresis- tible. Theirs became “intelligent bayonets”— anew power ithe world. No wonder that, wielding such potent agencies, Napoleon was so mighty a conqueror, The proverbial indi- viduality of the Freach soldier is due io the direct or indirect educational influence of ideas which have survived the fall of the republic and every change of government in France, securing its intellectual pre-eminence amoug the nations of the earth, in the wars of the empire, in Algiers, and particularly in the Crimean campaign, as well as in Italy, the “ inielligent bayonet” has proved its supe- rior efficacy. It could not be resisted by the ‘stubborn coursge and physical force of the Russian soldier. The Russian army was but a cumbrous and complicated piece of machinery, witbout the mainspring of education. The British army still owes its numerical force to its Irish clement, which has long been its strongest clement also, thanks not only to the natural pugnacity of the native of the Emerald Isie, but to his ineradicable idea of nationality. This supplies the place of education and in fact educates him to be an individual. The praiseworthy pluck, the endurance and the bodily strength of the English peasant, stolid and ignorant a3 he is to an almost incon- ceivable degree, are no equivalent for the education which he atterly lacks. Nowhere are the lower orders subjected to a more despotic ignorance or more overwhelming wretchedness than in England. And_ this tre- mendous fact must be taken into aceount when we seek to explain why it has declined from ita rank among the great Powers. The triumph of Prussia over Austria against vast odds of numbers has been erroneonsly attributed to the famous needle gun. This proved, indeed, no ineffectual weapon ; but we should not forget that the men who used it were educated in schools superior to those which the besi school sysiems in other coun- tries have yet estallished. Nowhere on the European continent is education more widely diffused than in Prussia, and its practical results were splendidly illustrated in the rapid and complete successes of the Prussian armies. Krance, in the reorganization of its imperial army, is hastening to pay fresh tribute to edu- cation as a basis of military power by adopting us a model the Prussian army system which has been erected upon il. The failure of the Italians, brave and enthu- si: as they are, to win themselves the prizes which Prussian victories secured to them, can be atiributed only to the lack ot education uni- versal among the lower classes throughout lialy ; and Mr. Shanks, in his “Personal Recol- lections of Distinguished Generals,” is not without reason in ascribing to the relative su- periority, uot only in numbers but in educa- tion, of the rank and file of the federal army ! over the rank and file of the Confederate army the crushing victories of the former. Not col- iege graduates alone, such as those celebrated m the “Harvard Memorial Biographies,” but handreds of thousands edacated in the com- mon schools of the North, mferior as these are to their Prussian models, proved them- selves all the betier soldiers by virtue of their superior education. And in the Southern armies the “Army of Northern Virginia,” com- posed ns it was more largely than any of the rest, of educated men—the flower of Southern chivalry—contessedly took the lead, particn- larly in its artillery arm, its special pride and glory; and the other armies, with few excep- tions, were mainly officered by educated Vir- ginians. In an interesting and spirited article in a recent namber of the Crescent Monthly, J. Quit- man Moore, of Mississippi, says:—“ The organ- ization of the Confederate army was a finished piece of military mechanism, methodical, har- monions, composite in all pertaining to its ex- terior practical arrangement; but there was a fatal defect in its interior vital economy—a morbid organic derangemenit—that defeated every hope of healthy bodily action, preyed upon the seat of life and caused its ultimate dissolution. That disease was the absence of discipline.” And this was due not only to the habitual impatience of restraint on the part of Southern gentlemen, but also to lack of educa- tion on the part of the “poor whites” who swelled the number of privates. Even if we do the latter the justice to remember that not a few of them, without what they would call “book larnin’,” had really been better edu- cated