The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HE ALD. JAMES GORVON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR y OFF{O# N. W. CORNER OF FUT.TON AND NASSAU STS, THE BAILY HERALD, published cvery day in the year, Foomcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FQe ents per copy. Annual subscription price: — Five Copies. ‘Ten Copios.. -b JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stercotyp- ing and Bngraving, neatly and promptly executed at the Oncet rales. Volume KM MEE... cece ccceccseceeeeee AMUSBMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. @treet —Rorr 0' Sreme *Mons—Yankex Covtsuie, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposit Howl Tas Livrur Turasvne—Focaiomas N°" York GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dew Lowrensamacer vor Panis. WOOD'S THEATRI Broad a Wotel-Usaas Tuw Hate Biogen. 7” PPowe St Nicholas OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Rosx or Casti.r. DODWORTH HALL, 406 Broadway.—Prorrssor Wanrz witt Pervorm His MIRacues—L'Escamateug axp Han Fa.er Suncune Biro STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street and Fourth ave ‘nue —Gmanp Concert. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broidw: the Metropolitan Hotel—Ly taain’ Erarorian vs, Singing, DANOING AND BuRiKsques.— CooK—Srinit Has Barks oF THE AMAZON. KELLY & LEON" Bethe New York aly TH ‘Toorrtes, Burtesques, &0. Bacuee Teovrr—Nowa. FAFTH AVENUE OPERA GR! 4 SCAR TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cosc YooaLum, Negro MINSTRELSY, Batter Divextisseaunt, &0.—Tuk Scortism fHxno. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Wechanios’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Variety or ano Cavenaser Enterrainwxnts.—Tne Feaach OLEnKs ‘or Wasitinarton. XLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermrorian Mix- Battans anv Buxuxsqurs.—fue Biack Max TUR BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Unton Hall. corner of ‘Twenty-third atrest and Broadway, at 7%(.—Moria Min- Rot oy THe Pivcrin’s PRocuess—Sixty MAGNIFICENT Scenes. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 3 o'clock, NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rrosdway.— Heap ano Kicur Anu or Pronst—Tix Waswixctox ‘Twins—Wonpers ix Natural History, Screxce axp Akt. Laorvnus Daicy, Open from 8 A.M. Ul WP. M. NATIONAL HALL, Harlem.—Cors, Perpy axp Cox- veuse's MINSTRELS. New York, Monday, March 25, 1867. THE NEWS. * EUROPE. ‘Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- @ay, March 24. . In Ireland the Fenian prisoners are to be placed on ‘drial for high (reason, the judicial commission opening in Dublin on the 9h of April, The correspoadence be- twoon the English and French governmonts relative to the extradition of M. Lamarinde from Canada ie pub- lished in London. By mail we have a vory interesting special letter from Paris relative to the prosecution of M. de Girardin, by positive order of the Emperor of France, for the publica- tion in the Liberté mowspaper of an article “exciting to haired and contempt of the government.” A transiation of che orignal articls appears in our columns. Tho main points of detail of what appears to have Deon the oxpiring offorts of the Fenian insurgents in the fold im Ireland wore published in the Hrnaup yes- Yerday morning. A few additional facts are reported bo-day. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Panama correspondence is dated March 13. A British Crigate appeared off Carthagona on the 27th of Fovruary, and the captain addressed a note to the Presi- dent iasiating that the British Consul should receive the mails bofore they were sent to the local Post Office, and that tho President should apologize for past offences in respect to the matter. The President evaded a decisive answer to these propositions A war steamer in the service of Mosquera came into portin the meanwhile and was asized by the Englishman. The demands wore reiterated, with threats of taking other measures in tha event of non-compliance, and the President, fearing bombardment, succumbed and apologized, promising to do better in future. A revolution was imminent at any moment in Bogota, the breach between Congress and the President having assumed a threatening attituds, Mr. Burton, the American Minister, had left the capital on hia way bome. The unsettled state of alfairs precludes the possibility of an American Congress at Lima during the prosont year, The Wataree had arrived from Callao. ‘The stermer R. R. Cuyler, recently seized at this port and sabsequentiy released on bonds not to violate the noutrality laws, had arrived at Santa Martha, Our Vaiparaiso and Lima letters are dated on the 16th apd 26h of February. The unpopularity of Prado, tho Prosidout of Peru, was being made manifest by mutinies a his troops and police. ‘The obnoxious poll-tax rooenty levied had been suspended. Tucker, the Con- federnte admiral of the Peravian navy, had resigned. ‘The question of religious freedom was being agitated. The Poncacola, Captain Worden, arrived at Lima on the 234 ult. The President of Chile, bis