The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1866, Page 4

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Thegeneral news report, with our financial and commercial advices, embrace the events ‘and transactions of yesterday evening. The time assigned to the United States to prosecute its revo! naval claims suit against the house of Prioleau, in London, has been extended to February next by the Vice Chancellor, A London journal proclaims that James Stephens has mot landed on British soll, and that the English govern- mont is so fully prepared for him that he can accomplish vory little “mischief” should he land. Mock funerals are said to have been heid in Ireland at which the coffins were filled with Fenian smal! arms. Fenians are stil! being arrested and Fenian war muni- trons setzed in Ireland. The Pope is satisfied with the speech of Victor Emanuel to the Italian Parliament. Ttaly is im conference of arrangemont with ‘he Papal representatives in Florence. Tho National Committee of Rome advises tue people of “ultimate triamph.’’ Prussia bas voted the incorporation of Schleswig. Holsteia with the kingdom. The people of France display a friendly and cordial fooling towards the United <tates, but some of the Paris Jourvala are severe in their comments on Hresideus Joln- son's mossage, 4 France is, it is repeated, completely ready lo remove her troops en masse from Mexico, Consols closed at 90, firm, for money, iP London yee. torday. United States five-twenties were at 72'{. The Liverpool cotton market closed with rather less fAolmation. Middling uplands was at fouricen and a half peace. Breadstuifs doll and flat, Provisions downward, THE CITY. Thy ship American Congrars arrived at this port yes- tertay, and reports having sighted one of the coutestant yachts at daybreak on December 15, 120 miles east of George's Shoals, Hor signa! con'd not be made out, not Fenton has dismissed the cha bronght Comptrolier Brennan, and says that although the ation shows irregalar.cies in the discharge of Ine ity as Comptroller, it fats to present a ease tuat would ‘warrant executive interfore Tn tho Supreme Court, Circnit, yesterday, a verdict of $200 damages was rendered in the case of Charles Ulman ‘va Benjamia Marks, for an alleged nuiance om the Promises of which the plaintif is the lessee and the defendant the lessor, The plainti’ suea for $7,600. ‘The case of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company, ‘which has occupi+1 the attention of the Supreme Court, Special Term, for sever days past, and in whieb appli cation is made under the statute to declare void the eler. tion of a new board of dire Was yesterday submitted to Mr. Justice Mason for ison ‘The case of the United ageinet ©. TP ‘was continued in the United States Cireuit Court day, before Judge Smalley. The devendans was charged ‘with forging a name to A post OMe srder, The case being submitted to the jury a verdict of exilty was rv Gurned against the prisoner, Who Was remanded tor gen- tev0e. ‘The case of Max Neringer, who has been charged with Raving been illegally couveraed in the distilation of whiskey, was disposed of vosterday by Cons eroner Oworn, who hag held the defendent to await the actor of « jury, Counol for the defendant notified that the decision of the Commissioner would be taken to another court for review. ‘The trial of Viele, charged with being an nocessory ty the murder of the Cuban Otero, was brought ton close yortorday by the unqualified acgultta’ of the prisoner. James B. Goggins, Seth Hi Kiiack and Leopard @. Khinck, who wore arrestad for transactions fn connection ith the firm of Folger & Tibbs, by which certain parties Mt is alleged, have been swindled out of $100,000, were @tAt Nod bofore Justice Hogan, at the Tombs, yesterday, Three persons who are supposed to be mow deeply im Plicatod are still at larze. Ta the Gevoral Sessions yorerday John Hackett, who fin October, 1865, was convicted ia the Oyer and Terminer of marder in the first degree, and whose counsel ob- teined afocision granting him a new trial, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth dogree, As there were circumstances the Recorder suspended judg: mont. Frederick Winslow and Patrick O'Brien, pick wore pent to the State Prison. ‘The gepworkset Astoria, 1. 1, ware completely de. @royed yesterday moruing by an explosion fying room, which had been Aiied with gas fonkage tn the “purifier.” The danse of sue ig Bp orton cm is net knows. hi The steamship Gencral Mesde, Captain Sampeon, of Black Star Hine, will sail to-day at three P, M., from pier ¥, M. to-day, for Charleston, connecting et that port ‘with the steamer Dictator for the Flonda ports. Gold was also weak, and closed at 123%, terize the markets generally yesterday. Domestic pro- merchandise was disposed of at a marked concession from previous prices. Cotton was dull and tewor. Cof- feowas dull and nominal. On 100 alc, while wheat sold at a reduction of 10. 