The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. sAMES GORDON BENS OTT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMOSE MENTS THIS EVEN ina. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—ALappix, tux WoNpERrUL ScAmP—CINDERELLA. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, epposite New York Holel.—Pxcoy Guxx x—Kxwicworta, THRATRE PRANCAIS, Fourteenth street near Sixth groans —Le Mortaxe ps Txxopoxs (Wao Kirusp Cock OMLN?) OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Srazers or New Yous. DODWORTH'S HALL, 805 Broadway.—Paoressor Hane wit Pero His Minacurs—Tue Heap ix tae Ain— Tue Inoiaw Basxnt Tuick—Prorsus. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth astreet.—Miss Mania Buainsao's ANNUAL GRawp Concent, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broatway, opvostte be Metropolitan Hotel—[v tacim Krntoray BNTERTSINe Berns, Singing, Dancin@ nD Coox KKLLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo- site the Now York Hotel.—Iw rae Soas, Danors. 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DERSY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 95 Broadway.—Graxp Exusatrion ov P, Rosa Bonagur’s Horse Fair, New York, Tuesday, February 19, 1867. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable, under date of yesterday evening, we have from London what purports to be an account of the Fenian “rising” in Ireland—its origin aud failure. The bistory is rather maddled, but from it we can glean tho fact that the goverament, through tho agency of spies, became aware of the fact that a serious revolutionary crisis was at hand, and took prompt mull. tary measures to crush the movement. It is denied that any property was destroyed at Killarney or else- where. Two bands of armed Fenians are avain spoken of. The British war steamer Gladiator, lying off Vatontia, lagded a detachment of marines in aid of the police at Caherciveen. The Fenian leader, Colonet O'Conner, with his staff, are said to have reached the Fenian vessels of Dingle Bay, and no arrests have been made from tee ranks of the rebels in the field inthe south, . Several Fenian officers were arrested im Limerick yes- torday ; fresh arrests have been made ia Duplin, end Ireland is reported tranquil. The King-Consort of Spain has been exiled from the country. Commander J. J. Cornwell, United States Navy, serving on the Miantopomoh, died suddenly in the port of Toulon, The ex-rebel pirate steamer Sumter has Deen lost in the North Sea A number of the high officers of Maximilian's government have arrived in Paris from Mexwo. Consois closed at 91 for money in London. United States Gve-twenties closed at 73% in London, at 77 in Frankfort, and at 833; in Paris, The Liverpool colton markot was quiet, with middling uplandsat 14d. S@read staffs quist. Provisions uechanged. CONGRESS. In the Sonate, yesterday, several bills of a local or Private nature were referred to the various committees or otherwise acted upon. The House bill for the elec- tioa of a Congressional printer was passed with an amendment. sr. Harris’ bill in relation to writs of error to the supreme Court, and the Military Academy Appro. priation bitl, alightly amended, wore passed. The Diplo- matic aod Coasular Appropriation bill was then taken up. Ao amennment inserting an appropriation to pay Mr Harvey, the Minister to Portugal, was agreed to after considerable debate, and the bill was passed. In the evening session the vote on the bill was reconsid- ered, and the appropriation for the State Department waa reduomt to $30,000. In the course of debate Mr. Saulabury took occasion to inveigh against Mr. Seward, whom ha catled the Mephistophiles of the age. The bil! was thon again passed as amended. Pending a motion to take up the Louisiana bill the Senate adjourned. in the Honse, under the call of States for bills and resolutions (or reference, bills providing tor the removal of Jadges of tbe Supreme Court on reasonable grounds, not sufficient for impeachment, and declaring all par- dovs grantod by the Executive to persons not tried and convicted to be null and void, were referred accordingly. ‘Mr. Nooit read a halt hour's speech ia faver of his pro- Ppowtion to extend suffrage to women, when bis resolu- tions were laid on the table, The amendments of tho Senate to Mr. Stevens’ Reconstruction bill were then takea up, and Mr, Stevens moved that the House non- eoncir, Mr. Spalding immediately moved that the House concur. Messrs, Boutwell and Stevens spoke at length in ‘Qpposition, and Mésers, Biaing, Bingham, Wilson, Stheack. Farnsworth and Garfield severally spoke in advocacy of the amendments. The previous question was Ooally seconded, and Mr, Stevens yielded a portion of the time to which he was entitled to ciose the debate to Mewes Gotchkiss, Broomall and otbers. It was finally agreed they the evening session should be de- voted to debate, af@ the vote should be taken at eleven o'clock to-day, The shate was therecpon continued throughout the evening session, Mr, Banks among others speaking against the Senate amendments, and no other business of importance was considered. THE CITY. The Fenians of the city are stil sanguine of a pendiog succeasful movement in Ireland. The discouraging of yosterday gave but a slight shock