The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY .5, 1867. The Overturaieg of Mosquera—The Colom- biaw Question. The dictatorship of Mosquera has been as euddenly overturned aa it was inaugurated. Moxice and the United Statee—The Duty of Congress. Universal murder is the present platform of the dominant party in Mexico, and the appe- Course, yesterday, which was won efter a close and exciting contest by Ethan and his mate, the best mile being in 2:20, . Another prize fight took place yosterday on the Ho- Doken race course, between Luke Murphy and one NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. . | tite for blood will grow as it is fod. New im- | His plans, born in Europe’ im 1852, have aud- errr from the Fifth ward im New York. Mur- " é AME! DON BENNETT, JR. pram fight. Tr pulse is given to the national depravity just | denly terminated in a manner little expected a eo iit The ram Dunderborg failed for France yesterday, now, and the people that have been always cow- | by Earl Clarendon and Louis Napoleon when ‘The frigate Susquehanna galled from Fortress Monroe for the Wesa Indice yesterday. The fine steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Mo- Guigan, of the Inman line, will sail at noon to-morrow (Saturday) from pier 45 North river, for Liverpool, cal- ling at Queenstown to land mails and passengers, The mails for the United Kingdom will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The anchor line steamship Iowa, Captain Hedderwick, will leave pier 20 North river at noom to-morrow (Satur- day) for Liverpool and Glasgow, touching at London- derry to land mails and passengers, ‘The Amorican line steamship Fulton, Captain Towns- end, will leave pior 46 North river, at noon to-morrow (Saturday) for Havre, calling at Falmouth, England. The new and first elass steamship Sherman, Captain Sampson. belonging to H. B, Cromwell & Co.’s line, will leave pier No, 9 North river at threo P, M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orteans direct, they gave thom their inception, and made Mosquera the tool to enforce them. General Santos Acosta, second designado, has, in absence of the firat designado in Europe, struck s sad blow at all the cherished hopes of France, Spain and England, in Colombia and its province of Panama. This overturning of Mosquera is @ blind stroke of the goddess For- tune in our favor; for, if she did not occasion- ally aid us in our Spanish-American affairs our Secretary of State would soon ruin us in that direction. S The Mo:quera plans date far back. In 1852 he was in Europe, and returned home to Co- lombia filled with many Utopian ideas of what the monarchioal Powers of Europe proposed to do to assist Colombia in resisting the aggrés- sive tendencies of the Colossus of the North. He, harping on his acknowledged relationship with the Empreas Eugé6nie, was petted by royalty; and Louis Napoleon, Clarendon and Isabella IL. found him a ready tool. The lat- ter wrote to him July 1, 1852:—“Should you determine to become an absolute monarchist, (a8 appears clearly to be your inclination), you can rely upon being rewarded according to the services you may be willing to render us in America.” The scheme was hatched at that time by France and England to control Panama, and make that all-important transit of the world’s commerce the boundary line of United States extension, providing subsequent events gave no possibility of confining ua to the line of the Rio Grande or spliiting us into contesting fragments. Following all these finely traced theories came the intervention of the three Powers above mentioned in Mexico; and the Colombian project becamo a second- ary barrier, to be used in case of the failure of the pet Mexican scheme. The whole animat- ing force of European policy with reference to the United States and the Spanish-American States was duly developed in Napoleon’s letter of instructions to General Forey, July 3, 1862. Said he, “We have an interest in the republic of the United States boing powerful and pros- perous; but not that she should take possession of the whole of the Gulf of Mexico, thence command the Antilles as well as South Amer- ioa, and be the only dispenser of the products of the Now World.” . a We have seen the royal efforts against us fail in Mexico by tho tragic end of their too roady tool furnished by the retrograde House of Hapsburg. On the same day the news was ardly, always cruel, alwaysa scoundrel scum, disgracing the name of humanity, are rising to ® drunken revel of slaughter. Maximilian’s reign is a pivotal point in Mexican