GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 277. EVENING BULLETIN. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. (Sundays excepted) at No. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia BY THE "Evening Bulletin Association," PROPILIWTOES. GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOUDER, Tr., Ir. L. EETHERSTON, I ERNEST 0. WALLACE. THOMAS 7. WILLIAMSON. The Bursicrrs is served to subscribers in the city at 18 cents per week, payable to the carriers, orBB 00 per suntan. MAR BRANTON—POOLE—Chi Thursday, March 8, 1866, St the Church of the Atonement, by the Rev. Benj. "Watson. Mr. James A. Bretton, of Hamorton Chester county, to Miss Jennie T. Poole, of this city. No cards. ycatisiF~s—FASSlTT—On Thursday, March Bth, 1866, by the Rev. Dr. Furness, at the house of the bride's another, Franl Furness to Fannie, only daughter of zhe late I. Wilson Fassitt. DIED. - - DBANR—On the morning of the 7th instant, Henry A. Drane, M. D.. in the 25th year of his age. His relatives and the friends of the family. Colum bia Lodge, No. 91, A. Y. M Philadelphia National Lodge, No. 223. L 0. of O. F'., and Southwark Hose Company, No. 9, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his father, No. 625 Pine street, on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. To proceed. to Ronaldson's Cemetery. etee• ItT,LTS—On the Bth instant, Philip H. Faits, in the Seth year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family, are re- Spectfhlly invited to attend 'his funeral from his late residence' No. 323 Coates street, on Monday, 12th Instant, at 2 o'clock. without further notice. To pro ceed to Woodlands Cemetery. saC JAYNR—On Monday. the sth instant, of typhoid pneumonia, David Jayne, M. D., in the 67th year of his gw 'rEfl . s relatives and friends, the friends of the fa nny and his Masonic Brethren, are respectfully in ',irked to attend his funeral from his late residence, No. 210, South Third street, on Saturday morning next, the lj Rata instant, at 10 o'clock, without further notice. To proceed to Woodlands Cemetery T.F.HMAN-This morning, Frank Imlay, son of Charles and Sarah E. Lehman. MARIANI-On the Bth Instant, Rev. Cajetan Ma riani, late Pastor of the Italian Church of St. Mary -Tclagdalene of "Pazzi." :•) The Rev. Clergy and relatives and friends are re- Spectrally invited to attend his funeral from his late 4 residence, Marriot street, between Seventh and Eighth, below Christian, on Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock. Solemn High Mess at St. Paul's Church, Inter. snent;ttt St Mary's Cemetery. PRICE-At Indianapolis, Minnesota. February 24th, Sarah Paul, daughter of Richard and Anna D. Price, aged 4 months. ROBERTS-In Smyrna, Del., on the 3d instant, of pneumonia James Roberts, Esq.,aged 48 years. SIMPSO2,- At Pittsburgh. March sth, Col. Edward Simpson, in the 64th year of his age. EYRE & LANDELL' FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE OPENING TO-DAY FOR SPRING SALE?. FASHIONABLE NEW SILE.R. NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS. NEW STYLAS SPRING SEA WLS. 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Par Value $lO 53 This Company owns in fee simple several valuable 'Silver Mines in Nevada. 50,000 SHARES FOR WORKING CAPITAL. 25.000 TO BE SOLD IN 25 LOTS AT $5 000 EACH. Subscaiptions received at the office until March 14th. BY ORDER OF '1 HE DIRECTORS. fe22-18trp T. S. EM.E.V, Treasurer. 3 , " UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. CLOSE OF THE 100TH SEL‘SIO The Commencement Exercises will be held at the AMFRICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, WEDNESDAY, March I4th. at 12 M. Valedictory by Professor HENRY H. SMITH, M.D. Music by the full Germania Orchestra. '1 he public is invited to attend. Tickets may be ob tained at PUGH S, Sixth and Chestnut, and at ASH -31 FAD t EVANS', 724 Chestnut street. Doors open at 10,L , o'clock. Music,will begin at 11 o'clock. mh7-w,f,m,tu,4tl R. E, ROGERS. M, D., Dean. NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD AND GREEN LANE STATION. • The undersigned have on hand a supply of i 7,RA - 70H COAL, equal to any in the market, which (,- they, , prepare with great care and deliver to the ;.. 7 residents of GERMANTOWN and its vicinity \at. the " following prices, viz BROKEN OR FURNACE COAL $9 00 per Ton. EGG OR SMALL FURNACE 9 00 -STOVE OR RANGE 900 " taIIIALL STOVE OR CITY NUT 9 00 " f , ' /NUT OR CHESNUT • . 8 50 " t' A deduction of FIFTY CENTS PER TON will be ~ ...j., r nade when taken from the yard. il2 Adhering strictly to ONE PItICE, an order by letter kill have the same effect as a visit in person and will 13e promptly attended to. , Address to the Oflice, f... FRANKLIN INSTITUTE BUILDING, '.4 15 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET, ,": , Or to the Yard, • BINF.S & SHEAFF, Green Lane and North Pennsylvania Railroad. PICILAD A. Feb. 24, 1866. fe26-ImrA Mr. JARVIS the season ;;;:advances the interest in these delightful '..concerts grows. At the ?natine yesterday '..afternoon, Mr. Jarvis executed his several '• .:'.bolos with true artistic skill and taste; .'