The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1867, Page 11

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDUN BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE B. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day im the year, Formceats per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price:—~ 5 8 ~bs Any ‘arger number addressed to names of subscribers @2 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent toevery club eften. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, eodany larger number at same price, An extra copy Wilt be sent to clubs of twenty. ‘Ate rates make the ‘Wusx.y Henaup the cheapest publication in the country. 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EUROPE. ‘ ‘The nows reported by the Atlantic cabie is dated yes- terday, April 19. . Germany remains excited. The speech of King Wil- Nam of Prussia at the adjournment of the session of the North German Parliament creates distrust in the public mind. The Paris Bourse was dull and heavy, witha decline ia rentes. The estimates for naval and military expenditures in Russia are largely reduced. The English markets and London ‘Change were closed en Good Friday. Our special correspondence, by mail, details the @radual progress of the Franco-German difficulty and Eastern question towards a new complication. It was thought in Berlin that Count Bismarck would eventa. ally compromise with Napoleon and permit the cession of Luxemburg to France, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yesterday bills amending the act for the improvement of Brooklyn Heights; enabling hus- band and wife to testify against each other; appro- Priating $260,000 for the new capitol; increasing the emigrant head money to $3; increasing the number of piers on East river, and the General Appropriation Dill ‘were passed. The concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die to-day wae adopted. In the Assembly the New York city Tax levy, and bills to amend the code; to facilitate the construction of the New York and Albany Raiiroad on the west side of Hud- een river; to amend the act reiative to pilotage in New York harbor; to incorporate the New York aed Brook- lyn Tunnel Company; to amend the Metropolitan Excise Dill, and to promote cleanliness in the city of Brooklyn, ‘wore paased. THE CITY. Good Friday was observed yesterday, not only by Catholics and Episcopalians, but by churches of other enominations throughout the city, and partially by the business community. The courts, schools, stock boards ‘and many places of business were closed, A commission has been in session at the Custom House fora month past, investigating the seizures of Spanish Wines on the charge of undervaluation. The proceed- {nga have been strictly secret, but the testimony is con- ‘The malls for France will close at the Post Oiice at balf-past eleven A. M. s ‘The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain ‘will feail from pier 45 North river at 12 Mm. for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for will close at the Post-office at half-past ten A.M. Allomaania, Sony Melos. Will ceil at twelve M, to-dar NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY,, APRIL ,20, 1867,rTRIPLB §itKET. doom her vient Staten, So. SONS Bemeval of the Herald Establishment to Its Southamptoa. The mails will close at ry hhaif-past ten A.M. Now Bullding—Netice to Advertisers. SB epkapry peg dpanae yon pur This is the last day that advertisements for at . M. to-day North river, with passengers for Londonderry, Liverpool and Glas | ‘20 HERALD will be received at the old and oF eh well known corner of Nassau and Fulton streets. steamsbip George Washington, Captain | Tomorro: Gager, of the Cromwell line, will leave pior No. 9 North w, Easter Sunday, advertisers will find river at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans direct, us at work in the new Henatp Building on The Empire line sidewheel steamship San Jacinto, | Broad: " Captain Atkins, will sail as three P.M. to-day from pier 13 way, and will transact their business tor North river for Savannah, connecting with the Florida | Monday morning’s issue over the handsome steamers, counters of that establishment. The change ‘The popular sidewheel steamship Quaker City, Captain West of Leary’ ine, will leave plot 14 East river, foo cos eta quietly between midnight to- fall street, at three P, M. to-day for Charleston, con- t and daybreak to-morrow morning, and necting at that place with all points south and west. Gold advanced to 130% yesterday, the closing price, | OY the usual business hours the whole ma- Railway shares were firm in the morning and closed | chinery of the paper—advertising, editing, re- Steady at a fractional decline, The markets for both imported’ mercbandwe and Porting, composition, stereotyping, press work domestic produce were dull and irregular yesterday, | and mailing—will be running with as much smoothness, order, harmony and compactness in the new quarters as in the old. The new Hzraty Bailding is now one of the landmarks of the city. Nearly every one who resides in New York, or who visits the metropolis, hes made a point of secing Owing to the violent fluctuations of gold, the increasing Probabilities of a European war, and business waslight, it, and ell (as we have been