The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLAGK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 12th street.— Tux SCHOOL FOR SUANDAL. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bron Tux Treaty oF LiInERIO way. —TUR RAPPAREE; On, LINA EPWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Faust— Love Unpzs DiFFicuLtigs, av. GRAND OPERA MOUSE, corner of 8th ay, and 22d st.— Les BRIGAN»S. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Breadway.—TwE PANTOMIME OF Wee Winurm Wixxir, MUSEUM Broadw: ry afternoon and corner 80th st.—Perform- ie FIFTH AVENUE THEA’ Twenty-fourty st,—Frn- ANDE. nN. BOWERY THEATRE, Be: OWLS OF PaRis—J Ack Lon: YOURTRENTB STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— u-Ekou. NEW YORK STAPT T! GeaMaw Orrua—Davanr BOOTH'S THEATRE, 25d st., between 5th and 6th ave.— Biv Van Winkux ® STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth stroet.—Ganv N1LS80N Concert. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vaetery Enver. | TAINMENT, &C. 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Thiers’ As surances the Cause of its Promuigatiou; Division of Opinton Among the British Minis- ters; Almost Certain Dissolution of the | Cabinet; Earl itusseli to Head a War Ministry; Conciliatory Reply of Gortcha- koff to Earl Granville; ' British Naval | Reserves Ordered to ‘their — Vessels— Po Tave 10 Tur Last } pittsbury. | of our population, but in suspending for | and consequences of the war will account for ; the general loss. Boston in this last decade h France: Herald Special Report of the Late | Arinistice Negotiations; French Government on tne Subject; An Im- portant Movement of the Prussians Expected— Westen’s Walk and Collapse. ie the Churches of New Pubhe Parades and Street Displays;' the ShanMey Legion, Target Companies and Caii- Unumpians; Beecher, Tyng, Kennedy and other 0 in The Nation's Gratitude for the tl of a Pulpit Aposties Preaching'on Pienty and Poli- | Shows a gain of five per cent in her population tics; Feasting the Poor and Needy; Pwans ef | Praise tor Peace, Plenty and. Prosperity; | Thanksgiving Dinners Among the Prisouers on Blackwell's the Emigrants on | rpuans and Found- lings on Randail’s Ish 6—Thanksziving (Continu rom Fourth Page)— | Lacrosse Tournament at Paterson—Vagaries | of Jersey Justice—Obliuary—Money for the | Supervisors—Atrocious Assault in Trenton— National Labor Union. G—Editoriais: Leading Articie on “The Drift of Population and Political Power in tne United | States""—Amusement Announcements. i 9—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth Page)—Napo- ; leon: clal Herald Despatch from Wilhelms- | hohe; The Emperor in Capital Condition; ar- , rivaiof an Envoy at the Russian Headquar- | ters; King Williain Anxious for the Restoration ot the Bonapartes; Empress En Route for the Prison Palact Prince Imperial in Ii | Health—Telegraphic News irom All Parts of | Business Notices, | S—Europe: French Plan for the Resteration of the Bonapartes; German Threat ef an Invasieu of | England—Mexico: The Free Zone Qnestion Beiore the Mexican Congress—Cuba: Spanish Otfences Against Briush Commerce and Sub- jJects—News from Alrica—Affairs in Porto Rico—Killea by Rail—General Notes. 9—Trotting at Fleetweod Park—Tretting and I ning at Union Course—Chess Maiters—k tion of Nuns—Bililards by the Stars—Ste boat Fire at Evansville—Kiliea in Broad way New Jersey Polilics—-Political Notes aid Cot ments—Piying the Kuife-—Court Calenda Finanelal and Commerciai—A Little Caild Burned to Death—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Washington : A Thanksgiving Holiday—k tion of Archbishop Spalging in Washingtor Another Wheelbarrow Bet—A Sick Wife B Sensciess—Shipping Intelligence—Ad ments. 41—Travei in West Asia: HeRatp Special tions ju Persia; History, Legend i Material Progress; Native 8 Posit Castaways Navy—An Ai 313—South Ameri the Slavery Wealth of en n of Two British ene in le— How ul Works —The Question of Whit Intermarrying~—Advertisements, i nd Blacks ARMY OF THE , deliver us News From ¢ ent in Havana, which shows that the renev activity of the Cubans is being seriously throughout the whole island. Circular from the | the city of the surrounding towns. ga Year; Services and Sermons in | thousand blacks drawn into the city from Vir- ‘ork and Breoklyn; the | tion from the blacks of the surreunding coun- try. cities and towns, and the chances they offer of a comparatively easy and jolly vagrant sort of existence, have been irresistible to the igno- ‘rant, indolent and fun-loving emancipated blacks. | operating to arrest the growth of population in ' the rural districts, and to increase it in the m- | large cities and towns. From Illinois west- ~ | ward to the Pacific, however, the increase of | population spreads over town and country; | and in the apportionment of members of the | lower House of Congress upon the new census | portant balance of power. | | i e publish this morn- | sands of planters in the Southwestern Slave ing an interesting letter from our correspond | States first threatened with abolition moved | with their slaves into Texas, and since the Imporrant iF Trox.