The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1866, Page 6

THE PACIFIC. The Allied Republics Still Pre- paring for War. Peaceful State of Affairs in America. News from the North Pacifie and Sandwich Islands. &e. The steamship Rising Star, Captain Harris, from Aspinwall on the 24 inst., arrived at this port yesterday, with passengers and mails from California and the Pacific coast and the following treasure list :— PanamaR. R.Co. $15,160 Dab Sherman &e. &e. Morgan Duncan, & Co. ++ $105,015 83,515 Lees & Waller.. 217,755 60,000 Order...... 650,000 R. Bell & F. Gun- » APY... 91,586 610 51,000 700 71,987 Dearborn & Bro. 2,000 ‘Total....... $1,263,113 ‘The purser of the Rising Star will accept our thanks for the prompt delivery of files and despatches. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. OUR PANAMA CORRESPONDENCE. Panama, Dec, 2, 1866. ‘Tho aspect of affairs at the political centre of Colombia fs decidedly lugubrious. A careful inquiry into the cause of the late revolutionary demonstrations at Bogota re- veals the fact that President Mosquera is determined to hold the executive office for life, whether at the head of a so-called republic, or as the occupant of the throne of @ one horse monarchy. The popular outbreak at the capital {3 traced directly to Mosquera’s agency; and, by. reason of his influence over the rabble, he will probably secure the adoption of his scheme, MOSQURRA'S PLANS AND THE PUBLIC FRELING. As you have already learned, the first proposition of Mosqura, soon afver his ocoupancy of the executive chair, was to alter the constitution so as to legally extend his term of office from two to ten years. This, according to shrewd calculation, is about a* tong as the old auto- crat can survive the weight of years, already prossing heavily upon him, The adoption of this amendment, whother by compulsion or otherwise, would have answered every purpose, in fixing bim securely in his position as chief magistrate of the country during the few years he has yet to live, and, should his eighty-sixth birthday seo him still hale and hearty, it would be an easy matter to lengthen his term of office a second time With this idea in his head, Mosquera labored, with the slyness of a fox, to bring the matter before Congress in a manner least offensive to the taste of his political opponents. The boldness of the proposition, however, was rather staggering in its effects, and, regardless of the moral pressure brought to bear upon it by the emissaries of the President, Congress refused to handle so dangerous a subject, and, before a new plan of storming the legislative redoubt could be fixed upon, that body was dissolved by a premature adjournment, ‘The more intelligent class of people were opposed, from the start, to the action of the President, and after his little disaster in Congress, It was principally to the lower ‘classes that he was obliged to turn for aid and consola- tion. How well he succeeded in exciting the feelings of the rabble has been shown in truthful colors. “THE KINGDOM A-COMING,’? - Despairing, perhaps, of winning Congress over to his atyle of thinking, the President of Colombia has unheai- iatingly advanced the idea of declaring the governmont amonarehy. No’ that. Me has personally and publicly declared himself in favor of the revolution, but through his mouthpieces arnong the rabble he has given the peo- ple to understand that he winks at, and, in fact, sanc- tions the plan of elevating himseif to the throne of a petty kingdom, composed of the fragments of a dismem- bered republic, The ability of bis friends to effect this change ie scarcely dovbted. In former days Mosquera placed the blacks under a bond of obligation by liber. ating every slave in the coun'ry, and by afterwards mitting them to full citizenship This masterly stro! of policy has proven to be his salvation on many occa- stons since; and, in this criss, if one arises, they will not desert their tried friend who dragged them from the depths and made citizens of them all. 0 arbitrary action of Mosquera in exiting the Rishop of Bogota, and in demanding the payment of tonnage dues on the isthmus, &c., is very suggestive of the fact that only a slight difference exists between a republican government, as exemplified in Colombia, and the most absolute monarchy in the world. The title of “Thomas ”' conferred on Mosquera at alate public meeting of @ faithful, well befits its subject. 4 from va directs all inails to be sent to ¢ local Yost Offices for distribution. Notwithstanding the immunity usual ed by your government, the Provis ons of this act xtended to the United States \14, us well as to those from Europe, the South Pacific and Australasia, The direfui consequences of sub- mitting from two to three hundred packages of Call- fornia mails to the manipulation of the poco tiempo officials of this country can read'ly be imagined. Delays would inevitably ensue, so as to render the route practi. call 4 the overland mail, for papers and heavy degenerate into a monthly service, to perormed by the Nicaravua transit, The officers of the railway company have positive instructions to com- ply with the order of the President, and unless the local authorities are courteous enough to waive formality, matters will be transformed into a sav mess upon tho arrival of the next batch of mails from New York. are to be consulted upon the subject, 18 mission’ will probably adjust the ¥ to the satisfuction of all concerned. Other, and wnt q estions, growing out of the mter- f the Isthmas must be defluitely settled at © The urvency of these matters is such jay is ruinous, and the hope is expressed that the Washington authorities will give them immediate atten- ton, as inach for their own credit as for the convenience of the American public. Pra AND CHIL. ‘The intettizence from Peru and Chile is unusually Meazre. Tho alin! fleet was preparing fora long soa Foyage, The lest ships of the navy, under command of the Chilean Admiral Williams, were to compose the squadron, the ation of which was but vaguely hinted. Putting this and that togeth t, however, the Peruvian papers cow d themselves justified in con+ cluding the destination of the feet to be Montevideo or Buenos Ayres. An officer bigh in rank on the United States steamer Pow ha: ifs Mm that before the lat ter hy = oat 80 was reliably advised of the early departure of Admiral Willams, and be was also given to understand that his (\\ Jestination was some port on the Atlantic const me officer fein confident that the allies, afvor th overhauling thetr ships, will sally forth from tb ‘ary retreat, and with a bold and er rr hand will re-open the war on the Spanish coast, i@ smacks strongly of bombast, The strict reticence of the Chilean paper avon the sub- Ject leaves us very much im the dark respecting the movements of their squadrons, but this uncertainty