The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES AMUSEMENTS TH(S EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A Mipsusxex Wienr’'s Dewan, Matinee at 13s. : WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway gud 190 sireat. — Livag Twist. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Larr Acpitr's Backer. Matinee at 13. | | FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteeath st.—Ux# CORNRILLE QUT Abar Das Noix, Matinee at 12—Tux Gaano Doogass. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow. Nosopr's Caitp=Tar rapow Pantomime —Rapy Karri | ~'S GARDEN, Broadway.Beacx Croos. Matinee | § STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 avd 47 Bowsry.— « Freunpr, 40. nF RK THEATRE, opposite New York Motel. Unvee ie Gasicar, Matinee ata, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Iraicema Tapas. STEINWAY HALL —Caantas Dictexs’ moda atl. Evening—Onatoxio or Daxixt. ANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. wheat Thittith sh—Oun Mvrcat Frugxp. Matinee at 2. | NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street,—Gruxastios, Bqvesraanisu, &c. Matinec at 254. FIFTN AVENUE THEATRE, Nos. 2 and 4 Wost oth @treet.—Ya Granp QueENn Bess. THEATRE COMIQUE, 516 Bro: @ Buanecer's Minstkeis, M KELLY & LEON S MIN , 72) Broadway.—Sonas, Dances, Eocentaicinies, B SQUES, &c. Matinee at 36. BAN FRANC Fux Exrexcaixusyrs, SING LS, 585 Broad way.—Erato- , DANCING AND BURLESQURS. TONY © 201 Bowers.—Comic Vocaniss, . Matinee at 23. BUTLER'S AMER! Baxter, Fancy, Panto: BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tae Piero. Matines at 2. EIGHTH AVENUE O Btreet.—Minsraxisy, Fanci A HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth HOOLEY'S OF Brooklyn,—Ernioriay Minsragisy, Barca: 3. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bos D AK Now York, Saturday, December 28. 1867. THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘Tho nows roport by the Atlantic cablo is dated yester- Gay evening, Decomber 27, } Letters chargod with an explosive material and ad- ressed to government officials in Ireland have been Aropped into the Dublin Post office in large numbers, Several of them exploded. A policeman who attempted to open one of the missives was mangled terribly, ‘There wore thirty thousand special constables on duty fn London, and the London Zimes speaks of the exist- nce of a “grave public danger.” General Menadrea is likely to dissolve the Italian Parliamont and appeal tothe people. Tho Popo inter dicted the payment of the Italian bonds by the Roths- childs in Paris, but the Moniteur announced that the abt would be discharged. The Council of the German Zollverein, North and South being represented, will assemble in session next March; The Prussians have commonced to evacuate Saxoay, The Austrian Cabinet Bas beon slightly reconstructod. Generat Napier has sailed from India to assume com- Mand of the British expedition tu Abyssinia, ‘The Sultan is reported to have concoded an offer of Government autonomy to the Cretans, 2 Consois closed at 925.0 92% for money and 92% for eccount in London, Five-twenties wore at 7234 in Yondon and 76% a 76% in Frankfort, The stock of bullion in the Banks of i and France increased in the week, that of the £ cl The Ltverpool cotton 1 jing uplands closing at Manchester aro unfavorable, Glined. Provisions and produce w Our special correspondence frem Europe and Abys- Binia, by mail telegrams and letter, published to-day, e@mbracos very important details of the situation in Eng- weSJand-and ou the Continent, as well as on the coast of Bastern Africa, at the latest date by steamship. MISCELLANEOUS. By special! telograms over the Caba cable we have ows from Mexico eity to the 17th inst. Juarez was to Dave boon inaugurated President on Sunday, the 22d inst, BMojia and Iglesias bad withdrawn from the | Cabinet, A committee bad been appointed by Congress fo investigato the aifuirs and relations of the English ‘company building the Vera Cruz and Mexico Railroad, fond it was thought probable tuat the concession to the fompany would fall through. Tho excitement among the foreign s in relation to te withdrawal of the British Lega continued. Senor Pablo Pryol, Minister of the Troasury in St, Domingo, has arrived in Havana on his way to Wash- ington, whore he goes a3 a special envoy of the Do- minican government to close negotiations in relation to the purchase of Samana. Dates from Mayoguez, Porto Rico, to tho 18th inst, * goport a continuation of the shocks of earthquake. Our special telegrams from St. Domingo via the Colm ndle report (hat martial law had been proclaimed, aud extraordinary powers conferred upon T’resident Carval, © Chambers were closed, The French approved, and the on or lease of Samana was unpopular, The Baez revolutionists wore till making progress in the northern part of the re- public. The committee of twenty-five appointed by the Grant meeting at Cooper Institute on the 4th inst. held a mest. tog on Thursday evening, Alex. T. Stotvart in the chair, A circular jotter