The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1867, Page 4

/ 4 NEW YORK HERALD. | 2 :%e#, 1s Sewtes mass boer suspended by orders from Washington. Mayor Horton, of Mobile, whe wag. appointed -t bis office by Genoral Popo, was yesterday found guilty of a violation of the Civil Rights bill im having banished o negro from the city, 1 Coun erfeits on the New York Nationgl Bank of Com- merce ari irgulation tm Boston, {| The ejophant, Romeo killed his keeper, Wittiam Wil- | tiwtas, at Hatboro, Pa, om Wednesday, while tho latier was attending bim tp bis stabi, “ + ‘The Canadian Parliament witt probably adjourn to-day untit Mareb neck. . Frances Far:ivgton, alias Hattio Howard, who kiiled hersolf by taking polsou, om Tuursday, at her house in | Crosby élrees, confessed before her death that sne had ; a'sv poisoned ber fathiessJover, one Augustus ttrause, | who 13 at presont missing, ‘The trial of Margaret Walsh, alias Fanny Wright, for ‘be surder of officer MeChesney on the corner of Canal i jercer streets, in October Jast, was commenced in | the Court of General Sessions, before Recorder Hackett, | yesterday, Some testimony was taken, and the cae | wilt probably be fluished today, 4 , The fine steamship C. W. Lord, Captain Ward, now | loading im ©, H, Multory & Co.'s line, at pier No. 20 East river, will salt this afternoon for Gatvoston, Texas. The'steamsbip Mount Vernon will leave pier No. 28 North river at three P, M. to-day for Fisal and Vera BROADWAY AND STREET. JAMES GORDON 3ENNETT, PROPRIETOR. A!) business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New | Yors LifSRALy, Letters and packages shoald be properly sealed. Rej turned. ted communtcationg “wil! aot be re- doses No. 355 Volume XXXL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, DP: y.—Brace Crooz, Matinee ad opposite Now York Hotel. nee wh Ly. NEW YORK THFA Unpea Tum Gaston OLYMPIC adway.—& © Mipscumer | SiGur's Dasa bir Cruz WEARKE, Nos 45 and 4 Bowery. | “Tue ‘steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will GERMAN STA Du Pausis iavenaue Convention be requested to defing thoir pos!- | are glad to tion on the relief question.” Among the | is to latest proceedings of the Convention is a reso- | way lution requesting General Pope toremove the | to the four that Commodore Vi t accession to power asa rail- Ne obnoxious Governor Jenkins and to put a | lem, the.Hudson River, fhe Central and the certain Mr. Bullock in his place, a request | Brie—that great improvement of steel rails, which General Pope will probably find me which promises to diminish the number of quires a good deal of nice cOmsideration. | railway accidents. We trust that n0 means Under the spur of this new bill fm Congress, will henceforth be neglected to render them wo may expect, however, that these little side | imposssible. issues will be dropped, and that the Conven- tion will follow the example of Alabama in pushing through their new constitution. Ob, yes, “Tho work goes bravely on.” Mr. Cunard bas given “the Hub of tho Uni- verse” the “unkindest cut of Bll,” © Hfe has as~ serted—and, what is worse, be has Proved—that Bosion has not sufficient trade to freight a fort- nightly steamship for Liverpool. - After trying the oxperiment for more than twenty-five years, half of the time filling up tho holds‘@f his ships with stone ballast, be has decided that “it don’t pay,” and has deprived Boston of his steamers, Ruthless Cunard! Uuhappy 2os- ton! Who that has ever spont “steamer day” The Tenement House Tragedy. The verdict of the coroner's jury on the bodies of the nine persons suffocated during the late fire in Segond avenue places the charge « Mr, Cunard’s Withdrawal fremgthe ‘ub. | of arson upon the occupant of the bakery, Mr. Muller. ‘But itdoes more than this; it holds ‘to a certain amount of responsibility the owner of the tenement house in which these people met their death; for the jury pronounce him guilty of “culpable and criminal fiegligence” in not providing suitable ans of escape from the building, The chargé@of arson against Muller will no doubt be settled by indictment and trial in due course of law; but the case of Mr. Charles Hoffman, the proprietor of the building, who is beld under.e heavy bail to Wa Tux # ACK’S THEATRE, 2ADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Dona. woadway and Ith street, — F Mattries at Lg, FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—ba Jor Farr Pxux, &6, Matinee at 1-Tux Gaawy Ducurss. or BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtieth st-ec,—Ovx Metuay Prreno. NEW YORK circ: Yh strecl,—Grayastics, Eguestmianion, dc, i FIFTH AVENUE THYAT . Nos. 2 and @ West Sith street.