The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-17 00:00:00

EPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tunes again attacks the constitutional formula which requires that members of the Government should seek re-election after accepting office. It doubts whether the system of re-electing members of Parliament who have taken Ministerial office was ever put to an ordeal, on the whole, so trying as this ; and the result is awkward, since the system is one of those time-honoured national institutions which it is almost impossible to defend, at least on its own merits. How on its own practica l merits any sort of decent defence can be made out for it, we fail to see. Even its most ardent admirers appear to admit that in the present position of English politics it is little more than ornamental, or, if in any way useful, only so as a con spicuous monument of a constitutional principle so important that it should be allowed to run no risk of being overlooked. But they add that under certain conceivable circumstances—such, for instance, as the accession to the British Throne of an able but wrong-headed king—it might still, with a host of similar contrivances, subserve the purpose for which it was originally devised, to protect the people from the too powerful prerogative of the Crown. Thus—to put a case which, however extreme, does well nlugh for illustration—if Mr. Gladstone were a dangerous Minister whom the Queen ought not to have appointed, Greenwich might now stand between the people and the Throne, and reject him. But surely Parliament would be quite capable of keeping the Premier's despotic tendencies in order without the assistance of Greenwich, and ought to reflect the general feeling of the country decidely better than any single constituency? Besides, although it is con venient for the argument, it is scarcely fair to assume that, in any difference of opinion between them, Greenwich must necessarily be tight and the Crown wrong. The reverse might happen, and a Premier approved by the great majority of the people, as well as by the Crown, might be unseated, and for a time kept out of his own proper place in the House of Commons by one small constituency. It is absurd to suppose that, with the close intercourse now kept up between members and their constituencies, Parliament would not reflect the popular feeling better than any one constituency. Subservience, not absolutism, is in these days the besetting danger of Parliaments. The accident to a goods train on the Brighton Railway suggests to the Daily News some remarks on the carriage of oils. A North-Western truck, laden with petroleum or some inflammable oil, bad been passed on to the Brighton line to be sent to France. The precaution had been taken to put the barrels in a covered van, or box truck, but as the train stood at a siding in the darkness, a watchful guard detected a leakage from the truck, and went lamp in hand to ascertain its cause. As he stepped into the vehicle the vapour caught fire, and in an instant he was enveloped in a sheet of flame which filled the interior. A fellow-guard helped him out, but he has since died of his burns, and it is only too probable that his gallant rescuer may not recover from the injuries he received. It is impossible to say that anybody was to blame for this calamity; but its accidental nature suggests whether explosive and combustible oils ought to be carried by railway at all. They can hardly have special trains to themselves, and they will always be sources of danger to any trains by which they are sent, and to the whole traffic of the line. But why need they go by rail at all ? The country is covered with a network of canals which still carry some of the heavy traffic. Would it he a severe hardship if the carriage of explosive oils were limited to them? It makes all the difference in the danger that the one class of traffic is by fire and the other by water ; and the slower movement of water carriage would only render it needful that orders should be given a day or two earlier. The Times considers Mr. Reverdy Johnson's speech at the Fishmonger's banquet as decisive in the matt, r of the Alabama difficulty. The telegraphic abstract of the President's Message informed us that there were some points in the proposed arrangement from which the United States Government withheld their assent, soil we desired to be further informed whether these points were of primary or of subordinate importance. If the main principles of a treaty are agreed upon, there can be no doubt the two Governments will be able to adjust matters of detail. We are glad, therefore, to find that Mr. Johnson renews, in the most unqualified terms, the encouraging assurances he had previously expressed. The fear that there exists . any insuperable impediment to a settlement is, he declares, " all a delusion." " There is not," he says," the most remote possibility that the friendship between the two countries will not be fixed upon a firm and endurable basis." He repeats that "there is not the most distant expectation" of a failure ; and he hopes no one will endeavour by a report to the contrary to depress the English or American funds. In the face of these statements there ought no longqr to be any doubt of the successful result of the negotiations. Mr. Johnson has, of course, been in communication withhis Government, and is fully acquainted with their views. He knows also the point beyond which we are not prepared to go ; and when he asserts so positively that there is not the in st remote possibility of disagreement, we are bound to regard the question as virtually settled. The Standard thinks the correspondence between Mr. Coniugsby, on behalf of the working men of London, and Mr. Reverdy Johnson is an episode at once painful and ludicrous in the contemporary history of our relations with America. Among the various insults to which the American ambassador has been subjected, while in this country upon a mission of peace, from the Radical party and their organs, perhaps the most flagrant as well as ingenious one is this last—to ask Mr. Reverdy Johnson to dinner, and then to put him off upon the ground that he is not popular among his own countrymen. The exquisite bad taste, paltriness of spirit, and effrontery of this proceeding are quite in keeping with the more deliberate attempts which have been made by the Radical press in England to discredit Mr. Reverdy Johnson, and to bring his mission into contempt. First to ask a man to dinner, and then to tell him he is not good enough company, is as bad a compliment in the abstract as any one can pay his neighbour. To treat a stranger so in a foreign country is a refinement of snobbishness. But the so-called working men of London have managed to surpass even this almost impossible feat of shabbiness. They asked Mr. Reverdy Johnson to dinner, being a visitor charged with the representation of the United States in England, and after deliberate consideration of all the circumstances, including a careful scrutiny of Mr. Reverdy Johnson's personal character, they tell him, in almost as many words, that he must not come to their dinner because certain of his acts are not agreeable to the majority of his countrymen at home. The Herald says that Mr. Johnson and the working classes of England are not alienated one from another. It was a clique which invited him ; it was a coterie which rescinded the'invitation. We beg the American Minister not to misjudge this incident. It denotes nothing, except that the peculiar conceits of certain insignificant cabals generally result in