The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. paeeineanieheccortre JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, + moa Volume » XEXI.. see AMUSEMENTS YaIs BVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Tag Harrixst Dav oy My Lire—Tar WER. ASW YORK THEATRE, Broatway, opposite New York Broome Pauoriy's THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourtees street, nef Sixth eveousoLs Daze Branone, oem .: GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, Wo, 814 Brosdway.~ Dus Maucero Muisteusrugck—Hans Jusnce. pom ‘ORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Puoresson Hanrs wun eM IS oe Huap my tue Aik. OLINTON HALL, Astor tor place, —Vauevrive VouRDEN 1” His Oniginat Entartan SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 5% Broadway, opnoate the Metropolitan Hotel—In ruxig Erniorias ENreRrtstNe sents, SUNGING, Dancing axp BURLESQUES—=CENDRILLON sy tHe Four Sunems. . FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 4 West Bede -Bypwoats's MiNsiRELS. E21 G10TIAN Muvsreziey, Baiiaps, Bur.xsques. &¢.—Gaeat * nowa. 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Open from 8 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. the public are heveby nutified that the silver badges heretofore used by the regular reporters of the Niw ‘Youk Hera have been recalled, aud will no longer be used as a means of identifying the attachés of this office, EUROPE. Gur special telegrams by the Atlantic cable are dated at Barnsley, Yorkshire, and Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng- and, on Sunday evening. Our geveral news and financial and commercial reports come to yesterday, the 17th instant. Additional explosions have taken place in the Barnsley ooal pit. “Most melancholy scenes are witnessed in that town, a8 well as at Hanley and Talk o’ the Hill. -The ‘widows and orphans who have been deprived of support fy the. mining catastrophes are enumerated by bun- dreds, A United States war vessel has touched at Valetta on her yogage to Alexendria to ewbark John H. Surratt for America, General Castelnean was instructed, it iq said, to induce Maximilian to abdicate, eneral Almonte, in Paris, is reported to have hada despatch from Mexico announcing Maximillan’s inten- tion to fight for his crown at the head of the “loyal Moxicana.”” James Stephens has not been arrested. A longthy telegram from Berlin tothe London Times ‘ta‘es (hat the Pope bas been officially invited to visit ‘the United States and that Maximilian is held a prisoner tn Mexico, ri ‘The King of Saxony has paid a» visit to the King of Prunta, Austria refuses the demands of Hungary a9 embodied tm the Doak reply to the imperial rescript. ue Liverpool cotton market was excited yesterday afternoon, with heavy sales; middling uplands at four- teen and one-fourth pence. Conaola closed at 89 for money, tn London, yesterday. United States five-twenties were at 7114. United States bonds were steady, with prices un- haaged, on the Frankfort Bourse. CONGRESS. tm the Senate, yestorday, Mr. Summer introduced a Dill to prevent and punish fraudulent representations to induce emigration to foreign countries, which provides that If any one induces « negro or other person to go to ‘ foreign country where such person would be tiable to be sold a8 a peon, or otherwise reduced to servitude, he abould be fined not less than five thousand doliers or imn- prisoned five years, or both. The bill was referred, ‘The biil to repeal the amnesty section of the coufisce- won bili was taken up. Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Johnsen debated on ite merits until the morning our expired, whon tho Nebraska admission bil! came up fm order. Mr. Hendricks, being entitled to the floor, poke at come length against the admission of Nebraska ‘8 a State, and Mr. Brown, of Miasouri, gave notice of a proposed aacadment tothe effect that the admission aball not take place until negro suffrage ts allowed in the Kunits of the Territory. The bill to repal the amnesty powor was again taken up, but Mr. Johnson, who had the floor, yisided It, and the Senate adjourned in token of veapoct for the memory of the late Senator Wright, of New Jersey. Tn tho House Mr, Harding, of Tilinojs, offered « renotu- tion, which was adopted, tendering unfaltering support to the Executive in vindicating the Monroe doctrine, and aapecially commending the tone of the national voice in foferonce to Mexico, A resolution to withdraw the cur- ency from the national banks was dofeated, and a reso- {ution that no more government bonds should be tssued ‘anloas they are subject to taxation was Iaid on the table, 4 resolution was introduced making it the duty of the Postmaster General to allow Congressmen to examine all recommendations for appointments in his department, and went over at the expiration of the morning hoar, ‘The Senate's amendments to the holiday recess rosolu- Mon was agreed to. A letter from Russia was received and read, in arataiations of Congress on his escape from as sassination. Mr. Bingham offered @ resolution, which ‘was adopted, directing the Committee om Forcign Affaire to \oquire and report whether the offices of the United Sates should not be employed, if, jieable, in re Moring peace to the States of South America. A btil to oclare the sense of the act of July 4, 