will will doubtless be removed upon the arrival of the next mail, 5 IT add the following extract from the Vaiparaiso cor. respondence of the Panama (/ which throws some light upon the matter, assigning ® reason for the spasmodic energy of the Chileans:— Vatranatso, Nov. 10, 1958. The ships of the allied squadron are taking fm coal and mounting thelr gaaa. preparatory, It ts sald, to departure on Uhe Ith Of the Dreseot month. ft t# reporied that Chile and Peru have decided on rejecting the mediation of foreign Yowers, if endeared, and on ‘all future occasions to assume the offensive. MEDIATION VS. SATISFACTION, As above indicated, it was pretty well understood that tho mediation of Franco std Ragland would not be accepted by the allies, result of Senor Pacheco's Conference with the Prosideut of Chile had not been Announced; but, from certain actions on the part of the Sovernment, the inferonco was drawn that Spain would Bot bo oxcused from punishment for ber misdemeanors. In other words, the allies propose to ‘carry the war into Africa.” ond will not meet the Spaniard as a friend Boul their epirit of retal ation is suMciently appeased, The people, rash and untuinking, call for am attack on Cuba, and bitterly deuoance anytning that boars the Appearance bs withdrawal from the contest, OVEMENTS IN WAR MATRRIAT. The allies are exceedingly votive in oxperimenti ‘with the various !mprovements in arma, &e., presen’ to thelr notice since their classification with bolligerents. Several American inventions lave proven thomselves to be what they are represented, andas soon aa the finances of Chile are im ® bealthy condition orders for la sup. plies will Ties by the government. The famous needle gan been competing for honors, but further experiments were to tako place before convincing the inspectors Of their useiulness to the ailied army, PANAMA, ‘The brave Granadians for the past week have been {i ‘the anldst of their annual ‘‘ Fourth of July" splurge. oy ft im this codntry falis on the 28th of No- their usual prononess to ridiculous inaist upon prolonging the celebration ‘shinplasters are forthcoming for that pur- pose, Five days of disalj Have Hot satisfied ¢) patriotic ardor, and, from of things at the ) resent writing, the more steadily err people of the city will De grievous'y intheted by “Young Colombia!’ for agowber week, 2° Geert Asics, Vass exzival Gym pae Genirel Amoriong cons things fo long ae &e. OF THR ENGLISH AND PRENC! are the main points of plan pro- posed ty h and English Ministers for the set- lement of the Chilean-Spanish quarrel :— 1. The flag of neithor belligerent is to be saluted by the other; that matter remaining out of the question, as there are no Spanish war vesssis in the Pacific, 2 The belligerents abandon all claims for indemnity On account of the war, 8. Neither Chile nor Peru shall make any claim on ac- count of the bombardment of Valparaiso or Callao, ‘4. The treaties heretofore made by the allied republics with Spain to remald, in vigor, including the treaty of January 27, 1865, 5. The decroes for the expulsion of Spanish subjects to be repealed. The Peruvian journals reject such terms indignantly, and interpret the mediation as showing clearly that England, France and Spain are ailied in interest at least in the ai They think that by accepting such a me- diation they would be getting rid of one weak enemy by risking the chance of soon afterwards having to meet three powerful ones, Panama, Dec. 2, 1866, By the English steamer Paita, which arrived here on the 29th ult., we have advices from Valparaiso to the 10th and Caliao to the 2ist ult. Ja Chile there is stil! much talk of making war upon Spain. At latest dates the allied squadron was still in Valparaiso harbor preparing to go to sea. It was ex- pected to sail about the 15th of November. A current report that the fleet had already started for Montevideo needs confirmation. As the fleet isto sail under sealed orders, ite destination is anknown; but it is believed Manila is the first point to be touched at there, if pos- sible, to intercept some of the Spanish vessels that put in for repairs after the defeat at Callao, ‘The recent sittings of the extra seasion of Congress in Chile have terminated in the defeat of the opponents to government, A disastrous fire occured in Santiago, Chile, on the 24 of October. The market place, with all its stalls, &c., was destroyed. The amount of property destroyed was very large, and the losses fall chiefly upon the poor trad- ing people, who can ill afford to bear tt. Colonel Balta and other expatriated Peravians had en up their residence in Santiago. The Cyclone, which was reported to have been captured by the Spani- ards, arrived at Va'paraiso on the Sth of November. It was doubtful whether the Chileans would purchase her Or not, as they were negotiatine for the Cabral and some other Brazilian iron-clads lately built, but which draw too much water for service in the Paraguayan and Argen- tine rivers, A slight shock of carthquake was felt at Valparaiso on the night of the 8th of November, but it caused no dam- age. From Peru there is but little of intorest. The Dictator, Prado, seems to be conducting affairs in that republic with great ability. The different attempts at revolution seem to have beon most effectually suppressed. With a Strong, well administered government, such as that of Prado, Pera mast progress rapidly. Peru and Chile seem vo have decided upon declining the offers of foreign mediation in their troubles with Spain, the conditions offered not being sniticient to satisfy the national honor or to give gnarantees for the future, Mr. Pacheco, the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Reta- tions, bad returned to Peru, having completed his mis- sion to Chile, Garcia Moreno had returned to Fcuador. Ho is ox- pected at Guavaquil shortly to assume the governorship of that province. CENTRAL AMERICA The Panama Railroad Company steamer Salvador, from the Central American coast, arrived here on the night of rhe fy re bi 1! id ! 