confusion. We wonder where the balance of loss lies—with the diplomatist who has lost his dinner, or with the gentlemen who have thus bonnetted their opportunity of self-display? The Telegraph rather roughly disposes of the pretensions of Greece. The plain truth is, that the Hellenic Kingdom has not been such an acquisition to the modern comity of nations as to induce other Powers, for its sake, to acquiesce in a glaring outrage on international usages. A nation may be judged, not by what it has done, but by what it is expected to do ;" such has been the standard applied to modern Greece, and she has fallen far below the ideal. Looking back to the high hopes that were formed on the morrow of Navaho°, and comparing the Greeks of 1829 with those of to-day, it is impossible to disguise the fact that if independent Greece is not an actual failure, she has at least grievously disappointed expectation. The last forty years have done much in the lives of nations. Within that period more than one continental kingdom has sprung into buoyant life ; Italy has revived from the sleep of centuries ; and the scattered members of the Teutonic family are uniting into one. But for Greece there has been no resurrec tion. Greece was " living Greece no more" in the days o f Byron, and she is dead still—dead to the tradi tions of an imperishable past, to the glorious incentives supplied by a living and advancing Present to the sense of national honour, to the prompti ngs of a noble ambition. She contributes nothing to the artistic or industrial resources of modern civilisation ; she appears as utterly lost to all sense of the beautiful, the true, and the elevating, as she was when the heavy flail of Ottoman tyranny beat crouching peasants to the dust, and the fishermen of Hydra were driven to man the Turkish galleys in more than one deadly struggle against the flags of Christendom. Reform questions are the subject of many notices of motion that have already been made in Parliament. It is now indisputable, says the Post, that the abolition of composition has been attended, as it was always said it would he, by great inconvenience both to rate collectors and ratepayers, and by enormous hardship to the latter. 'The fine, however, which has been paid for the vote by the poorer tenants this general election will hardly be endured till the next, and Mr. H. B. Hieridan's proposed bill to repeal the obnoxious clause of the Reform Act, although it will no doubt be met with cOnshlerable oppo.:iti‘.o. will in all proCability be passed at an early period of the session. At any rate, of the advisability of reaoring the power of making compositions there can be no doubt, whatever may be the opinion as to the policy of carrying with it the prac tkal further extendon of the franchise which .Air. Sheridan Mr. Vernon Harcourt's motion for a committee to inquire into the Reg.ist , ation Act probably points to the sane subject, and that, too, will certainly produce some animated debate, which will, however, require all Mr. larcourt's own clearness of statement to make the subject ii.tAigible or palateable to the uninitiated. All these motions indicate a set determination to bring the Reform Act once more into question ; and when the inevitablepro prosals for the Ballot and the remodelling of the distribu tion of members are supplivd the whole case against it will be completed. MURDER. A O, On Tuesday night a revolting murder was committed Istar Ackhurst Hall, three miles from Wigan. Mr. William Houghton (the farm bailiff) and hie wife, who ived about two hundred yards from the hail, had left their own house, in which there were five children, for about ►n hour. On their return home, at a distance of thirty or :arty yards from the door, they saw a white object, which was at first mistaken for a duck, but which on closer in spection was found to be the dead body of their eldest child, girl of 12. She was covered with blood and dreadfully in 'med. The parents rushed forward to the house, calling for die second daughter, Catherine, aged 9, but for a short ;ime she could not be found. She was at last heard calling timidly from behind a hedge, " Is that you, mother? " The :hild was at once taken to the house. She said that a short :ime after her father and mother had gone out a man, -tether taller than her father, and apparently a collier, appeared at the door and asked if William Houghton ived there. Her eldest sister said that he did, but he was then down at the Hall ; and no sooner had she •eplied than, raising a heavy hammer, he struck her I violent blow on the forehead. She ran round the ritchen, and he put sued her, striking her with the hammer, which cut her dreadfully. She ran out by ;be open door, and tried to escape to the Hall, but the man went after her and her screams ceased, she, no doubt, being killed by another blow from the hammer. The man then returned to the house, where the younger sister had remained in great terror. He struck her on the back of the head with the hammer, and then dealt her several plows on the shoulders, but he did not stun her. He then ..00k her by the throat, and, after squeezing it tightly, ;brew her over into the pasture-field, where she lay, bruised end terrified, not daring to move until she heard her mother's voice. An infant lay unharmed in a cradle II the kitchen, and upstirs two children (boys) were in bed, but had heard nothing of what occurred. An examination of the house shewed that the murderer, after thus disposing of the children, had put his hammer m the dresser, on which its form was marked with blood, end had then passed into the parlour, where he had ran ' tacked the drawers. The only article of value he ob i;aimed was a silver watch which had been left in a small :asket, and from which he had detached the riband that served as a guard. The money kept in the house was up stairs, and evidently he had not been there, for the drawers lad not been disturbed. Information was at once sent o the Pemberton Police-station, and Superintendent Ellison was promptly on the spot. Mr, Huet, surgeon, )f.Upholland, was also in attendance, and dressed the wounds which the younger girl had received. She gave a description of the man, which was at once circulated through the whole district. On Wednesday morning, as soon as the day broke, an active search was commenced for the hammer, and one was found in a wheat-field about 150 yards from the house. A number of long hairs were sticking to the iron, and when the weapon was shewn to the surviving girl, she at once said it was that with which she and her sister were struck. Mr. Parkinson, the anderlooker of a colliery close by, recognised the hammer is one he left at the smithy at half-past five on Tuesday night. A reward of £5O has been offered for the app . pension of the murderer. LAW AND POLICE. THREATENING TO MURDER LORD HOWE AND FAMILY.—At the Leicestershire Assizes, held before Mr. Justice Byles, an elderly man, named John Hill, has been :barged with sending a threatening letter to Lord Howe. The accused had previously caused annoyance to the family. The present charge appears to have arisen from excitement created by the elections in progress at the period when he sent the letter. The prisoner was found not guilty on the ground of insanity, and was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. A BURGLAR GOT RID OF FOR TEN YEARS.