cabinet and most of the diplomatic agents were in Valparaiso, The Question of a u:uce with Spain had been definitely rejected by Peru. The mediation offered by the United States was still under consideration. A serious obstacle to its ac- ceptance was the recent misunderstanding between Ad- miral Tucker and Captain Staniey, of the United States steamship Tuscarora, owing to which the usual courte- sins between Peru and the United States had been sus- pended. General Kilpataick is now hard at work trying fo straighten the entanglement. The American ships Goorge Raynes, of Boston, the Flora McDonald, of Balti- moro, and the George V. were all burned in t he harbor, Jhe former on the 11th and the two last on the 16th ult. The United States steamer Dakota was in the bay. By way ot Panama we have reports from Australasia, fated at Sydney on the 30th of January, and at Welling- ton, Now Zealand, on the 7th of February. The colonial Progress was not very active. The revenue of Victoria for 1866 shows @ considerable decline, and the ‘yield of gold during the year was less, New Zealand was again powetul. The Sydney market was fairly suppliod with Amoncan goods, but in some instances the prices were not satiafactory to the importers. The American steamer Metoor reached Melbourne from Singapore, aud sailed again on tho 10th of January, after coaling. Mail details of the news from Japan, dated at Yokohama to the 25th of January, report the followmg items: e American Minister, who went to Nagasaki in the United ‘Staves ship Wyoming in November last, passing through tho Lutand Sea, returned after an absence of four weeks, having boon everywhore cordially received by the Japan- ov. In tho rebollding of Yokohama great improve- monts are being made, The streets are being widened aud made more direct, eral Sickies has issued his order assuming com- mand of the Second Military District, comprising the States of North and South Carolina. He requests the co-operation of civil oificers and ail good citizens in gocuring the public peace. The ex-rebol General Longstreet has expressed his op ations on the reeonstraction pian in the columns of the Now Orleans Times, Ho says there is no humilia. | tion atiached to an acceptance of the terms proposed by Congross, and he has no reason to doubt that such an | accoptanes, in good faith, will secure the readmission of the southern States. The steamship Ocean Queen finally sailed for Panama yosterday, after being delayed several days in the harbor 00 account of storms. The funoral of the tate Amor J, Williamson took placo yestorday, with Masonic rites and ceremonies. The body waa interred in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Tho official report of Saperintendent Kennedy on the Bi Patrick's Day riots was submitted to the Policaom- miaaoners on Saturday, and is published in our columns to-day, Accompanying it is the affidavit of George M. ? } + . 4 - esplanade ie atone elaine tater artn arenes: NKW YORK "HERALD, MONDAY,.’MAKCH 25, 1867, Burgess, the truck driver who was the unfortunate cause of tho affray, ‘The surgeon's report states that thirty. Loree policemen were injured, nine of them being classed as seriously aad the same number as severely. All of them are reported to be improving. _ ‘Three men ands wo were arrested yerterday for disturbing the devotions of a colored congregation in Brooklyn by ocoasional cat-calls, groans and showering split peas, spit balls and other missiles upon them from concealed perch in the gallery. Justice Cornwell gave them some good advice and let them go. Another riot occurred in Fishkill on Satdrday night, caused by the enemies of Joseph Bull, who was mobbad some time ago for alleged improper intimacy with his employer's wife, Mra. Davis. On this occasion all the property of Mrs, Davis was seized by the rioters. Sev- eral persons who were indicted for participation in the former riot were engaged in the one on Saturday night. Sergeant Bergmann, one of the soldiers injured in the recent affray at Carlisle, Pa, died on Saturday. In- vestigations are being made into the origin of the riot by the civil authorities, but no information of importance has been elicited. Genera! Grier has furaished a volu- minous report to the authorities at Washington. ‘The body of a missing girl was found in ber father's cellar im Brandon, Vi, recently, and her father hes been arrested on suspicion of having caused her death. President Johuson’s Administration—His Past Mistakes and Present Opportunities. Under the lights of history the administraiion The French Empire and the Presecation of M, Girardin. We have received by the last steamer the details of the prosecution and conviction of M. Girardin, editor of Za Liberté, for the obnoxious article, a translation of which wo publish to-day. It alppears that M. Girardin has not only appeale@ from the sentence of the court imposing a upon himself and his printer, but he bas y declared that he is no longer an t of the empire, and that the political and sqcial relations of twenty he has held with promi- tly circulated, in which would