The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1865, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. ——eeeeee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XEX.... cess eeeeseeeeee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Agaau X4 POGUB; OR, vax Wickiow Weppina. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Orumuto. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Garris oF tan ‘Tuames—Sritrins—Hanvr ANvY. WINTER GABDEN, Broadway.—Evenreopr's Faiexp— ‘Toopies. ‘ARNUM’S NEW MUSEUM, 699 and 541 Broadway.— Line ‘Cuniosrtixs—CuiLpaen or Crraus. Open Day and Evening. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, ‘Wava—Nonan Cxgia—My Wire 4nD p—- WIZARD OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Hanuarn, qus Paestipigitateun. BRYANT'S MINSTRE: Mechanics’ Hall, 672 Sroad- way.—Eruiorian ee Sones, Dances, &0.—OLD ‘Tutes, Roos. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eratortan fosTun Ranaue Famity—JuLinn Cox- iD, &O. Bonas, Dances, crnt—! Lam SAN FRANCISCO [STRE) 585 Moteopotitan Hotel. aarortas’ Buxante, ‘Tus Dring Buicanp. oP ULLAT ES QUE! ROU RR Wisnt roR rk. Opposite axoiay k= (CAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Eraiortan miccees., FA Buaiesques, &c.—Tus BLITZ NEW HALL, 720 Broadway.—Patacs or Intv- sion—INTERLUDE—LEARNED CANARYS—VENTRILOQUISM, 40. VANNUCHDS MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movine pil os Puaumabe Lincouse far Davis ae NEW YORK MUSEUM-OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. open from 0AM tI one New York, Monday, September 11, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Salcs of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICtAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. FHIBRALD. «0.6... sce ee ee eeecee sees eeees $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,543 1,095,000 871,229 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. EUROPE. ‘The Montreal Company's steamship Hibernian arrived at Father Point yesterday, with European dates to the 1st inst.—five days lator than those previously received. The continued retirement of Queen Victoria from public life, and the persistency with which she devotes herself to the inauguration of memorials to her late hus+ band, were again cxciting comment in the English press. The Atlantic Tolegraph Company had determined to issue contracts for a new cable, and the insurance agents had recognized the resolution of the company not to at- tompt to pick up the dropped cable during the year as fatal to tho late project, and had set about paying the insurance claims made upon them Continental politics has furnished no new develop- ‘ments, with the exception of a ministerial crisis in Portugal. Some new phases in the interminable Schleswig- ‘Holstein dispute have been reached equally as intermina- blo as those proceding them. Nothing new appears to have been received in Europe respecting the actual progress of the war in South Ameri- ca, The Emperor of Brazil, in his journey to take com- mand of the Brazilian army, had proceeded as far as St. Gabriel, United States five-twenty bonds were quoted in the London money market on the Ist: inst. at 6334 a 69. British consois stood at 89% a 89%. American cotton had advanced 4d. per Ib. THE NEWS. Advices from the Rio Grande, via New Orleans on the 2d instant, give as.the cause for the recent removal of the French troops of Maximilian’s army from Matamo- os and vicinity, and their substitution by native sol. diors, the disposition of the French officers to give and take offence. wrotean insulting, pompous and silly letter to General Brown, the American commander at Brownsville, Texas, has, it is said, been dismissed from the imperial army. Provious reports that officers lately belonging to tho rebel army in this country have been given commands in Maximilian’s service are contradicted, The proclamation of Provisional Governor Hamilton, of Toxas, issued on the 19th ult., and heretofore noticed in the Heraxp, appears in full m our paper this morning. It lays down the regulations and prescribes the plan wheroby the people of tho State shall be enabled to take the oath of amnesty and allegiance to the q&tional government and qualify themselves to vote for delegates * to the State Convention and to ait in that body. Tho chief justices and clerks of the county courts are to con- stitute the boards in the several counties for administer. ing the oath and keeping a list of the names of those ‘who subscribe to it, and for the performance of this duty they aro required to be in session at least one day in ‘each week till their work is accomplished. The Gover- nor concludes by earnestly urging the citizens to come forward with alacrity and tako this primary step in the work of restoring their civil government. ‘Tho extended sketch of Canada and Canadian politica ‘Affairs which appears in our columns this morning will One of these gentry, who some time ago condition, produced by a free liquids for which that locality onjoys some reputation, ‘After being arraigned the Giant was discharged. Early yesterday morning policeman Quinn, of the Seventeenth precinet, while attempting to quell a dis- turbance