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Row OF THE Pu.cRim’s ProcRess—Sixry MAGNIFICENT Scenes. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at J o'clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Hrap axp Ricut Anw or Pronst—Tax Wasaixatox Twins—Woxpers im Naturat History, Scrmwce anp Agr. Lacronss Darcy. Open from 8 4.M. Ul WP, M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, April 9, 1867, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. EUROPE. By special cable tologram dated yesterday, April 8, we have important intelligence from Germany. Alarming news received from Paris in Berlin caused King William of Prussia to summon Count Bismarck to an Interview at two o’clock on Sunday morning. A war panic existed in commercial and financial circles in England, owing tothe uncertainty which prevailed re- garding Napoleon’s policy. England despatched several wir vessels to Cadiz, Spain, charged to enforce a satis- faction of her claims, arising out of the question of the seizure of tho steamship Tornado, ngainst Queon Isa- belia. Baron Ratazzi has formed a compromise Cabinet to Italy. Consols closed at 90 for money—a decline of one per cent—in London. United States five-twenties closed a, 73% in London and at 76% in Paris. American bonds rated at 84% in Paris at noon, The Liverpool cotton market closed heavy and downward, with middling up- lands at 124d. Breadstuffa quiet. By the steamship Hansa, at this port early this morn- tng, we have interesting mail details of our cable des- Patches to the 27th of March. During the debate on the second reading of the Ro form bill in the House of Commons Jobn Bright doliv- ered a caustic and telling speech on the inconsistencies of the tory Cabinet in endeavoring to reconcile them- selves to reform and reconcile the people to their bill, ‘Three policemen of Glasgow, Scotland, made an on- slaught ous party of Fenians drilling in that city, and, alter a gailans evruggle, captured six of the delegates. THE LEGISLATURE. In tho Senate yestesday bills incorporating the trus- tees of tho Peabody Eqneational Fund, providing for the better protection of ob‘ldren from cruelty at the hands of their guardians, avd tho New Capitol bill, were introduced, Bills ing the National Telegraph Company, authorizing®™, Second and Third Avenue Railroad Companies to extend their tracks, and incor- porating the New York Steam Transit Company, were ordored to a third reading. The report of the conference committee on the bill for the beter protection of female employés in New York was concurred in. Bilis incor- Porating the Staten Island Atheneum, amonding the General Insurance law, and tho Assembly amendments to East River Bridge bill, were passed. Inthe Assembly the annual report of tho Board of Excise of the Metropolitan district was presented. The bill deQning more particularly the pow erser tho Board of Health was reported complete. Th bill to prevent breaking connections between railroads in the State was referred. Aresolution was adopted directing the com. mittee charged with invertigating alleged cana frauds to summon Senator W. L. Sessions before them and to take his testimony. The Supply bill was made a special order for to-day. Bills creating the office of Metropolitan Fire Marshal and incorporating the New York Board of Fire Underwriters were ordered to a third readii we THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. The resolution of the Board of Councilmen authorizing Governor Fenton to have his portrait painted for the Governor's room in tho City Hall was concurred in. A communication from the Mayor was received stating that tho ordinance donating certain sums to the blind was so defective that it could not be carried into effect, Other business of minor im- portance was transacted. The board of Councilmen also mot and concurred in ther-* pftirecting the erection of a public urinal on one’. ww sidewalks around City Hall Park. