LATEST AMERICAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1131, 29 June 1867, Page 6

LATEST AMERICAN.

New Yobk, April 20. The Mississippi petition for an injunction to stay the execution of the Beconstruction Act, being so amended a:; to pray for an injunction against Secretary Stanton and Generals Grant and Ord, was presented to the Supreme Court on Thursday last, and allowed to be filed, notwithstanding a motion from the Attorney-Gen-eral that the bill should be dismissed on the ground that the case was beyond the jurisdiction of the court. The case will be heard on the 2Gth instant. General Schofield has announced that former conscripts of the rebel army are not necessarily to be disfranchised. A Republican State Convention met at Bichmond on Thursday. Several white and negro Badicals spoke on the occasion, and resolutions were passed thanking Congress and endorsing the action of that body in adopting the platform of the Republican party. The resolutions also advocated political equality and general education irrespective of color. Badical meetings have bc-en held by the whites and negroes iu Wiuster, Mobile, and North Carolina, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of affiliating with the Badical party in the North, purging Congress, and confiscating the property of the rebels. Numerous Conservative meetings of whites and negroes have been held at Petersburg (Savannah), and other places, at which Conservative principles were avowed, but at the same time submission to the Beconstruction Act was advocated. The Collector of Customs at New Orleans has seized the French steamship Darieu, in consequence of an alleged attempt by the officers of the vessel to defraud the Customs. The investigation into the alleged extensive enlistments in Cuba for the army of the Emperor Maximilian proves that very few men had enlisted, and those without the knowledge of the authorities of the island.

The European Times of the 2nd May, says : —" If war should break out between France and Prussia—and the best judges regard it as almost certain —the map of Europe appears likely to undergo a change in 1567 at least equal to the change in 1866. Greece is making a demand for rectification of frontier, which is equivalent to an attempt to drive the Mahommedan rule out of Europe. She cannot do this herself, but when two of the great powers are engaged in the work of mutual destruction, the Eastern Christians, aided by Bussia, will certainly not be idle. King George, of Greece, is coming over to England, and will then proceed to his family quarters in Copenhagen. A piece of news comes from Paris which has a peculiar significance at the present moment, to the effect that a marriage has been arranged between the King of the Greeks and a daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine. This is cementing the family alliance on the principle that " coming events cast their shadows before." More unlikely things have happened than that the end of the war would see the Czar comfortably seated in Constantinople. Lord Stanley, supposing him to remain in office, will not lie on a bed of roses for some time to come."