1864, restricting the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and providing for the payment of certain demands for quartermaster's stores, &o., was passed. A resolution was adopted direct ing the Judictary Committee to inquire into an advertised sai¢ of a colored man in Maryland, and also as to what legiaintion is necessary to protect loyal citizens im the lately rebellious States, Tennessee excepted. A resola- on appointing acommittes of Ove to inquire if tho sssensment and collection of taxes in the South had been faithfully made, was adopted. The Committee on Foreign Athirs made ® report to reply to Mr. Bing- Barn's resolution, and recommended that the Executive Department offer its services, if practicable, for the pre- motion of peoce and harmony among the South Amer! an States. The House then went into Committee of the Whole Mr. Hill made an argument agatost the power of Vongress to establish territorial governmanta in the oath, and the Hous soon after adjourned. THE. CITY. Ata mooting of the Board of Aldermev yastorday a communication was received from the Mayor, who thereby nominated George W. Mowsan for the office of treet Commissioner, A resolution ceding to tho govern ment a portion of the City Hall Park as a site for a pew Post Ofloe was adopted. The Board will meet this after- nooo, at half-past two o'clock. The inquest on the bodies of the victims in the resent ,Venoment house fire on Second avenne was continued Yeuterday by Qoronee Gover. The evidence mseealy porfirmad the previows suspicions of arson, and the Emperor of reply to tho con- NEw YORK HERALY, TUSSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1866.—TRIPLH SHEET. Coroner decided to hold Shoham under arrest uatil the close of the case, ‘The inquest wil! be resumed to-day et half- two o'clock. yay into.the causes of the Compton House isastor was also held by CoronerGover, Kate Flanigan, the head cook, who was injured by the explosion, died at Bellevue Hospital yesterday. No new facts were elicitied in the investigation, which, after the exami- nation of two employés of the hotel, was adjourned till this morning. Extensive forgeries have been practised of late in the County Clerk’s office of New York county, but the par- ties have been detected in every instance, In each case the initial middle letter was altered, which saved the parties from arreat and indictment for forgery. The ship Neckar, from Hamburg, arrived at this port yesterday, with four hundred and sixty passengers, and six cases of ship fever among them. Ix the United States Commissioner's Court, yester- day, before Commissioner Osborn, the charge against Messrs, Walsh and Mitchell, of having been engaged fllicitly 1m the distillation of-spirite, at West Twenty- seventh street, was dismissed. The examination of Max Beringer, who is acoused of a similar offence, was con- tinued. The defendant pleads that he is not a manufac- turer of whiskey, but of burning fluid, The case has not yet been concluded. The General Term of the Court of Common Ploas met Yesterday at eleven o'clock ; and because of the absence of Judge Daly, in trying a case now before him, it was adjourned until the next term—Fobruary. The General Term. of the Superior Court also met, but adjourned to the Sist inst. A perpetual tnjunctioii was granted yesterday by Justice G. G, Barnard, of -the Supreme Court, on applica- tion of Joseph F. Daly, counsel to the Citizens’ Associa- tion, complaint of Christopher Pullman, restraining the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, and the Comptroller, of the city of New York, from makivg or renewing the lease of the promises Nos. 115 and 117 Nassau stroct, for the use of Corporation offices, and for which purpose a resolution had been adopted by the de- fendants authorizing the leasing of the premises at a rental of $18,000 per annum. An order of injunction upon an amended complaint was also granted, by Judge Barnard prohibiting the New York and Westchester county Ratiroad Company from laying or constructing @ track through§Pearl and other streets. A fight occurred between four boys and three negroes, in Seventh avenue, on Sunday afternoon, when one of the’ negroes drew a knife and cut the throat of one of the boys and seriously, perhaps fatally, injured all the others. The negroca escaped, but are known to the police, A mass meeting of working men was held at Cooper Institute Jast night to consider the eight hour questions Speeches were made and resolutious passed appropriate to the spirit of the meeting. The stock market was buoyant yosterday. Gold wav firm and closed at 1383. The demand for general merchandise yesterday was quite moderate, and the business in most commodities was limited to the pressing exigencies of consumers and the trade. In some articles of agricultural producé there was some speculative movement, however; and though the markets in the maiu were quiet and nominal, a good business was in progress in certain staples, On ’Change flour was in vigorous demand, chiefly for speculative pur- poses, and prices advanced 15c. a 20c. per bbl. Wheat likewise advanced under a good demand, closing at an improvement of 50, a 7c. per bushel. Corn was lo, a 20. bigher, but quiet. Oats steady. Pork heavy and jower. Beef and lard steady. Freights steady and firm. Whis- key dull and