share the fate of Louis Philippe. Simul- taneously, the Paris correspondents of the Eng- lish papers hint mysteriously at renewed con- spiracies in France, where republicanism and Orleansism are by no’means quite extinct, Under these circumstances we cannot doubt that the Emperor Napoleon already heartily regrets the ill-advised prosecution of M. Girar- din, and will have canse to regret it even more of Mr. Johnson has so far been a budget of | heartily in future. M. Girardin is a gentlumaa blunders. His first mistake was one of omis- sion, and we locate it on the 15th day’of April, 1865, the day on ‘which he was sworn into office, Abraham Lincoln had lived to see the subjugation of the armies of the rebellion and had been received in triumph among the smok- ing ruins of Richmond. The work of destruc- of unquestionable talents, great wealth end high social position; be has been for many years prominent in French politics; he has been very intimate with Louis Napoleon, and at the time his objectionable article appeared he was most intimate with the Prince Jerome. When a personof such standing deliberately tion had substantially ended, and the task of | recalls his adhesion to the empire the move- recovstraction confronted Mr. Jobnson from the moment after he had taken the Presidential oath. As this business exclusively belonged to the sovereign legislative branch of the gov- ernment, the first duty and the first stroke of sound policy which ought to have occurred to the mind of Mr. Johnson was a proclamation calling an extra session of Congress. As the law then stood, without such a call the recess (short session), which had commenced on the 4th of March, would last (ill the first Monday in December. Seven months and a half were still before Mr. Johnson to act, with or without Congress as he might determine; and in deter- mining to appropriate this long interval to the development of his own policy, in forestalling and superseding the rightful authority ot Con- gress, he committed his first and greatest biunder. Through all the summer and autumn of 1865, however, while assuming and exercising the exclusive powers of Congress in the working up of his provisional Southern State establish- ments, he still pleaded the constitutional plea ot the supervising and sovereign jurisdiction of Congress. In his first message (December, 1865) to the two houses this sovereign author- ity was conceded in the attempt that was made to evade it. It was not till the 22d of February, 1866, however, in that famous stump speech from the White House, that the first tiit against Congress war made by Mr. Jobnson, and in this bis hostility was limited to saoh violent radicals as Stevens and Sumner and “the dead duck” Forney. In fact, running through the last April Connecticut election, and down to the adoption of the pending constitutional amendment by Congress, the position of Mr. Jobnson was that of a republican President who intended to fight out his fight against the extreme radicals within the lines of the party. Had he adhered to this resolution, in falling in with that amendment, he might still have be- come master of the situation ; but just here he committed another dissstrous mistake to him- selt in uppealing from Congress to the people, disastrous especially from the way in which be pushed this appeal. His Philadelphia August National -Conven- tion was an offensive mockery, an incongruous jomble of dead heads, adventurers, crudities and curiosities. Instead of serving him any good purpose it broke up his independent na- tional party programme, and left him at the mercy of the helpless remnant ot the Chicago democracy. Then followed that melancholy pilgrimage to the grave of Douglas, of itseif a great budget of blunders, a stumping tour which, in connection with the Memphis and New Orleans massacres, brought down upon Mr. Jobnson'and his policy that tremendous avalanche of Congressional republican majori- ties which last fall swept the country from Maine to Calitornia. Here, however, was an- other chance of salvation to the Executive in the acceptance of the verdict of the people and in falling in with the policy of Congress which they had so emphatically approved. Bui this verdict, which he bad sought, he utterly ignored in his annual meesage of last Decem- ber, and still discussed the saving virtues of his own condemned and exploded heresies of restoration. The repudiation, then, of all “his two years’ labors and their results in the work of South- ern reconstruction, with a new beginning from Appomattox Court House, was the only alter- native left to Congress, involving, if necessary, the impeachment and removal of the President himself. Over half a dozen vetoes, more or less, this sweeping work of reconstruction has been consummated. Mr. Johnson, completely defeated at every point, and with the sword of impeachment still hanging over his head, is now left to the test of the execution of these laws. What, then, are his opportunities for the redemption of his administration? His first opportunity is that which is offered him to save himself in seeing