history. There was a chance that the change made might be for the better; but the national tendency to evil was stronger than all else, and the change is for the worse. Sustained by the moral eup- port of a great Power, Mexico managed to stand on her feet with a semblance of govern- ment till the French went out. Then left with only Maximilian and ten thousand men to face, she was well nigh beaten; but treachery came to her rescue. She managed to buy for so many ounces the triumph that her soldiers had not the heart to win in battle. She was suc- cessful, and the world might have believed that she was 4 victor; but she undeceived it by proving herself a stranger to those generous sentiments that find place in a conqueror’s breast. She proved that she did not know how victors’ feel—that she knew nothing of victory but how to buy it She might, by a wise uso of her opportunity, have taken her place in the number of those nations, the most worthy of the world’s admiration, that, having won independence in glorious struggles, have come out from the fire of many battles purged of the viler elements of national life—merciful, magnanimous, and too self respecting to demoralize a whole people by pandering to national revenges. But she had not been purged in the fire of any battles; and buying success from a traitor ‘in the enemy’s camp teaches a nation no noble lesson. Her instinct was to kill some one, and, failing the carnage of battle, she falls upon that of murder in cold blood. It would seem that there was some desire to save Maximilian. Juarez might have done it if he had dared. Other members of the government had glim- merings that it was the safer course, as it was the one urged by the United States; but the extravagantly national party—the party really representative of the people—headed, it seoms, by Escobedo, vould see only a chance to glut & devilish thirst, and his life was given up to their clamor. How distinolly the characteristics of destructive revolutionary progress come out in this! It is a period of the French Revolution reproduced in detail. 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First, a quorum was present’ in both houses, when a joint committee was appointed to wait upon the President and inform him that the two houses were in session and pre- pared to receive any communication he might have to make. Mr. Johnson, however, had nothing to say for the present, which was pro- cisely the oase at the opening of the last session, The two houses, in fact, have so cavalierly treated the conatitutignal ohop-logic of his regular December messages that he has evidently resolved to pay them back, as far as possible, with silent contempt. But he is not to be allowed tho luxury even of keeping still; for, before its adjournment the Senate adopted a resolution calling upon him specifi- cally for information in reference to his en- forcement of the reconstruction laws during the late recess, while, by a resolution of the House, he is requested to “transmit all the official correspondence between the Depart- ment’ of State and Lewis D. Campbell, late Minister to Mexico, and the correspondence with his successor.” Upon these two very important subjects, therefore—the reconstruction and the Mexican business—we may expect soon to’ have all the material facts and papers; and if so, it will make very little difference whether Mr. John- son vouchsafes or declines any explanation or vindication. So far as he is concerned tho two houses have only to say, with Gradgrind, “Facts is what we want.” } ‘ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THeATR: aderay, pire Tue Omiy Sreaiex, Vroamays near Broome ( mmmatae FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street and Sixth Brenue,—Tuz Anos in Tata WonvenruL PsRroRMaNces. ' | BOWERY THEATRE, bowery.—Taess Fast Mex— Avorrep Cuitp—Kise in tran Dane. a OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Baitisu Nevtrauity. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEU! B Thirtieth street.—Love in berastene” peer aoe ‘ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place, — SP Tuprrran PR OF JAPANusx Aarists In Tumin Wow 1, Feats. TERRACE GARDEN, Thi Fifty. ear rd Avenue, Fifty-eighth and ts.—TaeopoR® Tuomas’ PoruLak GARDEN at 8 o'Clock P. M, { BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bacter, Farce, Pantominm, BURLESQUES, Eruioriar, Comic ano Sextimanrat Vooauisus, &¢.