nominal Petroleum dull and lower. In naval stores there was more doing, at higher prices, Groceries were quiet. Cotton more active, at an advance of 30. per Ib. on middling. ‘Notwithstanding the increased receipts (he market for boef cattle opened active and a shade firmer, an ad- vance of \c. a 3c. perlb, being established, theagh @ part’ of this improvement was lost before the close, con- sequent upon the liberal offerings and the disinolination of buyers to operate, but the offerings were readily dis- posed of at the concession. ‘The quailty of the offerings was fair, very few common cattic being on eale, Some 400 ‘head Christmas cattle were on sale, which som- manded 20c. and even 2ic. in some instances. Extra dold as high as 180,, fair to good 160. a 176, and common atic. » 180, Milch cows were unchanged, though rather more quict at $50 a $126, according to quality. Veal calves were without decided change at 10c. a 123¢c. for fair to good and 13c, a 133¢c. to 140. for extra, the lat- ter an outside price, The market for sheep and lambs has ruled a shade firmer, with more dotng, at 5c. a 7c. for shoep and 6c. a 8c. for lambs, though some of the former old as high as 100. for choice. The hog market bas ruled very unsteady, but olosed steady and firm undera small supply. About five car loads wore on sale this morning and were readily disposed of ai the follow- ing quotations: —Best quality, 740. a 720, ; fair to good, Te. a Ti¢c., and common and rough, 7c. a Tigc. The tola! recelpts were:—6,435 beeves, 67 miich cows, 506 ‘Veal caives, 25,403 aheep and lambs and 17,987 awine. MISCELLANEOUS. Letters from Mexico state that Maximilian had had re- newed attacks of fever. The mwmistry were confident of hia early return to his throne. At Jalapa there was great scarcity of provisions and some suffering in conse- quence. There was # rumor in New Orivans that Ortega intended instituting suit against the United states for false impraonment. An anti-American meeting was held at Vera Cruz abont the latter part of Novomber, at which agents were busy circulating reports damaging to the fatentions of the United States in her interference in Mexican affairs. It wan industriously arged that the United States proposed to annex Mexiqo, and the former war between ibe two countries was quoted to prove the assertions, When the Susquehanna arrived the people were convinoed that she had come (or the purpose of completing the transfer of Mexico to the United States, Our Moutrea! correspondent learns from a member of the Canadian Cabinet that Sir Frederiek Bruce bas been instructed to inform the United States that they will be roquired to maintain their neutrality Jawa in future, and ‘that If Canada ts again invaded from our border, the in- ‘vas iou will be considered as ene of United States troops, The Court of Inquiry ‘nvestigating the conduct of Colonel Dennis at the fight at Fort Erie in June last, which bas been held during the last few days at Oulawa. Canada, has decided that the charges against him are not sustaived by the facta. The American Consul at 0t- tawa has resigned. Two bills have been flied against the cashier and directors of the Bank of Uppor Canada tn the Chancery Court of Toronto, charging them with swind- ling. Forty thonaand dollars is said to have been miv- appropriated by the directors. Our Fortress Monroe correspondence says the recent tot between whites and blacks at Portsmouth was quite a serious affair. One of the white men wounded died on Saturday, an@ ail the others are in @ critical condi- tion. Another of the Thomas K elso victims, a colored waiter boy, died on Saturday from tho effects of bis in- juries. The steamer Delaware, from Charleston for Now York, put inte Norfolk, short of coal. She bad experi- anced heavy weather all the way. The anniversary of the battle of Nashville was cele. iwated to thas city Saturday. The published pro- gramme of procession was abandoned, owing to the jn- cloment weather, but the display otherwise was very fine. General Thomas was presented with a medal by Governor Brownlow, on dehalf of the General Asembiy of tite state. In response to the Govornar's address the (toneral indulged in a speech of considerable length. The removal of Adjutant General Schouler, of Massa- chusetts, was om account of his opposition to General Butler's nomination for Oongrese He intends publiah- ing lottore, it t# said, that will connect General Butior’s Dame With several profitable speculations during the war, with which the public are pot generally acquainted. Five negroes were tried on Thursday in Warwick county, Va, and found guilty of the murder of yr Wootten tm November tast. ‘The steam boiler of a sawmili near Ashland, in Hano- ver, Va., exploded on Saturday, killing three men ine atantly and wounding others The storm of Sunday was very genera! throaghont the country, The brig Wilheim, ashore on the Romer, was broken up, and the beach outside Sindy Hook was strewn with pieces of the wrock of the Scotland. The Georgia Legisiature prior to ite adjournment repealed « law forbidding aliem residents to hold real stale. Charles Bub, who was convicted of brivery in the Mereer county (N. J.) court, was denied new trial by the Supreme Court yosterday, and was sentenced to one year's Imprisonment at bard iabor and to be forever dis. qtalided from