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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OUTOBER 8, 1865. Coutant, tried on charge of appropriating five huadred | right of suffrage the Prosident leaves to be | quite possible for one to be confounded with top all others, because our institutions are THE TUNISIAN EMBASSY. | NEW YORK HERALD. dollars belonging to F. R. Anderson, the jury could not | settled hereafter by the sevoral States directly | the ether. Though Mr. Graff must have been etrenger and more permanent, aad our bonds ~“~—_—_—eerrs > ¥.79 agree, eleven being for acquittal and one for conviction. fully aware of this he was guilty of the crime | better and safer than all others. Visit te High Bridge, the Dusseldorf Gal- RE ee oman JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ervics &. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription price, @14. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATEE. Broadway.—Sax. 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Proposals will be received until October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New Yore Huraup Esranuisincenr, on Broadway, Park row and Ann street, Plans and specifications may be seen and examizfed at the office of JOHN KELLUM, Architect, No. 179 Broadway. THE NEWS. TRIAL OF WIRZ. nty & mall amount of testimony was taken before the Wirz military commission yesterday. Among the few witnesses was Dr. Joseph Jones, Professor of Chem- tstry in the Medical College of Georgia, who produced a report concerning the diseases in the Andersonville pen which he made by permission of the rebel authorities, depicting the frightful mortality among the prisoners, Ho described the men as “miserable, hopeless and abject in the oxtreme,” it being impossible to portray their horrible condition. The greater part of the day was taken up in an explanation by Judge Advocate Chipman of his reasons for refusing to permit leading rebels to testify for the defence, and a reply thereto by Mr. Baker, ono of the counsel for Wirz. The Judge Ad- vocate said he had himself taken the responsibility of revoking sudpcenas which hai been granted for the ap- pearance of certain men who wore prominent in the rebellion, including Robert K. Ie, Joseph E. John- ston, Howell Cobb, rebel Secretary of the Navy Mallory, rebel Exchange Commissioner Ould and others, and he left tho court to sanction or disapprove his action, His reason for refusing to allow these persons to testify was that they were co- conspirators with Wirz in the treason which had pro- duced the sufferings and cruelties for the infliction of which the latter were being tried, and were therefore in- admissiblo, on tho well established principle of law that one criminal cannot testify in favor of his accomplice, though he may against him. The court yesterday finally acceded to the request for a short vacation which Wirz’s counse! nave been 80 long urging, and adjourned over till noxt Thursday. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The North Carolina Convention yesterday accomplished another important portion of the work for which it as- sembled by passing unanimously the ordinance forever horeafter prohibiting the existencs of slavery within the _ State, An ordinance was also passed appointing the 9th of next month as the time for an election fe and members of Congress and the Legi The Legislature will meet on the 19th of November, Four of the States lately in rebellion—Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina—have now taken tho necessary steps for assum| ir old position in the Union and in the national councils, all having neutralized their secession ordinances and probibited the future ex tstence of slavery within their borders. There remain yet to act three States—Georgia, Florida and Texas— which will soon hold their conventions and follow the ‘course of their predecessors in the restoration movement. All doubt regarding the gubernatorial contest in Mis- siesippi appears to be at an end. It is conceded that B. G. Humphreys, ex-rebel general, has been elected. Tt is understood that his opponent at the polls, Judge Fisher, wit ase his influence with President Johnson to secure 8 pardon for Mr. Humplireys, so that he may enter upon the duties of the office to which he has been elected, A Cincinnati telegram to a Chicago paper reports that Gonoral Grant, while recently in the former city, on learning of the arrest, by order of General Palmer, at Newport, Kentucky, of the Rev. L. D. Huston, immedi- ately ordored the release of the reverend gentloman, saying that he thought, as we are now at peace, military arresta and military commissions should be at an end. In Friday's Heratp appeared an order from Admiral Bell, Commandant ot the Brooklym Navy Yard, issued by direction of Secretary of the Navy Welles, forbidding the collection in the yard of money to be used for politi cal party purposes. An order ixened by Secretary Welles yesterday gives an additional blow to the republican Politicians. He directs that hereafter ali applications Be the positions of master workmen in navy Yards