—Yr Graxo QuEEN im. THEATRE COMIQUE, Sit: Broadway, —Warre, Corrox & Suaurier's Minstancs, Matinee at 2 RELLY & LFON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway,—Soxos, Dawoks, KCCRNTRICITIBS, BOKLESQUES, &O. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway. —"re'o- TIAN BNTSBIAINNENTS, SINGING, Danone ann BuRuasecas. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.Comic Vocattsm, NeGuo Minstxetsy, £0. Matines at 24. RUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE. 472 Broaéway.— Bauer, Fauce, Vasromuis, dc, Matinee at 2}. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteeuth street.—Trx Picuim, DODWORTH HAL 8% Broadway. —Canicaroue Paisi- ings, wira Leorgre, nee ut 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—[nom Masn-—-Vrrenas | od | leave pier Na, 3 North river at three P.M. to-day for ' Chartes on, ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Government securities were siroug, Goid was sicady and closed at 128%. The markets wero genoraily quiet, but prices of j almost all articlos were without change, Cotton was less active and heavy. Coffee was dull and nominal. | Ow Change flour,; wheat aud corn ‘were quiet, but | steadily held, while oata wore easier, Pork closed { lower, Beef and tard were unchanged. Naval stores | were freely doult in. Petroleum was moderately active aud heavy. Freights wore dalland depressed. Wool was | in aotive demand and some, grades wore a trflo highor. ‘Tho receipts of swine yesterday wero 4,000 head— -2,800 at Commumpad and 1,200 at fortieth stroot—sol!- ing at Tc, a 73g¢, per 1b, for common to prime. Progress of Southern Negro Heconstrac- ~ tien, ‘Tye passage of the new Reconstruction bill by the House of Representatives to facilitate the work and burry up into Congress the ten outside rebel States on the basis of negro supremacy and @ Southern negro radical balance of power, naturally attracts our atten- tion to the progress of this business in the five Southern Military Districts. in that delightfu) village can forget. the exciie- await the action of the G yd Jury, is one ment occasioned by the departure of “the | upon which depends a very iinportant question, steamer?” Merchants would hardly return a | namely, whether the law regulating the constrac- friendly salutation ip the stréet; they “had | tion of tenement houses can be violated with letters to writs—it was steamer @ay!” People | impunity. This is a matter in which tho whole who met each other inquired, “Are you going | Community is interested. It is not only the to sve the stoamor off?’ As the hour for her | Possibility of such a tragedy being repeated, departure approached .traders left what little | such as that which we have receatly witnessed business they had, gave their clerks a half in Second avenue, which is to be considered— holiday, and with them swelled the throng | although that is horrible enough—but whether that crowded the wharves to witness the event. | these scenes-are to be reproduced periodically “The” hackney coach of the city was in de-| throngh the indifference of landlords. to the mand from early dawa, conveying passengers | Obligations which the law imposes upon them, -| 60 and ‘from East Boston. Peopleeven climbed | #nd whether there is no regard to be paid to to the crosstrees of the bailast lighters which | the sanitary condition of the city, which is iu had just completed their régular task of fur- | Perpetual danger from mal-construction of tene- nishing geological freight for the Cunarder | meat houses. The verdict in this case presents that they might caich » glimpse of ber when | #” opportunity to bring ‘these questions to an she was bull down to less fortunate spectators, | issue, and we hope it will not be lost. The Half of the Custom House officers were de- | ase now lies with the District Attorney and tailed for the special duty of seeing her off, |the Grand Jury. The public will of course And scarcely had the long trail of smoke from | look to them for the complete fulfilment of her funnels been blended with the lower strata | their duty. ‘ of the clouds when the newspaper. issued Dlexice and the Earepenn Powers. The Alabama Reconstruction Convention has framed a constitution on the basis of negro equality and adjourned. The results of tho recent elections for a convention in each of RROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Litrie Bane: Foor. IRVING HALE, Irving Pisce Rano Coxcent. “extras” announcing the momentous fact that the steamer had sailed! Alas! their “occu- pation’s gone!” Stone ballast has fallen twenty-five per cent. The hackney coachman The newly reconstructed republic of Mexico, which has so long withstood the shocks of ‘the great European Powers, is now established on ‘a trnly outlaw basis. It is completely ignored LIGHTH AVENUE OPER. stroet.