•especially the "Song Without Words," and the Sonata. Mr. Gaertner gave us the grand violin Concerto by Mendelssohn with bis usual correctness and ability. The ;,':''Trio by Schumann was admirably played t-; by Messrs. Gaertner, Jarvis and Schmitz. The Foyer was filled by an appreciative audience, the majority of whom were ladies, k =any of them students of the piano, who End these pleasant occasions an excellent school for instruction and imitation. GERMAN OPERA.—Fra Diavolo was very played last evening. This evening The Huguenots will be produced for the first time by the Germans, and with a very ,:', , powerful cast. Mmes. Rotter, Naddi and —llziuba, and Messrs. Himmer, Hermans, "Wilhelm Formes, Armand and Weinlich all appear. Hermans will be magnificent as Marcel. To-morrow afternoon the corn ! pany will close their Philadelphia season with Flotow's delightful opera of Stradella. NEW Musw.—Mr. C. W. A. Trumpler has received a new song which is having a great rim in the West,called"Get out of Mexico." The words are by E. B. Dewing, and the l'lnusic by J. P. Webster. It is one of the -best hits of the kind that we have had for a • /ong time. MB. DEMPSTER, the favorite ballad singer, is' again in this country, and will give one o Vitis entertainments to-morrow evening at 4 'the Musical Fund Hall. The May Queen And a variety of his other popular songs are in the programme. ' PARTNER WANTED.—We call attention to korate advertisement for a partner, with mode xate carntalon an excellent business at ',4"lttsburgh, 1 . lea .. . . 4 . 11 • _ .. . , :..,, .., e I ;:1 .. ...; . . . . . ~ .. -• .. • : ''.. 1 * . l: . .. • .}. ;,• . '. , . . . . . , . . _ . . .• ~ . . -.. . . .. . . . ' . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . ~., 4 -(i.-1, . .',1-6!4'...•. '' ' .. . ' • • ..--- . . lED.. THE FENIAN EXCITEMENT. THE CANADIANS AROUSED. VOLUNTEERS CALLED OUT. Militia, Under Arms. Fights in the Streets in Hamilton, The Fenian Plan of Invasion of Canada, Rumored Seizure of Navy Island, &c. LCorrespondence of the New York Times.J MONTREAL, Wednesday, March 8-4 P. M.—Our usually dull city is all at once wide awake, and the centres of news, around Place d'Armes and Great St. James street, are in a great pustle. The principal hotels are as lively as any of your Broadway caravan saries, and for once the sleepy old capital of Canada is tolerably well aroused. This is owing in some degree to the action of the Home Government in suspending the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland, but more directly to the stories here told of the ex traordinary activity of the Fenians in New York and other large cities of the United States. It is judged by some of the best in formed that the Fenians must make a de monstration on or before St. Patrick's Day upon these provinces, or else the fever will cool off, the sale of bonds will cease, acid the entire movement come to a very contemp tible failure. It appears that our Government, what ever they may believe, are willing to admit the fact, and have accordingly taken steps to resist the possible demonstration. It is now known, by despatches from Ottawa, that yesterday, immediately upon the ar rival of Hon. Mr, McGee, from Montreal, a Cabinet Council was held. At the impor tant sitting were present Messrs. John A. Macdonald, Galt, Campbell, McGee, Cha pias, Backburn and Ferguson Blair. . In view of present circumstances and the vast amount of property at stake, and the more important consideration, the protec tion of our fellow subjects along the frontier, exposed to the marauding operations of the Fenians, it was resolved to call out 10,000 volunteers for the protection and defence of the Canadian frontier. This step is adopted mainly as a precau tionary measure, but if wanted for more active service, the volunteers will be on hand. It ishoped that active exertions will not benecessary, but if theyare, the Govern ment relies with confidence and courage on the Canadian volunteers. Very naturally this action has produced intense excitement, and the usually phleg matic citizens who go to bed at sunset, are dazzled and bewildered with the great event. The red-coat martinets of the regular army swell wonderfully and from Colonel down to Orderly Sergeant they are profoundly silent, mysterious and consequential—the salvation of the Provinces seems to rest upon their Atlantean shoulders. The orders for calling out ten thousand militia were promulgated in this morning's papers. 