was adopted to be sent to business men throughout the country, urging them to organize meete ings similar to the one at Cooper Institute, exclusive of Parties, forthe purpose of urging General Grant asa Candidate of the people of al! grades of politics for the next Presidency. Onr advices from the South look very much as Wf an actual war of racea was about to commence, In cer- tain counties of Virginia and other places throughout the South tho negroes bave inaugurated a porfect reign of terror by their daily avd nightly murders, arsous and alfrays, Tho whites, wnab!e to obtain protection from the civil courts or (ho military poets—the latter Deing fow and remote—have generally determined on their own line of defence, The failure of the negroes to Fecoive the nieed lands and males on ¢ Which some zealous white men bad conv! 4 they should Lave, has been one of the Incentives Oxbidiiion of this ferocious spirit on their part, The distillery of Boyle, Millar & Co,, ia Cincinnati, Gaid to bo the jargest producers of Bourbon whiskey in the country, was dostroyod by fire last might. The loss is $515,000, the 4 ry and its contents boing entirely Gestroyod, ax water had no elfect whatever on the fire, ‘The adjoining buildings were seriously damaged, and an Gasisiant chief enginoer of tho Fire Departmout had bis Bond injared by a falling wall, Chief Justice Stow; f Now Mexico, was shot and tpetantly killed by one Captain Ryerson, a member of the Territorial Senate, e Fe, on Sun Anstant, Tho cause of ray was corial femarks made by Ry oerson, which Slough insiantly de- mounced as lios The move among the conservatives in Alobama for Phe dofeat of the constitation proposed by the Recou- struction Convention is very general, and some radicals and radical cowspapers are repydiatiug the instrument Or suggesting modifications of 1s most objectionable Tontures. A telegraphic cable has-been Jali across St, Joba's fiver, Florida, “Th Quedeo Parliament commenced its frst session yy Featerday. Colonel Biaochett was eleciod Speaker of she Assembly, ‘The Louisiana Convention was busy up tea 'ate hour might considering o drat of tue new Cocatitation {itted by the committee, “veral Custar has publisbed = defence against the on which he was recently court-martialed and (tom his commana a Reapinas, after. for the assembling of 1ho South Carolina Convention. General Schofield bas removed the directors of the Eastero Lunatic Asylum of Virginia for alleged viola. tion of the State /aws in the disbursement of money, and bas appoicted army officers in their stead. A deputy sheriff in Hampton, Va, shot a negro on Christmas Day during an altercation, and, oh taking refuge in bis house was assailed bye large crowd of negroes, who beat him nearly to death and then lodged bim in jail, ‘Tho stock market was frm yesterday morning, but afterwards became irregular. Government securities Were strong and active, Geld closed at 134 in fair demand and @ trifle firmer at the elute, Coffee was doll but nominat while wheat was dull and Were a trifle more active, Wool wasin fair demand at former prices, Presidential Parties=The Hancock Move- ment and Its Tendencies. In revolutionary times all the plans and combinations of parties and_politicians are as liablo to be changed by passing events as broken glass by a single shake of the kaleido- scope. Thus, for an illustration, we see that the nomination of General Hanceck for the next Presidency on the Washington platform, by the independent National Johnson Oonven- tion in the White House, has wrought such a wonderful change among all the political eloments of the country in their relations to- wards each other that we can hardly entertain a doubt that it furnishes the true pattern of the coming Presidential contest. In the first place, we have, in this White House nomination, the withdrawal of Mr. Johnson in favor of General Hancock. This is a shrewd move of Mr. Johnson, He says to the hopeful democracy, “You have, since the death of my true friend, John Van Buren, turned your backs upon me, as you did upon honest John Tyler. You are casting about among your old copperhead leaders for a Presidential candidate—among the Seymours, the Pendletons, the Vallandighams, and others of your old Chicago failures of that stripe. These men have no faith in me, Jobnson, and I, Johnson, have none in them. I propose you ®@ compromise on General Hancock—a splen- did soldier, 2 gentleman and a scholar, and a statesman withal, who possesses more of ihe sterling qualities of George Washington than any man in the land of the living. What do you say?” The masses of the democracy re- spond, “Hancock is the ticket. Hancock is good. We will rally under the standard of Hancock.” But the old hidebound copper- head leaders of the democracy are thrown upon their beam ends, “Are we,” they ask, | “to be ruled out by this man Johnson? Is he, after all, to dictate our nominations? Are we to play socond fiddle to Johnson 2” They are puzzled and chapfallen. The scepire is taken from their hands. Mr. Johnson, with all his