to thoir ardent expectations, and they soon disposed of the dampening information by disbelieving it, and thon, satisfactorily to themselves at least, disproving it. The excitement Stephens headquarters enrolling volunteers and receiv- ing donations, A few speoches were delivered in the evoning in front of the headquarters. Twenty-two liquor dealers were arraigned before the courts yesterday for alleged violations of the Excise law, eight of whom were held in $100, and six in $300 bail to saswor, while the remainder were committed. Thirty tpplers retarning from Jersey were fined ten dollars each for their day's recreation, or given ten days in hou thereof to think over it in prison. The Hrooklyn Board of Aldermen met yesterday after. nooo, when resolutions were passed appealing to the members of the Legislature to use their efforis in pro- venting tho establishment of a quarantine station on Coney Istand, such a bill, it is said, having been drawn ap. The Kings County Board of Supervisors mot yesterday afiervooa and received the report of the Committee on Lunatic Asylom, which set forth the present number of inmates of that institution, together with other interest. ing facta. A resolution directing the proper committee ty mako application to the Legislature to authorize the county to raise $130,000 om bonds, for the purpose of enlarging the asylam, was rejected. Miss Anna Dickinson delivered a lecture last evening in Hartom on “Something to Do,” in which she ad. vocated woman's rights and woman's claim to them in her usual style and before a fall audience. Proipssor Agassiz, at Cooper Inetitote, last evening, 4¢- livored his (ourth lecture, under the auspices of the Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science and Art, on “the Aquatic Animals of the Amazon.”’ The lecturer dis played vast acquaintance with his subject, and elucidated many points of fresh and valuable import. A fall ro- port of his diacourse will be found um this ieque of the Heat Governor Fenton, of this State, it ia expected, will then be decided. occagiona! sates were made at higher prices. Veal calves, in consoquence of freer receipts and a falling off in the demand, bave declined to 12¢c. a 13c. for extras, and 9c. a 1lc. for ordinary and common. The market for gheep and lambs ruled firmer under a fair demand wren bet nge, the liar te ccire. ue hog mater | whic’ te ast : altimstely be granted ;{ interest its to keep the'eesl fhots opioeated.’>' ruled dull, with 3 cer loads on anle, which qoredie- |and in bermogising the tetercsts of both’) TH peg hy gf Ma see The herd oom and gn rae feeeeee.. Othorarian, in, the. afort ta. eehulld | Ceteoetion of en. and menay to tim gh} a Tie. tbe ual reosipla were 4109 docves, 68 macn| MPOR “the laws and prejadices: of avery, of4 ie med Irclend it ty. the ‘polloy: of: the |’ aig cows, 537 veal calves, 16,451 aheep and lambs and 15,886 swine. ‘The official report of the latter had been received by ‘The former were defeated and lost all their vessels, and the commander aad twenty-six men wore taken prisoners, Advices by way of New Orleans trom Ori- zaba to the 11h inst. state that the final and complete evacuation of Mexico city by the French took place on the 6th inst. the whole expeditionary corps being on the way to Vera Cruz. General Marquez had been in- trusted with the defence of the capital with an army of mitian, wearing the Mexican uniform, bad reviewed the troops ia the city, Casilda, February 5. The report says:—Trade is dull and NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 186 7.—TRIPLE, . this the showman was ev.Wently nonplussed; but pulting the best face be could on the matter he changed his tactics 84 said, “Well, my dear sir, the fact is this old beste woman is all the capital Ihave in the wor.'d, 9nd will you not give a young fellow a chanc.” t0 make a start in life?” Our reply was “Ob, « bap put it on that ground, it is another ma ‘te? and we gave him the chance he solicited. | The present position of Barnum as regara. * his Congressional ventare is precisely similar to that which he occupied in his Joyce Heth speculation. He wants a start in political life on much the same capital as he posseased when he sought to make a start in active life. He is just as complete a humbug in politics as he was a3 a showman. In this respect, however, he will bes fit and proper representative for Bridge- port, Connecticut, In fact, be will appropriately represent the whole State of Connecticut in Congress and will be.an equal match for John Morrissey in any political trickery that may be going on at Washington. Both will be fitting representatives of this original and progressive age. They will be in perfect harmony. Their politics will-enable them to pair off on occa- sions when they desire to absent themselves from the House, and whenever the brandy and water is passed around by Forney or some other Congressional barkeeper Barnum will take the water and leave the liquor for Mor- rissey. By all means let Barnum be elected. It will be the last and biggest humbug of his life and will appropriately crown the edifice of humbug which he has been for so many years engaged in building up. The number of deaths in the city and public instita- tions last week was 414 A meeting of