The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1867, Page 4

— § 4 s NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT.« PROPRIETOR. pe JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. wee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. peaciege Bee All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches Gust de addressed New York Henarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. + Ne. 173 AMUSEMENTS THis AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broviway. near Broome streot.—Tum FLOWERS OF tum Fonzst. Matinee at 1) o'0look, WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo. site New York Hotel.—Faust, on tus Demon—A Kiss 10 wus Daze. Matnee this Afternoon. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourt treet, eveaue.—Bomro anp Juuixr. + inal Ane Hoth OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tazasvas Trove, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Hip: Hanp—Ix ax Ovr or PLace—Nick or tax Woops. ar " BANVARD’S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broadway and ‘Thirtioth strect.—HusnanD Or ax Hour—Janxx Lixo, afternoon and Evening. nee GARDEN, Third Avenue and witiy-clgnth and zy reets, THEODORE ’ PorvLar G. Convants, a's o'Clock P.M, we as BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Bro.dway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—In rugim Ermiorian Ewrenrain- mens, SINGING, Dancing AND BURLESQuES.—Tus WaLaus Bunrens vaow Russian KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 729 Broatway. oppo- site the New York HHotel.—Is tama Soxas, Daxozs, Booun- walrriza, Buuuesquas, &0.—Norua—Tuw Jars. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2and 4 West FPwonty-fourth streot.—Grierin & Ounisrr's, Mixsreeis.— Brmorian Miverasisy, Batcaps. Buriesquas, &0.—Mati- Bee at 24 o'Clock. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Rowery.<-Cowg Vooaissm, Necro Minstretsy, Burcesques, BatLer Diver Tuskuenr, &c.—Tux Briganp Boy.Matinee at 2}4 0'Clock. BUTLER’S AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bauer, Faroe, Pantomim Boaruesqves. Eruiorian, Como AnD Serrimenta 40,—Smitus aND Buowns. Matinee at 234 o’Cloox. BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, No. 600 Brondway.—Tas Qronata Mursruzis, Tue Suava ‘Teours, im Tuam Provan HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Rrmrortay Mix- araniat, Batiaps axD BuuLesques.—Tus Tewawic Fugnt oe Tus JArANnss. Fees eer o Hl ScrexCR AND Anz. Dans Ix NATURAL i NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 618 Rroadway.— gut ARM OF P; 7 Now Yerk, Saturday, June 23, 1867. EUROPE. By special telegrams through the Atlantic cabie we have nows from England and Ireland dated in London, Birmingham and Dublin yesterday, June 21. Birmingham remained tranquil, but the city police ‘Wore atill armed and some hundreds of special constables retained on duty. The anti-Popery lecturer held forth each ovening and a renewal of the disturbance was ex- Peoted . Queen Victoria held a court at Buckingham Palace, Stephen Joseph Meany, convicted of treason-felony in Troland, was sentenced by the court in Dublin to firteen years’ imprisonment. He protested against his trial, and claimed the protection of the United States government, ‘Ho was indignant at tho ‘‘base overtures” of the British government—the officers having reported him to turn informer against the naval Fentan party just landed in ‘Waterford, and promising to liberate him in six months {fhe pleaded guilty. He denied that he was ever in the pay of the Fenians in America, ‘Tho news report by the cable is dated yesterday even- tng, June 21. Two hundred armed Italians had thrown themselves inte the city of Rome. It was supposed they intended © proclaim a republic, but failed, and forty-five of them were laid in prison, The Sultan refuses, it is eaid, the cotlective proposition of France, Russia, Prussia and italy relative to an adjustment of the Candian question, es Omar Pasha reports that he can subjugate.the Cretans by force of arme, The Czar orders a suspension of the confiscations in Poland. The Emperor of Austria pro- claimed a general amnesty—which includes Kossuth— for political offences. The French government has decided to reduce the army. et Consols closed at 9434 for money in London. Fivo- twenties were at 73 in London and 77% in Frankfort. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was steady, with mid- dling uplands at 1144. Breadsvuds improved. Pro- visions without marked alteration. MISCELLANEOUS. President Johnson and suite left Washington yester- ay morning en route for Boston, to take part in the Gedication of the Masonic Temple at tho last mentioned place, on Monday next, The Presidential party reached this city yesterday afternoon. The incidents of the journey are graphically described clsewhere in the Hnavp of this morning. Tae session of the State Convention yesterday was mainly devoted to the reception and reference of reso- lutions to the appropriate standing committees The Propositions offered embraced the questions of general laws for the incorporation of cities, representation in the Legisiature, female and Indian suffrage, suppression of the liquor traffic, and calls for information on a va- riety of topics. The Convention finally adjourned till Monday evening, at half-past seven