The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1867, Page 4

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SAN FRANCISCO MINST’ the Metropolitana Hot MENTS, SINGING, Das Scvvs—IaweRiat Japan Fourteenth streot, and Sixth Boau J araves TONY PASTO HOOLEY'S sTiLisy, Bat SRA E ps AND Buu BUNYAN ‘TAT Finan axp [igur Twixs—Wonpens is Narowan Lycrenss Dairy, Open fram SUNDAY (THIS) InstRUMENTAL Concent street and Fourth avenue. p Yocan axp y Haut, Fourtecath New York, Monday, May 20, (S67. REMOVAL. The New York Hearp establishment is now located in the new Heravp Building, Broadway and Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. TNS NEWS. EUROPE. Tho cable tele grams containing our European news re- port of yesterday's date had not reached us at an early hour this morning. Owing to an interruption on the land telegraph wires between Calais, Me., and Port Hood no information could be obtained as to the cause of the delay to the moment the HmRALD went to press. By the steamship City of Boston, at this port, we received our newspaper files to the 8th of May, one day later than tho mails of-the Hansa, from which we pub- lished very omple details of our cable advices yesterday morning. The mail reports of the City of Boston are varied and of an interesting character, The Dumas-Menkin case was decided in Paris on the Sth of May, before the Tribunal, jedgment being given in favor of the photographer. M. Dumas was con- tomned to pay the costs, MISCELLANEOUS. A batch of official correspondence received by the Mexican Minister at Washington gives items of news rom tho camp before Querétaro, dated April 29. On the 38th tho imporialists made another sortie and were re- pulsed, leaving Iarge numbers of killed, wounded and prisoners in the hands of the liberals. The former des- patch officially announcing the evacuation of Quorétaro and the disappearance of Maximition was, it will bo re- membcred, without date, but was received at New Orleans on the Ist of May. Unless the messenger who carried it was enabled to reach the latter port from the Mexican bordor in two days a fair inference may be ad- duced that {t was untrue, and that Querétaro has not been ovacuated. A German princess headed the delegation from Mexico city to Por- firio Diaz to osk terms for the garrison. She proposed that the Austro-Belgian corps be dis- Danded on being guaranteed their lives and privilege of leaving the country, She also asked that the life of Maximilian be spared, Diaz agreed to the first propo- sition, but declined to acton the latter. The Austro- Bolgian corps was consequently disbanded. Advices from Havana, dated the 14th inst, state that the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba had sailed for Mon- tevideo and Rio Janeiro. A compact had been entered into between the Public Treasuror and the Banco Espagnol, by which the latter engages to pay all treasury bonds as they fall due for certain considerations guaranteed by the former, The merchants and pro- vision deslers had finally come to a deci- sive agreement for the settlement of their difficutties. Two or three firms were reported insolvent. A Coolie immigration company had been taken to task by the authorities for transporting more coolies in thelr ships thah the tonnage would warrant, and supplying them with unwholesome water. The con- sul of the Mexican republic inthe island had been heavily fined for exercising such an office for a govern- ment unrecognized by the authorities. The sugar mar- Kot was ata lull, Exchange on the United States in purrency was at 29 per cent discount, Dates from Jamaica are received to the 24th April. Tho Governor, Sir John Peter Grant, was closely examin- ing the aystem of Coolie immigration, Many English families were preparing to leave rather than pay the ex- pessive tax upun lands, Intelligence from Hayti is to the effect that another. attempt at revolution had been made at Jacmel, Sainave was everywhere accepted as Dictator General, but the Council of Generals who elected him were each one of them aiming to start a revolution in his own interest, “In the Venezuolan Congress discussion rans high on the subject of the national constitution. Like other parts of South America, a strong effort is made atcen- tralizing power; bat this is stoutly resisted by the indi- Vidual States, Judge Kelley addressed a large crowd, composed about equally of whites and blacks, at Montgomery, Ala., on ‘Saturday, his remarks being confined almost exclusively to a contrast between the two sections im favor of the North, from which he inferred that the institution of aavery and the projudices of the Southern whites had Deen the incubus upon the Southern section. He was listened to attentively and frequently cheered, Opening services were performed at St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday on the oocasion of the firet celebra- tion of bigh mass in it siuce ite rebuilding, Arehbishop MeCloskay mate the addross, in which he referred to ‘the condition of the temporal aifairs of the Pope, for whom a collection was taken up, Jo Davis still remains a guest of Mr, Charles O'Conor, at Washington Heights. Although not finally decided upon, it