must be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks in Washington, secompanied by recommendstions and a statement of qualifications, ond whenever a vacancy ocenrs im any yard sclectigy for the place will be made from the ap- Plicants acer as competent, without regird to State or locality. ‘The lotter of our correspondent in Aloxandria, Egypt, ote with infor frow ite ‘antiquity, but from its being the grand intermediate sta. tion on the route of travel between Western Kurope and India, Some facts of importance are also given regard- Ing the threo principal lines of steamships—one Eng- Neb, one French and one Anstrian—wh ich monopolize the greater part of this travel. Argument on the application of Miss Laura Keene for an injunction to restrain the performance of the play of Our American Cousin at one of our city theatres was heard yesterday before Judge Moncrief, of the Supcrior Court, Miss Keene's counsel produced in court a copy Of a deorce in the matter which had been grantod in the United Statos Circuit Court in Philadelphia, and an Blaborate opinion of Judge Cadwallader. The latter the tounsel desired to read; bit Judge Moncrief objected to hearing it, and decided to refuse the injunction asked for, but gave Mies Keene the liberty to renew her appli- cation at any time, which it is understood she will imme- diately do. Tho case of the United States against Charles Hern. kind, charged with obstructing a United States deputy Marshal in the service of a process, in connection with desertiona from the Prussian bark Louise Vicherts, was Feeumed yesterday before Commissioner Newton. “ome testimony was taken, but in the absence of a witness for the prosecution the case wax adjourned til) eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon. ‘The additional panel of one thousand jurors summoned for the Court of General Sessions was returnable yoster. Gay. Rooordor Hoffman directed those jurors who were QA exoused t0 attend on Monday, la tho ome of Ca ‘The Recorder observed that ho was glad they did not ‘agree, for it enabled him to say to the accused that ho should see that the agent of Adams’ Express Company who delivered the money had it refunded to him. In the divoree caso at New London Mr, Harria was cross-examined as to his financial condition. He repre- sented himsolf as being worth an income of about ten thousand dollars per annum. He also stated that Mr. George W. Brown, his brother-in-law, had sued him for the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars, with interest, the whole amounting to seventy-nine thousand dollars, as due him from the partnership with Mr. Harris, Sovoral domestics of the Harris family were also oxanined, eliciting nothing new. The interest of the New Londou public increnses with the progress of tho trial. Mrs. Harris’ counsol claim that they can knock to pieces the bad features of the testimony against their client, 20 ‘evidence of her actual and positive criminality being yot introduced. Last ovening Mr. Handel Cossham, of England, do- livered an interesting lecture, in the Cooper Institute, on the sources of national prosperity and decay. Governor Fenton yesterday visited the American In- stitute Exhibition, accompanied by his Secretary. His ‘visit was somewhat unexpected on the part of the mana- Gore, several of whom, however, were present, and’ con- ducted him through the building. The Governor was “highly pleased'with the machinery, &c., on exhibition, ‘and remained there over an hour. Throughout the day and evening the fair was crowded with fashionable visi- tors, whose attention was divided between thie articles ‘on exhibition and the foe music of Dodworth's band. ‘The Tunis Embassy will probably remain in towneome short time longer. They yesterday visited some places of interest m the city, and to-morrow will visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard. An investigation was commenced yesterday at the Essex Market Police Court of the charges against Messrs, Bortholic & Isaacson,merchants, of 60 Nassau street, arrested some weeks since on suspicion of having re- coived from James Wright, a clerk, fur and other goods, in all valued at over ten thousand dollars, which it is alleged tho latter atole from his employer, Mr. Frederick Booss, of Maiden lane, Mr, Boss and other witnesses testified; but the examination was not concluded. A crazy newspaper correspondent, named D. Stelifer Moulton, styling himself “‘Stelifer the King,” was yes- terday taken before Police Justico Dodge, at the insti- gation of the proprictors of one of our hotels, who charge him with baving defrauded them of a board bill. “The King,’ who is only about twenty-eight years old, has been in the habit not only of writing for the news: papers, but of addressing communications to the Presi- dent of the United States and the crowned heads of Europe, signing himself “Stelifer the King, Reigning Prince of the House of David, and Guardian of American Destinies."” He was committed to the charge of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, till it can be ascertained whether he is a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. In the Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia yesterday the Houss of Bishops sent into the House of Delegates a message announcing that they had agreed to regard Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama, as the regular ecclesiastical presiding officer of that diocese, overlooking the irregu- larities by which he was elected and consecrated, but with the understanding that his case should not be con- sidered a precedent. Bishop Wilmer presided over the Alabama diocese during the rebellion. Hence the allusion to “irregularities.” Considerable other business of a routine character was transacted, but nothing of general interest. Governor Wells, of Louisiana, has accepted the nomi- nation of the democratic party of that State for re- election. The State Department in Washington has received ad- vices to the effect that the cholera was recently raging foarfully in Barcelona, Spain. The port had been closed by royal decree, all business was suspended, and half the inhabitants had fled from the city. Brovet Brigadier General Horace T. Sanders, of Wis- consin, and formerly colonel of the Nineteenth regiment of that State, died in Washington on Friday aight, of pulmonary consumption. Early yesterday morning, when the colored porter of a dental establishment in Arch street, Philadelphia, opened the street door, ho was seized and strangled to death by burglars who had been secreted inside, and who, securing the keys in the colored man’s possession, proceeded to rob the safe of twenty-five hundred dollars, with which they escaped. The stock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed with an improving tendency. Gold was steady, and closed at 146%. There was less excitement in commercial circles yester- day, the nsual Saturday's quictude being noticeable tn trade channels, and the lower gold quotations lessening the speculative mania and restricting commercial trans- actions within narrower limits. Groceries were very firm. Cotton was also firm, with a good demand. Petro- Jeum was a trifle off. On ‘Change flour and wheat were higher. Corn was irregular, and closed heavy. Provis- ions were without material change in any particular. Whiskey was dull and heavy, without decided change. a the Va- m Move= nt Johnson's Policy rious Southern Reconstru ments. ™~ The reorganizing Constitutional State Con- vention of North Carolina has made clean work upon one important matter—that per- nicious heresy of State sovereignty, involving the right of secession. The Convention has substantially decreed, by a unanimous vote, that North Carolina, from that day to this, has been and remains bound by_her ratification in 1789 of the constitution of the United States, “notwithstanding the supposed ordinance of the 29th of May, 1861, declaring the sume to be repealed, rescinded and .abrogated,” and that “the said supposed ordinance is now end at all times hath been null and void.” This, we say, is a clean piece of work, and meets the idea of-President Johnson fairly »nd completely. It sweeps away into oblivion with a stroke of the pen, so far as North Carolina is concerned, the whole establishment of the late so-called Southern confederacy, in all its de- talls, all its doings, debts, contracts and obliga- tions. They are all wiped out in this organic decree that the “supposed ordinance” of seces- sion of 1861 “is now and at all times bath heen null and void.” Well done, North Carolina, and Mississippi, too, for this decisive action. This is the true ground. South Carolina, on the other hand, does not quite come up to it, Her State Convention has only repealed her ordi- nance of secession of 1860—a proceeding which involves the recognition of the validity of said ordinance down to the day of fits repeal; but in another ordinance of her late convention she recognizes the issues of the war as deciding the sovereign power of nationality to be not in the State but in the United States, which does away with the right of secession. This, perhaps, will meet the requisition of President Johnson on this subject, as laid down in his Virginia proclamation of May last, al- though “null and void” are the words he uses. It would be better, however, to come up to “null and void”—the North Carolina standard— in order to pass the crucible at Washington. The absolute denial or repudiation of the bloody doctrine of State sovereignty, to the extent of secession, is at all events the first essential of Southern restoration. The other leading requisitions embraced in President Johnson’s policy of Southern recon- struction are ~~ A State constitution recognizing the abolition of slavery and interdicting its revival. A ratification by the State Legislature of the amendment of the federal constitution abolish- ing and interdicting slavery throughout the United States. Some organic provisions of law for the pro- tection of the emancipated blacks before the civil courts. The question of invosting the biagks with the interested, each for itself, as a constitutional right. He insists only upon the recognition of the great issues settled by the war, and upon