—Minsreeisr, Paw HOOLEY'S OPERA HO Movereeisr, Baciaps ano Bs HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth Brookiya,—Eratorias ka NEW YORK MUSEUM 01 " ATOMY, 618 Broadway. — SCiRNCK AND ART. ‘ New York, wday, December 21, 1867. the States of Florida, South Carolina, Missis- sippi and Arkansas have not yet been fully reported, although we presume they will turn out to comprehend a majority in each case voting of all the registered voters, a very large | majority of the votes cast for a convention, and @ large majority of radicals, whites and loses half of his revenue; the newspapers by the nations of Europe, all of which bave issue no more “extras,” and Boston, shorn of | withdrawn their ambassadors from its shofes, her steamgra, turns her face to the wall and | There is, however, no immediate fear of foreign ‘Weeps. yar intervention in its affairs; and all the power But there will be 9 change in her mood— | and’ influence of the’ French Emperor, the from sorrow to wrath, from speechless woe to | Kajser or the Czar can scarcely succeed in loud-mouthed invective, ‘Lot Cunard beware! | getting up another expedition against the re- THs NAIW s. | blacks, as delegates, as in Virginia, Georgia, EUROPE. The news report by tho Atlantic cadle is dated to mid- night yesterday, December 20. The British Cabinet wiil, i is eaid, propose to Parlia- ment to suspend the habeas corpus im Engiand us a means of securing summary punishment to the Fenians, Tho Fenian alarm continued, Troops were forwarded by special t from London to Portsmouth, Addi onal guards were placed in all the prisons, the London warehouses wero under clogo watch and special constabies were being sworn in in the city, Two mop, Desmond and Allen, are charged by a coroner's jury with murder, in having caused the Cierkenwell explosion. Arrests of four alleged Fenians wero made in London, A great tire was raging in Newcastie-on-Tyne. * A biil for the reorganization of the French army was before the legislauve body, It ms advocated on the ground of the situation existing in Germany and ‘ihe revolutionary aspect”? in aly, Tho national debt of Austria has been equalized between the provinces and Hungary. Napoleon proposed a plan of customs union ‘with Franco to Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Bel. gium decined on account of ber aitianc:, tititary and commercial, with Prassts. Consols closed at 9244, for money, in London, Five- | twenties wero at 721 16 in London, and 76% in Frank- fort, Rentes improved on the Paris Bourse. The Duition in the Bank of France increased 8,700,000 francs ‘no the week. The Liverpool cotton market was easier, middling up- lands closing ab 744.» Breadsiuffs aad provisions without devided ch »nge. : Our European files by the Africa furnish mall details of our cable dospaiches to the Tth of Devember. CONGRE3s. In the Senate yesterday a resolution suspending ‘the | erection of @ Jail in the District, on the ground thatthe, | contract had beon obtained fraudulently, was adoptod. The bill to repeal the cotton tax was called up as un- | Alobama and Louisiana. The Virginia Reconstruction Convention is getting under way, and Senator Wilson, who has lately been down to Richmond, has doubtless given the managers some wholesome advice against such violent fanatical fellows as Hunnicutt At all events, the Convention seems disposed to proceed cautiously and carefully to business, Meantime, the Virginia white conservatives have just closed in Rich- rebel General Imboden stated that on the question of his right to the ballot box he had sccnred a writ of mandamus from the United States Circuit Court, which he had served upon General Schofield, who had asked s month in which to form his opinion on the subject. General Imboden, however, had no idea that in pushing this question of suffrage in bis case to the Supreme Court, of, the United States a decision would 0 aecured declaring the law of Congress unconstitational.. This Conserva- tive Convention -has organized « system of ection on the basis of the abolition of slavery and s white man’s government, and as the whites have a registered majority of voters in Virginia, the main object in view is doubtless & general turnout when the timeeomes to vote down the constitution expected from General | Schofield’s radiedl