these reconstruc- tion laws of Congress “faithfully executed.” We are gratified with the evidences before us of his good intentions in that direction. But, bound fast by the new tenure of office in the | matter of his patronage, and placed in the grip of the Secretary of War, is not the Executive reduced to a mere automaton? In this busi- ness of Southern reconstruction he may be, but there are other questions open to Mr. Johnson, such as our future financial policy, including taxes, tariffs, bonds, banks, currency, retrench- ment and reform ; and our foreign policy, em- bracing a settlement with England and & new and definite understanding with all foreign Powers upon commercial rights, belligerent rights and neutral rights. On these great questions Mr. Johnson, if he wili, may take the lead in shaping the programme of the future dominant party of the nation, and in this way he may still leave for his administration a good report in history. The ground which he has lost, if we consider bim as playing the Presidential game of an aspirant for another term, may not, per- haps, be recovered; but he has still a splendid margin not only for totally eclipsing the ad- ministrations of Tyler and Fillmore, but for reviving ona grander scale the old financial anti-monopoly party of Gencral Jackson. ment isominous. But, besides this, M. Girar- din is the first journalist in France ; his name alone will create an immense circulation for any paper with which it is connected; his writings influence many thousands of people. We infer, therefore, that he -has not taken his present course without the certainty that he is strongly supported and that he will be numer- ously followed. The moment which he has chosen is also most opportune. The French people have lost faith in Napoleon.’ His lucky star has set, and that fatality in which ell the Napoleons have believed begins to turn the tide against him. The unfortunaic Mexican expedition was the first of a series of disasters, and the French people, always superstitious, have lost confidence in their ruler. His con- duct towards M. Girardin is not calculated to reassure them. The Indépendance Belge tells us that Napoleon was very angry at M. Girar- din’s article, and threatened to withdraw all his liberal promises; then became more tran- quil and “ did not wish to make a victim of M. Girardin ;” then gave way to his rage again and directed the prosecution to continue. | From other sources we learn that he was ; equally vacillating in regard to the sentence; for when the judges had condemned M. Girar din to both fine and imprisonment tlhe Emperor struck out the latter punishment. Such fluc- tuations of temper are not characteristic of a great raler. On the contrary, the French inter- prot them as a new ilinstcation of the proverb that the gods first maiden those who are to be destroyed. : And, after all, what does the result of the prosecution of M. Girardin prove? It estab- lishes the fact that in Paris the pric of “en- deavoring to excite hatred and contempt of the government” is one thousand dollars in gold for the writer of the article aad twenty dollars in gold for the printer. This isa cheap rate for revolution. Again, by admitting that there were “extennating circumstances” in this ease, the court indirectiy censured M. Rouher, the representative of the government ; for his speech was the only extenuation that M. Girardin pleaded. The French ate not slow to perceive these ridiculous bat logical sequences and to appreciate their force. In all prosecutions of this kind the people side with the press, They instinctively feel that to atiack the press is the worst possible confes- sion of werkness upon the part of any govera- mont, Thanks to such editors as M. Girardin in France, the elder Walters in England and others who might be named in the United States, journelism is now a profession, like the law, or medicine, or the church, and it is entitled to the same privileges and immunities. There was a time when a lawyer was not allowed to speak freely on bebalf of his client; | when a docior was burned at the stake if he { chanced to be too skilful; when a clergyman suffered martyrdom if he preached any other religion than that approved by the govern- ment. The interference of the governments of ! Europe with the press is a relic of that bar | barous epoch, and 1aus! soon pass away. The press is only powertul when it says what is | true, and any government which fears the press fears the truth. The hundreds of wara- ings and fines and suppreasions which Napo leon has imposed upon the press of France have not annihilated revolutionary feelings ; but, on the contrary, have strengthened them. A government that tries to force the press to praise it, that opens private letters to prevent the circulation of hostile pamphlets, and that seizes all foreign journals which contain un- palatable truths, renders itself contemptible, and is soon hated. The outbreak of M. Girar- din shows the sentiments that underlie the smooth surface of French imperialism, and as | we once informed Louis Napoleon that the French