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4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1868. NEW YORK HERALD. @AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER UP FULTON AND NASSAU STS, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- ng and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the owest rates. 4 BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway, wear etreot.—Tux Puoriw's Lawran—Live inpian, Broom o NEW YORK TARATRY, Broadway, opposiio Now York —~OunDRiLLoM. meg THRATRE FRANCAIS, Fourtesath sirect, noar Sixth evcnue,—Desoaiu. GERMAN THALTA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— ted Mancers MisgieRstumdx—Das #eNsteR iM Bustex 00K. STRINWAY HALE Pourteenth street. —Gaany Concent Fou tux Bunevit ov Dear M CLINTON HALG, Astor place. —VaLentixe Vourpsn, mx Great POLYNATIONAL Mimi. 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COOPER INSTITUTE. Astor Place.—Dr, Conton's Ex- winTiON OF Tae LAUGUING GAs. PRESBYTERIAN CHORUH, corner of Grand ant Croaby Otrovts.~—Gueat Masomio Fam in Ai or tits HALL Axo Asrium Pump. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 613 Browdway.— meToRES wit tux Oxr-Hypogex Migroscore twice oh Hrap ann Kiour Anu or Proust. Open from 3 (40M, tor. M. New York, Fridny, December THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The Nowfoundland tolograph lines romained disabled uring yesterday and last night. We did not, conso- quently, rece've our daily cxb!o nows report, Our special despatches and correspondence from Arcland, dated at Qoeengiown on the 13th-and Dublin on ho W2th inst, go to show that the Fenian revolution exc. tament romained at fover heat, There wore sixieen British war vesals in and off Queenstown harbor, and bo “loyal” and wealthy inhabiiants of the rara! dis- @ricts wore flocking into the garrisoned towns for safety. Btophens was thought to be in tho South. It was said Goat the “riging"® would take pince simultaneously in the tho countios of Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Kilt kenny—the Fenian centre thus forming a sort of headquarters quadrilateral. THE CITY. Rain, snow, wind and frost prevarles youtorday Wroughout tho ontire day. The storm was very general, Causing great damage to the tclograph wires North and ‘Went, . . ‘Tho Board of Health held its usual meoting yosterday. Dr. A M. Maclay was appointed to the vacant inspoc- torship croated by the dism'esal of Dr. Furman. A com. amunication from the Unitod States Consul at Beyrout, Ryria, on'the subject of imported rage from the Lovant, {nfeoted with cholera, was reforred to the Sanitary Com. mittee. ‘Pho Commissioners of Charitios and Corrections met yesterday. A communication was recorved from tho ‘Chairman of tho ommitteo on Inspections at Bellevue Hospital, detailiag tho circumstances in the caso of Ed- ward F. Bacon, in whieh tho coroner's jury cousurod the offloers of that institution, Tho report says that no blame can be attached tothe house surgeons. Bacon feovived all the attention he required until he was dis- charged. ‘Tho Board of Supervisors mot yesterday, but adjourned for want of a quorum. The Select Committee on the new Post Ofc sits in City Hall Park have finally agreed to let the government ave tho required grouna for $500,000, and Postmaster General Randall bas aigniied bis intention of immedi. atoly applying to Congress for the necessary appropria- ion to purchase tho ground and commenc> the building. Ata mooting of tho Polytectinic branch of the Amer- foan Institute last evening an interesting paper was read. on the question, ‘Is tho earth a solid?” and many new discoveries and inventions were dice iased. The Alpha Delta Phi Society gave a dinvor last evening @t Delmonico's up town establishment, to the various Mmombers and guests of the organization, Theodore W. Dwight preanied. Addresses in reapoase to toasts were Goliverod by A. 8, Sullivan, J. H. Choate, Clarence Seward, and others, Tho obsequics of the Iate Minister Plenipctontiary to Ue United States from Portugal, Senor J. ©, De Fi- ore ¢ Mora, took plaoy erday morning from Sts, Peter and Paul's Catholic church, Williamsburg. The Coromoniok were very imposing. Bi Sylvester Ma- bone, pastor of the ohurch, pronounced the culogy on the ocvason. Ab important action has been instituted im the Supreme Mourt against Char @he Mayor, Aldermen and ¢ Work, charging Of, and uniaw Copies of the ex-Street Commissioner, mon Council of New the A aMda ynvertod, «im of $2 its were plain filed in the office of the ¢ y Clork, and al pon the defendants The papers are drawn in the Tame of Christopher Pullman aud Joveph B, Varnum, Jr. The case of John Dove Give fravds upon the Lo ‘al Revenue, was resumed yosierday by Commi The evidence was comparatively unimportant, aud the caso was adjourned wotlt the 4th of January. Fraud upon the revenue ars not confined to whiskey lore alone. Ibis known that some of our largest ilk and lace importers have perpetrated huge swindies ©pon the goveramont by means of undervalued invoices Pr othor contrivances which they have invented to moot Present omorgencios One importing houre alone was Bompotied a fow weeks ago to pay $80,000 in gold for Bn attempt Lo evade the law. Ff. Wo publish this morning