The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 4SAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henao. Lotters and packages should be properly sealed. EUROPE. By special telegrams through the Atlantic cable dated fm London, Liverpool, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Berne, Rome and Lisbon on the 4th of July we learn that the national anniversary was gonerally observed ‘with joyous fé:es by our countrymen abroad. The news report by the cable is dated yesterday even- fing, July 5. Napoleon has suspended the fanctions of all the French consuls in Moxico on account of the execution of Maximilian, The Paris Moniteur has am article expres- ‘Bive of its detestation of the ‘murder’ of the ex-empe- ror. In the French Senate and legislative body the act bas boon denounced as a “crime against civilization.”’ ‘The suspension of diplomatic relations with Mexico is Boriously proposed in England, All the Courts of Europe are now in mourning for Maximilian, and all the Fronch festivities and sétes have been abandoned, Ldoyd Garrison bas been féted by his friends in Man- chester. A prominent American Fenian officer has boen @rrested in Cork, Ircland, The French government con- ©odes the right of laying a submarine cablo from Brest 0 the coast of the United States, Consols closed at 947/, for money, in London. Five- Ewentios were at 72%, in London and 77% in Frankfort. ‘Tho Liverpool cotton market closed with middiing up- lands at 1045 pence. Breadstufly were without material @bapge. Provisions improved, CONGRESS. In the Senate yestercay the greater part of the session ‘waa occupied in discussing @ resolution offered by Mr. Anthony that the’ business transacted during the Sdjourned session should be confined to removing obsta- eles in the way of reconstruction, which was finally adopted, and the Senate adjourned until Mondsy, In the House, the Speaker aunounced the new eom- mittee of nine on Reconstruction, with Mr. Stevens as chairman. The contesting Kentucky delegates were ad- mitted to seats on the floor, The rules were suspended and a vote of thanks were tendered General Sheridan for the able and faithful performance of his duties in Texas and Louisiana, and subsequently similar thanks Wore tendered to Ge: Is Sickles, Pope and Schofield. A protest from two of the Kentucky delegates was read and after some debate was referred to the Committee on Klcotions, Mr, Schenck offered resolutions that the fall of Maximilian and bis waurped authority was necessary to the . success of republican Principles, and eminently right and proper; but the House refused to suspend the rules and the resolutions were not received. The members boimg in a grateful mood, Mr. Noell, of Mo., offered & resolution of thanks to Miss Lucy Stone, and Mr. Schenck proposed a similar tribute to Petroteum V. Nasby and Attorney General Stanbery for their full ex- Porition of the policy of tho Prosident, but neither of thom were received. The House then adjourned uatil Monday. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Mexican empire appears to be crambling to ‘Pioces as rapidly as the Southern confederacy did when Ats backbone was finally broken, Vera Cruz capitulated on the 27th of June, the imperial garrison being per- mitted to withdraw with all honor, their colors flying and receiving a salute from their captors, Thoy were then placed on board national vesse! Mobile, where it was thought probal mustered out, A French corvetto Orieans yesterday with several Mexican refugees on board, bringing tho intelligence that Santa Apna was Shot at Sisal on the 25th ult We have files from the Bahamas, datod at Nassau, N. P., on the 29tb of Juna. The Bishop of the Protes- tant Kpixcopal Church was making a tour of visitation Of the islands, travelling im the English war vessel Cygnet, The weather at Nassau wes rail ‘accompanied by easterly and southeasterly ‘Thero were very few vessels in port, and busi was dull, The burricano of October last has caused the pine apple exports to be very limited this season. The Nassau Guardian says:—We learn from a correspondent at Mathew Town that fifty or sixty good boatmen and Iaborers could find employment at Inajua at remunera- tive wages. The counsel for the prosecution in the case of Sarratt wero unable to conclude their evidence yesterday. Young Thomas Lincoln, a son of the President, testitied that the prisoner looked hke a man who insisted on socing the President at City Point in March, 1865, on Business, but who was refused, The testimony through- Out was of thrilling interest, and was iaid before the jury io a style replete with the most telling dramatic effect. Th nce, it is stated, will pat forward Booth’s Rotter to the National Intelligencer as proof of the inno- cence of their