The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1867, Page 6

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The nows report by tho Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day, April 14 It is proposed, in Brussels, to declaro the territory of Luxemburg neutral ground so as to avoid a war botween France and Germany, The Candtan National Assembly publishes a declaration of popular rights based on civil and religious liberty. By mail, to April 2, we have details of our cablo dis- patches embracing matter of much interest nddditional to the reports published in the Hsnatp yesterday. Our special correspondents in Paris and Dubiin fur- nish lettors relative td tho inception of the sorioas Franco-German war movement, and what appears to be the termination of the Fenian war struggle for the liber- ation of Ireland. Count Bismarck’s pithy exposition to the North Ger- man Parliament of tho constitutional interpretation of universal suffrage, shows that the Prassian Promier en- tortained far more elevated ideas of the rights of the people than Lord Derby or Mr. Disraeli, and has a more complete faith in the good senso of the misses than even John Bright himself. MISCELLANEOUS. Our San Lais Potosi correspondence is to the 224 ultimo. The Siege of Querétaro had put a stop to ail kinds of commercial business in San Luis. The load. ing members of the goverament believed that the siego could not last more than two weeks longer. Escobedo wrote a letter to the Minister of War on tho 12th, in which he stated that ho had determined to storm the imperial position, and for that purpose had made the needed disposition of his troops. Canales was at the Valle del Maiz with a considerable forces. A lotter from Leon Guzman, Governor of Guanuajuato, gives an account of an engagement botween the two armies, in which the liberals succseded in capturing tho imperial position on the mountain of San Grogorio, Both sides suffered heavy losses. The same Writer, in another letter, gives a report that tho liberals wore iu the Plaza of La Craz, had captured seven pieces of artiltors, and that a battalion of Bolgians had deserted. Our correspondent writes that Escobedy is entirely anit to command the army, and has lost so much time that there is but 9 faint prospect of his capturing the impe- Fial forces. The reported capture of La Cruz had not ‘been confirmed. Maximilian’s headquarters werd in the Convent of Catalina, which was strongly fortified, On the 16th of March tho imperialists toro up the barricades of the sircets, and Escobedo, who had Fetired a short distance from Queritaro, wrote that this evidently moant either an attack orarotroat, Diaz had been ordered to ro\nforce Escobedo with five thou- wand men, and the troops wore on the march. The later developments of the Querétaro affair showed that Fiscobedo was unfit to command the army. Our corre. epondent, in his last letter, of the 224, reports that rein. forcements were daily arriviag at the liberal camp, Fverything was doar In Quorétaro. There was « great é nver In honor of Juarez at San Luis on the 2ist. Wo poblish an interesting letter, written by au ex-offcer of tho imperial army, giving an account of the couros \ ch led to the present critical position of the empire, \ report prevailed in Washington yesterday that ? \cimilian had been captured by the liberals at Quero- toro on the 34 inat., bat nothing official had been re- co.ved to confirm the report, Advices from Panama present # pioture of anarchy end military despotism in Colombia, Morquera had fivolly broken up Congress by military force, and {m- a coned sixty-eight Senators and Representatives,among them ex-President Murillo, his rival at the next election, J) was expected that his next qhjoct of attack would be Fonama, and that the State of that namo would in all Fekolinood daclarn {Ait free and indeogndoms ’ In Peru the new constitution was still debated in Con- gress, as well as the question of granting toleration to all religious denominations. The latter question gavo rise to exciting scenes in the legislative halls. Tho rumor was prevalent in Chile that the agent of that government had negotiated a loan in London on terms involving a cessation of the war against Spain. All parties were actively engaged electionoering, and a peaceable election was expected, . From the British West Indies we have files dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 20th of March. The colony appears to be undergoing a change for the better in its material interests, The value of real estate was improv- ing and thesmall farmers evinced a great desire for tho possession of land, The crops wero likely to suffer from the want of rain. The health of the island was good, although a fow of the troops stationed at New- castle had died of the yellow fever. Our correspondent at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, writes that Admiral Thatcher, of the United States Navy, has been