in the drinking shop at 260 East Twolfth street, ‘was attacked by the desperate gang assembled there, and 80 badly beaten as to be reduced to insensibility, His assailants all escaped. Justice Dodge yesterday committed ® man named William Myors, charged with running off with @ horse and wagon, valued at six hundred dollars, which he hired ‘on the 29th ult. at tho livery stable of Mr. Crow, in Thompson street. Mra. Esther Verner, living in the rear of No, 98 Ridge street, became involved in @ difficulty regarding one of her children, on Wednesday last, with Mr. and Mra. Metz, residing at the same number, and was so badly beaten that she is not expected to recover, Coroner Wildey yesterday examined several witnesses in refer- ence to the matter, and on the conclusion of the investi gation the man Meta was committed to await the result of Mrs. Verner’s injuries. Mrs. Metz agyeted herself and bas not yet been arrested, The new Baptist church in Fifty-third street, near Seventh avenue, was dedicated yesterday by appropriate Teligious services, The dedication sermon was preached by tho Rey, J. W. Hallman. ‘There was again preaching by @ Southern clergyman in Cooper Institute yesterday, the Rev. Mr. Deems, of North Carolina, delivering an able and interesting sermon toe large congregation. The reverend gentleman re- turned thanks for the restoration of the Union and prayed for the President. On yesterday afternoon severe) Fathor Mathew socie- ties paraded through the upper strocts of the city, on the occasion of No. 8 recelving two new flags—the Stare and Stripes and the fing of Ireland. In the evening a public meeting was held in the hall of No. 3, on Twonty-fifth street, near Eighth avenue, at which speeches were made | by Mr. M. J. A. McCaffrey and others. Songs were sung by several ladies and gentlemen, and many new members signed the pledge. The mystery in regard to an unknown corpse recently arriving at Webster, Massachusetts, from Fortress Mon- roe, and which created suspicions of murder, is now ex- plained by the statement that two boxes, ono containing alot of tools and the other a body intended to be sent home to the relatives of deceased for interment, wore shipped at the same time, and by some mistake each was transmitted to the destination intended for the other. A railroad passenger train was thrown from the track near Lynn, Massachusetts, on last Friday night, by a misplaced switch. As the train was running slowly, no person was injured; but about twenty thousand dollars worth of damage was done to railroad property by the consequent wreck. wie The freedmen’s school building at Decherd, Tennessee, will brush them aside as a cobweb with his hand. Following close upon the clear and terse enunciation of his policy in the Missis- sippi muddle between the civil and military authorities, In which he shows his purpose to restore the Southern States to full communion in the Union at the earliest practicable period, we learn from our Washington despatches that there is a probability he will soon take another important step in the good work. The opinion is confidently entertained that something ap- proaching a general amnesty will be pro- claimed before long, applying it to the several States late in rebellion at such times as they may be prepared to receive it. Who can doubt that such wise, conciliat- ing and progressive steps, cautiously taken, too, will have the happiest effects? The Southern people are thoroughly cured of rebellious in- tentions; they have seen the utter folly of them, and they desire to become again loyal citizens of this glorious country. In this we feel assured the President and the mass of the people of the North will help them. The fac- tious Jacobins and agitators must stand aside and let the good work go on, or they will be overwhelmed by an avalanche of public opinion. rilliant Fall Sea- son. Our advertising columns would inform us, even ifour observation did not, that the sum- mer season is over and that the fall season commences this week. August closed like Oc- tober, and September opened like August; but the heavy rains of the past few daya_have Te stored to us quite seasonable weather. The watering places are deserted by the fashiona- bles, who have returned home to prepare for the fall campaign. In a week or two the guests who alill linger, like the last rose left bloom- ing alone in the song, will take their tardy de- partures, and the summer hotels will be shut up until next year. Let us say, in taking leave of them, that we have heard fewer complaints than usual during the past season. The mis- sionary work in which the Heratp has been so The Opening of was burned one night last week by returned rebel soldiers, The Muddle in Mississippi Between the MiNtary and Civil Authorities, The recent action of the President in the difficulty that occurred in Mississippi between the civil and military authorities is of the high- est importance. It declares in the most em- phatic manner his well-matured and fixed policy to restore the late rebellious States to their former condition in the Union. Nothing has transpired during his administration that shows so forcibly the wisdom, spirit and pur- pose of his