monarchy was near its fall, basing our opinion upon the tone of the French journals, so we now warn him that such biunders asthe | prosecution of the editor of La Liberté will ultimately be even more dangerous to his dynasty than Mexican expeditions or Austrian | | alliances. Alexander I. Stephens Wants to Wait, It is said that the late Vice President of the | late Southern confederacy has counselled the | South to do nothing, but weit. This is bad advice from Mr. Stephens. What the South | wants most of all just now is active progress | and instant co-operation with those measures which have been presented by Congress for reconstruction, Such men as General Lee, Wade Hampton and other leaders of the late rebellion are urging the people in this direc- tion with a view to restore them to their political status as soon as possible, and there is an evident design on the part of both Legislatures and people to follow their advice. The inactivity which Mr. Stephens counsels is anything but masterly. Stagnation is the principal thing which the South has now to fear. Candia and the Porte. It appears from our cable announcements of yesterday that the Ottoman Porte has turned @ deaf ear to the advice of his friends and emphatically refused to cede the Island of Candia to Grooce, But one rosult can follow $$ ee this refusal. She insurrection will rage more fiercely than ever; the government of the Sultan, having disregarded the advice, will be left without the sympathy, of the European Powers; and it is not improbable that by this very means the solution of the Eastern ques- tion will be hastened. The Destruction of Winter Garden—Revival ef the Legitimate Drama- We reported yesterday morning, with much regret, the particulars..attending the total de- struction by fire of the Winter Garden theatre, Broadway, a calamity which involved the sud- den loss of the uninsured properties of Mana- ger Stuart, Mr. Booth the actor, and other per- sons engaged in the establishment ; but it was, ‘as if in the order of providential interference, unaccompanied with loss of life, owing to the hour of the day at which the fre originated. Asin the instances when the Academy of Music and New Bowery theatre were lately swept away by fire, it is a consolation to know that human lite was not largely sacrificed on each occasion; for had the flames burst forth in the Winter Garden or either one of the two last named houses when they were filled with un audienoe, an «ppatiling loss of life must have ensued, owing to the almost complete un- suitableness of the buildings for dramatic pur- poses, We sympathize with Mr. Stuart in his loss. At the Winter Garden he used a very credita- ble exertion to sustain the legitimate drama and render it as it was before the stage became confused by the apparitions of woolly horses, stuffed monkeys, fat women and cosmopolitan giants and dwarfs, and before the public taste was outraged and palled, almost to insensi- bility, by scenic glare, blue lights, the rattle of gongs, tin plates and the demoralizing postur- ing of the ballet, lowered in some instances to positive indecency, The performances which were arranged by Manager Stuart at the Winter Garden had a tendency to neutralize the poisonous effect of these exhibitions; but the place was entirely too small, situated too far down town and inadequate to accommo- date even the refined audiences which the great city of New York can furnish, not to speak of it as a metropolitan dramatic school for the cultivation and enlightenment and consequent refinement of the vast middle and working classes and the rising generation of every rank in life. Winter Garden, in fact, held within its walls the living principle of art, which is inex- tinguishable, but was insufficient to afford it a healthy development. Out of evil comes good. Mr. Stuart has lost all his theatrical property. He is uninsured and will feel the visitation severely. New York requires an up town theatre, and around us on evory side are men of wealth, education and philanthropic purnose of mind who can soon build one. As the mon and money are both om hand we recommend that auch « work be commenced immediately. Let our capi- talisis meet and arrange to give us a large, substantial theatre, situated up town, near to ono of the centres indicated by the stream of travel. Let the building be as nearly fireproof as it can be made at all points, with ample halls, spacious corridors and stairways afford- ing free ingress, with a safe egress in cases of fire or sudden alarm; and let the architec- tural design and finish be such as will make the house en ornament to the city, and a great desideratum will be gained. In such an undertaking Manager Stuart’s pro- fessional advice and assistance would be of great value. He is an educated gentleman of taste and experience, and a man of dis- criminating ideas in the uses and influence of the legitimate drama. He reached our shores some twelve or fourteen years ago, and has labored very faithfully since in the discharge of the duties of his profession. Ina moment, and when just about to enjoy the