decorated by the King with the order of Kame- hameha I, There had been a meeting held to erect a monumont to Captain Cook. Tho Chambor of Commerce of Honolula was agitating the question of a reciprocity treaty between the islands and the United States, From the statistics of 1866 it appeared that the exports from the United States were larger than those from any other eountry,, General Morgan Smith, the new American Consul had arrived at Honolulu, General Sickles, Commandant of Military district No. 2, embracing North and South Carolina, has issued orders under date of Charleston, S. C., April 11, setting forth that the cenéral destitution prevailing among the Population of the district renders necessary for their relief the adoption of extraordinary moyvires. He therefore orders that no person shal! bo imprisoned for debt except upon conviction of fred; that judgment or decrees for the payment 0° moncy on causes of action arising between Dec*rr i9, 1860, and May 15, 1865, shall not be onfor>»i by execution against the property or the perso she defendant; that sheriffs, coroners and con ial! suspend for twelve m nths sales of pron ow liabilities contracted prior to December 19, 1°°0; that all proceedings for the recovery of money for the purchase of negroes are suspended; that in sales of property by execution or order of court there shall bo reserved to defendants having families depending upon them, implements of husband- ry, household goods, &o., to the value of $500, and that the property of absent debtors shall not bo taken under the foreign attachment process. The order also prohibits the practice of carrying deadly weapons, ex- cept officers and soldiors, and makes an offender amenable to trial and punishment by military commis- sion; the punishment of death in certain cases of bur- glary and larceny {s abolished, and authority is given the Governors of North and South Carolina to reprieve or pardon persons convicted and sentonced by civil courts, and to romit fines and penalties. Tho Military Board ot Registration at Richmond have Appointed over one hundred registrars, Applications for these offices are coming in slowly, and a number of boards, it is sald, will have to be composed altogether of military officers and agonts of the Freedmon’s Bureau. No applications have as yet been received from remote portions of the State, where much time is occupied in procuring proper testimonials. There will be about two hundred and fi(ty registering boards in the State, and about eight hundrod officers, On Saiurday last Mr. George Peabody received a public reception from tho people of Danvers, Mass., his native town. He addressed the school childreu first, and after referring to a touching circumstance that transpired on his last visit, gave thom some sound advice, Later in the day Mr. Peabody addressed a large audience of gen- tlemen and ladies, and in a bricf spooch referred to the benefits that education had done to Massachusetts, and expressed tho hope that the cause would be ever remembered by the people. His remarks, during Doth addresses, were frequently: applacded, and great enthusiasm prevailed. Im the evening Mr. Peabody started for Salem, where ho resides while in this country. ‘Be will visit Washington on the 18th, for the purpose of receiving Queen Victoria’s portrait, and will leave in the Scotia for Europe on tho Ist of May. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered an interesting and instructive sermon yesterday morning at Piymouth church, Brooklyn, before a vory large congregation, on universal education as the basis of all true and real national strength. Many subjects of a kindred nature were touched upon, and the reverend orator elicited several rounds of hearty applause, as his on- thusiasm pointed an occasional allusion to political corruption and other national evils. Rev. 8. H. Tyng, D§ D., delivered a sermon Iast evening at Christ church, South Brooklyn, on ‘The Prominent Errors or False Cbrists which Afilict the Church at the Presont Time,’ There was a lage con- gregation present, ‘A public meeting was hold last night in the Reformed Dutch church corner of Twenty-ninth stroet and Fifth avenue for the purpose of stating the claims of the American Missionary Society for aid forthe education and relicf of the freedmen. Addresses were made by the Rev. Dr. Vermilye, Rev. E. P, Smyth and Goneral Fisk, ail of whom strongly inculcated the necossity of of increased energy in the spread of instraction among the colored race, About cight o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Jonn G. Myers, a well known railroad contractor, was found dead in his bed at Lovejoy’s Hotel. It is thought that his death was the rosult of injuries received in a difficulty which took place the day before in a Broadway restau- rant. James G. Calloway, who is alloged to have been one of the parties engaged in the affray, was last even- ing arrested by the Second precinct potice and