o'clock. Reports of the intended resignation of Mr, Stanton, Seoretary of War, are again current Variance of opinion with the President and members of the Cabinet as to the instructions to military commanders in refer- ence to the Reconstruction acts 18 alleged as the imme- diate cause of Mr. Stanton’s retirement. The trial of Surratt was continued yesterday, The testimony taken was corroborative of the evidence already presonted in support of the point that the ac- cured was in Washington on the day of the assassination of President Lincoln. A special telegram from Now Orleans announces the appointment of Marcus Otterbourg as United States Min- ister to Mexico, Mr. O. bas heretofore filled the post of Consul at the city of Mexico, ‘The failure of the First National Bank of Vicksburg, Miss, is reported. It is furthermore reported that the national banks are raising a fund of between two and three million dollars to be devoted to silencing Congres- sional opposition to (heir monstrous monopoly. Twolve deaths by yellow fever recently occurred on board a steamer which had arrived at Hilton Head, 8 C., from Havana. Despatches from Omaha, Nebraska, mention a fight detwoen sixty white men and from one hundred to one hundred and fifty Indiang, on the 12th inst., at O’Falon’s station, in which nine Indians are supposed to have been killed, while the whites sustained no los, One soldier was recently killed and seventy-two horses and mules stolen by the Indians at Hugo station, Between the North Platte and Denver City the Indians wore Peaceable, but between the last mentioned point and Fort Laramie continued trouble is reported, ‘The argument before the Supreme Court, Genoral ‘Term, on the motion to confirm the report of the Com- missioners of Betimate and Assoesment in the matter of the extension of Church street was concluded yester- day, The Court resorved its decision, In the appeal from the taxation of costs in the matter of the opening of Church street, which had beon taxod $34,000, Mr. Justice Ingraham yesterday rendered a decision setting aside the taxation os already made and ordering @ retax- ation, The farther hearing in the case of Charles Potter, Cap- tain of the bark Eagle, who is charged with murder on the high seas, was continued yesterday before United States Commissioner Jones, in Brooklyn. The second mate of the vessel gave his testimony, when the case ‘waa farther adjourned. In: the United States Circuit Court, astern district, before Judge Benedict, yesterday, Jacob Duderaell, » government watchman in a distillery, was convicted of bribery, in accepting @ gum of money to allow a third party to commit a fraud on the United States, This ie the first case of the kind which has been tried in any of the United States Courts under the Internal Revenue act, © The Inman steamsbip City of Antwerp, Captain Mire. Bouse, will sail at moon to-day from pier 46 Norih NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1867. river for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails wi close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. r ‘The Nationel Steam Navigation Company'seteamship Louisiana, Captain Webster, will leave pier 47 Morth river at noon to-day for Liverpcol, calling at Quoeastown to land passengers, The Anobor Line steamship Columbia, Captain Carna- van, will gall at noon to-day from pier 20 North river, for Liverpool and Glasgow, calting at Londonderry ) ‘The Hambarg Amorican Packet Company's steam ship Cimbria, Captain Trautmane, will leave Hoboken at twelve M. to-day for Southamptea and Hamburg. The mails wilt close at the Post Office at halt-past tea A. M. The North German Lioyd’s steamship America, Cap- tain Moyer, wiil leave her pier at Hoboken, on an extra trip, for Bremen, via Southampton, to-day at twelve M. The American Line steamship Mississippi, Captain Sumner, will sail from pier 46 North river at noon to- day for Havre, calling at Falmouth, England. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ton A. M. The fine sorew steamship Havana, Captain G. B, Slo- cum, will gail to-day for Rio Janeiro and the intermedi ate Brazilian ports, via St, Thomas, She will leave bor pier, 43 North river, at three P. M. The mails for 8t.- ‘Thomas and the Brazils will close at the Post Office at two P. M. ‘The popular steamship, George Cromwoll, Captain Vaill, of H. B, Cromwell & Co,’s line, will gail from pier No. 9 North river, at three P, M. to-day, for Now Oricans direct, Advices from Antigua, W. 1, dated at St Johnson the 11th of June, report the curremt market rates thus:—Flour rates have declined to $1260. Corn meal in full supply. Pilot and navy bread and crackers much wanted, Cloar pork is in supply and sales made at $28. Mess pork in supply and worth $23, Family veef in half barrets worth $13. Lard, $4 32 per pail of twenty-five pounds net, Driod fish it is impossible to move off except at auction, at from $14 to $15 per cask; a good article is worth $18, Alowives No. 1 at $5 62. 