GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 276.
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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.
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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
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