is expected he will leave totay for Montreal. Tho United Statos steamer Paul Jones, William E. Fitzhugh, commander, arrived at this port yesterday from Pensacola and Key West, A Fomalo Suffrage Associstion bas been organized in St. Louis, of which many of the promivent tadies of th city are members. . ® 33 Gonoral Sherman har returned from the Plaine, and says ‘'we may bave Indian war if we choose,’) r, Chief Justice Chase intends holding coun in Norty Carolina carly in June, Another quiet Sunday under the Excise law yes. berday. Cattle and poultry intended for the improvement of stock im Canada are to be admitted from the United Biates Creo of charge. yore, (bg Ponian, is reported in Cameda L , ‘The Crisis at Last. The cowardly conduct of tbe President, Congress, and Chief Justice Chase in the case of the chief traitor in the rebellion, Jeff Davis, has resulted in a virtual declaration to the world that tbere is no such crime as treason in this country. After denouncing treason as odious, a8 @ heinous crime that must be punished, and after holding Jeff Davis two years a prisoner, under the charge not only of treason, but as an accomplice also in the assassination of President Lincoln, he is released on straw bail without a trial. We are not even informed of the reasons for abandoning either the charge of assassination, orthe prosecution for treason. Every depart- ment of the government, the President, Con- gress and the judiciary, denounced in the severest manner the crime of treason, and led the people to believe it would be punished ; but that has turned out to be all noise and pre- tence. The law is a dead letter. The blood of half a million of brave men has been spilt in vain, We are groaning under the weight of three or four thousand millions of debt, for nothing. After having suppressed the re- bellion at so much cost we virtually justify the rebels. We prociaim to the yworld that the war was nothing more than a sort of gigantic duel for the trial of courage and skill, a bloody gladiatorial contest, with no other result than to burden us with an enor- mous debt and to make an exc'ting chapter in history. What weakness! What humiliation to this proud and powerful republic ! Ah, but there may be anoiber result to this werkness and cowardice of the government in to punish treason which our delinquent officials may not have dreamed of. There is an under*well of indignation rising up among the people. They begin to ask what the war They think of the myriads of slain they sce numbers of the mutilated without arms and legs everywhere ; they feel the weight of an enormous debt, and then reflect that all this was in vain and with- out r sult if treason be not a crime or canndt be punished. What will be the consequence of such disappointment and indignation? Is it not reasonable to expect they will begin to think of repudiating a debt created for no purpose and resulting in this way? Is not the imbecility of the government, and we mean by the government the Executive, Con- gress and the Judiciary, leeding us to this? We can expect no other alternative. Nor could we object to it if the war is so fruitless and the government is made to rest on no better foundation. If there be no treason why pay so dearly for the pretence of suppress- ing it? While we hold the President and our radical Congress to their share of responsibility in not sceing that treason was made odious and our violated laws vindicated, we consider Chief Justice Chase more directly responsible and guilty of neglect of duty. He could have brought Davis to trial any time during the two years that this chief of the rebellion was a prisoner. It was his duty to do so. But he refused under the flimsiest pretexts. He would not hold a court or permit one to be held, for- sooth, because he pretended the civil power was not restored in the South. Yet the war was ended and the South was not under mar- tial law. And,strange to say, when he did consent to have the prisoner brought before a court in Richmond, not to try him but to let him go, the South was under more stringent military rule than it had been since the war closed. He then permitted an able Northern lawyer, Mr. O’Conor, to procure the prisoner’s release, as he still chose to be unprepared to try the case, and because he had kept the prisoner so long confined. But what is more remarkable yet, is that the particular radical friend and supporter of this radical chief justice for the presidency, Horace Greeley, was most urgent for the release of Davis, and was the first to give straw bail to have him released. The question naturally arises here, what was the motive of Chief Justice Chase and his man Greeley for setting the rebel chief free? It was not any regard for Davis, nor from humanity, justice, or anything of that sort. Such cunning old political managers are not influ- enced by motives of that kind. It was un- doubtedly to gain éclat and the good will of the South for a political object. For this they wished treason to go unpunished ; for this they consented to make a terrible and costly war fruitless, thus arousing the indignation of the loyal North and threatening us with repudi- ation. We ‘know not yet what