plan of reconstruction. And every patriot must hail with satisfaction this evidence of an unswerving determination to restore peace and harmony to the country within the shortest time possible, notwithstanding the schemes and opposition of the War Depart- ment and the Jacobins. We will briefly state the circumstances. Governor Sharkey proposed to organize the militia of Mississippi to preserve order in the State, and to enable him to carry out the Presi- dent’s policy of restoration, amid the chaos that existed there consequent upon the war and the changed relations of the colored and white people. General Slocum, commanding the military there, acting by authority of the War Department, interposed and prevented the execution of the Governor’s order. Here was a direct conflict of authority. The Governor, who is an able man, and who believed he understood the wishes of President Johnson— having recently had a long conference and full understanding with him—had no doubt that he was doing what was right and prudent. The General, as a subordinate of the War Depart- ment, and acting in the true military spirit of obedience, thought he was carrying out the views of the government while executing those of the Secretary of War. In this dilemma aif appeal was made to Washington. The Presi- dent replied without hesitation that his object was to restore civil power to the States, and not to prolong military rule longer than neces- sary. He sustained the Governor, and disap- proved of the military interposition. Such, in afew words, was the issue raised and the dis- posal of it. Whether we look at the principle involved or the consequences of this act of the President, we must acknowledge that it is one of the most extraordinary of his government. It will in- spire hope and confidence in the hearts of the people South and North; in the South, because they will see in it a speedy return to liberty, prosperity and happiness in the bosom of the Union, and to the North because it will bring back peace, amity, safety for the future, angge former blessings of commercial interco@®se. The reunited people everywhere «will cor- dially approve of this harmonizing policy. The Jacobin faction and olficeholders only will object to it. be found most engrossing. It shows how the strvggle there between democracy and aristocracy, between re- publicanism and imporialiam, is rapidly approaching a crisis, the evident tendency of which is towards the annex- ation of the provinces to this country, It also furnishes ‘an oxposure of the secret policy of Great Britain, and her ‘efforts, by moans of establishing powerful land and naval armaments in her colonies along our northern border, and by endeavoring to forco them into the confederation Coalition, to set up on this continont an empire to check tho groat Amortcan republic in its carcor of freo govern- mont and civilization. A grand banquet was given on Iast Saturday night in Meadville, Pa., on the Atlantic and Great Western Rail road, to tho English capitalists who arrived in this city on Tuesday last, and who aro now on a tour of inspection of the public works and other enterprises of this coun. try and Canada, Some of these gentlemen are largely interosted in the Atlantic and Great Western road, and assisted materially in its construction. Mr. Le Homme- dieu presided at the banquet, and Mr. Reynolds, former Bresident of the road, made the speech welcoming the distinguished guoste, which was responded to on their ‘behalf by Sir Morton Peto, Other speeches were also made, and, together with these, the handsome decora- tions of the room, and the good things set before the com- pany, & rare ovening’s treat was enjoyed. ¥ The One Hundred and Sixty-ffth regiment of New ‘York Volunteers, raised in this city, and known as the Second regiment of Duryee’s Zouaves, arrived hore yes- Yorday from Charleston, 8. ©., where they were for some time in confinement in consequence of a difficulty with the nogroos there which they got into. Previous to leaving Chhrleston, however, the men had their arms restoredto thom, and the regiment bas boon honorably discharged. Richard D. Pool, formerly lieuten’* colonel of the Fourth Alabama rebel regiment, an. recent!” released from Fort Warren, was yesterday © ‘nmitted ) Iyetice Dodge on charge of having attem,...1 to pass r of an uptown hotel worthless one dollar bill po rporting to be the issue of the Alleghany County Bank, of Mary | Jand. Othor worthless bills were found in the prisoner's Androas Hansen, known as tho Prussian Giant, was yosterday morning among the notable objects of arraign- ‘ment in the Tomba Police Court, having been arrested fa the Rourth ward on the orovions night, in halylers But here @question naturally arises as to the cause of this conflict between different de- partments of the government, or, rather, as to the conflict between the President and these departments? Does the Jacobin faction still attempt to rule at Washington, through the Secretary of War and other members of the Cabinet? It is ovident there is a want of har- mony. Ohe would have supposed that the Secretaries of State aud War would have un- derstood the President’s views and each other in a matter of