holding office ander the State. The Sonth Carolina Legislature has peased resolutions of sympathy for Jef Davia. A large felling mill was burned down in Buffalo ves terday. Lose $100,090. wey Ye Nrta ase Potas Daaevovos eat rasan ‘The Mexican Question in Congress—Impertant Resolution ef the House. We are'gratified to announce an initial move- ment in Congress on the Mexican question, which proclaims “a happy accord” with the administration in the work of removing Napo- leon’s imperial protectorate and of re-estab- lishing the republic on the basis of the Monroe doctrine, On motion yesterday of Mr. Harding, of Mlinois, a republican radical, it was resolved, without a division, that the House of Repre- sentatives will give unfaltering support to the Executive in vindicating the time-honored pol- ioy of this republic against foreign armed in- tervention (meaning in reference to the domes- tic affairs of the independent States of this con- tinent), and that the Honse especially com- mends the tone of the national voice in rela- tion to the republic of Mexico. Reduced to the simple terms of a familiar conversation, this resolution may thus be ren- dered:——“Mr, President, the House of Represen- tatives approves the general line of policy you have pursued in. regard to Mexico, your per- sistent efforts to stir up and poke out the French and Austrians with the long pole of the Monroe doctrine, your fidelity te the republic as represented by poor Juarea, and your zealous labors to get him fairly on his legs as the rightful master of the situation; but of late you seem to be somewhat embarrassed as to how much further you may proceed with- out danger of incurring the displeasure of Congress. Go ahead. We will back you. Don’t be afraid. Look at the general expres- sion of the public opinion of the country. The people will support us in supporting you. Send in Sherman or Sheridan, if necessary, with a column of ten, twenty or thirty thousand men, to escort Juarez to the city of Mexico. We will stand by you. The American people want this thing settled, and so you need not hesitate in adopting the most decisive measures inclearing out this French usurpation and this offensive double-dealing mockery of a French protectorate,” This, we believe, is not an overstrained inter- pretation of the House vote on Mr. Harding’s | resolution. Whatever may be the feelings of the radicals against Andrew Johnson, the House is not in the mood to sce the govern- ment made ridiculous before the world by the tricks of Napoleon and Maximilian upon this matter of Mexico and the Monroe doctrine: ‘When the Emperor of the French had given his pledge to begin his evacuation of Mexico, by the withdrawal in November last of one-third or the first instalment of his troops, President Johnson accepted his promise in good faith. Hence, as it was evident that with the removal of the promised November detachment, the whole imperial establishment, Maximilian and all, would be compelled to follow, Minister Campbell and Goneral Sherman were sent forward with the ressonable expectation of being landed at Vera Crus and escorted to the city of Mexico, in the name of- Juarez and by the authorities of the republic. But after the sailing hence of Campbell and Shermaa, oar government, for fhe first time, learns that Napoleon hes changed his mind, and that instead of removing his first detachment’of troops in November he will keep all his forces in Mcxicd till the spring, and then remove them en masse, and that he has resolved to do this because ft is necessary to maintain his usurpation of the Mexican capital til) he has made some arrangement which he cannot otherwise enforce. Maximilian was og his way to Vera Crus, and the Austrian war vessel Dandolo was wait- ing there to take him home, when he was in- tercepted by General Castloneau' and Marshal Bazaine and sent back to Orizaba, where he has since remained. A late despatch to the London Times from Berlin, which we publish to-day by the cable, says that in the Prussian capital poor Max is regarded as a prisoner detained by the French; and so he is, and so he has been since his trunks were stopped and he was turned back from his hegiva for Vera Cruz. His personal humiliation is his own affair, but the trick involved upon our govern- went is another thing. In all the correspond- ence between this and the French government as to the atatus of this mock Emperor, he has been represented by France as the roler of Mexico by the will of the Mexican people, as a ruler acting as independently of France in his sphere as the Emperor of Brazil. So it was that when Mr. Seward protested to France against a certain savage decree of Maximilian, M. Drouyn de Lhuys referred Mr. Seward to Juares, pro- testing that France had nothing to do with the Mexican government; that she recognized Max- amilian as au independent sovereign, and so it has been all the way through. This cunning trick is at length exposed in the forcible detention of Maximilian in Mexico by France as a prisoner, and in being thus con- strained to keep up the mockery of his impe- rial government in order to serve the purposes of Napoleon, his cruel master. With the de- partare of Max from the country, aa,contem- plated by Max himself in stealing away from his capital, Juarez and the republic would have stepped into