'All at once it was discovered that Montreal was crowded with strangers, and when these innocents came down to break fast and took seats they had occupied—a good many of them—since the outbreak of your late rebellion, they were glowered on so frightfully by the John Bulls that the poor fellows, innocent as lambs of anything that might possibly smell of gunpowder, shrunk into their very slippers. All nasal toned sojourners are suspected, and we must show clean bills of health, or very possibly be compelled to take the first train for St. Albans, where our bank accounts are kept. There are a few armories here, contain ing relics of the wars of Queen Anne and some Modern arms. Around these the au thorities have stationed guards, just as if they were in danger. Some suspect con siderable Fenian strength lying perdu in this city; but I cannot imagine it possible. Our population is much more than half French, of the Kanuck pattern; and of those who speak English, not one in twenty is an Irishman. However, we have got the' scare, and it must run its course. The Telegraph, looking toward and re membering St. Albans, with a sort of guilty conscience -tone, says: "In view of the fact that Montreal is at the present time favored with the residence of a large number of suspicious strangers, who exhibit a good deal of interest in our banks and other• depositories of money and pro perty, it would be a wise precaution for the citizens to organize ward patrols. A little extra precaution at this time may prevent some wailing hereafter over the want of it." The Gazette, after quoting accounts of Fe nian movements on your side of the forty fifth parallel, talks in this way about inter national obligations: "If our neighbors really intend to take measures to prevent mischief, and to keep themselves from embroilment because of Fenianisna, it is time they should act. It is evident now to every one that the Fenian leaders are making use of the suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland to inflame the ardor of their dupes to the uttermost. They are making the most frantic efforts to raise men and money. That they can raise money enough to carry. ; on operations on a large scale we do not believe. That they can raise men and money in plenty for marauding parties isnot to be doubted. As to the question of wrestling either Ireland or Canada from Great Britain, that we re gard as simply preposterous. But there is just now not a little danger that forays along the frontier, or even against Montreal itself, may be attempted before the navigation opens. Not many of those who come over would go back. Our hospitality would keep them forever. But lives will be lost and property destroyed, for which the apathy of their Government will render the United States responsible. It is not a question of secret preparation,of which a Go ment can either be ignorant or pretend ignorance. The preparations are open, avowed, boasted of, paraded. The United States Government, takes .no step to stop the work, and these men think, and have reason to think, that it desires it to go on, to encourage and foster it. Perchance the Government holds it best to allow the pas sion of the Fenians to expend itself in gas conade, and; thus fully exerted, it will soon est die out. It is possible the authorities are right, but they risk much by such a course. At. all events, the course we must pursue is obvious. A blow will be struck almost immediately, or the bubble will burst. Da ring the next four weeks, therefore, every Canadian must be prepared to do duty as a policeman and soldier; to obtain and furnish PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAACH 9, 1866. information to the government, and to use arms to repel attack should any band of ruffians invade any portion of the country. The Government must act, too, vigorously and with decision. No cost should be spared to secure the safely of the country. Under present circumstances, Parliament will as suredly not haggle over the bills for the militia when sent in. We have apparently very little to hope fbr from the good faith of our neighbors. We must only act the more vigorously in our own behalf." From these hasty notes you will be able to learn that we are up and doing, and for once have cast off that hvbernation of the long winter of which yon warmer blooded people are wont to make fun. Up to this hour, however, there has been nothing more warlike than the scouring of old swords and the greasing of rusty mus ket barrels. When the grand onset may come, of course we cannot say; but if the Chief Executive and Head Centres think they cen catch us asleep, they will find themselves very distinctly mistaken. I learn from Rochester that the Canadian militia were called out at Suspension Bridge to guard against an apprehended raid by the Fenians. No raid occurred, it being ostponed until St. Patrick's day. The Excitement in Hamilton, C. W. [Correspondence S. Y. World HA3IILTON, C. W., March B.—The excite ment here consequent upon the order of the government calling out ten thousand volun teers, simply beggars description. It is just such as convulsed your people when Art Sumter was fired upon. Among English Canadians but one opinion is expressed—to obey the commands of the government without question, and to rally for the fight now considered inevitable. It must.be said, however, that the acts of the Irish here are very mysterious. _ The sympathizers with Fenianism do not attempt to conceal their exultations, and they declare that Sweeny will be heard from within twenty days. The excitement has expressed itself already in several fist lights in our streets. In one affray, near the post office, an Irishman, named Rooney, drew a revolver on Consta ule Warner, but the weapon was secured and the offender marched off to jail, sur rounded by an excited crowd. ALBANY, March B.