statistics showing tho amount ‘Of business dischargod in dhe United States Court of this ity for the past year. Tho business is yearly on the Anorease. te Co, charged with exten- er Newton. F Tho National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Moivotia, Captain Thompson, will sail to-morrow (Satur- y) Mt 12 M., from pier No. 47 North river, for Liver- A, touching at Queendtown to iand passengors and i. ‘Tho Ano sorew steamship Merrimac, Captain Van Sice, eat from pier No. 46 North river, to-morrow (Satur. SP. M., tor Havana, from whence she will pro- to Now Orteana. The mails for Havana will close the Post Office at half-past 1 P.M. |p] The steamship Fung Shuey, Captain Wadeworth, of the Gar lino, will teave pter No. 18 North river, at 3 P. to-morrow (Setantay), for New Orleans direct, ‘The stock market closed firm yesterday after being un- Gold was firmer and cloned at 13246. _ There was bet little business transected In commercial Grotes yesterday, the demand for almost al! commodi- being confined to the immodiate necessities of the | ) | 0 nows from Vers Oras is by way of Now Orionas with having defrauded the city out | and dated the Slat, The Minister of Foreign Affhirs ad- Now there may be something more in this drosses the people of Mexico, in the name of the Emp | than ig apparent upon the suriace. It isa Tor, on the subject of the national Congress. He con- cludes by saying that Marshal Bazaine has received in- structtons from Louis Napoleon to co-operate with Maxi- *milian in preserving peace and order and to render bis government all the assistance possible as long as the French troops remain on Mexican soil, The rotirement of the imperialists from Sau Luis Potosi and Matchulha is confirmed. Our city of Mexico letter, published this morning and dated December 10, gives an account of the inside workings of the imperial party at Orizaba when the question of empire or abdication was ostensibly under discussion. The facts dovelop»d in this document lead to the conclusion that a change of internal policy is all that is contemplated by tho imperial government. We have files from Bermada dated to the 18th of December, The Royal Gazette is pleased to learn that there is to be anothor attempt made by an American company to estabiish steam communication between New York, Bermuda and tho West India Glands. Tho British war steamers Wolverine and Minstrel arrived at Rermuda from Halifax, The Wolverine having coaled with much expedition left on the following morning with sealed orders. The Sixty-fourth regiment of English Infantry is expected at the islands from Europe, A despatch from Fort Laramie says there is no roason to doubt the full truth of the report of the wholesale massacre of three officers and ainety privates of the Second United States cavairy and Eighteenth United States infautry at Fot Kearney on tho 224 inst, The massacre took plac? at Fort Philip Kearney, im Daisuta ‘Territory, and oot at old Fort Kearnoy, Ibis furthor reported that the Indian tribes hid mustered to the number of qlovca thousand for com-non cause against the whites in Dakow and Montane ‘Verritorivs. In the Fonian triats at Sweoisburg yesterday, Michacl Crowly was found guiliy, but seatence was postponed ‘on motion of his counsel, who claims an arresbof judg- ment on the ground thai the jury should have Deen dis- charged without rendering a verdict, as they raported at one time that they could not agree, Gilgan, Morrill, Carrol, M-Donald und Howard were all discharged and thero remains but oue of tie lot, Crawford, yet untried, Three persons out of a canoe ioad of nine were drowned in the St, Lawrenge river at Quebec on Christ- mas morning, the canoe being capsized by the floating ies, Another writ of injunction against the Bank of Upper Canada was filsd m the Chaueery Court at Toronto, Canada, on Wednesaay, The wolves are unusually numerous in the vicinity of Ottawa and are committing considerable depredations om the sheep. The steamship Emily B. Souder, which loft Charleston for New York on the 26th, ran ashore at Rattlesnake Shoals, but sustained no gerious damage, She was rescued and returned to Charleston, The wall of a building in process of demolition full im Philadelphia yesterday morning, killing ouo man and soriously injuring several others. : Charles Vatterson, belonging to the navy, shot his sister, in Poiladelphia, yesierday, badly wounding her jn the head avd breast with dnckshot. She refused to leavo @ house of ill fame to which she had resorted to escape the cruel treatment of a siepmother, and he shot hor, as he sad, because he preferred goeing her dead to leading such a life. About noon yesterday two men robbed the office of C. P. Bayard, in Philadslphia, of over $200,000 in govern. meat bonds aud local stocks, They escaped) with all their booty. The alleged murderers of soldiors in Nashville on Christmas night were placod on trial yesterday, in evidence it was shown that the policemen shouted for Seft Davis during the afiiay, f ‘Tho proprictors of the three principal hotels in Boston ‘| were arraigned before tho Municipal Court yesterday on the charge of violating tho liquor Jaw, and Were fined fifty dollars each and sentenced to t” :eemonths’ impris- onmeat. An appeal was