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen, held yesterday afternoon, Mr. Michael J. Dunn was clected Justice of the First District Court of that city vice Michael Walsh, deceased. A resolution was adopted Agresing to the negotiations entered into between tho Commission of the city of Brooklyn and the United States government for the conveyance of a cortain strip of land on Washingto1 ue for the contemplatéd Wallabout Improvement. The government commission appointed to examine the ‘various life saving apparatus that inventors may submit for their examination, met yesterday, at No. 23 Pine stroot, organized and announces tho order in which they Propose to carry out their work. About fifty inventions have thus far been eubmitted to thom. A meeting of the eorpora:ors of tho Brooklyn branch Of the American Society for the Prevention of Crucity to Animals, was held at the Academy of Masic in that city, when a permanent organization was effected by the election of officers, &e, Remarks wore made by Messrs, Honry Bergh, Waddell and others, after which the moet. Ang adjourned. * An attempt was. made yesterday to set fire to the house No, 24 Bast Fourth street, ocowpied by Mrs. Mary F. Trust for furnished lodgings. The tacendiaries aro as yet unknown, A frame house intended as a receiving Piore on Biackwell’s Island was burned down yesterday, { The annual report of the Board of Excise shows the Amount received for licenses in New York, Kings, Rich- mond and Queens countics to have been $1,283,854. ‘Most of this smount has been od between the Board of Police and the Binghamton Inebriate Asylum, PLalnuor of £95,514 boing loft ip the Trensurer's hands, NEW YORK, HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, .1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. and district intelligent blacks can be found. | Seward The te et Key West arrived a! (his port (10m |-Reconetraction—The Preepect and Probable Key Woat tast ih Political Results. md. female etait who were arrested yesterday The extraordinary revolution that is now stated before Justice Hogan tbat they were reve going on in the sentiments and condact of the to blackmailing by certain pr rhe fy Senge Southern people, under the operation of the +0 zenerally were compe neces peat the valuables they may have | reconstruction acts, will form one of the most during the day, Their counsel also. stated that | interesting chapters in the history. of this or the car detectives were in the habit of blackmailing | any other country. A people who not long thieves, and that two officers were ring km ago were deflant and appeared to be imprac- | to resign on ace0an of ae belay sone ane, tigable, and who more recently were sullen ang them lo Superintendent Kennedy. vid Pere Se week ny on Twenty-three liquor dealers were arraigned before the | apathetic, are now putting shoyld~rs to police courts yesterday for violating the Excise law. the wheel in good earnest to help forward the Accase was argued in the Court of Appeals yesterday | work of reconstruction, ‘The strong com- to docide if a city jadge has the power to issue a writ of mon. sense of the American speople, the habeas corpus, The cage of Dolan vs, Jackson Schultz ot al., wee a aca ee gions is on was argued on Saturday last in the Court of Appe selves a = and in which the appeal by the Commissioners of the | able capacity for self-government, are strik- Board of Health, Police Commissioners and others was | ingly shown in all this, It is calcula’ dismissed, decides eight hundred and fifty-three other cases of a similar nature, in which the payment of costs oe us pr of future harmony of the excise cases of last summor was the disputed | 2nd the perpetuation of the republic. Foreign question, ‘The amount involved is betwoen $80,000 and | nations were astonished at the power of the of | Sovernment and strength of our institutions, as exhibited in the war and its results; but they will be more surprised. when they see in a short time the union and harmony of the country restored. They will see how eminently prac- tical we are, and will admire the elasticity of our character and political institutions. The examination into the important Prussian extradi- The information which we spread before our tion caso, in which Philip Henrich, late Secretary of the | readers yesterday from our corfespondents in Rhenish Railway of Lic Be piss iulapined Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor- committed forgeries to a ci je amount ° ¥ menced yesterday before Commissioner White, A con- id ea aatomniirat Arkansas, eee siderable quantity of oral and documentary evidence ouisiana ississippi, covering two pages having boon submitted to the Court, the further exami- | of the Herat, is full of interest on the all- nation was adjourned till to-day. important matter of reconstruction. In fact, ‘Tho stock market was unsettled yesterday. Gold] jt ig 9 “mnas of more valuable and denpieeltttite relisble Ihformation than any investigating committee of Congress could have collected; $100,000. In the Superior Court, part 1, yesterday, in the case Appel vs. Beauries, for assault and battery, the jury returned a verdict for the complainant, for $300 dam- ages. Tho assault was committed in a lager beer saloon, in Sixth avenue, on