Reconstraction Convention. Among the latest proceedings of this body was a resolution from Mr. Hughes (black delo- gate) for the appointment of a committee to inquire into and report what should be done Aulshed business. Considerable debate ensued and the bil was dnally laid over. After some further uniruport- ant business the Senate adjourned until January 6. In the Howse the motion to reconsider the vote rela- » tive to @ forfeiture of certain railroad grants in ane | South was called up, ot action on it was postponed | until January 14, During debate upon it Mr, Biller dis. claimed being the hero of New Orieang but claimed to | be the hero of New York in 1864. Tne Senate ameud- mente to the Deficiency bill for Congressional expenses were then iaken up, and most of them, including the one providing that members shall not be entitled to stationery or commutation therefor, were concurred in, After some {urther va.mportant busines: the House ad- | sourned (@ January 6 | MISCELLANEOUS. { with disloyal landholders who réfused to em- ploy radical negroes, and who attempted to in- timidate them in voting, which was discussed and referred. Absurd as this resolution’ may | appear in regard to the question of empley- ment, it involves a difficulty between white londholders and late slavebolders on the one hand, and black laborers and. emancipated slaves on the other, which wears a very threat- ening aspect. That this difficulty ean be sot- tled on the basis of negro supremacy in the Stete government of Virginia, or any other Southern State, no sane observer of passing News from Panama to tho 12th inst. is received by the } events can believe. Cate cable, as woll as advices of a late date from Pera and Chile. The Supreme Court judges ‘a Boguti, wore saxpected of complicity in Mosquera’s treasoa, but the Senate had acquitted them, Mosquora's Mimisters were aiso nequitted. Prado, the President of Peru, had gained another vietory over the rebels, and bad surrounded Arequipa, ii morning detalis of (he ipeurreciion in Yucaiaa, Mexico, The Governor was co: od to fee but no viood was spilled. A noisy domousiratioa was made ip front of the American Copsalate. Further insetligence from tue seat of war in Paraguay, urot#hed by Atlantic cable from Varia, states toat after ine iate vietory of the Paraguayans vive vauquished atlivs ‘arned upon and badly defeated them. The Simte Constitutional Convection adjourned yester- tay to meet at Albany, instead of Troy, on the ita of january, Eugene Casserly, a democrat, was elevted United ‘Siatee Seontor by the California Legislature youerday, ‘o succeed Joba Conness. in the Louisiana vention yesterday & resolution #as referred repealing a former reeotution for the issue 2{ $300,000 ia bowds, as ithe party who were reporied ready W take thom had reiracted. It is reported thas @embors’ warrants Were pol Begotiabie at any price among the brokers, io the Georgia Convention yesterday an ordinanve was passed direct: ino State Treasurer to advance ‘orty tiovsend dollars to tue disbursing officer of the vonvention, ‘The Virginia Convention yesterday adjourned tilt January 2. A proposition asking Congress to rétain Hureas officers im the State In service unt! reconstruc. ston is compleied was defeated. Toe inquest upon the bodies of the victims o” the verrible railroad disaster at Angola was commenced at but yesterday, feverat of the wounded have «inc fied, and several mote of the charred bodies have beca recognined, Lieutenant General Job Marcher: 7 Oleaga bs tobe colieved by Marshal Julian Jean Pavia y Lacy a8 Cap. iain General of Porto Rico. - _ Statlevies of the revenue collected from distt!ied epirite Tue Cuba cadle also furnishes in our special telegrams | In the Louisiana Reconstruction Convention the ignorant and fanatical negro radical dele- gates xeem to be making considerable trouble. One of them, in a debate the other day—Crom- well by name, and Cromwell by nature on a small scale—declared himsolf ready for a war of races. “We don’t intend,” said he, “io git down on oar knees and beg for our rights,” but “we will rule till de last one ob us goes down forebber. Gentlemens, much is said of annudder rebellution. I say if we can’t git our rights on’ a full equality wid de whites, let it come—let de rebellation come.” | This belligeroat African, however, was quickly taken down by 4 sensible conservative darky, who argued that “three millions of blacks against thirty millions of whites left the blacks no other chance than dependence upon their white friends. A war of races was not to be thought of” “And 80 goes on the work of