The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Ail business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. HEATRE, Broadway and Ith street. WALLAC ‘Tus Hone BROADWAY ~Dora. FRENCH THEAT: street.—Tae Gnanp Dvourss. BOWERY THBATRE Curr—Cnitoaex Ix THs QERMAN STADT THEATE Damier, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Buacx Caos. NEW YORK THRATEE, opposite New York Hotel — Unose tux Gasiiaur, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—-& Nivscuwen Nigue’s Duran. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. pane, uurteeath street. —La Baya STEINWAY UALL.—Cuanies Dickess’ Reapinas. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth steee!,—Grasastics, Bauesraianism, Ao, FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Nos, 2 and @ Weet ath awveot.~Yu Grann Quen. B THEATRE COMIQUE, Broadway.—Wurre, Corrox & Smanecer’s Minstrecs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS Pian Corearaisaenrs, so, D. Broad way.—Prmo- 4 AND BUKLESQUAS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comc Vooatisa, NxaRo Minst es BUTLER'S AMERICAN THI Bacurr, Farce, Payromim BUNYAN HALL, Broad’ Puduie TRE, 472 Broadway.— and Fifteonth street.—Tax DOPWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Cantcaruee Patt mas, wire Lecture. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU: Minsrextsr, BALLADS AyD Bu! Brooklya,—Erwiortay cree NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Soimwox ano Agr. Now York, Monday, December (6, 1867. EUROPE. By apecia! telegram through the Allmutic cable, dated | fo Paris ov Saturday, we are informed that the Korman | Congress plan of Napoleon bas completely failed, the | groat Powors refusing to take port ia it, | Tho news report by che Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day oveniag, Docember 15, The Fenian loteuded funeral demonstrations were prevented by the authorities at all points of the United Kingdom. Extraordinary precautions were taken by | tho government in London and Liverpool, sx thousand regular troops being held under arms in the capital, The docks and armories of Liverpool were strictly guarded, ‘The Fen'ans, after an attempt to march in | Liverpool, obeyed the iaw quieily, * ‘The Europoan great Powers request that the Turkish government shail dectare the Dardanelles free to foreign shipping, The river Oder is {rozen. The British Bibie Society presented a copy of the sacred volume to Napo- leon, Italy is toctange her ambamsadore in Paris and London, ry.—-Heanr oF rue Guxar | \ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1867. large congregation assembled to consid:r the pro- ject of evangelizing the tract of country opened up by the Pacific Nailroad, Tho usual services were held in the Acadomy of Music, Brookiyn, Rev, J, Hyatt Swith preaching on the “Antiquity of Labor,’ Mrs Hanva Boone and her four children, the oldest aged thirteen, were found In thelr rom, at No. 29 Amity street, yesterday, suffering from tho effects of laudanum, | whict bad been admins by Mra, Boone herself, on account of her distressing ty. ‘They were taken to | Bellevue Hospital, and the physicians doepair of saving | their lives, Tho North American Steamship Companyy steamer Santiago de Cuba, Captain J, W, Smith, having boomie- tained by the sovere storm, will leave picr No, 29 North river at poon to-day (Monday) for California vie Panama Railroad, connecting at Panama with the now steamship | Oregonian, Captain Sutton, Viuanclal Tinkerin, ngrosg-The Morrill Bil. Mr. Morrill, the Senator from Vermont, hasa bill before Congress to resume specie payments after July, 1869, or, in other words, (0 compel the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem tho interest bearing legal tender notes and to pay the bondbolders in coin after that date. This bill provides also for the sate of gold in the | Treasury at that time, for which the govern- | ment is to recive paper in the shape of the three per cent interest compound notes. It | also requires the national boaks to redeem in coin their currency of five dollars and under, but permite them to redeem bills of a higher | donomination in greeabacks, ; The government is first to part with all | the gold in the Trersury, and then, after hav- | ing parted with it, is to redeem the legal ten- ders in coin, while the national banks are nol | required to pay in specie their notes over five dollars, Such is the confused and impracticable | legislation to which Congress is invited by tho | Vermont Senator. Tho mountains of his State | are not as green as is this scheme for reaching specie payments, <A bill to dry up the Missis- sippi or to stop the flow of Niagara would be quite as reasonable. It ought to be oalled a bill to bankrupt the Treasury, to add to the wealth of the bondholders at the expens> of the people, and to tura over to the national banks all the gold, while tt allows thesa favored institutions to circulate an irredecmable paper currency. It is an insidious measure for the special benefit of the national banks and the bondholders, from which both the government and the maas of the people will be the sufferers, Bat it is impracticable, and if Congress