the ist of May, 1866, when the defendant struck complainant on the head with a soda water bottle. The defendant claimed that the striking was in self-defence. Consequent upon the liberal offerings, aggregating 1,780 head, the market for beef cattle ruled cu'l and heavy, and a decline of sc. a 3c. per Ib. in all grades was sub- | for it comes from a number of intelligent and mitted to, save in extra, which being scarce commanded unprejudiced men, spread all over the South, provious prices, though in some Instances en con- | and states faithfully what they saw and cx- cession was ted. The quality of the offerings was Aa poor, being pee of common cattle, Extra sold at | Perienced. And what is the testimony of these 18¢., occasionally at 17%. ; first quality, 1630. a 173¢¢. ; correspondents, one and all? That the people fair to good do., 1530. a 16340., and common 12e. a 1d. | everywhere are waking up as froma drenm to Dutiness was the principal feature tn the pase their real situation. They see that there is no milch gows, Prices, howover, were not essentially | hone but in promptly yielding to the supreme changed, fiifiging at from $40 to $110. Veal oalveg were jus dull and hoary at 120, for extra, Ile. 01130. for prime, | mandates of Congress. However disagreeable ‘and 7c, a 10c, for inferior to common. Under a fair de- | the provisions of the reconstruction acts may mand and moderato receipts the market for sheep and | be to some of them, they know they are help- jambs was steady and firm ones gant We | less and that it would be folly and ruinous to quote the range 7c. a 9340. ing to the Increased re- coipts tho swine market riled heavy, and prices were phar The rato nite Yeon . the 440. alc. per lb, lower. Best quality sold at 73<c. a 8c., uth—men who are ¢) and pro- and common and rough 630, a 730, The total receipts | scribed by these acts of Congress, such as wore 4,852 beeves, 79 milch cows, 1,604 veal calves, Wade Hampton, Longstreet, Beauregard, Lee, 11,452 sheep and lambs, and 18,164 swine, Mallory, Or? and others—have led off with one MISCELLANEOUS. voice for submission to the will of Congress. In the United States Senate yestorday a resolution was | The preas and the people generally are follow- a Se bare egaadiaabe: “ed Regeeeny: bye ing. Of course many swallow the bitter pill resolution inquiring into the titlea of the United states | Prescribed by Congress with wry faces, and to certain lands and tenoments at Harper’s Ferry was | reiterate their old dogmas as tenaciously as adopted. The Senate then went into executive session, | Meg Merrilies forced -her head above water when {t Is believed the Russo-American treaty was re- | when hor enemies were drowning her and ported favorably by the Committce on Foreign Affairs, : ‘The Ausirian Minister at Washington on the Sth inet, | SHouted Charley, Obarley, Charley; but this is announced to Mr. Seward that he had been instructea to | only spasmodic ands sort of temporary ageny. ask the good offices of the United States government in | The necessities of their situation, common securing safe treatment to Maxamilian and his followers | sense, time and reconstruction will cure ‘all 10 cage they fell into the bands of the Liberals | thet, even in the remaining intractable Sonth- a, Querétaro, On the uh inet ME Sow. {.erners, Indeed, a few weeks only have done\a ard replied that he had telegraphed to Min- ister Campbell to cond a swift messenger to | teat deal in curing it, as our correspondence Juarez conveying a request that all possible leniency be | shows, extended towards the expected prisoners, and also that But the most remarkable feature in the pro- he had jflaced a copy of bis instructions tm the hands of | pressive work of reconstruction is the harmony Minister Romero, who had promised to inform Juares of d the wishes of the United States goverament, On the and affiliation between the late slaveholders same day Ministe? Campbell telegraphed that he had | and their emancipated slaves. ‘They assemble forwarded the messenger as public mee! on 6 ° instructed. together in public tings footing of Bins ty Arp siting gE pie sonpnecmngnee teagan g Nba hapten Pane friends and fellow-citizens. Nor is there any men was called in that village on the 19th of March to organize a Union party; but before the members could | falee pride, affectation or hypocrisy in such proceed to business a body of armed mon appeared, and, | language and bearing one toward the other. driving the Union men away, proceeded to organize a | The late masters of the n have sense egroes menting ef thele mb Ferd Large he ier he enough