The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1867, Page 8

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The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day evening, April 15, Omar Pacha has sailed for Crete with a squadron of Turkish war vessels and heavy reinforcements of troops to aid in suppressing the Christian insurrection. Spain Yields the demands of England in the cage of the steamship Victoria seized about the samo time as the Tornado, Consols closed at 90%, for money, in London, United ‘States five-twenties closed at 74 in London and 76% in Frankfort, The Liverpool cotton market was active, closing firm, with middling uplands at twelve pence. Breadstuifs firm. ‘Provisious generally unchanged. Amertran produce ‘quiet and sheady. * By the steamship Alemania we have mail details from Cable daspaiches to the Sd of April, one day later than the report of the Deutschiand, pablished in the Hx2atp on Sunday morning and yesterday. ‘The Duke of Buckingham, Foreign Secretary of Eng- land, reported to the House of Lords the diplomatic despatches received by telegram from St. Petersburg on ‘the subject of the treaty cession of Russian America to the United States. The Duke thinks that the people of Great Britain will be con iderably excited when the act fe completod, but expresses the hope that “English blood” will be able to repairthe damages inflicted on the national interests on the Pacific coast line. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills to provide for an ad- -@itional Metropolitan Commissioner and relative to the ‘driving of cattle in New York were reported complete. Tho bill amending the act relative to buildings and the @orage of combustible materials in New York was of In the Assembly the bill amending the act to change the route ofthe Broadway and Seventh Avenw? Railroad ‘Wan reported compiete. The bill giving consent to the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls by the United States was reported and referrea to the Com- ‘Milttee of the Whole. Bills authorizing the construction of a railroad in 125th strect, and to amend the act forthe formation of companies to navigate the ocean by steam- abips, were passed. In the evening session the bill to Gappress prostitation in the city of New York was re- ported adversely, and on motion the report was disa- greed to and the bill ordered to a third reading. THE CITY. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution, rola- tive to certain stands for hackney coaches driven through the Park, was adopted. A resolution, making eight hours a day’s labor for all employes of the city government, was referred to the Committee on Laws. A communication from Counsel 0’ Gorman was received Felative to the negotiations for the sale of a portion of City Hall Park to the general government. The reso- lotion authorizing the purchase of a file of the New ‘Yorx Hxraxp for the past twenty years, at a cost of 92,000, was passed’ ovor tlie Mayor's voto by a vote of 13 against 2. Inthe Board of Councilmen no business of any {nl Poriance was transacted. Superintendent Kennedy has ordered the police cap- tains to take A consus of the pawnbrokers, keepers of Joan, junk and intelligence offices and dealers in second Rand goods in their respective precincts, Ia-reference to the accident on the steamer St, John, on Saturday night, a passenger says that the walking broke, and if it bad not been soon discovered one the heavy shafts attached might have strack through het bottom and sunk her, On transferring the passen- gers he further says there was no provision made for a passage to New York, and their tickets were demanded. ‘The first public meeting of the Liberal Christian Union took place at the Church of the Messiah, corner Twenty- eighth street an@ Madison avenue, Inst evening. A latge wudionce attended, and addresses were delivered by Rev, Dra, Osgood, Bellows and Chapin, and Rev. ‘Mowra. Frothingham, Lee and Demorest. The Broadway aerial bridge was opened to passengers yesterday. ‘The inauguration of the trotting season was celebrated et the Fashion Course on Long Island yesterday by a race for a sweepstakes between the bay mare Dolly, the bay Whalebone and the chestnut mare Lady mile hoats, best three in five, in harness. The bay gelding won, the best time being three minutes, oroner Gover yesterday held an inquest at Bellevue ‘Hospital over the remains of Joba G. Myers, the man supposed to have been mardered in an affray at the saloon on Cedar street and Broadway, op Saturday last. Ovidence as far as clicited seems to prove that de- chased came to his death by heart disease, probably emetted by the injuries received. AB action was brought yesterday in the Supreme Court, Cirouit, by Wm. Knobel vs. Chas. B. Leary & Co. 10 Tecover $626 50, the of the contents of a trunk, the property of the plaintiff, who was a passenger on Dear the steamship