than many a mere bookworm, by the eloquence of court house orators, we must admit that their mental awakening and training from this source made them infinitely better soldiers than could possibly be made out of the “trash” who could neither read their “goriptaral rolls” nor tell from what “reedge- ment” they had deserted. Some of them be- lieved, when they “hurrahed for Jackson,” that Old Hickory was still alive, or, at least, that Stonewall Jackson was his son. ‘The Heratp has reproduced an article from the London Times which insists apon “the impotence ef any amount of material force to confer political influence; it might have added “or military power.” Of this oduce- Burke’s epigram—“Education is the cheap de- fence of nations. : ‘The Hitch in tho French Evacuation ef Mexico. Considerable uneasiness prevails as to the intentions of Louis Napoleon in regard to Mexico. Even our government, if the purport of its long cable despatch to Minister Bigelow be correctly reported, shares in this anxiety. ‘The fact that the Emperor has mado no reply to it would look as if his assurances to Mr. Seward had undergone # modification, What the motives of this may be suggests matter for speculation. Do they arise from unexpected difficulties raised by Maximilian, or are they prompted by the prospect of this country drifting into a war with England, on account of the Alabama claims or the Fenian troubles? According to our views of the matter the last of the hypotheses suggested is wholly in- admissible. We do not believe there is any one in France, the most violent opponent of the Mexican expedition not excepted, who is now more eager for the withdrawal of the French troops from that country than Napo- leon, An alliance with England against us would offer him no advantages that could compensate him for the perils to which a further continuance of his army on Mexican soil would expose him. His position vis-d-vig of the other European Powers has become so critical that it will require him for many years to come to keep his military and naval resources concentrated within easy reach. Moreover the sentiments of the French people in opposition to these plans of distant conquest have been so unequivocally expressed that he dare not persevere in them. ‘They feel as he must now himself feel, that there is nothing to be made out of this Mexican business either in the shape of territory or glory. What motive, then, would there be for persevering in a policy which is not only profitless in itself but which must eventually entail disaster and ruin on those engaged in it. If there is to be a delayin the fulfilment of the promises made to our government it will probably arise from the first of the causes sug- gested. The course which Maximilian has pursued since the arrival of General Castleneau has been entirely self-reliant and shows that he has resolved to emancipate himself from Freneh control. If he persists in his refusal to abdi- cate he may complicate matters and posipone for a period, though that will be a brief one, the departure of the French. Napoleon will probably conceive himself bound in honor to get him safe out of the country—a result which is certainly not to be expected if he per- sists in abandoning himself to the tender mer- cies of his quondam subjects. Although the manner in which he allowed himeelf to be forced upon them did not argue much scrupu- lousness, it is said that he now stands ‘on the order of his going” and talks of a fresh appeal tothe nation. This is no doubt the oxplana- tion of the. difficulties which temporarily op- ‘pose themselves to the departure of the French. They are unwilling to add to the charge of-bad | faith made against them on account of their abandonment of the imperialist cause by their personal desertion of the ex-Emperor. Should anything occur to him it would be a standing reproach against Napoleon and would aggra vate the indignation which has already been manifested against him in this connection. The’ dead lock cannot, however, continue more than a few weeks, and it will probably end in the French forcibly carrying the recalcitrant prince out of the country. Tarn PRESIDEN: Messagcr.—-As the two houses of Congress are organized and will be ready for business when they meet at noon to-day, the President’s Message will prob- ably he read before them an hour or two thereafter. If #0, we expect to lay the docu- ment in full before our readers in one of our evening editions. We expect, too, that the Mersage will be a conciliatory, instructive and statesmanlike production, looking to peace ratuer than « continued wrangling with Congress. Tax Leasina by Joe Davis’ PLayrarion.