client. Numerous murders, affrays and accidents occurred on the Fourth at the various points where the day was colebrated. A woman was killed by a drunken man ear Baltimore; a wife had her throat cut by ber hos. Dand ata picnic near Bordentown, N. J.; throe young men were seriously injured by the bursting of cannon a Concord, N. H.; and fires and other incidents too Bumerous to mention are reported from every direction Five cases of yellow fever have appeared at Galveston and two deaths bave occurred from black vomit. Kmipent jurists in New Orteans have forwarded « Joint opinion to President Johnson, urging that the insae of bonds for Levee repairs by Governor Flanders &s iNegal. It is nent out as a protest from ex Governor ‘Wells against the assumption of his office by Flanders. Ata dinner given by General Sheridan in New Orieaus, on the Fourth, the health of the President was drank in Bileace. Joseph Williams, a colored man, the murderer of John Reddick, another colored man, was hung yesterday at New Bronswick, N. J. The mode of execution differed gomewhat from the usual way. Instead of a drop hhrough @ trap, the condemned was suddenly heisted from the ground about two feet, by means of « pulley ‘and abeavy weight. He had an interview with Bridget Dorgan, the condemned murderess, on his way to the weaffold, urging on her to repent and bave faith. He ‘was fall of religious fervor to the moment of his stran- gulation. After he was dead the crowd rushed in and ‘ected most disgracefally, handling the corpse aud pase- ing bratal jokes upon it United States Marshal Marray, Colonel Wood, Chief of the Secret Service division of the Treasury Depart- ‘moat, and several deputy Marshals and subordinate de. tectives, have been indicted by the Grand Jury of Queens county for the alleged abduction and illegal ‘@rrost of Mr. Philip Stanley. ‘The National stoam Navigation Company's steamship Deawark, Captain Thompson, will leave pier 47 North Tivor at moon to-day for Liverpool, touching at Queens- town to land pascengers, &o. ‘The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steamship Teutonia, Captain Bardus, will sail from Hoboken at tweive M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails for the German States will close at the Post Office Gt balf-past ten o'clock A. M. The steamer William Penn, of the London and New ‘York steamsbip line, will leave pier No. 3 North river at twelve M. today, for London, calling at Brest, The steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will Jeave pier No. 3 North river for Chariston at three P.M. to-day. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday morning, put ‘Tather heavy im the afternoon. Government securities ‘Were buoyant, Gold closed at 188%. Mike Lovins and Pete Weaver wont through « “mill,” Pugilistically speaking, near Athens, N. Y., yesterday, for $300. Lovins was ground up by his opponent ia one jour and twenty odd minutes, after thirty rounds. ‘The death of Lararas W. Powell, of Kentucky, Ex- ‘Governor and formeriy United States Senator, ie an- mounced. Associate Justice Wayne of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington yesterday. ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1867. Grant and Farragut—The Democracy andthe Presidency. The engineers and organs of the Northern rump of the exploded national democratic party are all at sea, While there was the ghost of a chance for the ultimate success of President Johnson’s Southern policy they looked to the restoration of their old Southern balance of power. But the decisive interven- tion of Congress, with its stringent conditions of reconstruction, and the developments which have followed in the rebel States, bave scat- tered all these calculations to the winds. On the other hand, from rebel disfranchisements, negro suffrage snd other things, it appears that there isno organized opposition to the republican leagues in the South, and that with their financial means, their powerful miiitary machinery and active political managers, they hold to-day every one of the excluded States within their grasp. With Congress again in session to rectify the mistakes of President Johnson, we cannot doubt that the vantage ground in the South which the republicans have gained through his blundering Southern Policy, will be made secure against all pro- bable contingencies, and that accordingly these outside Southern States, in being restored to the general government will each and all come back radically revolutionized and in full communion with the republican party. In view of this decisive solution of the great problem of reconstruction, it mukes but little difference whether the outside States are restored to a voice in our national affairs be- fore or after the coming Presidential