tosee that the interests of the two nouncing Congress and urging, a8 senee meeting, that the President should use his military | T#°e® ain pret! ss ph that restora- power to protect the people of the South against Con- | tion and consequent prosperity of the grossional usurpation, These resolutions were pre- | South will be a benefit to both, and that ex- sented to the oe ak ‘@ Union wey meted clusion from political privileges, trom repre- Ho refused to publish them, and'was tnfornt | sentation in Congress, would be followed by would not be safe for him to publish any other report of ¢ the mooting. General Schofeld was informed of the | jury to both. Besides, as a general thing, affair, and a licutonant, without troops, arrived on Satur- | there isa kindly feeling on the part of the day to investigate the matter. whites for the weaker and less cultivated The conference between General Sickles and the Gov- | blacks, Generally, too, the negroes are con- eareete paciererresd leflestes: pee fcy a 4 scious, of this and look up with confidence for advice and guidance from their late masters. continue to appoint officers to fill vacancies which have heretofore been filled by Executive appointment, No | This is evident from the addresses of the eloctions will bé held at present, and the registration of | more intelligent to the rest. The speeches begs Leap LN STE rt delivered by some of them lately, and their mi cemetery 16 int dead in the Peninsula bas been completed in the vicinity perma oa Sageiniss by bg correspondents, of Norfolk, The remains of over twenty-one hundred | Show this to be the case. We see, also, that soldiers have been interred in it, in which number New | there is a determination on the part of both York, Ponnsyivania and Massachusetts regiments have | races to cultivate these kindly, friendly and «sso Sopa s, eset Gh Sok as acto’ f NCU aw aviation appointed to office by him, previous to the holding of | Now, this is a state of things deserving par- the convention, except. porsons who have taken the ticular notice, and which was certainly not oath to support the constitution of the United States. | expected by the old radical abolitionists of The physical aud topographical condition of the Ras- | the North. ‘These radicals had erroneo! sian American country are ably described in a letter to a th hated the whi pnd e negroes Secretary Bowerd, from, pir. Comes, he Vebees, Piast con tad would take the earli is ayia 2 Consul at Amoor rivor, The letter will be found ip the iest opportunity colamns of the Heratp this morning. to turn against them, The teachings of the The Stato of Georgia, following tho example of Mis- | war, in which the negroes voluntarily fought sissippi, petitions the Supreme Court to enjoin the | side by side with their masters, did not erad- President avd General Pope from execating the Military | s.at6 this error. The radicals have been ex- Reconstruction bill in ¢hat State, Charles O’Conor, of Now York, is o0¢ of the counsel for the petitioner. pecting, since the war closed and the slaves Sovator Wilson and Honry A. Wise had an interview | Were emancipated, that these people would during the former's visit to Richmond. The Senator | vote and act in opposition to their old masters. sald that the chance of obtaining the negro vote for the | They begin to see their mistake, however, and radicals was not go favorable as ‘he anticipated, and that | aro in q terrible state of anxi8ty about the if such a mogro colebration as occurred on the 34 inst, wore to take place in New York there would bea riot, | Consequences. No tide of Northern emigration, He would not say ditectly whother the late reconstrao | however great, nor any amount of radical tion moasures of Congress wnt ‘8 finality, speechmaking and preaching, can turn the Lieutenant Colonel Brown, who was arrested in Europe litical current in which the blacks pol and the Chonda ‘overameat was tulad ta Mootral ow. | Whites of the South are united and combined terday. for action. They both see their interests are A bakery was burned down in Petrolia, C. W., on | the same and irrevocably fixed in the same Sunday morning, and two young girls, one eight and the section of country. ~~ other twenty-one years old, perished in the flames. ‘The municipal election in Hartford, Conn., wascarriea | We cannot yot seo fully where this sur- by the democrats yesterday by six hundred majority, a | Prising political and social revolution will gain of one hundred and thirty since the election of | end. It will certainly produce an extra- Monday, tho 1st instant. rdinary Louis Schade, counsel