may be the chief object of the proposed assembling of Congress in July, but we should not be surprised, look- ing at the feeling of the country at the escape of Davis, if it should be the impeachment of Mr. Chase. There never was greater cause for impeaching a high public fanctionary. There never was more criminal neglect of an important duty. The principal administrator of justice and conservator of the laws of the republic has wilfully let the greatest crime go unpunished, and thereby endangered the in- stitutions of the country and the credit of the government. If we mistake not a day of reiri- bution is not far off. The radical friends of the Chief Justice in Congress will hardly be able to save him from the consequences of his gross official misconduct. Public sentiment will force that body to take action in the mat- ter. Mr. Chase, Grecley and all the rest of the radical republican party who have been so in- consistent as to connive at treason and aid the escape of the chief traitor, will find that it is not safe to tread such dangerous ground and to defy public opinion. was for. hero The Crops. Our special correspondents throughout the country, as well as our exchanges, furnish us with the gratifying intelligence that the grow- ing crops give promise of an abundant yield. It is yet too early to speculate upon the pros- as crops of all descriptions are yet sus- ceptible of serious injury ; but we are informed that large additions have been made in all seo- tions to the number Of acres sown, and that the growing grain had never @ more satisfactory appearance. With flour at twenty-two dollars a barrel, this announcement is certainly cheer- The ry . The government, as we learn from Washing- ton, are not disposed to give John H. Surratt a trial. ‘The Initiative of straw bail for State criminals has been started in the case of Jeff Davis, and that of Surratt will probably end in the same manner, This will afford another opportunity for Greeley to show his sympathy for traitors and alleged assassins, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1867. Mr. Bancroft for Borlin—Other Appolutments. It is recorded that a certain man of the misty Middle Ages, having been in a dungeon for many weary years, was. offered’ bis freedom upon the condition that he would agree to read through the innumerable volumes of a certain history, fearfully and wonderfully made. He had a correct taste anda heroic spirit. He chose to return to his dungeon. Here isan example worthy of remembrance at a critical moment. Mr. George Bancroft is sug- gested as Minister to Berlin. We are to choose between having the country represented by him at a great European capital and having a continuation of his History of the United States. Let us heroically choose to have any- thing rather than this last, Let Berlin do as it may—let the country endure such representa- tionas it can; but let us have no ninety odd volumes of flabby rhetoric handed down to the future as our history. We have no notion that any one but Mr. Bancroft supposes that what he has called a History of the United States answers to its title; but the very name may do harm. Send him away at once. Weare in favor.of the appointment. Let him write up the Schleswig-Holstein history. Let us see how the Schleswigs can stand it. This might prove interesting as showing the comparative endurance of nations on either side the Atlantic. Moreover, we believe Mr. Bancroft would be well fitted for the place in many respec's. His Americanism is of a positive type, a3 the world saw by the lecture he read to the European Powers some time ago in his eulogy on Mr. Lincoln, He was then considered by tho Austrian Minister to have insulied the Austrian Emperor by his allusion to in Mexico: and this would be quile a feather in his eap in Prussia, Could anything more commend a min to Bismarck than to have insulted the enemy of his master? Mr. Bancroft is a scholar also, He has translate1 Hereen, and would quite amaze literary Jermany by the mullitude of words he could pour forth on classical subjects without imper- tmently obtruding any thoughts of his own. We haye other historians that we would be happy to spare, and would desire the govern- ment to consider their claims with regard to vacancies at distant places. The more distant the better. There is Abbott. This gentleman, it should be remembered, lately had a conversa- tion with the Emperor of France—a remarkable fact, the significance of which seems not to be properly appreciated by the couniry. Victor Emanuel and Count Cavour had conversations with the Emperor. Soon after the world saw the acconiplishment of Italian auity, Bismarck talks with, Napoleon at Biarritz, and the result we have seen in united Germany. Tliere can” be no question that Abbott’s conversation with the Emperor will be followed, soorer or later, by the complete reconstruction of. this Union, and we move for his reward in advance. We are astonished that he was not the first man named to succeed Motley—a historian also, but not to be compared to Abbott. Mr. Abbott has read Coxe’s “History of the House of Austria,” as we know, for he has rewritten it in a style likely to make it intelligible