Circassian, of which the defendants were owners, The property was lost at Halifax, after béing saved from the vessel, which was run ashore in October, 1865. Verdict for the plaintiff for $554 76. Part 2 of the Sapreme Court, Circuit, will hereafter be held in the new Court House, in the room receatly occu. Pied by the Court of Appeals. A motion was made at the general term of the Suprome Court, yesterday morning, for the admission to practice tthe bar of A.A. Bradley, « Geuth Carolina cofored anit. ‘The motion was recetved, and the application re- the Committes on Character. of the young man, Charles G. Kelly, recently calting at Queenstown, Passengers must be on beard at eight A.M : ay at 4 4 Tho depression a gold exerted a depressing influence dm the merchandise markets yesterday, and prices were lower in numerous cases, while in others a Naval stores ruled dull at former prices, scarcely as firnt, ‘ Buoyancy and Grmness were the ehief characteristics of the market for beef cattle. Under a limited supply, being confised to about 1,300 head, and a fair demand, holders succeeded in establishing an advance of fully instances, Extra sold at 18%c, a 183¢0.; first quality, IT4e. 180.3 fair to good, 160.0 17¢., and common, 14. a 160, Miteh cows remained dull and nominal at $40 8 $110. Veal calves, in view of the increased offer- ‘ings ruled heavy, though prices were not quotably lower, Extea sold at'12-.,° prime 110. a 1130. and inferior to Common lots Yc, a 10c. There was more firmness in the market for cheep and lambs, prime grades being fully 349. & 30. per Th. higher, though common qualities were swithout deolded change. We quote sheared sheop at 70. 9340. aD%Kc., and unsheared do. at 83<c, a 100, ‘The hog market raled dull and heavy and prices wore fally 3g0. per lb. lower. About 21 car toads were on sale, all.of which were gold at To, a 7340, for fair to good and heavy prime cora fed, aud 6340. a Te. for common and Tough. The total receipts wore 4,808 beeves, 60 milch cows, 1,443 veal calves, 9,287 sheep and tambs and 16,938 swine. MISCELLANEOUS. In the case of the petition for an injunction against the President, to restrain him from executing the Re- Construction law in Mississippi, Chief Justice Chase de- cided that leave to file the bill could not be granted. As the Attoriiey General made no objection against filing the petition in tho case of Georgia, leave was granted to file that bill. In the United States Senate, yosterday, after the exe- cutive session, Mr. Buckalow offered a resolution to oon- tract with some proper persons for condensed reports of the proceedings and debates of the Senate, the same to be furnished to the pross of the country, which was roforred to a committee to be appointed by tho chair. A motion was made towards having the adjournment Fesolution reconsiderod, but pending its consideration the Sonate adjourned. Our advices from Mexico como by way of Havana on the 7th inst. A report was current that the liberals had occupied Sisal. Two schooners and a steamer had been purchased by the liberals to blockade Vera Cruz on the Gulf side, Porfirio Diazjis sald by imperialists to have mot with some disasters at Puebla, boing forced to fall back on Oajaca. Ortega recently made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from prison, and was placed in cleae confinomen t. By tho Atlantic cable we learn from Lisbon that the British mail steamer from Rio Janeiro brings intelll- gence that the National Guard of Brazil had been called out to reinforce his army in Paraguay. This measure had caused much discontent and opposition among the peopic, Aramor prevailed that the mediation of the United States had been summarily rajected by Paraguay. Panama files say that a line of steamships is soon to be established between Hamburg and Aspinwall. At firat they are to make monthly trips, touching each way at Laguayra, Puerto Cabello, Santa Martha and Cartbagena It ia reported that some of the principal ports ta the West Indies, as woll as Bremen and Southampton, will be added to this list. Several colored men of Columbia, 3. C., have pur; chased the South Carolinian newspaper, and propose coa- dacting it as a conservative negro organ. The work of registoring voters in Louisiana has com. menced, most of the applicants being negroes. Tho negroes of Richmond, Va., commemorated the anniversary of Lincoln's death yesterday by speeches and demonstrations of both a radical and conservative oharacter. ‘The theatre was denaély crowded at night to hear some of the city officiats, who advised peace and harmony between the two racon, It ts tated in Montreal that Jacques Cartier had been offered the Lioutevant Governorstip of Canada, and the rank of Knight of the Bath, both of which he dectihed, proferring to work in Parliataent for the good of his Constituents. It is also said that official circles in Eng- land are afraid the United