—A Vicksburg paper publishes ® statement of a contract recently made by Joseph E. Davis, brother of the rebe) ex-Presideat, by which he leases to R. T. Montgomery, a negro, and an association of colored people, for a term of yea, his Hurricane and Brierfield plantations, which have just been restored to him by the government, What an answer this is to the radical calumny that the landholders of the South are unwilling to afford to the colored race a chance of eievating themselves in the ageial scale! THE FENIANS. Removal of the Feninn Prisoners from Yon. treal to Sweetsbarg for Trial To-D Sweersoura, ©. E., Dec. 2, 1866. ‘The Fovian prisoners who were captured during the raid on the Missieqaoi frontier, in June last, arrived here this afternoon to be tried at « special term of the Court of Queen's Bonch for the district of Bedford, which opens to-morrow, Judge Johnson presiding. They left’ Montreal this morning, by special tram, at eight o'clock, in charge of Mr. Payette, Goveruor of the Montreal jail, and an escort of thirty good police, armed with Spencer rifles, under ‘command of Coleael Ermatinger. ‘The same train brought a strong volunteer actech ment, furnished A. the Montreal Royale and Sight In- fantry, commanded by Major Kenneth Campboll; Judge Johnson, Mr. T. K. Ramsay, who will conduct the Fe- nian cases for the Crown; Colonel Usborne Smith, who ‘will command the force stationed at Sweetsburg dere tho trial; and a gumber of other official genuemen, civil and military, At Granby Se, were joined bys party of local volunteers, At West Sheflord station toams were in waiting to convey the party and their bagyage to Sweots burg, where all arrived safely at four o'clock. A crowd of some two hundred persons, who had assembled in the Village to see the prisoners arrive, conducted ftself with — decorum, making no demonstration of any The Fang ood sixteon in number, were handenffed in pairs, foor being in a wagon , under charge of armed policemen. With two or three exceptions they are all young Inds _——— about eighteen years of age. They were comfortably dressed in new suite of clothes, ‘with comfortable over &e., with which the Canadian government had ordered m to be provided, a: when captured they were for the most part wretchedly ciad, A portion of the a, however, was borm by @ fand, paid thi the hands of Mr. Devi their counsel, for the same purpose. Their nam are as follows:—George Crawford, James Rearden, Thomas Smith, George Frederick Howard, Edward Gil- , Fenton Holmes, Charies McGowan, Thomas Powers, car jus Owens, Terence McDonald, Gustave Morrill, Michael Crowley, Edward Carrol, Daniel Coburn and Thomas Madden. At the entrance to the Swoetshurg jail Mr. Payette transferred them — his custody to that of the Shoriff of Beaford dus opens at ton o'clock to-morrow. Mears, Rameay, Buchanan and Lancelot are ongaged as counsel for the =, Mr. Barney Devlin, it is under. stood, will_arrive §o-morrow to appear as counsel for the defence. The court will be engaged with o case of murder and one or two of Iarceny unti! the Grand on on the bills with reference to the Fenian Pp Several local companies of volunteer horse arrived in the course of the evening. Activity of the Loulsville Fenians. Loviaviiia, Deo. 2, 1868. ‘The Fenians have been vory active in this city during the lam week. We logk (or some decisive moreqent tion ts a quickening eloment. We may og- | aw . SO Education as a Basis of Military Pewor. press a great truth by « slight change It may be remombered by your readers thatin the Haratp of the Tth of September I had the henor of giving them am account of my first visit to the groap French fashion oracle, I said that it lived in » tar. famed stuccoed dwelling, which is impenetrableto aff but the initiated, and even to them is almost as imicces- sible as the rocks among which the Sphinx of Antiquity at brooding over strange riddles, Having once described the outer precincts of the mys. terious temple, and every local detail of the interes thereof being designated, I will boldly relate what trans- pired when I again sat in the yellow satin empire facing the somewhat bulky autocrat of the seventh court, The aspect of