The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-08

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A man named Campbell brutaily murdered on
Tuesday evening" about two miles from Utica NJ Y. by
Ave young men, who beat him TO death with clubs The
murderers have been arrested.
fire yesterday morning in Main street, between
Washington and Poplar Streets Memphis Tenn. do
stroyed buildings and valuable stocks of goods
the entire loss being estimated at hundred thousand
dollars, on which there is but little insurance.
Louis Napoleon ON tho Mexican Ques.
militant
The full report of the speech of the
Emperor Napoleon 10 the French Legis-
lature does not present him in the bold relief
on the Mexican question In which no stood I'M
der the strong light of our first brief despatch
upon the subject But, considering his embai-
RAISING situation, be says as much, perhaps, as
could be reasonably expected, though less than
could be desired. We could hardly expect
him to say that his fatal mistake in entering
upon this Mexican enterprise, or, rather, in re-
solving to Persevere in it, after having been
abandoned by England and Spain, was In that
erroneous Napoleonic idea that with the srebel;
lion Of JED. Davis the great American republic
had collapsed. Mischief, too, might have re-
suited in France from the confession that, the
Mexican empire having proved failure he
had determined to withdraw and give it up
He had his own prestige as a sagacious ruler
and as the arbiter Of Europe, and he had the
dignity and honor of France to consider, as
we'll as the necessity of maintaining relations of
peace with the United States. In pleading,
however, his earnest desire for peace with us,
he leads us fairly to the conclusion that, with
a little further indulgence, he will gracefully
abandon his impracticable Mexican scheme.
He opened with one of those startling figures
of speech for which the Bonapartes are 80
remarkable, that Gin Mexico the government
founded upon the will of the people is being
consolidated" "The will of the people," A
tub to the French whale "The opposition,
conquered. and dispersed, have no longer
chief" and yet the twenty-five or thirty thou
sand foreign troops, more or less Of Maxim
ilian are kept busily employed from the centre
to the extremities of his empire. The commerce
Of Mexico with France has been raised from
twenty-one to seventy-seven millions, says Ma
poleon; but he says nothing Of the COSTS which
probably exceed five hundred millions Of
francs. On the main question he says:-"As I
expressed the hope last year that our expedi-
ton was approaching its termination, am
coming to an understanding with the Emperor
Macmillan to fix the epoch for the recall of our
troops before their return is effectuated." But
this, of course, is to be done "withOut compro-
missing the French interests we have been.
defending in that remote country" What are
those intercstss Certain unpaid debtss or
foothold for the Latin racer or French balance
of power on the continent We cannot tell; but
let US not be too exactng. or, looking at Rome,
we might not be altogether satisfied with the
that 81 am coming to an understand
ing" with Macmillan.
Napoleon, rejoicing in the success of the Ameri-
can Union, including the abolition Of slavery,
offers up his "sincere wishes for the prosperity
OF the great American republic. and for the.
maintenance of the amicable relations (between
it and France) which will soon have had
century's duration. The emotion produced in
the United States by the presence of our troops
on the soil Of Mexico will be sppeased by tho
frankness Of our declarations. The American
people will comprehend that our expedition, to
which we invited them, was not opposed to
their interests." These declarations ere very,
fine; but the American people will hardly be
appeased short of some corresponding acts,
which they will expect soon TO follow.
But what is to be done with Maximilians In
"coming to an understanding with him, is Tito
be understood that he too is to retire, or are
the troops Withdrawn by France from his
tria and Belgium. To these and other ques-
tons suggested this speech, Of itself, affords
no answer. But looking TO the stubborn facts
of his position, and at the ultimatum submitted
by our Secretary of State In his late correspond
ence with Druyn de Lhuys. we interpret this
oracular speech Of Napoleon a. sigrifying
nothing less than the absolute abandonment of
his imperial Mexican adventure. He has been
distinctly informed that nothing less will satisfy
the people or government Of the United States;
he has been so appraised, not only through Mr..
Stewards official correspondence, but in the
unanimous vote Of the House Of Representa-
tives Of the last Congress, in the Mexican reso-
buttons introduced in the present Congress, In
the outspoken opinion of General Grant, and
in the universal voice Of the American press
Therefore, believing that Louis Napoleon must
be convinced that his Mexican scheme cannot
be consummated, we accept. his speech as q
proclamation Of his purpose to abandon it, be-
ginning with the withdrawal Of HIS troops, and
ending only with the departure of Macmillan,
crown and crown jewels, contingent fund, en-
pirc and all.
We are informed from trustworthy source
that Marshal Bazaine, French COMMANDMENT