States may take a fancy to claim a part of the valleys of the Red River and Sas- katohowan. The full vote of Maryland is in favor ef the State Con- stitntional Convention by ten thousand majority. It will convene on tho 8th of May at Annapolis, Tho United States steamer Penobscot was at Barba dos on tho 29th of March; the Mohongo was to leave Acapulco on the 27th for San Francisco; tho Saranac is on a cruise to Mexican and Central American poris on the Pacific coast, and the Suwanee and Saginaw wore at San Francisco on the 19th. Two alleged lottery dealers were sentenced to pay $7,000 fine each in Boston yesterday for being engaged in that business, The man Vanderbilt, who, with bis wife, was indicted ‘bv the Bergen county Grand Jury some time ago for in- human cruelty to a little girl whom they had taken from & public institution to raise, pleaded guilty yesterday, and wero fined seventy-five dollars, The Crisis in Mexico—What {s to Follow? All our recent intelligence relating to the affairs of Mexico warrants the conclusion that we are approaching the close of another act of the dreary and protracted drama. The fates are evidently with the republican party; the star of empire has gone down, and lone pregnant with peril have gathered darkly around the head of p01 Maximilian. Any moment may put us in possession of the fact that the Emperor—Emperor now only in nvme—is a helpless prisoner in the hands of his enemies. Since the time when the first Napoleon (to compare small things with great) yielded himself up a prisoner into the hands of his mortal enemies, the world has not wit- nessed a spectacle so humiliating to royalty. We have little doubt that the intervention of Mr. Seward will be effectual in saving the life of Maximilian. He has but little chance, now that the voice of the great republic has been raised in his favor, to share the fate which the laws of nations and of war have sanctioned in such cases. The life of Maxi- milian will doubtless be spared; but it may be found that Mr. Seward has asked too much in asking Juarez to extend equal mercy to all the imperial troops that may become prisoners of war. Come what may of Maximilian and his men, it may safely be concluded that the Mexican empire has lost all the little vitality which it ever had, and that we are warranted to speculate with freedom on the probabilities of the fature. Max safely shipped for Miramar, after, per- haps, having paid a flying visit to bis friends in the United States, and with a brighter fu- ture opening up before him in the land which gave him birth, what is to become of Mexico? Is the experience of the last forty years of revolution to go on repeating itself? Is one of the finest countries in the world to continue to be the hotbed of party strife? We confess that unless aid come from without we can see for it no other future. The departure of Maximilian will give but a new aspect to the straggle, and factions will con- tend for supremacy as before, though it may be under new names and for avowedly dif- ferent purposes. The history of Mexico since Spanish domination ceased has, on the one hand, amply illustrated thé absurdity of the State rights doctrines to which ali parties revealed the atter hopelessness of the aalva- tion of tho republic, if 1 ts to depend on forces from within, All the GiMeryat” oartigs, tn, Moxico bave in turn fought their way to power, exercised their brief euthority, and left the country to their successors weaker and more wretched than they found it The causes which have led to this state of things in the past atill exist, and the momont the bugbear of imperialism is gone they will tell with tenfold more force than ever. As in the past, so in the future, unless some strong arm intervene, Mexico must continus te be the prey of con- tending factions, and peace er progress there oan be none. s What, then, is to be done? | We confess we gee no cure butone, Mexioo's only hope is to shelter herself under the eagle of the republic of the United States. This is hor inevitable doom. Sooner or later she must merge her fate in ours. The time may not be near which shall witness the event; clroumstances may hinder It; but it mast come’ to pass; and it will not be for the interest of Mexioo if it be long delayed. We do not give expression to ‘these sentiments for the purpose of intimidat- ing Mexico. Far from its: As we have again ond again said, thepeople of the United States have no desire to’ ry y by thé force of conquest, or to-hold it.on the principle that. might ts tight, But if tt should happen, se indeed it has happened bofore, that the Moxi- can people express a dosire to. be incorporated with the people of the Ynited States, and sock to come with their rich but undeveloped lanfis under the benign influence of the Star Spangled Banner, it will not be for the interests of Mexico, for the interests of the United States, or for the