GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 276. EVENING BULLETIN. PUBLMICED EVERY. EVENING, (Sundays excepted) at . No. 329 Cheatnut Street, Philadelphia BY TIME "Evening Bulletin Association." . PROPRIETORS. GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER TROIKAS J . SOLIDER, Ir., L. PETEIERSTON, I. WIL ERNESTLI AMSON. O. WALLACE. The BuLlams is served to subscribers in the city at IS cents per week, PAYable to the carriers, or frB 00 per DIED. it RRIKON—On Wednesday afternoon, March 7th. -John P. Arrison, aged 53 years. Notice of the funeral In to-morrow morning's papers. * ELLIS—This morning, Philip H. Ellis, in the 54th year of his age. Due notice will be given of the fa aieraL 5 GiihasPr on Tuesday morning, March 6th, 1866 in Judith It., wife of Samuel Giant, the 75th year of her age. Funeral service at St. Peter's Church, on Friday :Morning, at 10 o'clock, punctually. N E JAY—On . Monday. the sth instant, of typhoid pneumonia, David Jayne, M. D., in the 67th year of his 41 51- is relatives and Wends, the friends of the fa roily and his Masonic Brethren, are respectfully in vited to attend his funeral from:kakis late residence, No SEC South Third street, on Satnoay morning next, the lOttt instant. at 10 o'clock, withoOpither notice. To proceed to Woodlands Cemetery. • E YI4.7E - &ITANDELL' FOVRTH AND ARCH, ARE OPENING 'PGDAM FOR. SPRING SALES, \ FASHIONABLE NEW SILKS, NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS, NEW STYLUS SPRING SHAWLS. NEW TRAVELING DRESS GODS, FINE STOCK OF NEW GOODS. SPECTIAIa SOTICES. fa. HOWARD HOSPITAL. Nos. 1518 and 1520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department, had. teal treatment and medicines farnii;hed grataitimsly to the poor. - s e2B tu. DR. THOMAS will4eliver THIS EVENING, at the Hall of the University, his SECOND lee; Dire on the "Religion and Peculiar Customs of the Hindoos," commencing at &o'clock. Tickets may be :had at the door. lt.',. JEFFERSON i. EDIC L COLLEGE.—The Commencement Annual Commenceent will be held B,t , the EZCAL FUND HALL on S TURDAY next, 10th inst., at 12 o'clock. The charge to the Graduaies toy Professor RAND. The public are invited. rohB,2ti ROBLEY DIINGLISON, Dean. U. A DELEGATION OF THE N oRT El ERN LIBERTY ASSOCIATION OF WASHING TUN, D. C.. will be at the FAIRMOUNT FIRE CO'S. BALL TO-NIGHT, at the NATIONAL GUARDS' HALL. and will prey nt the Fair mount with a handsome testimonial for favors shown daring the late papule of theßlre Department. itx YCONCERT HALL. ofessor Win. H. Day will deliver the FIZZIa LEC TURE, of the course before the Social. Clvnlltal eta tistical Associa. ion, THURSDAY EVENING. March S, at Concert Ball, Subject- EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW." The BLACK SWAN will sing a few select airs. TICKETS, 33 cents, to be had of T. B. Pugh, Sixth and:Chestnut streets, and at the door. Doors open at 7 Begin at 8. DFPAIIT3VELN.Ii OF PUBLIC H.IGIIW %XS. OFFICE 01. 'CHIEF CO 61,11IssION ER. S. W. -corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, PHILADE.LPHIA, _March Bth. 1866. NOTICE.—To owners of carts, wagons, drays and barrows. The arriu , l license due the city will be received and renewal of the same until April Ist, 1866, at the above office daily from 9 o'clock A. until 3 oiclock P. M. Penalty for neglect of renewal of license three dol hos each, Oil everyelvehicle.dhat may be used, THOMAS M. TRIOL, lab& t,s,tuati License Clerk. 1U• NORTH AKERDJAN • MINING COMPANY. Office, No. 327 WALNUT street, (Second floor.) 100,000 SHARES, CAPITAL STOCK. Par Value ;10 OD This Company owns in fee simple several valuable Silver Mines in Nevada. 50,000 bHARES FOR WORKING CAPITAL. 25,000 TO BE SOLD IN 25 LOTS AT 0000 EACH. 'Subscriptions received at the office until March 14th. BY ORDER OF 1 HE DIRECTORS. fe22-18trp T. S. EMERY, Treasurer. OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND OFFICE COMPANY, PHTLILDEL.caIs, December Met, 1865. LOAN FOR SALE. IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS. The Loan of this Company, due April let, 1584, Inte ,rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. This Loan is secured by a mortgage on all the Com pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Slackwater Navigation In the Lehigh rlver,and all their Railroads,constructed and' to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and Wilkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith, and the franchise of the Company relating thereto. Apply to SOLOMON SHEPHERD, Treasurer, de2l-rptf/ 122 South Second street. • /0. NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD AND GREEN LANE STATION. The undersigned have on band a supply of LEHIGH COAL, equal to any in the market, whiob they prepare with great care and deliver to the residents of GERMANTOWN and its vicinity at the following prices, viz: • •BROKEN OR FURNACE COAL 9 00 per Ton. -EGG OR SMAT L FURNACE 900 ' , STOVE OR RANGE 9 00 " 'SMALL STOVE OR LUT Y . NUT.. 9 00 " .tITrT OR cl4 - EsNuT 8 50 " A deduction of FIFTY CENTS PER TON will be made when taken from the yard. Adhering strictly to ONE PRICE, an order by letter will have the same effect as a visit in person and will • , l'oe promptly attended to. Address to the Office. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE BUILDING, 15 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET, 43. r to the Yard, BINES & sliha.Fr, Green Lane and. North Pennsylvania Railroad. PHILAD A. Feb. 24, 1866. fe26-IMilif New Publications "Literature in Letters" is the title of a -a large and elegant volume published by D. Appleton & Co., and for sale by Ashmead •& Evans. The letters are those of eminent persons, and they are selected to illustrate manners, art, criticism, biography, history and morals. The editor is James P. Hol -combe, LL. D., of New York. He has se lected from a very extensive field, and his -own notes are always judicious, instructive and entertaining. Of course that prince of _letter-writers, Horace Walpole, figures largely. But there are, besides, selections , from the correspondence of Mme. de SAvign A, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Pope, Ches terfield, Hannah More, Byron, Cowper, ;Scott, Johnson, Coleridge, Gray, Burns, Lamb, Sidney Smith, Landor, Campbell, -Shelley, Dickens and scores of other foreign -celebrities. Of Americans, we have letters •of Washington, Franklin, John Adams, Mrs. Adams, Jefferson, Fisher Ames, Ir ving, Margaret Fuller and others. There is not a letter which is not an excellent speci men of its class, and the book is altogether a delightful one. Messrs. Harper & Brothers have n pub - lislied a biographical sketch of the late .James Louis Petigru, of Charleston, by William J. Graydon, now also deceased. Mr. Petigru was one of the best and most -accomplished of Southern gentlemen, who • -opposed secession always, and who com manded the respect of all, even while the :madness of revolution raged aronnd him. Be died in 1863, and it was while Charleston was exposed to the fire of the Union guns, that his friend, Mr. Grayson, wrote this ex cellent and most interesting sketch of his life and character. Mrs—Oliphant is the best of the living female novelists of England, if we except, perhaps, gGeorge Eliot." Her latest story. tatied "Agnes," has just been republished by Harper kt Brothers. It is a [simple, for cible, natural story of a blacksmith's daughter married to a proud nobleman's son. As an illustration of English society • and of the dangets of a mesalliance in such an artificial organization, it is ad mirable. While it is wholly free from the sensational character, it is absorbingly in teresting. We have received from Mr. Carleton, of New York, "The Prince of Kashna, a West Indian Story," by the author of " In the Tropics," with an editorial introduction by Richard B. Kimball. "In the Tropics" we remember as a charming narrative of an American who settled in a wild part of Santo Domingo. The Spanish war drove him away for a time to Jamaica, where he found the journal of a Mahometan African, of a kingly family, who was carried off in boy hood, a slave, to Jamaica, but who obtained education and ultimate freedom. The story is well-told and extremely interesting. Mr. Kimball vouches for its verity, and it cer tainly bears every mark of being entirely authentic. The last London Quarterly Review (Ame rican reprint) has been sentto us by Messrs. W. B. Lieber S Co. It has some excellent articles, particularly those relating to belles lettres. When it touches upon politics, es pecially American, it is bigoted and wrong headed, though there is nothing especially offensive in this number. "Hours at Home," for March is also out. It contains its usual pleasing varieties of secular and religious reading, including, amongst other interesting articles, valuable biographical sketches of Dr. Nott, General McPherson and Samuel Adams. For sale by T. B. Pugh. • PLArts 101 and 102 of Chambers's Ency clopedia have been issued by Messrs. 3. B. Lippincott t Co. It has advanced now pretty well into the letter S, and the sub jects are all treated carefully and brought down to the latest dates. GER3IAN OPERA..