0 20. Corn closed steady. Osts were r Beef was dull and heavy, Freights were dull aif lower. Whiskey was dull and nominally unchanged. Naval stores ruled quiet, but genorally steady. ‘was heavy, with and of noeffect. This may be construed soasto war- Matamoros, Canales and Cortina had left Matamoros, and it was rumored had pronounced against Juarez and captured Escobedo on his way to Monterey, Crossed into Mexico on the 18th, and it was confidently stated that the commander of Matamoros, in the absence of Escobedo, would declare for him and join his forces with Canales and Cortina. Minister Campbell arrived at Orleans to consult with Generals Sherman and Sheridan. “expresses himself disappointed as to the popularity ‘of American intervention and the Juarez party. He On the 30th of October the Paraguayans again assaulted ~pulsed, leaving five hundred dead on the fieid. The ciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands, The se- there on Tuesday. the shipping, and a severe shock of earthquake was felt Cormick, of Arizona, was in San Francisco to consult with Generals McDowell and Halleck on the measures necessary to put an end to Indian outrages in his Ter- at Swestsburg, was found guilty yesterday, and con- can citizen, was then commenced, concerning the boundary lines of O14 and West Virginia The claiming the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson as parts of her territory, and pr Bavaria, Captain Meyer, will sail 6b twelve, ‘oom; to-day from Hoboken, for Southampton and Hamburg. The ‘Wadia for the Contineat will’ close at the Past OMe at half-past ten A. AM Ahe Lromwell line, will Weave pier No, 9 North river, at ‘three P. M. to-day, for New Orleans direct. ‘The steamship Montgomery, Captain Fairctoth, of the 13 North river, for New Orleans, ‘The Empire ‘Qleamapip Guy Salvader, Captain At- PR gh yp Ry 2 gee bg <0 dl 13 North river, for Savannah, Tho fine steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will sail from pier 14 Kast river, at three ‘The atock market was weak and unsettled yesterday. Extreme duiness and depression continued to charac » flour declined as firm. Pork Petroleum but little doing. MISCELLANEOUS. Our specia! despatches from Brownsville, Texas, state that Escobedo left for Monterey on the 17th inst, He declared all the decrees, acts and laws of Canales void Tant a repudiation of Canales’ indebtedness, and there- fore creates great dissatisfaction among the merchants of Ortega Gatveston yesterday on his way from Matamoros to New The © Winooski, which arrived at Brazos from Vera Cruz, with dates from the latter place to the ‘Ith, reports that Marshal Bazaine had gone to consult ‘with Juarez, for the purpose, it is supposed, of bringing over the government tohim. Our dates bymail from Vera Cruz are to the 7th inst., from Mexico city to the 2d ‘mst. and from Chibuahua to the 29th ult. It was te- ported in Vera Cruz that Escobedo had been defeated at San Luis Potosi. The plans of the French for a speedy withdrawal are taking tangible shape, and the liberals are closing up with the intention of committing some dam- age before they leave. Juarez proposes to make an example of Canales for his rebellion in Matamoros, The seat of government is to be immediately established in Durango, for which purpose Juarez will proceed to that ‘town on Now Year's Day. Goneral Sherman, It seems, ®ays that American intervention is very distasteful, a0 far as ho was able to judge from his limited obsorva- tons. ‘Our Rio Janeiro despatches are dated November 9, and come through the Atlantic cable by way of Lisbon. the intrenched position of the Brazilians and wore re- United states gunboat Shamokin passed through the Diockade, an armistice being declared for the purpose, and Janded Minister Washburoe at Curupaity. The British Admiral permitted her to pass under protest, Mr, Anon Burlingame, United States Ministor to China, dating at Shanghae on the 6th of October, for- wards to the State Department, in Washington, full official accounts of the rise, progrosa aud effects of the great typhoon which visited the coast of Japan on the ‘16th of Septsmber last, Mr, Burlingame encloses copies of the loss of British steamers runuing in the gale, with a fetter from coast pilot Smith on the subject of the winds ind currents prevailing between Yokohama and Hong Kong. The tacts are interesting to those of our countrymen pngaged in steam navigation in the waters of the East visited by the storm. The typhoon was the most sovere experienced in years, the baromoter falling to 28 Ol. Our San Francisco despatches say that, according to a Honoluln