interests of humanity at large, if our gov- ernment refuse to.accept such an offer. It is not without authority we say it, that with the Church party, the property holdera generally, and all who.are sick of anarchy and misrule, ‘and interested in the real preservation, the true prosperity of Mexico, such a step would be by no means unpopular, and thatin certain quarters some such move is already meditated. If the offer should be made, we know of no reason why it should not be accepted. The objections that our territory is already too large, and that,a mixture of races is incompat- Ible with the interests of the republic, are no longer of any weight. The progress of science has destroyed the one, and recent events have taken all force from the other. Stcamboats, railroads and telographs have done much to make distance of little account; and with the near prospect of vast improve- ment in telegraphy and. the various means of transit, the dificuliy of making the central authority felt in remote and widely soattered provinces is not to be thought of. Now, too, that we are about to admit the Esquimaux and other mysterious people from the unknown regions of the North within the pale of the Union, we dare not Object to the alert and high apitited Mexicans, The fact is'that, in the onee of ancient Rome, the‘equality of the races bas heen settled for ws aid in spite of us, by'the more force of events.” Nor necd the Mexicans fear that in the eveng of such an incorporation taking place, their peculiar privileges would, be trampled upon and-their national rights lsregarded. Lncor- poration would not in any sense imply extine- tion. Local intareste then, as now, would ba under the control of local authorities, Im- perial matters only would come aader the control of the central government at Washing- ton. We conclude as we began. Annexation is what is wanted. The interests of Mexico, the interests of the United States, and the cause of human progress all equally demand it. Lot Mexico once be thrown open to American enter- prise, and we hesitate not to predict that in ten years from that date the population of New York alone, not to speak of othor centres of industry, will searcely be lesa than 3,000,000. Protection for the Police. Another assault on the polise, while in dis- charge of their duty, occurred in Brooklyn on Sunday evening, the particulars of which we published yesterday. Ii is evident that some vigorous measures mast be taken for the pro- tection ot police officers from mob violence, or we caunot expect them to afford us that de- fence against the rowdy element of society which we claim at their hands. The riot of the 18th of March was a disgrace to all those directly engaged fn it, and has very properly prejudiced the public against all public sirect demonstrations, whera such collisions are likely te Scour at say moment, through a hasty word or blow on either side. The ringload es! of that affair have been indicted by the Grand Jury ; but it is understood that strong efforts are being made by politicians and others to shield these men from punishment. Tho revent riot ta Brooklyn, fa which Hearly three han- dred people assaulted three or four po- licemen and reseued a prisoner, will pro- bably defeat the humane intentions of those who are anxious to vindicate resistance to law by obtaining immunity for the violators. We trust, however, that in those and all other cases of a similar charactor there will be no compromise with criminals, and that examples will be made to deter others from the com- mission of like acts, It the police are not amply sustained by the couris when they are obstructed by physical force in the legitimate discharge of their duty, there can be no safety for life, limb or property in this community. The police are the paid servants of the people, and while we are always disposed to hold them to a striet accountability for their con- duct, it is but just that we should afford them the fullest protection of the law. The Mississippt Inja Case Quashed. Ex-Governor William L. Sharkey and his man Friday, Robert J. Walker, have come to grief. All their recent efforts before the Su- preme Court of the United States to raise another rumpus and to inflict increased burdens upon the South have been reduced to vapor by the decision of the Chief Justice, whose opinion on the subject of the Mississippi injunction case will be found in full in another part of this day’s Hezatp. The court has re- fused to entertain the bill, or, in plainer words, the application of these two distinguished fossil politicians to stay the execution of the military law of Congress and to stop the natural course of events has been trundled into the street, The decision as rendered was not unexpected. Wantep—A ship load of Fourth of July orators to open “the glorious Fourth” (which will begin in May and last for three months) among our newly acquired fellow