such vast importance, and have acted in concert. This question could not have been sprung upon them unexpectedly. They both must have known the programme laid down for the Provisional Governor of Mis- sissippi; they could not have been ignorant of President Jobnson’s instructions and wishes. We cannot resist the conviction that one of these Cabinet officials, at least, and perhaps both, are playing false to the President in his work of reconstruction. At all events, they are not acting in accord with him. There is no unity of purpose and action. Should these gentlemen not behave better they will probably receive a notice to leave even before the President is fully prepared to thoroughly reconstruct his Cabinet. If we un- derstand the firm, Jacksonian character of Mr. Johnson, he will not be trifled with, or tolerate any insidious opposition to his measures, The President had to feel his way step by step through the chaos of difficulties that were in his path when he took the reins of govern- ment; but ashe advances light breaks upon him, and he begins to see his way clear. He knows already that he stands upon the firm ground of popular epinion and favor. He will not permit, therefore, any party or persons, whether official or uot, to obgtruct hig statgy ardently engaged for so many years has not been unblessed, and at least one hotel at every watering place is now respectably con- ducted. We do not despair, therefore, of still further improvements jp the future. When landlords discover that they have consciences; when bad cooks are summarily disposed of a3 Prince Alfred’s, and when wines are imported from some place more distant than New Jer- sey, the social millennium will have arrived, and our summer sojourns will be a joy forever. The fall season opens with several fine races on land and water. The ocean yacht race, which has attracted such general attention, comes off to-day, the course being from the lightship off Sandy Hook around the lightship off Cdpe May. This is the first genuine ocean race ever sailed on this side the Atlantic, and the two yachis matched against each other are among the largest in the country. On our in- land waters some sensation has been caused by the rowing match recently made between the famous Ward Brothers, of Newburg, and the celebrated New York crew, who have carried off almost all the laurels of four-oared races. To-day also the Hudson County Agricultural Society holds its regular fall meeting at Se- caucus, near Hoboken. The moeting continues for three days, and three races a day will be run. The Fashion Course is open to-day for a trotting match. Before long we may expect the announcements for the fall meetings throughout the country, and we should not be surprised if the reorganized South were to at- tempt to regain her old position on the turf. Besides yachting and trotting, other outdoor sports are now in order. The fall weather is much more favorable than the heat of summer to cricket and base ball games, and we regret that so many good matchos should have been played in August, when they might better have boen ad- journed to Sepiember. However, the same clubs are ready to bat and bowl, pitch and catch again. As Morphy has taken ap his resi- dence in tbis city, a revival of the chess excite- ment may be anticipated. Captain McKensie, a very good player, has stationed himself at the chess club and is defeating all opponents. In billiards the match between Kavanagh and Carme, the French player, is everywhore dis- cussed. The recent game between Fox and Deery for the champion’s cue, which Deery won, has excited little interest, because Kava- nagh is still practically the champion, having never been defeated, although bis temporary illness enabled Fox to take the cue away without playing for it. Thus, in all depart. | ments of sport, the fali season promises to be memorable. This week all the places of amusothent, ex- cept Wallack’s, will be reopened. Some of them, indeed, bave not been closed during the sum- mer, simply changing their entertainments to the style which suits their dog-day patrons from the rural districts. With the commence- ment of the fall season these perennial theatres change back again to the programmes which please metropolitans. Of these matters, how- ever, we have a word to say tlsewhere, and need only notice here that the theatrical season will not fall short of any other in its attractive. ness this year. The season of the milliners and mantau makers—in which our lady readers are most deeply concerned—is very near at hand. The modistes have been to Paris and have re- turned, and the goods which they have pur- chased are fast arriving. The Custom House officials are kept excessively busy, and Collector King will be able to make few changes until bis present force gets rid of the piles of bonnet boxes and dry goods which demand immediate attention. As the modistes are not yet quite ready to receive their cus- tomers we shall not reveal their secrets. What shape the new bonnets will be; whether the waterfall is really falling, as Sir Boyle Roche would say, into the sere and yellow leaf; whether turbans or bonnets will be the more fashionable; what materials are to be the