—THe Iris Our: Law; on, Tax Waeck or 4 Lirz. { ' HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermoprian M: srastsr, Baliaps and BuRLesques,—Too Fast roe Savery. NEW YORE MUSEUN OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— ol for the lif f : i st f thi ‘ Fieap ao ‘OF Pranae—Tas Wane In the next pleco, wo find that Mr. Sumner | “/#mor fe of Louis; ® more | published, by the Heraxp alone, of the presen Lnorones Dac. ‘Open iroca 8 a in the Senate and Mr. Stevens wore promptly | ™0derate and wiser faction would have spared | failure of the allied Powers to erect a barrier Louis, just as Juarez and certain of his adherents would have spared Maximilian; but the moderate faction had not in either case wisdom or courage to insist. Violence pre- vailed, and Louis and the Archduke were victims of vindictive fury. What followed in France? Triumph made tho blood party supreme, and for the crime of having attempted to save the monaroh tho moderates followod him to execution. It will be the same in Mexico. Juarez will follow Maximilian; and the extremists under Escobedo, or one of similar tastes, will rule till their murders shall arouse counter-revolution, and they will meet the fate of Robespierre—sacrificod to the long dormant instincts of humanity that must exist, even in Mexico. A, * In the meantime where stands the United States ?- Is the Monroe doctrine an adjunct of barbarism? Is ita thing invented to secure free butchery and impunity for all the crimes that @ race of demoralized mongrels can imagine? That was hardly the idea of its inventor; such, however, has been its effect in this case. Mexico would doubt less have been reduced to-day to such order as reigned in Warsaw but for the attitude assumed by the United States. Escobedo and his bruial adherents would have been hanged, or, more likely, would have been the servile adherents of the new system, for these wretches are the readiest to take any shape under the hand of power. This butchery then—this horrible condition of society, is directly traceable to a moral assertion of the Monroe doctrine; and we insist upon it that the United States has a duty to perform in these premises to which it oannot honorably close its eyes. If wo are the champion of American nations against Europe, and in that champion- ship deprive a papple of order, security and government, we must stand ready to give what we will not let them tsko from others. It is for our own safety and advantage that we keep European Powers to the other side the Atlantic. In thus pursuing our own advan- tage we have put Mexico under the heels of a butcher, and we must rescue her from that position. It is the clear and evident duty of Congress to move in this matter forthwith, and it will not be a hair-breadth in advance of the public sent'ment if it calls for a hundred thou- sand men to go over the Rio Grande, under Sheridan, and punish the insult and shame that these mongrels have put upon us. Letit be done at once, for the vindication of our own honor end for the prevention of yet untold horrors, Individual Enterprise versus Combinations. Since the commencement of its history. it has been the object of the New Yorr Hanatp to faithfally and intelligently serve the public, Faithful services are exceedingly liable to Bive offence in certain quarters, Such at least has been our experience. Com- binations have again and again been raised against American influence at Panama and in Colombia. But the last Colombian effort was undertaken when the bayonets of twenty-five thousand American troops on the Rio Grande reflected the western sunlight upon the French throne. Mosquera was then in Europe; and in 1864 and 1865 @ consultation for a new clog upon American progress took place. Napo- leonic ana Engtish influence perfected the plot. Robinson, Fleming & Co., with other European bankers, flirnished the means for the usurpation of “the Colombian government by Mosquera, who, from the confiscation gf Colombian Church property, agreed to pay one hundred thousand dollars per month to liquidate the debt. Ves- sels were contracted for on the Continent, and the R. R. Cuyler, which was bought in the United States on Mosquera’s private account, was delivered, well armed, at a port of New Granada. The plans of Mosquera were backed by his European allies ; but in a weak moment he revealed them. Among other things he said, in October, 1866, “ It would not be impos- sible to obtain the support of Europe for the re-establishment and the consolidation of Colombian unity.” * * * “Colombia would become the barrier sought for by the world against the United States—the strong inter- mediate Power between them on the one hand and Brazil on the other.” The publication of these words by the New Yore