to those interesting subjects of a daily adver- tisement, “ gentlemen and ladies whose educa- tion has been neglected.” This should pecu- liarly fit him for the place, and the place, per- haps, would keep him so busy that he would no more bother bis brains with history. Send him by all means. We would also nominate for residence abroad the irrepressible Parton, whose his- tories take the form of biography. Parton has written much—threatens to write more, and consequently no man is safe while he re- mains in the country. He wrote our biogra- phy—from what authorities we cannot say. We have never recited the events of our life to any one; but of course wonderful versions of them are current in the mouths of all the Bohemians, and from the drip and drivel of Bohemian tongues Parton evidently made out his story. He has the notion, like Doctor Johnson’s friend, that he must live ; and not to argue that point with him, we hope government may consider our suggestion and give him the chance to live abroad. Thus Bancroft, Abbott and Parton might some day meet and dine in a Swiss inn, and, like the patriots resident at Botany Bay, congratulate one another upon having left their country for their country’s good. Cicero assures us that the ‘study of philosophy will teach us how to die, but there is no hope that such study will ever teach these gentlemen any lesson 80 useful to American literature. Hence appointments to foreign missions afford the only chance to be rid of them, and we urge an early action. We would suggest one more literary appointment. When all‘these historians are safely in places send McCracken to tell us what they find to grumble at. Literary Bank Frauds. The fraud which has just been committed on the Broadway Bank has again directed atten- tion to the loose way in which the banking business of the country is managed. Correct business men assert that if the directors of these concerns had a proper sense of their re- sponsibility such occurrences could not take place. Without going so far, we certainly think that, in the majority of cases, the success of the forgeries committed upon them is due to gross carelessness. In the management of the recently established national banks this is especially observable. The number of frauds perpetrated upon them by their own subordi- nates, as well as by outside operators, has been very great. It seems to us that the persons placed at the head of these concerns must either be very poor business men or be entirely indifferent to their responsibilities. In either case the stockholders have only themselves to blame for the losses incurred. If they make improper selections of officers they must bear - the censequences. What is not understandable, however, is the fact that old establishments like the Broadway Bank, which bave the reputation of being well managed, should be victimized in the easy manner disclosed by recent investigations. Ia the particular case to which we refer enough bag transpired to show that ordinary caution would have preventid the sucggss of iaSfrand. There wae tise » suspicions features about the forged check that would hA¥e gested doubts to any careful mind. Was clerk who paid it a person of sufficient experience to be impressed with these misgivings, or was he a novice in his position? Owing to a false economy in many of these banking establish- ments we find important places of this kind occupied by mere boys, who cannot be expected to be endowed with sufficient caution or know- ledge of the world to be able to deal with the skilful rogues who commit this class of frauds. It is not our purpose to teach bank officers their business, and therefore we shall not pur- sue these speculations fiftther ; but we do say that unless a change is made in the present system of management the public will lose all confidence in it, and-will create establishments which will offer them a better guarantee for the safety of their money. There are but very few banks in this city which are conducted on sound business principles. In general the whole aim of their managers seems to be to earn their salaries as easily and pleasantly as they can. ‘The Injury to the Cable. The accident which has occurred to the new cable—it being impaired, as announced yester- day, by an immense iceberg grounding near Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, and coming in contact with it in about one hundred feet of water—though it may produce some slight in- convenience, is not of a character to excite any uneasiness as to its durability or as to the like- lihood of iis occurring again. The lines might lie at the bottom of the ocean for half a cen- . tury without a similar injury being caused to them. Even should an accident of the same kind take place it could only be near the shore, where the line can be easily fished up and re- paired. In those parts of the Atlantic whore it is difficult to get at it there is no danger of ice- bergs coming in contact with it. The accident will, however, have one good effect, that of demonstrating the necessity of our multiplying as much as possible the number of our ocean lines, The old cable of 1865 remains in perfect working order, and all messages