auch measures of reconstruction as are essen- tial to meet the new order of things, and which are clearly within reach of his military author- ity over the several States left in chaos by a suppressed rebellion. North Carolina, we presume, from the known intimate relations between her Provisional Governor and the President, seems to be co- operating with them more intelligently than any other Southern State. South Carolina, upon the whole, however, has done very well, and her leading fire-eaters of old have been foremost in the good work. In Alabama, ac- cording to our latest advices, the State Con- vention declines to have anything to do with the blacks, having voted to reject them even in counting the people for representation in Congress. This is very absurd. In Missis- sippi, it appears, her wise and conservative Provisional Governor Sharkey is becoming un- popular from having recommended and labored to seoure the concession to the blacks of the right to testify in the civil courts, Provisional Governor Marvin, of Florida, appeals to bis people with great earnestness in behalf of this concession, and if they are wise they will heed his counsels. The members of the State con- ventions called to the work of reconstruction have in too many instances clashed with the recommendations of their Provisional Gover- nors, They seem to have forgotten, in such cases, the important fact that the Provisional Governors appointed by the President have been specially instructed by him in the work assigned them, and that, as in North and South Carolina and Mississippi, the State conventions concerned ought to be guided by those instruc- tions, The members of all these reconstructing conventions and Legislatures should remember that their work is experimental, not conckusive; that the President’s instructions and wishes upon the business before them are the only existing laws for their guidance; that the war has invested him with the authority which he exercises, and that his object is by the easicst and shortest road to get them back into Con- gress. We believe that if the Southern States come up fully to his conditions of restoration, they can be carried through Congress. We do not think, however, that the exclusion of the emancipated blacks from the civil courts will pass this crdeal, or get the President's appro- val. Negro suffrage may be postponed, but security under the law to the negro’s person and property cannot safely be delayed. Gover- nor Marvin, of Florida, pleads that without a hearing in the courts “the negro will have no justice at all.” Upon this point, if the respon- sible people of the Southern States would dis- arm the radical abolition faction in Congress, they must strengthen the arms of President Johnson. His Southern policy is strong in the North because it is fair and just. Let it be fully responded to by the South, and it will be suc- cessful in the coming Congress. Is tar Law or SvrrLy anp Demanp ABRO- GaTEp?—It is a singular fact@hat, while we hear occasionally of strikes for higher wages among mechanics and laborers, we have not heard of many complaints since the war ended of the prices of labor being reduced by employers in any branch of business or manufacture. In our case, as in that of all great wars, the prices of everything have advanced immensely; but people generally supposed that as the advance was caused by the war and the rise in gold, prices would immediately decline when the war was over and gold declined. This, how- ever, is not 80; prices are higher than ever at the present time, when gold is down to 146, and, strange as it may seem, although the ap- plications for employment on railroads and other large establishments are in about the ratio of ten to a dozen applicants to one situa- tion, yet employers have not reduced wages to the old standard, and for the simple reason that mechanics and laborers could not exist at the former rates with the present price of provisions. So thatin this case the law of supply and demand does not appoar to operate at all; it seems altogether abrogated. The same anomaly of high prices, however, was presented in England after the wars with Napoleon, and a similar thing ocourred in France at the same period. According to ordinery rules a large supply of labor in the market reduces the demand, and with it the rates of wages; but in the instances cited these rales have not worked, in consequence of the anomaly in the present condition of things, that all commodities are higher than they were during the war—that beef and butter, boots and shoes and clothing bring higher prices to-day, when gold is quoted at 146, than when it was 290. It is difficult to account for this by the usual logic of trade or of demand and sup- ply; but sach is the fact, and it is likely to remain @ fact for some time yet. nd? A Goo Joxs—The English papers pretend that the presence of the naval @ua{ron on the southwest coast of Ireland has nothing Whal ever to to with the Fenian movement, and in- dicates no alarm on the part of the British government. It iss curious fact in this con- nection that for many years the Irish