—The performance of Kreutzer's Opera of A Night in Grenada, last evening, was one of the best and most enjoyable of the season. Mme. R;-otter first made the opera known to us, and her per formance of the soprano part is one of the best things she does. Habelrnann, of course, was delightful, though he has not a great deal to do. The important part of the Prince was sustained by Mr. Wilhelm Formes, who sang and acted much better than any one we have had in it. His voice is not powerful or of extensive range. It is a light barytone, of pure, sympathetic quality, and he sings with grace, expression and intelligence. Mr. Formes has already made himself a favorite with the Philadel phia public. The opera was warmly re ceived. - The splendid trio in the last scene was encored, and the impressive and beau tiful choruses of the second act were heartily applauded. This evening Fra Diavolo will be repeated, and to-morrow evening we are promised Meyerbeer'A grandest opera, The Huguenots. THE OPERA.—Just as we go to press we learn that Mr. Theodore Formes will not be able to sing the part of Raoul in "The Hu guenots,- at the German opera, to-moraow night, He is suffering from a severe catarrh. His part will be taken by Mr Franz Himmer, and it will be very satis factorily given, as he has frequently sung it with the greatest acceptance in the opera houses of the European capitals. mh3 otrp) LECTURE ON THE iIINDOOS.-Dr. Thomas delivers the second lecture of his course, at the Hall of the University of Pennsylvania, this evening. The lecture will be mainly devoted to a discussion of the system of Brahma, as it is developed in the present social and literary condition of Hindostan, and in the hands of this able lecturer the subject is sure to be treated in an interesting and instructive style. This course of lec tures, which includes the whole field of the religious and philosophic systems of China and India, is well worth the attention of our intelligent community. THE SPANISH-CHILEAN WAR Reported Proposal of an Armistice by the Spanish Commodore--- Summary Rejection of the Of fer by the Chilean Govern ment--Cuban Subscrip tion to Aid Spain in the War Against Chile and Peru. HAVANA, March I.—The Foment° news paper of Porto Rico copies a report from the Panama Star and Herald, to the following effect: That Commodore Nunez, command ing the Spanish squadron on the Pacific, had proposed an armistice, alPquestions at issue between Spain and Chile to stand as before the war; the Cavadonga and the Spanish prisoners to be returned to him, and commissioners to be appointed on both sides to treat the question amicably, all of which the Chilean government refused in a very decided manner. Nunez then proposed that the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs come on beard his flagship and arrange the armistice, to which the reply was that Senor Mendez Nunez was at liberty to come to the capital to make any proposition he saw fit, but that the Minister of Foreign Affairs could not leave to treat on any subject with the enemy. Some of our citizens having expressed their readiness to contribute towards the expense which the war with Chile and Peru may occasion to the government, the Cap tain General has signified his acceptance of the offer, and a committee has accord ingly been organized to collect the subscrip tions. This South American crusade, however, is very unpopular in this country, even wiili the Spaniards, who foresee no good likely to come from it, and find their commercial pursuits obstructed by it. The disastrous results experienced in St. Do mingo are by no means forgotten. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1866. LATER NEWS - FROM- EUROPE. AA-rival of the Java. Washington's Birth-Day in London, GRAND AMERICAN BANQUET. THE FENIAN EXCITEMENT. Mr.• Gladstone Takes It Coolly. Not Worth Reporting to Mr. Seward. Peruvian and Chilean Cruisers. A POLITICAL CRISIS IN PRUSSIA The Legislative Chambers Closed by the King. A. REVOLUTION IN ROUDIANIA Prince Couza Forced to Abdicate. Commercial Intelligence. NEw Yonk, March B.—The steamer Java has arrived with dates to the 24th ult. The steamer Etna arrived out on the 22d and the Virginia on the 23d. The new Inman steamship City of Paris, arrived at Liverpool, and would sail on March 21st for New York. She averaged 15 knots on her trial trip from Greenock. - The American Banquet, in London, on the 22d, in honor of Washington's Birthday, was attended by about two hundred ladies and gentlemen. The Hon. Freeman Alorse, Consul at London, presided. Among the guests were Minister Adams, the Secretaries of Legation, Hon. George Folsome, late U. S. Charge at the Hague, Professor Goldwin Smith, Cyrus W. Field, .t• c. Letters of regret were read from John Bright and other distinguished men. The usual toasts and sentiments were drunk. Mr. Adams confined his speech to a brief expression of thanks and patriotic aspira tions. An extraordinary meeting of the Atlantic Telegraph Company will be held March Bth, to receive the explanations of arrange ments made and and agreements entered into with the contractors and others for lay ing the cable during the present year. The House of Commons voted £6,000 a year and a dowry of .