held to await the result of the coroner's investigation. Ayoung girl, named Mary Tinsdale, who resided at No. 233 Thompson street, was kidnappod in University place by an unknown woman last Friday morning, and although a vigorous search has beon instituted no clue as to her whereabouts has yot boon discovered. A disturbance of the peace occurred in South Brooklyn lastovening which fora time bid fair to assume a vory seriousaspect. Threo police officers were assaulted by a mob while endeavoring to arrest @ man and were beaten and their prisoner rescued, In another column will be found a lively description of the opening of the season at the Park, with the names of those gentlemen most prominent in the drives, and of the thoroughbreds and other favorites of the turf which they “had in band,” The United States frigate Susquehanna and the gun- boats De Soto and Mackinaw were at St. Croix on the 20\h of March. The United States gunboat Osceola sailed from the same port for St. Domingo two days previous, Tho United States steamer Lackawanna arrived at Hon- olulu, Hawaiian Isiands, on tho Oth of Fobruary last, from Now York. ‘The steamer St, John became disabled near Catskill, on Saturday night, on ber downward trip from Albany, caused by some divarrangement of her machinery, and her passengers were conveyed back to Albany by tho steamer Dean Richmond. The damage to the steamer will bo ropaired in a day or two, The Board of Naval officers recontly appointed to examine League Island have made a report unanimously recommonding that place as a site for an iron-clad naval depot, Sophie Boisclaire, who murderod her husband in Canada, has beon sentenced to be hanged on the 20th of November next, An extensive cattle stable near St, Louis was set on fire by incendiaries on Friday night and was completely destroyed. Forty-four cows were burned to death. @. W. Trotter, a prominent cotton factor, and Lin- dane, Pollock & Co., dry goods dealers, of Momphis, have failed. ‘The discovery has just been made in Watertown, Wis., that a Germau named Schaof was killed by his son and his body burned tn a log heap. The police of Washington on Saturday night, bya preconcerted mov } made descents on the promi- nent gambling houses of that city, much to the surprise of the proprietors, who have seldom beon molested by the authorities. The oceupants of the various places isited were taken into custody, but were afterwards re- leased on bail, The number of voters registered in the First, Second, ‘Third and Foarth wards of Washington city is 6,058, of whom 4,406 aro white and 4,552 colored. lads str.» S nt nei ‘Tne Hiouest Paton Grvan for agricultural ond mineral lands in any quantity. Continents will be bought ata price not exceeding ten million dollars, payable in gold or its equiva- lent. This is worthy the attention of Buropoan governments owning lands in the Western Hemisphere, Address William H. Seward, Eaq,, Washington, D.C, ——_ Jost tan Tiina yor Tam SEORETARY OF Srate—The areat seal and “a suit of gables.” Territories at 2,943,257 square miles, or, includ. ing the Indian Territory, 3,010,277 square miles, The ares of the Russian Possessions in Anneke Jans, Jadge Sharkey and Some Great Legal Points, All menand many women must have noticed the remarkable similarity between jhe two great suits of the age—that of Judge Sharkey, Mr, Buchanan’s Jeremiah, and others, who urge that the dreadful oppressor, the United States, is keeping them out of their rights; and the not less wonderful case of cer- tain innumerable and mysterious heirs who prove that the cruel oppressor, old Trinity, keeps them out of their due and true in- heritance—all of course for the good of men’s souls and the glory of sound religion, It is certain that the question of abstract right is in favor of the oppressed, as it always is, But alas! the terrible facts of possession and power are in favor of the oppressor. Trinity stands there in obdurate stone, perfectly typified by that inflexible steeple—as indifferent to the Anneke Jans argument as if that excellent argument were only one more odor floating up from the. Jersoy. meadows or the scavengers’ scows. So stand also the impersongted States as if they were all one Bunker Hill, unshaken by such alegal earthquake as the objections of Sharkey—unsympathizing even with the lamentation of Jeremiah. But when was right ever triumphant in this wicked world? When was it thatthe law’s delay and the in- solence of office had not justice and merit at their mercy? What a consolation it must be to the heirs aud to Sharkey and to Jeremiah that there is not a chance for tho success of their cases in this world of wrong, since that very fact is such an evidence of the justice of their claims. Anneke Jans was the buxom widow of Rolf Janssen, and she married Dominie Bogardus. This all the world knows, or ought to know; for it is part of the history of the golden age of our city. Time went on; the sands ran down the glassy