taken, and bonds given for future appearance. Threo fatal cases of cholera appoared itv Citicinnatt taat Monday, The victims: all belonged to onefamtly, and two othor members are quite sick. A New Conflict on the Status of the Rebel States. The condition of things in the South haa been of late as badly mixed as in Mexico; but ac- cording to present appearances, from tho late decision of the Supreme Court, the conflict of authorities, from Virginia to Texas, will very soon be “confusion worse confounded.” This conflict is already becoming so sharply defined in various cxuses aud places that with the ro- assembling of Congress after New Yvar’s the attention of the two houses will probably be drawn to the question of some decisive conzse of action in reference to the present status of the rebel States. We understand that a general order is in preparation by the President, to be directed to the commanders of the Southern military departments, informing them of the Supreme Court decision against the illegality of courts martial for the trial of civilians, and directing them to confine themselvem strictly to military duties, leaving judicial questions to tho civil courts, An order to this effect has already been issued to General Schofield, commanding the Department of Virginia, in the suspension of the military trial which ho had commenced in the case of a Dr. Watson, charged with the murder of a negro, and as having been un- justly acquitted or too loosely tried by the local magistrates concerned. A similar order has been given to General Sickles, command- ing the Department of North and South Caro- lina and Georgia, in the couniermanding his military orders superseding the local civil au- thorities in various things, among others set- ting aside on order forbidding thasale of any person or persons by the local courts except for crime. Thus far, then, the President rea firms the restoration of ihe rebel States to the status of loyal States. His Southern orders, based upon this aforesaid decision of the Sa- preme Court, on the Indiana military trial case of Milligan and others, supersede his own Southern military course of supervision hither- to pursued, as well as certain laws of Con- gress passed at the last session. Tho question thus comes up in a peremptory voice, how far can Congress proceed in its work of Southern reconstruction without coming into collision with the Sepreme Court “as now constituted ?” We are next informed, ina despatch from Washington, that a case is soon to be made before the Supreme Court which will involve the question whether Alabama fs a State of the federal Union, or what her present statas is ifshe is not a State. This case is probably an appeal trom Judge Busteed, United States District Judge for the district comprising the State or part of the State of Alabama, in a matter upon which he decided not long ago that the payment of a debt in rebel Confeder- ate scrip is no payment at all. In any event the decision of the Supreme Court upon this appeal will be a decision of more than ordinary importance, especially if the court shall assume to overrale the decisions made after a four years’ civil war bys million of Union soldiers in that finel appeal to the bayonet. Meantime we have a despatch from Charloston which says that @ member of the State Senate of South Carolina, @ certain rebel Colonel Weatherby, reports that the President had given him his opinion “that the Southern States, through their Legislatures, should reject the proposed constitutional amendment, but in such terms as not to give offence to those who are arging it upon the South;” and that such action, the President believes, “would be sustained by the Suprome Court of the United States—at feast be had reason to hope that tt would.” ciftious fact at any rate that, notwithstanding the late overwhelming popular judgments of the loyal States upon this amendment, all the rebel States have indignantly ejected it, and that South Carolina, the last to act upon it, has rejected it by a more decisive vote than any other of those States, there being only one voice in her Legislature in tho affirmative. It is thus ap- parent that the Presidemt’s continued opposition has resulted in 9 coalition of the excluded States against Congress, and that if we may be- lieve the report of this Colonel Weatherby Mr. Johnson expecta, from the intervention of the Supreme Court, a victory over Congress in a decision which will justify him in the enforce- ment, if necessary, of his own peculiar policy against Congress. Woe are inclined to believe this report of the rebel Colonel Weatherby, from various circumstances, and especially from the fact that Judge Magruder, of Maryland, a Southern rights jurist, is working very indus- triously against the United States authorities to carry up certain cases of tho sale of negroes against the Civil Rights bi!l into the Supreme Court. And yet again, Governor Worth, of North Carolina, an ex-rebel, not fully ‘recon- structed, looks to the Supreme Court for deliy- erance, Here, then, we have the jelements of a new conflict with Congress.’ The issue, in the appeal from Congresato the people, has been decided by the people against the President's policy and in favor of Congress. Can the Supreme Court reverse the decisions of the war and of the people of the loyal States? Ifso, then one man of the Supreme Court holds the destinies of this country, ‘peace or war, subject to his ipse dieit; for it appears that upon this late Milligan decision the court was divided five to four. One man against the decisions of the armies and navies of the loyal States in a four years’ civil war; one man against the ovor- whelming popular verdict of those Siates, as pronounced in the Jate elections, If this thing is attempted, as expected, there will be a new conflict, which will inevitably end in a thorough radical work of reconstruction, and hence the Hiecessity of an. understanding of the position of the Supreme Court now to avoid this danger. The report is abroad that the court is relied upen to upset the pending constitutional amendment in a decision which must necessa- rily involve the legality of Congress and all its ‘acta of the last five years and declare the war @ failure, Under tho Milligan decision there is already a movemont for the release of Mudd, one of the confederates of Booth, the assassin, and under the same anthority the President himsclt, in the matter of the mililary trial of the Booth gang of traitors and murderers, may be heldto account. But the question ‘s,shall one man in the Supreme Court stand in the way of the loyal States and of Congress in reference to Southern restoration? And the anawer de- volves upon Congress, ‘The Pop His Embarrassments. No one can read the-adidress of Pope Pius to the French troops previous to their depar- ture from Rome without mingled sentiments of pity and surprise—we will not say of indigna- tion, It was to be expected.that the occasion would call forth some strong expressions of feeling, but we were certainly not prepared for the extreme bitterness which his Holiness manifested. Common prudence, if not com- mon fairness, should have prevented him utter- ing the slanders and insulte which he gave expression to in regard to the Italian King and people. Does he suppose that the world can be brought to exhibit any greater degree of sympathy with his misfortunes, or that the Italian nation are to be conciliated into respecting what he calla the rights of the Church, by his supposition that “Italy would consider itself undone if there still remained acorner of the land (meaning Rome) where order, justice and tranquillity reign?” This sneer, unfounded and absurd though it is, and the equally unhappy allusion to the Tarpcian rock, will certainly not contribute to lessen the difficnities by which he is surrounded. Hard words are but poor,substitutes for foreign bayonets. Far better would it have been for his personal interests and those of the Church if, in imitation of the example of his Divine Master, he had spoken of his injuries, though as yet only anticipated, in terms of charity and forgiveness. It is strange that where there is snch a strong conviction of helplessness, and where there is so much to be ga‘ned by conciliation, there should be such a dogged determination to yield nothing as is manifested in this address. It is plain from its tone that bis Holiness un- derstands no middle term between resistance and flight. He will either continue to be an absolute ruler or he will be an exile. As the conditions by which he has been maintained in the former position have departed wi French itis manifest ‘iat on the first growl. ings of the apprehenaed storm he contemplates following in their wake. It isa pity that in a cris not at the head of the Cath: Church a Pon- tiff of broader views and firmer nerve. Such & man wonld at once recognize the impossi- bility of maintaining longer the system which has become so odious in the eyes of liberal Europe and which is looked upon with dis- favor by the great majortty of Catholics them- selves, Seeing this he would endeavor to ob- tain for the Chureh the best terms possible, and, abovo all things, seek to secure Rome as the perpetual oat of the Papacy. It seems to us that if met in aspirit of conciliation and liberality there would Le mo indisposition on the pant of the Roman people to come to such an agreement. It is now gen- erally admitted that it would not be desirable to make Rome the capital of Italy; 80 that this once favorite idea would offer no obstacle to its continuance as the residence of the Popes. Some plan could easily be hit upon by which « Kmitod civic jurisdiction could be given them, which would not be likely to clash with that possessed by the head of the nation. But under present circumstances we fear that such an arrangement will not be possible The recent declarations of Pius seem to forbid the hope of any accommoda- tion being arrived at, The Fronch Emperor fore. saw this when he threatened him with the loss of his friendship if he fled from his territories. Bat as his Holiness believes in prospective miraculous dispensations in his behalg and has lost all faith in Napoleon's promises, it is pretty certain that he will follow the bent of his own convictions, which tell him that his health will be best consulted by a speedy ro- iu the i ike this there is The Nationa! Banke—What Sheuld be the | the constitution, the old scocsh war cry, and Polloy woh Regard to Them. When we have