the Board of Fire Underwriters was held yesterday, when it was agreed to increase the rates of insurance On buildings, A motion was made before the Supreme Court, Gene- ral Term, yesterday for the admiasion of A. J, Rogers, member of Congress trom New Jersey, to practice, An important opinion was rendered yesterday by the Supreme Couri, General Term, in reference to the power of the judges of the State courts to interfere In discharg- ing enlisted men from the army on writs of habeas corpus, under a plea of minority, declaring that while it {3 of the opinion that these courts might have authorized such discharges prior to the passage of the acts of Con- gress of 1853 and 1864, that power no longer remains. The motion for @ new trial iu the case of Jeremiah O’Brien, convicted of the murder ot Kate Smith in Juno last, has been denied, and the sentence affirmed by the Supreme Court, The habeas corpus case of Captain George Olney has been postponed until Monday next, when Governor Fen- ton is expected to be present. The constitutionality of the requisition from Governor Pierpont, of Virginia, to ducing o large knife, Snobel stabbed Jacob Henry te the hoart, and then turning upon Etizabeth and her son inflicted upon them very severe wounds Jacob died instantly; his wife, it is feared, will not survive. The murderer was at once taken into custody by the Twea- tieth Precinct police. A Noble Charity. We trast. that our citizens will mot lose sight of the fact that the new Acadenry of Music is to be inaugurated on the 28th of this month by @ grand ball for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the members of the late vol- unteer Fire Department, The object for which the entertainment is given, as well as the in- terest attending the opening of the new build- ing, should render the affair one of the most brilliant of its kind that has ever taken place in the metropolis. Those who love dancing should not fail to profit by the opportunity, while those who have ceased to trip it on the light fantastic toe should make it a point of conscience to be present for the sake of the associations connected with the object of the ball. While, however, every exertion is being made by its promoters to render it as produc- tivé as possible to the charity, we are sorry to eee that a person named Maretzek is using efforts in the opposite direction, by filling the newspapers with advertisements and the walls with posters announcing that on the Ist of March he will “inaugurate” the Academy with what he calls a “bal de Vopéra,” or, in plain vernacular, a shoddy ball. We do not exactly see how the building is to be “ in- augurated” twice, unless it is contemplated to again burn it down and rebuild it in the brief interval that will elapse between the two en- tertainments. As the days of magic have passed away and’ we can expect no more Aladdin’s palaces to rise up at the bidding of enchanters, the phrase seems to us to be used in a sense that even the figurative style of advertisement phraseology will not justify. Would it not have been more charitable, kindly and becoming in a manager who professes to be the distributor and controller of sweet sounds and harmonies to have given the fire- men’s ball the precedence on the Academy bills? If there is one thing more than another which should strike a chord in the vibratory sensibilities of such a man, it is, it seems to us, this appeal in behalf of the widows and orphans of the unpaid body who, by their self- devotion and energy, have saved hundreds of valuable lives and millions of property—an example which we are sorry to say their suc- cessors are slow to imitate. Southern Reconstruction and Resteration—A ‘Decisive Settioment, “Land, ho!” waking up from an ugly dream, “land, ho!” shouts Greeley. “A gleam of day- light!’ in a feeble voice responds Raymond, over the new Senate bill for the reconstruction and restoration of the rebel States; and when such doubting Thomases are satisfied we must be near the Island of San Salvador. In truth, this Senate bill gives usa simple, complete, comprehensive and decisive settlement of this whole Southern difficulty, starting with the collapse of Jeff Davis at Appomattox Court House, and covering the whole ground to the readmission of the regenerated rebel States into full communion in Congress. In the first place all the Southern legislative experiments of President Johnson, from the beginning, are ewept aside, experiments which, a8 experience has proved, have been the only obstructions in the way. In the next piace Congress, assuming its full authority, proposes the temporary re-establishment of martial law over the ten outside rebel States, thus placing them back at the point of the President's un- authorized departure. Next, on a basis of universal male suffrage, “excepting such persons, guilty of rebellion or other crimes, as may be disfranchised,” the bill provides for the reorganization of said States; and next, on the basis of the great constitutional amendment, when it shall have been proclaimed part of the supreme law of the land, those States are to be restored to Congress. “Death and destruction,” cry the intractable copperheads ; life and salvation to the South, say we, are embodied in this measure. “Negro domination,” exclaims