since the 8th inst—the day on which the new cable ceased to operate—have been transmitted through it. Yesterday, however, by an unpleasant coincidence, we did not receive our cable news report, and owing to an interrup- tion in the land telegraph lines between Calais, Maine, and Port Hood, we had no ex- planation as to the cause of the delay in the transmission of our despatches during last night. The Crowned Heads of Europe and the Paris Exposition. Never did a great national, or rather we should say international, display more narrowly escape failure than has the Paris Exposition. It has been the object of the Emperor and tho other promoters of the Exposition to make Paris this summer the object of universal attraction. The war cloud which lowered for some weeks so portentously over Western Europe threatened to extinguish the bright hopes which the Parisians not unnaturally cherished. “The success of the Exposition, every one felt, was incompatible with war. Its failure would have entailed on thousands of Parisians’ an’ amount of loss for which the acquisition .of Luxemburg would have becn poor compensation. It has often beon said that Paris is France. If that saying still holds good it is not diffcult to understand the com- paratively conciliatory spirit which the French government have evinced in getting over this recent difficulty. There is not to be war, and the Exposition is now certain to be a great success, Among the objects of interest which will gratify the spectacle-loving Parisians and the thousands of foreigners now resident in their capital, not the least attractive will be the princes and crowned heads, who are to be the guests of the Emperor Napoleon and to grace the Exposition with their presence. There are already there the King of Greece, Prince Oscar of Sweden, grandson of the great Ber- nadotte, and the Duke Louchtenbe rg, grandson of the Prince Eugene, and great grandson of the Empress Josephine—the two last intimately connected with the mem- ory of the First Empire. Visits are expected from the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Queen, and possibly the King, of Portugal, the Queen and King Consort of Spain, the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Emperor and Empress of Austria, the Emperor and Empress of Russia, and prob- ably the King of Prassia. We are not told that the Sultan is to add to the royal show, but the East is to be represented by one of the Sultan’s most ambitious dependants, the Viceroy of Egypt. Not since 1815 has the French capital witnesséd such an assemblage of princes, But how different are the circumstances! Then the mighty empire reared by the First Napo- leon had crumbled to pieces. France through- out all her borders was humbled and in the dust. The presence of the crowned heads was the completion of her abasement. Now the de- molished empire has been rebuilt. Paris, even then the queen of cities, has since multiplied her attractions and adorned herself with new beauties. The empire is again associated with prosperity and glory, and the family of Napo- leon, then denounced and exiled as the scourge and curse of Europe, controls its destinies, France has just cause to be proud of her pre- sent position, and the sovereigns and princes of Europe, as they enter her expiial, may well re- flect on the strange revo lions of fortune. The Moral of Jeff Davis’ Release on Straw Bail. Chief Justice Chase, Greeley and the other radicals who wanted to make notoriety and political capital in the South by letting Jeff Davis escape untried, have unconsciously made themselves the tvols of a great lawyer ot the State rights democratic school. Mr. O’Conor was the Mephistopheles who, through his able special pleading and winning manners, seduced these parties, together with the radical Dogberry who presided at the Richmond court, to set the arch traitor ftee. How complacently he may smile over his success, for he has not only liberated the prisoner bat has brought ruin upon these pretending Simon Pure loyalis's of the radical school. The Naval School at Annapolis. The annual examination of the cadets at the government naval school at Annapolis, Md., will commence to-day, find continue for the balance of the month, The examination has been looked for with more than usual interest ule year on the part of the new candidates for naval honors, and it is anticipated by those who have seen service that the result will be very gratifying to all concerned. About the middle of June we 0 is treated to their nvial étmmer raise fn the Macedonian, the Dale and the Savannah, and we hope two or three other vessels may be added to make up a flotilla of respectable appearance. Haave Suruewra—The Mobife Register of tho 14th instant learns that m0 less than 40,000 bushels of corn have been ship ped within the last tree days to plant ots (a the interior. JUDGE KELLEV’S SOUTHERN CANPMCN, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE WERALD. Meeting of Whites and Blacks at Ala.