his shoes at once, and Napoleon, with his troops and his claims, would have had no other alternative than to clear out. In de- taining Max and in retaining his troops it is manifestly the zurpose of Napoleon to compel the United States to guarantee his Mexican expenses as the cheapest way to get him out. The resolution adopted yesterday by Congress authorized the President to put an end to this imperial trickery without further trifling; and we hope he will do it. The proper course to pursue {n the matter is not, as'we think, to make any farther demands for the withdrawal of the French troops; but a positive requisition for the removal of Maximilian, who new stands exposed as the mere catspaw of Napoleon, his master. Let that requisition be coupled with a notice to France that General Sheridan, with » body of twenty-five thousand American troops, has been directed to escort Minister Campbell to the city of Mexico from Mata- moros, to enter into negotiations with Juarez as the ‘head of the Mexican republic, at the Mexican capital, and we guess the Monroe doctrine will be vindicated as contempleted in this resolution of Congress. The Executive has ample authority now to act decisively, and he ought mot to temporize with these imperial Mexican tricksters another day. They are in- triguing now to involve that country, when they leave it, in « condition of anarchy and factious conflicts whieh It will require an armed jutervention to settle, and why not, then, bring it 40 this solution at once? A Cuma Acaner Gamprsns—One of our tlalstors made the vice of gambling tho eub- ject of a sermon on Sunday last, and on Satur- day the police broke into some low gambling den and arrested a squad of some fifteen or twenty persons engaged at trying their luck at faro. On the same day an individual who prob- ably received his inspiration from a classical source, arraigned a long list of citizens, some distinguished in the political annals of the city and some as yet unknown to fame, for the offence of dealing in lottery tickets, at which speculative’ business the complainant has, in two years, lost about thirty thousand dollars. This is all very well as far as it goes. But there was.a very exciting contest at faro going on a few evenings since, in a fashion- able quarter of the city, where a State Senator and an honorable Congressman were the per- formers, and where over a hundred thousand dollars was lost and won, and the stakes were thirty thousand dollars on the turn of a card, instead of a few paltry shinplasters. All the city knew of this grand contest, and probably some very brilliant and distinguished charac- ters witnessed it. Why were the police asleep? Or do they regard gambling as an offence only when practised for a few paltry dollars by men with sbabby coats on their backs and no political influence bebind them? Absurd Speculntions of the Rebel Press on a Revulsion at the North. We notice that some of the old rebel news- papers of the Sonth, which unfortunately still maintain an existence, are trying to draw con- solation from the expectation that the North is about to go through a terrible financial revul- sion. With a bitter feeling against the North, and blind to their qwn interesis, these imorac- ticable and incurable rebels seem to have a vague sort of hope that a financial crisis may serve them or their exploded cause. Now, we take the trouble’ to inform those silly writers that there can be no general or great revulsion, and that if there were to be it would not help them. Nor could the persistent resistance of the Southern States to reconstruction or their prolonged exclusion from the government bring about such a state of things. The South would be injured, its productive power par- alyzed in a measure, and the North would suffer to the extent of losing so much business and in the heavier burdens it would have to bear; but we should go on, notwithstanding, in our mighty career of progress and prosperity. We want and will have the productions of the South; and if the impracticable rebel Southerners oppose restoration, and, therefore, the development of their country, we will sweep them out of the way. But neither our pros- perous existence nor the prevention of a revulsion depends upon the South. There are a good many silly people at the North, too, who sometimes talk of a coming revulsion? There can be no revulsion while the volume of currency is abundant and irre- decmable in specie. A fow people may fail through overtrading or impradent mannge- meat of their business. This occurs at ail periods and in all countrics—ta epocie paying times an well as at other times ; but it is impor- aible there stiould be anything like general financial ‘trouble. We are leble to such a disaster at any time when specie atone is the legalized currency, because when foreign exchange is largely against ua and other countries draw the precious metals from us, we aro left without & sufficient medium for the purposes of trade. This, as every business man knows, tends to create a revulsion. We know, however, that foreign countries will not draw away our paper currency under any circumstances so as to make the least percep- tible impression upon our internal trade and commerce. Revulsions occur for the want of money—never when there fs a good and steady supply ; and our legal