should be stupid enough to pass it—which, if we may | judge from the action of the Howse lately on | the currency question, it will not—the conse- quences may bo sorious, while the object will | not be reached. < The British Parliament tried to force apecio payments afler the wars with Napolgon by such measures as this, but had to undo what was done several times, From 1815 to 1821 save- ral efforis were made to force resumption, but the government had to abandon its purpose in consequence of the suffering produced aad diff- culties in the way, Finally, when resumption was forced, through the clamor of the bond- | holders and capitalists, which waa not fally reached, however, till 1823, the country was plunged into terrible financial revulsions and Failere of thy man Conference=The Situ- ation in Ttaly, By special telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated in Paria on Saturday evening, wo are informed that Nipoleon’s plan of a gene- ral Earopean conference on the subject of the L:alo-Roman and Papal temporalities questions has failed, the great Powers having finally refused to take part in the assemblage. The subject has been in a state of diplomatic ne- gotiation for somo timo, and Munich and Paria have been respectively named as the place ann the 9th of Decembor for the day of mee ing. Tho Intethgence of the comptets lure of the French tmpeifat sroposition, furnished by our special correspondent, is of a very im- portant character. Napoloon’s invitat‘on for the congress was addressed to all the Powors of Europe, great and emall, and the negative action of the great Powers wil not only hu- miliate the Emporor deoply, but reaffirm tho royal distinction of the value of government votes on subjects of gencral interest created by tho treaty of Vienna and maintained over since, _ ‘ The agitation on tho subject of Rome will, most likely, be renewed with greater inten- sily, particularly in France and Italy. In the I‘alian Chambers a strong debate has already taken place, the liberals agsailing the »ministers in the most merciless manner tor submitting as they had done to the dictates of Napoleon. A fresh vote, similar to that of 1861, diclaring Rome to be the natural capital of Ialy, was considered probable, Such a vote would amount to a vole of want of con- fidence, and might nocessitate a change of ministry. A change of ministry might bring back Ratazzi to power, and the return of Ratazzi, in present circamstances, could aearcely fail to bring Italy and France into open collision. A Franco-Italian war would be disastrous to Italy and to the govern- ment of Victor. Emanuel; but it might also be disastrous to France and to the govern- ment of Louis. Napoleon. Napoleon has no desire to go to war; but revolution in Italy, which is now by no means impro- bable, would drag him into war whetber he would or not; and a war between these two Powers on the Roman question would at least arouse the slumbering republicanism in both countries, if it did not prove the signal for @ general European conflagration. It is difficuls to see what good a@ congress could do, even if got together. The Italian government is in sore perplexity; so is the government of Louis Napoleon; and so far agit is possible, in present circumstances, to judge, the perplexity in both cases is likely to continue until events of themselves shape a solution of the difficulty. There are somo who aro of opinion that Napoleon really wishes to make an end of the Pope's temporal power, with the exception of “the Vatican and a garden ;” but the recent declaration of M. Rouber, and the consequent gratification of the Charch party, render this view: of the. case for the present untenable. It will be, perhaps, best and wisest for all the European Powers to acquiesce In the decision of the great onos appalling distress. Similar results will follow here if the same disastrous policy be pursued. If Mr. Morrill cannot be taught by such lessons of experience, it is to be hoped the majority The British army bas marched a good distance to- wards the interior of Abyssinia, but tho men satior from want of water. | MISCELLANEOUS, | cable and dangerous bill of that Senator. in Congress can, and will rejoct the impracti- Lot the circulation of the currency remain as it is, except to make it uniform, by aubstitu'‘ing legal Our special telegrams by the Cuba cable furnieh news from Venezuela, Curagoa and Haytt, The revolutionits | im Vonezucla were disbanding. Aschooner from St. | ‘Thomas bad arrived a Curagoa with arms and ammu- | nition, and it was thought probable that the partisans | of Baez meditated auother raid. Universal discontent | reigned in the capital of Hayti. Six millions of counter. foit Hayten dollars were in cifcalation, and Sainave was believed to have had a hand in placing them on tho market. Advices from Rio Janeiro furnished by Cable tele- | gram from Lisbon state that Paraguay had taken the | offensive in the war on the Parané, and in their first | attack bad carried the Brazilian camp by storm, with a | loss to the allies of four thousand killed, wounded and | prisoners, Our sorrespondence from Monterey, Mexico, is dated | November 