style for dresses; whether circulars are entirely out ot date; whether coats will hold their own or shawls be revived—all these are questions of the utmost importance; but in regard to them our lips are, for the present, sealed. Suffice it to say that heads of families may as well pre- pare for a tremendous raid upon the domestic treasuries, Any little balances at the banks will be swallowed up by the modistes as surely and as speedily as the Atlantic Ocean swal- lowed up the Atlantic cable, Whether the novelties to be introduced are elegant, or be- coming, or hideous, they all have this one iy—thev are dear. This meh mav be confidence. What with the racing season, the yatohing season, the sporting season, the thea- trical season, the fashionable season and the political season, we shall certainly have our hands full from this time to Christmas. (The Political Conventions and the Monroe Doctrine. Tho political conventions which have thus far been held in the Northern States have brought forward all manner of platforms, with a great variety of planks, No two conventions have taken hold of our internal affairs alike, or coincided with each other in the treatment of the various questions touching the manage- ment of home matters. Some of the State conventions of the republican party have endorsed negro suffrage, others repudiated it, and till others have ignored the question entirely. Now and then a republican con- vention has approved the President's policy, while others have voted down resolu- tions sustaining his civil and military admia- istration. The same ia true of the demo- oratic conventions. They have taken all sides of the same question. The New Jersey de- mocracy rehashed their old party claptrap, glori- fied their cardinal principles and all the hum- buga of the past, and endeavored to ring in an endorsement of a portion of Mr. Johnson’s pol- icy with a proviso; while in the State of Maine they approved the reconstruction policy of the administration in an unqualified manner. The Pennsylvania democracy limped and stumbled out @ qualified approval of Mr. Jobnson, but had it appended to a long rigmarole about past rubbish, which spoiled all the good they did in- corporate in their platform. The democracy of this State, on the other hand, came up man- fully to their work; discarded the old and dead issues, and took hold of the living present ones in the right form, and said what they had to say in the right way. Thus we might go on enu- merating all the State conventions which have been held, and find that no two have treated the issues now presented in our internal af- fairs in the same manner. There are as many distinct’ and different platforms as there have been conventions, But with al} this confusion and conflicting sentiment on the course to be pursued in the management of the questions within ourselves, there is one thing upon which all these conven- tions agree. Wherever a State convention has been held, it ‘matters not whether republican or democratic, in Maine or Minnesota, in New. York or Ohio, in New Jersey or Michigan, in Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, but one sentiment has been manifested on the Monroe doctrine. All parties and all classes agree upon this point. Democrats and republicans, politicians and the people, are of one voice and one mind. Everywhere resolutions are passed without the slightest dissent approving that time honored doctrine and declaring that the principle in- volved must be enforced, and America left ex- clusively to Americans. The unanimity on this question is significant. It is expressed in so emphatic and unmistakable a manner‘that no public man or official in this country dare array himself against it if he would. Whatever else may have been the effect of the events of the past four years upon the minds of our people, however charitable they may feel towards our erring brethren in the South, and how- ever wiliing they may be to forget and forgive their efforts to break up and destroy the Union, there is no mistaking the fact that the course of the European governments, in attempting to establish monarchies on our borders qnd provide empires for the royal bloods of Europe on this continent, has aroused the people of this country, renewed their devo- tion to the Monroe doctrine and removed all possibility of their forgiving the intrigues of | foreign Powers as long as they try to control any of the republics on this side of the Atlan- tic. This fact isso apparent, from the action of the numerous State conventions, that no per- son can mistake it, as we presume those man- aging our forsign affairs at Washington and abroad fully comprehend. If Napoleon or the British government have had any doubts heretofore in regard to the sentiment of the people in this country on this point, these doubts must by this time be removed. The Emperor of the French must see that every day and every hour which he retaias Maximilian ia Mexico he increases the animosity of our people and widens the breach | between the two nations. The English states- men cannot fail to comprehend that every effort on their part to interfere with the affairs of this continent only operates. detrimental to