paper, General McCook, the American Minis- ter at Honolulu, has returned for the purpose of consult. ing with the government authorities regarding a re- verest gale known in California since 1856 prevatied Considerable damage was done to im Sacramento and Stockton, Five feet of snow bad fallen in the northern part of the State. Governor Mc ritory. ‘Thomas Madden, one of the Fenian prisoners on trial demned to death by hanging onthe 16th of February next. The trial of Thomas Smith, indicted as an Ameri- Colonel R. B. Lynch and Rév. MeMahon issue an address to the Brotherhood warning them against responding to Colonel Roberts’ ap- peal for funds to furnish the condemned prisoners in ‘Toronto with a Christmas dinner. They say they have received no aid from the Fonian headquarters ducipg their long conflaement, and they consider such an ap- peal for each a purpose a# an outrage and insalt, Lioutenant Egbert Vleutt, of the Twenty-ninth United States tnfuntry, shot and killed private King, of the regiment, recentiy, near Yorktown, Va., ina quarrel about allowing a negro to drive a government team. A court of inquiry has investigated the cirenm- os, and ts preparing a report for transmission to Washington, A case is ponding in the Caited States Supreme Coart rame Jomamoawealth of old Virginia files a trae bill, 4 that the boundary line be- tween the two States should be so established. Warrants have been issued in Si, Louis, under the Orit E is bill, for the arrest of Colonel Montgomery, who ty held some secession citizens in Lexington, Mo., a8 hostaggs for the good behavior of the bust whackers in that vicinity, The ty Council of Gaiveston have invited Vice Presi- dont Foster and the Congressional excursion party to Now Orleans to extend their trip to Galveston. Bishop Stephen Eiliott, of Georgia, died suddenly yesterday at his residence in Savannal. A Freedmen’s Bureau agent in Texas, who was im- prisoued by the clyil anthorities of the county, was forcibly released recently by United States troops. ain Richards, formerly of the Twelfth Ilinois cavalry, was murdered on Wedneslay by » man in ‘Verne with Whom bo wae ruuning « plantation in part- beraliip. Ae denler was robbet of $16,000 in a sleeping car on the Canada and Great Weetern Railroad yesterday Two necroes wore executed in Withington. N.C, yer | twerday for highway robbery, which, according to laws of that State, is a capital offence. A largeeotton worehouse near Norfolk, Va, w* 4¢ y (ire on Thursday, and two thousand 9@ ban- dred bales were destroyed. The lose agtult to Sil vo A Mowers Crosaner.— Garibaldi ys anxious to tke upon himself the mantieol the Cru- sauder, and go forth to fight the Terk in his red shirt, with the colors of Dora d'siria upon bis arm. He puts bimself at the fair Dora's dis- posal. He belongs to her cause. He will come to ber, We swears, if he comes ina basket, She is at liberty to dispose of him Always. We advise Garibaldi to puta curb spon bis chivalry and not to pack himselfap in a basket for transportation to Crete He hins done enough in his time, and had setter now romain quiet at Caprera, enjoying bimself io fishing and entertaining his frievis. Or if he likes to return to Staten Island and go again into the candle business, we wil lend him the mysterious influence of the Ussaup to sot him om his Lleol the democracy iu this city have withing few days past been putting ‘their heads and comparing notes.as to the new of operations best calculated to get their fairly on its pins again for the approaching Presidential contest. It further appears that a aumber of the party leaders from different places have recently had # confidential con- sultstion of two in Washington on the game subject, in some way or other is connection with the prospective support of the adminis- tration, Yet again, it is reported that the Connecticut democracy propose to hold s State Convention on a large scale on the 8th of January, from which we may expect some pro- gramme which will be carried into practice in behalf of a national democratic coavention, to devise some general plan of “opposition to the measures of the present radical j This is “a lame and@ impotent conclusion.” “Opposition to the present radical Congress” was the ground upon which the Vand benighted democrats were so dr cut up in all the late elections, from Maine to Ore- gon. It needs no national convention to seitle that question. Since the memorable year of grace 1860, when the democratic party was broken down under that feeble old man, Buchanan, and broken up at the Charleston Convention, it has been “growing small by de- grees and beautifully less.” In 1861 it had almost disappeared from the public eye. In 1862, in following the advice of the Hxrarn, by adopting the platform of “a more vigorous