informed) “have admired it Speculation has been transactions being greatly restricted by the partial ob- rife in relation to it. A few envious servance of the day asa holiday. Imported merchandise ‘was irregular, and in some was unsettied, but asa general thing the markets were firm, in sympathy with the advance in gold. There was almost a panic in cotton, Prices having fallen fully 1c, again, closing dull and nominal at 25c. for middling uplands, with some lots forced on the market ata still greater reduction. The derangement of business growing out of the decline in cotton is already great, and promises to be greater. On *Change flour was steady. Wheat was lc. a 3c. lower. heey” "Baray was dull and lover, Fork sir and | PeF¥0uS have beon predicting that we should lard was higher. never occupy it, or that it would “swamp” us, MISCELLANEOUS. or become our marble tomb, in which we should Advices from Matamoros of the 13th instant confirm tha cacaure of ashin by ibs iihecals and Gecebestion 1” discovered mummified by * far future gene- of Maximilian’s terms of surrender. By way of San | ration, and some have even proposed that it Francisoo tho reports of Maximilian’s escape, Bscobedo’s | should be pulled down for the widening of defeat and a revolution in San Luis Potosi are contradic- ted. General Placido Vega was at Mazatlan engaged ina | Aun street on the south side. But the people paula aig rene of bag Gaston | look at it with pride, as a great public im- f is attem| @ petty revolution in Lower California in favor of reinstating Navarrete as Governor, provement and an ornament and credit to the but he failed completely. pst me city, and many have anticipated some grand Our correspondent at Britis nduras, dating at Bolize on the 24 of April, states that the Indian war had | Ceremonial at its opening. Correspondents ended, and that the martial law rule would be suspended | from other States—from Pennsylvania, Obio, immediately. Some white colonists charged with afiliating with the ‘Indians io. thelr raids bed teen ‘ar. | adlane and Missourl—have expressed « desire rested. Encouragement was boing given for the per- | to be present at the opening celebration, and manent establishment of steam communication between Belize and New Orleans. Trade was dull in Belize. requested. heme as to when it was: to In the United States Senate yesterday, a committee | take place. Wé regret to say that we must was appointed to inform the President that the present | disappoint them all. The ceremony will be session would adjourn at four o'clock to-day. The com- mittee soon returned with the answer of the President | Strictly private. No cards. To-morrow our iss he knew no reason why the Senate should not | advertising clerks will be ready for adver- 10 80, ‘Tho special car belonging to the Merchants Union and | ters in the counting room on Broadway, United States Express Company on the pind Railroad | instead of on the corner of Nassau and Fulton going west was destroyed by fire yesterday with its con- tents, the loss amounting to $20,000. The messengers streets; our editors will perform their labors inside were unable to notify the conductor that the car | in their new rooms as brilliantly as in their old; ‘was on fire, owing to the cheek rope having been run on she outside of the car and they themselves were almost our reporters will report as faithfully and suffocated with heat and smoke. The engineer only | fully there as here; our compositors knew of the burning when he saw the flames burst will set their type as nimbly and accurately as through the roof. The returned rebols in Kentucky are again engaging | ever, except that they will there be at work in in their warfare on Union men. A party of them yester- day prevented the Union candidate for Lieutenant Gov- nevi quays wid tat pageltoms’ bem ernor from speaking at Germantown by threatening him | posing room in the world, where the shining pelea sgn Sedu some buildings and | of the polished oak and brass hound cases, and ‘The rush for pardons among the disfranchised ex- | the brilliant gas burners high overhead, and the pty trarhnsarhanpens rey are te individats z Tu phere amy a Sesh who come under the petty officer and twenty thousand be novelty enough to somewhat divert their dollar clauses, attention; there will be increased bustle ment at wactingon youre ny Dem | and life about the new building, and A large and enthusiastic meeting of whites and blacks | subdued “grumble and rumble” will be tack piace at Potersburd, Ve Yesterday, when resols- | heard to issue from the spacious press rooms dug speeches of a similar character were made. “into the bowels” of the solid earth; and this Frank Drew and John Bernard are to fight again soon for $800, the former = oak ay is all there will be of the “opening celebration” whipped, being considered unsatisfactory by the latter. | at the new Huratp Building. “Only this, and At an election for Mayor in Huntsville, Ala, recently nothing more.” the negro vote assisted to defeat the of the Freed- men’s Bureau, oes The truth is, we are too much occupied to be Ogres mpl roy Zui t are | able to devote any time to public ceremonials. necessarily e ‘Two negroes were hung in Savannah yesterday mor. | Th¢ Hera is published every day in the year. pp elapse hag eiriages bas urged There is no