citizens, the Mequimaux of Russian America. Apply at the State Department, Washington, whers Eaqui-_ Pigut dictlonartey will be furnished. . General as @ Statooman. General Sickles isa man of genius. At his outset in public life he was, as is not uncom- mon in the history of genius, underrated by his associates, They were the Tammany Hall men, certainly never noted for anything like acute perception—veteran jobbers and jokers in ward caucuses and primaries; and these sage fellows thought Sickles a good man to put before the public for the sake of appearances, but withal a puppet that they could play up and down at their pleasure. Even Fernando Wood, the arch-mianipulator of-committees and conventions, was so poor @ judge of men as to suppose that he could wind Sickles round his finger—as he did so many othera—and was disposed to patronize the youngster, of course on his own conditions, But the boldness and sagacity of the rising politician made him more than a matoh for the tortuous ways of the veteran shuffler, and Fernando Wood was fairly ousted from Tammany Hall by the opera- tions of Sickles. Indoed, Sickles took bis degree from Tammany as master of all the political arts that old university could teach; and in favor of euch an education there is this to be eaid : it gave the graduate areal expe- Henoe ‘of the actual condition of a once great party, of tho rottenness of our party system, and of the utter. insincerity, venality, worth- leseneas and mischievous tendencies of more party mon. The war came, and Sickles was among the carliest to rally to the national cause. He did goodservice. Many a day that will be fair in our history owesan honorable portion of its glory to the astanch qualities of the brigade thatthe newly made General organised and vitalized from the number of his personal and political adherents in this city. His porsonal services were also of eminent value to tho country. Had his admirable oxamplo been followed at Chanoellorsville the Army of the Potomac would not have suffored a disgrace- ful defeat, Lee's army would in all pro- bability have been destroyed in 1863, and the rogult of the war and the state of our finances might bave been so far diffrent that recon- atruction would have beon a far simpler problem than it proves. It has been ably argued that but for Sickles our army would have been withdrawn from Gettysburg with- outa fight. However that may be, none can doubt that if kis pugnavious example had properly influenced the commander, that great field might have been momorable, not for a drawn battle and the escape of the invader, but for the most crushing and decisive victory of the war, Indeed, the brilliant military record of Sickles shows that he could readily becoms an illustrioas soldier, as he had previously shown that hecould be @ aagacious and suc- cessful politician. Now we see him the pro-consul of the United: States, in charge of a vast and populous dis trict, exhibiting all the quslities. of » wiseand considetats ruler. His general order of tho 11th ia @ piecd of real’ ‘wisdom, all the more oxcelient for Being timely. .It-sete ‘aside laws , very boldly; but the boldness ts discreet, since it sets aside laws forthe very reason for which they were first made—to protect the people and prevent misery. General Sickles acts in the spirit of a commander who rogards the people as committed not so much to his riule-as to his care. He gives. noble answer to those disaffected Southern politicians who have denounced the Military bill as an op- pression, in showing them how well it will serve fora defence against oppressors. His first use of bis great powers has been in favor of the people, and that grave fact will go far to correct the erroneous impressions the South has had of the spirit in which the North in- tended to govern. We see in General Sickles aman of the sams type with those who made Rome great—one equally competent. in. war and in politics, with the ample developm2nt that enables him to shine in either sphere. H> is possessed of genius, of oxporience, and has a mind cultivated by extensive study— the three roquisites laid down by Bolingbroke as necessary to a groat leader; and if he uses his opportunities with the discretion and moderation that have marked his course thus far his fature career will be a splendid ono for hia country. Tho Govornor’s Vetoos and Legisiative Com. binations. The Goveraor is expected to send in his veto of the Brosdwy Surfaod Railroad bill to-day, and the consideration of the Now York Oon- tral Railroad Fare bill has b3en postponed tintil this evening. It is currently camored, and it is vory probable, that a coalition will he formed between the brokers of the Oentral and the brokers of the Broadway, by which both bills will be passed over the vetoas, So say the party journals, and thoy affirm, with much’ confidence and evident relish, that a purse of three hundyed