election. I: is enough that all calculations of regaining their old Southern political balance of power must be thrown out in any programme for the Presidential succession which the Northern democracy as a separate party may adopt. In this view, no doubt, a democratic journal “away down East,” the Portland Argus, in casting about for the chances against the radicals, hits upon the Presidential ticket of Grant and Far- ragut as the only democratic hope of salvation. It is thus suggested that “ if General Grant isa candidate for the Presidency, as we believe be will be, the party that nominates him must take him without pledges, other than these: that the best good of his whole county will be his chief aim, and the constitution of his coun- try his constant guide;”’ that, in short, he must “oceupy a position similar to that of General Taylor.” It is assumed, however, by this dis- tressed democratic plrilosopber of Maine, that if the radical wing of the republican camp can defeat the nomination of Grant they will do it, and that then, if nominated by the demo- crats, he will be elecied. Now, in response to this proposition we have to put this question :—Is it quite certain that even General Grant would be elected as the nominee ot the present Northern demo- cratic party, casting off his own record of the war and taking up that of the party represented by the Chicago “Peace-at-any-Prico” Con- vention. In 1865 General Slocum, a distin- guished Union soldier of the war, and on the same platform as his republican antagonist for Secretary of State of this Commonwealth, was beaten by some thirty thousand votes. And why? Simply because he was the candidate of the democratic party, which had become co obnoxious to the people of the North, from its opposition to the government and the Union cause, and from iis rebel sympathies and affilia- tions during the war, that no political can- didate, however meritorious as a Union civilian or soldier, could save it from popular conde:anation. Even General McClellan, in 1864 for the Presidency, a very popular Union soldier, was, after he had flatly repudiated the Chicago platform, rejected by the people because he was the Chicago democratic candi- date. : We are inclined to the opinion, therefore, that the popular odium which has fallen upon the Northern rump of tho old democratic party, in consequence of its obnoxious and dangerous line of conduct during the war, is too much for any candidate to bear against the war record of the republican party. Nor do we think that General Grant would accept a nomination for the Presidency as the candidate of the Northern peace party of the war. What then? It strikes us that the best course for the Northern democracy to pursne is to wait and watch the shaping of events. There will be a tremendous struggle in the repub- lican camp for the Convention of 1868, between the radical Chase faction, sup- porled by the national banks, and the re- publican conservatives supporting General Grant. The result, in all probability, will be a split of the republican party into two dis- tiuct parties for the succession. In this event the Northern democracy will hold the balance of power, and by casting their weight into the scale of the Grant, or anti-radical party, they will carry the election, The idea we are dri ing at is this—that in order to remove the Iabel of the Chicago-Vallandigham Conven- tion the democrats must take off their “old clo’,” and appear in eome new uniform, or as the allies of some new party, before they can expect to work out a political revolution. Old things being done away with, inclading the whole democratic fabric resting upon State rights, as expounded by Calhoun, and upon negro slaveryand the Dred Scott decision, and the unreconsiracted States being absolutely in the hands of the republican Congress now in session, there is no other way to success than that of reconstruction to the Northern de- mocracy, including a new organization, a new name, @ new outfit and a new departure. It is folly to suppose that Grant or Farragut will, if 0 nominated, consent to stand before the country as the whitewasher of that State rights democracy represented during the war for the Union by Jeff Davis in Richmond, by Jake Thompson in Canada, by Mason and Slidell in England and France, and by Valiandigbam at Chicago. 