—King Victor Em- | manuel is reported to have the late vote in the 3% was not decisive enough to ju: ceptance of the throne. suid that gtates, more or less, will gain prodigiously in panish Cortes | population and wealth, because of their cheap dy his son's ac- | jandg and mineral resources and fine soil and If this be true Spain | genial climate. Meantime, excepting our great may yet have to go on another begging tour | among the princes of Europe. The presump- | to the Northwest and the new States and Ter- tion is that this is an idle and unfounded | jitories thence to the Pacific; and under the cumor, and that the throne question in Spain, for the present atleast, is settled. At the same time the fate of poor Maximiliaa hauats the | Pennaylvanta the balance of power, and will memories of would-be kings. Tue Crvownati Commercic! says “General Grant is losing his grip.” If it be anything like the once famous “Tyler grippe” the sooner he loses it the better. A Co.orsp MoFarianp.—The Virginia ne- groes appear determined to make good their claim to all the riguts and privileges enjoyed by white mov, Julius Stiles, a dusky Lothario of the Old Dominion, made love somewhat too ardently to the spouse of Edmunds, another fifteenth amendment. This outrage the co- lored husband resented after the manner of his | the spoliators and all who are its aiders and fair-skinued prototype, and shot the spoiler of | abettors,” the temporal power is gone for his joys. Edmunds was insane, of course, but had sense enough left to make good bis | up his mind to bow to the ine escape. | } NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVE im the United States. The following table, which, from the census, gives the pepulation of the several cities named, in 1850, 1860 and 1870, with the gross increase and percentage of increase in each decade, is full of interesting suggestions in reference to the drift of the population and political power of the United States :— of Thionville. But one item of late news reaches us this morning frem the seat of war in France. It is that the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg is ad- vancing—we infer upon the Army of the Loire, although the despatch does not say so, Be- yond this intelligence and a statement that the fortress of Thionville surrendered on yesterday morning, an event which was inevitable, all the telegrams are devoted to reports of past operations and nego- New York.. Increase. Percentag 13.1 a ny we tiations. Letters from Paris confirm the re- Increase. eed ported failing of the food supply. Neverthe- less the Parisians seem to take their gloomy prospects with good grace, their journals going so far as to crack jokes over the situation. We are told that at but two points is a sortie at all possible, and that these are heavily forti- fied and defended by large bodies ef German troops. This is manifestly absurd ; a sortie is possible from nearly every point surrounding 7280l | Paris, At the same time it is undeniable that Percentage. Brook Cincinnati 8,000 a successful sortie can only be attained at the Serene sg most frightful sacrifice of life known to war- San Francisco . presen fare. It is indeed doubtful if Trochu will ‘a sé 161.71 | make one, Were his troops veterans he pro- w raat pase bird bably would; but two months of drilling is in- : pat} \ sufficient to bring the French Gardes Mobiles Incrente. a9 ares into that perfect state of discipline necessary for so gigantic an enterprise. If Paris is to be saved at all De Paladines’ army must be its savior, Should it be defeated by the com- bined forces of the Duke of Mecklenburg and Prince Frederick Charles the fate of the French capital and of the French cause will be prac- tically sealed. Such is the war situation in France as we understand it this morning. The first thing which here strikes us as very remarkable is the small percentage of increase in the popalation of the city of New York in the ten years from 1860 to 