16 five ublics are all at peace, and consequent! there is but title news to report. " ‘ Senor Don F. Guz: was elected President of Nica- ragua. There were great fears that a revolution would shortly break out in that republic. In Salvador the annual fairs of Chaiatenango had deen largely attended, and the demand for indigo exceoded the suppty. In Costo Rica tho dry woather had ast in. The coffee ‘season will soon commence in that republic, and with it a great improvement in business fa expected. Otto Schroeter has been recognized by Costa Rica as Italian Consui to that republic, ‘THE ISTHMUS. There is little of interest to report from the Isthmus For the past four davs all Panama, from the President doxn, have been coiebrating the anniversary of inde- pendence (November 23) in the most onthusiastic man- ner. Buginess has been completely suspended during the festival. ‘in connection with this celebration,” says the Star and Hernid, “it is pleasing to notice an act of international courtesy on the part of Admiral Pearson, of the United States Navy, which occurred on Independence Day. On the morning of the 28th the Powhatan, the Adriral’s ship, hoisted the Colombian colora, and at noon fired a salute of twenty-one guns in honor of the occasion." Since the departure of the last mai! nothing further has transpired in relation to the question of tonnage, dues and mails, A severe gale was experienced a: Aspinwall on the 26th, but fortunately it subsided without causing any serious damage. Captain George Conway has recently been appointed Harbor Master at Aspinwall, vico Captain Tutb‘ll, de- THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. QUA HONOLULU CORRESPONDENCE. Arrival of Queen Emma at Honolula—Her Reception by the People—Gossip About King ehama, &o. Keammebanas G0. a suotu; Ook $9, 1008 The arrival of the bark Ethan Allen from San Brau- cise? on the 20th, brought definite news of the plan: of her Majesty Queen Emina, The United states had placed the Vanderbilt at her disposal for the voyage bome, and as sho was to leave within a week after the Ethan Allen, but little time would elapse before her arrival. MOVEMENTS OF THE KING. Ais Majesty had Jeft for Hawaii, for causes best knowa to himself, and rumors were prevalent that all salutes and receptions by the military kad been prohibited by him before his departure. Various stories are told re- garding the conduct of his Majesty. One is, that hor Majosty and party bad been negligent in the matter of correspondonce, having failed to notify him personally of their arrival in San Francisco and of their expected morementa, Another, not quite as creditable, is to the effect that a certain woman, of course, who holds @ re- markable influence over him, had told bim that, should he be on this island when the Qneen arrived, ho would surety stcken and die. I give the stores for what they are worth. ARRIVAL OF QUEEN YM Monday, the 22d inst., broke upon us with a clear sky and gonte trade winds blowing. When our quiet town had about sottled itself down for a dul! day, the tele ri announced ‘a steamer coming past Coco Hend.”’ Soon ali was beastie and confusion, and all waited anxiously for ti steamer to pass Diamond Head. As soon as the steomer hove in sight the royal standard of Howail was seen flying from her mainmast hea!, annonne the arrival of her Majesty Qaoon Env an ean Was tm mediately fired from Punch Bowl Hil, as a signal for the milito r to mble at thetr Teepective armories. Infantry ane soon appeared in squads, while the nativos wore the esplanade, dressed in their best evident ght. The public and privat principal workshops closed, and their ebiidren and artisans helped to swell the’ the throng that awaited to welcome the Queen. Every fiagstat—and we have a forest of them—flung {ts bunting to the breeze; ensigns of all the principal nations of the earth were displayed. Tho shipping in the harbor were soon dressed off, promi- nent among which was his Prussian Majesty's ahi Vineta. The battery on the bill thundered forth a royal salute, — which was responded to by the Vineta The Vanderbilt steamed slowly down the reef, all eyes upon her, to see ber enter the harbor, when lo! sho rounded to out- side and dropped anchor. As soon as postible his Excellency, Governor Domonia (whom Boston boys who attended Thayer's school, {n Chancey place, in 1845, may ‘a remember) and the Hon. David Kalakana, her Majesty's Chamberiain, boarded the Vanderbilt, the jovernor receiving the customary salute. The Hawaiian steamer Pole was soon alongside, under the command of Captain Jacob Brown, anot ‘onian, and her Ma- jesty took leave of the Vanderbilt amidst the deafening roar of @ royat alate, On entering the harbor the Vineta manned yares, while the vast crowds on the wharves cheored lustily, swaying back and forth, uncer- tain when ber Majesty toight jand, # royal carriage was on the ground under an escort of the cavalry companies, commanded by Major Caaries H. Judd. Hor Majesty entered the accompraied by the gentiemen deputed to receive her by his Majesty, and sl made way to the palace, The macting be- tween her Majesty and the venerable M. Kekuanaoa, father of hor late husband, was very affecting. On the 234 the Vanderbilt entered our harbor in charge of the veteran pilot—now barbor master— aptain Joln Meek, and now lies of the esplanade admired by all. WOOK UP, The week following her Majesty's arrival waa an axel ting to Hawaliavs, An old custom called ' Hoo. ku has teen revived, and our streets have been ron; by natives eager and anxious to carry out ite which connist of donating to a chief or chiefeas after their return from abi fo riiele of food, Her Majesty has beon the recipient of hundreds of pigs, chickens, turkeys, bunches of tananas, sticks of sugar cane, melons, pumpkins, oranges and Iimes, as a token of “aloha.” Ae aan Of the articles named were sent on ‘fanderbilt, andi am ag sured much retished both fore and aft, A BALI. The Germans of this city gave a bali to the oftcers of the Prassian ship Vinota the a! Oy . ar the: week, and that the American sult the week Wo have lively times in prospect. peas, from present indications, exceed seven hundred barrels, The English ship Isabella, and Brewer & Co.'s line of Boston packets are filling up with oi! for Eastern ports, THE CALIFORNIA AND CHINA STEAM: LINE. QUR SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE. from the & Fr isco Chamber of erce to Congress Asking a Modifica. the Contract—Twelve Trips Yearly Instead of Thirteen, Sav Francisco, Nov. 15, 1866, ‘THE CHINA AND SANDWICH ISLANDS STRAM LINE, The following isacopy of the memorial to be pre- sented to Congress, in regard to the China mail service, by the Chamber of Commorce of this city:— The committee of the Chamber of Commorca, to whom was reforred the resolution of that body of the 12th day of September last, in relation to the mail service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to China via Hovolulu and the Japan Islands, beg leave to report that they have given the aubject full conmderation, and would recom- mend that the following memorial from this Chamber soanerene be prepared at once and forwarded to Wash- To Tar HoNoRanir Senate Any Hovse oy REPRESENTATIVES ov Tan Unreep: ax Wasnixcton :— Zee Dramnes:of Coeamene aS the oie of San Fens cisoo, State fornia, respectfully represent to your honorable body— That a contract was entered into some time since be- twoen the Postmaster Geveral, under authority of an act of Congress, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Fmony , for a certain consideration, mail service was be performed monthly between thin pe and ports in China, in firet clans steamships, which