plundering and all his foolishness in his ma- nipulations of the demopracy, has bit the nail upon the head in his ultimatum of Hancock, and has shown himself, at least on the main issue, to be a wiser man than John Tyler, though not quite up to Tyler in other things. But the republican radical managers are as sorely perplexed as the copperhead chiefs with this Johnsonian bombshell. It is a shrewd presbription. It goes to their bones like the newly discovered Gettysburg mineral water, which, it is said, will straighten out the worst case of the bone rheumatism in six weeks. Hancock, however, though he went through the fire at Gettysburg, bas no need of the Get- tysburg water. He is sound. He has no bone rheamatism. The radicals know it, and they are afraid of him. They pretend to be won- derfully taken up with General Grant. “He is one of us, and is with us,” they say; but all the time they are planning and plotting to shove him out -and shelve him. But if they shelve Grantand take up Chase, where go the army and all the glory of the wart? They go to Hancock. So in nominating Hancock for the democracy Mr. Johnson nominates Grant for the republicans; and thus in this single move on the chessboard he blocks the game of both the copperhead and radical leaders, appoints the caudidate on both sides, anl shapes the fight for the succession. The New York republicans, under the wing of Mr. Chase, are nowhere. Tuey are fifty thou- sand short. Fenton is demolished, Grecley is all at sea, and as for Weed and Raymond, they have gone over to the bushwhackers. They scour, like Mosby or Carvajal, around the edges of the battle, looking out for the supply trains, We had feareg@ that with the death of rough Dean Richmond and the smooth and pol- ished John Van Buren, after: the failure of Haskin with Slocum, the New York demo- cracy had run to seed. They certainly did look very seedy a year ago; but nigger suffrage has given them a new start, and with Com- modore or Land Admiral Vanderbilt, with his four railroads well in hand, like a crack team on the Eighth avenue, and with Peter the Great, known as Bismarck Sweeny, in the places of Richmond and Van Buren, New York State and city, on a four-mile stretch, is as safe as Cam- den and Amboy—yoa, safe as Jersey. This brings us “swinging round the circle ” back again to the While House and Mr. Joln- son. Heisalucky man, this Jobnson, after all,ifmot a great man. The radicals have failed to impeach him, the copperheads have failed to catch him, and he has headed off both copperheads and radicals. Is thisa small mat- ter? Mr, Jobnson bas no doubt had enough of the rle of Jackson and his “By the Eternal, 1 amin the fight; and in going back to the Washing{on platform, with Hancock, he heads off both raticals and copperheads. He has been studying Tyler and Fillmore, and their game he finds a waste of powder. He takes a new departure. If it can’t be Johnson, bis suc- cessor shall be Hancock or Grant, and this is the battle now before us, Watehman, what do you see in the offing? Grant the republican ticket, in spite of himself and in spite of the radicals; Hancock the democratic champlon, in spite of the copper- heads, What else? Vicksburg and Frede- rickeburg, Gettysburg and Petersburg, Chatta- nooga and Appomattox, nigger euffrage, nig ger supremacy, white man’s government, green- backs, bonds, banks, taxés, Corrmptions, cop- perboade, condervatives, radicals, whites and niggers, reconstetiotion and ‘“fostofatlon, #- demption and repudiation s0 inexplicably mixed up that it looks like the first battle of Bull Rao, when McDowell thought he bad it The upshot of this negro business in the South, [tne the next three months, will, we doubt Oot, eettie the quegjom, Ny The markets were generally quiet, but previous Prices of almost all commodities were maintained. Cotton was corn and oats quiet but steady. Pork, beef 4 lard were unchanged. Naval stores and potroleam Were moderately dealt in and firmly held. Freights is the grouping of its various colored bite of Preepect Before Us. A wail of distress, deop and The pto A. comes up from the South. itive region of Ay g-oee country bes as poor as if ft had been strack with sterility. Industry bas been chrough the atro- clous legislation of a «dical Congress. Oa one hand starvation stares the people, boit white ead black, im the face, and on the other they live ia dread of a terrible internecize war between the races. Genorals Ord and ‘Bancock and other sagacious and conservative officers of the government in the South s20 what is coming, and they appeal to the authori- ties at Washington and to the people, throug the press, for belp. But where is help to come from? The North is suffering from the same cause, Fifty thousand work- men are out of employment in New York, and the samo deplorable state of things is seen generally throughout the NorthermStates. Winter has set in with a fearful prospect for the laboring poor. What, then, will the North be able to do for the South’ when widespread distress prevails at home? What can