1 Comvention. This body has been in existence six weeks, ‘and bas not only done nothing, but its senti- ments src not known on the important topics with which it is to deal. We do not sce any promise that the work of the Convention will be the better done for this delay. The press bas spoken freely and has given the outline of reform. The Convention, if it heed these expros- sions, will deal mainly with reforms in State government, in municipal governments, and will provide « romedy against legislative corruption. It is expected to give the Governor an appointing power for all State officers such as the President has in the federal machinery ; that judges will have their places for life, whether appointed or elected; that in sity The Constitutio: ee governments the Mayor will be mado an efficient and responsible head, and that all future lezis- lation shall be general, thus shutting out those special laws that are the origin of legislative corruption. These points involve nearly all that is expected of the Convention, and it should have put these in proper shape weeks since, that the result of its labors might now bs be- fore the people. Let what is to be done be done at once, that the people may deliberate properly on the new constitution and be ready to. vote intelligently for or against it in the fall election. The Murder of Maximilian a Crime and a Political Blunder. . Some two days ago we indicated the fecling which the intelligence of Maximilian’s death was certain to create in Europe. Our cable news has since confirmed the accuracy of our predictions. The French and Austrian Courts have gone into mourning, and Great Britain has postponed the review which was to be held in Hyde Park, and which was intended to be the great sensation of tho season. Everywhere, so far as we know the facts, in- telligence of the fate of the unfortunate Prince has awakenod mingled feelings of grief and indignation. Wedo not wonder that such is the case; for after having looked at this Mexican business in every conceivable light, and having come to the examination of the question in a spirit hostile to neither party, and disposed to be justin our judgment to both, we can arrive at no other conclusion than that the execution of Maximilian was a crime and a great political blunder. In arriving at this conclusion we have not been forgetiul that the partisans of the now dominant pariy might plead, in justifi- cation of the course which has been fol- lowed, the laws and usoges of war. These latter have, happily or unhappily, never been associated in our mind wih ony high moral truth. The fault may have been ours, and not that of the laws and usages. Be this as it may, the laws and usages of war have never signified to our mind either more or less than this—the right claimed by the victorious and the strong to do as they would with the van- quished and the weak. Inasmuch as the victor has not always been just, and has often been cruel and even barbarous in the hour of so- called victory, we do not sce that the laws and usages of war at all relieve the barbarity in this caso. If, however, this ground is main- tained by those who would justify the execu- tion, it is to be borne ia mind by them and all others that there are other laws and other usages than those of wat—the laws and usages of civilized humanity—and that, tried before this tribunal, the execution of Maximilian must ever be denounced as a crime and a political blunder, If disposed to take other ground against the right thus claimed it would not be difficult to show, as indeed has been done in the pages of the Herary already, that even to this miser- able so-called right the party now nominally in power had not the shadow of a claim. But for the vilest treachery which ever disgraced the annals of war Maximilian might now have been the victor, and Juarez and his confed- erates entirely at his mercy. The victory was bought, not won. Maximilian fell into the hands of his enemics not because he was de- feated in fair and honorable fight, but because he was betrayed by another Judas for eo many pieces of silver. Ai the hands of men who could condescend {o secure advantage over an enemy by such vile and dishonorable means other than barbarous conduct was not to be expected. In executing the victim thus obtained Juarez and his party have no doubt been true to themselves, but they have at the same time deepened and broadened the con- viction that the party on whom the salvation of Mexico is said to depend are entitled to be spoken of in no higher termy than those of unprincipled scoundrels, or what, perhaps, is still nearer the truth, bloodthirsty barbarians, We have mentioned this treachery, however, chiefly for the purpose of showing that to the victor’s right they have not the shadow of aclaim. Mexico may yet be restored to order and civilization, but Mexican annals must remain permanently stained with the blood of a prince who meant his adopted country good, and who sought by honorable means to accom- plish his end. Blood now cries for veng. ance on Mexican soil, and Mexicans would have acted wisely if they had spared themselves this additional evil. Leaving all other questions for the present aside, there is