21. feelings had been aroused be- tween the inhabitants of Tamaulipas and those of Nuovo Leon, owing to the appointment of « Nuevo Leon colonel! to command in Tamaulipas, An old feud | exists botween the two States and hostilities are apt to break out at any time, Ortega and Patoni are siiilin | confinement at Mcntcrey. Gonoral Ben Butler intends taking a tour throngh the tenders for national bank notes, and the coun- try will reach a specie basis gradually, without serious revulsions, Another absurd proposition mado by the financial tinkers is to raise another and a for- | eign loan to pay a portion of the debt—that is, to create one debt to pay another—to place ourselves still more at the mercy of British and other foreign capitalists, and to make a big job for some Jay Cooke, Robert J, Walker or other speculators, The British wisely kept as much of their debt as possible at home, so that the interest, when paid, should not leave the country; and Louis Napoleon, whon he raised large loan, was carefal to spread it among | the French people ; but onr sapient financiers want to moke us the debtors of foreigners, to bind us hand and foot, and to leave our finances and trade under foreign control. The | debtor nation, like the individual debtor, is alwaya more or leas at the mercy of the cred- South. Wardwell, of Richmond, has expressed himeeitas | jor, and the foreign creditor from year to year coady to receive him at the depot with a grand ovation participated in by four thousand negroes, Among the va- rious conjectures as to the object of bis visit, one is that party oy putting himself forward os the represen'a- tive of the nexroes and extremists, and thus, a» he thinks, indirect: he election of the democratic trokot and Grant's defeat. Severe distress among (he whites and negroes of the South, especially the latter, is anticipated during the winter, Tho freedmen are being discharged in large | numbers by their employers on account ef a scarcity of food and means, aod starvation in many Instances is actually at the doors of both whites and blacks ‘The new Canadian tari? proposes to place fifteen per cont duty on American silver. Gor or Humphreys, of Mistiseippi, has received such information relative to projected outbreaks among the jones are known end they cannot on and that if the black race believes the lands will be distributed among them they are greatly deceived, Commodore Boggs, of the steamer De Soto, reports that the main iajuries received by his vessel in the Iate Gusaster at “t, Thomas, comsisted in having her bottom in (wo places by being dashed against a wharf. Many of Stanton’s former frieads in the radical pert, since hearing bis testimony before the Impeachme Commmittes, have lost all interest in bis care to bave him reinstated. Soow fell in Richmond yesterday to the depth of six aches, The river iy almost and the canal completely trozen over. Hon. George Martin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died tn Cleveland yesterday. Noah J’, Smith, who is charged with the morder of a dopaty Nrovost Marsue! in Newton. Pa, in 1865 was arres- tod yesterday, having only retarned from a fight to for- @igh countries some monthe ago, A prin Sgbt took placs?near Chicago on Saturday morning between Edward Lowry and Jimmy Black for $400. On the thirty-second round Biack was beaten unttl he fell sonstiess in the rog and Lowry was awarded the piire. An engine of sn exprera train ran off the track at the top of Wilkésbarre Mountain, Pa, on Saturday, accideot had ovcurred ton rods forther on the train would io all probability have rolled down the mountain. ® The mille of the American Print Company at Fall River, Masa, were destroyed by fire yesterday, The loes is estimated at $1,600,000 aud five hu hands are tarot tof employment. In view of the extra interest attaching to Cuba and Porto Rico since their supposed sale to the United States, au account which we publish this morning of thoir physical character, climate, popwlation, commerce, revenue and strategic value will be found interesting. Tho usual clfurch services In this city and Brook. yao wore held yesterday, and wore generally well Intended, Rev. Dr. Waldron, of Philadelphia, preached at Christ charch on Fifth aveaue ie vee Madivon square Presbyterian church @ tends to make a permanent division ia the repub- | If the | | drains a nation in debt of the specie or money | which is the lifeblood of internal trade. Suppose, according to the theory of these | financiers who want a foreign loan, that the | whole of our debt could be sold or transferred | to Europe, we should have to send upwards of | a hundred ani twenty millions in gold abroad | every year the purchase money would soon be swallowed up asin 9 voriex, and after the first stimulat- ing effect passed away we should be left de- pendent and helpless. The government wants no loan, and, least of all,a foreiga one. As | the debt falls due, if there be not money enough in the Treasury to pay it, let Congress provide for changing one form of indebted- ness for another by the simple process of sub- | stitution. That is all which will be needed, | and we can dispense with foreign loan negoti- | ators