thousand dollars is hela open iu Albany to accomplish those rewits. Well, as these journals are in the confileace of the managers, they ought to kaow allaboutit if it should be done the people. will koow where the State Prison is and where the State Legis - lature is, and what is tae comparative moral standing of the two. “What Is Ite” We haye received a telegraphic despatch from Montreal which informs us that a certain French Canadian paper says that “steps are to be taken in England to buy the Northwest Territory, in order to connect by this belt of land British Columbia with the east of the con- federation.” " We cannot comprehend what “helt of land” is thus referred to, unless it be the belt of some thirty miles wide which runs along from fifty-four degrees forty minutes up to the sixtieth degree of north latitude, between the Pacific Ocean and British Columbia, and which is the string by which we hold our recent of Russian America, If we are right in this conjecture we have only to say that the pelt is not for sale, and that in the real estate business the United States are not tn the market to sell, but to buy. Gambling ta Washington. ‘We seo that the police made a deacent upon anamber of gambling houses in Washington on Saturday night, anda large crowd of the oeeupants were arrested. Wo are afraid that the onslaught of the police came a little too late,” If they had acted with this vigor before the adjournment of Congress they might have heda miraculous draught of gamblers. Pro- ably three-fourths of Congress would have boon hauled ap in their net if they hed gone 6n thele fiating oxoursion throo or four weeks -— , city, on Saturday. evening last, in honor of Thomas Jofferson’s birthday, and the late Con- neoticut election, aaa great State rights vic- tory. It further appears that the irrepressible Vallandigham is ont with « pronunciamiento claiming the result in Connecticut as # popular reaction in favor of the State rights principles of the Vallandigham Chicago platform. The democratic victory in the State of New York in 1862, when Seymour was elected Governor on the platform of “a more vigorous prosecution of the war,” was, we remember, in the same way appropriated as a victory, and the were led off on that false assumption; but what has followed? They have been beaten and routed in every battle in every Northern State from that day to this, to what do they owe their success in Connecti- cut? Not:to their copperhead leaders or prin- ciples; for they wore judiciously kept in the. background, out of sight im the canvass, They Fowe their succese in Qonnectiout to Barnum, }° the ahowmsn, the Feejee mermaid, Joyce Heth and the woolly horse. It was s woolly horse victory to the democracy—a humbug, as a party success, of the style of Barnum’s “ nigger turn- ing white.” The showman’s platform cost the republicans in Conneticut several thousand votes, and yot a change of a few hundred would have given them the State. Take off the dead weight of Barnum and they hold the State to-day by a decided majority. Let the Northern democracy beware of fall- ing again into the hands of their old copper- head leaders; for their road, as it has been, will always be the road toruin. They have been the making of the republican party, and if such State rights notions as those of Calhoun, Sharkey and the Chicago Vallandigham plat- form are still to be the principles of the de- mocracy, they will continue to melt away until they totally disappear, like the rank and file, name and place, of the old federal party. In a word, if the copperheads are to lead the oppo- sition elements, henoeforward the republican party is good for an uninterrupted reign as long as this opposition shall last, whether it be for ten, twenty or fifty years; for the great North will forever repudiate the copperhead idea that the war for the Union was a failare. The Austrian Mission—Mr. Raymond's Nomi- mation. Since the realgnation of the Austrian mission by Mr. Motley, in being called to answer by the Secrotary of State the accusations of MoCraoken, tho President has fouad it exceed- ingly difficult to pick out » man’ for the plage satisfactory to the Senate. Firat, he tried that ator Cowan; but the radicals of the Senate made short. work of Cowaa.. Next, General Feancis P. Blair, of Missouri, « geod Tnian | soldier, wae nominated; but as Blair was in. the same political boat with Cowan, he was mede to walk the eame plank overboard. Next, the name of Mr. J. P. Stockton, s: regular Jersey democrat, was sent up, only to be sent back among his illustrious refected predeces- sors. Thus driven to the wall the President hit upon the happy compromise of Mr. Henry J. Raymond, of New York, late a very con- spicuous Johnson, conservative, radical repub- lican member of Congress, and this appoint- ment, we think, ought to be confirmed. Incredulous people may say that thia is only another tub to