another point of view in which this execution presents itself, and which well de- serves the attention of the Mexican people and of all who interest themselves in their welfare. Belore the execution they had the sympathy of the United States. Had they been generous to the unfortunate Prince, possession of whose person they so disgracefully obtained, they would have commanded the sympathy and even respect of Europe and the world. It was the one opportunity which for years they had enjoyed—perhaps the last which will ever be afforded them—to prove that they were not the cutthroat banditti which the world had, rightly or wrongly, come to consider them. They have lost their opportunity, and thinking men every- where are now fully convinced that the worst which has ever been said of Mexico is true. The New Committee on Reconstruction. The new Reconstruction Committee of the House of Representatives embraces the follow- ing membere:— ‘Thaddeus Stevens, of Pa, G. W. Boutwell, Mase, Chairman, J, A. Parns' , ., John A. Bingham, Ohio, F.C. Beaman, Mich T. © Halburd, N.'Y., B. E. Paine, Wie, acd F. A. Pike, Maine, Brooks, N.Y. All these are republicans except one, Mr. Brooks, of New York, and all the republicans are radicals, if we are not mistaken, except Mr. Bingham, of Obio. The Committee, in one respect, is admirably organized. We refer to the arrangement of “Old Thad” as the head, with “Jim Brooks” as the tail; for it is a bead and tail which wag along together very bar- moniously. The Surratt Trial. The trial of John H. Surratt increases in interest as it advances. On one or two points new light bas very unexpectedly been cast. It is becoming increasingly manifest that Surratt played « leading and highly prominent part through the entire conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of President Lincoln. That he was privy to the abduction scheme is clear, and that he was an active conspirator in the assassination plot is becoming less and less doubtful. The question as to the guilt or inno- cence of Surratt ia, after all, of but secondary importance to other questions which Surratt, perhaps, is the only man now living who can fally answer. Surratt had certain mysterious relations with Richmond. What were they? Surratt had equally mysterious relations with Canada. What were they? That he was in correspondence with conspirators in both those quarters is undeniable. Who were the con- spiratorst How many were thero? Were those conspirators privy to the abduction scheme only, or did they give their consent also to the assaasination plot? These are questions which it is desirable to have an- swered. Jobn H. Surratt can answer them if be will. “| The Honorable Jim Brooks in Three Parts. Tt is difficult to say whether the present Con gressional réle of the Hon. Jim Brooks has in it more of Mephistopheles, Marplot or Maw- worm. He plays each part by turns, and none to a satisfactory end. He groans with the unction of one, blunders with the artistic persistency of another, and has in him ail the sneering malignity of the third; yet Mephisto opens his mouth, not to be magnificently wit'y, but only to utter the cant and meanness of Mawworm, and practices his rare deceits, like Marplot, only on those whom he pretends to serve. He is the Mawworm of the constitu- tion; and that much abused instrument cannot be named in the House but he slips into canticles of broad-brimmed hypocrisy so pal- pable that the words whine even after they have travelled a thousand miles by telegraph. He isa very Mephistopheles, to the end, how- ever, in his championship of the excluded States; for there, under the guise of devotion and service, he inflicts the deepost possible injury; letting no occasion pass that can serve him to render even worse than it is the con- dition of the Southern people. He bogan that early, and was one of the most effective allies of old Thad Stevens in carrying through his savagely hostile programme. He is going on in the same line; for his sp2eches in Con- gress will do more than could bo done in any other way to keep out all but one man of the Kentucky representatives. Indeed, if his plan had been to secure the rejection of those members, he could not have done it so effuc- tively as he did in becoming their champion. But the Honorable Jim seems to have mide a discovery. He says, “We are in the midst of revolutionary times.” This is a strange declaration from bim. Have all his argaments ignoring the great fact of the war come to this? He has hitherto been a fit companion for the untediluvian who refused Noah’s invi- tation on the ground that “it wouldn’t be much of a shower.” His arguments as to the rights of the States in the constitution required that he should shut his eyes to the war and the revolution, and