—The Governor, it is understood, has received a despatch from Ogdensburg, announcing the fact that 10,- tioo volunteers have been called out by the Canadian government„ and that 2,500 men are to be stationed at Prescott. t The Gover nor is implored to call out three regiments of militia, to be stationed at Ogdensburg, to prevent raids from this State, which it is feared will grow out of the fact of the pre sence of a formidable force of Canadian troops in Prescott. Tho Fenians of Ogdens burg are very much excited, and state that with the help furnished by the Circles in Potsdam, Canton and Hermon, they can take and hold Prescott. The Fenians here look upon a Canadian-Fenian war as inev itable. ORIGINAL. The Fenian Plan of aCanadian Campaign. The World says : • The Fenian circles are at this time in tensely excited with regard to the opening campaign of the Brotheittood against Canada and the British Provinces. All eyes turn to general Sweeny, who is ready to develop his theories of action. He is be lieved to have the most practical ideas of war; and having already large stores of arms, a treasury, and transports, he is con centrating upon himself the enthusiasm of those Irishmen who are weary of talk and eager for work. • We visited some of the leading Fenian Circles yesterday, and obtained the follow ing suggestions, which it is believed embody the entire Sweeny programme for the inva sion of our British neighbor's territory . Grand Strategy—The Partition of Canada, Expeditions for the invasion of Canada will rendezvous at Detroit and Rochester, ,nd at Ogdensburgh and Plattsburgh, and at Portland. The forces assembled at the two first-named points are to operate con against Toronto, Hamilton and the west of Lpper Canada. From Ogdensburg ;. ud Platts burg demonstrations will be made :.gainst Montreal, and ultimately Quebec; Kingston will be approached by Cape Vin cent, while Portland will be the general place of embarkation for expeditions against the capitals of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The Bases of Operations The Canadian and Provincial borders once crossed, bases of operations will be estab lished in the enemy's country, so that in ternational quarrels with the Washington government may be evaded. • There are to be lands chosen at the head of Passama quoddy Bay, Saint John's on the Chambly, close to the foot of Lake Champlain; Pres cott, on the Saint Lawrence; Wolf Island, :it the head of Lake Ontario; Hamilton, Co burg, Goderich and Windsor, in Upper Canada. These places are all within con venient distances of the United States, and afford by water an easy retreat, as well as cunning receptacles for fresh American levies. The Forces at the Disposal of the Fenian. The Sweeny government calculates to have, by.the first of April, fifteen millions of dollars at its disposal, in ready cash. This will give transportation and mainte nance for one month to thirty thousand men, a greater number than were ever before mustered to the conquest of the Canadian possessions. Of this force, eight thousand will carry the line of the Grand Trunk Road west of Hamilton; five thou sand, crossing from Rochestor to Cobourg, will be prepared to move either east, in time to act jointly with'three thousand men from Wolf island, upon Kingston, or to take pert with the western detachment in the capture of Toronto. All this, it is be lieved, will be the work of two weeks. Thus intrenched securely in "Upper • Canada, holding all the routes of the Grand Trunk, with sufficient rolling stock secure to con trol the main line, the Fenians hope to attract to their colors fifty thousand Ameri can Irishmen, and equip a navy on Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario. The avenues to return so being secured, thirty thousatui men, under General Sweeny, will move down the Saint Lawrence, upon Kingston, simultaneously with ten housand men by the lines of the Chambly, and these will converge upon Montreal; in the meantime isolated expeditions from the rendezvous at Saint Andrews will reduce Saint John and Halifax, therm furnishing depots for priva teers and ocean men-of-war to intercept British transports and effectually close the Saint Lawrence. Quebec will thus fall by the slow conquest of time; or, if the resour ces of the garrison should be greater than the patience of the invaders, the same heights which two Irishmen have scaled be fore, will again givti, foothold to the columns of the Brotherhood. The Plan of Invasion In Detail. . At Chicago, the Fenians already poSsess five sailing vessels, a tug and two steam transports; at Buffalo, they are negotiating for vessels; at Bay City, Michigan, and at Cleveland, they have other craft in process of refitting; these will simultaneously raise le• Oti` , ". the green flag, and stand ready to succor the land forces. Goderich, Sarnie and Windsor will be simultaneously occupied; all