reconsiruc- tion ia Louisiana. General Hancock's recent | order, aubordinating the military to the civil authorities and the laws (and which has re- | sulted in bis nomination for the suebesvion by | President Johason), has evidently taken somo- | thing of the conceit out of the ultra radicals and given some hope to the conservatives of fair play. To get ril of him as &don as possi- | ble the radical convention will doubtless make | haste with the work before them anil get under the wing “Of Congross as a fall blown reconstructed State. i In the Georgia Convention en ordinance has | been adopted, which, it is understood, General Pope will enforce, in the abseuce of a stay law, to suepend all 1égal “proceedings in the collec- tion of private debts tnti! the Convention can mond an opposition Convention, at, which the |. Let England ebrink! Let the earth tremble ! There remains still that fierce remedy of all Boston woes and -wrongs—an indignation meeting in Faneuil Hall! It will be opened with a prayer by tho Rev. Mr. Stone, “ the best (but..one) ever addressed to a Boston audience.” Thon there will follow an elegy by Oliver Wendell Holmes and an oration by Robert C. Winthrop. or by ‘some other eloquent Athenian ; resolutions will be passed, ®& committee will be chosen to memorializ> Congress, and it will be unanimously voted that the proceedings of the meeting be gratui- fractory “greasers.” Whatever may be the effect of European enmity towards the Mexican republic, it is certain that the followers of Juarez must, for the future, look towards the United States as their best and only protector. We alt know how the struggle between those people and European monarchists would have ended were it not-for the- support of the United States. The outlawing system pursued by France, Spain, England, Austria and Prus- sia in regard to Mexico must, then, have the effect of drawing the republic in closer bonds towards her great. sister on the north, and of -tously | mocap ae vey ee ee blir instilling true American principles of self papersof “tho 7 wl of several. | relignce, and self-reapect the ‘Mexican. How ‘they: aro sustained He only knows who | mind. We can “only ork. io that beau- fed the prophet in the wilderness; and then | tify) country the day of revolutions and the meeting, like the Fortieth Congtoss, will | pronunciamientos is at an end, and gbat adjourn. peace and ‘prosperity will be its lot It is not impossible that the Bostonians may | for the fulure. It is only by such a desperately renew their oft-repoated threats to | courage o xican neighbors can elevate establish a steamship line-of their own. Once, | their pein agg yey ' we remember, they went so far as almost to | nations’ and entirely obliterate the stigms of carry their threats into execution. They actu- f endless revolutions, witcheries and ern- ally started © little steamer’ for ‘Liverpool. | ment that hassolong disgraced it. It'is strange, With a great flourish of trumpets it was an- | however, «in this European rebuke of the nounced that the Grand Trunk Railway and republican principles of Mexico, that England the Western road were to drain the Canadas is the only government that has absolutely and and the States and pour thoi affluence directly completely withdrawn ber legation, diplomatic through Boston to Europe. New York was to | archives and other rélations from Mexico. It be extinguished. On the occasion of the de- is €xpected, however, that the other nations of parture of the steamer Boston revelled in a Europe will follow the example of England, throe days’ jubilee ; schools were dismissed; | ang that Mexico will be an outcast from the “ancient and honorable” and sil the | the Old World. She will then have todpok to other military forces tarncd out; # proces- | her elder sister for protection, and if she does sion was formed in the Common ; Fanenil Hall not give up her constant system of rowdyism, resounded with speeches ; all Bosion—nay, all | revolution and guerilla warfare, her big sister Massachusetis—fiocked toythe wharf. But, | win have to take ber permanently under her strange to say, the ateamer never came back! | protection by annexation, Let Mexico, then, Tt-was eventually lost, we have heard, some- | romember that shé stands on her good behavior where on the Pacific coast, We know ‘not | with us and that we are responsible for her whether she got ont of her reckoning on het | conduct before the world. If she relapses into return and mistook Cape Hora for Cape Cod. | chaos and barbarism we shali have to inter- However this may have been, she failed to re- fere