urged that the national bank system was a monstrous monopoly which ought to be abolished we meant that it was so with the privileges given to tte banks by the gov- ernment and with the support they received from the government, There is no objoction to the existence of these banks simply as pri- vate business firms, unconnected with the gov- ernment, just as our qld banks were, and as all private business ought to be, Most of them are very respectable establishments and a great convenience to the country. We like the uniformity and national organiration of them under an act of Congress. But to giving them the privilege and profi's of a national currency, based upon the credit of the goverg- ment, without any consideration or payment in return, we are utterly opposed. This privi- lege, which is in the possession of a few indi- viduals comparatively, is worth a vast sum of money—twenty million doMars a year, at least ; for we must recollect that the banks draw interes! on the bonds“deposited as security for their circulation, and at the same time they are getting a profit of seven to nine per cent on that circulation. We do not overstate the @mount, perhaps, when we say that the banks make fourteen to fifieen per cent a year in this way on their capital, without reckoning the profits of their ordinary bsaking business in other respects. » Now, we propose that the people and the government shall take the prefits of a national currency instead of a few capitalists. What more natural and proper than this? The won- der is that the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress have not seen before now the force of this simple proposition, ow is it to be done? Nothing more easy: by withdrawing the na- tional bank currency and giving us in place ot it legal tenders. Tho legal tenders cost the government nothing. It can print three bun- dred millions of them,and with that amount “buy up and cancel the threo hundred millions of interest-bearing bonds which the banks have deposited. Thus, instead of the banks drawiag the jaterest—nearly twenty millions a year—the govevament and the country would save it ‘Tha! is the difference. And is not a legal ten «r currency as good as that of the national baxiig? We think it is better and safer, and belicve the people would rather have it. If these banks or more !)anks choose to carry on a Lanking business they could do so on loyal terders, We should have the advantage of a uniform currency, based upon the credit of the government solely, The amount of paper in circulation would not be incrodsed; the change would bo only from one {ind to another—from an inferior to a superior currency, Let Con- gress, then, go to work and withdraw the national bank circulation, and thus all banks would be compelled to use legal tenders. The Comptroller of tho Currency and other advocates of the national bank system pretend to argue that it would be dangerous for tho gov- 4 ernment to issue all the currency for the country on its own credit, and that it might be tempted under certain circumstances to circulate a much larger amount than would be needed or safe. This issimply absurd. The government has the same power to do this through the benks. As the guardian of the public inter- ests it is no more likely to create or issio a larger amonnt of currency than is nooded than to confiscate our property. Congress is all- powerfal over the subject, and would make, doubtless, proper laws for rogulating the amount of circulation. The govornment—and by that wo mean both Cengress and the ad- ministration—can bo trusted in this matter. Private associations of capitalists, like those of the national banka, have naturally a tendency to monopolize, to look only to their own inter- esis, and to make aH they can out of the pub- lie; but the government looks only to the wel- fare of the whole country. Thore is no danger in having a currency issued solely by and on the credit of the government. The next step after making a uniform legal tender circulating medium should be to reduce the burdens of the national debt and to put ii through a process of lignidation by prying off all the de}t as it becomes due bp tegal tenders. If there should sot be enough in the Treasury for this purpose at the time, then issue as many more as may be neoded. Let the holders of these have the privilege of buying with them consolidated stock, bearing four per cent in- terest, If money became too redundant the surplus would find its way to invesinient in these consols. Four per cont weald be a higher rate of interest than the Drilish consols bear, and would be sought by those having surplus capital and wanting safe investnent. If the legal tenders in circulation should not be thus corverted that would be evidence that the currency or money afloat could not be re- dundant. The four per cent consols always open for the conversion of legal tenders would t 8 egulaior of the circulating medium. No injustice would be done to the public ecredi- tora, because they would be paid in the same money they loaned or contracted with the government for. The national debt would soon be greatly redaced and conld be liquidated in less than twenty years. The whole community would be benefited by a great roduciion in taxation. Our financial system and commerce would be emancipated in a great measure from the influence of foreign capitalists apd money traders. We should commence a new and grand career of independence in monetary affairs. These views we commend to Congress, and hope that body will act upon them before the close of the present session. ‘Tur Srevers Nov tm Carouma Bret, a Loran Norra Carorsxa Pronvctioy.