-=-011 Tuesday, at the Manchester Assizes, Johh Kenworthy and Samuel Worrell were indicted for having burglariously entered the 'house of George Simmons, at Ashton-under- Lyne, and stolen a quilt, a rug, a pair of blankets, and a pair of sheets. The prosecutor's house had been broken into and robbed, and the prisoners were afterwards found in possession of the property, and trying to dispose of it. The evidence against Worrell was slight, and he was acquitted, but Kenworthy was found guilty, and (having been four times previously convicted), sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. GALLOWS' Binns.—A daring highway robbery by boys cook place a few days ago in the borough of Southwark. A lad,named Rigg,had been to the bank for his employers, and was returning about half-past four o'clock with £l4 worth of silver, in a bag, when he was set on by several boys, knocked down, and the money carried off. Rigg having particularly noticed one of his assailants, a youth of 17, gave such information to the police as led to the apprehension of Richard Welch. On being brought before the magistrates, Welch denied all knowledge of the robbery, but was remanded for further inquiries. THE RAPE OP THE Locx.—At the Bloomsbury County Court a lady has brought an action against a hairdresser of Camden Town, to recover £lO as compensation for the loss of some locks of hair, cut off, as she alleged, on two occasions by one of the defendant's assistants. The de fence consisted in an unqualified denial of the allegation. The jury were unable to decide between the two conflicting statements, and were discharged without coining to a verdict. TILE BALLOT SOCIETY.—At the weekly meeting of the committee, held at their offices, 61, Cheapside, on Tuesday last, it was resolved to hold in London, at an early date, a public meeting of the friends of the Ballot, and the secretary was instructed to invite several members of Parliament to take part in the proceedings. It was also resolved to urge upon the friends of the Ballot throughout the country the importance of memorialising Mr. Glad• stone, and of petitioning both Houses of Parliament in favour of the Ballot. WIDOWS OF INDIAN OFFICERS.—The late Secre tary of State for India, just before going out of office, gave Lis decision in the case of daughters of Indian officers, on the Madras Military Fund. Sir S. Northcote expresses to the home committee of the fund his regret that, without cancelling concessions already made, there exists no surplus of the fund from which provisio•i can be made for allowing daughters of officers on becoming widows to revert to their former pensions. This decision will dash the hopes of many necessitous ladies, widows of Indian Dfficers resident in this country. ANOTHER CASE OP HYDROPHOBIA AT HALIFAX. —Three or four weeks ago a lad, named Ramsden, about 4 years of age, living in Range Bank, Halifax, was shockingly worried on the neck, mouth, and cheek by a rnad dog. For some days past he has appeared to be recovering,, under the medical care of Mr. )`Williams, but symptoms of hydrophobia have set in, and the poor lad is not expected to recover. A medical consultation was held on the case on Tuesday. Three deaths from hydrophobia have occurred within a brief time iu the borough arising from the attacks of dogs. THE HOUSES OF CAMPBELL AND PERCY. According to the North British Daily Mail, great prepara tions are at present going on in London and elsewhere to :clebrate the nuptials of Earl Percy and Lady Edith Campbell, eldest daughter of the Duke of Argyll. The marriage is to take place in the metropolis on the 22nd inst., and the rejoicings are to be on a scale of splendour tnd magnitude commensurate with the dignity of the ;Teat families whose fortunes are thus to be united. Earl Percy came of age only two years ago, and is belt to the princely estates of Northumberland, The event is be celebrated by a grand banquet at Northumberland [louse, in the Str.nd, wliich is being fitted up for the :ccasion in a style of great magnificence. DE.ITH OF GENERAL E. M. G. SHOWERS, ROYAL flonsz ARTILLERY. We have to record the death of 3eneral Edward M. G. Showers, colonel commandant of ;he Brigade of Royal Horse Artillery (Madras), which occurred on the 13th iust., in his 34th year. He entered he East India Company's service in 1793, and was placed n the Madras establishment. The late general was 'resent in the campaign with General Stewart's grand Lrroy, also at Muggerall, Western Pallanirs, with Colonel Nloneypenny's force, and in the campaign under General Malcolm. His c omm i ss i ons b ore d a t e as f o ll ow : Lieutenant, April 12, 1830 ; captain, April 21, 1804 ; najor, June 4, 1814 ; lieutenant-colonel, May 1, 1324 ; Tlonel, June 5, 1829 ; m j.)r-ge eral, June 28, 1838 ; aeutenant-general, November 11, 1851 ; general, March, I, 1858. SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR BLACKBURN.—A good teal of excitem en t h as b een caused in Blackburn and -icinity owing to a rumour baying gained currency that I murder had been perpetrated in the neighbourhood, and man had been apprehended upon suspicion. The facts ;re these : About eleven on Tuesday night the police at Dinckley, a village a few miles from Blackburn, were nformed that a man named James Cumpstey, a weaver, tad been found murdered in his own house. A consta b le gent to the house, and found the man on the bed With his throat cut in a fearful manner, and he was [rite dead and cold. Ills head was hanging from the ide of the bed, and the floor was covered with blood. A diort distance from the body, but to the left of it, w as ound a razor, also covered with blood, and the app ear . ,nce of the body indicated that a murder had been com nitted. Two boxes in the room belonging to the deceased lad the appearance of having been broken open. Crimp tey lodged with a man named Clayton, but he could not )e found, having left the place, and suspicion attached to ihn. Early on Wednesday rooming tl:e constabulary >ore° apprehended him at Ribchester, in a . state of intoxi ti in, and charged him with the n,u..47et, w.h , n he m; de to reply. TLe bo y awaits a coroner's irmuLLit. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC EMBED 17, 1.68. AID TO THE FREEDMEN. General Howard has issued a circular announc ing that the Freedmen's Bureau will be discon tinued on December 31, 1868, when the military officers will rejoin their regiments, and such agents only be retained as are required in the depart ments of education, of collection, and the payment of pensions and bounties. In this establishment there will be an assistant commissioner and chief superintendent of schools, a disbursing officer, assistant superintendents of schools varying from one to four, agents for the payment of pensions and clerks. Orders relating to the Freedmen's hospitals at New Orleans, Louisiana ; Vicksburg, Missis sippi; Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., will hereafter be published. The medical officers and hospital attendants will be speedily reduced, so that the hospitals may be closed at an early day, all being discharged on the 31st December. Pro perty of every kind, not needed under the new organization, is to be sold, and the proceeds paid in to the Treasury. We have received a communication from Mr. John Taylor, hon. sec. National Freedmen's Aid Union, 12, Bishops.gate-street (Without), en closing extracts from a letter of General Howard, and from the report of one of his subordinates. The General thanks the association for the very large sum contributed to the Freedmen through them, and he calls their attention to the following object :—" I have been desirous of establishing on a permanent foundation several institutions of learning of a grade above our common-school system. The Howard University, iu