tender currency is as good money as any other—as gold itself—for all the purposes of internal trade. Besides, the couniry is in a healthy, prosperons condition ; we are developing our resources more and more every day, and we are ap- proaching, as rapidly os it is healthful to do so, a specie basin. We advise our Southern contemporaries to give up their silly notions about the North. They said the grass would grow in the streets of New York for the want of business when they started the rebellion. They see now how absurd their views were. Let them learn front the past to be wiser in the future. If they will be revenged upon the “Yankees” we can tell them how to do it. They have richer and more varied. resources than the North, and ff they will follow the example of the Yenkees and go to work in cultivating their lands, opening their mines and pstablishing manufactorics everywhere, they will be able to outeell the North and the rest of the world in aimost all the productions of the soil and labor. That is the way to be revenged, and we shall take such revenge in good part. We hope they may have the good sense to drop their nonsensical and useless hostility and political quibbles and take our advice. Tue Honcariux Questionx—Anoraxe Sxxiovs Avsraian Dirvicunty.—The Hungarian ques- tion bids fair to absorb the attention of Europe at an early moment. It will be seen by a reference to our,current European news by the cable that the Ausirian Emperor has peremptorily refused to accede to the demands of the Hungarian Diet tonching Hungarian State rights, and from the present aspect of things new trouble is in store for the unfortu- nate house of Hapeburg. The heavy losses which Austria suffered in the late German campaign force her statesmen to look eastward for a field in which to repair these disasters. The Hi aware of this, seem deter- mined to take advantage of the orisis; for they have been pressing thelr demands upon the government at Vienna with a vigor and a per- sistence that betoken a determination to appeal again to the sword in case of refusal. The condition of Austria at the present day is widely different from what it was in 1848-9. Thea Russie intervened with s column of 187,000 men, under Prince Paskiewitch, and stamped out the dismembering elements when they otherwise had Ausiris within their grasp. Now the Hungarians have no reason to fear any interference on the part of the Crar. On the contrary, the natural jealousy of Alexander on the subject of the Eastern ques- tion leads him to favor the dismemberment of Austria, just as he viewed with some suspicion and distrust the Inte imperial strides of Bis- marck. » The Magyars are in the ratio of about five millions of inhabitants against twenty mil- lions of Germans, Wallachians and Slaves, But the straggle of the Germans rematoing ia tha oranica to hold this governipg power and era and opens place (which was secure in the confedera- tion) may divide the strength of the imperial resources, by arraying the Germanic and Slavic elements against each’ other. In this connection it becomes highly interesting to know what part the Western Powers will take in this Hungarian imbroglio. Will not their interest lead them to favor that party in the contest whose position and ethnological char- acter fit it to become the nucleus around which a strong kfhgdom can be erected and a breach made in the western and southern por tion of Russia? Are not the independence and enlargement of Hungary the true policy of England and France? ‘Tho Russian-American Telegraph. We present to-day @ map which fully illus- trates the route of this telegraph through Asia and America, and also the submarine cables through Behring sea and Anadyr bay. We publish, moreover, additional accounts of this great undertaking from our Kamtschatka cor- respondent, two of whose interesting. letters appeared in Saturday’s Herat, As we inti. mated on Sunday, the progress already made in the explofations and other preliminary work @ the hope that before 1868 the Old World and the New will have been united, instantaneous communication will have been secured between New York and London by way of San Francisco and St. Petersburg, aud the Shaksperean dream of putting “a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes” will have been realized. A suggestive fact of prime interest and importance is patent in the narrative, at once minute and full, which the Hxranp gives of | these Russian-American telegraph operations. It is that the idea of. the enterprise, or at least the first practical application of the idea, and, in a large measure, the execution of it, will be historically recorded as due to American heads and hands. The name of Collins, the originator of the Russian-American tele- graph, will be as indissolubly and as honorably connected with it as that of Field with the Atlantic cable. Collins, like Field, is an American and a New Yorker, Colonel Bulkley, the ergineer-in-Chief ‘of the expedition, and nearty all the officers and men in the land and marine service which ‘he has organized for it, are likewise Americans. The enterprise begins a new ehupter in the history of American influences, which are to become more potent than ever. It dates a new Mimitable vietas in the future history of the entire world. Who can now predict its ultimate results