£30,000:to the Princess Helena, £15,000 a year to Prince Alfred, and the erection of a monument to Lord Palmerston in Westminister Abbey. On the 23d in the Commons, Mr. t ;lad stone said that no recent communications had taken place with the United States, relative to the joint squadron to the coast of Cuba to stop the slave trade. Mr. Labouchere called attention to the neutrality laws, and argued that the inter ests of humanity required their revision, and cited cases of Conl4clerate privateers as evidence. After some debate the Attorney General admitted that the subject was of considera ble importance, but he defended the course of the British Government, and trusted that the American people w9uld see ultimately 41itif it was only desirous of maintaining peace. The Government had no objection, and in fact advised Mr. Adams of its willingness to consider the question with the American Government with the view of rendering the law as effective as possible. Mr. Welkin asked if the government had made any representations to the American government relative to the Fenian proceed ings in America. Mr. Gladstone regretted that the subject had been broughCup. The government had no knowledge of any proceedings to justify them in making representations to the American . government. He believed public opinion in America condemned the movement. It would be undignified to remonstrate so long as no public, act was committed, amounting to a breach of the neutrality laws. The Irish police continue, actively, to ar rest suspected Fenians, and troops continue to t)e sent to Ireland. The cattle plague is still increasing. The latest weekly return shows 13,000 cases, the largest yet. The army and navy estimates show a merely trivial reduction. The Peruvian iron-clad Huascar remained at Brest under the surveillance of the autho rities. The Chilean cruiser Independence had also arrived there. The Captain of an'English vessel lying at Brest had been imprisoned for a week, it was supposed, for furnishing arms and am muhition[to the Huascar. The Banks of France, Prussia and „Ita have all reduced their rates of discount. The Prussian Government has suddenly closed its Chambers on the plea that the proceedings of the Deputies in opposition to the Government tended towards strife. The action was quite unexpected. President Grabow expressed the hope that the people would stand by theiA. representa tives and the Constitution. - - SHANGHAI, Jan. 26.—Tea is quiet. Ex change Os. 3d. HONG KONG, Feb. 1. 7 -Exchange 4s. Md. A private telegram from Bombay esti mates the tieficiency in the new Cotton crop at 400,000 bales. The Latest. LONDON, Feb.• 25.—Further arrests of Fenians were made yesterday. A box of grenades and Orsini shells:were seine' in Dublin. PARIS, Feb. 24.—Tbe Bourse is flat, Rentes 69f. 32c. A revolution has broken out in Rouma nia. Prince Couza was taken prisoner by the army and forced to sign his abdication. The Legislature unanimously proclaimed Count Flanders Hospodar, amidst general satisfaction. Much excitement prevails in- the neigh boring Principalities. Ship News. Arrived from Philadelphia, the ship Queen at Liverpool. Is• OP` ". Foreign Commercial Intelligence. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 24.—Cotton—The de mand has been to a fair extent throughout the week, but freely met by holders, and under the influence of the advices from America of increased receipts and a fall in prices t some decline was submitted to; but the reduction in the Bank rate tended to promote a steadier feeling at the close. American continued in general demand, and in the early part of the week com manded extreme rates; but during the last two days it receded, and closed about Id. below the former quotations. Sea Island Cotton is quiet but unchanged. For other discriptions the decline ranges .1 @ld. per pound. The week's business amounts to 58,600 bales, including 3,440 to speculators and 11,000 for export. The following are the authorized quotations: Fair. Middling. New Orleans, . . 201 I§4 Mobile, . . 19 18„ Uplands, . . . 