Washington city, has the broadest scope, embracing pre paratory, normal, and collegiate departments ; and also departments of law, medicine, and agri culture." The Superintendent's Report speaks very encouragingly of the past, and hopefully of the future. The ability as well as the desire of the Freedmen to learn has now gone beyond a question for argument, being an established fact. The grand total of the Freedmen's schools is thus given : " Schools of all kinds, 3,084 ; teachers, 6,492; pupils, 189,517. Of the whole number of schools 1,000 are sustained wholly or in part by the Freed men, and they own 364 of the buildings used for school purposes; 2,948 teachers are white, and 3,544 coloured." On the other hand the report states that " of the children and youth who are of suitable school age, there are left 1,187,916 wholly unprovided for ; enough to make 23,738 schools of 50 pupils each." One of the results, that of eco nomy and saving, is shown in the following ex tract :—" Education in thrift and economy is ef fected through the influence of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, chartered by Con gress, and placed under the protection of this bu reau. Twenty branches of this institution, located in as many of the central cities and large towns of the Southern States, are now in operation. Six of these banks have at this time on deposit an average of over po,oco each, the whole amount due to de positors at all the branches being 5585,770.17. Four times this amount has been deposited for a time, and then drawn out for use in important purchases, homesteads, &c. Both the bubicess and influence of the bank are rapidly increasing. Al though wise to force the Freedmen to a more gene ral reliance on themselves by abolishing that staff, the Freedmen's Bureau, on which they might be come accustomed to lean too heavily, the philan thropic will see the necessity of making strenuous efforts to keep up what Las already been accom plished by the bureau and to spur the African race into still greater efforts on their onward progress in civili zation. The present is a critical period, for unless the North tenders substantial assistance, helped by England, there may be a tendency to retrograde, and the North and that portion of England repre sented by Exeter Hail being in a measure respon sible for the position in which the negroes are now placed are bound to do their utmost to aid them in their perilous passage from Slavery to established Liberty. Although this is an incumbent duty on all who actively took part in the anti-slavery move ment, the negroes' position is one that may fairly appeal to mankind. There never was a people who less by their own act became placed in circum stances which calls forth more sympathy. They were not the captives of war, where one nation pitted its life against that of another; nor the in h tbitants of a conquered territory, nor even, as Israel in Egypt, nor as Israel scattered over the face of the earth ; but the position is the result of European traders' gree•l ; families systematically torn from their native country, transferred to slavery in another continent, their descendants be ing suddenly emancipated, and kit to face the pro bletn of existence iu the midst of a race to whom their forced enfranchisement was hateful, and who added to that bitterness a social prejudice which has, perhaps, never been exceeded by any race for another. The Freedmen's Aid Union ought now to make strenuous efforts, for we feel confident that a critical time has arrived for the negro, which, if he can safely be carried through, will get him well over the first great difficulty. We wish the excel• lent society of which Mr. Taylor is secretary every success in this most important object, whit( we regret that it appears to receive so little: - aid from the English press.—An glo- American 7inzes. given of the Ku-Klux assassinations, murders, and other outrages during the last three months. Martial law has been proclaimed in several coun ties of the State, and troops have been sent there to protect the loyal men, and punish the Ku-Klux. The Governor intends to use the military until peace, security, and obedience to the laws prevail throughout the State. Ile recommends a fund ing of the State debt. The Legislature has passed a law approving the Governor's declaration of mar tial law in the eleven counties alluded to in his Message. Lieut.-Governor Gleeson's (Florida) answer to the Supreme Court is published, but is too long for our columns. Attorney-General Meek moved to strike out from the answer four points on grounds of irrelevancy and impertinence. This motion was discussed until the adjournment of the Court. There was a meeting •of the coloured people of Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 16, to consider the political excitement then prevailing when seve ral very excellent resolutions were passed. An ex traordinary marriage is mentioned by the Memphis Avalanche (Tennessee) between Mr. Henry J. Haight, of New York City, and Miss Mollie L. Church, daughter of Captain and Mrs. C. B. Church, of Memphis, the groom and the bride both being mutes. Colonel R. B. Keeler has been sent by General Rousseau with his report to Washington, where he arrived on the 24th Nov. He details his personal observations, representing the hostility of the whites of Louisiana to the State Government as intensely bitter. The General found it impossible with his inadequate means to maintain peace at all points. Notwithstanding every effort to protect the people in their right of voting, the Republican leaders advised their followers not to go to the polls, as they could not do so safely, in which General Rous seau concurred, though earnestly desirous to act independent of party. He was in constant con sultation with Governor Warmouth and the other State authorities during the disturbances, and his course met their warm approval, as it does that of others in New Orleans. Col. Keeler says that up to the date of General Steedman's assuming charge of the police that force was utterly worthless. It was composed of 243 negroes and 130 whites. No riots have occurred, and no city has been quieter than New Orleans since that change. General Rousseau courts the most searching investigation of his management of Louisiana affairs during the recent troubles. The Colonel says there is no good foundation for the reports of organizations in New Orleans to help the Cuban insurgents. The Republican Governor and State officers, of the State of Louisiana, alleging informality, have re fused to count the votes of twelve entire counties, em bracing the vote of New Orleans. By this they succeed in electing one Republican to the next Congress to repre , sent New Orleans. A negro has also been elected front New Orleans to the vacancy in the present Congress, so that at the approaching session it will be decided whether a negro is to be admitted to a seat in the house. AMERICAN LI7'ERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) My Diary in Mexico. By Prince Salm-Salm. The Prince is so prejudiced against the French, that we put aside all his criticisms on their conduct as coming from a biassed source, and adhere to the narrative of the fall of Queretaro and the last days of Maximilian. But we cannot dismiss the French in Mexico without recording our opinion that the policy of the Emperor Napoleon is but little under stood, and that iu his futile attempt to establish a Latin counterpoise to the Anglo-Saxon race, he reaped the reward of those who are a good deal in advance of their times, and who must trust