Husaatp drew the attention of the Colombian Congress, who obarged Mosquera with a plot to overthrow the government. They demanded what his war purchases in Europe and the United States meant, and finally forced a rupture which resulted in his seigure of dictatorial power, of which he has now been deprived by being made prisoner, thanks to the progressive senti- ment of the people of Colombia. They have, true to the instincts of Spanish America, deter- mined to cut aloof trom the European Powers who appear to have leagued themselves against the progress of the Western World. Thoy have good reason to be joalous of European inter- ference; for they have seen it result in more curses than blessings; and nine-tenths of all the civil wars of those countries which we con- demn bave been caused by the foreign machi- nations of the civilized Powers which we hoid up to the Spanish American States as examples of national elevation which they sbould imitate. Mexico has taught Europe a memorable lesson, for which the whole of Spanish America will bless her. Colombia should be urged by the United States, and sided, if need be, to say to Europe, Hands off! We have a great future staked outfor us, and let no Power or com- bination of Powers in the Old World dare to impede our progress. Especially do wo say this of New Granada and the Isthmus of and decisively snubbed in the adoption of a resolution in the House, in pursuance of a re- publican caucus, providing that the general business of this session be limited to an ex- planatory reconstruction bill, and that all other matters of general legislation be laid upon the table. This does not touch the im- peachment question; but it is probabfe, in the event of any sharp conflict upon this issue, that it will be referred to an extra session in the cooler month of October. Such is understdod to be the wish of the majority of the republicans on the House Judiciary Com- mittee having this business in charge. It is enough, however, that the practical business republicans of both houses have the power in their hands, and that the extreme projects of visionary fanatica and implacable radicals are not in the adopted programme of this session. Nevertheless, from the number of reconstruo- tion bills and ideas already submitted, we infer that it will require at least three weeks to bring the two houses to a satistactory measure over the Executive veto. Next, from the reference of the credentials of the whole Kentucky delegation of the House, on the general charge of disloyalty (excepting Gorge M. Adams, a Union soldier in the war), it may be safely assumed that the unrecon- stracted rebels and their State rights asso- ciates, who make up the ruling power in Ken- tucky, will be subjected to a thorough over- hauling, and it is not unlikely that the major ity, at least, of their chosen representatives to Congress will be ruled out. The constitution says that “each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members;” and in exercising this full authority in regard to these accused gentle- men from Kentucky it is intimated that an example will be made for the instruction of all the other unreconstructed States when they shall come to the task of electing their repre- sentatives for Congress. We conclude, from all these developments of the opening day of the present session, that, excepting some inci- dental questions and measures, the legislative work of this session will be limited to an ex- planatory reconstruction bill, and that the bill adopted will be so clear and unquestionable in its specifications as to relieve the President of any further necessity of calling upon his Attorney General to expound the law. Lastly, from petition submitted in the House from the Fourth Congressional district of Connecticut, charging W. H. Barnum, the iron man, member elect thereof, with bribery and corruption, and from the reference of this petition to the Committee on Elections, with power to send for persons and papers, we guess that the defeated P. T. Barnum, the show- man, is behind the scenes, and has been making some discovertes which he expects will resuscitate the woolly horse and carry him in triumph to Wasbington. New York, Friday. July 5, 1867, —————————————————OOO tz waw 3s. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yest er- day evening, July 4. ‘The Austrian Court has been placed in mourning for Maximilian. The grand review of British troops and Belgian Volunteers ordered to take place in Hyde Park has been postpoued in consequence éf the news from Mertoo. A general fecling of indignation prevailed in England and on the Continent against the Juares gov- ernment. Lora Lyons has entered on his duties as English Min- ister at Napoleon's Court, Tho Italian Minister of Finance bas resigned. The prominent Fenian traitor Convicts have been romoved from Ireland to England. * Gonsols closed at 943; for money in London. Five- twenties were at 72% in London, and 77% in Frankfort. (| The Liverpool cotton market was heavy and inactive, with middling uplands at 103 pence. Corn declined. Provisions unchanged. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The great national annivefsary was celebrated with more than the usual éclat in this city and elsewhere yes- @erday. A grand parade by the military early in the Morning and brilliant displays of froworks at night ‘Wore the main features of the municipal celebration; Dut in addition an unusual number of excursions, picnics and private enjoyments woro planned and carried out, The “Big Inguns” of Tammany took advantage of the day to lay the corner stone of their new Wigwam on Fourteenth street, when an oration waa delivered by Galian ©, Vorplanck. The Society Zof the Cin- cinnatl, composed of gentiomen descended from revolutionary officers had a dinner at Deimonico’s, at which speeches were mado by several distinguishedgdes- ceadants. At Mount Morris square—a site sacred on ‘wccount of revolutionary associations—the citizens of Harlem commemorated the day with addresses, reading the Declaration and reciting original poems, In Brook. dyn the display was of the usual order, although not so grand as that city has made in former times, there being no military parade whatever, and by no means a general display of flags, The celebration in Poughkeepsie was a greater demonstration than that stirring Itttle village is accustomed to, owing to the fact of extra arrangements being made for the benefit of the Dutchess County Sol- dlers’ Monument Association. In Westchoster county, Dear South Salem, the strong minded women and their political adherents of the male gender, beld a picnic, which was tuterspersed with big dinnors, orations and Suffrage resolutions, that party evidently having an eye to business at all times, In Boston the principal events ‘were a regatia and a freman's proceamon. In Wasbing- ton the public officers apparently monopolized tho oc- cCasion, and dull State dinners were the rule. In Rich- mond, Va, the negroes and military demonstrated theirloyalty in accordance with the Mayor's prociama- Bion, and one of the courts did so by adjourning ite ®ession on receiring @ written order from General Bchofeld. Im Charleston and the rest of the Southern Cities although business was generally suspended, the military and the freedmen alone appeared to be at all Jubilant over the retarn of the national anniversary, Our Panama correspondence is dated June 22 The capture of Mosquera and the assumption of supreme powet by Genoral Acosta are confirmed. The Colombian steamer Boljvar, which slipped through the Singers of ‘Whe aethorities at Panama when they contemplated se- cossion; had returned to Panama by Mosquera’s order ‘and was delivered to the authorities, Affairs were greatly unsettled, and the only remedy scemed to be to wait until Congress was convened. Our Santiago, Chile, correspondence, dated June 1, gives aa account of the opening of the Chilean Congress. he President's message siates that the mediation of the great commercial transit, what M. Billault, in the Corps Législatif of France, said of Mexico on the 7th of February, 1864:—“There also great political vistas are opened to clear ‘United States in the war with Spain had been necepted Southern Rellef in Canada. us. Wo bave always ro; trueto | Sliahted eyes; diverse interests come in contact, With conditions Lieutenants Crosman and Weight | The Southern relief sentiment has completely Parpose me Bi to be the | 924 it is not opportane to neglect them.” Tan, of the United States steamer Ossipes, had been arrested in Valparaiso, by an officer of the steamor, for iptending 40 fight # dueft Our correspondence from Lima, Peru, dated June 14, Sanouhces the fact that Castilla’s revolution for the Purpose of (deposing Prado, had been brought to a ter. mination by the death of Castille himself. Tho only Dody of rebels remaining in arms was the small com. mand of General Rivas. Prado bad suceseded in form. inga @abinet, Congress was busy adopting a new and revising the new penal code, ‘ Advieog fromi the Plains state that great alarm ozists @mong the between Forte Yankton and Randall on it Qf am expected raid of