represen- tatives in Parliament, as well as the corpora- tions of the southern cities, have been urging and petitioning the government to send war vessels to the Irish ports for the sake of the money which would necessarily be circulated by the officers and crews, and that such appeals have been invariably disregarded by the gov- ernment. Repeated efforts have been made to get Queenstown appointed a naval station, on the ground that Ireland was entitled to a share of that kind of patronage, as well as for the reason that Cork harbor was better adapted for that purpose than Portsmouth, or many other English ports. No attention was ever paid to these applications; yet it happons very singularly that as soon as it is known that a large number of American soldiers of the Fo- cian order have landed in Ireland, and there is & probability of a hostile demonstration there, a British fleet makes its appearance in Bantry Bay. Of course its presence there has nothing to do with Fenianism. Avotner Caretess Aroraecany.—Anothor human life has been sacrificed to the careless- ness of an apothecary. Otto Graff, the apothe- cary in question, had to prepare a prescription of quinine, to be given to a child. Ho was pre- paring at the same time a prescription of mor- phine, Both drugs are white powders, both take a colorless golution, aad it was thorefore of not taking sufficient care, and he made a blunder that ought to have been impossible and that should have been guarded against by a man in his position with ell possible precau- tion. He knew that a quantity could be taken with impunity in quinine that would inevitably kill in morphine, and he knew, with these pre- scriptions in bis hands at the same time, that a life was at stake on his care, Yet he was care- lesa. Such a man ought not to.have any more opportunities to be careless in a great while. And his carelessness ought to furnish a ealu- tary example, to be kept in memory by other apothecaries. Amoriean Securities Abroad—Theitr Fu- ture. An English print of some reputation, pub lished at Birmingham, has recently admitted that on the London Bourse attempts are made to depreciate American seourities by a sys tematic effort at “repression.” Nevertheless the five-twenties at the latest dates had gone up to 69. The hatred of everything American which led to the active sympathy in favor of the rebels of such men as Roebuck, Lindsay, Laird and Spence, and induced others equally hostile to favor the Confederate loan, and, we may add, lose large sums of money by the operation, seems by no means diminished. It is, therefore, but the same feeling which induces the further effort to cripple our finances and injure this country in this way, if they could not do so any longer by war in disguise. There is great apprehension in the British finan- cial circles that their capital, by the force of cir- cumstances, is travelling westward ; and when they hear what Sir Morton Peto has said of the probability of hundreds of millions of dollars more being about to be invested in the United States their apprehensions may very shortly grow into tefrér. But there are some other reasons for a shifting, not merely of British capital, but European, to this side of the Atlan- tic particularly worthy of notice. The con- dition of the public and private affairs of the principal nations in Europe is far from being satisfactory. England, in the opinion of the most reflecting persons, has culminated. She has no future. Her island area cannot be expanded, and her population has crowded it as much as it can bear. Her national debt can never be paid off, and no one expects it ever will be. It is os much as she can do even now to make both ends meet. But for her commerce, which she presses vigorously in all directions, the taxes could not be collected. Her distant colonies give her constant uneasiness, a spirit of insub- ordination pervading them very generally. In India, Australia and New Zealand constant complaints are arising against the home gov- ernment. In Canada questions of the gravest import are being discussed, turning upon separation, annexation and neutrality, all diffi- cult to be answered. And at home, in Ireland, Fenianism has uplifted its shillelah, and wears defiantly in its buttonhole “the shamrock so green.” When the mutiny at the Nore, in 1797, broke out, and the United Irishmen sent deputies to France to ask for sid in throwing off the English yoke, the public funds were greatly affected, and the Bank of England stopped payment. We may possibly see the same thing again, and if so the value of English securities may not only be depressed, but be considered as actually of doubtful value. The very possibility of impending difficulty will affect the conduct of English capitalists, who, with all their coolness, are as scary as any class of men in the world. On the Continent there is everything to be seen but confidence. It is pretty well under- stood that great changes may soon take place in its political condition. Our last advices import that the French troops are about to withdraw from Rome, and from the character of the manifesto of the liberal