to history for justice. Failure was involved in the failure of the Confederacy, and with the success of the United States the Emperor knew. that every chance was gone. It is a pity that Maximilian did not see this, and allowed his better judgment to be overruled by Marquez, Miramon, his confessor, and others of the Church party, resisting every effort of those who represented the Emperor, to induce him to recognize an uncontrollable fate, for his throne had been stricken down before Richmond, and fell with Lee's army. The task Prince Salm under takes is one of love, for the gallant officer is of a generous nature, and the circumstances under which he became separated from his sovereign, whose bravery, chivalry, and kindly nature he so I ardently admired, were such as to make a lasting impression on his heart, where the name of Maxi milian is engraved. By will, he was requested jointly with Don Fern ltamerez to prepare au historical account of Maximilian's three years sojourn in Mexico, aided by documents sent for safe keeping to Europe with the Empress Char lotte, and supposed to be in England, Rome, and Miramar. To these papers Maximilian attached a value so high that hearing of Charlotte's illness he if necessary, tre became deeply anxious fo r th eir safety, and desired v th o e l vePrincehand.The torecover Prince's arrival on the sce ne, having declined a com mission in the regular a rm y of the United States bookthem, e n even,ers abruptly with the on the cessation of the war, where he had served in command of a brigade, and he joined Maximilian, urged by an enterprising disposition and a love of active service. He came in time to see the French withdraw, and almost immediately after the Em peror set out on his ill-fated march to Queretaro. This city, with less than 50,000 inhabitants, de rives its name from the State. It is picturesquely situated in a valley, with wooded declines, having a stream flowing on Gne side and a succession of gar dens and villas on the other. Its form is not quite a regular quadrangle, of 2,400 metres in length and exactly half that in width. The fertile countey around, and the many churches, chapels, and cone vents give it a pleasing and even imposing appear ance ; but as a defensible place it is singularly de ficient, the heights on either side being within easy gun-shot of the town. Little life-like sketches are here and there given of the leading men who either shared or became connected with the Emperor's fate, and first among these pictures is the following : _c; With General Marquez was also Colonel Don Miguel Lopez, who went to Queretaro to resume the command of his regiment of the Empress, which had been trans ferred to that city. Lopez, who by his black trea son haigiven his infamous name to the pillory for all time, is a tall, portly man, of some thirty years of age, who does not look like a Mexican. His round head is covered with fair hair, rather thin in the middle, and arranged so as to cover deficiencies by the aid of long side hair ; his moustaches and short royal are also fair. He looked very well in his red Hussar jacket, trimmed with black, and the more so as his manners were gentlemanly and ele gant. Besides wearing several Mexican orders, he was decorated with the officer's cross of the Legioc of Honour. He was always extremely well mounted with American horses, and his whole appearance made a favourable impression." The Prince writes bitterly of Marquez, stigmatizing him as a double dyed traitor, and whom he thus describes : " During these hours passed by the side of the Emperor (en route to Queretaro) I had a good opportunity of observing Marquez, who generally rode alone absorbed in thought, which could not have been of a very pleasant or innocent character, as his face wore a rather sinister expression. When the Emperor wanted to speak to him Mar quez generally heard only at the second or third call, and was then like one awakened from a dream. His face ehanged at once to a disagreeable, exagge rated friendliness, and he approached the Emperor like a fawning dog." On entering Queretaro, where Maximilian was warmly received, Don Miguel Miramon was the most important figure. " As I have said before he -had been one of the most prominent chiefs of the Church party, and even President of the Republic in his twenty fifth year. Ile was now a handsome man of about thirty-four, of middling height, elegant in figure and manner, and with dark hair, moustache, and royal. He was a man of great intellect, extremely ambitious, very brave and daring, but no scientific General, and rather an indifferent strategist." Miramon's first operations, however, seemed as if dictated by genius, for by a quick and skilful move he surprised and routed the Liberal Army, nearly capturing Juarez ; and here we desire to add that Maximilian had written to Miramon in such event to treat him in the most friendly manner, and to send him to Mexico. Miramon, on his return, however, met with a severe disister. 111 was attacked in rear and on both flanks by Escobeclo, and only a few officers got away who were well mounted, the General's brother being captured and brutally executed. "At San Jacinto 123 French men were taken also, amongst them those gendarmes who had insulted the bust of Juarez. They had been kept for several days in a place where they had much liberty, and the light-hearted Frenchmen had no foreboding of the awful doom which awaited them. One day spirits were distributed amongst them, and they were told that they were to be taken to some other place, but, as they had to pass through the Liberal Army, their eyes were to he bandaged. As this is frequently done, they suspected nothing, and marched blindfolded for half an hour, when they were permitted to take away the bands. They then found themselves in an interior yard of the Nacienda, San Jacinto, opposite two battalions of infantry, and were informe 1 that they were to die by the order of the Supreme Government. It was an awful, heartrending scene. Ten prisoners were always shot together, the rest looking on. The bodies frequently still quivering, were thrown into a waggon, and, with the blood dripping from it, was driven past the poor condemned out of the Nacienda, to return imme diately for a fresh load. This horrible butchery lasted longer than an hour, as it was interrupted by an incident which illustrated still more than even this blooly execution, the unfeeling cruelty of the Mexicans. The soldiers did not aim well, and it happened that one out of a lot of ten—llippolite Rolin was his name—was left unharmed by the first volley. He jumped away, but was captured and added to the next lot. This time he was only slightly wounded, and escaped. Ile was caught again, his feet were tied, and he was shot at the shortest distance !" Continuing his sketches of persons, the Prince says Don Thomas Mejia was a little, ugly Indian, remarkably yellow, of about forty-five, with an enormous mouth, and over it a few black bristles, representing a mous tache. Ile was a thoroughly honest, reliable man, devoted to the Emperor, a very good general of cavalry, and well known for his personal bravery. Before an attack it was his habit to take a lance from one of his soldiers and rush with it amongst the first on the line of the enemy. Some years pgo he took Queretaro from the Liberals. On his entering the city its last defenders fled to the first story of the Town h ail. Mejia appeared in front of it at the head of his cavalry. Lance in hand he rode up the steps, and in the large hall made the Liberals prisoners, and then rode to