or the assisiance of foreign capitalists, | so far as the United States Treasury is con- getting foreign capital, or the foreiga capital- | ints of using it here, let them apply it to the | hundreds of profitable enterprises in the coun- try—to the development of our vast unde- | veloped resources and to the creation of | wealth among us. In this way loans would be profitable both to the country and foreign capitalists ; but it would be better to keep the national debt at home among. our own people. Rather pay off the dobt as fast as possible than to create a new one, We are not among those who believe o national debt national blessing, and wo are quite sure it would be anything but that if held by foreigners, | Cuba and Porte Rico-What Doos tt All Mean? Our news from Havana published in yes- terday’s Henarp touching certain overtures from Spain for the cession of Cuba and Porto | Rico to the United States has created here an active discussion of the subject in all its bear- ings. In some quarters the intelligence is pro- nounced too good to be trae; tn others it is supposed that our Minister at Madrid, by instructions from Mr. Seward, has been pro- posing to Spain, instead of Spain proposing to him. We have givon the news as we received it; but we cannot undertake to pronounce it positively correct withows some oficial or semi official voughors, to pay the interest, The capital on | cerned. If these financiers are desirous of | and leave Napoleon to settle the question as best he may. ‘Wemen’s Rights at Steinway Hall. Last Saturday night thers was an amusing change in ths programme at Steluway Hall from the readings of Dickens. Women’s rights was the general theme. George Francis Train, the Omaha steam engine, opened with a apeech comprehending almost evorythiug- in tho heavens above, the earth beneath, and the waters under the earth, including Dickens and his tickets, buffalo bunting, the Western Indians, the Rothschilds, his travels with Mrs. Cady Stanton, the next Presidency, and his hostile relations with Horace Greeley. Mrs. Stanton followed on the main questions, women’s rights and the glory of Kansas, aa far as Kansas has gone in conceding women’s nights. Miss Susan B. Anthony next enter- tained the audience in thé same vein, and altogether the fun, the enthusiasm, the pathos, bathos and patriotism of the entertainment completely eclipsed the milk and water read- Ings of Dickens, Train, who is the chief engineer of this women’s rights campaign, all the way from Kansas, ought to give us another blast in Steinway Hall. Distress in Louisiana. Our special telegram of tho 14th inst. from New Orleans announces that terrible distress prevails throughout Louisiana, “Reports have been received at headquarters of three thousand whites and four thousand negroes at the point of starvation.” Those reports, we fear, are not exaggerated ; for we remember how destructive to the crops in that region | were the floods of last spring and early sum- mer, and subsequently the ravages of the army worm. What cotton was spared by the floods was ruined by the worm. Although we have uniformly opposed the encouragements to idleness and other abuses to which the ad- minigtration of the Freedmen’s Bureau is liable, wo see in this sad destitution of whites and blacks in Louisiana a clear and unques- | tionable case for prompt and Itberal relief on | the part of government, If the funds in the jon of tho Freedmen’s Bureay are in- sufficient for the purpose, let Congress make ample provision for it without delay. A Canadian Rising for the Pope. Woe have the news from Montreal that a reg- ular religious crusade is in progress there, so animated has the movement of volunteering for the Pope’s army in Rome become. These French Canadians, at least, remain true to their Church and to those ideas which brought over their ancestors under the guide of the Canadian Jesuit fathors two hundred years ago. But still, this enthusiasm among tlrese faithful Canadians at this time of day for the Popo’s army in Rome is something extraordinary, Mexican Reconstruction, Our latest news from Mexico represents that robberies continue to be frequent and organized bands of brigands to be numerous everywhere in that unhappy country. At Pataenaro tho diligences had beon robbed by soldiers—by the very class of men whose special duty it is to guard and defend travol- lers against violence. This news does not offer a very encouraging prospect of speedy, boalthy reorganization in Mexico. Tho Juarez it, however, ts busily arranging its diplomatic relations with foreign goveraments, Diplomatic agents are to be sent to the South American republics ; and it is said that Sefior Romero will return to Washington as Bavoy Extraordinary aad Minister Plonlpoteauary. A New Year's Gift to the United States. Soon a'ter New Yoar’s day the Danish West India islands, St Thomas and St. Johns, will be finally transferred to the United States by the Commissioners of King Christian, by virtue of our tale purchase. The bargain may bo regarded as complete, for—as will be seen from tho bateh of offici:l doouments which we pubiish to-day—although the native inhabi- tants havo the