for Wirz, the keeper of Ander. ‘on a," oy gas eae = sonville prison, has published a letter to the Amorican republic, The poopie in which he attempts to prove Wira’s innocence, | T@dical press is dumbfounded and knows Goorge Peabody was invited to bo present at th | not which way to shape its course. The fruit Charleston Board of Trade banquet, but was unable to | of years of agitation is likely to turn to ashes accept, the invitation having been misdirected and | in its mouth. The Southern States, with their late, ga pie of the Atlantic ana | C@bty or ninety Ropresentativos and twenty Great Wostern Railroad Company were turned over to | Senators in Congress, will hold a large balance the receiver, General Potter, by the Board of Directors, | of power, and the probability is that both + a Pa., on hens ton . ; ai races will remain united in the interests of he sloop Simonton, which sink recently in York | their own section and in support of the same Fiver, as boda raised, and the body of one man, who | | ritiogy party. Iashod to has been red. was ® mast, nip The Southern whites, and particularly the Jett Davis is receiving instructions in tho art of paint. ing ftom an artiet of Baltimore, leading mon among them, possess a power No signs of her have | they may not have yet realized. Such men ag been seen at Sandy Hook. ‘Three murderers in Cintianatt have been sentenced to mu like them, while they have not the suffrage and Hughes, . cannot hold office, are able to exercise great The residence of A. G. Jewett, Mayor of Belfast, Me., Tho charter cloctions in several counties of New Jer. Share, sre, DOmAny We hoadeed thousnd op Bey took place yestorday. in Hudson conaty they wit | these ostracised old leaders, who are still pow- ; Connors, one of the Fenian prisoners, has beea to. | and on the stump. We advise them, then, to eased from the penitontiary in Kingston, Canada, carry the revolution which the Northorn radi- through the extreme South, The nogro militia of Auguma, Ga, nave boon aig. | Hmit. In doing this they should advocate sending nearove to Congress, Ip every Stale The Great Eastorn is over due, Wad? Hampton, Henry A. Wise and others ‘be bung on the 30th inst for tho murdor of a Mr, dred titel Rows yaattany, influence over the negroes and political affairs. be held to-day, erful through their intelligence and position Peat tae eee eechet Stowe iat boom travclliDg | ais havo inaugurated toite end—xto ite utmost banded by order Of General Sweeus, Let them be sent to Congress in the proportion of the negro vote. Supposing the Southern States are entitled to ninety members in the House of Representatives under the increased vote, negroes should be sent, ag that would bo about @ fair propor tion to the numbers of the two races, and out of the twenty Senators six should be black by the same rule. Henry A. Wise has a fine, intelligent and faithful servant, who should be sent from the Old Dominion to sit by the side of Mr, Summer in the Senate; and that negro friend of whom Wade Hamp- ton spoke so pathetically, a noble fellow, evi- dently, might be seated by Wilson, Chandler, Sprague or Trambull, and be called to the chair occasionally by Ben Wade, the President of the Senate. This is practicable, reasonable and fair, and would only be carrying out the theories already established. True, the smell of the negroes might be.unpleasant to the dainty Northern Senators and members; but the Southerners would not find it so; they could have no objection to black colleagues on that score; for, as Yancey once said, the smell was perfume to Southerners. By all means. let the South. carry out the theories of the radicals to their logical results by sending both negro Representatives and Senators to Congress. It would create an extraordinary fermentation and reaction in the North, un- doubtedly; but what of that? The principle is the thing. Perish everything rather than sacrifice principle. In whatever point of view we look at the movements now going on in the South, and at the position of parties with regard to the issues that have been raised, we foresee that remarkable changes must take place. We advise the Southerners to use the power the radicals have placed in their hands and bring the revolution to its logical end, The Ceasion of Russian America—Mr. Seward’s Dinner Diplomacy. Mr. Seward, they say, is working like a beaver, or rather like a whole colony of beavers, to get his Russo-American treaty through the Senate. The New York radicals are sounding, the alarm, and like Botts, with Captain Tyler, they are resolved to “head him or die.” One of their active scouts