90md. W. P. lumber and 150md. shingles placed at $22 50 and $3 respectivoly ; 54m. W. P. lumbor at $22 60 sold at $20. Sugar making progresses slowly and the crop now being reaped will not exceed seven thousand hogs- heads, or little more than one-third of what was shipped Yast yoar, Sales at $3 25 a $384 por hundred pounds, Weather good for growing crop. Colonial bank paper 480, 484 and 488 for ninoty, sixty and thirty days, The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold was atrong and closed at 138%. (Though in some articles an increased business was consummated, the markots yesterday ruled very quiet; prices, however, were very frm, and domestic produce generally sold at bigher prices, Coffee was more active. Cotton was dull, but unchanged in value, On 'Change, Stave and Western flour was irrogular, and 150. to 260, lower. Wheat advanced 50. a 100. per bushel, with a fair demand. Corn opened 20, a 30, higher, under a fair export demand, but closed heavy with a part of tho advance lost, Oats were quiet but steady. Pork was firmer, while beef and lard wore moderately active and steady. Freights were dail. Whiskey was more active and firm. Naval stores and petroloum wore steady, Wool continued dull aad heavy, Roopening of the Revelutionary Contest fa Congrese—The President’s Polloy. Thepourse pursued by President Johnson and his administration renders it very clear that they are prepared to renew their unseemly fight with Congress, and to carry it on with increased venom-and vindiotiveness, This con- flict between the executive and legislative branches of the governmont has been going on for the past two years, to the damage of the country at home and its degradation abroad. It was suspended by the peaceable and effective working of the Reconstruction law under the military commanders appointed through the influence of General Grant, and the prevailing hope and belief were that it had come to an end, and thet Congress having adjourned and gone home without adopting confiscation or impeachmedt, or any of the ultra measures of the extreme radicals, President Johnson would faithfally carry out the law as so clearly de- fined in his veto messages. But the suspension of hostilities was only temporary. The restless factions could not remain at peace any more than the Girondists and Jacobins of France could fraternize after the beheading of Louis the Sixteenth. Each had ulterior views which would not be promoted by the pacification of the country under a law satisfactory to the people. The radicals sent their missionaries into the rebel States to stir up mischief and obstruct the peaceful progress of reconstruc: tion by building up a negro party at the South. The Johnson copperheads have taken a bolder and more dangerous course, and in the absence of Congress have attempted to strike down the law by paralyzing the arms of those who are engaged in carrying it into effect. This wilful and wicked interference with the operation of a law which was quietly, surely and satisfactorily working out the ends for which it was enacted will plunge the country into more turmoil and confusion than it has witnessed since the suppression of the rebel- lion. It will compel the assembling of Con- gress for a July session, and will open up a multitude of questions, personal and pdlitical, which will serve to paralyze business, re- awaken forgotten animosities, rekindle tho smouldering ashes of sectional strife, and keep the whole nation in a state of excitement and suspense. Extreme men will call for the im- peachment and removal of the President, and, laying his sins at the doors of the Southern people, will press with renewed energy their demands for punishment and confiscation. The most moderate will insist upon such action as will insure the proper enforcement of the laws of the United Siates. The President and his advisers have calculated upon this condition of affairs and are prepared for it. It is their plan for tho prosecution of the next Presiden- tialcampaign. They have all along been seck- ing to make capiial by charging the republi- cans of Congress with an intention to keep open the question of reconstruction, and not to admit the Southern States to representation in Congress at all until after the next Presidential election. When the Reconstruction act was passed they advised the South not to organize their States under its provisions, because Con- gress would surely reject them after they had submitted to the degradation of the law. They believe now that they have placed matters ia a shape to enable them to appeal to the North in the next Presidential contest with more prospect of success than they would find in a restored and prosperous Union. They calou- late that the people will be tired out by this long procrastination of the work of reconstrac- tion ; that the acts of the military commanders of the Sonthern districts, however legal and necessary, are so repugnant to all our pro- conceived ideas of a republican form of gov- ernment that they cannot fail to effect the minds of many Northern men ; and they trust in the rashness of tho extreme radicals in Con- gress, during a heated summer session, to pro- pose acts of general confiscation and other oppressive measures which may serve to startle and alarm the more moderate and peaceable portion of the community. All these exciting and dangerous elements they desire to drag together and cast into the approaching Presidential election, in the des- perate hope that in the reign of anarchy and terror thus inqugurated they may manage to seize upon the government, Even the martyr- dom of an impeachment ts looked to as hold- ing out promise for the future, It is with this object in