—It appears from the Raleigh (N. C.) Standard, of the 25th inst, that the bill lately introduced in Congress by Hon, Thaddeus Stevens, for the reconstruction of North Carolina from the bottom to the top, is a loyal North Caro} idea; tor the Standard says that—“To put all doabts at rest, we now state emphatically that the bill referred to, and which proposes gradua'ly but finally to super sede the present State organization setup under martial law, was prepared by Mesers. Jobo Pool, James F. Taylor and W. W. Holden, at the request of Mr. Stevons, and was introduced in the House by the latter on the 13th of Decem- ber. These persons are solely rosponsible for the measure, and they are prepared to stand or fall by it.” This W. W. Holden (formerly and we believe now an editor of the papsr in question) wan President Johnson’s Provisional Governor of North Carolina, and surely he ought to know what the State requires. Gov- ernor Worth, howevor, denounces these North moval from the malarious atmosphere of Rome, | Carolinians and thoir schome, as subversive of despairing of a national convention in which tae rebel States would have their Southern constitutional rights of equality with the loyal States, he looks to the Supreme Court for relief. It is really remarkable how this court is rising into favor in the rebel States. But why not? Its judges aro largely of the old Southern rights school, whose opinions of the constitu- tion gd behind the late rebellion and to the Union as it was under Buchanan. The Mexican Kaleidoscope—Maximilian Iedi- vivus. A telegram from Washington informed us yosterdoy that “Minister Campbell has been instructed by our government to remain at New Orleans for the present in order to await future events in Mexico or for further in structions.” From the eame or some other reliable source we learn that General Sherman is now on his way from St. Louis to rejoin Mr. Campbell at his present point of detention, where the Mexican embassy has just hove-to. Simultancous!y with this news comes the more stariling and unexpecied intelligence that the imperial cause is looking up, witha hope, how-"; ever faintly indulged by its fricnds, of tinal triumph, provided there be no armed inter- ference on the part of tie United States, Tho mainstay and backbone of this hope is the pos- session by Maximillan’s government of a mili- tary Mexican force of thirty-five thousand regular troops, with an auxiliary foreign force of some twenty-five thousand more, mak.ng a total of about sixty thousand men, well armed and fed, clothed and paid as well as circum- stances permit. In regard to their pay, our city of Mexico correspondent asserts that it is handed to them “regularly every morning.” In this estimate of the imperial army the sol- dicrs of France do not appear. Of these latier there are at\least twenty-five thonsand in the country, who, if counted at all, must go to the imperial side. These are very good and weighty grounds tor a revival of hope in im- perialist bosoms, while there is still another which, though it comes in here last, is by far tho weightiest motive, and that is the want of unity among the supporters of the liberal cause, who are already flying at each others’ throats in good old Mexican partisan style. They have never had much system since the fall.of Puebla and the consequent dispersion and demoralization of tho Mexican army; bat their condition now threatens to be infinitely morp desperate, since they are turning their arms against each other. If their disagreement should prove to be the fruit of imperialis! diplomacy it will rank as one of the ablest strokes of Maximilian’s statermore'in; for it enables him to part with the Freneh and to observe a masterly inggtivity while his eacmies hew each other to pieces, and thus in- gloriously make an end of liberatiom. Now, under all these circumstances, it is very signifi- cant aud worthy of note that our wandering embassy comes to anchor at New Orivans to nivait further events or further instructions. One short month since, or at most six weeks, the imperialist oause was pronounced in ex- tremis, and Minister Campbell went forth to ex- ploré for a government known as that of Juarez; but without success. Like many an- other explorer, he failed. We put it in that light in order that the Minister may derive some consolation from the failures of others. Juarez could not be found. In fact Juarez is rapidly lapsing into a myth, like the Scandina- vian Odin. It was no fault of Minister Camp- bell if Jaavez did not turn up; but bis return to the haunts of civilization after so short a chase suggests the idea that the Minister may dave found the imperialist cause not quite 60 munch ia ettremis as bed been reported. That such may be the case is evidenced by the split among the liberals. Without the gain of a single man or the capture of a single