The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. mannan JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, |. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENLY BROADWAY THEATRE. Brosdway.—Sau. FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite td Hotel —Erusorias Sunaina, Bru Daxcixa, &c.— jurval FRimxps HOUSE. 201 Rowery.—Srx0- oe, Banene began 4 —Masietta Zanragrta ox 3 ay Bows. NEW NATIONAL CIRCUS, ST and 99 Bowery.—Eques- rman, (Ovenaseee amd Acronanic Prats, Sc. ougyes.. ™ .—Paoresson Wisewan's sone a pos eat a ATONE: 0 Breeder 151,079 . $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribuve, World and Sun combined.. 671,429 THE NEWS. The steamships Ericsson, Captian Lowber from Nicara Bua on the Tih instant; the Champion, Captain Furber; the Neshannock, Captain Winchester, and the George Washington, Captain Gager, from New Orleans on the Lith, 12th and 16th instant, reapectively, and the Al- hambra, Captain Benson, from Charleston on the 18th, arrived at this port yesterday. By these venwels we re- Ceived interesting despatches (rom the Henan corres: Pondents in the South. A most interesting and admirably clear and connected statement of the coudition of affairs in and around ‘Matamoros, and of the positions and movements of the Opposing republican and imperial foreos during the wege of that town by the former im the latter part of dast moath and the beginning of the present, i furnished by. ‘our Brownsville correspondent. The attack and re- pulse of the republicans on the 25th ult., frequently alluded to in our columns, and reprosemted by the imperial organs as such a magnificent succme fur their cause, is mow plainly shown to have been « very «mall affair, General Escobedo, commanding the republican army, consisting of three to four thousmd men, had given directions fog a complete recounoimeance Of the enemy's position on that day, but no order for an attack. One of his officers, however, com manding a small body of Americans, not fully under Standing the orders, directed his men to make an awault at a particular point, which they did with the greatest success, capturing the imperial works and guns; but, not being supported, they had to withdraw, Thiv was the sum and substance of the affair which the imperial ists paraded as a great victory. The besiogers maintained their position around the city for several day « afterwards. During the progress of the siege, Brownsville, which tx pn tho Texas aide of the Kio Grande, directly opponite Matamoros, was filled with people from the latter piace, who fled to cacape the expected attack. American sob sliers stood on the river bank and cheered the repub- Jicans opposite, and for this an imperial gun oat fired on. the American side, General Wertsel has ordered an investigation of this alfair Gene Tal Weitzel, at the request of General Eeeobede, and in the interest of humanity, sent over the river tents for the latter's wounded, und many of them were transported to Brownsville, and received the attention of the United States army surgeons there. The impe Tialists professed to have discovered a heinous plot to surrender the city and assassinate General Mejia among the officers of a party of about four hundred Americans at Matamoros in the imperial servic, known as Coutra Guerillas. Two of these officers, formerly of the rebel army in this country, were court martialed and sen- tenced to be shot. One of them was executed, but the other escaped, The Matamoros papers charge that this plot was purely American, that fifty-five thousand dol. lars was to have been paid to the conspirators for ite execution, and that a portion of the money had been Paid and that the remainder was in Brownsville As heretofore reported, the republicans diaap- peared from before Matamoros some days ago. A New Orleans despatch gives as the reason their re- ception of information that the imperialists were moving from Monterey to attack them in the rear. There are also New Orleans rumors that Bagdad, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, i besieged by the republicans, and tnat a French naval officer bas made an unsuccess/ul demand on General Weitzel for the surrender of the tm- porial vessel captured by the republicans aud taken to Brownsville. General Frederick Steele, lately commanding the ‘United states forces in the Western district of Texas, which includes our Rio Grande frontier, bas been super. seded by General Wettzel, commander of the Twenty- fifth corps. It was understood in Texas that the cause of General Steele’s removal was the allegation that be ‘Was on too intimate terms and in sympathy with the im- Perial officers of the Mexican border; but our Brownsville Correspondent defends him against this charge. He has been assigned to the command of the Department of Columbia, comprising the State of Oregon and