well- earned iruits of bis labor, he sees the result of his toil swept away by fire, and is, with Mr. Booth, another very painstaking, industrious gentleman, left in a very unfortunate plight indeed. By a prudent adoption of our sug- gestion, however, the fire at Winter Garden may be rendered of great advantage to the public, presently and for years to come, and made profiiable to the moneyed men who may carry this idea into execution. Collector Smythe and President Johnson. On Saturday evening last, on a very short notice, Mr. Collector Smythe packed his carpet bag, locked it, put the key in his pocket, put on his overcoat, and, with a few parting words to his family, left this city for Washington. Whether he was ‘summoned by Mr. Hulburd’s investigating committee of the House of Rep- resentatives, or by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, or by the Secretary of the Treasury, or by the President, it was not known; but busy rumor had it that the requisition was from the White House, and that it broadly sug- geated the sine qua non of the Collector’s resig- nation. So many curious things have been going on at‘Washington during the last few days, looking to a new division of the federal, spoils in this quarter, that we hardly know what to think of this conjecture in the absence of specific information; but the special Wasbing- ton despatch from a trusty correspondent, which we publish this morning, clears up the mystery, and the solution is perfectly satisfactory. Our sorely persecuted Collector, strong in his convictions that justice and truth are on his side, is not to be frightened from his position. His well-earned character as an honest man and a faithful public officer are at stake, and he will not basely yield it to the clamor of his enemies, Every fair dealing man will approve his resolution to court the most searching prosecution under the test of impeachment rather than ignobly surrender to the hue and ery of ravenous and disappointed cliques of office beggars. We are especially gratified, too, with the assurances upon this subject that the President intends to stand by this faithfal officer, and cordially sustains him in his reso- lution not to resign under these scandalous combinations of spoilsmen arrayed against him, With the President and the New York merchants at his back these hostile cliques have no resource against the Collector left them but the test of impeachment or the aban- donment of their case, As it stands, the case is now divided between Mr. Hulburd’s special committee of investiga- tion of the House and the Judiciary Commit- tee of the Senate—the latter being specially charged to ascortain the trath or falsity of certain vague insinuations against Senator Patterson (a son-in-law of the Prosident) and Senator Doolittle in connection with the Mr. Hulburd ia endorsed by both our Senators, Morgan and Conkling, we pridict = complete vindication of the Collector. Asfor the innuen- does involving the President’s\ friends and family, they are already reduced to'idle gossip. The Collector and the President imhis busi. ness have taken the right course, and our honest merchants in supporting the Collector are vindicating their own character as a class assailed im these base attacks upon one of ever truth there may be in this remark ap- plies only to the members of the profession who, like Butler, laid aside an honorable call- ing to follow pursuits for which they were utterly unfitted, but in which they hoped to make a short cut to wealth and notoriety. One thing, however, can be said of the news- paper soldiers which cannot be said of other civilians who were ambitious of military glory—when they got into danger they never turned tail. On the subject of silver spoons they may have had their weaknesses, but it was only in association with whiskey punch. Canadian Confederation in Parliament. The British Parliament seems determined to rush the scheme for the kingdom of Canada through. The bill passed in the House of Commons after a third reading on the 8th inst. Its success in the House of Lords may be assured; therefore, in as far as the Cana- dian Confederation can be affected on the other side of the ocean, we may look upon it as established. As a majority of the British American provinces have dec ac-d in favor of it we may consider the new kingdom on our northern border as good as formally created. The sovereign, the throne and the titled no- bility are, of course, to follow in due time. The Cholera—Are Our Quarantine Officers Prepared? By an official letier in another column, to which we call the attention of the Board of Health, the quarantine officere and the street cleaning contractors, it appears that the cholera has broken out in a village called Whitegate, in the harbor of Queenstown, Ire- land. Asa large number of emigrants leave that port every week for thie country, it is-very mecessary that -our quarantine authorities should keep ‘a sharp lookout for vessels ar-. tiving from England, and not allow them to’ approach the city without being fully satisfied that their passengers are in a