Italian com- mittees in Milan and other cities that step will be the signal for serious if not violent move- meets, which will not only be directed against the Holy City, but also against Venetia. Then, again, there is evidence of alarm in Belgium, lest on the death of the pregent King that country will be annexed to France. This is the popular impression at this very moment. The affair of the duchies is still an entangling one, and threatens dan- gerous and hitherto unexpected complications. In Sweden and Norway the array of the no- bility, connected with the threat of violent re- sistance against further reform, is giving great disquiet to the untitled classes. Austria stands benumbed, offering a compromise with the Magyars to save herself from hopeless bankruptcy. In this state of things it is plainly to be seen that European securities do not look very stable or offer very great attractions. While, on the other hand, all Europe is look- ing to the United States with the deepest inter- est, we have come, as they now perceive, out of the war in the qui time and with ean bengettee orp Gigs Ue htors. We have shown what our is and was, ite moral strength, its physi- cal power, its splendid oourage. It is to be seen that no war can stop olf progress, and that the development of our resources has but yet only begun. We can even afford to give away our land to emigrants in quantities that other countries have not to spare and do not possess, and our population is increasing at a rate which bide fair to make it a hundred millions at the close of the present century. More than this we have shown. Whenas yet in our infancy we have paid off two national debts, and are able to discharge tho present one if it were equal to that of Great Britain and France together. The result of the com- monest observation must be the conviction that our natiorfal securities are as firm a6 our mountains, based on the most immutable re- souroes, continental, auriferous, commercial and agricultural, unsurpassed on this globe. It is obvious, therofore, that, in spite of the unfriendly “repression” attempted against them in the British market, they are destined to be preferred above all others by those who have money to invest, especially those who under stand the politioal ond financial dangers in Europe, threatening @ volcanic eruption at any moment. Besides these causes already men- tioned, they may find another in the death of one man—Louis Napoleon—whose policy even now on this continent may yet precipitate him from his throne, Wo therefore, with these opinions, entertain the firm belief that American securities are to sland as high ne the highest, and Goally over- bet power on our shores—to observe what an actor hevis in the character of our Mexi- ® confidence man and a monareb. The occasion was the anniversary of the of. Mexico; the anniversary of | Tru | the freedom of that country from an enforced assoclation with and dependence upon a Euro- pean monarchy; the celebration of the success that had crowned the efforts of Mexico to resist foreign military domination, And on that day Maximilian, the creature of another European monarchy, the representative of a new military domination, spoke thus:— GxntLemes—This ia a family festival, and a festival of brothers, which unites every one of us this day under the folds of our glorious banner, Tho day upon which our immortal Hidalgo, elevating with unprecedented valor his patriotic voice, united the heroes of a new Mexican era, will be forever, to the sons of our country, ‘a day of rejoicing, because we then eclebrate the inaugu- ration of our nationality; because Mexican must renew by an oath Lie o live greatness, the Jence and the of his country, and show himself alway: ready t» defend it with ald his heart and soul. The words of that oath are the first uttered by a good I solemly repeat them now. My heart, my and to ‘can make ts Mexican pe gover an afi efforts beng | hor am fo yg to poten tes country. Ko influence in this worl very drop af my me waver in my duty ; now, and if God sends h dangers to threaten our country you will s:e me fight in your ranks, for ite inde- pendence aud integrity. Iam willing to die at the foot Of our glorious banner, becauge no human power can wrest from me the trust with which you have endowed me. What I say must be sald by every good Moxican; it must efface past rancors; it must bury party hatred. Every one must live for the good of our beloved country. ‘Thus united, and following the path of duty, we will be strong, and the principles which form the basis of our task will infallibly triumph, How strange an objurgation is this to the people of Mexico, and from such lips—‘fivery good Mexican must renew by an oath the pro- mise to live for the greatness, the independence and the integrity of bis country, and show him- self always ready to defend it with all his heart and soul!” Maximilian harangues the Mexican people to drive out the Hapsburg; the agent of the French Emperor urges the people to throw off a foreign yoke and be inde- pendent! Will the people do this? We believe that they will; for though