—Speech of Judge Ke! oe the People—Orderly C: duct ef the Audience, &e. Movraomear, Ala,, May 19, 1867- Judge Kelley addressed a largo mocting, composed about equally of whites and freedmen, last evoning, at the Capitol grounds, He was introduced by Mr. John C. Keffer, of Goneral Swayne’s civil staf. Governor Patton and many other distinguished citizens, of both Parties, were on the platform, Soveral carriages filled with ladies wore on the ground, Tho meeting was un- disturbed by the slightest interruption, The speaker was listened to with profound attention and respect. Upon being introduced Mr. Kelley said that he wished them to understand that he did not come to promote dis- cord among any people or section, but to heal, if possible, with auch influence as he could command, tho wounds of a bleeding country, The results of the war, terrible as they are in the present, would be beneficent in the future. He regretted that it was inevitable, but it seemed to have come in the order of Providence, All great ben- efits reached us through suffering. The throes of agony which afilicted alike the North and the South brought with them the birth of anew nation, He pointed out the contrast between the richness of the South and that of the cold North, whore men had to toil for every dol- lar; bat still the Northern mon were richer and enjoyed more of the luxuries of life, Alabama alone had more resources in mineral and other wealth that all New England put together. 4n none of the Eastern States was there coal, and little iron; they could not grow corn there. (In Alabama they can grow wheat months earlier than in the North; but they had not done so because they relied upon othor States for food, and devoted vheir soil to one special crop, All vegetables can be grown in this State, There were copper. lead and gold in their hills, and it would be their fault if the North did not cease to send abroad for their crute brimstone, specimens of which and other minerals ho had seen 4 moment ago in the Executive chamber These facts told in foreign lands, and the fact that they bad freedom now and common schools being known abroad capital and labor would pour in from those countries. They have their coal and iron slumbering in the ground, and throw the toil upon the shoulders of labor. In the North they make coal and iron their laborera, and throw the heavy work upon machinery. Young, tender girls and the widow of the soldier tend the loom and direct the tread while the ateam engine does the heavy work. In coming to the South he thought that his experience might he of ser- vice to them, and he hoped that he might be remem~ bered for doing them some good. He alluded to the common school system in the North and Northwest, for which every man, rich and poer, is taxed, and the humblest boy may step fram the school to college, and thence to a learned profession and the head of a com- mercial estabishment, This was his own story. Since his eleventh year he never was a pupil in a public school, Up to twenty-five he was aworking mechanic, Although there were no such ies as New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati or St. Lon's in the South, vet they had at their command, io conneotion with their other resources, the richest cotton felts and the richest rico fields of all America, Tie soctions of country had the same con- stitution and flag; but in the North the boy was edu- cated to rise in the world and become the richest man in the community, and the law guarnnteed to the working man fair wages for a fair day’s work. Ho urged them to build rolling mills, erect furnaces, employ the water power at Wetumpka and up in the other cotton districts, and to rotate their crops as we do inthe North. The day will come when Alabama wil! not confine herself to cotton as her sole crop, but she will send her railroad iron to the Gulf, The wives and daughters of mon as dusky as those around him would spin the cotton, They need not tell bim they can’t do it; for he had visited the colored schools and found enough of {alent and intelligence there (9 convince him that they had thi hand if they only trained them. Adirovsit Mr. iy he failed to oN urged them to set aside their prejudices and reconstruct . If that were done the South ty and wil he would declaty, fu bobalf of tue whole coun! it nearer to the ( ) pod ged Se te pet a See to o inci the Union and belief in the rights of man its bases. Alluding to the views of the republican upon national interests, he said that they believed t! the levees of the Mississippi, whose wretched condition had lost millions of acres to the South, should be kept in order by the general government, because they be lieved that that river was a national highway and essential to the prosperity of the whole country. Con- farther than it has done Elies 5 5, JEFF DAVIS. He Still Continues at Washington Heights— Hie Probable Departure tor Canada To- Day. Mr. Davis still remains a guest of Mr. Charles 0’Con- beaith, and it is expected that in a short time he will be completely restored. Although his departure is not positively determined upon, i: is probable that he will leave to-day for Montreal, Mr. Davis could not bave selected a more lovely, and could scarcely have chosen a more secluded rotreat than that in which he is now temporarily staying. Endowed with a variety and a beauty of natural scenery almost unsurpassed in the