view that the recent proceedings of the Cabinet were made and that Presi- dent Johnson, with his henchman, Seward, has started on another speech-making pilgrimage in the North, and is once more seen “swinging round the circle” as of old, There is one difficulty in the way of his scheme, and it Mes in the bdid and spirked conduct of General Sickles, who resigns his military command in South Qarolins and de- mands an inquiry into his official acts. This is likely to interfere seriouSly with the pro- gramme; for it will precipitate the issue before the President and his friends desire to mest it, It was their design to bring it on in the confu- sion and heat of a Presidential contest, and to throw the responsibility of decisive action upop Congress; but General Sickles, as usual, forces the fighting and puts his enemies on their defence. Goneral Sickles is a lawyer a3 well as a soldier. When the Reconstruction aot first went into opératton he thoroughly understood the powers it conferred upon the military commanders, and issued an order allowing the existing State officers to continue in the discharge of their dutics, This settled the question of. his au- thority over them as ho understood the law, and, although he could have removed four- fifths of their number, from Governor down to magistrates, for disqualification under tho sixth section of the Reconstruction act, he displaced but a few, and those only when they evinced a disposition to obstruct the work of reconstruc tion, He has acted as promptly and decisively now that he fs interfered with by the President and his Cabinet as when he was molested by the unreconstructed rebel officeholders of South Carolina, and the bold position he has taken will force somo definite action on Presi- dont Johnson which will be likely to upset all his we!l consid*re4 schemes. That Congress will hold a session in July is now certain. That the indecent fight between the two highest branches of the government will be renewed with increased ferocity is rendered equally eure by the course of the President and his Cabinet. Whether the ro- sult will be the immediate impeachment and romoval of the President, or whethcr more moderate counsels will prevail, and Congress will content itself with passing a supplement- ary aot repealing all doubtful clauses of the Reconstruction law, making their meaning so plain as to leave no room for the quibblings of the Attorney Genoral or the evasions of the President, and confirming all the acts of the military commanders, remains to be seen. However this may be, the contest thus need- lessly renewed will be productive of nothing but increased suffering to the South and dam- age to the whole country, while, as we have shown, the action of General Sickles is very likely to defeat the real object of the President and his party, which is to throw all this tur- moil, confusion, fighting and bad blood into the approaching Presidential contest. ‘Wanted—A Minister te Mexice. The Seward organ in this city is very sensi- tive about our remarks concerning the d'plomacy of the Secretary of State. Perhaps it has good reason to complain in this matter— not so much with us as with the cause of our strictures—for there are few instances of bungling in diplomatic affairs equal to those which Mr. Seward has furnished in his dealings with Mexioo. If it required three or four octavo volumes to explain his diplomacy with each of the European nations during his term of office, he will have to give us ten or twelve octavos at least to make clear, lucid, or even intelligible his diplomacy in Mexico. But what appears to be the greatest difficulty in the present crisis of affairs in that unfortunate country is to find a minister who shall repre- sent the United States there. Mr. Seward’s last attempt in this direction is perhaps the most inexplicable of his many wonderful ma- noeuvres. It will be seen by a despatch from New Orleans, published to-day, that Mr. Marcus Otterbourg, the United States Consul at Mex- ico, has been appointed Minister. The despatch gives a succinct account of this gentleman’s character and his antecedents, and, as there is good authority for its statements, this must be rezarded as a wonderfal appointment—quite worthy the sagacity and good sense of the Premier. It isan appointment that places the United States in a lamentably false position; for it will enable the Mexican government to refuse to receive our minister,-and be in the right. Otterbourg has been fully committed to the imperial régime and may be justly regarded by the liberal government as part of the débris of the empire, and we have no right to force upon Mexico such an alternative as to accept this man for our representative or take steps that must have an unpleasant effect on the American people. If Mr. Seward is perplexed upon this question, why would not Mr. Raymond do for the post? He can write in cloudy and imaginary style, and in almost any lan- guage, quite suitable to the condition of Mexico; or, if there are any railroad interests to be looked after, there is SM. L. P.Q. R. Barlow, ready for the mission and posted upon the subject. It is true that he does not know much @bout Mexico in particular ; but then he knows @ good deal about things in general. How would Mr. Belmont do? He has had some diplomatic experienc? at the Hague, and, as the