aud uinke her our thirty-seventh State. turn to Boston, and the Boston steamship project utterly failed. Negre Barbariam ta Hayti. We fear that the revival of « similar project _ finan steerer Se ene nase we at this time on the part of the Bostonians, and 0 their wrath against Mr. Cunard, will prove | murder of General Leon Montes,,in the dun- equally impotent, They must make up thelr | e00 at Cape Haytien, The original report minds to the distressing fact that they hnve | Was bad enough; bat, bad as it was, it left irrevocably lost the Canard steamers, But | in comparative ignorance don’t ery about it, Boston boys, Wipe your | the case. The details as wo eyes and mouchez-vous bien, like brave little fellows. You shall have a Grand Duchess brought to you at New Year’s; and won’t that be fanny enough to console you for the Joss of your Cunarders? Railway Accideuts. The shocking accident on Wednestay to the New York express train on the Lake Shore road, sear Angola—two cars thrown down an embankment fifty feet, one of the cars set on fire, and forty-eight or more passengers burned to deash—was at first ascribed to some defect in the rail or to frost. It has since been as- serted thas “the accident was occasioned by a segment of the tread of the wheel being broken; and the telegraphic reporter adds that “the disaster could not have been pre- vented by any human agency.” But can this be sof Is it possible that modern science ean have provided no means for preventing #0 fatal an accident? The fact is that it Is probably but one of the results necessarily to be dreaded from the gross carelessness which has so long prevailed in the construction of Americ#a railroads. fn making haste to be rich American rallway compasnies have been _of neglocting altmost a)! (he precautions abso- lntely exacted sad cnforced by, European governments. ‘The consequences whieh .we long ago predicted are beginning to be fenr- fally realized. The rails ate weating- out “npon Beatly @ll our railroads, "and @agh ter rible accidents as the latest one which it has show that {n 1683 che whole amount was $3,200,000, and | act further. That this will prove « popular | been our painful duty to not freien apse ggetianlamy shoe measure we catinot doubt, ftinsmuch ns before | surprise us. Mozeovor, the” bing 15,600,000 and Obto : " pene enics ficets bave gous to | 2 Organization of the Convention Mr. Camp- | “rings” of Wall street, who often id Rome to join the Papalarmy. Goneral Hancock bas reinstated enotber batch of bi who have aspirations for the p , moved “ that all gentlomen tsually regarded | are horrible in the extreme. Kept without food for tour days, dosed with poison, smoth- ered to the extent to which available strength could smother him, . he is only deprived of life at ‘last by repeated stabs in the skull with a chisel. . This, however, was not all. The | brother of the murdered man, who had in the mehntime been captured, was chained down to the bloody bed on which this deed of wicked: | ness bad been perpetrated. The only reliev- ing feature in this barbaric picture fs the an- nounced fact that the parents of the brothers Montes have weem driven to desperation. It is to be borne in mind that this barbarity has been accomplished by official command. What js the lesson? Do we requite to state it? Were it not for the special benefit of onr New England philanthropists we should be ashamed to doso. This is a specimen of negro civiliza- tion; this is what the negro can do when left to govern himself; this is an illustration, be- foreband of what is to be expected from negro supremacy in the South. A word to the wise is not lost, Even the unwise sometimes learn, | God sove the South from such masters { The First Gua for Mr. Chase. On Thursday evening last, at » caucus of the radical members of the Georgia Reconstraction Convention, it was resolved to support Chief: Justice Chavo for the Presidency. “All thé.) NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DMORMBER 21,’ 1867:, ‘The Protection of American Citizens Avroad. This question, which was gome time ago introduced into the House of Representatives, has been taken up in the Senate, and was subjected on Thursday to s spirited debate, in which Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, led off and other learned Senators patticipated. This is a sub- ject which bas evidently got to be settled, ang the tone of the Senate, following upon the action of the House, would indicate that the deaire of Congress ig to bring it to.a conciu- sion, Either an American has rights which ought to be recognized in a