1870, say fourteen per cent, compared with the decade from 1850 to 1860, of nearly filty-eight per cent. But, allowing for all deficiencies in Marshal Sharpe's censi#, the difference in our percentage of increase in population between these two decades is largely due to the following causes :— Between 1850 and 1860 the then newly The War Cloud in Europe—The Agitation of the Eastern Question. Europe remains deeply agitated on the discovered California gold mines gave an Eastern question. Turkey endeavors to immense impulse to the growth of this city, a8 | maintain the equilibrium of the Porte did also our increased Southern trade, result- | Gapinet, Russia continues firm. The ing from the heav} cotton crops of the South. Czar looks to the ‘Treaty of Paris, Between 1860 and 1870, for four or five years, to his interests in the East, to his friend the war not only greatly arrested the growth if ig his enemies, their power and diplomatic dis- tractions. Count Bismarck disclaims having several years, on account of the high prices of ‘ be had an; revious knowledge of the materials and labor, the erection of new build- papi tae stad or its atic and ings, so far contributed to “raise the rents” a8 | fom St, Petersburg we are told that to drive thousands of our citizens over to Brooklyn and other parts of Long Island, to Connecticut, to Westchester, to Staten Island and to New Jersey. This exodus, on all sides, has been going on ever since. In fact, Brooklyn, Jersey City and its appendages, Staten Island, and Westchester to a great extent, are but suburbs of this city, and we must count in their population accordingly in order to reach the expansion of the business of this great commercial and financial centre and settling house of the continent, great naval ferce, Russia is concentrating her It will next be seen that to a greater or | troops in the Northeast. Austria presents a war smaller extent, with some notable exceptions, budget, and in Prussia, in Berlin alone, do we the percentage of increase in the other cities recognize either the disposition or Retnwes of our table has been Jess in the last decade perhaps, for a successful mediation for peace. than in that from 1850 to 1860, and the causes | myo solid interests of the governments which are likely to contend in war may cause them to earken to the voice of North Germany, but should they refuse to do so it is very probable that our cable telegram assertion that war i imminent will prove too surely correct, this blood-stirring missive was written by the Russian Chancellor merely as a grand ministerial bid for the retainment of office against General Ignatieff, who is looming up rapidly as a_ con- trolling mind in Russian affairs of state. M. Thiers went to St. Petersburg, and exercised a potent influence on the policy of the Russian Cabinet. The consequences are, as may be seen from our despatehes alluding to the peace of Europe, England is moving her shows a large increase in her percentage of gain, but this is due to the late annexation to Washing- ton also shows a large increase in her percent- age of gain, but this is due to the thirty Our Foreign Correspondence, We publish to-day an interesting compilation ginia and Maryland during the war to escape of foreign news, embracing letters from our from slavery and to become free. Baltimore correspondents stationed at various parts of the globe. From Bushire, in the Persian Gulf, we get a graphic sketch of the life, manners, customs and religion of the people, the material progress of the country in such civilizing agencies as railroads, together with historical facts concerning Persia, legends and romances. The diamond fields of Africa furnish some instructive news. Our cerres- pondent writing from Brazil explains the cause of recent Cabinet changes, and describes the progress of the slavery question. A letter from Chile tells of the progress of the Presidential campaign, the increasing strength of the opposition and the uneasiness of the government thereat, and enters into an exhibit ef the wealth of the republic. From Peru we learn that peace and order prevailed, and that the railway from the Pacific to the head waters of the Amazon was progressing favor- ably. Our Mexican correspondence reports the discussion of the free zone question in Congress, while frem Cuba we have the latest intelligence concerning Spanish misrule, the hepes of the patriots in the pending struggle, and details of military operations in all parts of the island. It will thus be seen that our exhibit of foreign correspondence this