post the imperialist cause ia advaneed by interne- cine feud more than by any other event since the arrival of Maximilian, Minister Cxmp- beil saw this, Ho was in time to seo one practical result of the feud—a bloody fight be- tween the Juarists and Ortegaists, in w the liberal Generals Escobedo and Car destroyed several hundred good fighting men. Moreover, he found Maximilian at the head of a powerful and well orgs army, capable of showing considerable fight, even were his enemies combined, but able to anni- hilate, with infinite ease, either of the factions now apparently more embittered ageinut each other than against the stranger from Miramar. What then could Minister Camp ell do but re- turn to await events and i ictions? We must let him tell his own story in tho fortheom- 8 we accept all the facts relati position, his popularity, hopes, must we not also accept the hypothesis that there is a possibility of his ul‘invate suc- in that case, if the U sre forcibly, where e all impe- jects and aspirations into ihe realiza- ublican hopes and aims? thes AnD Rattroap ND THE : -The Corpor Atlor= ney, in his annual report, states that a number of suits are now pending agains! the city expreas and railroad companies, to compel them to pay the license fee for rumaing their wagons and passenger cars on the streets, It eppears that the Second and Third Avenue Railroad compa- nies have successfully resisted the payment, on the plea, sustained by the Court of Appeals, that they were incorporated prior to the passage of tho ordinance, and hence are not liable to the fees or penalties imposed thereby; but the pending suits are against suchgcorporations as have come into existence subsequent to the enactment of the law. The fact that these mon- ster railroad corporations and monopolies refuse payment of a licemse fee, which every poor hackman and truckman in the city is compelled to squeeze out of his hard earnings, shows bow necessary it is that the greed and ftvarice of such concerns should be held in chock by strict The streets of the city are more lumbered up and destroyed by the horse cars and heavy express wagons than all ether classes of vehicles put together The people are taxed heavily for the benefit of these companies, and common decency should induce the latter to comply cheerfully with the License law. The poor hackmen and truck- men are compelled to procure licenses, or they are summarily dealt with and subjected to the penaltice of the law. To them the fee is a heavy burden, when many of them can ecareely earn enough to procure eufficient food and clothing for their families. The express com- q panies, rolling in wealth, and the railroad com panies, every one of them making enormous fortunes out of franchises that properly belong to the people, are rich enough and powerful enough to appeal to the courts and to evade the payment of the fee which is thus sum marily extorted from the hard-working man, The true’ remedy for the grasping avarice .of these corporations is to break down the express monopolies by legislation, and to repeal every railroad charter granted to individuals and take all the roads into the hands of the city. If, however, the wedlth of the companies and the necessities of the legislators render this impossible, and if there is anything in the charters of these corporations that. enable them snecessfully to resist the payment of, the license fee, then the Legislature should at once enact o law to remedy the evil and to make every express and railroad compagy liable to such ordinances as may heretofore have been passed or may hereafter be enacted by the city, THE OCEAN YACHT RACE, Owing to a break in (he Newfoundland telegraph tine, wo have been deprived of our usual cable despatcnes since Mondyy. We shalt probably hear something of we Yachts us soon as the line is repaired, The Feeling in Tretand, Dusuy, Dec, 1%, 1868. The great Ocean Yacht race, of which we reccived the news by the Atlantic cable this morning, 18 exetting tuch interest among the members of our Irish Yacht clubs, aud they look with anxiety for the news of the first in. Whichever tt may be will receive starthay hows about Ireland on arrival at Cowes. Enalish Opinion of the Contest. [From the Liverpool Conrier, Dec. 12.] Some enterpituay Yankees have got up & really new sensation. This is a yacht race from New York to Cowes, inthe Isle of Wight, ‘Two stakes are aabstantial—$90,000, tac whole to go to the yacht th arrives firvt—but the money is nototug to thé houortot victory. ‘tbo veasels are just two hundred tone, and are certainly not the sufest creft in which to%eross the Allan in December; but we suppose the bility of ing drowned or disabled is part of the exeie- ment. The race was to commence yesierday at one P, Mf, and instructions have been telegrawhed to all vessets sailing in tae track of the rea distinguished nightand day by distinctive marks) to report the gress of the race at their respective ports of destivation. ‘Tho names of the yachty are the Henrietia, the Fleet wiug and the Vesta, the owner of the first named ves- sel being Mr. J. G. Pennott, Jr, sou of the well known American journalist of that name, and the present Manager of the New York Heraip, It is neodioss to sey Lust intense