Sena- tor Saulsbury. But why should he be alarmed, when, by his own testimony, “the negro never has been the superior of the white man, and God Almighty and the valor of our race will prevent him (the Lord be praised) from ever becoming his superior.” “You propose to organize hell in the State of Louisiana,” says Mr. Doolittle ; but, Mr. Doolittle, this bill really proposes to do much the other way. “This is war,” be again exclaims; but, Mr. Doolittle, you are again mistaken; for it is peace. Remembering that Southern slavery and all ita political safeguards (a mighty mass of broken rubbish) have been consumed in the fires of war, the bill takes the Southern blacks out of the field of Northern politics and places them under the care and control of the Southern In the Supreme Court, Circuit, an action has been brought by Patrick Gilbride agaist Michael Hughes to recover $10,000 damages for injuries inflicted by a pistol im the bands of the defendant, Case still on. ‘The case of William H. Gilder, who bas been charged with having drawn pay as an officer in the United States Army after his discharge from the service, which had ‘eon set down for further examination yesterday before Commissioner Betts, did not go on. It was adjourned to Thursday, the 2lst inst. The Grand Jury of the General Sessions was empan- elled yesterday, and briefly charged by his honor Judge Russel. Mr, Charles J. Livingston was apgointed fore- man. The caso of Charles B. Munuel, who is charged with the murder of Henry Slosson, which was com- menced on Friday last, was resumed, Eleven jurors were obtained before the panel was exhausted, and the City Judge directod that thirty jurors be summoned for this morning, when, no doubt, the other competent juror will be sworn. The stock market was firm towards the close of busi- ness yesterday, Gold was dull and sold at 136% a X. The business in commercial circles yesterday was con- fined to the pressing exigencies of dealers, and the eeneral markets wore a dull and heavy look. In the main prices were without material alteration, though the changes that transpired were in nearly all cases favorable to bayers, Sugar—the most noticeable exception—was very active at an advance of 3c. Coffee was steady, with a fair demand. Naval stores were generally firmer. Petroleum inactive and drooping. Cotton was about Xe. eusier ands dull of sale, On 'Change flour tended downward. Wheat rated Ic. a Sc. lower. Corn was heavy. Qats heavy. Pork quiet but steady. Beof firm and fairly active. Lard heavy. Butter and cheese quiet but steady. The advance noticed in ‘beef cattle last week was barely sustained yesterday, though as a general thing previous prices were realized, the market, however, closing dull and heavy. Some extra commanded 173c. a 18¢ ; first quality sold generally at 163c. alfc, and fair to good lots 15c. a 16c , while common sold at 11c. a 4c. Milch cows were more generally inquired for and prices were more regular, ranging at from $40 to $115; Forward or Downward—The Law of Revo- lutions. In revolutionary times the watchword is forward or downward. Moderate men and measures are overwhelmed by the rush of events. “He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” The trimmer tacks this way and that in almost ludi- crous distress, is finally foundered and sinks. Only the strong grasp of some representative of one extreme party or of the other can seize and hold the helm. Popular reforms—that is to say, reforms abridging the privileges of an oligarchy and extending the liberties of the people—have often been suggested or planned and sometimes initiated by members of the very class which would suffer loss by them. The higher the rank of such persons the less illibe- ral they are apt to be in their theories. But if they overcome the restraint of their habits and lingering prejudices so far as to attempt a practical application of | their theories, these same persons are alarmed at the violent explo- The Irish Lnsurrection—The Cable News. The despatches by the cable on Sunday night and yesterday announcing that the insurgent forces in Ireland had suddenly “disappeared” of course come from the English government, and we therefore, accept them for what they are worth, and’ at that valuation they are exceedingly sniall. We cannot expect to re- soive-any true statement of the alate of affairs in Ireland by a means of communication which ia controlled at both ends by pasties whese British government “to suppress, and ‘that can heat be accomplished by reporting a fail- wre and collapse of the insurrectionary move- ment in the counties of Kerry and Cork, pro- vided the reports were believed. The very wording of the despatches, however, defeats their object; for it is not stated that the outbreak has been suppressed, that the armed insurgents were dispersed, or that any of the leaders were arrested, although we are informed that some ‘arrests were: made in Dablin, about a hundred and thirty miles away from the insurrectionary districts.. We can readily understand how a band of armed men can “disappear” in a mountainous region which they have selected for their stronghold to suit their own purposes. The officers in command, if the reports be true, got their military experience in Virginia and in the