the balcony, welcoming with his hurrah his victorious troops." Escobedo had once been Mejia's prisoner, and when condemned to be shot by court-martial Mejia not only assisted him to escape, but furnished him with money. " Escobedo is a man of about forty, of middle height, dark hair and beard, and very dark complexion. He wears spectacles, and has remarkably large ears, which stand off on both sides. He is very friendly after the Mexican fashion, but his face has a treacherous expression. . He had been formerly a muleteer, then studied the law superficially and joined the Liberal party, for which he organized some bands. He had the good luck to surprise an Austrian column which was escorting a large sum of money at San Gertrudis, and got some political influence. He is no soldier, and careful not to expose his person to fire." In deed the Prince does not scruple plainly to call Escobedo a blood-thirsty coward, and he tells how A.liratnon, who knew his weakness, played him a practical joke during the siege. The head-quarter camp had been pitched within range, but no guns covered the spot. After allowing Escobedo to rest there in fancied security, Miramon for the fun of the thing moved a battery, and all at once opened on Escobedo, who he knew was present. No sooner did the balls begin to hop in than a stamped took place, to the intense delight of Miramon. We cannot follow the author in his account of the siege, which is graphically and, we doubt not, truthfully told. Nor can we do more, without re turning to the subject, which we purpose doing, than to follow the Prince in his account of Maxi milian. " The Elnperor was about six feet high and of a slender figure. His movements, his gait, and especially his greeting, were graceful and light. Ile hod fair hair, not very thick, which lie wore carefully p - ate] in the middle. His beard was also fair and very long, and he nursed it with great care he wore it parte I in the middle, and his hand was frequently occupied in its arrangement. hiscom plexion was pure and clear, his eyes were blue, his mouth had the unmistakeable stamp of the Austrian Imperial House, the historical underlip, but not so much pronounced as to be disfiguring. lie was generally in citizen's dress, but in Queretaro, where he headed the army, he wore the uniform of a Gene ral of Division. When he promenaded he had his hands behind his back like a captain pacing the deck of a ship. Another naval habit was always carrying in his hand his perspective glass. The ex ' pression of his face was almost always kind and friendly. One could not _look on him without lov ing him ; his friendliness never showed itself in a familiar manner, even with his most intimate friends he always preserved his dignity. Notwithstanding this he abandoned himself without restraint to his good humour when in congenial company, and could be very witty and even sarcastic." He was a good listener. Though he had been much over the world his heart was too noble and pure for a profitable knowledge of mankind. Not having a conception of wickedness he did not believe in its existence in others, and thus he became the prey of untruthful and designing men. Salm-Salm estimates the mon , gra breed of Mexico at a low figure, and even those about the Emperor's person, and most frankly and implicitly trusted by him, he regarded to be either as treacherous, such as Marquez, double dealers, or seeking alone their selfish ambition, as Miramon, or treble-dyed traitors, as Lopez, a man the Emperor liked, and frankly confided in. It was fatal for a man of Maximilian's nature to have to deal with such a class, and their pernicious influence led him step by step to his death. But there was a point in his own constitution which sealed his doom once entangled in the meshes ; he was so devoted to his friends he thought more of them than of himself. He could not endure to leave his followers in Mexico to the mercy of the Liberals; nor could he bear to leave the sick and wounded in Queretaro when every inducement urged him to abandon the town. He forgave easily, not with his lips only, but with his heart ; and the Prince exclaims, " Of all men I ever met with in life, the Emperor Maximilian was the noblest, best, and most amiable ; his faults even being virtues, his kindness bordering on weakness." His heart was so large that although he loved in dividuals strongly it embraced humanity, and the advancement and the progress of the world were his highest ambition. It is strange to find one of such genuine liberality of senti ment reared in the traditions of such a house as that of Austria; but that he should shake off the prejudices inculcated in his youth and take views so just, so wise, and generous, show a large capacity of brain as well as of heart. It was impossible for him, so constituted, and with his political notions, to find suitable employment in his own country, which he ardently loved. The author's is no fanciful sketch, for he saw him in every moment of an ordeal few men are called on to en dure, and from the beginning to the end his doings were those of a hero. His whole career iu Mexico was forgiving and giving ; and his last act was to put into the hands of the firing party detailed for his execution a liberal donation, to speak soothing and kindly words to the people who stood weeping by, and to pray for the prosperity of the country whose victim he was, and for those who had brought him to so cruel an extremity. It is seldom when the curtain of poetry or romance which enshrouds the career of its heroes is withdrawn, that they can bear the scrutiny. Nearly always they come out the clay idols of poor humanity ; but Maximilian has furnished the poetry and drama of the future with a story so sterling and pure as to bear the fierce light of present publicity, ending in a tragedy so touching as to mellow into the richest tale of grief—certainly of the century—and of that quality which will gain by age, his execution being an THE SOUTHERN STATES. NORTH CAROLINA.—Governor Holden reports, in his Message lately sent to the Legislature, that the debt of North Carolina on the Ist of October, 1868, was $19,208,945, inclusive of bonds issued for in ternal improvements, amounting to nearly four mil lion dollars. The amount of interest maturing on the Ist of October was $112,104, which has been paid in cash. The interest maturing during the present fiscal year, ending September 30, 1869, will amount to $1,032,596. The expenses of the State Government during the present fiscal year are estimated at $375,230, which, added to the interest falling due, will leave 1,407,826 dollars to be provided for. To meet this the Trea surer will have $50,034 84 on hand, leav ing the remainder to be raised by taxation. The stocks and bonds held by the State amount to $13,241,100. The Governor recom mends that measures may be taken to insure the payment of the interest due the State from these stocks and bonds. The value of the property in the State is estimated at $250,000,000, upon which an ad valorem tax of 'one per cent. would raise $2,500,000. This, he suggests, would pay the in terest, which should be met promptly. The Go vernor advocates very strongly the completion of the railroads to which the State has extended aid, and recommends a liberal encouragement of immi gration, and of the common schools and for the educa tion of the people. He advises the abolition of the present stay laws, and urges an immediate organiza tion of the militia. ALABAMA.