Indians, Vigilance have been organized at Julesburg, the nus of the Union Pacific Railroad, for the Of {he persons and property of the citizens, again® lodians or the encroachments of the Company is not stated, It will be rememdéred, Dowover, that a recent cespatch stated that some dif. a uitense between the squatters aod the 7 io reference to the lands upon which tho eee “played out” in Canada. No more sympathy, no more heartronding cries for the oppressed Southern people, no more aid to filibustering expeditions to rob American banks, no more harboring of noted rebel plotters, The Cana- dian people are beginning to open their Rip Van Winkle eyes to the fact that they picked up the wrong side of the question during the war, and that it is necessary to-wake up to*the fact thot we live in the nineteenth century, and not in the days of “our good Queen Elizabeth,” when every other ship in the port of Liver. pool bad marked upon her stern “Capacity for three hundred slaves.” Wheel into . line, Qatlada! Wake up, Canada! Warm yourself, and join in the march westward. Hell Gate. Thore is a hubbub about Hell Gate, and an attempt to secure init a monopoly for the pilots, Tug boats are not to be permitted to take big ships through, although they can do it with perfect safety, because this will in- fringe on the rights of pilote; so a captain must take a tug and a pilot also. The true way to settle the difficulty is for the State to devote one hundred thousand dollars to blast- ing the rocks out of the channel This would be another interference with the rights of the pilots, no doubt; but it may be that the people, — Tights also. > --* Wiserey—An Atiorioan Minister to Mexico An imperial duit and Ubera] travelling ex- paids* A life insurance can be offected in @ well-established mutual company at a foaponable extra premigm. Apply to W. H, Semard, Staye Depactmeph Washington, D, Q, slave of no ring, but on the contrary to mako our paper a full and reliable vehicle of intelli- gence, to keep the public alive to their rights, to describe honestly the merits and demerits of those who catered for their patronage and support, The result has been that succoss has crowned all our efforts, and that opposing com- binations have uniformly failed. The latest combination of the kind referred to has been that of the Associated Managers. What has hocome of that association, now? It was to ruin the Heraup. It has been more success- ful in bringing ruin upon itself. But oge or two of the managefé romain faithful tg the original compact, To some of them the alliance has been trous in the extreme. It could ngt have beeb otherwise, “All unholy alliances must fi come to naught. Popular instinets, as a rule, are correct, and no combination howover powerful is able Lag: ingly tp blind them te the bruth. » 2 le Waxyep—An Améyioan Minister, to go to Mexico, Reforenoog dispensed witb, but must have no objection to “ old clo’,” “Apply at the Sioie Ofdce, Washington, 2, 0" ‘ be By between Dextor, in harness, and Penning mate, eo the Merriam H.) etl Panama; and we echo, with reference to this | A R'% of Critics, The past season of .‘musoments has been un- precedentedly successful; but with a single exception, as far as newspaper oriticiams were concerned, the successful theatres owe nothing to that cource. A number of newspaper writ- era, styling themselves the metropolitan censors of the drama, and forming « self-constituted Council of Ten, have endeavored to obtain complete control of the amusement columns of the New York press for blackmailing purposes. Each of them was employed by three or four obscure papers. When a new piece was brought out they held consultations together, and bints were thrown out to the manager or author to the effect that the success of the piece and their remastm on it entirely depended on tho Smount it would bring them. Managers and authors were constantly reminded of the im- mense influence possessed by the “ring,” and that no member would refuse to endorse the opinion of his fellow “critic.” One or two of those parties occasionallytranslated or adapted European plays, and the vengeance of the entire precious combination was threatened on the manager who would venture to refuse these, plays, some of which wore the veriest trash Every new, play that did not emanate from them, or was not liberally paid for, was per- sistently written down, and the most extrava- gant “puffery” resorted to to bolster up their own sickly productions. With the most un- blushing effrontery they have tried to persiade the country press and foreign dramatists that