just now the empire triumphs, it is only in virtue of its organization ita army, its force. It has no hold on tha hearts of the people; it does not hold the coun- try in any moral sense, but only in a physical one; and the moment the Mexican people see the opportunity they will arise and overthrow it. Fifty thousand military emigrants, who would be as good Mexicans as Maximilian, would settle the fate of the empire. But in the meantime this empire is onlya question between the United States and France. France desired to establish the empire when it was supposed that the United States had gone to pieces and that France in Mexico, and England in Canada could once more build up formida- ble establishments on this continent, But that delusion is done with. And it is possible that the grand success which has made eight mil- lions of the Southern people change their minds has had a similar effect on the two Eu- ropeans, Palmerston and Napoleon. It is quite possible that Napoleon does not desire that empire as earnestly as he did; and it is certain, on the other hand, that the United States is more earnest than ever against it. There is one field on which the two interested Powers can meet fairly and make the question clear: that is in an international congress. Meeting on even terms in such a body, the United States, talking to France as one gentleman may to an- other, can state its views openty and plainly; and France, hearing and understanding those views, can then act her pleasure. It is probable that she would give up her costly experiment; but if she did not the duty of our government would then bé obvious, and,the couatry would exact a full pertormance of it, : The rebel General Tappan, of ‘sourg, formerly colonel of the Thirteenth Arkausas rebel infantry, bas returned to his old business of iron manufacture at Vicksburg The rebel General William W. Loring, once among the most popular and anccossful of the United States army officers, and who resigned the coloneloy of the regiment of mounted rifles to follow the banner of treason, is endeavoring to hide himself in the taterior of Misslesippi. - a ‘The Crown Princess of Prussia, Quoen Victoria's eldest htor, has had a narrow escape from a Continental rail Travelling with her basband by an extra train near Frankfort, their was ip, Happily, no one received any bodily injury. Wurran Garpew.—Our American Cousin was ployed at this theatre last night to a small house. This play seems to bg regarded asa great dramatic treasure, and actors and acireties Sniend in The oSirts for the exclusive right to perform it, Tt is instractive to observe what ‘sort of composition the theatres, as at present organized, sot such a high value upon. Our American Cousin is @ rigmarole of slipshod farce. Asa literary offort it is om a level with the worst of the stories with which the weekly and Sunday papers disgrace their columns, There is not a point in its plot but bas been worn threadbare a thousand times over ia overy cultiva- " MA mano, giucer through they are tho jests of of the lowest species. The charactors are farcical. Dun is 4 foolish caricature. silly and nauseating in its vain attempt to be fu Mr. Andrews makes it as bad as possible. Asa ard is the ‘Yankee, Mr. Clarke is not the worst the stage Yi ‘but he falls an infinite distance low the best. Owens could give individual the character of a Yank i@ is the man et done ao. Mr. $28 i i & g 3 : 2! ie HA He a A Our friends the Tunisians still remain in the city. Upon calling oa Mr. Seward last ovoning he expressed wish that he might be in Washington at the time of intended interview with the Preeident, in obedience which wish they will remain here some tune longer. the interval they will have an opportunity of ox; ing some of that American hospitality of which t have already felt « little. Each country in the world claims to be more hoepit able than the other. France, England, Russia, Ireland— the latter said to be the cradle of that virtue. Bo that it may, America, and more especially New York, by no means deficient im this respect. At the Japanese, at another his Royal Highness the of Wales, with an interval filled up by Russian sies and French admirals—all have shared our bed board. But yesterday the English capitalists were and now the Tunisians come in for thoir Dickens pictures the extreme of hospitality in the Fagin, who, according to the Dodger's to Oliver Twist, gave ‘lodging for nothin’ an’ axed for no change.”” On a moderate scale America traction, through the crowd nag J to cated of #1 nonhiee hereeit, after ™ ner © ~ e fox in the fable, by exclaiming, “Shure they’ min, and I've a man at home a dale purtior.”” sald another, “I’ve heard of the bay iv = no) i maybe he's a relashun, an’ if he 1s he ought to somethin’ iv the Faynians.”” AT HIGH BRIDGE. Leaving the Astor House about one o'clock the started towards the High Bridge. Onthe way Mr. related to them numerous incidents relating to tho pl they passed, which interested them very much. geoinetrical arrangement of our up town streets wi much admired by them, as also the brown stone fro of the houses on the