them. If they are wise they will boldly seize the opportunity of regaining the prestige which that government has lost by reviving the doctrine which their eminent statesman, Mr. Canning, originated, and at once insist that fi W YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1865. rn gn | OF Faas oa Hae Seno PO] ore Bead cn ep indulgence in the potent | manlike course, They must go with him, or he mised Success. There is plenty of promise on the wooden wall at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street—a structure that, while it makes a great mystery of what is going on behind it in the new Court House, is very comimunicative as to what is going on in a great many other places, especially at the theatres and minstrel balls. There is also plenty of promise placarded on the real theatrical boards at the street corners, and there is some promise even in the boards that bar out the inquisitive gaze at the entrance of Wallack’s theatre. There is a great deal more promise in those columns of the Hmratp devoted to theatrical advertisements, and at the theatres already open there is a very sub- stantial nightly evidence that all these promises are not made in vain. ‘The theatrical season is to be the most bril- liant and successful one that we have had for many years. The whole of the public liberality and even extravagance in the matter of amusement indicates very decided tendency toward the theatres, and the managers show that they mean to give the public very good, reasons to keep in this humor. The Keans lead the race at the Broadway, with the un- questioned legitimate. They promise in the present week Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Richard the Second—such a suceession of Shakspere as we have not had in a great while; and these pi are relieved and con- trasted by that Very different though very admirable piece of historical portraiture, Louis XI. No person familiar with the Quentin Durward ot Scott should fail to see Louis XI. for the sake of old acquaintance; and no per- son not familiar with Quentin Durward should _fail to see Louis XL for even better reasons. These two classes comprehend a large portion of the intelligent public. Our old citizens fond of the legitimate, and of all that is plea- sant in theatrical associations of other times, are having a rare treat with the Keans, and those fond of a very fresh, gonial and sympathetic style, and a quite conscientious interpretation, are having an even rarer troat in the acting of Mr. Cathcart—a gentleman who ought not to leave us, and who will not if our managers have the proper spirit. = a At the Winter Garden the season has opened resplendently, with the other phase of the legit- imate, and with what will always be welcome to playgoers the world over—a first rate comic actor. Sensation is good in its place ; startling effects are excellent at times; new scenery is admirable ; but a good comic actor is perenhi- ally first rate, forever and under all circum- stances a true and genuine attraction, and will be so as long as men have daily cares and vexa- tions that they can get away from in the preg ence of irresistible fun and shake off by hearty laughter. Clarke will run tor many nights, and then the public perhaps have some fair ground to hope that, notwithstanding former very nat- ural though over-hasty announcements, they may once more see on these boards the greatest of American actors. At Niblo’s the Arrah na Pogue of House and Boucicault has drawn full houses for a consid- erable season, and would continue to draw them apparently without limit; but it must give way to arrangements previously made. It has had a great success, and has shown, it is to be hoped for the benefit of managers, that a new play now and then is taken in very good ‘part by the public. This play has~introduced here a good actor and a good actress—Mr. Glenny and Misa Orton. Mr. Glenny has put on the stage in his part a new kind of Irishman—an Irishman whom we all recognize as natural and real, and whom many of us have seen, but not ina play. This new Irishman is welcome. Arrah na Pogue will give way to the Ravels, who are welcome also. They are the real Gabriel and Antoine, with a good com- pany ; and we shall once more have a rare treat of the marvellous and delicious nonsense that has so often turned decorum topsy-turvy and made us all happy in spite of ourselves. The Olympic opens on Thursday next with Pocahontas, and the time honored assurance that “several novelties are in active prepara- tion:’ One of these is doubtless the “comic drama” by Mrs. Wood announced some time ago, and another, no doubt, is the English actress Miss Rushton, of whom it is so far only known that she is. very abundant, but who is spoken of in the highest terms. Mrs. Wood announces an admirable company, with nearly all the old names.and some new ones. From Wallack’s we hear nothing as yet. There is evidently some: decoration in progress hidden at present by impene- trable plank; but in due time the little temple will doubtless come out brighter and fresher than ever. That gay parterre will soon glisten with its familiar array of sparkling and astonishing toilets and happy France, Spain