wore required to be ‘at Honolulu. in he aswetiony eon of : t, appreciating the importance of rapid communi- between the United States and China, this Cham- ber. in the month of June last, petitioned your bonora- ble body to relieve the company in question from the necessity of touching at Honolulu with their large and burdensome steamers, because it would involve a delay in tho pagsage of five to eight dava, snggesting at the same time that a subsidy of suficient amount be granted tothat or some other company to perform the steam mail service to Houoluln monthly, independently of the service to China, That, acting upon the representations from this Cham- ber and other sources, Congress at its last session so far modified the contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company as to authorize them, at their option, to drop Honolulu from the China mail service, upon con- dition that a separate steam fine be established to the Hawaitan Islands, with a subsidy of $50,000, and that the said Pacific Mail Steamshin Comnany perform yearly thirtoon, instead of twelve, trips to China. The modifications ref-rred to, especiaily the require- ment to perform an additional voyage each year, this Chambor cannot but regard as inconvenient to the travel- ling an mercantile community, a* a disarrangement of well settled plans for the establishment of immediate and rapid steam communication with the ports of Japan and China, and as onerous aud oppreasive to the com- pany designated to perform the contract, It will change the day of aniling of each steamer from the first of each month to irregular dates, to be deter- mined according to circumstances, and thus deprive travellers and shippers of goods at a distance of the re- quisite information as to the period when the steamers will take their departure from San Franciaco. It will involve the necessity of an additional steam- ship to perform the thirt-enth voyngs, and an expendi- ture yearly of at ieast $130 000, without commensurate advantages being derived, oither by the government, the public or the steamship company. And it will compel the company. as an act of self preservation, to adhere to the original contract, to touch at Honolulu with their steamers, and thereby lengthen the vovage to China some five to eight days, thus practically reaffirming the very Sy roared — it waa clearly the intention of to quality, To view, therefore, of the consideration that the ad- ditional voyago yearly to China will afford no accommo- dation to the travelling or msrcantile community, but will, on the contrary, oporate injuriously to their inter: ests; and in view also of tho greatly increased expenre which will bo entailed upon the Pacific Mall Steamship pig eg the mber Commerce of the city of San Franctaco respectfully potitiona the Congress of tho United States that the steamship company ia question be permitted to drop the port of Honolulu from thelr service, without the additional obligation of another trip yearly to China. and that thereupan the rubsidy for mail rervics to the Hawaiian Islands be tn-reased from $50 000 to $100,000 yearly, which sum will be requisite to enablo a responeible comnany to catablish.o perma- nont and efficiont line of steamahipa between that int- it point and the United States, All of which ta respectfully submitted. RORT. B. SWATN, 3. ©. MERRILT, ALRER? DIRRLRR, G. J. DEMPSTER, San Francitoo, Nov. 13, 1866. The old staamship Hermann, formorie ef the New York and Bremen line, that bas beon Iving to an an- chor in this harbor for the past four years, has be-n aold to the Pacific Mail steamahip Company, and will he sent to Yokohama asa store extre ship at that port, to be {op readiness should anything happen to one of the regular steamors of the fine. THE NORTH PACIFIC. QUA KAMSCHATKA CORRESPONDENCE. nce on the Went Pacific Coast— ropaslovaki— i Shenandoah Burning a Hawaiian Ship aed John Bull Paying the Bill. Prreoravcovent, Kameachatka, Aucust 6, 1866, The Western Union Telegraph Company's steamer Goorge S. Wright, carrying the Enginoer-in-Chief of the Ruaso-Amorican Telegraph Expedition, Colonel Charles 3. Bulkley, sails to-morrow morning, for Behring See, Ane- dyr, Baeg and Norton Sound. From the latter point§ehe will procoed by way of Sitka and Victoria, Vancouver's Toland, to San Francisco, ‘The Russian corvette Variag, assigned to the service of tho telegraph company, sails at the same time for the mouth of the Amoor river, by way of Ghijiga and other ports of the Okhotsk Sea, The following are the officers: of the Variag:—Captain, Robert Lundh; Senior Officer, Commander 2chafrof; Officers, Lieutenants Yermolavefl Staritokl, Greonewald and Bauer; Snb-[‘entenants, Boyle, Miakinin, Alesgoff, Goldbach, Armfelt and ta. men, Gardemarin, Koozmitch; Cadet, Makaroff; Naval Artillery, Lioutenant Koogoosheff; Sailing Masters, Leu. tenant Semenof, Fnsicn Wasilieff; Kogineers, Tien- tenant Kita, Ensign KooznotacT, Surgeon, Larionoff; Priost, the Platon. The Varing ia a ecrew corvetts of 2,156 tore bueden, carrying 17 guns anda crew 6° 206 men. She wilt pro- babiy pass tho winter in one of the Japanese or Chinere ports. Asthe term of a-rvice of her men has nearty expired she will probably procaed next year te Gron~ stadt, while some other vessel will take bor place in the telecraph service. The Prussian brig Danzig (formerly tho American brig Ia) salls to-day on a trading expedition alone tha Ochotak Sea, whence she will proceed to Hakodadi, Janan. The American achoonor Halt ¢ Jackson salts on the 7th for th auth of the Amonr river, whence she return to Petropauloval:i and afterwards proceed to San Francisco. Tn June last the whal hip Mtephania, Captain Sin- clair, of New Redford, arrived here from the Sandwich Iaiands, having lost two of her crew with armallpox. Several porsons on board were prostrated by the malady, and her captain appealed to the anthorities for aseiet- ance. There was no amallpox bospita! belongin= to the port, and the Governor had no authority to erect one without first consulting the commander at Nikolas. In this state of affairs Mr. Pfluger, one of the ie merchants, erected at his own expense a bday BA southern conas of Avatcha Bay, and gupplied it with the proper fresh provisions. The Stephania moved and remained long enoagh to recover her: ‘and cleanse the ship from the infection. A of the owe, properly certified, haa been fi Petersburg, with the request that Mr, Piluger 4 for his outlay (about $600) by the Russ‘an government. While the Shenandoah on the North Pacific in 1866 she burned the whalesbip Harvest, to the house of Pfluger of Honolula, and sailing under the Hawaiian flag. A statement of the affair was rent to London, and the bili for the ship was thé British government. This would direct acknowledgment that the Shenandoah Foals pirate ship rather thao a robel crutaer, NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. 