191 181 On Friday the market was flat; sales of 8,000 bales, including 2,000 for speculators and for export. Stock in port 418,680 bales, If which 214;650 are American; at sea from ndia, 520,000 bales. STATE Or THADE.—The Manchester mar kets are generally steady. Breadstuffs—Flour is dull and unchanged. Wheat is in limited demand at late rates. Corn is in retail demand and prices rather favor buyers, mixed 2Ss. 3d. 0285. 9d. Provisions—Beef very firm and new par tially, 2s. 6d. dearer. Pork—no American in the market. Irish firm at fall rates. Bacon—holders of American demand an advance, and prices tend upwards. Butter is quiet but steady. Cheese is in speculative demand, and 3s.et.ss. dearer. Lard, Is. Ca, dearer •on the week; American, 73s@ 7,55. Tallow in fair demand for good at 485.(..44.55. tid. Produce—Ashes drooping, pots, :11s. 6d.01.305. 6d. Pearls neglected at 345.@345. 6d. Sugars firmer and 3*.iid. dearer. Coffee in moderate demand. Rice in good request, but the prices are below the views of holders: Bark, sales of Baltimore at 7s. 3d. Linseed very firm at extreme rates. Cloverseed, sales of American red at 465.( , i,503. Lin seed Cakes slow at i 9 40( , 1.9 12s. 6d. Jute very flat and lower. Linseed Oil quieter at 415.a415. itd. Rosin fiat and easier. Spirits of Turpentine quiet at 41s. for French. Petroleum dull at,,l2s. 2d.( 2s. 4d. for refined. MARKETS.—Barring reports Wheat slow of sale; white American 49( , t, 515.; red 46(6,495. Flour keeps scarce,at 266 t, 2Ss. Iron quiet; rails and bars £6 15s4t £7; Scotch pigs advanced to 775. 6d. Sugar firm 6d. n.ls. better. Coffee firm. Tea unchanged; Common Congon, ls. ld.ret la lld. Rice quiet. Linseed arm and tending upwards. Linseed cakes in rod demand; American barrels, £lO 15s.@ £11; bags, £lO 10s. Linseed oil, 3Ss. 9d.tt 395. Spirits of turpentine is offered at 445. Petroleum 2s. 3d. @s. 31d. for retined. Spirits, ls. sd.(a is. 6d. Sperm oil sells at £l2O. Tallow in good demand at 475. 9d. IMEEM:a LIVERPOOL. Feb. 24, P. M.—Cotton--The sales to-day amount to only 6,000 bales, in cluding 1,500 to speculators and for export. The market is very dull and easier. Breadstuffs quiet and without change. Provisions firm at yesterday's prices. Rosin still declining. Lox Dos. Feb. 24, P. M.—Consols closed at a7ias7l. Five-Twenties 691a691. Illinois Central Railroad 761a77. Erie Railroad 531 a 53i. The bullion in the Bank of England has increased £5 . 7,000. There has been a steady demand for 5-20's during the week, and some business done in Erie and Illinois Central at the prices given; but other Ame rican securities were neglected. Facts and Fancies. Sixty gold watches and a large number of valuable jewels were recently found en tombed in the cemetery at Montgomery, Ala. They were confiscated as belonging to the rebel Toombs. It is scarcely time to hear from the cargo of "anxious and aimless" women who sailed from New York in' the steamship Continental about the middle of January, bound for a port in Washington Territory. The recent developments in the New York courts would indicate that there is a screw loose somewhere in this enterprise. As the Continental is a propeller, it was necessary to have her screw loose, to allow it to turn round. As for these women being "aim less," we believe they not only have a name of their own, but expect to take a name of somebody's else. The Lyon Co. (Nev.) Sentinel publishes an account of a circular rainbow around the moon—a beautiful novel exhibition of something which it doesn't understand, but which it recommends, patronizingly, as "beautiful, moral and cheap." FENLANA.—The Fenian cry for "Money! Money! Money!" is waxing so loud that their President thinks of abbreviating his mime to "The O'M'oney." A poetic Fenian thus apostrophizes the reluctant brethren: Hereditary Bondsmen! know ye not, ho woulci be free themselves must strike the blow' He read it " 'ary Bondsmen." The O'M'oney has been offering all good Irishmen a chance to wear the Green, but he says he is becoming so disgusted that he is resolved to take the Greenback. General Sweeny says to every Fenian that the high road to Hibernian Independ ence iwthe pike. It will be some time,how ever, before the British lion sees the point. The present epoch of Fenianism is evi , ently its Bond-age. Our Irish friends are becoming so dread fully homesick, is the reason they are just now suffering so from the anal du pays. All.the Fenian orators insist that there can be no successful Pat-riot without every patriot will pay. Try it! The Fenian warrior need not appear in a uniform coat, but be must in vest. The ex-opera dancer, Clotilda, spends in Paris a million of francs yearly on