—The Legislature is discussing a bill to stay the collection of debts. Two judges have already decided " the stay law " now in force to be unconditional. A bill fixing the time of the election for members of the forty-first Congress is under consideration. &me favour the election in Feb ruary, and others not until next September. The most remarkable bill debated is that for the sup pression of the Ku-Klux. It makes it indictable for any person to appear in a mask, and if any person shoots one who is masked, after dark, it is to be considered no crime. The time of imprison ment for being disguised is from one to two years. Several sections of the bills have bean adopte I. Mrssissirri—From Jackson a despatch of Nov. 26 says—The Republican Convention adjourned last night, after preparing an address to be sub mitted to Congress, asking that body to declare the defeated Constitution ratified and the State officers elected. A number of prominent Republicans op posed this, inasmuch as the Commanding General had, five months ago, forwarded his official report to Congress, showing that the Constituti )n had been defeated by a majority of votes cast at that election. J. L. Morphes was elected permanent President, and a resolution was adopted requesting Congress to secure the right of suffrage to every loyal citizen of every State in the Uuion not disenfranchised for crime. ARKANSAS.—From Little Rock the news is that the Legislature has at last a quorum, and the Go vernor's Message has been read. An account is event, although marking no political change, and appealing alone to human sympathy, which will stand out strongly defined when those we now think greatest have disappeared, save from musty re cords and the researches of the antiquary. Maximilian commenced his march to Queretaro with a force composed wholly of Mexicans, num bering but 1,600 men. It was politic to trust his person to the natives, as the prejudice in Mexico against foreigners was strong through every grade of society. He left on the 19th February, 1867, but a fortnight after the departure of the French, and his career lasted only four months more. 8o much did he desire to impress on the Mexicans his intention of resting his life and crown on them only, that Prince Saltn-Sslna's request to accompany him was refused, and through the means of others after the Emperor's departure the Prince against his direc tion joined him on the march. As a political move it was a wise step in the Emperor to take the field at the head of his Mexican subjects, and n faulty in a military point of vie a', as Queretaro, though indefensible, commanded the entrance to the plateau from the North, and could not, un reduced, be passed by an invader. Miratnou's early successes, after I.llaximilian's entrance, gave a bril liancy to the opening of the campaign, though it quickly set iu disaster, that General returning after the defeat inflicted on him by Escobedo with scarcely a man. When the besieging forces of the Liberals arrived they attempted to carry the . city by assault, and met with severe repulses ; but establishing themselves around and cutting off the supplies, the garrison and inhabitants were soon reduced to horseflesh, and it was then that the poor material which composes a Mexican army was painfully displayed. The Generals seem mainly to have been actuated by jealousy and malice. They were perpetually quarrelling with each other, and the paltriest motives of spite or ambition not only out weighed the consideration due to their country and their Sovereign, but also the extremities of their own position. Marquez was directed to proceed to Mexico, and bring all the troops he could muster to the relief of Queretaro. He started, but never re turned, for when he took the field it was in the direction of Vera Cruz, where he was supposed to be on his way to join Santa Anna, when he was attacked by Portirio Diaz, and saved his own ignoble life, leaving his army to destruction, and re-enter ing Mexico almost alone. This was the man at the head of Maximilian's army when he left Queretaro. Miramon, whom the Emperor always called the young General,led in the besieged city, yet both Mejia and Mendez regarded him as a traitor, ceaselessly urging on Maximilian the advisability of arresting him. Mejia, whom the Emperor nick-named the Little Black One (Mendez was the Little Stout One) was an Indian of great influence in a moun tainous district not far distant, and advised Maximilian to break through the enemy's lines, and he and Mendez would guarantee his safety if he reached their country. They regarded Queretaro as a mousetrap, which would end in the death of all. Prince Salm-Salm thinks Miramon desired and laid his plans so as to get rid of him, hazarding faulty sorties, and using up one of the only good regiments (that commanded by the Prince) for this object. With a lieutenant so in fluenced, with two of the great Indian chiefs openly believing in his treachery, with Marquez bent only on his personal gain, with troops reduced to great privations and little prospects, it required all Maxi milian's courage and his indefatigable work in the trenches, hospitals, and batteries, to keep up the hearts of the garrison, and to bind the little band to himself. His unselfish devotion and marked courage, his gentle, captivating manner and open handed generosity, won the attachment not only of his followers, but in a marked degree of the towns people, who " from first to last, and all the while,' never hesitated to display their allegiance and the affection they bore him. Indeed, at the last mo ment, when the breath had scarcely left his body, a woman who stood 100 Ily sobbing near was seized by a Liberal soldier, who roughly asked the reason of the noise, to which she replied with her dagger, escaping in the confusion. The Prince had per suaded Maximilian to burst through the lines ; but Miramon always managed to delay the execution of a design the most experienced officers felt as sured would be successful. It was net easy to keep Maximilian up to a flight for life, and his ob jecAon to such a course may have cost him his existence. He regarded the flight as unbecoming his dignity, and, worse still, against his honour, not to share the fate of his soldiers. It was in the midst of these plans for escape that Lopez sold the pass, and on the morning of the 15th May Quere taro was in the hands of Escobedo, to the intense astonishment of its garrison. The orders given to that General from the supreme Government were to shoot the prisoners without delay ; but he was de terred from this course by the strenuous exertions of the United States, who unreservedly expressed disgust at the massacre at San Jacinto. History will have to decide to what cause the execution of Maximilian was due. Judging by the manner of Escobedo, as reported by the Prince as well as by the Princess, who, acting in another groove, gives a different version in the leaves published in this book from her diary, we do not see any display of the bloodthirstiness attributed to him. On the contrary, he appears to have desired to make Maxi milian's last hours more comfortable, but he was thwarted by the ferocity of some subordinates, and still more by the twice-detected attempts at escape planned chiefly by the Prince and Princess Salm- Salm. The Princess, who was an American, naively tells her story, and its most striking point is her undisguised contempt for the foreign representa tives. She knew but little of diplomatic laws and of the power represented in the person of Baron Magnus, the Prussian Minister, or of the Austrian or Belgian ; but she knew what was far more to the purpose in Queretaro, that these men were