the gos- ernment do? With a burden of taxation unc- qualled in any country—a burden that bas become insupportable—the Northern people cannot support freedmen’s bureaus or other monstrous charitable institutions for the main- tenance of three or four millions of idle negroes and millions of impoverished whites in the South. The United States Treasury, so far from having money for such a purpose, must soon become bankrupt itself under radical rule. Looking at all these appalling signs of the times, it is evident that the whole country is on the eve of such a revulsion and such distress as it has never yet experienced. We said the cause of all this is found in the atrocious legislation of a radical Congress. Let us explain. When the war ended the in- dustry of the South was not destroyed, A vast dea) of properiy had been destroyed, itis true ; but the loss fell chiefly upon the Southerners themselves. Still, the rich and productive soil remained and the labor to cultivate it was there. The people accepted their changed situation as the natural result of the war, and were disposed everywhere to go to work ear- nestly to maintain themselves and to improve their fortunes. Grant, Sherman and all the other brave and large minded military com- manders granted liberal terms on the surren- der of the rebel armies, looking to an early restoration of harmony and good will. The President, though he made some mistakes in his trying position, favored the same policy. No one of sense and divested of strong proju- dice could help seeing that the welfare of the North, a3 well as of the South— of the whole country, in fact—depended upon a liberal policy and early restoration of the rebel States. But, unfortunately, we had a radical revolutionary Congroas—a body of men more senseless, destructive and impracti- cable than the Roundheads of England or the Jacobins of France. Having an overwhelm- ing majority in Congress, though elected on no such issue as that they have since made, they adopted a proscriptive and ruinous policy toward the South directly opposed to that of the generals of the army, the President and the people generally. Instead of restoring the South, with slavery abolished, they undertook to reconstruct it on the basis of negfo supre- macy. Their sole object was to Greate a radical political power in the South by means of the negro vote, which would give them a continued control of the government and the spoils of office. This, and this alone, was and is the motive of the so-called reconstruction policy of that party. They pretend to act upon absiract principles of right, just as the bloody-minded Jacobins ‘of France did; but we all know this is sheer humbug, and that their only object is political power. In a word, they would see the country plunged into anarchy and the greatest distress rather than abandon this selfish, infamous and ambitious object. They éven have the hardihood to pursue their destructive course after the peuple of: the North have pronounced against it at the polls, hoping to reach their ends by means of the votes of the semi-barbarous negroes. Now, lei us see what has been the result of this Jacobin radicalism. The Southern States, which used to contribute largely by their staple products to both our domestic and foreign trade, and which are still capable of contribut- ing largely, are ruined. The industry of the negroes has been destroyed through giving them political power, through false hopes of agrarianism having been instilled into them by radical demagogues, and through their natural disposition to indolence when not under the direction of the white race. The white people of the South are naturally so disgusted by these ignorant semi-savages being placed over them that they have no heart to do any- thing. They feel that there is no security for their labor or eapital, and that if they plant they may ugt reap, or that their stock and produce will te stolen by the negroes or appropriated to thom. Under this state of things there will be little planting next year, comparatively. The white people will raise little more than is necessary for a bare exist- ence, and that at the risk of this being stolen or taken from them. The Eastern States are over- stocked with manufactures and the West with produce, but their best market is cut off, Stagnation in trade and suspension of employ- ment consequently follow. The South can- not pay ils debts, and much less continue even ® portion of ite former profitable trade, The capital concentrated in the great com- mercial and moneyed centres, finding no employment in legitimate trade, is em- ployed in® stock gambling. Such is the actual condition of the country as brought about by radical legislation; but the prospect in the future is more gloomy still. Unhappily, the present radical Jacobin Con- gress will be jn power long enough before the voice of the people can be heard at the polls ty doa vast deal of mischief, and it is quite probable that before another election can take place tho country will bo planged into terrible distress and revulsion. We would be the last to create unnecessary alarm, but the sigas of the times are full of evil, and it is our duty to aay 80. Nioorr Ricuts 1 Wasniwoton.