the available rolling stock seized, and the main ;ins of the Grand Trunk cut at Grand river, to prevent the passage of cars and locomotives to Hamilton. The geo graphical configuration of the western half of tipper Canada will permit of a few thousand men holding the entire section of country between Cobourg and the Georgian Bay. These are connected by a chain of lakes and water courses, and the country affords subsistence for a vast army. Horses sufficient to mount as many cavalry as the Brotherhood can muster, quartermasters' teams in quantity, and a vast quantity of lake shipping will at once be the property of the organization. The country will at once be reduced to a grand military department, with Hamilton for the capital' and a loan advertised for. While this is 'being nCgotiated, Gen. Sweeny will push ' rapidly ffirward on the line ,f the Grand Trunk, in time to superintend the fall of Montreal, where ocean shipping will be found in great quan tity. With the reduction of Montreal a de mand will be made upon the United States for a formal recognition of Canada, whose name is to be changed at once to New Ire land. While this is being urged, the green _flag will scour all the bays and gulfs in Canada; a Fenian fleet from San Francisco will carry Vancouver and the Frazer River country, to give security to the Pacific squadron, rendezvousing at San Juan, and the rights of belligerents will be enforced from the British Government by prompt retaliation for the cruelties of British courts m artial. Ability of the Fenian to Hold Canada. The population of the British provinces is little above two and a half millions, and the military resources of the united pro vinces fall short of sixty thousand men Of these nearly ten thousand are of Irish birth or descent. The States will furnish for the subjugation of these eighty thousand veteran troops. With the single exception of Quebec, it is believed the whole of the British provinces will fall in a single campaign. During the ensuing win ter, diversions will be put in motion in Ire land and while it is believed the Brother hood can defy the Queen's war transports to land an army in the West, arrangements will be developed to equip a powerful navy, for agglessive operations on the sea. Before the Ist of June, it is thought, fifty commis sioned vessels of war and privateers, carry ing three hundred guns, will be afloat, and to maintain these a tremendous moral in fluence will be exerted upon every Irish- American citizen to contribute to the utmost to the general fund for the support of the war. By the tempting offer of a surrender of Canada to the United States, Mr. Seward, it is hoped, will wink at connivance be tween American citizens and the Fenian conquerors, and by another summer it is thought the dominion of the Brotherhood north of the St. Lawrence will be formally acknowledged by the United States, Russia and each of the American republics. The third year of Irish tenure in Canada will, it is believed. array two of the great powers against Great Britain. Jelin Mitchel, in Paris, will organize the Bureau of Foreign Agents; and Ireland,maintaining a position of perpetual revolt, will engage for her own suppression a considerable part of the re gular British levies. European Operations. At the present time a bureau of opera tions is being quietly organized in Paris, where the opposition press has already pro claimed for Irish nationality. It is Mr. Mitchel who sees that the funds of the Brotherhood are distributed in Ireland; he oiso is in correspondence with liberal states men in Great Britain, and conducts tho dis integration of the British army by touching the loyalty of the Irish troops, who consti tute one-third of the Queen's service. A ru on g the earliest aggressive operations will be the overhauling of a Cunard steamer between .N OW York and Cape Race,„with I.er usual allotment of specie. In like man ner, the British lines of steamers proceeding iron England to Quebec, Portland, Boston and Halifas , will be arrested and their funds secured. Military operations in Ireland must, of necessity, be confined to the interior. Three 'unitary departments will be organized, the Shannon, the Liffey, and the Foyle, and the campaign will, be entirely predatory or guerilla in its conduct. The British Coast Guard stations will fall easy conquests, their number and isolation contributing to their ruin; while from the Wicklow moun tains through all the rocky fastnesses of Ireland, the cottagers will descend upon the British garrisons, maintaining perpetual and bloody rebellion till the better news comes across the sea, or the patience of England is quite worn out. This is the Fenian programme as talked in ail tne military conventicles, and embrac ing the extreme aspirations of the boldest Fenians. Said one of these to us yesterday: "The logic of circumstances is one of our dependencies. The curse and hazard of Europe springs from the condition of things against which we rebel. As the Celt, in Ireland, is an unwilling subject of the Saxon, so are the Magyars deadly enemies of their conquerors, the Germans ; the Sclave nations of the Turks, and the Poles of the Russians. Our example will set these in motion. We will teach them all that the safety of Europe lies in justice to the Irish. There is no reason why we rani not carry on a war like the Northmen, who conquered in succession France, Sicily and England. We are a martial people, and our natural tendency is for the profession of arms. We are bent upon this thing, and if all our race perish, we shall achieve it." How A LADY WAS SAVED.