in modifying the relations between the two continents and the character and destiny of the civilized, aemi-civilized and barbarous popula- tions whose distent or conflicting interests it may link together? “The Russian-American line, tupped somewhere near the mouth of the Amoor by another line which is to penctrate China, will ere long extend the influences of American thought and action—in a word, of modern civilization, in its beat and latest type— to the hundreds of millions who swarm in the Flowery Kingdom or are scatiered elsewhere tLroughont Esstern Ania. To do this very thing seems to be the “mani- fest destiny” of Americans. The East origi- nated religions and philosophies, which Egypt, Greece, Rome and modern European nations have succeasively modified, each doing also its special appropriate work. Egypt embalmed mummies and built pyramids. Greece, in her temples and theatres, in her sculpture, science, literature and physical culture, perfected art and improved upon nature. Rome became mistress of the world by force of arms, and, dying, bequeathed laws and roads and architectural monuments which have survived all her conquests. Italy re- vived the traditions of ancient art, and there are few prouder names than those which bave illustrated hex poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting and music. Germany gave us gun- powder and the printing press. France sets the fashion in manners, dress, cooking, dancing and all the refinements of social life, while her clear and polished language iq,» marvellous medium for the propagation of ideas, Christian England, or at least th® dominant class in that country, seems at present to be chiefly am- hitiona to stamp out Fenianism, resist the re- form movement headed by John Bright, manu- facture everything, from a steam engine to a pin, from a pair of scissors and a prayer book to grotesque idols for exportation ,to heathen customers in Africa or India,to make London the commercial emporium of the world and to do the carrying trade of allnations. It remains for the United States, in alliance with that other firat class Power, the Russiau empire—both of these Powers robust and vigorous with youth, rich with the incalculable resources of vast ter- ritories and increasing and multiplying popula- tions—to make such practical applications of acience to the work of progress as are ex- emplified by the/Russian-American telegraph. America must take the lead in the advance of the nations towards that millennial brother. hood and prosperity which will be hastened hy the successful prosecution of such an enter- prise. Even its geographical position entitles it to aspire to precedence. “Go ahead” is the national motte of Americans. And they can- not but be ahead of “all the world and the rest of mankind,” inasmuch as the sun will rise on the terminus of this great telegraphic line at New York before the sun of the pre- vious day has set at the mouth of the Amoor. We shall be—in fact we are—almost a day and a half ahead of time at that remote point. When the two worlds, the old and the new, shall have been brought face to face, as it were, by the completion of this projected line, it is probable that the quickening example of American vitality and rush will stir the sluggish blood of Asiatlo and Euro- pean races. The effect may eventually extend all the way weetward from New York to London by way of San Franolaco and. St. Petersburg. England must no longer be described as farther east, but rather as farther went; tor she has been fairly relegated to the tail-end of the West by this new American project. The Russian-American line will effectually preclude the danger apprehended of our being cut off from telegraphic communication with Europe in the event of a war between the United States and England. England will have control only of the Atlantic cable. It ‘would not be easy for her to cut the Russian- American cable on Vancouver's Island, what- ever claim she might continge to have upon that island. And it would certainly not be very hard for Russia and the United States te take the inlong awey from her. In guns of nogae city. . We shall be still further insured againgt aL ak of Mhanplas mer Ghameee intercourse with Europe by the projected tele- graph across the Southern Atlantic, from Charleston or some other‘convenient port, by way of the Bermudas and the West Indies, to Lisbon. This Southern Atlantic telegraph is also an American enterprise. The Organization of the New Democracy. We publish to-day two articles calculated to show that the breach in the democratic party in this city fs irreconcilable, and that without @ complete and thorough reconstriv- tion of the organization on sound and prac- ticable platform the democracy of the State can never again obtain such a vote in their stronghold as they received in the last Novem- ber election. One of these articles is in the orm ofa letter from the Chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of the Cooper Union or Miles O'Reilly democracy, arguing out the pretended case of Judge Connolly, one of the defeated. candidates for the City Comptrollership, who assumes very foolishly to have some ground for contesting the legality ‘of the {ate city election, The claim of the jovial Judge, whose only recommendstion to the office of Comptroller was that he was