at Wash- ington reports that Seward’s chances with his Esquimaux acquisition treaty are improving daily; that he has not only secured spontane- ous recommendations from Géneral Halleck, in California, General Meigs and Commodore Rodgers, but that he expects every day a strong certificate from Peter Cooper; that the industrious Premier is working the telegraphs and the Associated Press in the manufacture of public opinion night and day, and that he has, likewise, two other machines running off the same material, yard wide, at ten cents a yard. These two machines, high pressure, oscillating engines, are, first, the Secretary’s dinner parties, and second, the Washington lobby, strengthened by some of the most skil- ful graduates of the old Fagin of Albany. These vultures have discovered that there is money in this thing, and they are hungry for a sop in those seven millions of American gold for Russian icebergs. Mr. Seward’s dinner table is spread first with a map of Russian America, and this cloth is covered “with roast treaty, boiled treaty, treaty in bottles, treaty in decanters, treaty garnished with appointments to office, treaty in statistics (Tharlow Weed’s), treaty clad in fars, orna- mented with walrus teeth, fringed with timber and flopping with fish.” In shoft, Mr. Seward’s dinner diplomacy is said to have worked such wonders among the conscript fathers of the Senate that “the Esquimaux ring” are ready to bet their pile on Seward and Mount St. Elias ona test vote. But still there are Senators, as it appears, who are not willing to pay seven millions of dollars for an ice house, a worthless desert with which to enable the Secretary of State to cover up the thousand mortifications and defeats he has suffered with the ship- wrecked Southern policy of Andrew Johnson. This, then, is the “irrepressible co: ” Mr. Seward is striking for a monument of diplo- matic glory broad as Russian America and high as Mount St. Elias. The implacable New York anti-Seward radicals, of the original firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley, are resolved to head him off. But with the spoils of this treaty, his offices, all the telegraphs of the country, the newspaper press and his powerful endorsers— from General Halleck inSan Francisco to Peter Cooper in New York—and with the Washing- ton lobby, and above all with his toothsome dinners, meate and drinks, the Secretary of State holds a mighty strong hand. Moreover, he not only knows how and when to play any of these trump cards, but after writing up his case all day, he oan dine it and wine it and talk it up all night. ‘We will undertake. to put the writings, the talkings, the dinings and the winings of Mr. Seward in his diplomatic enterprises against all that has been done in these oban- nels by any other half dozen of our Secretaries of State of the nineteenth century. But he has little or nothing to show as the result of all these labors in a positive shape, because his achievements have been mostly of a negative character. For example, his diplomatic cor- fespondence during our late critical civil war mnarmaiee sc: to read It, and no other man.could begin to make head or tail of it; safely small mister? Yet again, no man but a pri- soner limited in reading privileges to Mr. Seward’s Mexican correspondence will, per- haps, from this time to the millennium, ever be found to read it through. Nevertheless it was this correspondence, never ending but still beginning, that finally worried Louis Napoleon oyt of Mexico, rank and file, bag and baggage. Tt was the case of the Yankee in Louisiana, who sold his sugar plantation at half price to his overseer to escape from. the. mosquitoes, Touching Andrew Jolnson’s Southern policy, Mr. Seward did good service to the country in this business so inexplicably mixed up that it required the sword of Congress to cut the Gordian knot. Most of all, the radicals have cause to be thankful to ‘the Secretary of State for his pilotage of President Johnson on his famous stumping campaign of last Septem- ber. But what was the Secrotary’s reward? Radical abuse and a spell of sicknoss that Jaid him up for six weeks, ‘ Looking at all these things and at the preseut opposition of the New York ant son Crusoe, they will be the monarchs of all they survey. Important News trem Earepe—Apprekensions ef a General War. The cable this morning brings interesting and important news from Europe. A war panic has broken out in London and Berlin, and, while tt is not stated what particular event has led to the sudden alarm, it is evident that in both those’ cities the course of the Emperor Napoleon