—Nigger coming round the corner runs against white man coming round the corner, and nigger per- coives that bis “civil rights” are interfered with, So he draws a revolver and kills the white mem By special mail telegrams dated at Aden, Arabia, and written correspondence from Zalla, Annesley bay, we have interesting re- ports of the march of the British expeditionary force for war from India to Abyssinia, with an account of the position, employment and pros- pects of the troops after having effected a landing on what they now regard as the hostile soil of Eastern Africa. Colonel Merewether, who commands the detachment of engineers which pioneers the way for tho army, advised that the original intention of debarking at Massowah should be abandoned and Annesley bay selected in its stead. This was adopted, and from the concentration of the Anglo-Indian army at the last named point the question of a British campaign against King Theodorus begins to assume an importance which the world has been slow to accord it, the general belief hitherto enter- tained being that Queen Victoria’s officers would not only release the white captives, but terminate 9 movement which would secure to her Majesty an open highway'to India imme- diately after their appearance. The advices which we publish to-day’ go to show that the vent, vidi, vict iden'ia not of easy enjoyment, however, in this instance ; for we find that about five thousand soldiers, British and Hindoo, encumbered by an immense equipage and a great number of followers, were scattered around the shore at Annesley bay in such a manner that King Theodorus could stampede the encampment at any mo- ment if he at all understood the strategy of our American-Indian warriors, The men were prospecting for water in every direction, and its want was sorely felt, Water had been found to some extent, but it was of such an unwholesome nature that as many as eight steam transports, hired ata heavy ‘cost, were detained off shore for the purpose of purifying it by condensation. These vessels were to have been employed in towing sailing trans- ports filled wich soldiers from Bombay, and their diversion to this new employment limited the English reinforcements and so delayed an advance in force into the mountain region, which flanks the desert country Into which the English army must penetrate before it reaches the King and his captives. In this situation our correspondent notices the appearance, far in from the British camp, of halfa dozen of French military men, who appeared, as he intimates, to be engaged in a mission which looked as if its object was more in the interests of the African ruler than of the British--aconjecture which may tura out to be correct, as the French have acquired a considerable interest, reli- gious andterritorial, in Abyssinia since the year 1659, when Captain de Russel negotiated with Agam Negusye, a rebel, against Theodorus, for the cession of the Bay of Adulis, the “key of Abyssinia,” with Valentia Island, situated at the entrance of the bay, to Framce—a piece of diplomacy for which Napoleon afterwards apologized in some shape to his royal African brother. Whatever can be accomplished by “pluck” and endurance the English will do in Abyssi- nia. It is prudent, however, not to underrate the difficulties of the expedition, bound round as it is by home red-tapeism and known only, as yet, to the British people by an addition to the Income tax impost. England has con- ducted many great wars, but it may be said with truth that she has never been fully pre- pared for any of them until after she had gained a victory or lost battle. Sir Arthur Wellesley had to begin again on the Penin- aula after the retroat of Sir John Moore, and although the British conquered at Inkerman they were not first in order for the Redan. By an Atlantic cable telegram received last night we learn that Licutenant General Sir Robert Napier, a gallant and hard working officer, has sailed from India to take-the chief command of the English army in Abyssinia. The British war against Theodorus bas com- menced in reality. Fentanism in tho British Empire and in the United States. From a cable despatch which we publish in this day’s Herap it will bo seen that, though Fenianism did not blow up the British isles on Christmas Day, the Fenians were not altogether idle. A species of infernal machine got up in the shape of a letter is the latest Fenian in- vention, Large numbers of these missives have been transmitted through the Post Office to prominent individuals. In ono case tho letter exploded in the hands of a policeman, horribly mangling his person, The entire country is filled with alarm, and the leading journals are calling upon the people every- where to imitate the example of London, which has sworn in thirty thousand special constables. Such a panic has not existed in England since the stirring times that