the biggest Trishman of the three candidates, amounts to nothing at all, and he had better submit to hip defeat with his customary good humor and wait. patiently until his friends firid some fat office for him which he is really qualified to fill. But Judge Waterbury’s letter is one evidence of the bitter fecling existing among the democracy of the city and of the utter demoralization of the party as-at present organized. The other article is the pronuncia- mento of the Miles O'Reilly democracy, made through their official organ, that they will never again cast their votes for the candidates of a State Convention that recognizes the regularity of the Tammany organization. - These two articles should furnish food for serious reflection to the democratic party, whose repeated defeats tor the past four or five years have completely destroyed them as an organization. In the last fall election they experienced a temporary revival through the acceasion of the federal patronage to their aide, and they went into the canvass with loud boasts of anticipated victory. Their apparent confi- dence before election rendered their overthrow in every Northern State the more disas(rous. To add to their troubles they are repudiated by the Southern politicians, who find that the old democracy have been deceiving them with false hopes for the past two years, and have done more than the secessionists thom selves to prevent a settlement of the troubles growing out of the rebellion. The demoralization of the organization is complete, and can be seen in the insane efforts made in every direction by gelf-constituted | leaders, aince the late cleotions, to beat about for some new issue which may serve as a rally- fng point for their broken and dispirited forces. It is evident, therefore, thut if the democracy would have any future existence thoy must undergo a new birth. . Their organization mast be remodelled from head to foot. They stilt have material enough in the Northern and Western States with which to build up a pow- erful party upon living issues and sound prin- ciples. Under their old defunct organization they have been like thc Bourbons, who refused to recognize the events of the day and were swept out of existence. They have ignored the great rebellion and have sought to per- suade the people to believe in the constitution as it was before the ty struggle which de- veloped its hidden strength and abolished ite old landmarks, and in the Union an it was when slavery was its ruliag power. They must cast aside these follies, with the old party hacks who have fostered them, and take a new start with new men, if they would not share the fate of the Bourbons. b The nacleus of the now democracy is here io New York. It is proper that in the strongest and most reliable democratic city in the Union the groundwork of the new organization should be laid, and it should take for {te base the Cooper Union or Miles O'Reilly democracy, which has already proved its vigor ané prowess by repeated victories over Tammany. It won the spurs on the election of O’Gormen, and its brilliant success under Miles O'Reilly haa spread its reputation throughont the Uniom. ‘The newly elected Comptroller, Richard B. Connolly, is, or was, a member of its Execa- tive Committee and will be one of its warmess supporters. Let this young end vigorous or ganization take the lead in the reconstruction of the great democratic party by getting the Executive National Committee to call a convea- tion at an early day for the purpose of laying down «@ platform in keeping with the events and the spirit of the age. Future historians will commence a new era in the history of the repulfiie with the close of the great war of secession, end the new democracy must recognize the rebellion in its true light, ase mighty revolution in our institutions, our con- stitution, our politics and our prinolples. They must adopt as thele platform the constitutional emendment as the bagjs of the restoration of the ex-rebel States to their full relations to the Union, and the model reconstruction plan for North Carolina as the means by which the success of the constitutional amendment is te be insured. If they do this and put forward such « standard bearer as General Thomas, or General Sherman, or General MoCicllan, in 1868, they may be able to carry the Presiden- tial election and to establish themselves in power for the next quarter of « century. But they must begin with the reorganization of the party in this city. They can expect nothing from the old Committee of Tammany Hall; for y that concern is dead and rotten and will be , nailed up in {ts coffin and buried out of sight by the next Legislature. They must recognise the young, vigorous, live Miles O'Reilly domoo- racy, which comes to them flushed with victory, and upon that healthful basis they must com menoe the construction of the new national Haxp 10 Przasn.—Ever since Street Commis sioner Cornell ran away from his office, to save himself from being kicked out, and lett Judge Whiting with the Governor's com- mission in his pocket and nobody te investigate, Mayor Hoffman, who aslace the election has taken the “ring” under bis control, has been swinging around tho circle in search of « person to ON the vacancy in the headless department. Ho hes nogainated Ql corts of poole (or the vflea,