this sanctum differed widely from the one it had worm’ a few wocks ago, The hangings had been renewed; large Rouen pots containing exotics were mounted on black pedestals; an immense aloe, with long spiked leaves, stood in a rich chins vase; the carpet was made of velvet pile, and a delicate scent procceded from a bouquet that bad been sent te Paris that movniug by Alphonse Karr, the famous novel- ist, now a gardener at Nice, ‘The curtain was slightly drawn whicti divided this part of the temple from the chambers in which hung the raiment I came to describe, Glimpses of rich hues were ‘visitle, and my eyes probably glistencd, for the oracle drew e string aud the curtain closed. It looked spitefal, I thought, and evidently enjoyed my disappointment, “Madam,” i( said, ‘you have been a long time making up your mind to come and consult me on the new court styles (I bowed acquiescence), and you are very fraoti- ous,” it continued, There was no denying the fact, sof bowed again. “You seem to think you need not talk about court till the Empress has opened her first ball at the Tuileries," it continued, “‘is that what you call serv. ing fashion? Tet me tell you that (1 really must beg pardon for the oracle’s figurative language) the Empress going to plav second fiddle this season in matters of dress; she means to adopt the simplest etylss on all occa- sions: tn fact reduce attire to a mere case of necessity. Now, what aro you laughing at ?” it asked suddenly. “T waa thinking,’ J answered, ‘that if the Emprens reduces dress to a case of necessity, her court ladies will do more bv reducing it to something less; their present bare shoulders prove that they are doing away with the necessity alresdy.”? “Madame, y observations. T should have obeyed had not a lady of faultless figure, one of the firuran’es of the temple, in a black poult de soie robe, marched up to the altar and familiarly whie pored in the oracle’s ear. It seomed moved, somewhat flurried and rose, yes, it abtaally. rose from its seat, «Let her be shown in by al! means," it anewered. I understood that some grand personage was approach. ing, and modestly made for the cariain, “You can stop,” asid the oracle, with admirable cen- descenaion. 3 I never saw the “hest autlority’’ at all uneasy about its personal appearence before, On this occasion @ walked to one of the pier glasses, pulled down its watat- coat, twirled its mustachios, nodded at itself, and, whom a livery servant threw the door wide open. drow up all the length of its five feet six inches, It bowed as much fa it could from such « height, when a delicate, elegant lady, the Marquise de S—., very fair, very slight, very tall, made ber appearance. “T Have come to see the selections you have made for me, before [leave for Compirgne.”’ eaid che Marquise, sitting down. Her movements were very graceful, The dracte suddenly dropped tho hato of taystery with which I had till then ever seen it surrounded, and be came a plain dealer tn very rich clothes, From moment he spoke earnestly, as iaea do in the tranaae tion of business, stoquently, as people mnst whem there fg @ great deal of money at stake. “Yam certain the things you have bad made are very satisfactory, tut T hear that some of the same siyie have been sent to the chateau de Mouchy. Now, you know — always fike t have the only thing of 2 kind ever made, -and as Lde aot object to hich charges, pray, for the futa never tet me wear anything that Las ever been cop! for aay one olxe.'’ Mr. K., wio had put aside al! his oracular waya, sald he was not aware that any of his patterns had ps | copied by any existing costumier, and that be believ the thiog was a3 impossible as for him te see Mahomet! geventh paradise; that the Marquise’s orders were m are very fond of making independent Please listen --—."” Tike mosaic, in te pieces, and by different seam streanes—one sewing a sieeve, another the trimming, @ third one cuffs, a fourth the ‘piping—and that the ea. gembio was (oe together undor his own inspection. How any one could ever have got one of his ideas was a poser which be had rather not set himself. “You must havea spy {m your establishment,’ sald hig lady customer. ‘‘Now that lace fiounce round my blu¢ velvet court robe has, I have been told, been seen some where before." “Round the Empress of Austria's throme robe, “Who sold it to her?!” asked the lady sharpiy. “No dotogs of mine, Madame; it was bouzht by