gorge for many pleasant sum- mers, and Anneke Jans, like Dido, and Timan- dra, and Cleopatra, and other illustrious girls of antiquity, forgot her loves and debts one day, and folded her plump little hands for the long, long sleep. In fact, she died. Now, it had happened to the fair Anneke to have heirs; and the heirs—as. heirs will—sold her property and spent the monoy. The property had been granted to Anneke’s firat husband by Van Twiller; then the grant had been con- tinued to Anneke by Stuyvesant ; it was con- tinned again by the English authorities ; the property was sold by the heirs to Lovelace, and in the palmy days of Anno it was given to Trinity. But perhaps it was not properly sold to Lovelace; perhaps one of the eight heirs was not present when the conveyance was made; perhaps the conveyance was null. Why should not the heirs—now numbering thousands—take their position on this shadowy “perhaps,” and try the case with the present holder, obstinate old Trinity? Lo’ them go on, by all means. They will find it an agree- able way to encourage young men in the study of abstruse points of law--an encouragement that will benefit society and multiply legal tomes. Thoy will find it an effective way to spend their money ; and, some coniuries hence, @ judge—bought up by Trinity, of course— will decide that right is entirely on tho side of tho heirs, but that some technical defect “in proceedings vitiates their case from the be- ginning—and Trinity will chime calmly on through still other centuries. This may be very well for impoverished and ambitious heirs; but would it not bo suporla- tive folly to reason thus in the matter of gov- ernment, and suppose it to be statesmanship ? Yet how much better is the case now bofore the Supreme Court? Not a whit. It is acase in which men have set themselves to the microscopic inspection of ihe technicalities of law, shutting their eyes to great evouts and to the fuct that the laws they dis- cuss have been absolutely put aside, and are no more relevant than would be tho laws of the Medes and Persians. Here is a learned lawyer, once a Cabinet officer, who gives us a scrious recital of the colonial his- tory of the State of Georgia and the War of Independence, and brings it all down to the present time to show—iwhat? Merely that cer- tain recently made acts of Congress are likely to “violate the federal constitution,” as it was framed for our government in pursuynes of the peace with Great Britain. Beautiful solici- tude for the integrity of the federal constitu- tion! The lawyer dogs not seo that the consti- tution, so far as it relates to the State for which he pleads, was first violated by that State and by the war which that State waged against the constitution whose protection it now claims, He docs not see that his client slew the de- fonder he now calls upon; and when he prates of violations of the cdustitution he forgets the great maxim about coming iato court with cleon hands. ! He Judge Sharkey and Mr, Buchanan’s At- torney Genoral and other lawyers can, it thus appears, easily shut their eyes to a great revolution. It is said that two armies were once unconscious of an earthquake that shook the very field on which they were des- perately fighting. Here, however, are men who can not only ignore the shock, but also the ruin left behind—who can argue as if there had been no earthquake in the presence of the rent mountains, the diverted river, the up- heaved plain and the hundred cities whose domes have been dusted down and scattered by the wind. Since learned lawyers can thus ignore one great revolution, we wonder that they did not go a little further and ignore another. Why stop at the Declara- tion of Independence? If this great war just over, with its hundred tremendous battles, was nothing, why, perhaps the war that was waged in 76, with its half hundred little skirmishes, was nothing also. Will not these lawyers prove that we are the subjects of Victoria, as the representative of our some time sovereign George the Third? Let them take it up at once; never mind the facts; the argument will be admirable, Torritorinl Growth of the United States. The territorial growth of the United States has been no less surprising than their growth in population. Beginning at the peace of 1783 with only 820,680 square miles, they added 889,579 by the purchase of Louisiana, 66,900 by the acquisition of Florida, 318,000 by the annexation of Texas, 308,052 by the Oregon treaty and 650,455 by the Mexican treaties. The Commissioner of the General Land Office in 1860 estimated tho land aren of the States and Amorioa is comouted at 481,276 square miles. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1867,—TRIPLE SHEET. The annexation of Russian America will swell the grand total of square miles embraced within the United States to 3,491,553, Ina little more than eighty years the original dimensions of the republic will have thus expanded to an almost fourfold degree. No nation has ever enlarged its boundaries more rapidly to so great an extent or made at less expense more valuable acquisitions. Each of these successive acquisitions has encountered opposition and bas been attended with incon- veniences, but the latter have all been coun- terbalanced by precious compensations. This will doubtless prove to be the case with our last accession of territory, and our Fourth of July orators can boast with better reason than ever that ours is surely a “great country.” Maximilian in Mexico—Chapter Seven Hun- dred and Ten, For some days the curtain has been down on the Mexican scene, There has been an in- terval—not, perhaps, of-peace or even repose; and now tho remarkable drama is on the boards once more. Maximilian, Querétaro, Escobedo, prestamas, traitors, foreigners, vic- tory, defeat—these are the familiar words that again shine on les affiches and dazzle the eyes of a delighted world. Maximilian, it will be remembered, left the city of Mexico with some chosen thousands of men to shed the last drop of his fine blue blood in defence of the empire at Querétaro, and to cast around that mountain city the halo pecu- liar to all last ditches. If Quorétaro would not be a last ditch, and Max really could not get rid of the stubborn last drop of his fine blue blood, then he was to leave Querétaro, cut his way through the liberal lines and escape into United States territory, while all the world would say civil things of him, as Don Quixote did of the giant Morgante. That was the plan, and now we see by our special despatches of yesterday how it goes on. Querétaro promises well in the diteb line. Max is hemmed in there, and the liberal forces are drawing closer and closer every day. Max has even become hungry. Indeed, the special fight that our despatches chronicle was apropos to the appetite of Max’s troops. They, like 60 many pollies, wanted crackers. There were crackers at a hacienda inside the liberal lines. A train had arrived thatday. This was known in Quer¢taro, and a body of four thousand mon made a sortie with the spirit that animates heroes who go for their rations. But the four thousand men were repulsed and driven into Querétaro again by the liberals; and even if they had captured the hacienda they were too late, for the rations had been removed before the attempt was made. Is not this the strain that runs through the whole Mexican story-+too late! too late! Was not every measure tried too late, and, above all, has not the Hapsburg deferred his departure till it is too late? That may depend upon whether Juarez will care for Mr. Soward’s request, or whether Maximilian can consent not to cut the liberal lines all to pieces and:to wisely ratire by Vera Oraz--stili hold- ing out in his intorest—and thence take the first steamor for Miramar. Mexican good na- ture——a Hapsburg’s relinquishment of his ob- slinacy! These are slim chances for a man’s Tite, Protection of Life at Theatres. Wo have no apology to offer for the fre- quency of our warnings in relation to the lack of the necessary precaution which is apparent at places of amusement and halls for public assemblages in this and other cities to guard against fires, and the insufficiency of the open- ings for egress at such places in case of sudden alarms. The Logislaturo of Pennsylvania some weeks ago took ap the subject, and, under the view which we have so often presented, enacted a law making it incumbent upon all managers of theatres and halls to keep their aisles and passage ways at all times free and unobstructed, ani for- bidding the plasing therein of “any benches, chairs, stools or other articles that might pre- vent freeingress or egres3.” Tho law further provides that the principal establishments, during the hours said places are open to the public, shall keep attached to a plug or water attachment, to be furnished for that purposa, sufficient hose of the siz used by fire com- panies to extond to tho farthest limits of such places, which is to be ready at all times for immediate-use. In relation to the facilities for leaving the buildings under causes of oxcite- ment, the act says that the doors of such places of amusement, unless they opon outwards, shall be kept open during the performances, and shall be without locks or catches of any kin1 except such as may be necessary to securely faston them back. The law might have been extended so far as to require the managers of auch places to keep patrols and watchmon in thelr buildings, and a detachment of firemoain and about the premises during the time of occupancy, with some other necessary pracau- tions that we have from time to time pointed out; but this is a humane and praiseworthy be- ginning, and we hope that our Logislature, be- fore adjournment, will take up the matter and give us some law for the protection of life at our places of public amusement, at least equal to that recently enacted in Pennsylvania. Labor Statistics—A Wholesomo Lesson. We have