ranks of the Western army during our war, They are consequently familiar with the favorable circumstances which attend a cam- paign in the kind of country which Stephens has chosen for the first brush with the enemy. They know how to make a demonstration, effect their purpose and retire to await coming opportunities, reinforcements and combinations elsewhere, all, of course, agreed upon, not only in Ireland but in England. We must not expect that the cable news will give us the true story. We shall probably have to wait tor the arrival of special messen- caste and color, the two races, though relieved of slavery, must drift to the bloody scenes ot St. Domingo from the same incitements of political inequality. If the Southern dominant white race, therefore, will only recognize their present situation and act upon these ideas with a will, they may, under thie ultimatum of Con- gress, still be restored in season to wield the Southern balance of power. with the \aid of their blacks in the approaching Presidential election. The choice will rest with them to come in. or remain ‘outside till thoy have learned their lesson. The alternative presented to Mr. Johnson is equally clear. He must cut loose from the malign influences that have led him asiray or walk the plank. His Mephistopheles has been Mr. Seward, who, with his “good man Friday,” Thurlow Weed, has been working his wires mainly to coatroi the New York Custom House and the other federal spoils and plun- der here without much concern for Mr. Jobnson, When Mr. Seward, on that deplorable Chicago pilgrimage, pro- claimed his adhesion to Mr. Johnson, as President or King,a sharp eye would have seen the danger of such blarney and turned the unscrupulous sycophant adrift. But Mr. Jobnson may still repair all his damages in yielding gracefully to Congress. A veto of this bill, or anything like bad faith in execut- ing it, when it stiall have been proclaimed a law, will bring him before the Senate as a high court of impeachment, where, for certain “high crimes and misdemeanors,” he will be tried, convicted, condemned and removed, and Chief Justice Chave, as presiding judge, will pronounce his.sentence. The case, with the South and with Mr. John- son, is foreclosed and’ admits of no further ap- peal. His appeal to the people last fall, though he would not believe their verdict, has settled the question. He ought then to have acted upon the tailor’s sound maxim that “a stitch in time saves nine.” But still he may save himself and his administration in doing the work cut out by Congress. The Southern State rights coat of Calhoun is too high in the waist and too short in the tail for the present fashions, and to be “sound on the goose” it is no longer the style to “damn a nigger, any- how.” This fact is beginning to be under- stood by the Northern democracy. They are almost ready to admit that negro suffrage will not destroy “the constitution of our fathers,” We must say, however, that upon this bill of Congress the democrats of both houses have adhered to the folly of the old woman who persisted in sweeping the sea tide out of her door till drowned in her cabin. But with all their follies and obstinate blundering since Beauregard’s initial bombardment of Fort Sumter, the democratic party, like Mr. John- son, may still recover a solid position in a new departure. Recognising the settlement of the Southern problem, they have only to fall in with the prevailing public opinion upon the bank question, the tax question or the money question in all its phases, in order to rally the masses of the people around them, North and South, whites and blacks. With the settlement of the Southern question and the negro ques- tion the money question will rale the day; and upon this great question, as it stands, the party in power is the party of the moneyed aristocracy arrayed against the great body of the people. Here, then, leaving Southern reconstruction to “manifest destiny”—here, upon this money question, is the proper field for the restoration of the democratic party. After a sixty years’ contest the negro has fairly beaten them on every point; but in “dropping the nigger” and in reviving Old Hickory’s fight upon the question they may rise again into, power | One of the earliest “appeals to the people” was made by Lucius Junius Brutus, when he exhibited to the Romans the bleeding corpse of Lucretia. Notwithstanding the affected in- sanity under which he masked his’ patriotic sentiments he held an important magistracy, and although the expulsion of the Tarquins and the abolition of royalty, which was the consequence of his appeal, was'a purely patri- clan revolution yielding no. immediate advan- tage to the great body of the people, yet it taught the people of later days how to drive out tyrants and upset thrones. Thus “the liberty of Rome, at its starting point,” says a thoughttul historian, “was in. the leash of the patricians.” Valerius, the successor of Col- latinus as the colleague of Brutus, won the surname of Publicola, “the friend of the peo- ple,” and fairly inaugurated the long conflict between the patricians and the plebeians by proposing the laws which bore his name restraining the consular power—the executive of that time—and securing to the plebeians a right of