right of voting its ratification und:r @ manhood suffrago franohis>, there is littje deubt that the royal arrangoment will be acquiesced in, ag the entire population, par- ticularly of St, Thomas, favor it, wih the ex- = the English and French traders, ception u Ts iglond of St, Thomas who oppose it. is roally the key of tho “st Indios. It Ibis tho entropét of commerce petweda shis Continent end ail our trade south of Now Qr- leans, and its value to us as a great marilimo Power cannot be easily measured in dollars, The wonder is that it has boon allowed to slip into our hands so quietly without opposition or interference from tae Powors of Europe. Eng- land, especially, one would suppose, should have endeavore to prevent us from obtaining this Gibraltar of the West, But for some rea- son thero has been a great apathy in all the governments of Europe upon this subject. Is it that they are afraid to interfere with any of our bargains in real estate, or that they havo no Amoric.n policy and are bewildered by our progress? That we have obtained an im- portant acquisi'ion in seouring St Thomas there can be no doabt, as the letter of Vico Admiral Porte, published in these coiumns on Friday, very clearly shows, In case of war we command, from its bectling cliffs and fine harbor, a posit on impregnable; and as it lies in tho track of all the commerce passing through the Gulf woe can, if mneoessary, interrupt, lay toll upon, or utterly break up the traffic of any nation hostile to us in caso of war. Why England should have permited us to obtain it is, therefore, in this view, @ marvel. Lord Russell must have been asleep and Lord Stanley dreaming over his Reform bill when Mr. Seward consummated the bargain which has added to our possessions what he go ap'ly called one of “the outlying bulwarks of our commerce.” Having secured the control of this important key to.the Wvst Indies and our maritime in- terests in that direction, the next thing to be done is to purchase the Sandwich islands, which are, in fact, already andor the rule of American officials, and therefore any objec- tion to the bargain on the part of the natives could be easily overcome. Besides, the dowager Queen Emma is under many obliga- tions for courtesies extended to her by our most courteous Seoretary of Stato and the American people, at large, and we might therefore expect to find in her a powerful auxiliary. The value of these islands to us may be computed from the fact that the whole carrying trade of the Pacific, from China, Japan, Australia, and all the islands of the South Seas, finds a stopping place there. It is in the Sandwioh islands that steam vossels get their coal and sailing vessels of all nations their provisions, Without this point to touch upon they become waifs and strays upon the ocean. With tho Stars and Stripes floating from sundry forts and defences in the harbors of St. Thomas and the Sandwich islands what nation could compete with us in the naviga- tion of those seas? What nution, in timo of war, would not be dependent upon us for the freedom of her trade in the South Atlantic or the Pacifiot With such outlying bulwarks we could defy tho world. Therefore it is bad taste for any partisan journal to quarrel with Mr. Seward on party or personal grounds for his advocacy of a policy which so manifes:ly redounds to our interest as a maritime nation. In this policy, too, we seo the workings of a great change in history. In olden times if a Power found it necessary to acquire new terri- tory it seized it by conquest. Now we offer a fair price for it, and we generally get it. In the past rulers hurled thousands of soldiers against a foreign Powor and overran ils do- minions with fire and sword. It was with this appliance of force that they crushed rebellions within their own boundaries and subdued their neighbors, We have adopted a more modern, ifnot a sounder, philosophy. We ask how many millions it wiil cost to sustain a rebellious army, or how much is the price of a foreign territory, and we are ready to pay the money down and forthwith purchase what we desire. Alexander the Great never thought of this plan, nor Pyrrhus, nor Cyrus, nor Julius Cwsar, nor Richard the Lion-hearted of England, who might have bought the Holy Sepulchre from Saladin for a few pounds sterling if he only knew how to make the bargain, It was reserved for the advanced civilization of this age to obtain for a few millions ot dollars what other people had to purchase with oceans of blood and a vast squandering of “chivalry.” We shall accept gracefully the New Year's gift of the isiand of St. Taomas from the King of Denmark, and we will take all the cha: of earthquakes and tornadoes. Ina few years we gball know how to appreciate its value, and by that time we hope also to possess that othor “bulwark” in the Pacific, the Sandwich islands. General Grant for President. A Grant meeting is to be held at old Faneuil Hall on Wednesday evening of thin woek. The contagion “runs like the cholera,” and bas reached the heart of radical Massachu- setts, From tho Atlantic to the Pacific the name of Grant carries the day; for the re- publican legislative caucus at San Francisco on