progecution of the war,” the resuscitated party ngt only came bravely into the political field again, but carried New York and several others of the great Central States. After,those elections down to this day, under the popular odium which always followa “the peace party of the war,” the demoralized democracy, pre- viously distinguished as the “unterrified de- mocracy,” and the “fierce democracie,” and the “fighting democracy,” have been so uni- versally, uniformly and mercilessly drubbed that it would be sheer nonsense for them to ab tempt to fight upon their old system any longer. Like the old torn down “Castle of Indolence” which they inhabited, the party itself must be reconstructed, from “the coalhole” to the cupola. As now organized, or rather disor- ganized, the administration can do nothing to help them, and they can do nothing to h@p th® administration. Let them, therefore, call a national conven- tion, not for the purpose of fighting their late battles and suffering their late defeats over again, but for the purpose of recognizing and falling in with the march of the great revolu- tionary events which have come upon.us and which caunot be put back. If they meet in convention and adopt the new platform of the pending constitutional amendment, upon which the undivided North has stamped the seal of ita approbation, the democratic party before the year 1868 may recover their Southgra balance of power with the restoration of the South. And ifthey at once up set as their cham- pion for the next Presidency on this new plut- form General McClellan, General Sherman or General Thomas they may at once consolidate all their scattered forces in the North. General Thomas, all things considered, would probably be their best man. He has the singular merit of never losing a battle and never making a mistake from the beginning to the end of the war. Tried and trusty, his name would be as popular as that of “Old Rough and Ready.” Asa South- ern man and asa Union soldier, too, his name would be hailed asa bond of umion in both sections; and his record is so clear that nothing could be said against bim. In any event, all history teaches us that the first essential to the success of a new party or of an old party coming up again in a new shape is the attraction of some popular name—some man who can be recognized as the embodiment of the party and its cause, Thus the old republican party crystallized around Jefferson, thus the late democratic party was rallied aroand Jackson, and the once great whig party around Henry Clay as its embodi- ment; and thus, too, in the name of Abraham Lincoln, the present republican party camé@ into power. A hational convention, then, and a new departure, and a Union soidier pni for- ward for tbe next Presidency, whose name, hike the King’s, “isa tower of strength,” are the steps required to put. the prostrate democracy npon their feet again, Thus reorganized, trom the divisions of the republicans, resulting per- haps in a scrub race, the democrats may win the prize in 1868 ; but if they wait much longer before moving they are gone—gone like th old whig party, never to rise again. The New French Minister of Foreiay *"*'* According to a Paris telegram * be 18th instant, it is said that the Marquj- Ue Moustier has resigned his position in thes™Perial Cabi- net as Foreign Minister, and 2%t the Marquis de Lavalette will be his Ce#or- The Mar- quis de Lavalette, it wil)" Temembered, temn- porarily held this posto aiter M. Drouyn de Lintys had resigned and until the Marquis de Moustier had time ’ 7e#ch Paris from Constan- tinople M. de T valetie, while Foreign Minis- ter pro tem. aired the famous letter in which the programr’ the Emperor was disclosed, proclaimin: 800g the results of the recent war the, ppatation and divergence of the in- teresis 7 Russia, Austria and Prussia, and the future <eedom of allianoes, Perhaps this letter we the proximate canse of his present rumored .evation, so fully did it express the Napo- leonic ideas. Moreover, the career of this veteran diplomatist, his relationship to the firs: Emperor's favorite, the Post Office Director General (best known by his escape from prison and death through the memorable devotion of his wife, a niece of the Empress Josephine), and hia own persofial intimacy with the actual Emperor, might sufficiently account for the new distinetiéns conferred upon bim. It was supposed, especially in view of the late war between Prussia and Austria, and of the possible revival of the old Fastern question, that the experience of the Marquis de Moustier at Berlin, Vienna and Constantinople would peculiarly qualify him for the post of Foreign Minister. Bot it is probable that be has failod to meet the Napoleonic ideas so entirely as the Marquis de Lavalette met and expressed