trial by their peers simi- lar to that enjoyed. by the patricians, His brother, Marcus Valerius, strenuously supported the reasonable demand of the people for a redress of their grievances when they were treated like slaves by their patrician creditors. These illustrious brothers and many who shared the liberal feelings of their own “class could trace their descent from the earliest members of their order, while the haughty and selfish old fogy who was, their principal opponent was a Sabine, and had changed his name from Artus Clausus to Appius Clandjus, when he migrated to Rome. His opposition was unsuccessful, and after the passage of a law to which the people assented, providing for a single supreme magistrate, the Senate ruled with some show of justice Subse~ quently, indeed, patricish cruelty to plebeian debtors was revived 7 but it provoked a seces- sion of the plebeiaw armies in the midat of war. No less than twesty thousand plebeiani soldiers” marched out of camp to @ hill on tte, river Anio, where they were joined by vast tudes of their discontented brethren. Senate discovered that the popular demands must be complied with before they had time to be increased. It was, therefore, compelled to conclude with the seceders « treaty which was the Magna Charta of the plebeians, and the hill itself became, under the title of Mons Sacer, a sacred landmark in the history of Roman liberty. The Valerian lawa were restored to their former efficacy, and five annual magis- trates, whose persons were declared to be inviolable, were chosen to watch over the rights of the people. After having gained what is ealled personal liberty, through the protection of their tri- bunes, the plebeians maintained with varying fortunes a long conflict with the patricians, in order to win at first social and afterwards political liberty. Coriolanus, a still stronger type than Appius Claudius of the old fogy patri- clan, made the cruel proposal to the Senate that the corn generously sent by a Sicilian prince to Rome during a famine should not be distributed to the starving until the plebeians had relinquished all the privileges which they bad acquired by their recent secession. On coming oat from the Senate after making his detestable speech Coriolanus would have been lynched by the mob, which was infuriated by the want of food as well as thirst for liberty, if the tribunes had not interposed their autho- rity. The latter cited him to triat before the tribunes. He retorted that they, had no right to sit in’ judgment on such ‘as he; but the tribunes were resolute, and even the Senate warned him that be must yield, He was impeached, tried, convicted and con- Gowned to exile, “Spurtus Cassius, who pre- MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telegrams from Matamoros dated February 15, contirm the story of Miramon's defeat by Escobedo. General Berriozabol. The battle was probably nothing more than a spirited attack upon Miramon’s rear guard, followed up by a'Oharge and pursuit with cavairy. A number of prisoners and all the imperial artillory, am- manition trains and equipage were captured. A large portion of the imperial force was scattered through the country. Miramon is reported to have fled so suddealy that he left his private carriage with $25,000 in silver belind him. Juarez had returned to Zacatecas, Castello was reported marching on San Luis Potosi. A naval fight occurred on the 20th of January, off the bar of San Francisco, betweon the liberal and imperial squadrons. tom thousand men. The imperial army is estimated by imperialiays at fifty thousand men, well armed. Maxi- From Trinadad de Cuba we have advices dated at Port crops are coming in rather slowly. No freights offered or likely to offer soom for Burope or America, Weather fine and favorable. Tho secret mission of the steamer Gettysburg, with Frederick Seward and Admiral Porter on board, has been unearthed. The intention was to purchase the island of St Domingo for a coaling station. President Ca bral thought the plan a good one, but demanded cash down and plenty of it| 4 large amount of specie had deen brought aboard st Annapolis, but at Port Royal, Jamaica, the sailors broke into the wardroom where it was stored, abstracted three bags of it, and doserted the ship with their booty. Bat a reward of $100 boing offered for the recovery of the money, the search for them was very brisk, and one of them was caught with a fortune en his porson, He was turned over to the First Lieutenan:, who, it is said, compassionately returned the money to him and sent him ashore. Thus the “‘mis- sionaries’ had not money enough to purchase St. Do- mingo, aad, after recuperating their health at Nassau, returned fisappointed to Anmapolia, The cao of Michael Thowas against Thomas F. Bowie, a member of Congress from Maryland, to recover the amount of three promissory notes for $1,000 each, given for an aleged gambling consideration in 1857, which was declared for the defendant im the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on proof that the payee of the note wasa notorious gambler, and that Bowle would gamble when be was drank, and that he was drunk at the time, bas been brought on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Davis reverses che decision on the