financier and representative of the house of Rothschild, woul® no doubt be very acceptable to the Mexicans, as the thing they want most just now, and indeed at all times, is money. There may be worse, or there may be better selections for a minister to Mexico made than these, but any of these would be better than the one reporied. Of the better sort would perhaps be some one who understood the people and their language, who knew where to find the government wheh he went to look for it, and who might assist in getting Mexico out of the dire confusion in which our mixed up diplomatic interference has left the country. We do not suppose that Mr, Seward will beable to reconstruct Mexico any sooner than Mr, Johnson can reconstruct the South, In that regard our own country and Mexico stand in pretty much the same position, and it is a mere matter of speculation which shall come out all right first. Our military re- presentatives in the Southern States are not likely to get a fair show under Mr. Stanbery’s interpretation of the law; but a judiciously chosen minister to Mexico might fare better in that terribly unreconstructed country. At all events, it is worth trying the experiment, « Mr.” Seward’s organs denounce: General Sickles severely for resigning bis command. This is not surprising; for they dread as prema- ture the reopening of the conflict which they have planned, but for which they are not yet quite ready, and which the prompt resignation of the General must precipitate. General Sickies was the first, when the Reconstruction law was put in operation, to lead off in the Proper interpretation of the powers conferred on the military commanders by that law. His example was followed by the gencrals in com- mand of the other districts, Now that Stan- bery and the President have interfered to dis- turb the machinery of reconstruction which was beginning to work so well under the ad- ministration of Sickles, Sheridan and the rest, Sickles is the first to resent this unauthorized and dangefous interference. He resigns his position rather than gubmit to it By this course he baffles the intentions of these reaction- ists, and brings upon them at once the issue which they designed to throw into tho next Presidential contest. General Sickles is some- what noted for interfering with the plans of others, At the great battle of Gottysburg bo seriously interfered with General Lee, who was maturing his plans for victory, and even with some of our own generuis who were deliberat- ing about retreat His decision and dash brought on the action which regulted in the triumph of the foderal arms. No doubt the Richmond organs ot Loe were as much disposed to censure Sickles on that occasion as the organs of Seward and Johnson are now for his rashne3s in firing the first gun. But again he has sounded the signal, and the combat must begin. If the resignation of General Sickles is accepted it will doubtless be fol- lowed by that of the generals commanding the other districta, The confusion at the South will be worse confounded, and in the midst of it all the struggle between the adverse factions of the government will forthwith be renewed more fiercely than ever. The Revolationary Movement of Santa Auna. There appears to be & strange fatality gov. erning the movements of those who have figured in the Mexican maelstrom, The whole- sale murder of the Azieo kings and their people by Ferdinand Cortez left a curso upon the country, which, deepened by subsequent Spanish rule, appears to cling to it yet. The Roperor of an hour, Yturbide, afier being banished, returned and was shot near Tampico. The French, in their attempts to “restore” to the Indian what they call “the prestige of the Latin race,” left the bones of at least twonty thousand Frenchmen in Mexico. They have strangely reversed the picture of 1520; then Europe, through Cortez, was in possession of the native monarch Montezuma. To-day, after a lapse of three hundred and forty-seven years, the native Indian Dictator, Juarez, is in posses- sion of the European monarch Maximilian. Santa Anna, who did more than any one man to invite the establishing of the late monarchy in Mexico, has, pursuing the Mexican bauble, at length fallen into the hands of his boldest and worst enemies, and it is doubtful if he be alive at this moment. The revolution attempted by him appears to have been on @ level with all his late acts, and rather indicates a decay of intellect, He, at the inception of the allied intervention, was one of the leading wire pullers in the interests of the Mexican clergy. The allied armies once masters of the position, they kicked him aside; he then denounced them and offered his ser- vices to the liberals. These, knowing that the services of Santa Anna meant the ruin of Mex- ico, refused all dealing with him. Then, when Maximilian espoused fully the cause of the priest party, Santa Anna offered his services again to the imperialists; but the rebuff given him by Maximilian caused the old chieftain to lose all hope of gaining a foothold again in his own country, ualess by raising his own flag and issuing a The moment se- lected was the last that could promise success; and at Vera Cruz, as is seen by our corre- spondence, the old Church party champion almost picked up the problem which Louis Napoleon and Maximilian Lave dropped, and nearly set