Saturday night last endorsed General Grant for the noxt Prosidency. By the 20th of May next these movements will probably de- termine tho action of the Republican National Convention, and the peculiar claims of Mr. Chase will be postpoued for more convenient season, Another Volcanic Eruption, Perhaps. It was reported the other day at Ha that the captain of a ship from Martinique had, in passing, seen a great fire on the island of Guadaloupe, aa if the town of Bassetorre were in flames. Perhaps it waa only another little volosnic craption through » fissure made by an oarthquake, Meantime, the inhabitants of Cuba, in all their churches, were giving thanks for the escape of thele Heaven-favored island from the late disastrous hurticanes over the southern section of the Gulf, To these fearful commotions among tho elements in the West Indies, perhaps, wo may attribute the rough beginning of the winter in these latitudes. Traly, we live in wonderful meg gad ia the midst of revolutionary perturbations In the material and moral and poutic:l world, which may well excite the gravest apprehensions, Latest from Hayti-A Specimen of Negro * Supremacy. A special telegram in yesterday's Henatp reports, as the latest news from Hayti, that “Goneral Loon Montes was killed by the jailor put over him by President Salnave. Hoe was first poisoned, and then despatched by » blow on the head from a bar, A brother of Montes, confined in the same dungeon with the General at Cape Haytien, was compelled to passively witness the scene of horror.” Many families have fled to Jamaica, terrified at the reign of barbarism in Haytii The complicity of Presi- dent Salnave in the brutal murder of Montes appears to be taken for granted. Salnave was condemned by contumacy a little more than thre® v6.63 ago to the penalty of death “for rebellion a4 adfnssination,” and it is thus that the asarasin of. Cengrai Phillipeau now takes his revenge, while struttog lie own brief hour of authority. His predecessor, Ceffrard, was too highly cultivated, too good, too mild and too nearly white (0 ayit tho tastes of ‘the vio- lent party in Hayti, A fuil blooded, cost: | black negro, Salnave seems to have the fero- cious ins'incts of his race in its savage state. He represents tho party of barbarism—the same party which the Ikmperor Soulouque re- presented when, after four presidencies of one year each, the latver “succeeded to the supreme power and established a black man’s govern- ment; but, unfortuna‘oly,” says even the radi- cal Redpath, “he represented the barbarism rather than the good qualities of the negro.” Redpath has aspired to write the history of Hayt!. He speaks of “tho brief and bloody reign of the Emperor Dessalines ;” he tells how the founder of Haytien nationality, who had become “a very cruel and remorseless despot,” fell dead beneath the daggers of a band of assassins, on: of them tne grandfather of ex- President Geffrard ; and he gives this portrait of General Joseph:—“A pure black, » man of great brutal force; of barbarous energy, with all bis instinots antagonistic to liberal ideas and a high civilization.” Let Redpath now add Salnave to bis list of monsters lifted to the surface of the seething caldron of Haylien revolution. King Theodore of Abyssivia bas been more merciful to his Brit:sh captives, who, according to news received in London on the 14th instant, are, happily, “alive and well.” And the King of Dahomey himself must be incapable of committing a more brutal murder than this of Montes, a helpless prisoner, is de- scribed to have been. Whata shocking speci- men it is of negro supremacy! The Clorkenwell Explosion—Tho Excitement ta Lendon. The police had reported on Satarday evon- ing last three persons killed and some forty persons badly injured by ths explosion at the walt of the Clerkenwe'l jail, London. The ex- amination of several individuals arrested at the time near the scene of the explosion, and of Burke and Casey, two of the Fenian pris- oners in the jail, had resulted in no discoveries as to the parties concerned ia this gunpowder plot. Colonel Kelly, the resoued Fenian from it was suspected by some had had a hand in it. The London newspapers, mean- time, had joined in « regular “hue and cry against the Fonians”—a course which will probably only serve to increase the general excitement and alarm and the flerce hostility awakened between the Fenians and the gov- ernment. These troubles wear an ugly and threatening aspect, and we fear that the worst is yet to come. Discovery of Extensive Black Conspiracies . ie the South. The surging elements of political and social strife now agitating the South are beginning to find an outlet in an almost boundless sea of troubles. We have already chronicled many acts of lawlessness committed by the blacks in defiance of the civil authorities in various parts of the Southern conntry, but they seem not to have been so unprovoked and alarming a6 those that have occarred in Mississippi. So threatening have matters become there that the Governor has felt called upon to issuo a proclamation, warning the blacks against com- mitting further outrages, and also cautioning them against following the