them in “the programme.” Consequently he is, to be superseded Jy his predecessor at Constantinople. M. de Lavu- lette was recalled thence at his own request in 1853, when, on account of his antecedents in | the vexed question of the Holy Places, he was Jogad 1 be personally gp obstacle §9 genell- ties of the Marquis de Lavalette accelerated, in the Crimean war. and danger had already the Marquis de Monthelon. The Emperor, one would think, might prefer to raise to 60 im- portant and responsible a post a3 that of For- eign Minister not one who bad got him into difficulty and war, but rather one who had aaved him from them. And besides the discre- tion, tact, knowledge and activity which M. de Montholon bas displayed throughout his official career, at Richmond, New York, Mexico and Washington, and which have led to his recent | transfer ¢o Lisbon, he inherits « claim upon the favorable regard of the Emperor in the htstori- cal associations which honorably connect his Napoleonl, Looking East and West, Napoleon TL must descry clouds of war somewhat bigger than a man’s hand. Ifa storm should arise in either direction the imperial abip of state would run less risks with the Marquis de Montholon than with the Marquis de Lavalette at the helm of foreign affairs. Mr. Bright’s Speeches—Tho Revolutionary Movement in England. Mr. Disraeli, in a speech delivered shortly after the tories succeeded in regaining office, declared that Great Britain had no political interests to subserve’on, the Continent. The in view of the course pursued by preceding governments, but it is not the less true. The interests which sway the policy of the con- tinental governments have nothing in common with those of England. Even the so-called balance of power, so far as she is concerned, could just as well be maintained without her. Hers is an oceanic empire which has become great through its colonies, its commerce and its independence of other nations, But if this be true regarding her exterior position, it is equally true that she has never been internally weaker than she is at the present moment. enfeeblement in which France found herself from 1785 to 1789. Whilea small class are rioting in all the extravagances of Inxury the great body of her people are in a state border- ing on starvation. By the last poor law returns it is proved that in England alone there are upwards of a million of human beings dependent upon public charity a fact frightful to contemplate, seeing the indication it affords of the general condition of the people. continue much longer. struggle on in this way in order that a privileged few may monopolize to themselves the wealth reform, it is now admitted, can meet the evil. tions, the abolition of the law of primo- geniture and a redistribution of landed estates are among the organic changes called for by the necessities of the case. remembered that it created considerable ex- citement. come out witha contradiction. The time had not come, perhaps, when he thought it word be advisable to urge his theories. cent declarations show that the opinions «2° 8s then forming have become such de”¢Tate con- clusions that he is not to be tay “4 aps them either by arguments or mep<°*- Me sees no hope for the salvation othe country but in revolution, and beliew® that, he manfully gives utterance to ht convictions. If Cobden had been a man 072° same stamp much migh have been effed by their joint action in averting the necessity fqr violent changes. pvever, had no great breadth of Cobden, views, ° Could handle financial questions ably, 24 did considerable service to the coun- try ?* Commercial reformer; but on political pects he had not the same grasp as Mr. Sright. He tollowed rather than led him, al-, though cireumstaneces for a time gave him greater prominence. On the great political questions of the day he might, in fact, be con- sidered to occapy pretty much the same posi- tion as the cockney who had visited Greece. “Have you seen the Parthenon?” inquired a friend on his retarn. “Yes, here it is,” replied the travelled Londoner, pulling a piece of one of the pillars from his pocket. Such was the superficial acquaintance of Cobden with most of the leading political questions of tae day. Bright is a mon of a very different order of mind. Sagacions, philosophical, eloquent and thoroughly in earnest, he commands as munch attention in Parliament asin popular assem- blies—a rare quality with public men abroad. As he is placed by his fortune and his resolute refusal of office above the suspicion of inter- ested motives, he has naturally acquired great influence. lt is vain to stigmatize such a man as a political adventurer of a mere revolution- ist. No one will believe it. It is not bi in- clination, but the desperate cireumsiances of the country, that bavé