the retrogrades on their legs again. As in the case of Ortega, so in that of Santa Anna, the United States appear determined to assist in restoring Mex- ico to order, and, by keeping out of the country all the revolutionary elements possible, give it sufficient breathing time to establish a stable government. For this we deem the action of Commander Roe, of the Tacony, a very timely one, although the result which followed may prove tragic. The hot-headed liberal Mex- ican officers at Sisal, the commercial port of Yucatan, had no right to board the steamer Virginia, and the act cannot be too highly condemned as an outrage against the laws of nations, and will demand a prompt apology from the Mexican government. Our news from Tampico indicates that Santa Anna had taken advantage of the constantly disturbed condition of the province of Taman- lipas to raise his flag there also. This, how- ever, is no indication of his popularity there. Tamaulipas, bordering as it does on our Rio Grande frontier, is the worst of ali the Mexican States, and owes the greater part of its revo- lutionary outbreaks to our.city of Brownsville. Here the most of its pronunciamientos are hatched out, supplied with tho material of war and all the necessary elements for the holding and successful plundering of Matamoros or Tampico—especially the former. Serbando Canales has, within a year, proclaimed himself Governor of Tamaulipas, taken possession of Matamoros, aided by some one hundred Americans from Brownsville, plundered the Matamoros Custom House and every merchant in the city, whipped Escobedo, been driven out by the United States troops, retreated to Southern Tamaulipas with his six hundred followers, and now, with some kindred cutthroats, turns up at Tampico, pro- nouncing for Santa Anna, The object, how- ever, is plain; for it is evident that once the liberal army have finished with the city of Mexico and Vera Cruz, they will wheel about and dispose of the bandit Canales and all his companions. Thoy are outside the pale of all Mexican law, and have been for long time. The only object that these robbers have is to fill their pockets at Tampico and, with their ill-gotten fands, escape to Texas, where they can enjoy them. ‘The failare of the expedition of Santa Anna is also the last aud most miserable failure of the Mexican retrograde party, in whoso inter- cats it Was attempted. It is wisdom for them now fo desist from all further attempts at rove. lution, and, corta ™* with having for the he fifty years kept th ‘ountry in turmoil, let them soe tarn hele a ton to the consolidation of @ permanent peace. Another Addition to the Diplomatic Stall’ at rong Te od the recep- Some two days ago we ana ‘Ounced ‘he tion at Washington of Mr. By ‘2gab6, the first Greek minister over accrodited ' the United States. In the Hens of yesh Tday, in our telegraphio columns, we announa ed tho de- parture from Constantinople of Haogart Blacque Bey, the ambassador of the sorte to the United States, the first also who has held this office. : ‘Dhese two appointments are deeply signk > cant, They are proot to us,and proof to all the world, of the growing importance of the United States in the community of great nations. Time was when we were not deemed worthy of such honor, and when we should have grudged the expense of reciprocating the kindness, Tompora mutantur, ot nos mutamur in illis.”” ‘The times, indeed, are changed, and we are changed with them. No greater proof of this change can be found than the simultancons appointment of ambassadors to our govern- ment by the governments of Greece and Turkey. . It will not suprise us if we are hon- ored with ambaysadors from the great nations of Asia, such as China and Japan, before any of the courts of Europe. There are other points of view in which these two appointments aro interesting. They manifestly indicate a desire on the part of the two governments most immediately concerned to enlighten the mind of the great republic on this much vexed Eastern quostion. We should have regretted tho appointment of Mr. Ran- gab6 by Grecoe if that of Mr. Blacque had not followed on the part of Turkey. It is bet- ter that we should hear both sides of a ques- tion. We have no reason to find fault, but the re- verse, with the good taste which has been shown by the Greek government in the ap- pointment of Mn Rangabé. It would be ua- kind, however, to omit to notice the consider- ateness and extreme delicacy of feeling which hhag gharacterized the appointment of Mr. Blacque. ‘he Sultan might have appointed a Mussulman ; Xad if the Mussulman ambassa- dor had brought with hint bis herem it would have been impossible for our govérument, rightly interpreting the constitution, to raise any objections. In making this statement we are not forgetful of the plaiform om which the republican party once so proudly stood. The Sultan, however, has very wiscly acted other- wise. In the person of Mr. Blacque he has not only sent us a Christian gentleman, but a gen- tleman whose high qualities are well known to many in this country, and particularly in this city. His first wife was daughter of the late distinguished surgeon, Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, and his little daughter has, we un- derstand, been brought up in the midst of us in the family of her deceased parent, The Advecates