her house-keeping and toilette, and yet she yearly becomes more and more of an old clo; Wilda. Experiments made on the Central Rail road demonstrate that peat may be used in running locomotives. So says the Peaters burg Express. A field of oats buried under an avalanche in Switzerland for 25 years, proceeded on its growth as. soon as the snow had melted. "When found makean oat," as Cattle would say. A boy at Ossipee, New Hampshire, four teen years old, has been sent to the State prison for six years for hoise stealing. His defence was that he thought that the Ossi pees were, entitled to an 'Oss a-piece. DURING about nine months of the past year, the export of gold from Australia was 1,648,693 ounces. INTERESTING MEXICAN NEWS What is Thought of the Napoleonic Promise to Withdraw the French Troops. The Battle of San•lgnacio, Movements of French Troops Toward the Rio Grande. Financial Doings of Maximilian, &c [Correspondence of the New York Hera VERA CRUZ, Feb. 11, IS66.—Tampico has not been taken by the Liberal General Menders. Menders delayed,and the position was reinforced. Business, in a mercantile point of view, is so dull at Tampico that some of the merchants there expect to have to close their establishments. All the country in the neighborhood of Tampico is entirely in possession of the Liberals. At last accounts communication had been cut off with San Luis Potosi, but it is probable that by this time it has been reopened, in consequence of Imperial movements in that quarter. General Parrodi lately passed through Queretaro on his way for the city of Mex ico. Saliatierra is being fortified. Accord ing to La Esperanza, detachments of troops are to be stationed at different points in lluirteca. The Boletin :liberal rilswspaper in Placatalpami announces the appointment of the republican General D. Porfirio Diaz as General-in-Chief of the line of the East. General Garcia will remain as second in command. The man who recently represented him self here as General Forrest late of the rebel army, is now reported l& have been the veritable Quantrell, whose guerilla opera tions during the continuance of the Southern rehellir a are well known to the people of the United States. Decrees are being issued by Maximilian ordering retrenchMent in the public offices. The Emperor has had some trouble with the Belgians. These were ordered to march and join General Mendez in the field. They refused to serve under Mendez,and adopted the protest of the Belgian prisoners in the hands of the Liberals as their ihwn. They held that they had come here to protect the Princess. sad that while they were not averse to fighting, still they would not fight under Mendez. who shot Arteaga, not caring if the Belgian prisoners 'be shot or not in retaliation. General Bazaine wanted to have 'every fifth of the offenders shot, but the Empress interfered in their behalf. The Belgians say that they are willing to give up their arms and go home in disgrace, bat they will not right under Mendez. ' 'lle second instalment of the Jecker c:aim was due in December last, but it is understood here that it has not been paid yet, VERA CRUZ, February 19th, 18643.—Nia zapil was occupied not long since by the Liberal command under Martinez, and the Imperialists were then endeavoring to prevent his further advance in the direction of I be interior. The Pcij , tro Verde, a Mexican newspaper denounces the distribution of Protestant Bibles in Mexico, as also the circulation of a Protestant Almanac, which has been cir culated, charging the Cathoilcs with idola try in their reverence to the saints. Some time ago General Mejia was au thorized by the Imperial government to draw against the Vera Cruz Custom House for $lOO,OOO. He did so draw. Within the last few days some of said drafts have been paid. Fifty thousand dollars were lately sent to en eral Mejia, by the French vessel-of-war Adonis. It is estimated that the income of the Cus tom House of Vera Cruz is from 515,000 to 't . .20,000 per day. This is a high figure, even on the average. Importations have very considerably fallen off lately. It is reported that the Emperor Maxi milian has just decided that the Mexican army shall for the future have three field marshals, and that General Mejia, who corn niandsf the corps .d'arnae on the Rio Grande, will shortly be promoted to the new grade in reward of his services to the Mexican empire. During the last few days, we have heard here, among the mercantile classes,a variety of opinions expressed on the all absorbing topic of the hour—" Will there or will there not be a war betweein Franceand the United States ?" Some were of