ground that there is no proof that Bowie gambled on that occasion any more than there would be that a man being addicted to horse stealing when drunk was drunk at a certain time, and therefore stole a horse. A maa named Carrier, who bad given bonds to answer to a charge of stealing « horse in Kentucky, was taken from his home in Parkeaville, in that State, on Sunday night aad hung by amob. The horse was taken from rebels st the battle of Perryville by Carrier, and the mob which hung him was composed mainly of Quan- trell’s guerillas, General Geo, H. Thomas was fecently requested by the Mayor of Rome, Ga, to release soveral young men who had been imprisoned by General Tilson for displaying the Confederate flag ia @ private theatrical exhibition in that city, General Thomas reads the Mayor and all the individuals engaged a severe and wholesome lesson, and orders their release. The ship Addison, from Kennebunkport, is reported lost, with all on board, exeept the captain, mate, a pas- senger and four seamen. The captain's wife and child are among the number lost. A portion of the town of Toledo, Ohio, was submerged by a freshet in the Maumee river yesterday, caused by an ice gorge, Tho Cherry street bridge, a quarter of « milo in length, was partly carried away, aod the steamer Bolle was sunk, Governor Aiken, of South Carolina, says the South Will be territorialized in less than two weeks, Ho has Just returned home from Washington. Out St. Louis correspondent gives a detailed account of the recent convention for the improvement of the Mississippi river bold at that pince. An attempt at triple murder was last night mado in the Twentieth ward, A German shoemaker named Willlam snobel, who had for some time been on hestite torma with Jacob and Kiizabeth Alonry and their som, alt Of whom dwelt in the same tonoment hones with him- solf, committed @ doadly assault Upon whe three. Pro. comes by the Atlantic cable, if unfavorable to the insurgents, will probably be just as worth- less as the Reuter despatches concerning the Cretan insurrection, which we now know were inspired by the Turkish government, which stands in the same position with regard to the insurgent Christian Cretans as the British gov- ment does to the insurrectionary people of Ireland. o Rarnam Up fer Congress ia Connecticut. When the democrats of New York nominated John Morrissey for Congress in. this city it was regarded as a very bold act, and it was gene- rally conceded that the party had exhibited a greater amount of courage than the world had given them credit for. The radicals of Bridge- port, Connecticut, have, however, far outrivalled the New York democracy in boldness and hardihood by putting forward Barnum as their Congressional candidate. Well, courage and pluck are qualities that always excite a certain amount of sympathy, and it was on this ac- count that we really felt disposed to favor Morrissey, although it is unquestionably true that he was of material assistance to us in in- suring Hoffman's defeat. As regards Barnum, we feel disposed to do as much for him as we did for Morrissey. He will meet with a very powerful opposition on account of his antece- dents and associations, He has a hard contest before him and will naturally enlist the sym- pathies of those who are inclined to help “the under dog in the fight.” Barnum has no doubt calculated upon the support of the Heraty when seeking the nomi- nation for Congress. Many years ago, when’ ono of our present well known hotel keopers was exhibiting « fat ox in a corner of an open lot in this city subsequently called Niblo’s Gar- den, Barnum setup a rival show in the opposite corner, with an old negro woman namod Joyce Heth, and astonished the public by announcing that she was the veritable nurse of George Washington, aged one hundred and fifty years. He paid o visit to the Heraxp office, and, pro- ducing a pile of documents, gravely offered to prove to our satisfaction that the negross was really what he represented her to be; but we shook our head, and told bim very plainly that our incredulity was not to be overcome by sny array of Gocumontary evidenge, At trurried, on -t00::fast » & posed the first of fhaf series of agrartan faws, “each one of which formed an epoch in the his tory of Roman liberty,” was in some respects an antetype of the modern French Girondists, He was doubted by his countrymen on both sides. After his second appointment as Consul he proposed bis agrarian’ law, provoked the anger of the patricians, was deserted by the plebeians and was executed. His fate shows that there was no middle course to be pursued between -the factions by which the common- ,,Yealth was sundered. 1,"be sad and thrilling story of Virginia was made tae pretext for a plebeian revolt and secessio'8 0D account of the refusal of the pa- tricians to’ Correct the defects and oppressive features of t.:\¢ Twelve Tables. The question of Trebonius, a° tribune, “Are our tribunes to be patricians or pétricians’ slaves?” was at length settled by .