foreign country, or be has no rights at. all which entitle him to the protection of his’ flag, as the citizens of ali other countries are accorded. This is the point which Congress is apparently now considering, and upon which there appears to be very little difference of opinion; each Senator, in fact, vie~ ing with the other in earaestly supporting the view that our citizens abroad ought to be pro- tected, provided, of course, that they do not make themselves amenable to the law of any other country, and urging the opinioa that ne court in a foreign country, nor any decision from a foreign bench, is competent to settle the status of any man claiming to be an American citizen. That assumed right Sonator Sumner very emphatically denied in his speech, and he was supported by the other Senators. This will probably bo the point which Congress will have to settle during the present session. French Elections=A Warning trom the Bal- let Box. ‘ The confident tone in which the members of the opposition in the French Legislature utter their sarcastic argumen's against the policy of Napoleon towards Germany, Italy, Rome and Mexico, coupled with their frequent references during debate to the failure of the imperial diplomacy, afford evidence of their knowledge that the national sentimontis with them. Tae parliamentary strength of this emall yet for midable band lies not within the walls of the Assembly, but’out of doors—in the market Place, in the workshop, the cafés, the atresis, and at the domestic hearth, Tho’ speeches lately delivered by M. Jules Favre and his friends, as reported in the Herat, go far to sustain this argument, and ita complete verification is to be found ia the sweeping endorsement given to the party of the “reds” and democratic left at the polls during the elections which have just taken place in Lyons. At this great manufacturing centre the whole list, fourteen in number, of the democratic opposition candidates for the council genera! and the councils of arrondisse- ment, were the othor day elected by “enor mous’ majorities." The opposition vote was also inoreased—the editor of a demo- cratic journal which had been “warned” once or twice receiving 3,165 votes against 984 cast for the government candidate, The successful gentleman was returned for the same seat in August, bu} on thatocoasion he bad only 2,875 votes, . This election triumph, obtained at the very seat of industry in France, invigorates the oppo- sition vastly. Its accomplishment, with the comments made thereon, irritate the govern- ment just as much; for we learn by our cable telegrams that the Prefect of Police has since isaued an order instituting a more rigid cen- eorship of the Paris press... . Public feeling is moving rapidly in France, and, as in the United States, the first warning of its progress towardsa grand political revul- sion against impracticable theories has been given at the ballot box. Invoruation Wawrep—Ot one Edwin M. Stan- ton, Inte Seerotary: of Wer,-who; since the President’s explanation of his suspension, has not been heard of. From late declaration of Wendell Phillips, that he would not bet a six- pence on Stanton’s restoration, it is feared that he has gone to Alaska, Stoxs oF 4 Hin Warrer.—Metooric showers, volcanic efuptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, frozen rivers and foot of snow on the grouod given, We have previously noticed at length the read- Ing of these paris, and need only remark now thet the charecter of Little Paul nevor stood out so brightly and oo Mr, $ ge & t ¢ i fee} PAE ig t i z it tif and counte! fo extract bi ‘at last Sammy was before them, and bis sitter, we eng. to oy avail parts pf toe, bows, which, cerianiy” sowed Ghee the Seaetee ‘wore Settgnted with he Cuisrwune i Dick wo to-day to es of feedings, one of wich te. the Curitumes are on Christmas Eve, whem he returns to the city agma, to give his third serves of readings. ; ACADEMY OF MUSIC. The French Benevolent Seciety. The “Grand " entire grinning Benévoient Society. The house was fully ‘Crowded froma parquet to dome, not ameat being ‘The performance iasted till midnight and few seats bofore the Grand Duchess closed her Garter be- f | TELEGRAPHIC. NRWS FROM ALL PARTS OP THE WORLD, Earl Derby to Ask the Suspension of Habeas Corpus in England, - Belgium Declines a French Customs Union on Account of Her Prus- -sian Alliance. SOUTH AMERICA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Success of Prado in Peru-The Trials ef Mos- qucra’s Abettors. . Havana, Dee. 20, 1867. By the Spanish steamer Bargglona, Captain San Julian, we have uews