preceded the passing of the first Reform bill. The Chartist excitement of a later date, in which Louis Napoleon figured as a special constable, is not to be mentioned in comparison.. Tha crisis is really serious—all the more serious that the enemy is unseen and that the mode of warfare adopted by the malcontents is as novel as it is barbarous, Fenianism is now, as an organization, in antagonism to law and order all over the three kingdoms, and it remains to be seen whether peaceful and law-abiding citizens or Fenianism shall gain the mastery. What renders the state of things all the more alarming is that Fenianism agi- tates Australia and the new Dominion nearly aa much as itdoos the mother country. How all this is to be got over it is not for us to say. John Bull must deliver himselfas best he can. It might not be unwise in the British people, both at home and in the colonies, to imitate the example sot them by the United States. We havo here in the midst of us no lack of the Fenian element. In New York city alone we have many thousands, Yet we have little trouble with them. Now and again they make @ grand demonstration in Jones’ Wood, where, in bifalutin speeches and some rough and tumble fights, the surplus steam islet off. This done they retire peacefully to their homes for asenson, We advise‘our English, Australian and Canadian friends, if they would avoid the dangor of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine and other explosive substances, to consider whether it is not possible for them to benefit by the example of Jones’ Wood. Tas New Exctsn Board.—The public should rejolog, ‘Mr. Mayor Hoffman and So buts who did not take Fort Fisher, some the | ducing 0 cot Aldermen declare their purpose to Uauer dealers to take ont a License trem charter. It matters not was abrogated by the lew that made the new Board. The Mayor and Aldermen merely mean to make cases and litigation. This will put large fees in the pockets of the ring law- yers. It will, moreover, run the taxes up well, and when they go to thirty millions people will open their eyes to the necessity of a remedy for municipal plundering. The Condition of Mexice. Mexico, pursuing the ordinary if not even tenor of her way, is in the full enjoyment of another revolution. Apparently, this revolu- tion fs @ very mushroom as regards the rapidity of its growth. Some one “pro- nounced” at Merids,in Yucatan, on the 10th instant. What he pronounced or why he pro- nounced it are facts of such small-moment that they do not appear. He may have disliked the way the Governor carried his cane or cut his beard. Perhaps bis beefsteak was spoiled. He was determined that there should be a change, and he “pronounced.” His pronun- ciation was acceptable to the people. They preferred it to law and order and peace. They prefer anything to law and ordor and peace in Mexico. ‘This. preference, therefore, docs not necessarily indicate: that the pronunciamiento was a prime article. It received, however, an “almost universal support,” and the Governor saw good reasons for sudden departure from his official residence. Now that seventeen days have elapsed, the revolution has possession of the State—holds the capital and the sea- ports—and has proclaimed a dictator, who is none other than Santa Anna, that veteran moth who has tempted fate in the flame of so many revolutionary candles. Santa, Anna is hourly expected to arrive “with men and a million dollars,” and put himself at the head of the movement. Perhaps, after all, it is the very revolution that he went to lead and that 80 unfortunately hung fire some months since. Santa Anna is expected, and while the Mexi- can Congress in Mexico city is hearing the congratulations of Juarez on the re-establish- ment of peace, the proper officials are prepar- ing at Vera Cruz a military expedition for the assertion of the authority of the republic in Yucatan. 3 It was falsely reported a short time since that there wasa revolution in Durango. There was none. It was a mere dispute. Don Tomas Borrego and Don Francisco Palatio wero candidates for the office of Gov- ernor. Of course they were both elected. This happens in republics. Palacio, by way of argument, then had Borrego dragged from his bed and put in jail—either because he was elected or because he was not. Borrego’s friends went to the jail and seem to have made some noise, and the jail guard, excited by such outrageous proceedings against the peace of society, opened fire, to the material damage of Borrego’s party, In Guanajuato also there were two candidates for Governor, one named Don Leon Gusman, the other Antillon, a geno- ral. One Don Encarnacion Serrano had the impudence to suffer a demonstration to be made in front of his house in favor of Gusman, whereupon General Antillon, that the freedom of opinion and elections might not be com- promised, forthwith incarcerated the said Serrano. It would be an outrage against the dignity and peace of the Mexican republic to argue that there is a revolution in the very State of Mexico, though it is no doubt