irtorest, ospecially in Aortea, is ex- cited in tbis ha rbrainod adventure. {Prom the Liverpool Mercury, Dec. 12. A trio of maynificent American yaclits sailed trom New York yesterday, on a race to Cowes, Isle of Wigut, thotr respective owners having each staked thirty th dollars, the winner to take the total amount THE WEATHER. “ lush, Wind aud Frost, Withiu the past fortnicht wo have bad abundant evt- dence of the oft-recurrent caprices of the weather, We have shivered throngh days worthy the clime of Laptand or Siberia, persmred under the rays of a vernal eun, waded through rivers of inud and veatured ou a perfous journey across Alpine ranges of snow, Bat our moss unpleasant experience haa beon gathered on days like yesterday, when unabio to don an overcoat because of the mildnesa of the temperature, unable to promenade tm a light jacket in dread of a sudden change, we bave been compelled to pick o path through the meaadorings of a city balf hidden undcr tho mud, and-have only sxe- cveded in reaching a given point after being drenched te the bone, A commingling of rain and snow, of heat and cold, and a sea of dense slush were the featuros of the weather yesterday. During the ecartior portion of the day the flakes which fell m serriod ranks from the leadem hued es, melted ere they reached the earth, At @ ater hour however, the thermomoter fell, and the enew whitened, at least, the untrodden ground. The awnings in front ‘of store? bent under its weight, the tops of vehicles were overiaid with ite purity, it settled in the foidy of one's garments, aud burdenod the rime of faaniouable hats. Every now and then, « faliing trom # slanting root would light upon the head of & passer-by and break into unpal, fragmenta, It threw upon tho cinmsy barges and steamboats on the rivera which convealed the rust on their anghors and the «taing on their salle, and gave to the craft sailing to and [ro aswanlike appearance. Tho very masse piles ayainst which the ferryboats came imto bait hourly cottision were draped ia wintry raiment, and sbook into the air millions of snowy particies when shaken by von- tant with one of the Hootie tenements. Unfortuuatety the snow dissolved speedily under the feet of the 4 destrians and the horse:’ hoofs, Althongh it beavily, and at time: formod a blinding mist throagh wuiech human deings became more and meaq- mental buildings mor masses of matter, the pave- ments of the city remained hidden undera layer of mad, and eleighing and snowballing were alike oat of the question The pleasures of promenading nnd skating were foregone, and the few Indies who emulated the their maie frieads and ventured forth, were waterproof garments at to be utterly aa- the umedboing. Srill the up town stores, ich were brilliantly lighted, were well pa ‘aor buyers, and tow vening myriads of wit’ Looks, toys and baubles, were ve town to bear to aristocratic mansions year porchaves, The weather however, failed to improve, and, with the shades of the night, the snow fell ag tinckly as bovere, « mise of a continuance of the wretched condition of streets for some daye to come. In the eventug the thermometer fell and the wind ross Pools of sinsh in the erty dried up, and ont ia the country the snow became hard and erisp, but waa nos deop enough t give promise of anything in the shape of sleighing. A bigh wind was blowing, and pedestrians iound it a matter of great diMeulty to keep their feet. Many, in spite of the utmost precaution, slipped on the fey pavement and fonnd’ that their opportunities for “geoing stars’ were thereby considerably tucreased. The Snow Storm in Westchester County. There wasa heavy fail c! snow yesterday throughout Ws stehester county. It commenced about ten in the morning and continued until five in the afternoon, Im many places the ground was covered to the depth of three inches, Along the line of the Hudson River and rail Ww was not of sufficient depth to + and trains made their regular 1 the frost hardened the ground, and ithe weath rt became colder, To wil! undoubtedly be good sleigiing. The Weather Elsewhere. Atnixy, Dec. 27.—A severe snow storm accom- A strong northwest wind has been prevailing sroater part of the day. All the railzond traine are more or less belsind me, and it is feared that the in the cou! unusually heavy. It is the storm has prevailed fh damage to shipping F ‘om bere, The gale was and lasted upwards of six hours ~Heavy northwest gale all the af- from the southesst, Darriorn, Dee. ternbon and to p ght Crncinwatt, Dec. 27,— Weather very cold. - Mercury urteen devrecs above zero, ho drains aro impeded by the jow storm day. Ther- xp, Des. orm to-day, He Purapenrats, Dec, 27,.—There is @ severe gale from the northwest this evening. There were several sl ght > snow during the day, but it is now clear and col Quennc, Dee, 27.—The thermometer to-day is twenty- Freab cast- throe de; above zero; barometer 29.68. erly wind, Weather fair. x70, Dee. 27.—About a foot of snow fell taxt might, asnivatox, D, C., Dec. 27.—A severe gale blowing all day from tie northwest; weather piercing eold clear. Stight fa of snow carly thie morning. Worcester, Masa, Dec, 27.—Wind northeast Saow- ing heavily, ‘Thermometer 30 degreee.

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