of Agrarianism, Confiscation and Repudfation a Little Bebind the Age. The apostles of the “advanced ideas” of agrarianism, confiscation and repudiation are rather behind the age. The conglomerate of Pacific Railroad excursionists, under the inspiring influence of prairie air, mountain dew or whiskey, give vent to some startling, though not new ideas, on political, financial and social matters. Ben Wade was quite pro- gressive in his views of redistributing pro- perty—of taking from the rich and giving to the poor—and of reorganizing society on the basis of agrarianism, The Chevalier Train laid down a platform, striking in character and sulphurous in smell. He was for “woman’s suffrage, repudiation and hell-fire.” Thad Stevens is for confiscation, to make himself rich for the destruction of his small iron foun- ry by the rebels, and to build up the radical party by seizing and parcelling out the lands of the South to hungry partisans. Wendell Phillips, with all the New England land stealers and lazy negroes of the South at his back, go in strongly also for confiscation. Everywhere the apostles of agrarianism, repudiation and confiscation are active; but, as we said, they began too late—they are behind the timea. The government is in advance of them. It will take all the property of the country and leave only the husks for the mon of “advanced ideas.” The entire property of the nation may be about twelve thousand millions. The gov- ernment takes five hundred millions a year, which in twenty-four years will absorb the whole wealth of the nation. But if the national banks remain in existence the property of the country will be devoured by them and the government together in much less time. Con- fiscation is going on now ata fearful rate, so that Ben Wade, Thad Stevens, Wendell Phillips and all the rest of the radical agrarians and levellers may save themselves any further trouble ; there is no room for them to come in. As to repudiation, that mnst follow, of course, from the enormous burdens piled upon the people, which they will be unable to bear, and from the government leaving them nothing wherewith to pay taxes. This is the way we are going. Where we shall bring up remains to be seen. Another National Bank Gone. A special telegram in this morning’s Henao announces the collapse of the First National Bank of Vicksburg. The officers of ihe concern stated that they could have saved it if they had been able to borrow twenty-five thousand dol- lars, but the condition of its affairs was found to be so bad that capitalists refused to aid it, and it was consequently forced to go by the board. One by one these irresponsible insti- tutions are dropping off, and the public are learning by sore experience into what insecure hands they placed their funds. Not Dend Yet. Our cable despatch from Florence indicates that there is still some vitality in the poor old Pope and his Roman government of cardinals and kindred dignitaries. Two hundred armed men made “a descent” on the sacred city, and the Pope's souaves evidently made a descent on the two hundred, and the two hundred seem to have had the worst of it Doubtless this handfal of men counted upon igniting the dis- orderly elements of the people, but counted erroneously, and failed. Revolution will be- come ridiculous at this rate, and if it becdémes ridioulous that will be the end of it in Italy. If this was the movement of the revolutionary junta that recently met at Brussels, the junta must try again. \ — ae "Pho Papal Convention at Rome, ~ The apostolic city of Romo is about to pre-| Gent ® sone of rivalry to that of Paris at the close of the month, Whilo Napoleon bas gathered about him the temporal sovereigns of many nations, civilized and semi-barbaroas, to witness the exhibition of science and art,! Pius the Ninth has summoned to Rome the spiritual heads, hierarchs and sovereigns of all | the Catholic world, to celebrate the eighteen hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of St Peter, and participate in other religious ceremonies of a significant and importans character in the Christian world. There are’ few countries, we presume, which will be un- represented by their leading bishops in the Eternal City on this occasion. From the North Pole to the South, wherever through its hie- aXxtohy and priesthood the ancient faith Paul and Poter—which gave worshippers to catycombs, victims to the gladiatorial arenas, and nussionarics to all the earth—is reoognized, the cope and mitre, the crozier and the cross, the simpKicity of faith and the halo of intellec- tual powax, will wend their way to Rome.to make part a the grand pageant. As 8 prominent historfo incident of our cen-, tury this assemb@age and these ceremonies wilk be not less remarkable than the congregation of emperors, kings and princes at Paris. _. Whether the Pops has called together the lights of the Church at the present timo in the capital of Christianity, with a view to rival the assemblage at the French capital, or whethor the Roman ceremonies occur in the ordinary disposition of events, both incidonts will note @remarkable epoch in the history of the pre- sent year of the nineteenth century. Proceodings of the Cabinet Connect. We published yesterday a report of the procoodings in council of the President and his Cabinot. It will become quite a now fea- ture