Washing- ton and Idabo Territories. It was understood in Texas that all the colored troops of our army on that frontier were shortly tobe withdrawn and mainly mustered out of service. They would be replaced by regiments of the fegular army. Prosident Johnson has replied to the request of Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, for the removal of the national troops from that State, that they will be ‘withdrawn whenever it becomes manifest that peace and order can be maintained without them. The Presi- dent adds that measures should be adopted to give ‘the freedmon such protection in their possessions as ‘will enable them to assume all their constitutional rights. Governor Humphreys has also telegraphed the President that negro troops a few days ago took pos- session of a railroad train at Lauderdale Springs and in- sulted ladios, The Mississippi Legislature has passed a Dill permitting negro testimony to be taken in cases in which n are parties to the suits. A foport of the closing proceedings of the Florida Convention, which adjourned on tho 7th inst, is given Dy our Tallahassee 1, The convention, as Jhas already been announced in the Hearn, declared aslavory abolished, annulled the ordinance of secession, Fopudiated the rebel war debt and provided for the Tecoption of the testimony of negroes in all cases in pncountered strong opposition, and would not have passed, it appears, but that the members plainly saw ‘hat nothing loss would receive the approbation of the President and enable Florida represontatives to be ad- gitted into Congress, Previous to the sdjournment Goreraee Survie, 69 teehalieh, SOISORS SOS ‘of the convention, complimenting them op thorough h tanner in which they had done their work, and expressing his particular pleasure that the right of testi- mony had been granted to the freedmen. Hie said the ‘all to be soon withdrawn, end that MWegal and yo, aud called forth ro. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1865, marks from several gentlemen, but was finally rejected | The Herald Keeping Pace with the Eas | Tribune urges his nomination by the republican 4s superfluous. The most exciting part of the discus- sion, however, was over a proposition to strike out the provision requiring the masters or mistresses of colored apprentices to teach them some trade or business. This was strongly supported by a member representing the mechanical interests of Charleston, who contended that the proper place'for the negroes was on the plantations, and that if they are allowed to learn trades they will de- prive the white mechanics of employment, Other mem- bers maintained that they had no constitutional right to block any industrial avenue against the freedmen, and that white men, in fearing to trust the test of their su- Periority to the negro by allowing the latter to come into rivalry with them, are in effect conceding that they do not consider him really their inferior, The proposi- tion to strike out was finally laid on the table by sev- enty yeas to thirty nays, Ex-Governor Magrath, of South Carolina, from his place of confinement in Fort Pulaski, has issued an urgent appeal for release. Mr. Magrath was also Judge of a United States Court when the rebellion broke out, and resigned at that time. He wishes to know what crime more than others he has committed against the government for which he should still be kept under lock when every other rebel Governor and Judge is at large. He is willing to give the best security for future loyalty and “to aid in cgrrying out the policy of the government.”’ General Grant and staff arrived in Washington from this city yesterday morning. ‘The ex-rebel ram Stonewall, on the way from Havana to this country, in convoy of the government steamers Rhode Island and Hornet, put into the harbor of Beau- fort, N. C., on Sunday last, during the severe gale. Though the rain and wind storm which prevailed on Tuesday was, to a considerable extent, moderated yester- day, it did not entirely leave us. The sky continued obscured by dark, heavy clouds, and rain fell at inter- vals during the day, About one o’clock in the afternoon 4nd about seven in the evening there wore slight fa‘is of hail or sleet, which melted before or immediately on touching the pavements, keeping them in a wot, sl chy and slippery condition, Three schooners and a Hell Cate pilotboat were wrecked in Long Island Sound on Tuoa- day. We have not yet learned of any considerable dis- asters to shipping at sea, though arnving vessels report having experienced a very heavy northeast gale and thick fog. The government steamship Memphis, which reached Philadelphia from this port yesterday, was com- pelied to put in on the way. She passed floating bales of cotton, supposed to have been washed overboard from the deck of some vessel. ‘The British ship Marriannus, from