road, Arrived @®jhe High Brid; they were much pleased with the surrounding scener: as also with the inagnitude of that celebrated structur, The steamor ufling through the river, its relati height to that of the U¥idge, did not fail to :ntorest ther Thence through the Park they drove down town. THE DUSSELDORF GALLERY. The Tunisians descrve considerable credit for the discrimination as regards the places they visit. Oy would ianagine from former exporience of tho tastes: foreigners that they would eschew everything of a sci tific nature, and visit instead some of the buncom! hibitions whose large flaunting signs invite the’ ey The first place we would imagine they would visit w be the emporium of humbug of Joyce Heth in breeche but for them a stuffed fat woman, a stilted giant or imaginative Circassian family from New Jersey had | attractions. For once intelligence has been aie a oy , in foreigners, and thg mombery of this cml prefer the study of art and scieticé t venile “penny gaits.” Connoisseurs mus) having travelled through Italy, ‘the names | Stomachachio, Diarrhino and Faisettiano do 11 appear of suflicient worth to induce them to attend t ister lager beer concert in Fourteenth streot, nor ¢ they of sufficiently depraved taste to sit in a theatre # have indecency paraded before them. All this is: mu, to their credit and to that of thoir nation. Having returned from High Bridge they visited the Dt seldorf Gallery, where there are a considerable number} chefe-d'auve. One of the Bey’s brothers is himsectit artist, and in Tunis has attained quite a reputation in art; therefore the embassy viewed with pleasure to in specimens in the gallery. Two puintings in partic struck them as remarkably good; one a vicw of 3 of tho Rocky Mountains noted § the natural appearance of the socnery; ) ¥ other the large painting of “Washington Advisers,” the coloring of which 1 #9 artistic during their stay there inquired of the Consul wt iBay sete not be able to procure gopies to forwat the Bey. ‘A HARPERS’ ESTABLISHMENT. Leaving the Dusseldorf Gallory they visited the lishment of Harper ers, and were much int in what they eaw there. Printing in Tunis iagonly it infancy. Machinery has not yet been introduced adjunct, and as all in that line has to be done by bi very few books are published thore. One newspaper, official organ of the Bey, alone is published, and the culation “of this shoe’ is considerably circummscr The governmont looks upon the spread of ni per literatare as injurious to the public m bly it fenrs the introduction of some of the aginative nonsense and obscenity which, painful to gully many of the New York lessor dailies. Harper's the entire machinery of the establishment oxplained to them, and the various operations conn with printing were shown them experimentally. remained in the building nearly two hours, and left m! gratified with what they had seen. In the evening they went toonepf our theatres, ) roturned very much wearied. Probably sensational: we remarked, is not to their taste. On Monday, thro) the invitation of Admiral Boll, they will visit the ®rdl ¢ lyn Navy Yard, where they wili doubtiess see niuohy intrest and instruct them. National Greatness and Prosperity. LECTURE BY MR. HANDEL COSSHAM. ‘A small but appreciative audience assembled Inst & ing in the Cooper Institute to listen to a lecture ft Englishman named Handel Cossham, on “The Soure National Prosperity and Greatness and the Causo) National Decay."* 7 On motion of Mr. Blunt, Mr, Peter Coopor was ca) upon to preside, and im introducing the lecturer” pressed the regret that tho audience was so smal listen to so able a gentleman a8 was to address thom) that ogcasion—a man who stood up nobly for the Ur cause in England during the progress of the war. Mr. Cosham proceeded, in a familiar, conversati way, to develop his theme, enlisting the attenti his hearers from the commencemont and keepir until the close of his interesting address. Soldom b New York audience listened to so entertaining anc structive a lecture. , He first ostablished the fact of the national great of England and America, instancing the fact of the © ‘of population, the extent of the territory, progress of language, the developmentiot | 4 a8 of trade, expecially the cotton markable ways, the pro corn trade, and the social advancement of the last years—viz; the postage system and the progress of ¢ cation, He mentioned an interesting fact in connec with the establishment of the penny postal syat Sir Roland Hill. He was sti ata country where the carrier brought a etter to a servant girl was too poor to pay the shilling for it, Mr. Hill w; benevolent that hg offered to give her the moncy, w. issod the postman. He aaked pic Sonera Be = hn said betore she left hou with her mother that she should enclose dust in theenvalope, which was proof to her that mother was it. Last yoar the Raglish | # U and a PLE Rae [ 352 E THE CASE OF CHILD POISONING IN FIPTY-| STRERT—CRNSURD OF THE DRUGGIT. Coroner Gover yesterday held an inquest, at 415 Fifty-fourth street, on the body of Thomas H. Ly the child, three years of ago, whose death was the 4 g A E j §