healthy condi- tion, RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT. Order ef General Sickles on Assuming Com- mand of Nerth and Seath Carolina. (Cmantastow, 8. C., March 21, 1865. General Sickles publishes to-morrow an order assum- ing command of the Second district. The order says:— In the execution of the duty of the Commanding to maintain the security of the in! List ae na i i 3s sede the same local laws and mu: magistrate or court Ppertorm an official act properly uired of such tribunal or officer, whereby due aud rightful secu- Hity to person of property shall be denied, the case shall post commander in these headquar- ‘The post commander will cause to be arrested charged with the commission of crimes and when the civil authorities fail to arreet and bring such offenders to trial, and will hold the accused in custody for trial by miiitary commission, provost court or other tribunal organized t to orders from these head- quarters. Arrests pene 8 authority will be reported promptly. The charges preferred will be accompanied by the evidence on which they are founded, The Commanding Geueral desiring to preserve tran- quillity and order by means and agencies most congenial to the people, solicits the zealous and cordial ration of civil ofticera in the , or to the end that occasion may sel- the exercise of military authority in mat- ters of ordinary civil administration. The General carnestiy commends to the people aul ties of North and South Carolina unresérved obedience to the authority now established, and the diligent, con- siderate and tmpartial execution of the laws euvacted for their goverument. GENERAL LONGSTREET'S VIEWS ON RECONSTRUCTION. He Advises the Sot Accept the Terms Offered by Conarcas. Ex-rebel General James Longstreet has written tbe following letter to the New Orleans Times on the politi- cal situation :— New Onueays, March 18, 1867. you have ex, od a de- In your lemen upon the fod my name men- paper of yesterday y sire to hear the views of several Itean hardly be ter into a discussion of arguing upon the governinent, In. not pertinent to and the one that that we are a fact fairly and left for wise men what wil we complica hn Ihett no sufficient reason we find this proposition for a moment. I ing cannot admit that the representative men of a na- tion could make such a pledge in bad faith. Admitting, that there is such a mental reservation, can us in failing to discharge oar accept the terms, as we are in duty : Ubere is a Of good faith jet it be upon others. Very respectfully your obedient servant, ofits JAMES LONGSTREET. EXCITEMENT IN BRANDON, VERMONT. of the Father on Suspicion of Having Murdered Her, &c. Troy, N. Y., March 24, 1867. Great excitement fs now existing at Brandon, Ver. mont, owing to the discovery of the body of a daughter of Mr. Goodenough buried in her father’s cellar, The girl had beon missing for some time, and it was sup- poerd that she had oither committed suicide or been accidentally drowned in one of the mili streams or ponds in the . Mr, Goodenough has been arrested and \odget, mall at Ruiland suspicion of ha dered “J the being thin tre ‘wished to geterid of of unsound mind, The no. yours of age be Bavaria saat _———$<—$ EUROPE. The Irish Fenians Dader Charge of High Treason. The Lamirande Extraditiov from Ganada. WL. de Givardiv’s Indictment of Napsicon—- The Trial and Sentence. ao. BY THE CABLE TO MARCH 24. RELA ‘Tho Fentae Prisouers to be Tried for High Treasen. * Desus, March 24, 1667. The trial of the Fenien prisoners for bigh treason wi? commence on the Oth of Aprit wont im this city. ENGLAND. &e. &o. The Lamirande Extradition Cane. Lospos, March 24, 1867. The government has published the correspondence be- tween the English and French Cabinets in regard to tne illegal extradition from Canada of the French forger Lamirande, and the subsequent demand made by Eug- land for his surrendor. MARINE (INTELLIGENCE, Qveuysrows, March 24, 1867. Tho Cunard steamship Asia, which left Boston on the 13th Inst., touched at this port this morning, and subse- quently sailed for Liverpool ‘yhe extra Cunard steamship Aleppo, from New York March 13, also arrived hore to-day, and sailed again for Liverpool. Sovraamrrox, March 24, 1867. The steamship Western Metropolis, which sailed from New York on the 7th tust,, arrived here to-day, and, after landing hor English mails aud passengers, pro- cee el on her voyage to Bramen. DETAILS BY MAIL. FRANCE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Prince Imperial—The Eastera Question and its Iufluence—Coutradictions of the Oficial CRS ret Pant, March 8, 1867. I happen to be able to give yeu some particulars which Journalists to drsoues.and diame both the acts of the ex- ecutive power and ministers, and so long as tral by jury lasted 1t could only be in some very exceptional case, indeed, that the statute could beacted upon, because it is hard to see how, when the right of discussion and cen- sure was allowed to the fulleat extent, the proviso would not cover the worst accusation that could be made of ex- citing to hatred and contempt. Asa matter