The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-11

There was no particular change In tbs situation OF
commercial Affairs yesterday. compared With the pre-
SAy tho markets b,ng generally quiet nut s'eaay
Coffee was moderately active and steady Cotton was
less active and hc lower On Change hour was quiet
aud l0c. l5c. lower Wheat was without decided
charge Corn opened arm, with fair demand, but
closed dull and heavy. Oats were quiet Pork closed
dur and heavy Beef more steady, and lard &C
tive but ai lower Freights wers quiet whiskey
vas unchanged Naval stores were generally steady.
Petroleum quiet but arm.
MIsCRLLANE0Us.
Our Mexico correspondence dated Vera Cruz Decsu.
Der 90 and Mexico City December - All the Preach
troops are being q the Capital preparatory
leaving country The yssach transport Rhons was In
the harbor OF Vera Cruz waiting 70 take the troops
whose time had expired. The Austrian steam yacht
Elizabeth, from Trieste. had arrived for tho purpose
It was supposed. Of carrying Macmillan to Europe
The transportation Of troops from the interior 70
vers Crua b 70 commence on the 18th instant Maxi
milan was ss at Pue6lA General casteinsaa and the
French Minister Dano had visited him. Two American
assamsss fso1 New York, with provisions for the
Frenoh hid arrived and anosher from tho sams piacs
Md safely discharged cargo Of arms for the liberals ~
MinAIilAn. Tho town Of San AaxuseiA about four
leesses iron The capital vigorously aacksd o5 ths
liberals ths 1rth or December and during the ssltsa
haf tAs impartial garrison dsssstsd reisforssAsnt
hswsvsr saved me town ana tAs hssnis vatizsd 10;
xaAs'e asssss OF neutraity II shs Stats ~ Nsyak ~
said 70 have been urged upon him b. British csnner-
cis nrm IN order smuggling along tho coast
azane has despatched messenger 70 Juarex TO obtain
recognition Of the Frcnch claim. Tho French STILL
retained the Custom House at vcra Cruz and tho col
ector OF that port had notified merchants hat he would
exact the duties upon mportatons even though they
may have been previously paid TO the French
Our Panama correspondence Is dated january. Cen
era Moquera had rendered his resignation IS President
TO the Supreme Court on the ground that the public
treasury entirely empted by his predecessor and he
was unable to replenish n that the people
dissatisfied with his administration and he feared
assassination II no retained his Office. The Court re-
fused TO accept The brig Jacme Packet seized some
time ago for barratry sent to the Collector OF Gus
toms at Now York on the goth ut Tho United States
troops who were detained Nicaragua while route for
San Francisco tme ago. have been attacked with
cholera. forty six having died at last accounts
Our Peru correspondence is dated Lima, December p
and Callao December 81 Colonel Prado the President
was org anizng an efacient police force for Lima An
attempt had boon made assassinste him by means OF
percussion shells enclosed to him In trunk The trick
discovered, however, and the box was rendered
harmless One Of the who was connected with the
affair had been arrested but the rest escaped The &C.
cusation against tho Minister Of Finance, Pardo. and
Barrcda the Minister at Washington OF swindling tho
In tho transaction Of the Peruvian oan had
assumed the form OF substantial charges Tho arst
division Of the allied feet had sailed from Valparaiso for
the island OF Juan Fernandez. The opinion prevailed.
however, that tho whole ncet would make for Rio, til
being supposed have positive 'nforma ton
that Spain and Brazil had entered into an alliance Tho
Fanny. from New London. had arrived. with twenty
Parrot guns and other munitions Of for the gov
eminent
Advcss from China and Japan say that large conaa
grafton had occurred at Hong Kong, By which many
hundred buildings had boon destroyed Another Gre,
also occurred at Yokohama on the 9th Of December.
The odhcial despatch from Lord Carnarvon 20 the
Governor General Of Canada Committing tho sentence Of
tho Fcnaa prisoners 70 twenty years imprisonment Is
published In our columns this morning The Sweets.
burg prisoners condemned TO death arrived at Kingston
yesterday for confinement 10 tho peutentiary there
Tho Queens Own determined, at meeting Of the mem
bers to petition the homo government 70 pardon the
prisoners whose sentences have boon commuted The
county assxss opened Toronto yesterday The Judge
said that the Of tho Fenans in the Jail there would
not come before the present Grand Jury.
Governor Throckmorton. Of Texas some time ago ad-
dressed ieer TO General sturgs requesting the aid OF
the military to prevent outragcs upon freedmen which
he said being perpetratcd In Caldwell county Of
that ssats
General Phil Sheridan denies thai he Is about 10 gel
married run for the Presidency.
Moran, who was sentenced TO be hang on the 25th
inst for the murder Of Nary Ellen Ksarney. In Rox-
bury MASS about months ago. has had his sentence
commuted 70 imprisonment for ifc
The which rafAed OF by the ladies Of a
Catholic church in Norfolk, presented Jer Davis
ON Monday by the Individual who won It,
General Scott. the Commissioner Of the Freedmen's
Bureau In South Carolina has instituted strict
into death by burning recently OF twentyhree
gross In The connagaon which destroyed the Kngsres
jail
Tho ConHict Rrf wren Cong md the Pr AsI.