*lecting from the plebeians four out of six tribun'es, and the promises of popular leaders were b ginning to be fulfilled nearly a century after ‘he secession to the Sacred Hill. The patrician’ continued to be divided into two parties, the n\oderate and the extreme, represented at # later yeriod, the one by Camillus, and the other by Ms\nlius, “a pop- ular man ;” that is, a supporter \of the ple- beians, and particularly of the poor‘ plebeians, Camillus was checkmated by the res.'stance of the tribunes, and when again appoin.‘ed Dio tator, himself extended the olive brancl.\ to hie opponents and built e temple to the Go ideas of Concord. Ere long the truce expires ond oppression reigns again. A young plebei va debtor escapes from the fiendish creditors La whom he had given himself in place of his father, and, like the old centurion of a former age, exposes his wretchedness to the people. This. excites an insurrection which leads to the abolition of imprisonment for debt, and, as Livy says, to “a second beginning of freedom.” Afterwards, during the golden age of Rome, there. prevailed a tendency on the part of the higher faction of the patricians and the lower class of the plebeians to coalesce, for the sake, on both sides, of obtaining greater superiority over the moderate party. The best patricians and most eminent plebeians were then combined with all the middle classes into @ great popular party. The whole history of the Roman Common- wealth offers no more splendid examples of “popular men” than the sons in whom Cornelia exulted as the mother of the Gracchi. Tiberius Gracchus had imbibed the liberal opinions which he was accustomed to hear expressed by his father and his father’s distinguished guests. Those old Roman Girondists were at first his abettors, as well as counsellors, in. his scheme for modifying privileges which they himto a@vintage. ” But von if he had wisbea’ ” himself to retrace his steps, “the cause was 20 longer under his control, since he had made # * the public property of his partisans.” Afterhe had been struck down by one of bis colleagues and killed by another and his memory had been blackened with a monstrous hem having aspired to the tyranny, the people ne theless could not be deterred from the projects which he promulgated, and his opponents dared not repeal the agrarian law, which now went by his name. His brother, Caius Gracchas, continued the great. work bequeathed to him by Tiberius until he likewise in the cause of the people. “He sowed,” ssys the historian, “the seeds of war ofa hundred years.” Sixty years later than tho ‘passage of the law which took the name of Tiberius, Cesar himself inherited the popularity of the Graccht. by bringing forward with all the weight of hie official position as consul, and successfully, a new agrarian law. All are familiar with the care he took to retain amid his subsequent enormous accumulation of powers the olaime of an avowed champion of the people. At his funeral Antony told the people :— You all did see that on the I thrice preseated him orowa, Which he did thrice refuse. The eloquent voice of Cicero was not listened to amid the din of fierce contending factions. His counsels were at once too moderate and too undecided. His was the fatal reward of ali waverers in troublous times. The same in- exorable law governs ancient and modern revolutions... The strong and bold, as well as "the timid-and-feeble, must yield to-the popular | pressure or fall beneath it. ‘The history of the last hundred years of the Roman Commonwealth ia largely the history of ®& contest between patricians and plebeiana, | which lasted until the great Roman oligarchy was brokem down and the herd of paupers and slaves. was yoked to the triumphal car of military despotism. In England the long struggle between King and Parliament, which cost Charles the First his head, was ended by the revalution of 1009. [y the French revolw tion, which beheaded Louis the Dinwewsn the Girondists liad to give way to the Jacobins. The recent constitutional reforms conceded by the Emperor Napoleon: the Third show that in France the revolutionary conflict has not yet been finally decided. In England the cry for reform is but the signal for a renewal of the old conflict between the privileges of am oligarchy and the rights of the: people. In the United States we are ourselves in the midst of a revolution in which reactionists of every stripe, from secessionists and copperheads to moderate republicans, must either go. with the swelling tide or be overwhelmed by it. The Coutral Park Commissions » and the Public Parks. A bill has passed the State Senate giving the Central Park Commissioners control of all the public parks in the city. This is a very desirable and proper measure and should: become a law. The Central Park Commission- ers have shown that they thoroughly under- stand their duties and are competent to dis- charge them efficiently and honestly. What- ever changes may be made in our municipal government by the State Constitutional Con- vention, there will be no inclination to inter- fere with that commission. The parka will become ornaments to the city if placed under their control, and there will be an end to all attempts to divert them from the uses for which they are set apart and to make them the instruments for building up profitable jobs, The Assembly should put the bill through immediately the Legislature reconvengs. The Boston Liqnor Law, Rosron, Feb. 18, 1867. constabulary prosecuted forty-nine lanog tng yrook, The Qentoge Of)