all that; and he did shat his eyes wonderfully, and kept them tighter than the eyes of ail the Seven Sleepers together for the full four years; and now, in a moment of forgetfulness, he declares we are “in revolu- tionary times,” and thus leaves his constitu- tional arguments not a foot to stand upon. | But we must assure him, on behalf of those who have been awake these four years, that we are not “in the midst of revolutionary times.” On the contrary, we are just at the close. The revolution has made its changes, and we are just entering upon a new era of order. We are where Romo was just before Augustus, where England was just before Cromwell, and where France was just before Napoleon established order with the strong hand of power ; we are at that point, but we have reached it by different steps, and we will come out of it ina different way. There is no fear that any strong man will seize power to establish order and tyranny with it; but the people, of their own free will, will nominate and choose an Executive in whose very name is concen- trated the military power of the nation, and who will put down the factions. That is where we ure; for the revolution inevitably culminates and closes in Grant, who will be put in his high and proper place by the voice of the people uttered at the polls, will serve his four years, and retiring then, will leave the nation established in a peace not to be broken for a century. It is not strange that poor Brooks should not understand this, just awakened and still drowsy as he is, and muddled in thought with all his queer asso- ciations, from Know-Nothing to copperhead. Indeed, it is not to be wondered at that ono who has had such odd affiliations should be a poor Marplot or Mephistopheles, since he must sometimes surely forget what queer arguments he is expected to urge. It is, however, time he kuew that his copperhead twaddlings can do no more harm—cannot eren move anger, but only contempt and pity. The Fall of Vora Craz—Execution of Santa Anna. By our telegraphic advices from Mobile and New Orleans it will be seen that Vera Cruz capitulated to the liberals on the 27th ult., just one week after the fall of the capital. The garrison marched out with the honors of war, and the foreign troops embarked on board French vessels of war. They have reached Mobile, where they are to be disbanded. The liberals are now in possession of all the great cities of Mexico. It is reported that the old Church leader, Santa Anna, was shot at Sisal on the 25th ult. Sustice tn Police Courts. On the Fourth one woman and one boy were instantly killed, one man was fataily wounded, and injuries of more or less severity were inflicted on a number of boys and girls, all by the careless use of firearms. Yet when the police did its share in the enforcement of the law inignded to prevent all this,what was the result? Three persona, arrested for using firearms in the street, were taken before Justice Hogan, and that illustrious legal light reprimanded and dismissed them. We have not heard that any one bas arrested Justice Hogan for inter- fering to prevent the enforcement of the law; but the public can see here one more good reason why judges should not owe their posi- tions to the votes of the law breakers they screen from justice. AFFRAY AND MURDER IN BALTIMORE, Battiwona, July 6, 1867, Avoman named Ruth Lengford was shot and killed on the Fourth om Liberty road, jaltimore, by a med John McCarty. The party had been caro ind a difficulty arose, during which McCarty did the ooting. MURDER OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE BRIG PRAIRIE ROSE AT SIERRA MORENA. PortLasp, Me, Jaly 5, 1867. A letter from the American Consul at dated June 26, cays Captain Rando; of the brig ire port ony Ye nek by’ his colored prenaghd of Sierra une Fas been arcestat put sant vo Segue, EUROPE. SpecialTelegramstothe Herald. A General Celebration of the Fourth of July. — All the Courts in Mourning for Maximilian. The Functions of all French Representatives in Mexico Suspended. England Excited and Likely to Break off Relations with Juarez. Arrest of a Prominent American Fenian. EY THE CABLE TO JULY 5. THE FOURTH OF JULY. THE DAY IN LONDON, GPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Grand Celebration in London nad Liverpeel. Queen's Horet, Loxpon, July 4—Evening. The Fourth of July was appropriately observed by the Americans resident in. this city and their friends to-day. There was a dinner given at the Langham Hotel, to which a select party was invited, and at whicha grand reception was given to the guests. Mr, Adams, United States Minister to the Court of England, was present and mado a very appro- priate and patriotic speech. The Mercantile Marine Dressed Ont. Liverroot, July 4, 1867. The Fourth