they represented the entire oritical body of New York. The fair, candid, unbiased opin- ions of music and the drama, as given in the columns of the Hexatp, although every effort was made to include it in the “ring,” have proved a terrible stumbling-block in the way of these precious “critics.” When managers and authors found that there was at least one great organ of criticism in which they would receive ample and impartial justice, they re- fased to submit to the rule of the “ metropolitan censors of the drama.” Hence, there is weep- ing and gnashing of tecth, and the discomfited blackmailers growl at the Heratp. “Poor Carlotta!” “Poor Carlotta!” Maximilian was shot faced to the front. His last words were “Poor Car- lotta!” How tender and touching is this con- vinoing illustration of the manly and generous nature of the fallen Emperor! Abandoned by France, betrayed by a Mexican follower, tried by @ military tribunal of his implacable enemies, condemacd to death, and brought out for execution, all interoositions in his behalf from the representatives of foreigh rowers having failed, this distinguished victim of Napoleon’s “grand idea” would have been justified had he devoted his last moments in denouncing the contrivers of his destruction and the barbarians thirsting far his blood, and in deploring his untimely fall, in the strength ofhis manhoodsand his hopes. But Maximilian was @ man of largor breadth of mind and herojsm than this. He had deliberately oast |. his life into the scales in defence of his empire, he had pledged his word in the name of his imperial house of Hapaburg to fight it out with his enemies, and, like a true soldier, he was prepared for this last disaster.. He recogaized his fate as resulting from the fortunes of war, and had neither denunciations nor regrets on his own account to make. Like the dying Gladiator at Rome i— He recked not of his life, nor of the His heart was home, and that was far away. Face to face with his remorseless execu- tioners, awaiting but the word to “ fire!” all thoughts of his lost empire and his low estate gave way to those endearing memories and sweet affections which had linked his life, his happiness, his fate and his ambition with “poor Carlotta!” Asto a drowning man numerous events of his past life running through many years of time are vividly reproduced in a few - fleeting seconds, so to this victim of Mexican vengeance were, no doubt, recalled in the last moments of his earthly existence those charm- ing recollections of his young, beautiful, gifted, accomplished and devoted wife, whereby he had become so fascinated with his Mexican empire and his hopes of the Mexican people, that he could only relinquish them with his life. “Poor Carlotta!” Her triumphal journeys, her floral receptions, her welcome charities, her gracious ways, her catholic piety and her resistless, womanly gentleness among the sus- ceptible Mexicans, were all so faithfully devoted to his cause as to dovelop in him the heroism of the feudal ages. He was her gal- lant knight, equipped by her own fair hands for a glorious crusade; she was his queen of love and beauty, to whom bis word as a soldier and his faith as a devotee were pledged. All these ethoughts in the presence of. the grave, doubtless, rocurred to him as the memories of ® golden dream, and from these and that other thought, that she had hopefully braved the dan- gers of the seas, and the doubtful generosity of France in his behalf, only to be repelled in despair, and to be doomed to living death, came the inspiration to Maximilian which was expressed in his last expressive words—“Poor Carlotta!” Nor is there in the records of history, as the leat words ofa dying saint or hero, anything given which appeals so tenderly to our better nature, to all that beautifies and softens the human character, as these dying words of Max- fmilian—“Poor Carlotta!” They will crown in history this fallen man. However mis- guided be was in his ambition or in his acts as ruler, those two words, with all their impressive and redeeming associations, will crown him with the flowers of affection and the laurels of the hero. Had he recited and eloquently vindicated every step and every act in his imperial career he would have failed to reach the eloquent defence embodied in his dying exclamation of “Boor Carlotta!” To her they will be the words of restoration or dissolution; for him they aro the wreath of immortality. “Poor Carlotta!” ‘The Sorrows of the House of Hapseburg. Yesterday Prassia rejoiced over the recollec- tion of the victory of Sadowa, won on the 34 of July the previous year. How sadly ‘dif- ferent was the day for Austria! It was a day of cumulative and crushing sorrow, Jt was the anniversary of a great defeat on che field of battle—a defeat aggravated by ths loss ofa large and wealthy province. In serach ciroum- stances, and while mourning ber4des the un- timely deaths of a prince andy con- nected with the imperial far hy, ww awfully crushing must have been tge intelligence of Maximilian’s unhappy ,éndt July 3 will henceforth be a dark deg on the recods of the House of Hapsburg. = om, a, a enanilioieneitim eee The Surrate Triat-Fra™ "4 Important Testimony. 