drawn him into the coarse that he is at present pursuing. Were he to be put out of the way, as some of the tory organs advise, there would be found hundreds ready to take his place, Like Mirabeau, Danton and others of the orators of the first French revolu- tion, he is.the instrament and not the author of the great changes that are impending. They are being brought about by mightier influences than the will and the genius of « single man. Those who would investigate them have only to seek them in the reaction of long years of. popular oppression and suffering. Ornvers von Maximintan To Laave Mexico — We are informed that a cable despatch was recently sent from Vienna to this country, with orders to forward it in haste to Maxi- milian, and that the said despatch was sent with the full knowledge and consent of Napo- leon. It contained an order for the Anstriam corvette Dandolo to hold on at Vera Cruz. The slmple weeping of this is ovjdenty the they did not initiate, the troubles which resulted And this suggests the inquiry whether his se- lection ag Foreign Minister is the most judicious one that might be made, particularly at this juncture, when it is not impossible that Russia may ere long start another war in the East and that the blundering of the Austrians in Mexico may lead to difficulty and perhaps war with the United States, The latter difficulty ly assumed a threaténing shape when averted by the skilful diplomacy of father’s name with the exile and dying hours of statement called forth some severe comments | She is, in fact, in the same condition of It is evident that this state of things cannot The masses cannot of the country. No ordinary measures of The remedy must be radical and complete. An entire reconstruction of existing institu- When Mr. Bright first broached this same idea about the redistribution of the soil, it will be It was denounced as revolutionary, aud Mr. Cobden denied that it had ever been | uttered by his political associate. We regarded it as significant that Mr. Bright himself did not aa though there were tobe a final end and set- tlement of the whole Mexican complication. It has resulted in a sortof wild goose Chase, amounting to and sll the people know Is, that Sherman ia in New Orleans, to which place he might hive gote by ® much more direct route, and that Campbell is some- where in Mexico or its vicinity. It’ begins to be evident, too, when we look over the whole ground, whether Maximilian, or Santa Ann& or Miramon, or Juarez,or any other of the Mexican adventurers are concerned, that un- derlying all the contest between them there is an immense fight among. stockjobbers. Under the Emperor, an English company claim the grant of a railroad from Vera Cruz to Orizaba, and a score of other jobs have been dealt out by Maximilian and depend upon his power to establish his government for their success. Juarez, on his side, has any quantity of jobs afloat, including the Lower California job, in which Ben Butler and others are concerned ; the express job, which Clarence Seward has got his hands into, and the Tehuantepec job— go that the war is, in fact, a stockjobbers’ war ; and it is supposed that all the fuss made at Washington, in the House and elsewhere, about Mexican affairs, is dependent in some way or other upog thege severa! jobs. With such a scramble as this, where the profits of stockjobbers and speculators sre mixed up with the question of the establish- ment of an imperial government, the United States can have nothing todo. Our govern- ment should withdraw Sherman from his con- nection, with the mission, He has found the French very polite, and the imperialists, of course, very much opposed to Juarez and Americati intervention.” Campbell can con- tinue to seek after Juarez, if the State Depax- ment think proper. That is an innogat occupation enough. Then ont troops suld be kept quiet within our own lines, #4 the Mexicans and stockjobbers and specudtass of" the different factions be lett to figt it out among themselves -after the wt! known fashion of the.Kilkenny cats. Tar Fexuns Croswo Ur.gft is evident from the lull in the FenianéXcitement that the Fenians are closing up 20t in order of battle, but in business. J’ some time past the news from Europe has-oatained nothing but indefinite rumors conefning the expected in- surrection in Ire! and they do not point to action. More ts of Fenian leaders seizures of Fenian depots of arms, increased vigilance of the gorernment authorities, more troops for Irelart, and so forth, form the burden of th Bews; bat no word of armed insurrect*4 There are many who believe that -#ere is no intention of an out- pk on the part of the leaders, and @ great many who think that Stephens, the head of the “head centres,” whose whereabouts in Europe has been