always been warm frionds of the working classes, and have taken a lively into- rest in everything that concerned their welfare. Although far from being convinced that strikes are beneficial to them, we have maintainod their right to resort to them, so long as thoy do not violate the law. In Penrsylvania, how- ever, we seo that, not conient wiih quitting work to force their employers to continue rates of wages which the prices of coal did not justify, the miners resorted to acts of violence and bloodshed, resulting in five or six murders and innumerable robberies. Deplorable as are these occurrences, they have developed a feature which is as gratifying os it is new in outbreaks of this sort, Shocked at their conduct a body of some seventy or eighty miners combined and armed themselves to resist the desperadoes who sought to keep them unemployed, and immediately resumed work. Since then no attempt has been mado to interfere with them, and they continue to peacefully pursue their avocations, The good sense and manliness displayed in this proceed- ing cannot but exercise a wholesome effect on the raffians who sock to convert their trade strikes into protexts for revenge and robbery. But if they do not have this result they will at loast teach the well disposed and peaceable, who do not believe in controlling their em- plovers by acts of violence, that they possess an easy of protecting the intimidation that may be attempted to bé exercised towards them. Now Enterprises—Their True Point of Depar- ture. The real cause of the failure of so many new enterprises is, after all, quite simple. Those who originate them mistake their true point of departure. They forget thatit is indispensable to begin at the beginning. Thoy heed not the wisdom of the old couplet : Great oaks from little acorns grow; Large streams from little fountains flow. Finding always people with more money than brains ready to invest their surplus capital in some new scheme suggested by the success of similar schemes, they ignore the fact that the latter have reached their actual prosperity only by the slow but sure processes of growth, and they deem it sufficient to dazzle outsiders by merely emulating the external show of those well-established rivals with whom they are ambitious to compete. With marble fronts and glittering signs, and with desks and safes and counting room and all the approved para- phernalia of business, they try to start at a point which their prototypes have reached: only after passing through a long and difficult ordeal of experiments. Now, the credulous public may be temporarily dazzled by such il- lusory appearances; but the reality too often, and usually too soon, is found by the unhappy stockholders in such enterprises to be naught but failure; and the public quickly learns the result. Such is the case with those splen- did failures which have been directly oc- casioned by the success of the older well- established express companies. The most in- genious combinations, with the military fame of General Joe Johnston and an army of ex-of- ficers to boot, could not prevent failure in one conspicuous instance; and in no other in- stance can success be predicated in violation of the rule which we have indicated. Such is also the case with numerous unsuccessful newspaper enterprises on this and on the other side of the Atlantic. Enough capital is se- cured to issue a few numbers of a journal which confidently announces its inten- tion to vie with, nay, to surpass the old favorites of the public that have won this dis- tinction only after long years of persevering efforts to satisfy the increasing demands of our progressive age. Tho new claimants for public favor drag on a weary and precarious exist- ence for a few brief months and finally sink beneath accumulated difficulties. The spell of what they fondly deemed their “open sesame” is broken, and the doors to success remain closed and hermetically sealed. They learn that magic is impotent and that they must suc- cumb to the painful pressure of facts. In| Londo, for instances, tho Daily News began with a capital of two hundred thousand pounds sterling and with the prestige of genius as well as talent in its favor; but, neglecting from the outset tho simple but easential prerequisites of success, it has gradually dwindled to its present insig- nificance, which is all the more striking by way of contrast to its “great expectations” in com- mencing its career. Nor can we safely prodict any better fate to tho jouraal which, we have been privately inform2d, is to, be started as a rival to the London Times. “We have not yet been made acquainted with all the details of this new enterprise, but we have heard enough of its extravagant anticipations of surp.ssing the Times as an organ of news and public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic to inspire ° us with distrust of its splendid promises. Com- petition, however, is the life of trade, and whether the