seditious advice of emissaries, black or white, It appears, accord- ing to this proclamation, that conspiracies actually exist in Mississippi among the blacks to “go to wai” by January next, unless Con- gress arranges a plan of dividing and distrib- uting the farm lands, particulars of persons and places being furnished the Governor. In such an event, it is unnecessary to predict the fate that will befall the black race, not only in Mississippi, but throughout the South ; for the government will be obliged to interfere, as General Canby hag already, in regard to the Mississippi conspiracies, and the wrotohed Regtoés will perish by thousands. has time to take the back track, it reqgns tion policy, and whatever tims fs Wank be pfompily and energotically employed in restoring peace in the south and averting from the infatuated dupes and protegés of the radi- cals 8 doom that otherwise inevitably awaits them. ALONG THE HUDSON. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Late Eflecta of the Recent Cold Snap—Open- ing of a New Skating Kink at Poughkecep- sle—The New State Lunatic Asylum, Povadarsrair, Dec, 15, 1967. Tho entire length of tho Hudson river, from its source to tts mouth, is filled and choked with heavy ice, tho result of three days’ intense cold weather and snow storms. On Friday the steambost James W. Baldwin left Rondout for New York. She got out into the main ohaonel, when the ico shoo on her sem was crushed by the ice, whea she returned for repairs, intending to leave again yosterday, In tho meantime, the cold not having ataied in the least, cloved tho river at Rhinebeck, iaid an embargo on the ferryboat, and as @ consequence the Baldwin, with & heavy New York freight en board, iafrozenin, A derparch from Rhinebeck says that croes the fiver there on foot, aed that WASHINGTON. arp ne ~atwcTom, Deo, 15, Ww | 80 O'Clock be} General Butler's P Tour Through the South—His Intended Fia®® Movement residences ~ . intended trip through ier Bouthcreates quite a str among the republicans A good many ask what business can Butlor want in the south, the very place he ought to bo the tast man to visit, Others say he meditates giving cortain kind of im structions to the nogroca as to the mauner in which they should protect their newly acquired rights; in other words, he intends to tell them to fight for thom if im- perilied, It 1s expected this counsel will be immensely popalar with the colored folks. Wardwell, of Rich- mond, a joiat partner of Hunnioutt's in the work of radical propagandism among the darkios, said (his-even- {ug that he intends to receive General Butler at the depot with a procession of four thousand negroes, and make his visit a grand ovation. He anticipates the whole negro population of Richmond will turn out an@ make an imposing demonstration. Among other com- Jectures about the objoct of Butler's visit ia one to the effect that he intends to create a permanent division im the republican ranks by putting himself forward as the persvaification of the most extrome views of the negra poputation; views of such @ charactor that it woul@ be euicidat om the part of the republican party North to endorse them, especialy in Presidential campaign, Ry dividing tho radical into two camps @ democratic candidate for the Presi ilency would stand every chance of being elected. And ax €ome poopie say Bon Butler is indifferent which party Whos as long as General Grant ie defeated, there may be some ultimate object in this visi: t@ the South, The Question of Paying for Alaska and St. ‘Theman. The movement led off by Ben Butler looking to the dofeat of the appropriation of the mocessary sum to con eummate the Alaska purchase is meeting pe eam comment, and the same fecling is spreading in regar: to the purchase of St, Thomas, The reference of the Alaska matter to (he Forcign Committee of the House saved the country from the bu- miliating “spectacie of the lower branch of Congress, nuilitying the treaty-making power of the government by withholding the necessary appropria. tions, Although there appears no doubt of the succeed Of the governitent in obtaining the necessary funds, 16 ia the intention of the House go far to assort its priviler@ a8 to modify materially the independence ot the govera- mont in making treaties, The House persisting im itg domanda, the future treaties of the government ia which money forms feature wilt bridy tho tive and the Senate into complete subjection the lower branch of the Logisiature, and it then become necessary to ask the appropriations before negotiations could safely be entered into, The friends of both the Alaska and St, Thomas purchases im thotr anxiety now manifest a disposition to allow Doth to rest fore time until the House has recovered {vom the raging retrenchment fever. The Indian Bureau. Among the various subjects before the Indian Peace Commission that relating to the transfer of the Indias Bureau to the War Department meets with @ diversity of opinton which by no means insures such a transfer: The Commission is inclined, It 1s sald, to remove the Bureaa from the taterior and organize it as a bureau of the War Department, to be conducted on « plan similar to that of