Union, Fort Washington and the country immediately surrounding tt have rapidiy been wing in favor with those citizens of New York whoare in a position to indulge a cultivated taste, and been transtormed into the most charming suburb of the city. The whole neighborheod is now almost exclusively ap- propriated for that class of residences which are gene- rally found on the outskirts of large cities, and which, being occupied by the more fortunate members of the community, are adorned with every embellishment re- finement a nd good taste can suggest or wealth command, Large, «tat ely stone mansions, perchance surmounted with u,.ocature towers and battiements, and light, grace- fal, but je-s pretentions villas, stud the landscape on every cide, and impart to it that cheerfol and pieasin air which is always lacking in even the most beautiful of purely natural scenes. Each dweiling is sur rounded with ample grounds, carefully Iaid out, and. dotted with trees, the whole hemmed in and bounded or walls constructed of the dark gray stone which forms the substratum of this seo- tion of the State. Neatly kept lawue of velvet green- sward, skirted with shrubs aud evergroons and adorned here and there with statues and fountains, occupy in most cases one side of the house; the remainder of the tunds is laid ont with flower beds, and containa, dea, aconservatory and an orchard. The entrance to the mansion is generally by a long gravel walk, lined on either side with a row stately elms, and shut in by fron gates, resembling those which in England usually - guard the ‘ks ot noblemen from the intrusion of the vulgar nl ~ S pons gare from artificial improvemen' ‘ashing 5 gesses natural attractions of almost Spequciiod beauty. The ground, Lg rr! aa) a ag is broken Into every kin inequality, Ag? mon opt. Ki being one point a thickly wooded hill elevates itself to a con- siderable neigh! Se affords a view from its summit, whieh is co’ with several noble mansions, of all the surrounding scenery. Below may be viewed the lordly Hudson moving silently and majestically past, and Searing along on its bosom some small luggor or schooner, not pope esse! in which old Hendrick Hudson three ceatu ago voyaged up to yt Beyond the river the Pali covered with wart trgeg and shrubs, rise Re jour, and stretch away to the right as far ad thé eye can reach ; while, turning away from the river, and looking back- wards, the landscape is of the most picturesque aud leaminy . ‘eae the acene in this locality wasone of peculiat beauty. The trees were rapidly assuming their vernal attire, putting forth the tonder leaves of spring,” as one of the old pons has it; the erase docked with dai. sios and dandelions, wore the rich freeb green tint pecu- Nar to the opening season of the year, All things io nature seemed and cheerful under the reviving indu- ence of May. ie ff hy ring te cloar; = clouds as there were A pilver ii on! to relieve tere ctahven the beauty ait} sap blue depts beyond and above them. Overhead the birds twit- tering forth their merry carols; hereand there a butterf daried swiftly along in its zigzag fight across character, ows, and occasionally the low hum of # bee be heard ag it moved slowly among the wild flowers in apst of boney. bi How pron and airiking the contrast between o scene such as this and the coil at a ros, How vividly must the obange resalting ro ~| release from duraace vile be upon the min the fallen chief of the as he coutem| charms of his And surely no more present fective means of recuperating bis health could be found tban a briet stay Ta the charming retreat (0 which , be @ Bow sqjourning MEXICO. THE CAPITAL ABOUT TO SURRENDER. Only the Imperial Minister ef State Opposed to Capitulation. MORE ABOUT THE PUEBLA EXECUTIONS. THE SITUATION AT QUERETARO. &e. &e. &e. By the arrival of the steamer Raleigh, Captain Marsh - man, from Havana, yesterday, we are in receipt of highly important news from Mexico. Sefior Don José Ramirez, son of Maximilian’s late Secretary of Stato, lett the city of Mexico on the 28th of April for Havana, He reports that when.he left Mexico Porfirio Diaz had his batteries planted for the siege of the capital. Thore were nineteen pisces playing on the Peralvilfo gate, and that of San Cosme was boing at- tacked, The only points of defence that Marquez had were the gates. He has 4,500 men to defend the capital. When Marquez arrived in the city, after his gout, @ council of war was held, at which the Ministry were present, Genorals Viduarri, Minister of War; Tabere, second in command, O’Horan and Orihuela were of opinion that they should capitulate, Senor Lacnoza, the President of the Mintsterial Council opposed this, on the ground that, as Maximilian was defending Querétaro against superior forces, it was not certainly acting the Part of soldiers to surrender the tirst city of the nation. However, the commanding and other officers. wore pro- paring to capitulate, knowing that such was tho only way to save thoir own hives. The executions at Puebla were ordered by General Diego Alvarez at the moment he was assaulting a fortit- cation; and when General Diaz heard of it ho ordored it to bo stopped, and on the following day