and all other Powers shall unite with them in its observance to the letier and spirit. In this course they have an oppor- tunity to obtain the entire moral influence of this country. The remarks of President Johnson to the Minister from the Republic of Colombia, as he was taking his departure from. Washing- ton, were in unison with the sentiments of the people of this country. Their voice from Maine to Oregon is that the Monroe doctrine must and shall be maintained. Our people, how- ever, want no more of war; we have had:enough to last us for some time to come; but the European Powers, especially the: French, must not consider that we will allow them to con- tinue their interference on this continent for the sake of avoiding war. If such is their belief the sooner they are disabused of that idea the better it will be for them and all con- cerned. We are not by nature warlike nation, but we have shown whenever it Is necessary that we are able to cope with any nation on that score. The desire of our people is that the European Powers will take warning from the signs of the times, and quietly with- draw from this.side of the Atlantic. We prefer that our war should be a moral one, and our weapons public opinton; but let not Napoleon or other monarchs trifle too. long with our patience, or they may find us resorting to more severe weapons to enforce a doctrine which our entire people now reverence more than ever. Tas Taree Cent Preors.—During the months of May, June, July and August five million five hundred thousand three cent pieces were coined at the United States Mint in Philadel. phia. Where are they? If they are rotained in the Mint, perhaps the Superintendent oan twill us why, The people are anxious for gold end silver; but if the precious metals cannot be brought into circulation, they are willing that nickel and copper shasl be anbatitntod faces, setting its crowning grace upon the theatrical season. The traditions of this.estab- lishment make it safe to anticipate that there will be plenty of old comedy, and it ts only natural to hope that there may also ba some new comedy . Ec Our French citizens, who certainly yield to none in their correct taste and interest im the drama, are even to have a new theatre.. They have been for some time content with what was known to.concert and ball-goers as.Niblo’s Saloon, and will be very proud in a bran-new theatre, which we have no doubt will bea model of ita kind. Other new theatres are also talked of, and will be welcome. There is plenty of room, especially far up townand on the west side, where there. is an immense popu- lation that. hardly goes below Fourteenth street, and another immense population that would go,to the Bowery if it went at all, but is not disposed to go so far. Our German citi- zens will. no doubt continue to keep. up in the present year, as they,have in so many others, their favorite Stadt. theatre, and the soveral minor: establishments. that have flourished in the oriental regiona.of avenues A, B and C. Hermann, the most wonderful of the wisarda, the only juggler who is never trans- parent and contemptible, begins to-night at. the Academy, and wilk Gil it, All the minor places of amusement arihounce particular at- tractions, espeoially the minisirel halle— Wood’s, the Sam Francisco Minstrels, the American theatre, Tony Pastor's, in the Bow- ory, and Hooley’s, in Brooklyn. Tho Bryante announce the return to burnt cork of their whilom Irishman, who has evidently not been made too ambitious by his success in a real theatre At the Old Bowery Mr. Fox an- nounces such a positive bill as the Griffin of the Thames, the Fair Maid of Erin, the Spitfire and Handy Andy; and at the New Bowery Mr. Biddy gives the immense drama of the Wizard ] of them. The east side must be apathetic indeod if it is indifferent to all that. This resumé gives some little indication of the great extent of the theatrical business in the city; and it is worthy of particular notice that the attractions at the various theatres are of a first rate order—better than ever before. We have first class theatres, first class plays and first class actors; and hence people patronize the drama now to an extent hitherto unknown in the history of our city. The taste is inherent and real in the people, and the managers show. a disposition to foster and de- velop it—so that there is every promise of a revived interest in the drama that will carry it to a’ very high state among us. Last year the money spent at the theatres ran into millions, and this year it will run further still; and, if not quite into billions, certainly far enough to amply satisfy all who have their means in- vested in these popular places, ~~ + The Positioi of Ca: ja—The Designs of “England. One of que special correspondents, who has lately %een all over Canada, visited her chief cities and places, and talked with her chicf men, has written out his observations at some length, and we give them in the Haratp of this morning. : There are some disclosures in this report which will attract public attention, as indicating the policy of England and the schomes of that Power to build up a northern bulwark to the great republic while France constructs one