4 San Feancreco, Deo, 10, 1066. HF Li z z ike Un steamer Saginaw arrived from Vic- toria last and the Weetorm Union Telegraph Company’ Nightingale, from Tho latter brings the remains of tho Inte Major R. Kennicott, on for Chicago, The Western Union Tolegraph Company's ateamor George f ~ pest naires today from Victoria with Col- onel Bulkley an 4 Tt in au) the Company's bark Golden nas na ad ty ape ae By sat has plenty of pr Some two thousand miles of poles have been thus far erected in Asin and America, ‘The jury in the case of Peter D. on trial for emdezaling $60,000 from Wells, Fargo & Co,, aon a verdict of guilty ro) charged in denne. ment. steamship Montana sailed to dey with TONOEE in (reararen ae, Sitch BOTT aOT: ae New ‘ork. She carries 1,000 tons of wheat and 200 tons ex- for New oe tra flour The ship Western Continent Cleared Bedford whaie oil, this afternoon, carrying 264,000 galions BUSINESS AT THE SOUTH, ® Now Onnmaws, Doo. 6, 1806. Oa account of the failare Of the cotton crop end other dopreasing int uencss a Apagotal eriste has been expected tite fall, os te, oid see goods morcbante | pression ia busioom gece : —— JOHN H. SURRATT. The Plotter of the Assassination of President Lincoin—Testimony Showing His Connection With the Murder, &c. The announcement which we maile a few days since by telegraph from Alexandria, in Egypt, that John H, Surratt, the last of the immediate conspirators who Plotted and executed tho assassination of President Lin- coln, had just been arrested in that distant land, seemed marvellous if not providential. As we have before stated, a year and a balf had elapsed since the fatal tragety had transpired, and he had not been seen or heard of, not- withstanding the Secretary of War hai publicly offered a reward of $25,000 for his apprehension. He had escaped the observation of his many acquaintances and the vigilant eyes of detective officers in his own land, and the swiftly changing scenes of interest and excitement in this active nation, bad almost removed him from our minds, when, thousands of miles away, across oceans and seas national boundaries, among a people not one in a hundred thousand of whom had ever heard of him, and perhaps none had ever seen him, his identity was discovered, He had been serving for some time in the Papal Zouaves, under the assumed name of John Watson. His company was quartered at Veroli, one of the frontier towns of the Appenines. This sequestered village would seem to have been the last place in which to look for the fugitive from justice, ‘Still, Genera! Rufus King, our Minister at Rome, heard of his whereabouts and communicated the fact to the authorities at home, Cardinal Antonelli promised the General all the facilities in his power for insuring Sur- ratt’s arrest. A few days after, as we are informed by a correspondent of the. London Pos, the Cardinal showed General King a sories of telographic in- structions sent from Rome, and the replies also by tele- graph, of the authorities at Veroli and Velletri. They recorded the order to arrest Sarratt, alias Watson; the successive steps taken in compliance with the order, the actual arrest, the conveyance to prison, the removal from prison under a guard of five soldiers of his com- pany, but the series cloved with the announcement that when thus led out, Surratt, alias Watson, made a sudden dash from his guards, jumped over a precipice more than one hundred feet Rigt and though hotly pursued ‘by fifty Zouaves, was enab! ied, from the fact of their pre- ferring a more circuitous route, to get across tho frontier Into the Italian territory, Genera King announcea the escape to Mr. Marsh, our Minister at the Italian Court, and orders were given to watch all the seaporta. Snrratt, however. managed to get out of the kingdom and had reached Egvpt, where he waa arrested by order of Mr. Hale, our Consul Gen- eral, and taken to Constantinople, whence he will doubt- Jess bo sent to this country. It will not be pre-judging Surratt's caze to refresh the memory of our readers with the connection he sustained to the assassination, compiled as they shall be from the gworn testimony that convicted his confederates in crime Tobn H. Surratt isa single man, about twenty-eight years old; he is snare built, ive feet ten inches hi ‘h, and has the appearance of an intelligent man. His ed- ucation was partly obtained in the Philadelphia High School, but fini-hed in the St, Charles College, Maryland, His father had given name to Surratt's Post Office, ten miles from Washington city. in I'rince George’s county, Maryland. His mother, at the time of the assaaaination, owned a hotel in that villago, though she lived in Waah Yugton, the aon boarding with her, when not passing back and forth b'twoen the rebel capital, Richmond, and the northern rebel base of operations, Canada, ‘On the 6th and 7th of April, 1865, Surratt was seen in Montreal bv witness Sanford Conover, ® corrospan- dent of the Now York Tribune, in room of Jacob Thompson, Financial Agent of the Confederacy. He had just brought despatches from Richmond, one from Bonjamin, Secretary of State, and one in cipher from President Davis, This witness, Conover, though a Northern man, had been compelled to serve the rebel cause tn Virginia, but bad escaped, and in Canada os. tablished bimself in the confidence of Tnomnson; and thus he learned the mature of the despatches bronght up yy Surratt. “Thompson laid hig hard on them and said, ‘Thia makes the thing all right,’ raferring to the aasent of the rebel anthorities’’ to the assassination of Lincoin. “Mr Lincoln, Mr. Johnson, the Secretary of War, Judge Chase and General Grant were to be victims of eng ow Mr. Thompson said, on one of there occa- niona, that it would leave the government entirely with- outa head.” ‘rom the whole of his (Surra't’s) con- vereation I inferred that he was to take his part in the pene on the Presid nt and hia Cahinat."” « the 24th of April,” David ©. Reed testified, “about three o'clock, ae I waa standing just below the Nat‘onnl theatre, I saw John H. Surratt, and we bowed to ich other ad tre passed." Louis. J. Weichman, clerk in the office of Genre! Hoff- in, Commissary General of Prisowera, testified that te ed with Mra, Surratt in Washington from the Ist of November, 1864, until the assassination took place; that 4. Wilkes Booth’ was a frequent visitor at the hovne, hav- ing private interviews with Mrs. Surratt and with John H, Surratt, for hours ate time; that tho latter boarding at the Herndon House for Lewia Pavno, who attempted the assassination of BS cretary Seward; that vurratt returned from Richmond on the 34 of Apr'l, loft immediately for Montreal, where he arrived on the 6\h and returned on the 12th. This witness aise stated that Alz rodt, who t» have taken Vice President Johnson's life the