the Freedmen's Bureau. Genoral Har- ney was seat for to be consulted upon this question, and rumor hints that be will be the officer selected for ite command, In thele Jate meeting this matier was takea up for discussion and the commission was equally divided ag to the oxpedioncy of the measure, leaving Senstor Ben~ dorson, as tbe odd member, the casting vote, The set- toment of tho transfer therefore remains with Mr. Hea- derson. It is not known which side he will favor, though his policy as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs having uniformtiy been charac- terized by © desire to place the administration of the Indian tribes on «@ more officien’ footing, it is probable he will favor so much of the mesagement to be entrusted to the War Department an will Insure @ more vigorous and harmonious ection om the part of the government, when warlike operationvare Becessary to preserve the peace of the frontiers. Disposition ef Troepe ta North and Heuth Carolina. The War Departmont has received a copy of General Order No, 145, issued om the 6th instant by Majog General Canby, commanding the Seoond Military District, In view of the muster out of a large number of volun toor officers on duty in the Freedmen's Bureau, Generak Canby orders the following disposition of troope to ba made:— At the ware manding; at Ral N.C, tnd Companice Ay HE andy, Bight Companies A, B, E Eightt infantry; 0& NG, juarters and inj Fosters NA. Mitce commandiogt af Weak jor k $ N. Brovet Lieut i. Coy Ng oa D, Eighth infantry, Colonel R, T, Frank, commanding; Fort Macon, N. C. Compacies Band I, Fortieth infantry, Brevet Liouteaan’ Colonel C. B, Gask. ll, coromand: ‘Laurensvilie, 5.c, Companies G and I, Eighth infantry, Brevet Colonel J. R. Kdie commanding; Aiken, ~. C. mpanies H aad 1, Fifth cavalry, Brevet Major L, Watker commandi +3 Columbia, 8. ¢., Light batuery E, Third artillery, quarters, and Companies and H, Fifth artiiery and Companies (, H and K, Righth infautry, Brevet Brigadier Gooeral H, 8, Burton commanding, Pherencn, B.C, ast ae ete A, B, G, H, and K, Sixth infantry, and ae ong end F, infantry, Brevet Brigadier BB Clits commanding. 10 addition to the duties of Post Commanders, these officers are designated as Sab-Assisiant Commissionera of Freedmen’s affairs, to exercise all the functions of officers of the burcau except such as relate to the ad- ministration and control of the funds or property of | the bureau. The order gives thove officers full iastruc~ tions as to how they shall execcte their duties as ‘sud-ausistant commissioners, ‘The Coming Winter at the South—Seore Dise tress Amona the People. From several letters received here by a pritsisent republican Senator, it appears that the prospect for the winter befors the white and colored people in Alabama and Mississippi is terrible to contemplate, One tntelli- Gent planter estimatcs that there ie bardly ¢nough pre visions in the whole South to last over four montha He had himself siready given notice to one hundred of hie negro laborers that it would; be necessary for them to leave before Chrismas, as his supply of corn of providing longer for A aumber of planters’ bad served a similar motice on their hands, and the re- Amit ie that thousands of wegroes will be loft ina stary- ing condition very eoon. Bread riots are anticipated, od, and. possibly bloodshed. A planter in Alabama writés not one in « hundred of bis be in # position coutique bay age xi year, He siaies the utter raise revailp cannot be adequaisly com- csived. The present low price of cotton, the enhanced cout of tte cultivation, the impost tax of two and « bails per cent, and the high rate of interest charged om bor. rowed capital bave left fivé-sixths of the planters in Alabama, Misslasippi, Couisiena and Southern Georgia almost peuntios. But it meme the burden of the misery will fall om the an- fortunate negroes, unless the Freedmen's Bureau applies its large surplus fand to their relief. A wail ao comes up from Virginia, In the soutbern section of thes State destitution prevails among the farmers to om alarming extent, On the Peninsula, unless rolieved from some source, a good many negroes will periet through the wiater for want of food and clothing. The Case of Secretary Stanton, The case of Secretary Stanton will be taken up tor morrow by the Senate Committee on Military Affsira Hila restoration to the office of Secretary of War is now past all likelihood. A majority of tho radical members wore determined on bis reinstatement unt the appear ‘ance of the impeachmont tosiimény; but Onding that be expressed himself there as believing the Vreatdent: had beon faithfully performing bis duty im the establishment of provisional governments in the South, together with admitting ia many places that be acted in accordance with the President while leaving Congress under the impression that he opposed him at every step, his former friends in the radical party have lost sil interest in his case, and feel indifferent whether he w= consigned to oblivion or not, Work of the Whiskey Dentors? Commitice. ‘The epecial committee appointea by the convention of manufacturers and dealers in spirds are stilt in thie 5