the whale; but we accept it aa the best offer that Mr. Johnson bas to make. We are satisfied that diplomacy is Mr. Ray- mond’s vocation. He has tried the réle of a leading politician in Congress and has signally failed. Had he grappled“ Old Thad Stevens” in the very outset, and held fast to him with the tenacity of a bull terrier, the majority which the conservative republicans were able to command in the House at the beginning of the last Con- gress, they might have held all the way through, and Mr. Raymond might thus have hecome the leader of the House. But from lack of nerve, or from a deficiency in weight of metal, or in the quality of his powder, or from some cayse or causes, Mr. Raymond fell wide and far short of the mark. Even in bis failures, however, as a legislator, he betrayed his skill in diplomacy. He can say moré and mean less in a deliberate speech or political addresd than any other man we kaow of, not excepting Horatio Seymour, Mr. Raymond, in fact, ig the very man to discuss a knotty pointin affairs of state with Von Beust or Von Bismarck; for he oan, if required, hold his ground againsteither of them for # month, and keep thom both in ignorance all the time as to what be is driving at and where he intends to come out. Talleyrand says that the secret and substance of diplomacy lie in this simple rule, that “words are intended to conceal ideas}” and in this qualification Mr. Raymond is the very man for Vienna, and, therefore, he ought to be confirmed. Like his preceptor, Mr. Seward, the very peculiarities which have tripped him up as an aspiring politician qualify him for any amount of diplomatic correspondence, and upon any er every side of every question as oocasion may require. Suoh diplomats are scarce on this side of the water, and, as the world goos on the other side, we cannot make too much of them. A Goon Sor From Caprain Semmes.—Cap- tain Semmes, of the sunken rebel ship Ala- bama, goes for a surrender to Congress. He declines to plead the constitution against the laws of Congress as a Southern confederacy man; for, says he, if you mean the Confederate constitution, it is defunct, and if you mean the federal constitution, we repudiated that, and have, therefore, no right to become its ex- pounders. Such a shot as that between wind and water would have settled the Kearsarge. Prosrrcts or Geverat Graxt ror THe Parstpency.—General Grant’s prospects for the Presidency improve every day. Wendell Phillips may sneer and Horace Greeley may sneer, each in his own peculiar way ; but the sneers of neither can reach to the high place that General Grant holds in the thoughts of the American péople. General Grant has made his own record in our national history, and intriguing, would-be party managers, can- not efface it. A Ratiyiwe Cer ror Batower axp Patt- 1irs—Kqual rights and manhood suffrage for the Esquimaux. " ee oe) WORE CREVASSES tN LOUISIANA, Naw One: 3 Two more crevames ocurred at Bayar Latcurone 0a Recently no iaborers could be found to vossels at the mole, Most of them are sungtenes s Don José M. Mata, the liberal Governor of the State of Vora Craz, had establiahed his headquarters in the city. of Orizaba. \ Don Luis de Arroyo, Minister of Maximilian, hag ar- tived here in the steamer Juniata, from New Orleans. Lt is said that the object of his mission to the United States had been attained, Ho bas taken passagein the French steamer {mpératrice Eugenie, for Vera Cras. Several refugees, exiled by Senor Mata, Goveraor of Vera Crag, have arrived by the Solent. Maximilian remained in Querstaro at the head of hte army, His position was unsustainable much longer, owing to the want of pocuniary means. This was the prime cause, also, of his not being able to induce more men to go from Cuba to enlist on arrival in Vora.Cras, Tt waa useless for him to expect the ‘“‘neod(ul’’ from the capital, because of the numerous liberal troops whiek surrounded it, and consequently prevented any convoy from reaching, unless it was escorted by a force of ab loast five thousand men. The imperialists say that Porfirio Diaz, who marched on Puebla, om reaching the vicinity desiated from making any attack and again rotired to Oajaca. Ho ts'seld to have mot with some reverses, bis rear boing attacked by fifteen hundred imperialists, who sallied out of the olty ip_pursuil liberal forces near Vera Cruz are said not to coed three thousand men, badly armed and devoid ol ‘any organization, recently tried to eacape from prison in Mon- torey, ‘was unsuccessful. He is now im close com. The Vera Crus Custom House collected, darit month of last, the amount of $740,000, ing to the assertions of some ex-employés ot that tment, who have arrived here. CANADA. Real. Metate of the Pre. Baglin Lao dal Pay ctoreiee Official ‘England to soe tue valleys of the Red riverand ye Provinces, for {t ts fearéd the United Stated may takes fancy to claim a part of thom, ‘The