morning, States, notwithstanding their fearful losses | which does not include that from Europe, is during the war, show an unexpected increase | not only large, but is valuable as an exposition in their white population, and also in the | of and acquisition to contemporaneous history, blacks, notwithstanding the oft-repeated sta- he RE tistics of their rapid decay since the aboli- ARCHBISHOP SPALDING visited Washington tion of siavery. Texas, however, is the only | city yesterday and was splendidly received Southern State which will show an increase in | by the citizens of the District. In response to her population comparable with that of Missouri | the address of the clergy and laity the dis- or Iowa, and nearly approaching Minnesota, | tinguished prelate spoke feelingly of the un- during the last ten years. During the war thou- | happy condition of affairs ia Rome, deploring the outrages committed by the Italians against the venerable Head of the Church, who is now a prisoner in the Holy City, not dariag to venture beyond the beundaries of his prison palace for fear of persoaat indignities. At the conclusion of the Bishop’s address resolutions were adopted without a dissenting voice by the immense andience affirming their faith in and veneration for ihe Pepe, and, in the name of of 1870 compared with 1860, which is due partly to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and partly to the emancipated blacks of Maryland attracted to the city, All the cities and towns of the South since the abolition of slavery have made large gains to their fixed popula- The amusements and excitements of The general increase of the population of all the Northern States, however, eastof Indiana is in their cities and towns; and this is due to the railroads, which have operated and are the States of the Northwest will secure an im- The Southern war the cheap and fertile lands and fine climate of that State have sustained the Seuthern emi- gration in that direction. : In the decade before us all the Southern two hundred million Catholics, protesting against the seizure of Rome and the indignities offered by the [talian government toward the Holy Father. Woman SurrraGk IN ENGLAND,---Among the many reform movements now agitating the British public not the least important is that of woman suffrage. A great meeting bas just been held in Manchester, and it is reported that many distinguished persons were present and took pari. The woman suffrage move- ment ought to succeed in Great Britain if any- where. A people who are goveraed so wisely and so well by a woman ougat not to refuse woman electoral privileges. The women have s, the general drift of population has been next Presidency, if not before, that section of the Union will take from New England and hold it in both Houses of Congress, on the tariff and all the financial questions affecting the general interests of the Union. Tur Prorest or THe Hoxy Farner.—The Pope will not yield. He has just issued an encyclical and bull concerning the spoliation of the temporalities. The Pope takes high ground. The temporalities, he says, are not | q petter argument in England than in the his, but God’s. He is simply a trustee. What | United States. is not his own he cannot surrender. This is og" cerminragee sound logic, We are afraid, however, that, in THANKSGIVING Day in Philadelphia was ob- spite of the “‘major excommunication against | served in the manner peculiar to that city of Brotherly Love. At a review of city troops a colored company was assaulted by a mob of The Holy Father will do well to make roughs, and during the mél¢e one of the assail- vitable with as | ants received a severe bayonet wound and a colored man was fatally shot, good. good grace as possible. A Contrast. The English journals express themselves with remarkable violence in respect to Raasia, because Prince Gortchakoff has stated in a courteous vote the nullity of the treaty of 1856, and the resolution of the Russian government no longer to observe the stipulations of that treaty in regard to the Black Sea, Tories and whigs rival each other in abuse of the Russian people, whom they characterize as barbarians, Asiatics and enemies of the human race. Our English cousins always take pleasure in attributing coarse manners to Americans, and neglect no opportunity of telling us that the American people and their newspapers are ill- taught and rude, having no idea of the refine- ments of English politeness. Without pre- tending to the aristocratic delicacy of high life in London, and while admitting that we are in