opinion that such a war was not probable and that the Arch duke Maximillian would ere long succumb to the reality of the ominous threatenings of tl e present moment. Others have advanced ideas of an exciting character, in fact that a war is inevitable and that within a short time to come heavy reinforcements will ar rive, together with an abundance of material of war. On the 7th inst, the newspaper Noticioso, published in this city, was suspended by order of the Prefect. The suspension is to last for one month. It was made on • ac coun t of the Noticioso daring to criticise and expose the falsity of assertions made by French newspapers published in this coun try. Each one of the newspapers of the class to which the Aliotictoso belonged are as lighted candles in dark places. By means of them the Liberals get a little:light, if not a brilliant one, and as each light is snuffed out—and, by the way, the imperial ists have been very busy with their snuff ing operations of late—a darkness gathers around the spot where the light ex isted. It has been remarked that those whose deeds are evil prefer darkness. How aptly is this supported in that on the very morning when the Noticioso was suspended the native Mexicans; bound with cords and guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets, were driven through the streets of Vera Cruz. Immediately afterward these men were sentenced to be shot, their crime being that two of the party were taken while try ing to capture a railroad train, being sol diers in the Liberal army, and that the rest were members of a Liberalarmed force of the regular republican army. Civilized nations hurry off missionaries to the Fejee Islands to try and convert the savages there, but they bad better first send their missionaries to this part, and to the Court of Maximilian, to convert the savages in 11k4exico. Since the suppression of the Yoticioso,two other newapapers have been started in,this city. The friends of the newspapers are determined that an "organ" shall have ex istence as long as "organs" are - Permitted. VERA CRUZ, Feb. 20.—Aff official de f . spatch from General Mendez is - published giving the details of the fight at Sane Igna F. L. FETHERSTON. Publisher DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS. cio, stating that the Imperialists had badly defeated the Liberals, had taken 418 prison ers. and had sufferau very sligilc IoSS. VERA CRUZ, Feb. 21st.—Yesterday a de-t spatch was received from Mexico announ cing that a decree had been issued authori zing the issuing (and making the same a legal tender) of $20,0( 0,000 of imperial paper' currincy. Now, Mr. Cenfederates, you - gentlemen who came here exclaiming, "I had to leave the United States in order to get away from that nasty, dirty greenback stuff there," bow will you appreciate this imperial scrip? Will it be less dirty because it is "imperial?" The truth of the matter is, that the Confederates who can go back to the United States are not very anxious to remain here. The French troops under General Duoey* have gone out from San Luis Potosi in three columns, moving in the direction of the frontier, and leaving the city guarded by a small force of Imperialist Mexicans. Some French residents of San Luis Potosi went to the city of Mexico for safety. An order has just been issued to the officers of the Custom House at Vera Cruz to pass, without inspection, everything directed to the French. Why is this? Are the French going into the smuggling business on a grand scale, or have they some secret affairs to transact in connection with preparing for war with the United States? VERA Cut7z, February 22, 1866.—Some two weeks past the American brig Open Sea. Captain A. Coombs, cleared from New Orleans in ballast for Havana, having on board as passengers a very large party of Southerners late of the Confederate army. From some not very well defined cause said brig came into "this port" on the 18th and the Southerners were landed. Alto gether this must be looked upon as a very supiciou.s transaction, taken in connection W h certain facts bearing upon the organi zes ion of bands intending to raid through I the country for the purpose of robbing in discriminately. We are told here 'that ves sels leaded with "late rebels" are not per mitted to clear from New Orleans for Vera Cruz. If this is so then it looks very a:I-or gly as though Captain Coombs cleared for Havana, while intending to sail for Vera Cruz. It is all very well for the Cap tain and the "Confeds" to say that they were "blown" down here, which, in "one sen , ,e," is right enough ; but there is con siderable doubt as to