from Panama to the 12th inst. t The steamer Payton had arrived at Panama from the West coast ports. President Prado had gained @ victory at Are- quipa, and the city was completely surrounded by his division on the west and General Bustamente's on the east. Prado demanded the surrender of the city within three days; if refused he would take decisive measures. . “ia The revolution iu the North had been checked. The Chilean Minister to Peru had asked to be relieved. ‘The corporation of Valparaiso had taken mcas- ures tohave more street railroads, Work was progressing rapidly. General Mosquera had arrived at Panama on the 7th, en route for Peru. General Estrada and @ body of one hundred men accompanied Lim. In Bogota the Supreme Court Judges were sus- pected of complicity in Mosquera’s treasons. The Senate, however, acquitted them. Congress had refused to accept General Acosta’s resignation of the provisional Presidency, and commuted Mos- quera’s banishment to three years, ministers General Gutierrez had gone to Boyaca, He had ‘prevailed on the Stat: Legislature to suspend the Superior Court Judge for eighteen months. The Cauca State ;overnment had been dis- banded by the nation: forces under Payaa. THE Pi SS TELEGRAM, Latest from Paraguny—A Second Engage- ment Leaves the Allies Lig gs Panis, Dec, 20—1 ‘The Montteur of this city pubiisfies this morning lator details of the recent battle on the Purandé, It seems, according to the Mimifeur, that Lopsz,.the Paraguayan. Ne , BOt onl the re- She Sriansaees & i agen ia thls. secon: engagement was very jeavy. MEXICO. Geveraor. , Havana, Dee. 20, 1867. We have details of the insurrection that. took place in Merida, the capital of Yucatan,on the 10th inst. é Some ex-imperialists of inflaence managed to arouse the people and the garrison to rise against the local authorities. The affair, however, was B bloodless one, although Governor Cepeda and his employés had to take flight to Campeche. The rebels proclaimed that they obeyed President Juarex, but objected to Cepeda... They mado noisy demonstrations in front of the American Consulate. of Colonel Rios is the new Governor and Villafans the new Conimandant. It was through. these men that order was finally restored. The British war steamer Niger, Commander Niger, thirty guns, was at Vers Cruz on the 15th inst. ; Lopes Uraga tas petitioned Congress to allowed to return to Mexico. ~ , The whereabouts of Marquezis unknown. * Augustin Iturbide denies any the empire. . Ploton Sanches, a republican, had been aasassi- nated. The circulation of imperial coin after September next is probibited. Diego, Alvarez and General Jimenez had been called to the capitai on public business. The resignations of the ministers had been ac- cepted.. Counterfeit cain was plenty in the capital. The American man-of-war Marblehead had arrived at Colon. m TORTOLA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Privation Among the lnhabitante—Peetileace ‘Threatened. . Havana, Dec. 20, 1867. Intelligence from Tortoia to the 13th inst. repre- sents that the people are suffering greater priva- tions than those of St. Thomas. The dead lie unburied, and a pestilence was threatened, which could only be averted by bura- ing the corpses. The inhabitants food. 2 liar nos ee TRINIDAD AND DEMERARA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE MERALD. ‘The Markets of Trinidad Giutted—Incurrec- ties in Demarnra. Havana, Dec. 20, 1967. Dates from Trinidad to the 23d alt. have been received. Justice Klox had returned. The markets were glutted with everything ex- cept codfish. The weather was fine. j Advices of the same date from Demarara state that an insurrection bad broken out im the inte- rior, but it was suppressed. Shipping was in de- mand. ‘ SURINAM. TELEGRAM TO THE WERALR Cooltes Expected from China. Havana, Dec. 20, 1967. Dates from Surinam to the 18th ult. report that three hundred coolies were expected there from China. ‘with are almost entirely without HAYTI. SPECIAL TELEGRAM. TO THE HERALD, Salnave Victorious ever the Caces=A Reign of Terror te the Republic—Opposition to Sal- aave tn the Congress, Havana, Dec. 20, 1867. ‘The news from Hayti is to the 4th inst, President Sainave bad repulsed the Cacos. manager rea eerie ‘was acting as President during Falnave’s ‘The black General Ulysses was causing genoral alarm by measures of conscription, © A reign of terror wils inaugurated, and the people were concealing themselves. © ~~ ‘The Piquets, rude savages from the intefior, had » The despotiam of Salnave causes much oppo sition in the eye 3 oe The British Consal had for protection,