the habit of expressing our ideas fregly and sometimes vigorously, we must say that no American journal has ever poured out such a flood of abuse as bas recently been directed by the English press upon a nation of eighty mil- lions of people, and upon a sovereign deserv- ing the esteem of all men as being the liberator of twenty-three millions of serfs, the founder of fifteen thousand schools and the creator of fourteen thousand miles of railroad. So much for the form: now for the substance of the question. Let us see what itis. In order to ascertain the nature of a dispute it is necessary to understand exactly what the par- ties to it desire, We have recently stated that which Russia desires in the East, and Prince Gortchakoff’s despatch to Lord Granville only confirms eur view. What she desires isthe emancipation of the Christian populations, the East for the Eastern people and by the Eastern people and only for and by them. The very natural and legitimate desire of Russia to become again free in the Black Sea does not at all contra- dict the programme. It is even quite proba- ble that while aiming at no territorial acquisi- tion Russia still reserves to herself the right to claim back the slice of territory taken from her on the Bessarabian frontier by the treaty of 1856. But what England aims at, onthe other hand, is the absolute, irrevocable maintenance of the Eastern status quo, the exploitation aud perpetual oppression of fifteen millions of Christians by two millions of Mussulmans—the sacrifice, in fine, of progress, humanity and civilization to that which the narrow-minded and egotistical policy of the Cabinet of St. James, following the Palmerstonian traditions, calls the mercantile interests of England. And what is the Eastern status quo which England makes such efforts to maintain? We will show what it is by proefs emanating not from Russian sources, nor from American sources—which might be accused of partial- ity—but from sources essentially British, for they are taken, word for word, from reports sent to the Foreign Office by her Majesty’s Consuls, and which reports are published in the Blue Book submitted to Parliament in 1867. Mr. Cumberbatch, English Consul to Smyrna, wrote to the Foreign Office the 29th of March, 1867:—‘‘With few exceptions all the administrative offices are occupied by Mussulmans. The public schools are accessi- ble only to Turkish children. In the interior the evidence of Christians is not admitted in the courts, and, in fact, a Christian never ob- tains justice in a civil or criminal proceeding. Torture is not absolutely practiced, but Chris- tians are frequently imprisoned for months without being tried. The’ prisons are inde- scribably filthy and ill-ventilated, and the prisoners are crowded in them pell-mell, with very little to eat. Several of them have never committed the crime of which they are accused, and have been incarcerated on the most ridiculeus charges or upon unjust sus- picion.” Mr. Sankey, English Vice Consul at Kas- tendji, wrote to Lord Lyons, then Ambassa- dor at Constantinople, under date of April 1, 1867, as follows :—‘“‘If the measures promul- gated by the Turkish government fer the pro- tection of the Christians were properly carried out they might be able to establish a sort of equality between Christians and Mussulmans ; but, whatever may be the intentions of the government, these measures are evaded and deprived of all effect. Before the tribunals, if a Turk is a party, plaintiff or defendant, the evidence of a Christian is not admitted; and every raya (Christian), were he even to pre- duce fifty witnesses, is obliged to purchase the testimony of two Mussulmans—which isa daily occurrence. Jayas are arrested and thrown into prison, without any form of interrogatory or trial, at the caprice of the local authori- ties, for any period they may choose. A sim- ple police sergeant, who bends asd bows in presence of the Muddir (Chief of Police), becomes a tyrannical satrap as soon as he is sent on duty inte a Christian village. He lodges in the best houses, insists upon the best fare, and levies contributions to his heart's content. So much for the administration of justice in favor of the Mussulmans.” Mr. Skene, English Consul at Aleppo, wrete te Lord Lyons, under date of April 1, 1867:—‘‘Trade is in a state of stagnation, Agriculturo is paralyzed. General poverty prevails in all classes of society. A general decline has thus set in; and yet all the energy of the government seems to be directed towards the extortion of as much revenue as possible