va- Tiously stated, is, in fact, still in this country, and that, having obtained all the money he wanted, is neither going to fight in Ireland nor to disburse the funds for any more revolu- tionary purposes than changing his nomadic life into one of quiet comfort in a nice brown stone house of his own. Certain it is that the year which he so repeatedly promised was to see Ireland in arms has but a few days longer of life, and not a hostile gun has been fired on that soil. As for the Fenian movement in this country, since it became a public question it never was much more than a noisy mystery and money- gathering operation. We have been treated to mock republics, senate’, houses of representa- tives, bombastic proclamations by “presidents,” and all the other paraphernalia which could make a cause ridiculous by a few selfish men, laboring for their own ends, and, with the exception of one or two, not posessing a spark of patriotism. We do not regret to observe, then, that with the close of the year the Fenian business is likely to be closed up, for the sake of the poor Irish laborers and chambermaids, who, we trust, will in fatufe keep their little savings for their ewn use, instead of giving them to rapacieus head centres, “presidents” and other vampires. If any good is to be done for Ireland it will be by the energetic and really sincere movement of Jobn Bright, which embraces the whole British empire, and ig, in fact, ut the present moment, @ far more serious cante of alarm to the government than Fenianism at either side of the Atlantic. Naroison any His New Anwy Scuxwe.—The brief cable despatch from Paris announcing that Napoleon’s new army scheme grows in div- favor among all classes of the French people is full of meaning. The scheme proposes to raise the aggregate army of France from som® six hundred thousand to a million and a quar- ter of men. The astounding successes of Prus- sia in the late German war and the formidable attinde in which she now stands as the great central Power of Europe ‘have doubtless im- pelled Napoleon to this enlargement of his army. But while, from these successes of Prussia and from his great Mexican failure, he has lost much of his previous prestige among the French people, this new army scheme, if pérsisted in, may prove to be not only unpro- fitable but disastrous to bie dynasty. Re has been dabbling in universal suffrage and. the will of the people until his people really egin to feel their strength ; and thus, in pust.ng his Cesarian ideal of one man power toofar, he may find his 6wn weapons turnei against him, After his late failures in hix/ychomes of war he would do woll to stick tq his original toxty-that “the empire iy peace,” OF A: PARAQUAYAN ATTACK. +d sanamamennanaaannaanttl 2 i a She ten ge SPECIAL, CABLE ‘Te THE penito. ved ‘On the 80th of October the tacking column of ten of infantry, be cavalry and artillery, and during 0 heavy dome fog, assaulted the position which they bad lest on July 18. Brazilians, being behind treaches, cou paratively few. “ The United States guabost Shamokin edtaincd leave from the Brazilian Admiral, although given. under pro- test, to pass through the blockade; he landed, Minister ‘Washburn- at Curupaity, returning immediately An ar- mistice was agreed to for the purposes. ‘ ie oe One of the Vessels Sighted. Captain Page, of the snip American Congress, which arrived at this port yesterday from London, reperte as follows :— . ber 15, at t, 120° mation gent, of Georges Peng +4 RR lou Fehon Cig ad oy snow, saw a schooner hove to undor a rect anal ly @ Bh sighal, or wt she fiad any. A visit was at onoe made tothe American Congress for the purpose of gaining furtver particulars, which, how- ever, did not result {a eliciting any additional informa- tion. Captain Page had gene ashore, and the vessel was left in charge of the fist officer, This gentleman's statements werd very contradictory to the above de- spatch, they are therefore given in exfenso, The vessel at the time of the alleged sighting was lo charge of thia officer. He says that he saw the vessel, bat imagined her to be a pilot boat, as he had heard that one of those boats wasona trip to England; he did not speak the craft on this account. Hos firther says that be did not notice that she carried oy fag, though the diatance between them did Dot excecd two ships’ lengths. Hoe fixea the position a3 off the Azores, or Western Islands and another of the sbip’s company says that they were at the time imabout forty-deven de- grees latitude and thirty for degrees longitude, it is obvious that these positions are altegetner erronoons, as tt 18 impossible that any Of the yachts could have made au distance in Our days, that |s supposing the Cap- tain’s statement = to time to be correct, the drat mate boing altogettt {gnorant of the day whon tho occurrence im question ok place, It will be deen that thess state- ments ate altogether at variance witht the facia con- tained « the Captaim despatch, anit’ no opportnnity of verifyig either assertion could 6 obtained, a3 the offi in charge of the logbook bas, in a most unseanan- pe Way, neglected to make any ontry of the ocourrence 4 his log. THE WEATHER. Skating in About Thin City. Although the weather yesterday was aot safficiently ‘veraal to remind one of tropical climes, the change was such as to be felt and appreciated by all. The wind had falleu, and the cold, though piercing, did not gfasp the pedestrian by the throat and pinch up his features uotit ruddy choeks became oracked andj bived and purparine lips were chapped end bleeding, It was wintry to a de- gree, howevgr, for the ground was frozen té adamantine hardness, and rang under the horses’ hoofs. A splea- did day for skating, and one which therefore did not pass by unheeded. Major Oatman's Fifth Avenue Rink was crowded by spectators and skaters, and numbers of the fair sex graced the gallery, whence they looked down upon the animated scene below. The joo was in excellent condition and entirely free from oracks, and ite cryatalline expanse wholly monopolized by the active lade and lasses, Macmilien's Fifth Avenue Park was also well attended, the vast surface of his pond being covered by a glassy layer, over which the stool-shod mortals glided merrily. The lakes in the Park bore upon their wn f- fled bosoms myriads of skaters, the sport being tol- ponds ta tl jcraity, to which admission could be ov monoy and withont , Were equality rich alt pier alike cole. enthusasm, tained without well zero; at noon twenty degrees above. Carats, Me., Dee. Z1.—Wind west, clear; thermomoier ten ‘rees below zero. Conconv, N. HL, Dec. 21.—Twenty degroos below zero. Hauivax, N. 8.—Wind northwest; clear; therthometor bt degrees 1LKTON AND FRANOONA, Dec. 21.—Twenty-niae de- Deo, 21.—Welther very cold; at nov bps emg eof basing bee nero. below zero’ ‘Ten laches of enow. Ortawa, Dec. 21.—The weather last night intensely cold; thermometer ai eight o'clock this morning Ofieen degrees below zero; bright and ciear to-day; An unfortunate woman wes found in the street to-day with both feet frozen. Also a painter from the township of Goutbourne, in a state of intoxication, and with banda aad feet 80 badly frozen that he will probably lose them. Purtapenenta, Deo, 21,—The thermomotor at five o'clock this moruing stood at four degrees at uine o'clock at seven degrees above zero. Qurunc, Dec, 21.—Wind west, clear; thermomoter ste degrees below zero. Sr. Joux, N. B., Dec. 21.—Wind northwest; thermom- eter five degrees below zero. Troy, N. ¥.—At six A. M. thermometer sixtoon de- grees below zery; at noon, at zero. THE CHARGES AGAINST COMPTROLLER BRENNAN DISMISSED. ‘Strate or New Yorn, Executive Derartwanr, Avaayt, Deo. 19, 1966, Io the matter of the charges presented to the of the Ste of New York by Avson Herrick; also by Severn D, Meulton against Matthew T. Brennan, Comp- inducted the invostiga- tion in this case through a commissioner duly appointed for such purpose. The testimony is exceedingly voiu minous, and retates to the entire period of the administration of th Méont, It is Proper to stave tle the proot tee Lo me divctose inreguinrt ties im the discharge of bis offiqai duties, im my judy ment they fail to present a cas@ which require inter fer by the Executive, aud ! theretore dismiga the KR ® FENTON. EXECUTION OF TWO NEGROES IN NORTH CAROLINA. Witwrnoro, Dee. 21, 1806. Lowts and Angustog Willian, negroes convicted of high way robbery some time since, Ware @xem! ad to-day. White men would have been hanged for the #ame offence the laws of this ‘The condemned wers »%- coried to the gallows by « company of United Hialae regniara, Both proiested thoir innocence to the Last, Over two thousand persons witnessed the execution, about three-fourths of the assembiago being negroes. ‘there was uo disturbauee. THE REW ORLEAKS RIOTS. Arrival ef the Congressional Committer at New Orleans, New Onunaxs, Deo. 21, 1806. The Congreasional eommittes arrive: ight, with the exception of Mr. Boyer, of Pennsylvania, who ix expected to-morrow. Mesara Cheney ant Chancey, wergeante-at-arma, are with them The comsiiiee will meet to-morrow morning at the St. Louls How! Mayor Monroe has teen calle! @pon to give his ald to the investigating committee oa the late riot in this oy and has promised to do so to the best of his ability, In addition to other requisoments he i* to farniah the names of all the police force who were on duty at that period and subsequently; also the name of every per- holding offictal fo the otty pe ferred to. \eonbaset Holsinsa, Zaren uk Wasting. wall be ‘ono the *