—Among the passengers on board the ill-fated steamer W. R. Carter, was a Miss Canfield, of Cin cinnati. How she was saved is related as follows—Miss Canfield was in the water three hours and a half. She does not re commend the cork life preserver very highly. She had one on; and when she got into the water, she get a small board and floated with that. While in the water, some person grabbed her foot and held on in their death struggle. She says she was perfectly calm, and not excited in the least. She saw she could not keep up, so she gave a sudden kick, and the person who held her by the foot let go, and she floated on down stream. She says she was held up by this board, and a mule which had come in contact with the board. The mule held the board up for more Qtat half an hour with his nose. Miss Canfield lost everything she had excepting her watch, which she went back to her state room for before going into the water. She was picked up by a boat from the Evening Star, and taken with others to Vicksburg. SINCE the war broke out, the Quarter master's Department at Cincinnati has pur chased clothing and equipage to the amount of upwaTd .of $80,000,000, at the rate of $2,000,000 per month. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Anticipated Rupture Between Maxi milian and the French-- - Marshal Ba zaine in Bad Oder at Headquar ters---Actual Position of the Empire--The Internal Im- Provements, New Rail ways, Dykes, Public Buildings, &c. Worrespondent:e of the New York World.] MEXICO, February 12.—1 shall not in fringe upon the domain of the Associated Press, or worry your compositors into fits. by sending you full and particular accounts of all the battles and skirmishes which have diversified the life of the French expedi tionary corps and the Austro-Mexican legion since I last wrote you. There has been the usual amount of fighting in a small way at places with the usual unpronounceable names, and with the usual results. But the genefal fact remains unchanged, that the imperial government is the only de facto authority existing in Mexico. A few honest Republicans, such as Riva Palecios, Re gules, 'and Alatorre, are conceded'even by the imperialists to be ; a few imprac ticable office-holders, such as ex-Pre sident, Juarez, pretty plainly is ; and an indefinite number of rascals like Cortina and Escobedo, are indeed resisting this "general fact" with more or less energy in different parts of a territory half as large as Europe. But that for all practical purposes the Emperor Maximilian is ruling Mexico on the whole more completely than any one man who has tried his hand at the business for forty years past, I really can see no good reason for doubting. Do e s this imply that the Emperor Maximilian is ruling Mexico isely,or that he is so ruling it as to lay the foundations of a durable authority? Ab ! that is another matter not so easily or so positively to be re solved. Within certain limits, all people agree that the public security is greater than it has for many years been. One of the most accomplished men in Mexico told nie, for instance, the other day, that he had just returned from the first visit which he had been able to pay to his estates in Morelos for twelve years. Had he ventured to go there four or live years ago, he would have been captured and held to a heavy ransom by the brigands on the way. Da ring this long interval of non-residence the estate had been repeatedly robbed—losing more than twelve thousand head of horned cattle in all. To-day, the proprietor of this castle in New Spain can see his fields and his houses with his bo dily eyes, and even see his little chil dren with him. Of course, he looks upon the empire as the salvation of Mexico. On the other hand, the recent destruction of property at Tancasnequo and Tantoyuquita, almost under the eyes, and entirely under the guarantee of a French force, proves that the organized brigandage of the country has not been suppressed ; and that, merely as a means of expressing their hostility to the empire, there are men in Mexico who will use that organized brigandage against pri vate property. As for the highway robbe ries which take place occasionally near the very gates of Mexico city, and the attacks on the diligences, it seems to me too much is made of these things politically. At the close of all the discussions I have had with practical people here about the Empire and its chances, one reply invari ably comes up: "After the railway is the mpiie' " This is only the shortest way of stating what seems to me to be the funda mental truth about