is regarded as threatening a speedy interruption of the existing peace. The press despatches from London state that the uncer- tainty in regard to the French Emperor’s action and the fear that he will adopt a war- like policy have created distrust among busi- ness men and occasioned great depression in commercial and financial circles in that city and in Paris; and later in the day we are told that this feeling increased to a war po at ira noo a ng in yachtmen are not the only that have been developed by ation of th¢ noble sport in the Us We haye ouf fational figet of argied veasels in Europe to show what our Gghting capabilities are; let ua also, by all ® fleet to show what our good qualities are in the pleasanter con- tests of peace. 3 3 ‘ General Lee’s Surrender. This is the anniversary of the surrender (1865) of the rebel army of Virginia, under General Lee, to General Grant and the United States army under his command, at Appomat- tox Court House. The campaign thus glori- ously ending to the glorious army of the Poto- mac and the country (for it was a continuous campaign) was opened among the almost im- passable jungle of the Wilderness, on the Rap- idan, in May, 1864. When General Grant plunged into that jungle the immediate avail- able army under his command was about a hundred thousand men, and the veteran army of Lee, advantageously posted to check bim, was, in round numbers, not less, we believe, than ninety thousand men. From position te position, from one stronghold of intrenchments to another, Lee was fought out and flanked out till driven into his stupendous chain of works sround Richmond and Petersburg. There, after a siege involving numerous assaults, sor- ties, raids, skirmishes, explosions and bloody panic. Our special telegram from Berlin is of battles, the hostile armies stood intrenched still greater importance. From that we learn that the intelligence from Paris was regarded as of such momentous and alarming character as to induce King William to give audience to Count Bismarck at the palace at two o’clock on Sunday morning, =» = 3 wo he effect of this news was felt in the markets in all the principal cities. Biitish consols tumbled one per cent, French rentes experi- enced a sharp decline, and in London Ameri- can five-twenties sunk to 733%. The first ramior of the trouble created considerable excite- ment on Wall street yesterday morning, and gold rose three or four the strength of the news. As another speck of war, it is also announced that the British government, having failed hitherto in her attempts to bring Spain toa sense of jus- tice, had despatched several ships of war to Cadiz to enforce the claims growing out of the seizure of the Tornado. It is impossible to read these telegrams without feeling convinced that the prospect of continued peace in Europe is becoming less and less certain. In spite of the new temple of concord which Napoleon has reared in Paris and in which he invites the nations to worsbip, the Fates seem resolved on war. On the political horizon we discover now not one war cloud but many. The Luxemburg affair threatens to bring France and Prussia into open collision. Should those two Powers go to war it would not surprise"us to learn at the earliest possible date afterwards that the armies of the Emperor Alexander were quar- tered in the neighborhood of the Sweet Waters, and that by one leap the Bastern question had been fally if not satisfactorily settled. Napo- leon’s hands would be tied and Russia might do as she pleased. We have little fear but that Spain will come to her senses before she will allow a British fleet to devastate her coasts or permit @ British army to enter her capital. She is not at present in a condition to court the presence of an invading army. The British lion, however, has evidently been roused, and it is difficult to predict what may or may not follow The drama which is now being enacted on the European stage, and of which the scenes are varied and the players many, deepens in interest as it advances and promises before the curtain falls to startle and astonish the world. We promise to be attentive spectators, and faithfully to report progress. Yachtirg—Promise ef Sport for the Coming Summer. _ This summer will probably be one of un- usual activity with yachtmen, and may, above all former seasons, “shine in the sudden mak- ing of splendid names.” There will be partic- ularly great attractions in Europe. In addition tothe cups at Southampton and at Cowes it is said that a prize of twenty thousand francs will be offered at Cherbourg, open to members of clubs from any nation. From