Kirkwood Houso, frat seo Burratt after Booth he = must Surratt, it i £20 gold pjeces, but had no gold when Richmond; that on the 14th day ef April, assassination, at Mrs Surratt's with her to Surrattaville, where she viow with J. M. Floyd, t nant of This Mr. Floyd toast ‘that five or six the assassination John H, Surratt, David G. A. Ats ‘rodt came to bis house, and thi some ammunitic Mra. Scrratt, on Tweday before the assaesinat him to got them out read: soon; on the i hits ¢22 2 fee, i i E | ff s a2 z sake make haste and get those i that him the carbines, whiske Na ites ith Harold tT will toll you some news, * Lam prott; and ward ; it he any the man to be Booth, Another witness, E. L. Smoot, who ti ed about a milo from Surrattaville, testified that Joxeph T. Nort, of Sur- rattavilis, on being asked if he where Surratt waa (after he bad been charged with one o' tue con. Aorrators), emiled and said he reckoned was in Now York by that time, On being asked why, he answered, “My God! Jobn knows all about the murder Do vou suppore be ta going to siay in Washington and let them cate him? * © © I could have told yon tua’ this thing waa coming to pass “Keop that in your own ak that, if you do, tt will rui jorev: VUUTHER TRETIMONY BY LOU'S 1. WRIOAMAN. Jobn H. Surratt is a Catholic, and waa a s'udent of divinity at St. Charles Cem Maryland; bis character at college waa eg mae and .he President. hing him, told tum not to weep; that bis conduct had been ao excellent during the ‘three yeara ho had beon thore, that he would always he remembered by those who bad charge of the institution ; Jolin H. Surratt ie about six feet high, with very promi. nent forebead, ery large nose, aud sunken ey: he has a goatee, very long hair of a light color; my acquaintance with John H. Surratt common-ed in the fait of 1859, at St. Charies College, Maryland; «e loft college together in the summer of 1862, and I renewed my acquaintance with him in January, 1863, in this city (Washington); on the first of Novemoer, 1864, I went to board at the house of bis mother, Mra Sorin § at No S41 H ry ae Sixth and Seventh strecta, and boarded t! upto the time of the anananination ; I was upon very intimate terms with John H. Surratt, seeing him almost every day when he was at home; we sat at the same roomed together, and shared the same bed; Surrat was continually spoak- pd aya vat Ld six months ago.” He added, my boy. Qf Doo't mention and told bi ox fhoure all's ht; Ttook it to bim from Baptist a: : 38 H its i z i E i 353 HH z i +f] 3 7 aE ys s | B eH i l AY i He # = i 3 i be | i A 5 5 | He i i >E i i i | 4 ; HEE Eas} 3s Hay i [ it 3 ge is i az z 3 z I i i i : Ei 5 i I i fl it ul 5 4 i tj i I iff ea iil tl il il i ! Tet Hi ui sf i i il : A i E2 si i i i i i ight in the return that Slater; Mra, Slater, I understood, was to have meta man by the name of Howell, a blockade ranner, but he was captured on the 24th of March, so Surratt took her back to Richmond; Mrs. Slater, as 1 learned from Mra, Surrait, was cither a blockade runner or a bearer of despatches: rratt returned from Rich- mond on the 3d of April, the day the news of the fall of Richmond was received: I had some conversation with him about the fali of Richmond, and he seemed incredulous; he told me that he did not believe it; that he had seen Benjamin and Davie in Kichmond, and they told him that Richmond would not be evacuated; Sur- ratt only remained.in the city about an hour, when ho told me he was going to Montreal, and asked me to walk down the street with him and take some ovsters; he left that evening, saying he was ing to Montreal, and I have not seen him sin L obey Agate pomeaten and an 8 for Canada hi hi ged a0" ot anid fo aie ening e exchan; for in green- backs with Mr. Holahan; I afterwards learned in Mon- treal that Surratt arrived there on the 6th of April, and left on the 12th for the States, returned on the 18th and engaged rooms at the St. Lawrence Hall, and left again that night, and was seen to leave the house of a Mr. Porterfield, in company with three others, in a wagon; was derived from thé register of St. Lawrence Hall; I received this despatch and delivered it to Johu H. Sur- ratt on the same day:— New Yors, March 38, 1965, a cen ~~ 6 : 3. BOOTH, When I delivered the despatch to John H. Surratt, I asked him it particular number and street was meant, and he said, “Don’t be so _danined inquisitive;' on the Tuesday previous tothe Friday of the assassination I Booth for ive purpose of getting his bugay’ Booth |, for the pul ing bis : he had sold his bugey, Dut gave me ten dollars that T might hire one; I drove Mrs, Surratt to Surrattsville on that day; on Friday, the day of the assassination, I went to Howard's stable about half-past two o'clock, having ‘been sent there by Mrs. Surratt, for the purpose of hiring @ buggy: I drove her to Surrattsville the same da; riving there about half past four in the afternoon; we stopped at the house of Mr, Lloyd, who heeps a tavern there; just before teaving the city, as I was going to the we halted once, when about three miles from Washington, when observing that there were pickets along the road, she hailed an old farmer, and wanted to know if they would remain there all night; on being told that they were withdrawn about eight o'clock in the evening, she said she was “glad to know it;’’ she was very anxious to be at nine o'clock, saving that she had made an agement with some gentiemen, who were to meet her at that hour; I asked her if it was Rooth; she answered neither yes nor no; when about a mile from the citv. and having from the top of the hill caught a view of Wash- ington, swimming in a flood of light, raising her hands, she said—*‘T am afraid all this rejoicing will be turned into mourning and all this glory into sadness;"’ { asked her what she meant; she replied that after sunshine there was always a storm, and that the poople were too proud and licent'ous, and that God would punish them; Booth called at nine; it was his last visit; Mrs, Surratt was alone with him for a few minites in the parlor; I was in tho dining room at the time, and as soon as I bad taken tea T Ired thither; Mrs. Surratt’s former cheerfulness left her: sho was very nervans, agitated and restless: when the detectives had gone, and when hor daughter Anna, al- most frantic, cried out “Oh, ma! just think of that man (J. W. Booth) having been here one hour before the assassination! I am afraid it will bring suspicion upon us."’ “Anna, come what wi'l’’ sle replied, “I am re- signed; I think that J. Wilkes Booth was only an instru- ment in the hands of the Almighty to punish this proud and lictntinus people."’ During Payne's second viait to Mra Surratt's house, some time after the 4th of March, [retired from my office one day at balf-part four o'clock ; I went to my room, and ringing the bell for Dan, the negro servant, told him to bring me some water, and inqu'red at the aame time where John had gone; he told me “fassa John had left the front of the house, with six others, on horseback, about half past two o'cloc; on going down to dinner I found Mra. Sur. rait.{n the passage, she was weeping bitterly, and 1 endeavored to console her; she said, “John is gone go down to dinner, and make the bes! your dinner you can;"' after dinner I went to my room, sat down, comm*nced reading, ani abont halfpast six o'clock Surratt camo in very mach excited; in fnot, rushed imo the room. Ho had a. revol im hw hand—no of Sharpe's =revelvers, =a four barrelled revolver; a small one, you could carry it‘n your veat pocket; he appeared to be vary much excited; Taaid, Jobn, whats the matter; why areyou so much excited?" he replied, "I will shoot any one that comes into this room; my prospect is gond, my hopes are blighted ;** tn about ten minutss afterward the pr'soncr Payne came into the room: he was very moch excited, and noticed he had a pistol; about fifteen minutes afterward Booth came into the reow; and Booth was so excited that he walked around the room frantically and did not notie mo; be hada whip in his hand; I spoke to him, and reongnizing me, be said: “I did not fee you,” the throe then went ap ataitw {tito the back room, in the third story. and mnat have remained there about thirty minutes, when they left the house tog ther; on Surratt's returning home I asked him whore he had loft hia friend Payne; he said Payne had gone to Ralti- more, and Rooth he aaid had gone to New York; the negro boy afterward told me that of the seven men who hed gone out riding that af:ernoon, he said one was Masca Jobn, and th, and Port Tobsceo (Atzorodt}, an’ that man who wi sonia as the house, whom 1 recognined as Pavne;, though they were very much exci en they came into the room, they were very guarded indesd; Payris made no temark at all; those ox- cited remarks by Srrratt wore the onlv ones made; Sur- ratt once made the remark to mo that If he succeeded in his “cotton ansoulation,” his coantry would jose him forevor, and that his name would go down green to pos- tority. TESTIMONY OF SOM T, HOLARAN. During the winter and spring, and up to the nicht of the asgassination, I botrdsd with Mra. Surratt; while here, T saw Atzerodt several times, though T did not know him by that name; he asemed to be with John A. Surratt most of the time; saw Payne thore once at ‘brenkfant; the name by which I knew him was Wood; John Wilkes Rooth I have neon there freqventiy; | have #ven bim io the parlor with Mra, Surratt and the young Indien ; einher about two weoks before the assassina on eee carriage at Mra, Sarratt's door, and a per. fon whom 1 afterwards learned to be Mrs. Slater (a reb:l spy and dlockade ronner) got into it one morn'ng as oT was dressing; Mra Surratt was on tie pacoment talking to this person as she was rotting into the carriage; John H. Surratt was with thie Ble Bia ‘his was the last time I sew John HH. Surrots nrovious to the 3d of April, the day on ewhich the news of the fall of Richmond was received: ho knocked at the deor of my room at about ten o'cloc! after I was in bed, and wished me to exchange somo gold for greenbacks, and I eavo him sixty dollars in paver for forty doHars in gold; he said he wanted to go to New York, and that he could not get it exchanged in time to leave by the oariy train in the inornmg. BANYOPD CONOVER ON SURRATT. Of the accused who visied these porsons in Canada (Saunders, Thompson. Clay, Tucker, &c.) I knew Pooth and Jobn H. Surratt; I saw Surratt in Montreal about tho 6th or Th of April last, On waveral successive days; Surratt is @ man of about five fort nine, ten or eleven inchor, spare man, lieht complexioned, and light hair; I saw him in Mr. Thompson's room, and, from the converaa- tion, Surrat had just brought despatches from Rich- mond to Mr, Thompson; one despatch was from Mr. Reniamin, the rebel Secretary of State, there was also. a lotier, I think in cy, from Mr. Davia, on the occasion when © brought the despatches Thompson laid his band on them and said: —‘' This makes the thing all right,” referring to the aesent of the rebel authorities: Mr. Lin- coln, Mr Johnson, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of State, Judge Chase an! General Grant, were to be the victims; from the whole of the conversation I inferred that he (Surratt) was to take his part in the conspiracy on the Prosident and hs Cabinet, whatever that con- spiracy might be; L mot John HB. Surratt in Mr, Thomp- f0n's room, and once in Mr. Sanders’ room; I spoke to Surratt, asking bim what changes there were in Rich- mond, and how the place looked: I never beard the name of Mary E. Surratt mentioned there. THATIMONT OF JOHN M LLOYD. T reside at Mra. Surratt's tavern, Surrattsville, about eleven miles from Lees some five or six weeks my ‘odt and Sutratt drove up to my house in the 3 Aton: Morning first, aud went toward Tee Beo, a office about five miles below there; they hat not been gone more than half an hour when they returned with Harold; Jobn WH. rratt then calied me into the front parlor, andon the sofa ‘were two carbines, with from Poe eae was carbine o shown to the witness, was identified as one of b had been left with him by Surratt.) I off the cover of one of the carbines that Surratt brought me and thelr iar kind of breech attracted my attent nev wing seen one like it before. (Spencer's breech-load- ing carbine, sixteen charges. ) How Surratt Was Identified. From the Montreal Herald, Dec. 6.) We have to thank one of our fellow citizens for sot interesting particulars relating to the discovery an arrest of Joun H. Surratt, Thoy are contained series of letters addressed to him by a relative, & Ueman semne ago well known in Spans, bgt ve up his engagements here, and after serving Kraerican armics, enlisted in the hp Zouaves. It ap- pears that during his residence in the South he had be- come very intimate with the Surratts, of course, was thoroughly acquainted with the who is accused of coln, He bad no sooner arrived in Italy than he saw. him, and recognized him tn [one potiigg it of the Papal troops, The first of which have been communicated to us merely speaks of which was likely the writer having hit upon somethi: to be worth a great deal of nature of the discovery, Thi written in April. In July he wrote again, informing his correspondent here that he had discovered ‘here ia Italy John H. Surratt, one of the assassins of Lit for whem you know @ reward was offered of $50, -4 in for instructions, which ved three weeks I made a declaration under oath of the facts f cao which was sent to America, and now I eg. to be sent in a few days to Washi to £” my evidence. Writing October, Particulars, from appears: tative of the American government that time bsg instructions from by this time in the hands of the