from an impoverished people.” Mr. Maling, Eaglish Vice Consul at Cavalla, wrote to Lord Stanley, usder date of April 8, 1867:—-‘‘The grossest and most galling terms of abuse are habitually addressed to the Christians with absolute impunity, the very authorities being in this respect the worst offenders.” We might draw still further npon these re- ports of English Consuls for important informa- tion as to the internal situation of Turkey ; but the extracts which we give to-day are suf- ficient to enlighten our readers as to the policy of that professed Christian Power which thinks itself at the head of civilization, which charac- terizes other people as barbarians, Asiatics and enemies of the human race, and which to- day manifests a readiness to cause rivera of blood to flow in order to sustain in the Bast the-monstrous abomination of the Ottoman rule, just as it desired to sustain among our- selves the abomination of slavery and civil war. MBER 25, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Drift of Population and Political Power | The War Situation in France—Surrender | Ruséiun and English Designs in’ the East~ | Thankegiving—Tho Great National Festival, Ferty millions of peeple, all free and in most respects equal, yesterday combined in what is termed thanksgiving, which act Is popularly believed to be the rendering of manifestations of gratitude to the Creator for the blessings vouchsafed during the year which has just terminated with the close of the harvesting season. Whether the obsery- ance, viewed as a collective demonstration, may be accepted as a pure and religious homage of thanks to the Deity, is, after all, a@ question about which there is much room for debate. That it was intended to be such, by the stanch and fervently devout sword and cross-bearing Puritans who or- dained the custom there is every reason to believe; and that the festival is eminently beautiful, poetic and appropriate as a tribute of man to his Maker and Preserver will be gene- rally admitted. The celebration of the day was, indeed, spontaneoug, and, as an American rite, was universal—as universal in the manuer of its observance as in the extent. In the churches, in the theatres, on the racing grounds, in the ballrooms, in the streets, the highways, the byways and at the firesides, and even in the baser resorts of humanity, the spirit of the day was manifest, and it all passed for and was called ‘“‘Thanksgiving.” At least it may be called a rejoicing, and certainly that is a tribute, but not the tribute which was in- tended. The myriads rejoiced for the pros- perity of the year; the few gave deep and earnest thanks to the Source whence emanated all the manifold blessings which united made up the great national sum of prosperity. It was gratitude for continued freedom, for internal peace and good will toward all peoples without, for abundant har- vests, for increased traffic and accumulated wealth, and as such only was it generally rejoiced in. The ample reports which we publish else- where show with the fidelity of a photograph the multifarious ways in which these feelings welled forth from the popular heart, and it is only from the reports of the services in the churches and other sa- ered and charitable societies that the true intent of the feast is apparent. The pastors exhorted their congregations to gratitude, to humiliation, to thanksgiving in spirit, and pointed with fervent exultation to the privi- leges granted and enjoyed. All the ‘‘signs of the times” were translated as auguries of a great, glorious, and presperous future for the nation as a sovereignty, and fer Americans asa people, and thereby was implied a brilliant hope for the natien in its aspeet of a multitude of individuals, The theme was ‘‘America,” and well it might be on an occasion ao truly and originally American as the great observ- ance in which the whole people rejoiced yes- terday. French Blunderers and Failures—Is Gen- eral Trochu to be Among Themf Napoleon himself was the first blunderer in this disastrous war to France. He was, first of all, too fast in declaring the war, and, next, he was too slow in beginningit. AsM. Thiers said when the war was declared, France was not ready and Prussia and her German allies were ready. In this business Napoleon, Olli- vier and Leboeuf all blundered. They really knew nothing, while the Prussians knew every- thing of the situation. Then, in the opening of the war, MacMahon and Bazaine both blun- dered in their ignorance of the enemy's strength, or they would not have steod their ground fighting till