the peculiar relations which this race will bear to the Paris Exposition it will inevitably be more or leas international in character, and if, in addition to the prize money, the winner should prove the superiority of his craft in a fair trial of representatives from all the great maritime nations of the earth, he will wia a laurel worth wearing. It is to be hoped that the gentlemen of the New York squadron will not be able to resist the temptation to take their boate across the Atlantic for these glorious trials. Captain Loper ought certainly to send over tons hes already shown herself a fine sea boat bys trip to Havana, and the knowing ones intimate that if she the executors of the late John C. Devlin, City Chatiberlaia. She was built by Captain Loper, is @ little smaller than the Palmer, and like the Palmer is very fast, She affords just the chance for some enterprising yachtman. The Rambler, notable for the excellence of discipline that on her, would be one more admirable addition to these proposed representatives of the squadron in European waters. The Fleet wing, already on the other side, will likely remain there for a summer’s cruise. These are but a few of the many yachts that wo could name, if space permitted, as eminently worthy to tost the merits of English and French boats. We trust thatsome or all of the above named yachts will cross the Atlantic and participate there in ghe friendly rivalries of the Old World labs.’ The visit of such boats would open the eyes of Europeans to the coniHtion of yachting in this country; and as the crossing the Atlan- tic by three yachts in midwinter made such a. sensation, » visit of a good portion of the pquadson would make a sensation altogether against each other from the middle of June, 1864, till the 25th of March, 1865, when Lee made a dash to bréak the Union lifes at Fort Stedman. The fort was captured, but soon retaken, and our troops followed up this: suc- cess to the capture of the first line of the rebel works. Next day Sheridan’s cavalry, from the Shenandoah, after a destructive tour, joined the army of Meade.’ On the 29th the wh army under Grant was put in motion, Sheri: leading off, and from that day till the night of the 2d of April the battle raged along a line of twenty-five miles, But that day finished the per cent upon, work for Petersburg and Richmond. On the morning of the 32 General Weitzel, with a detachment of colored ‘troops, entered the burning rebel capital, left in flames by the retiring enemy, and on the morning of the 4th President Lincoln held a levee in the Exeou- tive Mansion vacated by Jeff Davis, Moan- time, with Sheridan in the advance and Grant bringing up the rear, the rebel forces, driven from their works around Petersburg and Rich- mond, were pushed, cut up, routed and cap- tured, night and day, in their retreat westward, - till the 9th, when Lee, at Appomattox Court House, with the remnant of his army, amount- ing to twenty-seven thousand men, surren- dered. On the day of his attack of Fort Sted- defence of the two cities numbered, perhaps, not less than seventy thousand men, so that his losses between Fort Stedman and Appo- mattox Court House—killed, wounded, cap- tured end dispersed—amounted to over forty On the next day, with his death, his constita- tional successor, Andrew Johnson, Vice dent, became President of the United Sta All things considered, his firat official’ this capacity should have been the Congress together. As things out, however, it is difficult to say mistake in that matter and all blunders have or have not resulted best. We are inclined to think that Mtical blunders, like our military during the frst two years of the war; really resulted in making the war for Union and the work of reconstruction all. if rel rough experience to learn how to tear the rebellious States, so we have required years of half-way experiments to leern how to rebuild them on the new corner stone of lib- erty and equal rights. ey Ty. oops! WON-ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN. The steamship Great Eastern, which left Liverpool New York on Tuesday, the 26th of March, was not ee ee morning, At noon to-day, should she no | be fourteon days at sea. Sho is Jo that direction would be adverse to vessels coming im the opposite course at the same time. , Just as the Great Easterm was leaving the Mersey two men wore killed on her deok by an accidental slip of steam capstan, and some delay must have ensued, may be fairly presumed that the Great Eastern has’ delayed by beavy weather. ——___—_—— AND FOR THE SOUTH. ‘Some days since we alluded to the favor with which