fatally deluding themselves if they thought that any un seen advantages were felt by the Mexicans who cared little for international obligations, and knew nothing of powers which to them were mere myths. The Princess alludes to the ridiculous importance these people gave themselves on their arrival just previous to the trial ; and her annoyance was in creased by the fact that their coming defeated her last hope of getting the Emperor out of the trap in which he had been caught, an escape being planned for the night Baron Magnus was expected, of which the Emperor declined to avail himself, as he thought it would be discourteous to invite these representatives and fly the city on their arrival. After his refusal, the arrangements became known, many being implicated, and each fearing his neigh bour would secure his safety by informing. We hold that Escobedo showed forbearance to the Prince, who was then for- the second time detected in bribing his officers to effect the Emperor's escape ; and Salm-Sahn seems to acknowledge this, account ing for it by the custom universal in Mexico of thus aiding captured officers, all knowing that within a year the imprisoned General may hold as a captive his capturer. The Princess is even more severe on the fright and flight of some of the representatives when rudely deceived as to the Mexican fashion of dealing with diplomatists. They were accredited to the Emperor, and not to the then ruling Go vernment, and therefore they had, in truth, no diplomatic status. But this would have mat tered little, for, as the Princess plainly says, the Mexicans well knew they had nothing to fear from European interference, against which they were protected by the United States. It was the Washington Government only they dreaded, and it appears due to Mr. Seward's strong remonstrances that Queretaro did not witness a massacre more hor rible than that of San Jacinto. Our readers must not, however, suppose that Mexicans approved this in terference. The people they hate most on earth are the Americans ; the Government they dread is that of Washington. Gladly they sheltered them selves behind Uncle Sam's arm against European intervention, but sullenly they complied with the energetic remonstrances of Secretary Seward against staining Republicanism by revolting cruelty. Prince Salm, in a conversation with Colonel Palacios, his brutal gaoler, remarked that the Mexican Govern ment would do well to take an example from the United States in their treatment of the rebels of the South ; to which he replied, " The .Nca th Ame ricans are our born hereditary enemies, we will neither have anything to do with them or with you ; we can exist without any of you." From the con versations overheard and reported by spies of the Liberal generals it is clear there was a vindictive feeling against Maximilian, and that they were bent on his execution, even threatening to murder hip if the Government decreed banishment when escorting him to the coast. Yet this does not tally with the ex-. perience of the Princess, in so far as many of Eseobe do's staff approved and even encouraged her attempts to effect the Emperor's escape. When pleading at San Luis Potosi with Juarez for the Emperor's life, she appealed to his Minister, aye, even to himself, if they would not have rejoiced in his escape. The Minister, of whom she speaks highly, at once answered that he would, and even Juarez left the saw e to be implied. How, then, is that gross political blunder--the execution—to be accounted for ?—l.t turned Maximilian into a martyr—it threw the whole earth into hostility—it broughi, the name of Mexican into such contempt that it would almost be necessary for one who left his country to disguise his nationality—for there was something beyond measure despicable in this cold-blooded shooting of a min, for ever disarmed, all knew to be influenced by the highest and most unselfish motives. Maxi milian back at Miramar would have been a name very different from Maximilian executed at Quere taro ; and once he pledged his limour never to return, no power on earth could have induced him to break his word. The names of Juarez and Esco bAo would have sounded very differently in the ears of mankind, and Mexico would have gained enormously in political prestige—the forerunner of credit, commerce, and prosperity. Never was so brilliant a chance so viciously cast away. The Prince declares that Escobedo could, had he wished, have saved Maximilian. He thus gives Juarez's reasons for desiring the Emperor's death—fear of a resumption of the struggle, in spite of all pro mises, as Maximilian's party was still strong in Mexico, and the wish to satisfy the thirst for re venge, of the Army and the ultra'Republicans ; and he adds, whether a vindictive cruelty can be placed among the reasons cannot be ascertained, but one would be justified in presuming such motives, con sidering the murders at San Jancinto and other similar outrages ordered by Juarez. The Princess tells how Juarez appeared to suffer when she actu ally threw herself on her knees and begged her Sovereign's life—when Mesdames Miramon and Mejia were shown in, and numerous ladies called, to make a last effort for mercy. For three days thereafter he kept his room and refused to see an y one, but the most that could be wrung from hum was the delay of three days, at the earnest solici tation of Baron Magnus. He succeeded in being elected to the Presidency, and will probably suc ceed in dying, as his illustrious victim, like a dog in a ditch, bearing the epitaph on his tombstone after his name— " Served him right." The last news informs us that his accomplice, Escobedo, has been disgracefully defeated, and hie whole army dispersed by a rebel chief; and if he be captured by an Indian he will meet the fate be meted to Mejia and Mendez, and reparation for the blood of Maximilian will be savagely demanded at his hands. Prince Salm-Salle speaks plainly what he feels, but whether he is just in all cases we can not pretend to say. If he heartily condemns, be as heartily prais?s, and one of his heroes on the Liberal side is Porfirio Diaz. had that General commanded at Queretaro instead of the low-bred muleteer Escobedo, Mexico would have escaped the disgrace of the vindictive execution. The defence of Lopez is published, together with the reply of the field officers, and his treason, of which there can be no question, established beyond dispute. What We like in the traitor's defence is that he plainly showe the bitterness of the punishment awarded him by the press of Europe and America. The Prince winds up his own reply to the defence by accepting the public challenge of Lopez to any calumniator who would openly come forward to maintain his guilt, and appointing a place of meeting. &dm - Salm declares cowardice to have been the ruling motive of the treason, and it certainly is strange that Lopez should have neglected the expellent opportunity thus afforded him of a little éclat while disproving at least the motive, and to get rid in an honourable manner of the life he describes ti have been made so miserable by these charges. Air. Davidson, merchant, of Ningpo, was pre sented on his departure for Europe with a pair of Wantnin- San, or " public umbrellas," as a mark of the respect and esteem in which ho was held by the Chinese. The honour is both great and unusual, he being the first foreigner ou whom it has been conferred. . _ "-- District Attorney Spaulding of Northarnptoa (Massachusetts) has formed a law partnership wit h Boies.—Major S. H. 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