4 As the Surratt trial advances the ‘stimony of witnesses for the prosecution seems tv’ grow bd e cumulative and overwhelming. When th prisoner was firat brought back to Wasbingtou scarcely any proof of his presence during the last scenes of the tragedy that shocked the nation and the world had come to light, But now a crowd of witnesses press forward who swear unhesitatingly to having seen Surratt in Washington on the very day and almost at the very hour of the assassination of Presi- dent Lincoln, and in the vicinity of Washing- ton on the following morning. Their evidence, Published in yesterday’s Herat, aldsa new and startling feature to the history of this im- portant case. It is true that circumstantial evidence of this particular kind, relating to local presence at a precise but remote period of time, is often extremely doubtful. Yet, if unrefuted by very positive contradictory tes- timony on the part of the defence, the teati- mony of the witnesses examined on Wednesday must tell strongly against the prisoner. The Lact Kiek of the Rebellion. The failure of Vandenbrook Brothers, -the American bankers in Paris, gives the coup de grace to the malcontent Southern element abroad. Most of the stiff-backed rebels whe disdained to avail themselves of the clemency of our government will now be but too eager to profit by it, seeing that their means of exist- ence have been out off by the suspension of this firm. This is the second time that it has stopped payment within a period of ten years, Its Southern depositors are paying dearly for the confidence which a community of political sentiment induced them to place in it, Spilled Milk. It would have been better for the United States government, better for Maximilian, and better for humanity generally, if Seward had attended to our relations with Mexico, and sent @ qualified Minister to the Juarez government many months ago, instead of writing long let ters, which nobody reads, about Walrussia, swinging round the circle, making maudlin speeches, and making foolish replies to a polité invitation from the Admiral of the United States Navy. ‘ YACHTING IN IRELAND. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. No Race for Large Cutters at Quecantown. Quagnstown, Ireland, June 21, 1867, Nothing would sail yesterday at Queenstown against the Fiona, seventy-cight tons, E. Boutcher, owner, con- sequently there was no race for large cutters at the Royal Western Regatta of Ireland. Other matches were unimportant. DOMINION OF CANADA. special TELEGRAM TO THE HERALB. Progress ot Organ‘¢ation Under the Unies Act=The Now Minist“¥ Bot tm . Very Safo Position. Orrdwa, July 4.1867.) Preece Fat The Governor General did not toave ‘his morning, owing to the non-arrival of Mr, Kenny, who 4@ yet to ‘sworn inas@ member of the Privy Council, “\ The Hon, Mr. Howland, 0. B., left for Toron‘@ Tuesday eventng, taking with him the great seal of province of Ontario, General Stisted’s Lieutenant Governor, the form of the dedimus polestatem empowering the judges to the same, Mr. Howland will gen remain in hag ns about a week. We renmage d ; an Deceeanry a for swearing eral Doyle as sounet, Ceverner of etn wick, and Gonerai Sir W. F. Williams as Governor of Nova were st seit Alarm Among tho Settlers Beyoud Fort Yank~ ton—Organization of a Vigilance Committee a See oe St Lous, Mo., July 4, 1867, A despatch received from Omaha says:—a private let- tor from Fort Yankton states the settlers between thas post and Randall are in groat alarm; that over two hun- dred Indians were coming down the Missouri river, beng on mischief aad murder. Letters from Indian feave the country; that the Indians tureaton tadfoarteat” nate destruction on all eettiemonts above Yanktom. Some Indian stock stealers have been captured Pe Panoa ; Randall feared ‘as one of the principal causes of the origin and epread i 5 fyi i EH f 35 3? Fy tj F Epis i i sla i taf Fes p i i $ i bs j iH i > § i i | i sft Es 2 i 3 tt } ba] { ; }