of fact there never was any prosecution upon the statute under the government of the republic. And in 1849 Girardin, them @ member of the Legislative Assembly, proposed a bill, which was not passed, recoommending the repeal of the statute on the ground that nothing so tended to bring ail law into contempt as retaining on the statute book menacing laws which were inoperative. The article for which Girardin was prosecuted twe Gays ago took issue with M Rouher, the Minister of State, who asserted the other day in the Corps Législatif that the Emperor was gradually conducting the nation to “better destinies.” Girardin said that, on the con trary, France is less influential and respected abroad, and less free and prosperous at home than she was be- fore the Emperor was enabled (thanks, as be boldly says, to bis, M. de Girardin’s, support in 1848) to take her affairs in hand. I believe all this would have been forgiven to Girardim had he not referred to the Emperor's breach of his oath. That is asore subject, which, by a necessary common consent of the French press, has never hitherto been touched upon. No journal published in France since December 2, 1851, has ever before ventured to mention the undeniablesfact that the Emperor's coup d'étul was @ breach of his oath. No’ official writer has ever offered the semblance of a defence or apology for that perjury. But Emile de Girardin, the intimate friena of the Emperor's cousins, Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde, the frequent guest of the Emperor himself at the Tuileries, Compiegne, Biarriiz and else- where thought the time rite for printing in Paris that the Emperor bad “torn up the constitution which he had sworn to defend.” It is the utterance of this truth which brought him to the bar of the correctional tn- bunal on Wednesday last. ‘The prosecution was ordered by the Emperor person. ally in a fit of rage. The Emperor takes in every even- ing two evening papers, one a governmental and the other an opposition one, for his own personal reading. He has so much to read, what with official papers and Journals foreign and domestic, that he cannot, po.with- Standing his great curiosity to know ali that is said of him, read everything that appears. He therefore orders his Secretary to give him alternately two Paris eveniug papers. It happened on the day when Girardin’s article appeared to be the turn of the Patrie and the Lilerté. The Emperor was furious when he read Girardin’s at- tack, and when the Ministers, Rouber, Baroche and Lavalette came to tell him of it and to take bis instruc- tions, he ordered a prosecution immediately. They at- tempted to represent that perbaps at the present mo- ment, when large promises of greater liberty bave been made and a new press law is on the stocks, it may be better policy to wink at this offence, The Emperor pe- remptorily told them to go on. Girardin was summoned before M. Gouet, a judge of distinction, the next day. ‘Then all that took place was this, The judge said, “M. de Girardin, you are accused of printing an article in the Liberté, headed Les Meiliures Destinées, Do you wish me to read it?” “Oh dear, no! I admit myself to be the author.’* “Do you desire to offer any observations?” “None what- ever.” Thereupon Girardin took up his batand wished the judge a very good morning. The Emperor semt for the Judge's notes, hoping that Girardin might have made some sort of apology which would have given him an exouse to stay what he felt, with his ministers, was an imprudent prosecution. But, finding none, he ordered the law officers to go on, and the case was pushed for- ‘ward with such unexampled laste that the trial took Place within a week of the appearance of the article. ‘The French law, enacted by Louis Napoleon to cloak his own misdeeds, forbids any report of libel cases, and the French paper prints anything but the judgment of the court, I with great diMoulty obtained admission and heard the whole proceeding, but I had to stand med ‘up tight in a crowd and could take no notes. Iam en- abled, however, to give you a word for word translation, which I have made myself froma copy in Girardin’s handwriting, of the first of the two speeches he made in his defence, This curious production is thus worded:—~ Article four of the decree of August 11, 1848, Is pre- cise, It says:— This present provision is not ta affect. the right of discussion and censure of the acts of the ‘executive power and of the ministera.” This right, my righ have I exceeded it? Even if I had exceeded it, ich I deny, that excess-would not suffice to wonstitnie the offence with which I am 5 for/without a criminal intention there is no crime. Taere ix not, there cannot be any such thing ag an invol' mtary misde- meanor, Now I am here on this sams bench where have sat before mo two mombers of the Académie Fran- gaise, the Count de Montalembert and M. Provost Para- dol; & member of the Cg mae ‘M. Eugéne Pelle. tan; a great thinker, M. 1, ‘ahd a learned piriio- M. declare distinctly upon my ont fommand me to make BOL Irue that I tntonded to the declaration. that tt ig