true that within less than a hundred miles of the very edifice in which the Congress of the republic has just listened to the message of Juarez, which claimed much for Mexican humanity because the government had only taken half a hundred lives where it might have taken thousands—so near to the very high altar of authority forty men recently held the road all day and robbed every passenger, and have now repeated thisso often that travel and commerce in the district are given up. The disorders in the interior are like the “revolution” in Yucatan; in each case the distinctive fact is the same. Social order—the dominion of law—always implies an antece- dent dominion of force. In lands where order has reigned so long that men have grown up in the knowledge of ils advantages, moral force is gufficient to sustain tt ; but in all other lands, if not upheld by the etrong hand of power, it is toppled down by every breath ; any man’s fancied grievance, wickedness or whim may destroy it, and it is the accident of human rage. Mexico is in this condition. Authority is not strong enough anywhere to dominate personal popularity, or to control in any positive sense. During the time of the recent empire, when the French troops held the country, it was noted that their authority did not extend beyond their lincs—that at a mile from the camp the people scorned the power of the soldiers, This fact was used to argue their unconquerable character—their determination to be free, But it only indicated the tendency to disorder wherever power was not immediately felt. We see by all the recent facts that the nation is no more subordinate to the goveriment of fis choice” than it was to the French troops. In all this the tendency is to the destruction of industry and trade and the abolition of society, in a general sense, to barbarism. At present there is no promise ofa remedy. The recent message of Juarez does not appreciate the situation, or even re- motely touch this greatest danger of the Mexi- can republic. Decemper any May.—A good old Methodist hymna has it that when I am not in the way of grace— The midsummer sun ebines bat dim, The folds Bot when f ate hi bl December 's as pleasant as May. And so it has been with us for several days past—a conjunction of December and May. If we could have but two more weeks of it the poor might indeed rejoice; for the back- bone of the winter would be broken and the price of coal would come down. Let it come. With “a happy Now Year” at tho same timo for the coal dealers, we say, “let it come down.” . Tos Borruz Imp iw Trovere.--In olden times, as the poet tells us, Asmodeus—which is one of the euphonious names by which his ' Satanic Majesty occasionally goes--was corked up ina bottle, We have our Asmodeus now. Grant once put him in a bottle, and be keeps continually jumping up and down and trying to get out We allude to Gene- tal Butlor, one of the groat heroes of the war, but who did acts here in New York Mrelon. ead occeslonally bas all that old ise quietly in his bottle Grant, who put him cork and let himowt —~ Princess Salm-Sala. . Princess Salm-Salm leayes New York (e- day, we understand, by the steamer Ville de Paris, to rejoin her husbaud in Europe. The life of this lady has been 60 full of incidents, and in late years so eventful, that if she were to write and publish her “Memoirs” they. wonld rival those of the most celebrated per- sonages. They would illustrate the old saying that reality is often stranger than romanoe. Aside from the interest that would attach to the recital of her experiences in Havana, New York and Washington, there would be & historical value to her stories of camp life im the Army of the Potomac during our late civil war, and!especially to her stories of court life, camp life and prison life in Mexico, Se tragic were the events with whick — she was intimately associated . durigg ‘the closing scenes of the Mexicap empire, and such noble although unavailitg efforts: did she make to save the life of the Pmperqr Maximilian, and go effectually did she labor secure the release of her husband and of other imperial officers, that her name has become prominently familiar to the public on bot sides of the Atlantic. General Escobed@ must have highly appreciated her heroi¢ persistency when he said that he would’rather meet three battalions on the field than em- counter the persuasive eloquence of Princess Salm-Salm. It is presumed that Princess Salm- Salm is in possession of documents that will throw light on the veritable history of the late Mexican empire. If she were to publish a book it could hardly fail to be as interesting as the ~ volume of lively sketches of Mexican life by another American lady, Madame Calderon de la Barea. Historically it would be more valuable. : AMUSEMENTS. ‘ Diceexs’ Reapincs,—The readings of Mr. Dickens at Steinway Hall last night were “Mr. Nicholas Nickleby at Mr. Squeers’ School,” and “Mr, Bob Sawyer’s Party,’? from “Pickwick.” We need not eay that there was the usual large and appreciati jience in attendance, for in these