Mexico. That Maxi milian has disappointed the people who brought him here; that he has alienated the "Conservatives;" that he is surrounded by Liberals, who cannot rationally be sup • posed to have changed their souls with their coats in a few months' time; that he is on the eve either of a rupture with the French or of a revolt against the French —these things are repeated to me so often and with such particularity of cir cumstantial proof by people from whom, if from anybody, the truth about Mexico must be learned, that I have no reason to doubt their accuracy. That the United States can in any way be induced to help to establish an empire which cannot establish itself is, of course, utterly out of the ques tion. And the position of the Emperor, herefore, would naturally seem to be pre carious and perilous in the extreme. But the railway from Vera Cruz to the capital is pushing steadily and rapidly on, and with the successful opening of that railway such a change must come over the face of things here that no man can wisely under t aket o forecast its possible results,as well po litical as social and commercial. Then for the first time Mexico will have a chance to be come a nation, instead of the congeries of incongruous States, and races, and districts, and castes which it now is and has been ever since the fall of the Spanish power de stroyed the only unity it has ever possessed. If Maximilian can contrive to keep his head above water till that time, it may very well be that the great interests called into being by the opening of a new era in Mexico will find it desirable to concentrate themselves around his throne rather than to risk new convulsions. In the interval, too, no hostile demonstration being made by us, and no sound reason of home or foreign policy pushing it to make such a demonstration, it is difficult to see who can have anything to gain by rejecting him. Those who most dislike him have put their necks into a noose by bringing him here; the French have wound themselves up into a terrible tangle with him. Unless he goes completely mad and upsets all the financial arrange ments which other people are working night and day to perfect, it will, I think, be a great deal harder to get him out of Mexico than it was to bring him here. Like Nezahualcoyote, about whom the good Mr. Prescott so gracefully raves, Max imilian has a tremendous passion for build ing. He has,just bought a new estate near Cuernavaca, where heproposes to put up an Indian cottage, in addition to the palace of Cortez, which he is rebuilding, and which he intends to have refurnished as nearly as possible in the style of the age of the con quest. But there must be a limit to these things, and Mr. Langlais, the French finan cier, whom Napoleon has sent out to look after the new empire seems 4to be preparing to put a pretty Positive veto upon them. Marais' Bazaine also is out of favor just now at Paris. A special bearer of despatches came out to him by the last French steamer with communications, as I am credibly informed, more pointed and peremptory than flatter ing, .or even polite. .The Emperor will re turn here from Cuernavaca in the beginning F. L. FETHKRSTON. Nader. DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS, of the week,to receive a deputation from his Belgian brother-in-law,and to exa mine some new projects for building, not palaces but dykes and ra m parts, against the waters which threaten to flood the city, as soon as the heavy rains set in. The alarm on this sub ject among the old inhabitants of Mexico is on the increase,despite the assurances of the imperial engineer in chief, Mr. Garay, that be has saved the capital. The Mexican Times recommends the government to call in the services of an eminent engineer from Louis iana, now in Mexico, and familiar with the whole system by which New Orleans has so long been protected from the deluge which is forever at its doors. Facts and Fanc ies The latest blunder of the age: A Cop perhead cotemporary describes the gentle man who writes such pretty notes to the Gas Office as "a rough customer and sharp writer." It should read "a rough writer and sharp customer." At a gathering of horticulturalists yes terday, a gentleman asked what family of Cly niers our Democratic candidate belonged to, and was answered "The Virginia, or Southern Creeper." Mem. One species of creeper is known as the Copperhead. The "Margaret" is the latest sweet thing in ladies hats. Then the Spring "Openings" will be a grand Scan-Mag. Mr. George F. Burder, of Clifton, Eng land, states that a spot, or rather a cluster of spots, of very unusual size, may now be seen on the sun's disc. It is so large as to be conspicuously visible to the naked eye when the sun is looked at through a colored or smoky glass. Rather a qualification, that, to the "naked eye"-dea. A blacksmith named Coles,:of Tlminster, has performed a feat which rivals that ascribed to William Tell. A child, aged 7 years, placed over his head an iron band similar to that used for the nuts of cart wheels. The child's neck began to swell, and the parents were horrified to find that it was impossible to remove the band, and speedy suffocation was imminent. Coles was called in, and suggested the desperate idea of hammering off the iron with a sledge, and he successfully cothpleted his dangerous task. Whilst one person held the legs and another the head of the little one, Coles fearlessly smashed at the ring and severed it. A false blow of half an inch, and instantaneous death must have re sulted. The child was tired before the in teresting operation was finished. SAVAGE Fro= tw SCHOOL.