cut up, enveloped and cut off from each other. After being separated from Bazaine MacMahon blundered off to Sedan, where he was again enveloped and his army captured, instead of hovering between the Crown Prince of Prussia and Paris and watching for an opportunity to strike his enemy in the flank. After the battle of Gravelotte, lasting till dark, Bazaine blundered—not in retiring into Metz, but in stopping in that cage till the next morning, when he could have moved off northward in the night without de- tection er without difficulty, leaving the regular garrison to hold the fortress and to amuse the Prussians encamped on the west and south sides, and engaged all next day im attending to their killed and wounded, We begin to fear that Trochu is awfully blundering in eating up his horses and in waiting for assistance from the outside—that he is repeating the blunder of Bazaine and is destined to be the hero of a capitulation eclipsing in its magnitude, army and materials Sedan, Strasbourg, Tonal, Verdun and Metz combined. But nous ver- rons, Amatevr Concerts, in aid of the sufferers by the war in France, are multiplying. Among those announced for this week the concert at Chickering’s Rooms, in Fourteenth street, this evening (November 25), merits special attention, inasmuch as it will be given under the direction of Signor Albites, assisted by other eminent artists as well as by ama- teurs, A purely amateur concert, even for the most benevolent and praiseworthy purpose, often itself requires so great an expenditure of charity on the part of the audience as to-leave but little to spare for the ostensible objects of the entertainment, so called. Ovr Msxican CorrEsponpENox, published in another part of the Hrranp this morning, furnishes our readers witha very full. account of the treatment of the free zone in the Mexi- can Congress. Sefior Romero made a strong speech against its continuance, and urged its abolition. The bill as amended isnot yet a law, andas President Juarez is opposed to the continuance of a privilege which is an in- jury to the Mexican republic he no doubt will veto the bill. QurEN Victoria ix Lonpon.—Now that Queen Victoria has returned from her High- land home in Scotland the presumption is that her known love of peace will tell power- fully in the Cabinet councils. It will be less difficult for her to hold communication with her Ministers, and the probability is that her womanly common sense which has so often been so conspicneusly revealed will pre- vent a Cabinet rupture and keep her peeple out of war. Tne Creroxes Nation of Indians, made the 17th instant a day of fasting and prayer— for protection against the swindling operations of the agents of the United Sta%zes govern- ment. It was not, therefore, a duy of thanks- giving and praise like that our-more civilized people enjoyed yesterday. Napoleon at Wilhelmshohe. By special telegram, dated at Wilhelmshihe and forwarded through the Atlantie cable yes- terday, we are enabled to present to our readers @ most interesting account of the con- dition of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon in his castle prisen, The ex-monarch appears to enjoy most exellent health. He looks twenty years younger than he really is, and is sprightly, setive and again in business routine. He is indeed engaged in mere than official routine, for our correspon- dent states that he himself enjoyed ap opportunity of observing the manner of Napo- leon’s parting with a Prussian secret courier who had just delivered to him a Message of the very highest import from King William and Bismarck, This despatch, if we are cor- rectly informed, looked te nothing less than the restoration of Bonaparte to the Tuilories, Sheuld his intelligence prove correct in its en- tirety, and we have noreasen to doubt the sources ef information of our correspondent, we may hear of the occurrence of some very startling events in the Ola World at an early moment. Many distinguished visitors were received at Wilhelmshthe. The Orleanist Princes were active throngh their agents on the Continent, but it is alleged that they have not the slightest chance of a return to power in France, The Emperor referred to the Russo-Eastern com- plication, which, he says, will yet be the “Nemesis of England.” His Majesty re- mained still anxious relative to the opinion of the American people in his case and the French situation generally. Care came around him, notwithstanding his aspirations—care, anxious and corroding, Eu- génie had visited her husband; but even with her, in her expressions of