cessation to its labor. It makes its George Peabody was @ pul reception the school children of Georgetown, Massachusetts, the | *PPearance as regularly as the sun, to shed village where his mother was born and where he is | light upon the world. It has become one of erecting a church in commemmoration of her virtues. He will probably leave for Europe about the 1st of the necessaries of life, and a day without a Henan would, so it is said, be under the effect of aneclipse. Every hour of every twenty-four its intricate machinery of intellect, industry, science and labor is busily at work for the public benefit. Other trades, professions and callings know periods of rest and inactivity ; the Henan never does. Now itis called upon to awaken the public mind to a proper un- derstanding and appreciation of the power of the constitution ; to teach the legislative and executive branches of the government of the United States their legitimate rights, responsi- bilities and duties, and to shape and guide the great question of reconstruction. Now it is employed in watching Mr. Hoffman and the rest of the Corporation “ring ;”’ now in keeping the State government out of the clutches of a Tammany ward politician, and again in saving Congress the disgrace of counting among its members a self-convicted humbug. At one time it is laboring ‘to reform the drama and to prevent the performances at the theatres from being turned into mere spectacles of blue fire and spangles ; at another it is endeavoring to foster and encourage a pure musical taste by seeking to persuade true artists and intelligent managers, like Strakosch and Patti, to come to New York and rescue the opera from its present stagnation. Now it has a legislatare to lecture and curb, and anon a reform to accomplish in manly sports. All the time it has its great system of advertising to regulate and perfect, by means of which the Heratp is fast becom- ing the most effective and desirable medium for transacting the business of the city by bringing principals in direct communication with each other without the intervention of agents and middlemen. In fact, in one way or another, and in » hundred ways at once, the Heratp is constantly at work, exerting that “ mysterious influence ” which so pussies some of our country contemporaries, for the general good, and,. as Wendell Phillips, the philo- sopher of the radicals says, “shaping the public mind and controlling public events.” It is for these reasons that we are compelled to forego any celebration or opening cere- monies on taking possession of our new build- ing to-morrow, and to content ourselves with this brief announcement to our army of sdver- tisers that they will on Sunday find our clerks prepared to attend to their business at the new counting room on Broadway, instead of bt the vid gae on Nassau street, General Sickles has recently removed certain members Of the police force at Wilmington, North Carolina. Ex-Governor Perry, of South Carolina, has written a letter on the military governments in the South in which he says, “A despotism wisely administered is the most perfect government on earth, being the government es- tablished by God for the control of the universe.’” Judge Lowell, of the United States,District Court tn Boston, has decided that the steamer Syren, captured on the surrender of Charleston, was as much a prize to the army as to the navy. It is stated that an extra session of the Illinois Legis- Jature is to be called soon by Governor Oglesby. ‘Two officers of the Fifth artillery, stationed at Fortress Monroe, bad an altercation on Thursday sbout the appointment of one of them to the command of Key ‘West, which the other claimed as his due. Blows were struck, and in the struggle the shoulder straps of one of ‘them was torn off his coat, No scrious injury was done on cither side. The Southern Press Convention, at Augusta, Ga, ad- Journed yesterday. Their existing arrangement with the New York Associated Press still continues. Yachting in England—A Chance for the Now York Yacht Club. We perceive that the Royal Thames Yacht Club has made arrangements for a grand regatta in June. Some of the races are for schooners and others for boats of any size. The courses set down on the programme include a run from Gravesend round the Mouse, from the Nore light ontside the Goodwin Sands to Dover; channel match from the Nore to Havre, anda cutter race from Gravesend round the Nore and return. A notable feature in the programme of these contests is that they are open to yachts of the New York Yacht Squadron. Here is a fine chance for our yachtsmen to con- tend for the prizes with English yachts in British waters, There are already three of our yachts over there, and if, as is expected, half a dozen more should tempt the dangers of the deep by « transatlantic voyage this summer— which is not half so disagreeable at this season as a trip across the English channel, with its chopping seas—the English regatta will un- doubtedly assume a very in inter- national character. We notice that in the race across the channel to Havre there is no allowance of time. ; We can imagine the curiosity with whieh the: French people will the arrival of the winning yacht, and the astonishment and satis- faction with which they will bail her if she. should happen to carry the colors of the