times people who git n $2 for one cven~ ing’s entertainment do not fail to get the equivalent, rain or shine, Nicholas at Squéers’ school being alse one of the most popular of all the selections from the Dickens novels on the vicoa and ovils of moders civilization, the reading of it by the author was welcomed with more than the ordinary demonstrations of satisfaction from bis boat ers, Tho characters and situations in his graphio report of said school house and the doings therein stand out in such clear relief as presented by tho writer that when, as the reader, he details them, ‘he ti brings dowm the house. Mr. Bob-Sawyer’s party dose pot wear so well, and, by way of a cbango, Mr. Chuzsle wit at the Pawkins model boarding estabirshment would stra reading for “We fearn re be a great bit, especially if given in an gome benevolent New Year's offering. Mr. Dickens contemplates something of this order to show that he can do beautiful things, as well he can write or read them. To- he gives his first matinée at Steinway Hall, the pro» ramme being ‘David Copperfield” and "Boots at the frolly Tree Tun,” New Yore Taeatre.—The charming and sprightly Worrell Sisters appeared last night before a large audi- ence at thoir cbscy little theatre, in the sensational drama “Under the Gaslight.” Miss Sophie acted the part of Pearl Cortlandt with spirit and vivacty, served as an admirable foil to Miss Ireno, wad was @ very demure and stately sort of belle, as Laura, the heroine, should be, Miss Jonnio had the like part of Peachblossom, and made it as full of fun and arch humor as the Marcbionoss of the weil known Lotta The sensational railroad scone and the “swarry” of the lost trioes on tho pier were applauded as usual. The “wolves'’ of society opened the gentlemen's letters as tho dramatist directed, the Tombs judge gave the heroine tato the hands of a roflan, and this ruffiaa made his Gnal exitin a most gentlemaniy manner, un- ae the fitting climax of this original drama of jew Yorl i life, GENEA His Defence Ag it He Was Recently Court Martialled. Sanpvsxy, Dec, 27, 1867. The Daily Register to-morrow will contain a tong letter, dated at Fort Leavenworth, from Gencral Custer to Colonel Nettleton, of Sandusky, making a strong defence against the charges on which ho was court martialled and sentenced toa suspension from command, He meets abe charge of cruelty to hig men by saying that while on the expedition, surrounded by savages, bis men began to desert, This threatened to leave him with a large amount of supplies at the mercy of the savages, A scheme for desertion Sg Lnnggg > 4 o teres portion of the ing mon, ven who - eacaj werg #00n, General Custer ordered a squad re Baty, parake bring them back, A part of the deserters, wi mounted, fled, and havo never been seen sit dismounted ones raised their carbines to fire on suers, when they were fired on in return, wounding three, They were taken with the io wagons, aimbalances being w General Custer complains bitterly of the tho court that tried him, four members riors in rank, and one member, a com had been censured by General Custer for leaning rotten, moat, &c., 40 the soldiers says he was never absent without leave, again act-in a similar manner with deserters circumstances, THE TROUBLES IN GEORGIA, The Unien League Reported to Be at the Bottom of k tomengy Ai From the Savannah Republican, ber 24.) talerwoation ‘was received y from the Mi ton plantation, on the Ogeechee, that the negro Union League was still causing troubie there. Tho a aye Ned, ae Maurice Maloney, who ely decide tako measures to puta to ‘leorderiy proceedings, It ap} that Mr, whose plantation is on the Bryan county aide, working the Eliott plantation in Chatham county. brought over hands from Bryan county to do his work. which incensed the negrocs in bas ~ these Be poh ee bave been omar ‘ao i +4 arrost RA Cuthbert, the Jos! ae ct eae, ee ves, 0 ley are Droducings tele legitimate regu! quotes CUSTER. 583 ving i | i i i il é § ail e diey as ite a refuses to allow any negroes to work in tho borhood those who belong there, As the migut be violence and bi a detachment of soldi hen for opal to white man is bound to respect, mast end, Arrests will bo made if necessary, Deedful measures instituted to restore order and baby rights of the planter, ie lican adds: A communiestion wae Bice tnd that tneve esterday, per steamor Sylvan Shore, by Col jaioney, commander of this military Mayor of Darien, which set forth that been received by him (the Mayor) that lod — hey Sone be pain hag wi 4 urn the ristmy dotachment of the Sixteenth United States ntry, will ‘on the steamer Sylvan Shore, ¢ leave for Daren quell any attempt at disturbance which may ocour im that piace, — OESTAUCTIVE FIRE IN SOUTH BOSTON. [From the Evening Seiegram of, vonterday, Detaporto & Co.'s French furni estadlisbment tn South Boston was. i The | THE ROMANCE OF CAVALAY LIFE, This was the subject of a lecture delivered | Ing by Rev. Edward P, Roe, chaplain during Kilpatrick's cavalry, at Dr. Adame’ aquare, The lectare embraced a <«