the most tender affection, was brought his greatest alarm— alarm for the health of his son, The Prince Imperial is in a very delicate state of health. He was told, indeed, that his mother regards it as “melancholy.” This would be a real blow to the Emperor. Defeat, dethronement, exile and imprisonment, all could be borne with the hope of the perpetuation of the dy- nasty. Should his son be taken away then would his earthly prospects be gloomy almost beyond the hope of consolation on this side of the grave. Racing Prospects of the Coming Year. The Monmouth Park (Long Branch) man- agement have issued their programmé for racing events for next summer, embracing two meetings—one in July and the other in Au- gust—and, judging from the judicious ar- rangement of the races to take place, the ruoning must be of sa superior quality. In the July meeting there will be seven sweepstakes, besides purses for heats, steeple chases and hurdles. We would, however, remind the management that a post stake in each meeting would be a great attrac- tion. This time-honored race always found favor with turfmen, and it should be @ntinned. A post stake has its great interest im the fact that no one can tell what horses are to start for the stake until the last moment, and the doubt occasioned in this way lends a great charm to the contest. Another reason why we urge this description of race is that it would be almost certain to bring a large field of horses to the post, no matter what might be the dis- tance decided upon to be run. What adds the most interest to this race ia that a nominator of one or more horses, should his horses not be in condition to run at the time specified, can borrow from the stables of friends to make his nominations good, and thus insure a strong field. As we said before, we would recom- mend a few post stakes by all the various racing associations in the country. The seven sweepstakes for the July meeting are named the Jersey Derby, one mile and a | half, for three-year-old colts and fillies; the Hopeful, half a mile, for two-year-olds; the Monmouth Cup, two miles anda half, for all ages; the Monmouth Oaks, for three-year-old fillies ; the Leng Branch, for all ages, to carry a hundred pounds, two miles; the July, for two-year-old colts and fillies, three-quarters of a mile, and the Monmouth Sequel, for colts and fillies three years old. This meeting will commence on the Fourth of July and continue five days. The August meeting will commence on the Ist day of that month and finish on the 5th. There will also be seven sweepstakes rum for at the latter meeting, comprising the Con- tinental Hotel, for three-year-old colts and fillies, mile heats; the Thespian, fer two-year- old colts and fillies, = three-quarters of a mile; the Mansion House, for four-year-old colts and fillies, two mile heats; the West End Hotel, exclusively for three-year-old fillies, two. miles; the Au- gust, for colts and fillies two years old, and the Robins, for colts and fillies three years old. Besides the above stakes purses will be given for races at all distances, for all ages, dashes, heats, hurdles and steeple chases. The added money to the sweepstakes alone will be $13,000. All the above stakes close on the Ist of February next. The programmes of the American Jockey Club, the Saratoga Association, and the Mary- land Jockey Club will soon be made out, whem. the owners of the high-mettled racers of Americs, will be able to make selections for the. entries of their celts and fillies. A brilliant racing yearis predicted for 1871. A Wesrern PAPER says “General Grant. den’t know how to pick his men.” The Tam- many sachems might teach him, for they dis-~ missed no Jess than two thousand pick-ed men last week. A Coan Swixpre.—People have long ago abandoned the expectation of receiving the legal two thousand four hundred pounds of coal to the ton, and are obliged to be content with the round two thousand when they. can get it, which is very seldom, except from very honest dealers. Butio be shaved down to sixteen hundred pounds is, to use a vulgarism, a little too steep. A coal dealer was detected the other day playing this trick through the- vigilance of the purchaser, who weighed the article on the city weigher’s scales and dis- covered that he had been cheated out of four hundred pounds of coal. This happened in Jersey City, where justice is supposed to keep one eye open and to use her sword pretty vigorously. In consequence the coal dealer was arrested and held in five thousand dollars pail to appear for trial. There are, no doubt,