new journal shall live or die will depend upon ils observing the simple but invariable law which we have laid down. In France the success of Le Pelit Journal, which was founded not long ago and which still holda its own, enjoying a prodigious circulation throughout the empire, is altogether excep- tional. In its turn it has had competitors whose name is legion, but very few survive to illus- trate, like it, the principle under consideration. And in New York several nondescript evening Journals have recently beon started, which, we fear, will only swell the number of exceptions. that prove our rule. Troubles of Hayti-Policy of the United States. According to the last accounts the revolu- tion is complete. Like Soulouque, Geffrard, finding further resistance to a hostile public sen- timent hopeless, has retired from the island and taken refuge in Jamaica. The causes assigned for this discoptent with him would in. any other country be sufficient to account for the move- ment; but in Hayti they are so chronic that they probably have had but little to do with it, Other influences have-been at work, which, after steadily undermining his popularity, have succceded in procuring his downfall. In the various outbreaks that have taken piace since he has occupied the Executive chair French intrigue has been always manifest. The move- ment of last year had notoriously that origin ; and the recent insurrection was timed so exactly to coincide with the return of the French troops from Mexico that the two events evidently had a direct connection. The orders given to the French war vessels conveying a portion of Ba- zaine’s force to repair to Port-au-Prince to pro- tect French interests leave but little doubt on the subject. France has always regretted the loss of Hayti and would not be scrupulous about resorting to forcible measures to recover it. Its coffee, tobacco, sugar and other produc- tions, if cultivated under a proper system, would contribute largely towards her commer- cial resources and help to compensate for the drain which her foreign military expoditions are making upon them. We would like to know what our government is doing to coun- teract the schemes which have for their object the reinstatement of French authority on the island? We have a treaty, negotiated with St. Domingo, for the cession to us of the Bay of. Samana, which hangs fire in the Senate, This is @ very important acquisition, in view of the eventualities indicated, and it should at once be put through and ratifed. Under no circum: stances must we allow European influence to again gain the ascendant on the island. While we can secure such advantages ns this treaty. offers us it would be criminal to lose them by unnecessary delay, ——__ The Luxemburg Question—Limperial Con slatency. . From the German side there are very posi- tive declarations that cannot bo .permitted to pass into the hands of France, even though such an event could only be pre- vented by war. We see by our files the spirit expressed in Germany at the beginning of the Ghomsciver aju- tt | month, and we Know by telegraph that they culminated ins very positive note from the y rassian Premier. Germany will fight on this disp, will France? It is a question whether ,*He Napoleon of 1867 will make war on the ideas or the Napoleon of 1866. Napoleon has, doubtless, .“ePented sorely enough his own share in the last ye“ Of Prussian history; but will be admit that fagt ¢6 the extent of making wart No ees ite Less than a ago the Emperor said to the world, new principie that governs Europe is freedom of alliance.” There was to be no more of that old tradition-pf the bal- ance of power, so far as it made boundary lines mere political distinctions—made assimi- lated neighboring people the subjects of hos- tile monarchs, and in defiance of natural affini- ties traded away States and peoples to preserve the relative proportions of empires. Upon the Emperor’s dogma Germany became one, Vene- tia went home into her Italian brotherhood, and a vast population between the Euxine and the Adriatic began to gravitate out of the hands of its Moslem master. Now the Emperor comes forward to furnish an illustrious protest against the operation of the principle he a0 forcibly laid down. ‘ Luxemburg is German. It is one of the accidents of European politics that its sove- reignty vests in Holland. Holland, being only a nominal owner at best, is ready to sell, and France to buy; but Prussia, being in actual possession, and seeing that any change should, in accordance with the present laws of nma- tional life in Europe, be towards Germany and not towards France, insists upon the princi- ple, and will fight to maintain it. If France fights Prussia it cannot be on this quarrel, and the consequence will be that the Emperor will find some more or less graceful escape from the difficulties of his position. . THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA, ‘ Business in the Mining Districts—A Severe