New York Yacht Squadron at the main. We should not be surprised to hear of crowded excursion trains running from Paris to Havre to wi the result, which will no doubt excite -equal interest at both sides of the channel. We do not see why the Widgeon, Alarm, ‘The ladians—Shall We Have an Indias War? If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, said Pascal, the fate of the world might have been differeat. That epigram is the epitome of many histories. To the greater or less length of a nose or a chin—to the greater or less cir- cumference of some skull—we may trace war or peace, the destruction or preservation of nations, the happiness or obliteration of whole branches of the human race, Weare likely to have an immediate application of this prao- tical paraphrase in the war now perhaps already raging between our troops and cer- tain Indian tribes. There is good reason to believe that the present state of Indian te- lations was brought on by the acts of blun- dering incompetency. A war whose least result will be the spending of some millions, that will cost many lives, and arrest for two or three years the magnificent trans-Mississippi march of American progress, may come upon us, having mo better or greater cause than that most’ common fact—a bad appointment made at the national capital—the appointment of a man of rather less than average discre- tion toe point that indeed did not seem to the authorities of great importance. We had agreements with the Indians, in vir- tue of which we were able to live on tolerable terms as neighbors. In pursuance of such agreements certain parties were authoriz2d to sell them ammunition. If it is a bad policy to sell powder and ball to the red men we ought not to agree to do so, or we ought to annul, the agreement in a proper manner and as be- comes & people respecting law—at least laws of their own making. Somebody thought it’ was a bad policy, and, dressed in his brief au- thority, ready enough to play magnate and dictator, ordered in panic haste the discontinu- ance of such. sale. So the Indians had no means to kill buffalo, and were distressed and exas- perated, and the cause of trouble was an en- croachment on their hunting grounds by the new route to Virginia City. They did not, how- ever, plunge into war. So many Midshipman Easys could not have been more disposed to argue the points in a pacific way. Argument, explanation, good temper would have settled all the trouble. Argument could not be had; good temper was not to be wasted on “sav- ages.” Parties eager to be heard for | their rights showed themselves in sight of Fort Phil Kearny and held up their blankets as signals. They were shelled and driven away. Soldiers went out shooting at them “on their own hook,” whenever, they came near. They hovered around, however; they assembled in larger numbers—-three hundred, it is said; three thousand, others say—and Indians present in the party, of tribes that have always been friendly and boast they never slew a white man—such Indians declare most firmly that the intention was not hostile. But there was a panic. A party was out cut- ting wood--the Indians might destroy it! Another party was sent to see to its safety. This latter party saw Indians and opened fire. The Indians retreated, the eal- diers pursued, were drawn into an ambuscade and slaughtered to a man. Snoh is the plain story on the judgment of experts of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre—all, there is too much reason to fear, a most terrible blunder! Shall we expiate this blunder by a war with all the Indians we can force to fight us? Shall we save the pride of the author of this blunder at the expense of the equipment of an army? We hope not. There was a time when war was the only possible result of accidental col- lision. If two or three men of Megara mur- dered an Athenian in a drunken bout, the Athenians murdered any Megarean they could lay bands on ; and so from murder to murder men drifted into war. It is the advantage of higher civilization that we act less blindly. We single out particular delinquents and do not retort indiscriminately on a race the crimes even of certain of its members, Let us not give way to passions and prejudices, but pause and inquire calmly whether there is not a bet- ter way for the settlement of our Indian diff- culties than the costly one of extirpation ; whether, indeed, a properly established system of stocked reservations may not make the savage his own antidote, and make him even contribute towards our progress across the plains. Radical Movements in the South—The Rich- mond Convention. The black republicans are coming. The white republicans, who have heretotore been held up in derision as black republicans, must now yield this distinction; for the real, genuine black republicans are coming. From Virginia to Texas they are in motion all over the five Southern military districts, holding political meetings, making speeches, reading addresses, adopting resolutions and planting themselves on the platform of Congress and the white re- publicans of the North. On Wednesday and Thursday last the genuine black republicans of Virginis held a grand mass State Convention at Richmond, at which they pledged their political services “to the national republican party of the United States,” and in behalf of “equal political rights in all respects” to whites and blacks, includ- ing the right to hold office. In their address (published in fall, with their proceedings, in yesterday’s Hunatp) these Virginia black re- publicans, after reciting the enormitics and horrors of the rebellion, and the unjust laws in favor of the rich and against the poor, which slavery has left on the statute books of the State, declare that “with malice to none, and with charity to all, but in a voice of warning, we desire to say to the disloyal land monopo- lists in this State, who may be disposed to op- press the laborer in his wages, and improperly prevent or control his votes, or to burn more school houses, and farther to molest the teachers and friends of the freedmen, your best interests will be promoted by moderation; for if the course of violence, encouraged by the disloyal press of the State, is continued, you may expect that confiscation, now hang- ing over you, will be enacted and enforced by all the power of the great government you insult.” Here, considering that this address is the work ofa designing white man (Under- wood), there is a touch of agrarianism which may mean mischief. At some other places South the same suggestion, more or less sharply defined, has been cropping out of late at these Southern black republican meetings, and there is no telling the bad results of such hints and teachings, if not met in season by wiser coun- sels. Between the two races, South, nothing is more essential to law and order than barmoni- ous relations as employers and laborers ; but when designing white politicians undertake | tae formant, to say the lenst, though it as Fe Tai i i Assembly. The probable results are already | the actual commencement of hostilities ; nor beginning to be discussed by the party jour- | is it necessary she should, for she is already ia be done, or discussing what ought to be | which the difficulty has arisen. done by the Convention, according to their Pity it is that a matter of this sort could not several political proclivities, The Convention | be settled by peaceful means. Should war will have it in its power to consider, and re- | break out it is impossible to predict where or model the whole constitution from beginning | how it mayend. The flame once lit, the confla- to end; but there are, in fact, only a few points | gration, it is all but certain, will sweep with which there is any real necessity to touch. | devastating force over the length and breadth The reform of the judicial system, the increase | of Europe, destroying property, cramping the of the power of the Governor, a plan of re- | springs of industry, cutting down the flower of sponsible government for the cities of the | the population by thousands, and forever ex- State, and a few minor matters, such as salaries | tinguishing ancient and cherished landmarks, of public officers and the pay and Ya 5 the | Heavy will be the responsibility of that Power. Legislature, are #il the subjects to wifich the | which shall take the initiative in such a Convention need give attention; and as these | war. Yet it is mot easy to determine whe are important and necessary to the well-being | is to blame for matters as now of the State, the more plainly and simply they.| stand. Prussia, perhaps, exceeded her are put before the people the better. rights when she garrisoned the fortress of We have no doubt there will be a large | Luxemburg during the late German war; but majority of second rate politicians from both | it would not be difficult to discover reasons the republican and democratic parties in the | numerous and important enough to justify Convention, and the chances are that they will | such a step, Abstractly she maybe wrong in control its action, The effort on the side of | maintaining her occupation, now that the war such republicans will be to frame a constitution | has been ended; but abstract rights’have never under which they would be enabled to secure | been allowed to rule when the gamie of poli- party advantages and to perpetuate their | tics or of war has ran high No oan power in the. State, while the. democrats | blame France for seeking -by honors will strive to embarrass the ‘proceedings of the | able purchase a frontier fortress of s9 much’ Convention and to crowd in some objectionable | importance. The chief viee if the Whole affair, amendments that may enable them to defeat | to our mind, consists in the cool and impudent the revised constitation by. the popular vote | deterniination of the King of Holland to barter, present condition. ; tho inhabitants of ‘am ancient. and highly civil- sible citizens of the State are in favor of cer- | sold like ao many catile. It ie liltie too mu tain great reforms in the State constitution: | fore grand duke or even a king to attempt in Of that there is no doubt. The elective sys- } this age of public opinion. Efforts in all liker tem of the judiciary has proved worse than a | lihood will be made to make the.question a failure. It has fastened political judges upon } subject for European intervention. This scema the State and rendered law and justice only | to be the desire of Russia. The duchy of Lux. terms of mockery. The business of the courts | emburg was confirmed in the possession of the is crowded and lumbered up so that it would | Kingof