of July was honored by the Ameri- can interests in this city in a spirited manner. All the American vessels in port and along the Mersey appeared in full dress trim at daylight, and kept the “Stars and Stripes,"’ with the English and other national coiors, displayed during the day. TOE DAY IN PARIS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. A Graud Banquet ia the French Capital. , Pants, July 4} 1867. As I have already telegraphed to you by the cable, the American public fele which was ar- ranged to take place at the Pré-Catalan, in the Bois de Bologne, to-day, in honor of the national anniversary, was adjourned on receipt of the news of Maximilian’s death. The day was celebrated, however, with @ bril- liant banquet given in the Grand Hotel. Two hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen were present, and everything passed off plea- santly. James Milliken, of Philadelphia, presided, THE DAY IN BERLIN. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. A Pubite Dinner. Bern, July 4, 1867. The Americans sojourning in the Prussian capi- tal observed the Fourth of July by meeting at the festive board and discussing a good dinner given in the Hotel de Rome. The Honorable T. 8. Pay presided. THE DAY IN VIENNA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Meeting and Dinner. Vienna, July 4, 1967. The Honorable Mr. Motley, ex-Minister of the United States to the Austrian Court, having left this city for Switzerland, General Post, United States Consul, presided at a fine Fourth of July dinner, at which the most harmonions feeling of patriotism prevailed. THE DAY IN BRUSSELS, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Brilliant Celebration tm the Belgian Capital. Brussars, July 4, 1867. The Fourth of July dinner in the Belgian capital was given at the house of the Honorable H. 8. Sanford, United States Minister to the King’s Court. The Minister's residence was illuminated in fine style, and several other houses decorated with American flags. THE DAY IN SWITZERLAND. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Berne, July 4, 1867. The United States Minister being absent from Berne, the Fourth of July banquet—a fine affair— ‘was given in the Schweizeahof Hotel, in Lucerne. THE DAY IN ROME. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. Ne Pablic Cetebration in Eternal City. Rome, Jaly 4, 1867. The Hon. Rufus W. King, United States Min- ister to the Pontifical States, being absent from Rome, there was no public celebration of the day ia the city. Americans of all classes met, however, in joy- ous, social groups. THE DAY IN LISBON. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. bration by the American Navy. Lisson, Jaly 4, 1867. Admiral Goldsboro, in command of the United States Mediterrar.ean squadron, having gone from this port to Cherbourg, France, with his flagship, the Fourth «f July was celebrated, and ir good style, by ‘the Commander, oficers gud erew of The | a) the United States steamer Swatata, which co+ mains here. j THE PRESS DESPATCHES. MAXIMILIAN’S DEATH. French Expression on the Execution~Suepens slow of Diplomatic Relations with the Ke- public. | Paass, July 5, 1867, ‘The Moniteur, to-day, hasan article expressing its de- testation of the “murder” of Maximilian. In the Senate and Corps Légisiatif, to-day, speeches ‘were made denouncing the execution as a crime agatast elvilization Orders have been sent out suspending from their functions ali the French Consuls im the Mexican re- All feativities in this city bave ceased, and all the pre- Perations for forthcoming fées have been abandoned, Out Of respect for the memory of the ill-fated Maxh. miliaa. i Esgland Likely to Suspend Relations With | Mexice. Lowvon, Juty 6, 1867. The recall of the British Legation from the city of Wexico and the suspension of diplomatic relations be- | tween Great Britain and the government of Mexico are | seriously proposed. All the Courte in Mourning. Lonvox, July 6—Evening. Alt the courts of Europe have adopted mourning fer | ‘the death of Maximilian. I LLOYD GARRISON’S DINNER. Another Fote By His Friends in Manchemer. Mancussrae, July 6, 1867. ‘The distinguished American, William Lloyd Garrison, was entertained to-day at a dinner given in his honor by bis friends aod admirers in this city, THE FENIANS. nt Rebel Ofticer. Dosxin, July 5, 1867. The Fonian leader, alleged to be General Halpin, fer~ merly Secretary of one of the Fenian organizations ta America, has been arrested in the streets of Cork, CABLE EXTENSION.§ Concession of a Frauco-American Lise. Panis, Jaly 5, 1887, # The French government bas granted a concession te the new Franco-American Telegraph Company, whieh Proposes to lay a submarine cable from Brest to come point on the American coast. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL ‘The London Money Market. Lonpox, July 6—Eveniog. Consols closed at 9474 for money. AMERICAN SECURITIES Closed at the following rates: | Arrest of a P: Five-twenty bonds.. Tinois Central Rail 1056 Erte Railway shares. oy ‘Tho Centine Frawxxont, July 6—Eveniog. wei States bonds closed at 77% for the imue oF The Liverpool Cotton Market. ! Liverroot, July 6—Kvening. The cotton market closed unchanged in tone or prices. ‘The following are'the last anthorized quotations:—Mid- dling uplands, 104d. ; middling Orleans, lid, The sates ] of the day foot up 10,000 bala, Liverpool! Breadstafls Market. a July 6—Evening. Barloy has advanced to 53. per ‘bs, Peas have ad- vanced to 39s. per quarter. Corn steady at 378, $d. for new mixed Western. Wheat—white California, 138, 9d. per cental. ata, 3s. 9d. per 45 Ibs, i Liverpool Provisions Market. Liverroot, July 6—Evenin, Beef closed @ shilling better; caine prime nies quoted at 1362 per bbi. Bacon bas advanced 6d. closed at 423. 64. for Cumberland cut miadies, Lard, 3d. lower; sales at 478. 64. for American. Liverpool Produce Market. Lrvgrroon, July 5—Evening. Rosin—common has dectined to 6s, ; fine Ameri- can at 12s. Spirits turpentine, 30s. Petroleum closed firm ai 9d. per gallon for spies, and 1s, 24, for refiued. ‘Tallow, 443, per cwt. London Markets. Lonpos, July 6—Evening. Sugar, 25s. 64. for Dutan stavacras Linsesd canen, £9 12s, 6d. Other articles unchanged. The weather is reported favorabie for crops, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Sovrmamrrox, July 5, 1867. The steamship America, Captain Meyer, from New York June 22, has arrived. THE ISSUE OF LOUISIANA BONDS, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Legal Decision of New Orleans Juriats Against the Issue .evee Bonds by Go: dere—Their jon Korwarded dout, New Orteans, July 5, 1867. 12 o’ Clock — Midnight, General Esty, who has been bere for some weeks and is a confidential agent of the President, leaves here this evening for Washington, taking with him an fmportant opinion from Judge Alexander, Walker, endorsed by a colloge of eminent jurists in New Orieans, in which it is held that aay igaue of State bonds by Acting Governor Flanders is illegal. he points of Ji Walker's op:nion are that in the acts of Congress the existing State governments are recognized as provisional and can- ‘not Upon strict interpretation of the Jaw be annulled, by special action of Congress; and, there- fore, the issue of bon: and cannot biad the people of Louisiana; and that as @ conseqence ex-Governor Wells is the ouly person invested with authority to issue State ‘fhe opinion 18 submitted as @ protest by the ex-Governor against the isene by Flaaders of four millions of State bonds authorized by the Legisiature, aad to be used for levee repairs, Urders were this evening expected at headquarters nuliifying General Sheridan’s removal of the Levee though at « late boar tue order had not SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO ‘The Governor General at Quebec—A Military Job. Orrawa, Ca, Jaly 5, 1867. The Gevernor General left the capital for Quebec this morning. Hon. Mr. Kenny arrived yesterday, and was eworn in the Rideau Hail as member of the Privy Coun- cli. The Council is now complete. Tt ie reported that 250,000 men of the militia ized and drilled, Thiy now comes into Mr. Carter's department. | The real, — t in to create Y 2 Sept forth Gotra St wnat Sage sa = to have @ foree to meet the Fenians, maintain order &c. The force is too for the pings wee too snail to cope with the Sata scheme is, there- fore, an extrava; it a irdity. The new Lieutonnt Governor, Sir N. F. Bellean, hae reached hie captial, Quepec, and bas already ‘aga |d-d@-camp Major Gongras, THE PRESS TELEGRAM. Another Fenian Senre. Tonoxto, July 4, 1867. ing unasual oecurred. on te Monrreat, cuts 6 9 Secretary of State for Canada, or the Home Paty wil also be Keeper of the Groat Seal, Rogigser of the Dominion, “uperintendent General of the Indian Department sod Superintendent of Ordoauce and Cy yet General McDongal! bas drawn up anew Mi- itis bil! adapted to meet the altered reiations of the provinces composing the confederation. It #))| be o0@ of the first measures jaid before the Parlizment, CAPSIZING OF A FISHING BOAT—FOUR MEN O’ROWNED. Cuevetann, Doty 5, 1867. A fishing boat belonging to St. Joseph, Michigan, cap~ sized, several miles rom shore, duriag tho gale on ‘Tuseday ev and four men were drowned, Their names havi en ascertained, YELLOW FEVER AT GAJ.VESTON. Naw Cnnmans, July 5, 1967. Five cases of yellow fever are reported at Galveston find two deaths from black vomit The Mayor hae ordered the immediate aod free use of disinfectants, No foara ‘are entertained of the disease becoming pig