on the southern frontier of the United States. i The position of Canada on this continent fa remarkable, and quite without precedent in history. It is a repetition of one of the pictures of the old romancers—the association of Death with Life. They pictured sometimes a beautiful girl married to Death, and sometimes to wretch, a’ part of whose person was already dead, and who carried about with him in all the scenes of life—ita pomps and splendors, its trials and its triumphs—that horrible contrast, that part from which the vital spirit was gone, in which the blood was stagnant and all the functions frozen. Canada, by contrast with our own country, realizes this picture in the West- 6a hétalsphor Here | all is life, activity and progressive movement. We are full of gn on- ergetic spirit that carries us forward to the ac- complishment of what the past considered wild and visionary projects. We have put into tual operation the political dreams of other ages. There is remunerative labor for every man who lands upon our soil, and wealth if he has the will to win it. Thore is here a political freedom and an indi- vidual liberty unequalled anywhere else; and we are more positively, intensely and vigor- ously alive than anyother people on the face ofthe earth. And only’ across the St. Law- rence river we come to our political and’social antipodes. Just there, in Canada, we find the people the least alive of any in existence—a whole vast community stagnating on its pillar like St. Simeon Stylites, knowing that there is no real healthy life in that position, and yet unable to move for fear ofa fall. What is the explanation of this? It is that in these two communities—Canada and the United States respectively—the past and the present stand side by side. Canadais a pitiful, impoverished, decrepit kind of Europe in oon- trast with America—the seventeenth in con- trast with the nineteenth century. Canada ia an attempt to keep up on this continent the European system, without the wealth and cen- tralization that makes that system tole- rable in Europe. It has all the vices without any of the advantages of the European system, It is a tradition, end lives om politi- cal fictions and dogmas, awd not by a hewlthful action of vital forces. Here is a vast territory, with @ frontier on the United States of nearly two thousand miles, and it'exists to-day on the political conditions that were good a bun- dred years ago. It is the colony of a Power three thousand miles away. It has no prim- ary, but.oaly a secondary. political existenve, and is dependent upon s Power that controls the Hindoos just as it does the men of Canada. The conditions of the political existence of Canada are those of another age, and are ut~ terly inconsistent with active national life; And hence the contrast is hardly less thaw life and death; for by the juxtaposition of Can- ada with our own country we literally see the past in contrast with the most concentrated spirit of the: present: her effete institutions with our progressive ones, and her people, who stand as if they had reached the limit of development, im contrast with ours, whe seem only to have entered on their career. For this condition of Canada there are two remedies propesed. One is the remedy-of the British government, and the other of the en- lightened portions of the Canadian people. The very interesting account of the present con- dition of Canada which we have already alluded to and: which we print to-day’ will give our readors:a fall view both of thestate ot the people and.country and of the argement on: these proposed: remedies. The government: remedy is a: federation of all the Buitish.pro- vinces on this continent, but, of course, without. the destruction of their dependence on, the “mother” country, Like all remedieappoposed: by the British gevernment, it is » proposal to make matters a little better for England andia little worse for the colony and menace te,us. 4 a ¢ It is e& proposal to build up ® Powerrom , | our Northern frontier that would leave the bonds. of England free ia. case of @ war with us. The other remedy proposed— the remedy of the people—is the snnexation of Caneda to.the- United States ami the entrance into. this Union of the provincas as equal, inde- pendent States. The death of slavery’ haa re- moved the only objection that, was.ever urged against this on our part, ancethe advantages of this remedy are so clear to, all the Canadian people that its adoption is merely #. question of time. Its principal opponents in Canada are the resident Englishmen who donot make the province their permanent home, and the politi- cal flunkies whose fat places depend upon the continuance of the colonial system. Now that the eyes of the people. are. open to the neces- sities of the case, these fellows cannot com trol opinion for any great while, and thore- fore this extension of the erea of freedom is en inevitable part of the early future. But {t is eminently proper to watch the move-, ments of the English as well as the French on this continent; to keep our eyes on our north+ ern frontier as well aa on our sonthern frontier, and be prepared for any evoutuality thatgnay tine in eithar direction, at ) 4 ‘