how the brig was "steered." We are in possession of information that another craft left New Orleans lately (clear ing for Belize, Honduras!, loaded with more Southerners, and that the vessel is expected to arrive here at any moment. There is no doubt that the "Confederates" in Mexico are engaged in some secret move ment of no small imuortance,and no matter under what banner—with which party—they " take up" arms, they will certainly not fight on the, side which has got the - least money nor be particularly scrupulous about obeying any orders inconsistent with their own desires. True, they mean to fight when `• cornered;" but it is for " money," not glory, "this time," that they take the field. To-day Vera Cruz is alive with Confede rate Americans, even notwithstanding several parties of them have disappeared" within the last week or so. All the Consuls have their flags up, this being Washinon's birthday. Another newspaper—a small one—has just been suspended in Vera Cruz, while stillan other has received- I 'lle first warning." • • There is a great deal of talk on the-report of the contemplated issuing of paper cur rency by the imperial government. The liberals do not seem to be very active nor doing anything very brilliantjust now. HAVANA, March 1; eteamer Vera Cruz leaves this afternoon, and by her I send you the Mexican news received by her. Dates fram the capital are to the 18th, and from Vera Cruz tp, the :22d of February. It is said that Marshal Bazaine would shortly make a trip to Queretaro,to preside at ti councilof war in which important mili tary operationsnre to be determined. The government had given permission for the construction of a canal for the drainage of the city and valley of Mexico, which will. cost i.ks,ooo. Senor J. O. Forns has placed twenty-five square leagues of his land, on the estate of Limon, Tamaulipas, bordering on the river Panuco, at the diposal of the Colonization Commissioner. It is to be divided into sec tions of six hundred and forty acres, gratis, to each colonist with family, to alternate to an equal extent with other land of his own; and three hundred and twenty acres gratis to each immigrant, with the option of buy ing an equal extent at the price of two,dol lars per acre. He also gives free such land as may be occupied by the colony thus formed, together with the common road, which is to run through such colony, frost north to south, and measure sixteen yards wide. Some of the inhabitants of Cuernavaca had asked permission to form a guard of honor to Maximilian and his consort,which had been conceded, and several of them had been invited to his table. The new dollar coin had been issued; one side with the effigy of Maximilian and the other with the Mexican eagle surrounded with the imperial arms. A Juarez officer, Francisco Carrion, who, on the birthday of Carlotta, was put at liberty in Puebla, continues in thb cause of Juarez, and has published a manifesto at Tiacotalpan similar to that of Gorostiza, in which he speaks of persons in this city and Puebla, that "co-operate towards the final triumph of the national cause." Ihe news from Toluco of the 15th of Feb ruary is to the effect that two hundred Juarists, of Zitacuaro, for some days in movement, had attacked Xtapa, del Oro, or rather Tuxpan. On the 14th Corn. Gonzalez surprised them at daybreak; nearly the whole force were made prisoners, and Ugalde was among the reported killed, as other leaders were among the wounded. The liberals lost all their horses and arms. A letter from Marshal Bazaine in regard to the exchange of prisoners indicates that the following will be set at liberty—All officers taken by Colonel Portier, Colonel Vandersmissen, at Tacanbaro; by General Mendez, at Santa Ana Amatlan; all the sol diers prisoners in Morelia, at Oajaoa and Puebla; also Generals Tapia, Cambo and Ramirez. Captain Breamie, of the Belgian regiment, is to, preside over the exchange. The Sociedad copies this letter from the Juariat Boletin, but doubts the authenticity. General Fanory had arrived at Mexico to announce the accession of Leopold 11. to the throne of Belgium. , News from El Paso. WASHINGTON, March 7. 1866.-omcial 'news from El Paso, the seat of the national government of Mexico, has been received in this city up to the 10th of February.- 'Presi dent Juarez and his Cabinet had heard sa-7 . .'' . .!' - tisfactory news from.the interior. The dis.. atisfaction of the people against the French rule was growing every day. The movements of Genertd Ferraga's bri gade are thought to• render lIRCea the (6ntinued on the last Page)
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