allowed his prisoners to go choose a place of refuge. Genéral No- viega, the commander of the troops that surrendered at Paobla, is now living Quietly at Jalapa, which is occu- pied by republican troops, The republican Colonel Don Florentino Mercado was captured by the imparialists at Querétaro in the attack on the Campana Height. A young Mexican lawyer, Don F. de Castaiiedo y Majera, was killed. Senor Ramirez states that there was no news about Miramon’s death, or otherwise concerning that officer. ‘Max was still in Quordtaro. From another source we have the announcemont that & hot bombardment of Vera Cruz took place on the 6th of May, in which Colonel Bernen, of the liberals, was killed, ‘The island of Carmen has thrown off the imperial allegiance and proclaimed for the republic. for the Life of Maximilian—The Situa- the fore Quaretaro—Repulse of the Im- perialiste, &c. Wasmatox, May 19, 1867. The following official despatch was forwarded on the 25th of April tothe Mexican Minister in this city, and cetera « German, Princes, the wif of one of herself at the headquarters taking en interview, Sgt renee the Austro- 1 i & the enemy. city not baye surren- batteries upon it, and hostilities ‘A, T transmit the foregoing to you, as requested. se 4 Gants, General. See Sane Buigien saps heo seen eraen, and ite members are now under of the Prussian RAFFAEL BENAVIDES, General commanding in front of Vora Cruz. Apne 26, 1867. the ral Escobedo bas just informed me that nothing new hes occurred today. On'the 24th Diaz informed me that he Jae not ce hin ‘beaigecttors, ssw at Geadalape, now a iid BENITO Jl UAREZ” Camp Barons Queretaro, April 27, 1867. my wey early tals, moraing, threw himself The enemy very morning ded ‘al his forces upon, e line of the Cimatario, heid division from Michoacan, and di it com ee eae, Ber ot it the re- time repulsed the enemy, driving it confusion to the central square, leaving in our Hie i bang ey 28—11:20 A, M. Ni as occurred during Uwe past night, Wi jothing new ry e are en; aged in nt. the ‘doad, and’ the fletd is sult with ine losses of the throe corps of the Reserves, which made the attack, are as fol- lows :—The Cazadores de Galeana, 23 men; the Supre- mon Paddes, 13 mon; the First of the line, 16 mon. The losses of the other cavalry and infantry corps, which came to the succor of the first, are trifling. ESCOBEDO. ‘The following extract is taken from a foxter written from the camp before Querétaro, dated April 20:— Miramon having asked for a suspension of hostilities and permission to hold an interview with his formor al friends, General Rocha and Colonels Rontesinos and Gailardo, it was PF socinnd The jatter advanced towards the river, and Miramon stood on the bank oppo- He proposed to them an armistice, during which arte. a copference should be held in the city of Mexico to de- cide upon the form of the future government of Mexico. Tae liberal officers iaugied at nis pro] 3, and informed him in turn of the capture of Pue' id the defoat of Marquez, which Miramon was very reluctant to believe. THE EXAMINATION AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY AT AN~ WAPOLIS, MD. The following is a list of the Board of Visitors to the Academy to witness the annual oxam{nation, which commences to-day and continues until the 20th of Jane:—Hon. H, B. Anthony, of Rhode Island; Hoa. A, H. Rice, of Massachusetts; W. A. Darling, of New York; G. V. Fox, of New Hampshire; Rev, Wm. A, Salter, of Burlington, Iowa; Wm. C. Whittemore, of New Haven, Conn. ; Rear Admiral Geo, F, Pearson, U. 8. N.; Commodore D. B, Ridgeley, U. 8. N.; c Howell, U, &.N.; Surgeon N. Pint Pay . N.; N. Hambleton, U. 8. N.; Chie? En- isvoor William Roberia, U. &. N Rear Admiral Pearson will be President of the Board. AFFAIRS IN ST. LOUIS. Suffrage Association—Reported Heavy Failure. Sr. Loum, May 19, 1867. A Woman's Suffrage Association has been organized in this city, and some of our most prominent ladios have been elected officers, Active measures are being taken in this city and throughout the State to shape pubiic opinion #0 as to effect a revision of the constitution con. ferring the right of suffrage on women. A report eays that a large oil manufacturing company Im this city bas fatled. It is stated that local attach. ments amounting to $93,000 have been placed on it, and re ite property is now s the hands of the Sheriff. BURNING OF THE BURLINGTON MANUFACTURING WORKS. Taror, N. Y., May 19, 1967. A firo breaking out last evening in the works of the Burlington, Vt., Manufacturing Company destroyed con- siderable property, throwing a large aumber of work- men out of employment Woman’ Sexpar Coworat at Sremwar Hati.--Tho thirty- eighth Sunday concert, under the direction of Mr, Harri- gon, took place at this hall last orening, and was crowd ed, The orchestra, conducted by Mr. Matzka, played selections from Horold, Flotow, Rossini, Lindpainter sad Mullet. G. F, Hall, baritone, sang ‘The Heart Bowed Down’ very poorly. Mme. Kerap Borolon, who hag a fing contralto voice, sang an atia from Elijah with litte artistic feeling, aad Letsoh, trombone, and Diets, trum- pet, played selections from Sachse and Lindpatater (a superb style a Captain \,