Winter—Anticipated Indian Troubles, &c. “A gentleman recently arrived in this city who left San Francisco, Cal., by the overland route, on the 16th of February last, and Virginia City on the 25th of the same month. In the mining districts business is better and more promising than it has been for the last two or three years. The mines are now yielding better tham they have done since 1856, and, as a matter of course, every branch of business depending on the mines few support is in a bighly flourishing-condition. Along the whole route the snow was unprecedontedly deep. 80 large a quantity bad never been known to fall in one season befSre, and evon the ploncers of 1649 did not remember apytbing like it, The snow had inter fered considerably with travel, and the mails had bees delayed from ton to fifteen days. In some places it had been found impossible to force the aleighs through, and the mails and express packages had been carried on the shoulders of men provided with snow shoes. From Salt Lake City to Omabs a distance of about eleven hundred miles, the whole road is infested wit Indians, Mail or sicighs or tans al eee” fica oF Baee aot ong tho Touts. by ioe. general go i m3 of traing. In mest ill f L All the frontier groat apprehensions felt of a great Indian war, asthe Indi | shown by their acts that they esteem all made to them by the general government weakness and timidity, and openly boast man afraid; he cow: Indi rh Ale Miss cee fake, big: fignt!”” for the p pts nen are of seer for the purpose in, are ‘no mat use. They strongly conten: rig eee Ho the gov. ernment should ‘be more decided, der the system treaties are made with the Indians, the terms which are seldom or never observed; the Indians them foe! themselves and, following the instincts of thoit savage natare, indulge in wholesale bloodshed ‘and massacres, as in tho case oer in Minnesota, Fa fow years since, and Fort a few days or ae he the ae, who have Cemecnsnl as Lt character thoroughly for many years say’ Indien treaties ttn all oases Vo. be carsiod ext to tive tethagy and then, if hostile demé are made, a ctent force should be sent against them to carry out work of exterm' Under the y au irs, who say thelr Indiang have in a great measure imbibed sions of a want of honest; of the government, It is alse from the trade’ Indians obtain their supplies indulgence in which abominable casions caused them to make co ag were also rt - rr ronner ts very ly spoken of as the Indian is much regretted C HH i oflicer who thoroughly understood and his removal from the frontier the settlers. i MUSICAL, The thirty-thinl Sanday concert at Steinway Hall inet the prolides of wrote—ful of massive and graceful thoughts; then Liddpainter’s Standard Bearor, with the m- evitable trumpot and trombone obligato; msx® the Waddeine Waltz, a very clevor and taking piece of orchesimtion; Wagner's overture to Rienzi; the re mance from 1.’Eclairy with Eben’s capital flute solo, amd: the overture to William Tell, with Morgan's unrivalled organ accompaniment. Mr, George Simpson sang orm torio and ballad selections in his usual style, Although the orchestra will appear no more, the Sunday concerts wili bo kept on by Mr. Harrison, wtth organ, pianos ana” first class artists, up to the highest standard of exosl- touce. . The Afth and last concert of the Liedorkranz sooteny. took p'ace iast night, undor the direction of its excelien®: President, William Steinway, at the hall in Fourth street. Mr. Dawson, pianist; Mr. Rudolph Hennig, violoneellist, and the Leiderkranz chorus and amateur orchestra wore on hand and contributed to the success of the concert. Gode'’s interminable, stupid idea of the “Ertl King”? was sung by the mixed chorus of the society and was vory tiresome and aninteresting. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL ITEMS, J. W. Wallack and Charles Vandenhoff are at the Hol- liday, Baltimore. Brignoli, Madame Parepa-Rosa, Ferranti, Fortuna an@ Carl Rosa will appear in a concert at Concordia Opers House, Baltimore, on the 16th. Lady Don commenced an engagement at the National, Washington, on the Sth, appearing as the Earl of Leices- ter in the amusing burlesque of Kenilworth, T. A. Lyno, aSalt Lake city tragedian, made a hit tim the tragedy of the Apostate there, on the 23d ult, ‘A number of American troupes are flocking to the Paris Bxposition, Spaulding and Rogers’ circus, Charley Thorne & Frank Hussoy’s minstrels and Maguire's Japanese will represent Amorica in the amusoment lino, Captain Hudson will exhibit his little ship, the Red, White and Blue. Edward Mollonhauor, the celebrated violinist and conductor is about to leave the theatre in which he has 0 long wielded the leader's baton. Arival Phitharmonio Society is about boing started im this city. THE RISTOR! TROUPE AT NIAGARA FALLS, NiaGara Farts, April 14, 1867, Madame Ristori, with her family, suite and entire emine League Island have made a report unanimously oe igon-clad nave,