following is the amount of provincial notes ta circulation on the 3d inet.:—Payable et ‘Montreal, $2,268,242; at Toronto, $980,858. Specie hold at Moat coal, $511,000; at Toronto, $243,333. Debentures. held by the Receiver General, $3,000,000, Discount oe United States invoices for the week is twenty-sevéa pe out. RISTORI. Engagomont of the Great Tragedioane. The time is fast drawing near when the greatest living representative of the drama will bid farewell to the scones of her most signal triumphs and the land where her gonias received its most decided recognition. The Ville de Paris on May 18 will bear her away to Europe, and jt is doubtful whether she will ever visit us egaia. At the end of the present month her final engagement in the metropolis will commence, the farewell nights being limited to six. She will appear in two new plays, Angelo and Myrrha, in which she achieved in other cities a success equal to her unsurpassed Eiissboth and Mary Stuart, It is with mingled feclings of pleasare and regret that we arnounce her retura to New York— pleasure to witness again a true artist, and regret that it {s hor farewell appoarance. Everywhere she has gone the verdict of the Huxatp on her merits has been re- echoed by press and people, and since her memerabie debut on September 20 up to the present time her path has been one of unimerrupted triumph and ovation Her succegs in a pecuniary sense hasbeen also an unequivo- cal one, having netted for her upwards of two hundred thousand dollars. And this was the result of her eight months’ season in America, despite the croaking and ominous predictions of certain joumnals and managers; and thus she has ineontestably demonstrated that the American people oan appreciate genius. Woe doubt very much tf in ber own native clime euch an overwhelming tribute to dratuatic talent would be paid to amy artist. ‘Whea Mr. Grau orizinally signed the contract for ona The Farewell ‘bundrod and twenty nights for the United aad Havana, it was considered by that Atty aighie Would be more than enough for the, Cited States, as the majority of his andiences would go to hear Ristori once or twice only through .curioatty ,or the dictates of fashion. But thegreat difficulty he eu- countered in this enterprise was in not beug.able to satisfy the crowds that nightly flocked to hear her,and being obliged to limit the number of representations ia each place, The great tragedionne has acknowledged horself that nowhere before during her career om the stago bas she met with such a reception as from the hands of the American people, and nowhere such im§ mense houses, She will make herrentrée in the mie- tropotis in the character of Myrrha, in which she first attained distinction in Paris during the reign of Rachel. Tt is said to be the crowning offort-of her genius “@be will also give three representations hore for Purposes. Tot us hope that when she leaves us herex- ample will remain to raise the American stage tothe standard which it should have. FINE ARTS. Forty-second Annual Exhibition of the Na- tional Academy of Design. A britliant company of lovers of art met last evening at the opening of the forty-second annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, As waual; however, pretty toilets @nd prettier faces and lively conversa- tion diverted attention from the works of art whieh adorned the walls, By gaslight, moreover, it is im- Possible to judge of pictures, and we must reserve a de- tailed description of those which impressed us at Gest sight as indicative of the docided progress which many of our artists are actually making, Out of the six hum- dred and twenty-four ‘pieces’ on exhibition in the picture galleries and the sculpture room but very few appear to be of extraordinary merit, while moat of the others evince such an advance upon tho general standard of these exhibitions as to entitle this one to being coa- sidered, on the whole, better than aay of provious years, Thanks to Colman, MeEntoe, Cropsey, Gifford and Bel~ lows, as well as to. a somewhat ambitious but effective illustration of what Huntington could have accomplished in the department of landscapes, if be tad chosom dis. tinction fn another department, landscapes maiatain their usual pre-eminence, But Gray, Ocrtel, Board, J. G. Brown, Eastman, Johnson, Hicks, Buckser, Wood, Noble, and @ dozen other notable names in differ. ent lines of art have given a more than ordinary variety to the collection. The inevitable “Portrait of a Gentle, man’? and “Portrait of a Lady” are happily less numer. ously represented than is too often the case, Tn the seulpture room Powers and Ward and Kuntee chiofiy make amonds in quality for the moagrenesa of tho ex. hibition in this line, which once promised to be a favors ite one for American art. Tho architegts aro roorasented, Heturday, throstening great distros (n parish Lafourche, | by a few admirable deniana