Holland by the treaties of 1859, when be impossible to clear the calendars for the | the kingdom of the Netherlands was split next ten or fifteen years, if all litigation should | up, and the separate kingdoms of Holland cease to-morrow and the present system be | and Belgium were established. Were it net suffered to continue. At every term, especially | that for some time past we have been in the in this city, the impossibility of keeping politi- | habit of seeing European treaties made of but cal influence out of the halls of justice is made | little account, we should certainly say that the painfully apparent. Crime is suffered to go | great Powers who signed these treaties should unpunished, whenever the criminal can com- | be again consulted before any fiiture disposi- mand the irifluence of the grog shop politicians | tion is made. If they be consulted we should.; and ward bullies, who are all powerful at the | not be surprised to find that war had been polls, The people earnestly desire to see this | averted by an agreement to the effect that the evil removed and the bench guri- | duchy of Luxemburg should be proclaimed fied by having juiges appointed for life, during | neutral territory. i good behavior, or until reaching sixty years If some such arrangement is not come te of age, and then to be retired with a pension | war is inevitable. The collision, if it do take equal to half thir salaries By this means | place, will be fearfal. If war alliances, as is they hope to seure an independent, fearless | by no means impossible, be formed on and capable judiciary. It is also the popular | sides, Eorope will present to tie world « desire to increase the respongibility and | spectacle such as she has not presented slace efficiency of the execative by enlarging the | the days of the first Napoleon, and another and powers of the Covernor, electing him every | more lasting peace may date from another and year and holdin; him answerable for the good | grander Waterloo. If, however, France and conduct of th whole State government. | Prussia are allowed to fight It out alone it will _ Under our preent system the Governor has | be one of the briefest and most brilliant, one but little more wal suthority than the figure- | of the shortest, sharpest and most decisive head of our muticipality, called a Mayor. He | wars which the world has yet seen. should have the power to appoint all the sub- ordinate heads of the State departments, and Mediation in Mexico. should be responsible to the people for their The subject of mediation in the affairs of honesty and capacity. The system of muni- | Mexico attracted some attention in the exece- cipal government lsid down in the constitu- | tive session of the Senate on Thursday, but no tion for the cities of the State should be definite conclusion was arrived at. The de- on the same medel as the State government. | bate occurred upon a resolution of Reverdy The Mayor, as the chief executive officer, | Johnson, and Summer and other Senators sup- should be if fact, as well as in name, the head | ported it, It seems pretty clear to us tha , as the Governar should | mediation on the part of our government the his one that his responsibility to the | for so many years. In fact we do not see people be direct. There should be no | end of Mexican troubles in the vanquishment other execative authority in the | of the Austrian Archduke. Qn the contrary, whole and the powers of the | we anticipate perpetual internal discord, and Boerd should be simply and | hence the necessity of some sagacious inter- strictly These reforms we believe | ference on the part of our government, at this the State and the people desire ; but | crisis, which would tend not only to an immeq from the of the nominations thus far | diate cessation of hostilities, but to a permat made by Wii political parties for delegates to | nent reconstruction of the Mexican republic. the Con of Revision, we see but little | It is no secret that the existence of the Juareg hope that will be secured. On neither | government during its conflict with European side, wil few exceptions, do we recog- | intervention is due to the moral support which nise the of men of eminence and supe- | it received from this country. Without that for the trust, and at present it | the efforts of its soldiers in the fleld would have, heavy expense incurred by the | been vain against the French and Austrian account of the Convention will be | troops, although {t received no material aid | from us. Without it there would have beer | little chance even of keeping what is called Coronation of Francis Joseph. | patriotism in Mexico true to the liberal cause; | for tt was our moral assistance which gave Pesth, Em Austria, is to receive the crown as | Mexican Cabinet, We have « right to presa of the distinct existence in his | our mediation upon the consideration of the kingdom of Hungary. This | Juarez and that portion of the Mexican people, of the Hungarian war of 1848 | who adhere to the only form of government | Then ti people, able to overpower the Em- | which we have evar recognized in Mexico, and, wore crushed by the suddenly | we are justified in expecting that if the coms, of Russia, Since then Hungary | templated mediation should be offered it wilk be accepted in a spirit of friendship anf!