in our political history if the government continues what is thus begun ; and these Cabi- net deliberations and votes will have a pe- culiar interest to the people, unless the author ities reserve from publication whatever may be eapecially important. They have bezun by doing this very thing, and thus there is no great pro- malso of plquanoy or Talae im thee“reporis Why did not they give us the S.89asion and vote on the points in relation fo the authoré ity of the military commanders? That is the vital topic now—the great question of day—the very point upon which the success or, failure of reconstruction turns. Instead of giving the important information who is for and who against that, we are only told who voted aye and who nay on the points of Mr. Stanbery’s first opinion. Give us the vote om the question that is really before the country. Provincial Newspnper Slanders. The Rev. Mr. Merrill, of Plattsburg, N.Y... sends us a letter requesting the publication of, a retraction of a elander against himself which't originated with the Troy Times, and which crept into our columns among the mass of news items. We cheerfully comply with Me. Mors rill’s request, and at the same time would state that the editor of the Times should turn; the originator of the slander out of his office ® blundering blockhead. If the editor himself was the author of the libel his subscribers should hold a public meeting sud resolve to! let the paper go to the dogs. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALD. Naw Oztaans, June. 21 To'Gleck Ba} A confidential statement has been made here that Mar- cus Orterbourg, Consul in Mexico city, has been appointed. United Sates Minister to that country. Mr. Otterbourg isa German Jew. Last fall he made a special journey to Washington, ostensibly to confer with the State De- partment, but in reality to negotiate for the recognition of Maximilian, for which, it is stated, he received # handsome sum from the imperialists, He has been im the pay of the imperialists all along. ‘Wasuincton, June 21, 1867. Tt is stated this evening that Marcus Otterbourg, of Wisconsin, who has been for some time past the United States Consul at the city of Mexico, has beer appointed by the President Minister to that country, in place of Hon. D. L, Campbell, resigned COST OF REGIsiaLTION. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALS. New On.zans, June f1, (867. 10 o'Cioce FP. M. Tho total cost of registration in Louisiana to .49 pres- ent time amounts to $36,000. i NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Whe Are Disfranchined in General Pope's Department. ‘ Avavueta, Ga,, June 21, 1867. Genoral Pope to-day issued 8; instructions to Board of Registers, fo on ad No, 2 directs that clerks and reporters of the Supreme (e+ and inferior courts, and clerks to ordinary county courts, treasurers, county surveyors, receivers of tax re tufns, tax collectors, tax receivers, sheriffs, justices of the peace, coroners, mayors, recorders, councilmen of any {i ted city or town, who are ex-officers of the confederacy, and who, to the ‘war, occupied these offices and afterwards participated im the rebellion, are all disqualijed and are not entitied to registration. Registration in Virginia, Prrensnura, June 21, 1867. Registration in two wards of this city closed last evens ing. The list stands as follows:—Whites, 651; colored, 1,688. In the remaining two wards in which registrae tion will be heid hereafter the whites are believed to be im the majority. At Dinwiddie Court House 115 whites and 215 negroes, wore rogintered, Registration In Louisiana. New Onteans, June 21, 1867. The time for registration is extended to the 15th of; Jaly in every parish except Orleans, which is limited to. the 30th inst. "yes Freedmen to be K Informed of their Rights. Cuanteston, § C., June 21, 1867. 4 General Scott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed~ men's Burean for this State, has issued an order enjoin- ing upon the subordinate officers and agents the im-, ce of the duty of keeping the freedmen fully formed as to their rights and privileges undor the ree wont acts of Congress. THE INDIAN TROUBLES, Rattle at O'Falon’s Station—Movemente of Troops—Pfunishment of a Whiskey Dealer. St. Loum, June 24, 1867. Omaha despatches give the following barbarities:— On the 12th inst., at Fort Sedgwick, Colonel Dodgs ha@ a citizen namod Hendricks flogged—one handred Inshes on the bare back—for selling whiskey to the soldiers, On the same day and at the same place & soldier received twenty-five lashes for stealing s gun. On the following day a soldier was * 9 for two hours for getting drank, a and buffalo gnats meanwhile tortar- ing him terribly. ' Pk pattie was fought at O'Falon’s station on the 12h, between sixty whites, belonging 10 Wilson & Cloggue'® traips en route for il Kearny, and from one handrod to ona hundred and fitty Indians, Nine Indianw are supposed to have been Killed. Ihe whites sustained | 1 } Peale companion of troops left Fort Sedgwick for Fort; Sandors lant Saturday. ‘The Indians are quiet between the North Platte and, Denver Clty; but troubles continue between Denver and. Laramie. Denver sewspaper of the 14h senounces the arrival ‘three coac! from Piatte City with forty pas. | aad s heavy mail, also two from Smoky tak Gouvir Drowpk, ao ts ail athe Nore Platte, |