He is now on His mar jiven lo mado another which is no doubt ‘authoritios at Washington. this country. Of course these statements are come to ws. Thero is no doubt we thin! was from the information of the writer of the letters now im our hands that Surratt was detected, aud arrested in the first instance—an arrest, from which it Known that he oseaped, and thus gave occasion te his subsequent capture at Alexandria. We may, how: over, add that we have always been loth to bolieve that Mr. Davis bad anything to do with so foul a murdor ag that of the late President, and that, with every reason te Suppose that the gentleman whose letters we have quot @d has acted in good faith, it would not be wisa, upom the short statements in a private lotter to form a hasty Idgment as to the proctse value of the conversations whieh Surratt haa with him in Italy; nor, withouta fuller examination of the fucts, to condvmn a gentleman who, whatever big political faults, bas during a long Ife borne an irreproachabl private charactor, It is some- what remarkable that it was a Canadian in the American servico who earned the reward for the capture of Booth, and that it is another Canadian who seems to have en- titled himself to that offered for the capture of Surratt. Surratt’s Secretion In Canada. The Montreal Minerve says of Surratt what wo believe waa tolorably well understood before, that after the ax rest of his accomplices Surratt took refuge tn Canada, where he remained in hiding for severa! months, The police were on his steps, and more than once his place of refuge was near being discovered. Thanks, however, to the fidelity of his guardians, who refused the brittians offers made by some of the American poitce, he waa able to remain at liberty till the moment of his departure for Europe. He was the guest of J. Hogan, of St. Lawrence Hall, after his escape from tha United States, He was supplied with funds to go to Europe by some of the lead- ing Southerners sojourning at the time in Canada, JAPAN. Gin San FRANCISCO CoaRESPONOENC: Since the Death of the The Situation in Sap Ty &e. San Fraxcra0o, Nov. 19, 1868. By the bark Swatiow, twonty-atx days from Yoko hama, we have dates from that port to October 16. The following from the Yokohama Times gives tha situation in Japaa — Tt will be remarked that the death of the late Shi (or Tycoon, a8 he Americans) has’been officially second ron of the late Prince of Mito and Prime Mini to the de*unot Shozoon, was named heir by bis dying mas'er. He ha not yet, however, received his commig- sion from the Mikado. We hear from anthentic sources hie the question until the conclusion of the war with Chioslu, when he will solicit the votes of the Daimios for the young Owarl, a of eight years old, and legitimately the next in sud- coasion to the Shogoonate. This is by no means im- probable, ag 'Stotabash: is perfectly well aware that, at the present juncture, the aoression of another moor le almoat out of the question, and he wil!, theref te disarming opposition ia move, stand good Sbance pressed upon him the and aucoerd Ld that high office, It is, on other hand, however, quite poasible that a change in the whoie system government of the country mav take and Mikado may reaume the command bis own This was abandoned by his ancostors in the twelfth tury of our era to the houses of Gen and Ha'—as in the preface to the “History of the 5 lated and shed in our isque ot July 1! Ing of ¢ how imminent, end certainly not ferred beyond January, 1964, will, of course, represcntatives of foreien Powers inte closer connection with the potentate whom we Lave lately discovered be the r al sovercign of the country, and It ia, fore, quite possible that this event may initute a era in the hiatory of Japan. A line of French and Eoglish mai! steamers now runs regularly between Hong Kong, Shanghas and Yoko. hama, but the 7¥mes says that all the trade will go in the Amorican ateamars. Ths Prinoe of Kanga onaof the moat important Daimias of the empire, haa offered bis services as mediator betwee: econtending parties at war in the South of the empire, and has made to Chiesiu overtures for an honorable peace, Ia iy the Princ’ of Nagato haa fesued a manifesto, in which he states the terms npow which he will consent to tay down bis armas. In ithe Telates hia conquests in detail. and states that th» troops 0” the Shogoon had won only one victory, and one which reflocts diagrace on the victors. This was at tho Irland of Odshiana, which was bombarded for five days and finally taken without resistance, thers being in the lace nO soldiers—none hut inoTensive peasaots and hermen, who, with their wermen and children, were massacred withont merey Phy «pen the ot his own people for the reliet place, it was imma ately evacuated by tho Bhog .on's ‘nen, and remains ab this moment in his poaseacion Considering himself, therefore, maator of the aitration, he states the terme on which he will consent to toy down bisarms. Firat— A public acknowledgment of his innocence of the er'mes imputet to him be the § Second — HS An apel from the clef for having aspersed hie chareer before: the Mikado: and third, iaeton ta retain nquents sbowld this last demand be ao- coded tr ane he teft in possession of territory which will gree bin an end absolute command of the Straite, Serious disafotiou @ More than anspected 4 etist among the Shogoan's tropa The sympathios foreign tacrohante are with Chioait, a8 he reprosents the Independent Daimios, and its anceess means free trade with the whole of Japan, tnstoad of a monopoly of for. eign commerce by the Shogoon alone for his own porte Dow open. French Minister, Leon Roches, whose contracts with the Shogoon government ate decidedly tn danger. is reported to be of Merent opinion. A report which was pot contradicted was in circulation that the French Minister had offered material aid to the Shogoon, but it was believed that the offer was declined at the instance of another treaty Powor Aftor conoluding a troaty with Japan the Bolgian Min- letor has returned home. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. Tue WaW Post orrion This Board met yesterday afternoon, the Prosidomt, J. W. Green, in the chair. Aftor the reosption of @ few routine papers, a resolution was presented in favor of appointing ® committee of five to inquire Into the oxpe- diency of offering to the United States government aa adequate oxtent of ground = in and ic street, from Greenwich ws Santer apa pe 6 exhausted, and the law nite the Fommon from incurring further liabilities for this work. The Boart adjourned tll Thursday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The death of man who took part fn the capture of the Basile annomnced oy the Ronis de PAriage, of France, which states that M, Jean Ji who served in the armies aise of the First , has jast died ab Bes fh i i ti uf : ft i a eee eta