—Capt. Clif ford, says a Marion (Ky.) correspondent of January '-'9th,fonnerly of the 48th Kentucky Volunteers,but better known as the "Bloody 48th," has for several months past been the teacher of a very large school two miles south of this place. Everything was pro gressing finely until last Friday, between the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock, P. M., when the professor noticed a. disturbaiace, and, on investigating it, found it necessary to inflict a punishment on some one of his pupils; and while engaged in this, other scholars interfered in behalf of the pupil, while the other part acted in behalf of the professor, and a general fight ensued. There were about sixty boys in school at the time, and they were about equally divided for and against the Professor. Some half dozen boys managed to get the professor in an ad joining room and were about to use the old fellow up, when about twenty of the boys, headed by the gallant Lieut. Woodsides, formerly of the same regiment, came to his rescue, but was unfortunately mortally wounded by a pistol shot. Capt. Clifford was badly cut by a knife. School teaching in Kentucky must be a dangerous business. A NOVEL BOOR OF ORIGINAL ENTRIES. —Judge Sterrett, of the Common Pleas, was engaged yesterday in the trial of the case of John R. Remaley vs. George Remaley's ad ministrator, being an action for labor done. The prosecutor worked for his uncle, George Remaley, deceased, but being unable to read or write, and having no other account than that kept . by notching two little pine sticks, the administrator refused Ito pay him. The sticks were admitted in evidence by Judge Sterrett, as the only book of origi nal entries, which the plaintiff had, and the notches being sworn to as correct, and made on the days on which the work was done, the jury found for the tiff a verdict for $llB. The above re nds us of a story told of a tavern keeper who flourished here many years ago, and who, having sued a customer for a grog bill, was required by the Justice of the Peace to produce his "book of origi nal entries." The dram seller went home "kid soon after returned with a 70i7Itiow shut ter, upon which the score had been chalked down. The window shutter was admitted, and the defendant had to pay for his nips.— Pittsburgh Gazette. TURNPIKE CHARTER VACATED BY FINAL JunontENT.—After six years of litigation, the Supreme Court of the United States, on Monday last, affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, which af firmed the judgment of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, vacating the charter of the Baltimore, and Washington Turnpike Company. The road is now free to, all travelers, and no power has existed to col lect tolls on said road from Monday, March sth. The road bed will, of course, be con demned by the authorities of the counties.' through which it passes as a county road, otherwise the legal supposition is that the land has reverted to the original owners, with power at once to enclose it.—Balt.Sun. FAYETTE SPRINGS HOTEL BII,RNED.—On Tuesday, the 27th ult., the large and well furnished hotel at Fayette Springs, with its entire contents was destroyed by fire, which caught from a stove pipe. There were nine ty-eight rooms in the hotel, which were ele gantly fitted up for a large 'summer bnsi , Less. The lessees, Messrs. Bunting & Wig-' ging, had made many valuable improve ments in the building, and were prepared• to accommodate a still larger number of guests than passed the summer of 1865 there. The hotel and furniture were owned by Hon. Andrew Stewart, whose loss will be about twenty thousand :dollars, on which there is no insurance. This disaster will be unpleasant news to many of our citizens, who contemplated passing the coming "heated term" at Fayette Springs.—Greens burg (Pa.) Herald. THEEXPRESS ROBBERY AT ST. LOUIS.— We have additional particulars respecting the perpetrators of the robbery of $40;00 0 from a messenger of the United States Ex press Company, in St. Louis, a short time since. Two men, noted thieves, named Jshnson and Neumeister, were arrested a few days since, and about' half the money recovered from them and other persons to whom a part of the spoils bad been given- Three principals in the robbery are still at large. Johnson and Neumeister have pub lishscl affidavits in which they assert that some deteptives, whose names they'give, were the instigators of the robbery. , This is denied by the detectives, who call for an in vestigation.
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