he Majesty's orders, through Madame de Metternich, at the € nie des Indes, ’* may Alongon shawl is only a copy, after all, the pattern selected by the Duchess d’Fichingen for hy daughter. Did she reatly pay 1,800 francs per maitre that founce I have beard so much of" “She did; your ladyship can see a large piece of iteay day in the above compagnie's stores," “Phere; that is what I complain of, Everyboay 800 et for money at that Indian warehouse, even without any mevey at all they can know the pries of every bit of lece every one has nay ‘Will you be kind enough, Mr. K., to show me my nhl “You must exouse me, Madame,”’ said pee while drawing the cortsin and disctosing a full view the chamber of wonders, “if J stand up for the Com pagnie des Indes, for, considering that they deal with none but such as are willing to pay a gum for qonnine article, they have imp: on themselves obligation of marking every thread in plain which holds good alike for kings, queens the simplest purchaser. 1 know « lady wont there with bank notes to the amouat ten thousand fraucs which she was determined to tm in a shawl, and was sorely disappointed to find that the best did not cost more than seven thousaad; not only did the compagoie tel! her she could not pay more thea the lace was worth, but that they could not get her @ bettor article even if she paid twenty thousand for it, ‘That is the advantage of piam Ggures, Madame. It iho check on dishonest dealings, and none but a rich com. pany can afford to mark thoir goods thus.” ‘By this tune Mr. With the aanistance of the fignrante I mentioned before, had brought everything labelled with i ee oe hod now! ~4 = jeg Pe everything, eft the temple in hige glee. When she bad gone, Mr. K., poor. spdeoder his oracular ways, imperatively ordered me to be “qui about — in stock,” which I willingly did, amd tof aul or'ty on very good termes. wing are the Marquive’s tickets:— Her tavitation at Compi*gne extends from the 4th te the 24th of this month, She has, therefore, three more. ing robex for petites levees, six demi-toilettes, five even: ing dresses, the famous biue veivet train robe, a shoot ing costume or chasse, two riding habits and accessories wherowith to cbange the five evening dresses into ball of @inner toilets, and that in ton different waya ‘There are tas to the demi-totlettes and palotot ace, alxo two black volvet caaaques and Loréador jackets, ‘The trimii are made of brilliant birds’ plumage ow some of the afternoon dresses; one white ball dress te completely bordered round the tunte ae sleeves with speckled feathers on a band. This @ the last novelty, and one of the most expensive, Pia ia worn also on velvet in preferenes to fur, Oue of most tastefal toilets way made of mauve coried boaded all over with white jet. Atunic, iia Princesse, with a low corslet bodice, made of light gray poplin, covered the mauve underakiet ‘The front of the tunic war abort, and gradually ened on the sides tll tt became almost as long ag the mauve train. There were no sleeves to the tunteg nothing but bretelles over the high mauve body ra neath, A mauve chau es rosette was placed on waistband. A black’ velvet walking costume was trimmed witt Canadian fur all round the bottom. It was made with @ > marck end nasturtium stripe prevailed on black nd A lovely ball drowe was made of very light greem organdio, on which a shower of floss blossoms were worked among silver leavor. Al was com of @ bouilionné tulle undertrain, over which ® white satin tunic, worked around with gold wheat sheave. These ball tunics are very short and flat in front, and fall like peonona bebind. Indian musiin is to Xs favor; a (apropos of India), 1 must not forget to all your who have a cashmere to buy not irohare those soft colored textures which were fonable seven years ago. The cashmeres mate sad eriewomy wit araberttes tnd wie d and ori with orange a ner ——, "Te well known tbat. tho, worth were out again, and put on dla Ht shawls are not to be m. jained with pani most handsome bave x ground. embroi cashmere (s somewhat They generally made of the residue of thread tat fall Crom real Cashmere looms, Lomariata, Dec. 2, 1866. Large numbers of freedmen are Sridacteaapantioe oy ACCIDENTAL SHOGTING AND ATTEMPTED SuIcinE. © cittsen ot eopbetaio. Honeets cotitnants siNSuot ble wife to-day, and then tried to kimself. SuSSOUN UNITED STATES SENATORSWP a potas of ei Deo. 2, 1868 bears oi tote ,