Liverpool for Savannah, went ashore during a gale, on the Georgia coast, near the mouth of the Savannah river, on the 14th inst., and became a total loss. Her officers and crew were saved. An English bark, the name of which is un- known, was also driven ashore in that vicinity about the same time, ‘The Canal Commissioners of this State yesterday de- cided to clove the canals on tho 12th of December. In the United States Circuit Court in Baltimore, Chief Justice Chase presiding, in an action brough ( against the Northern Central Railroad Company by a British subject, the company claiming the right to retain five per cent of ite interest coupons to pay the income tax and three mills om the dollar under a law of Pennsylvania, tho Court yesterday decided that the company must pay the tax, and that the coupons must be paid without any deduction therefor In the United States Cireuit Court yesterday, Judge Shipman providing, John Phillips withdrew his plea of Bot polity to an iudietment charging bim with passing counterfeits of the national currency. The sentence was deferred. Geo. Johuston was found guilty, after a briof trial before a jury, of passing cownterfelt government currency His sentence was also deferred. Arcument war beard yesterday by Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Coast, on ® motion for an order to compel the city Comptrotter to pay the Deputy City Tax Com- minsioners «ho were removed salaries for the year they were in oficr The doewion was not rendered. Towards the hour of adjournment yesterday in the Superior (ourt, before Judge Garvin, the Strong divoree case was called, but was postponed wotil Ubi forenoon at eleven 0 clerk In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Caroline Armatrong was convicted of stealing forty Ave dollars from Deidrich Voght, in @ disreputable house in Green- wich street, on the Sth inst She was sent to the State Privon for five years Charles Fixchor was tried and found guilty of stealing fifty dollars’ worth of clothing belonging to Rdmund & Best, of the steamer Joba L. Hasbrowek, and was sent to the State Prison tor three yourk Patrick Kavanagh, who was charged with steai- ing ninety dollar’ worth of tea from the premises of Burdett, Jones & Oo, om the 26th of June, was con viet dof petty lareeay He was bent to the Penitentiary for ax months and Bned one hundred dollar Patrick Thompeon, charged with taking a silver watch from Wil- com KE. Vail, om the 19th of Meptomber, pleaded guilty to petty lareeny from the person. and was sent to the State Prion for two year Charles Jones pleaded guilty to Attempting to stea! a gold watch worth one hondred and Ofty dollars from Max Mayer He was sent to the Peni. tentiery fortwo years John Strauw and William H. Clark who pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, were each sent to the Penitentiary for one year. George Newton, indicted for being associated with two others in stealing a gold watch from Francis Blair, was tried and acquitted, two witnesses clearly proving that he was at ote on the night the complainant said he lost his watch The convention of tobacco manafacturers and cigar makers under the direction of the Tobacconists’ National Association, for whieh preparations had been some time 18 progress, assembled yesterday at the Cooper Institute. One of the main objects of thie gathering is to take measures to induce Congress to so amend the Ii Revenue act as to transfer the tax from tobacco and place it entirely on the raw material an important statement in reference to the effects of the present mode of levying the tax was read, apreches were made by several gentlemen, resolutions embodying the views of the convention were adopted, officers of the National Association for the ensuing year were lected, and an adjournment subject to the call of the President took place. At the meeting of the Fire Commissioners yesterday payment of bills amounting to five thousand dollars was ordered. A reward of five hundred dollars was offered for the person who set fire yesterday morning to the en- gine house on Fifty-cighth street, near Broadway. A petition was received to have the alarm telegraph introduced into Hook's Mills, corner of West and Bank streets, Various minot resignations and appoint ments were acted on. The Board will meet agein on Monday next Twenty-five thousand tons of Seranton coal were sold at auction at 26 Exchange place yesterday, im lots of from one hundred to oe thousand tona, at prives very ing from eight dollars sixty two and « balf cents to ten dollars and three-quarters, showing an average decline of about seventy-five cents per ton from the prices real. ized at the previous large sale on the 28th of last month The grand parade of the Firet division of the State Ne tional Guard, comprising ali our city militia regiments, will take place to-morrow. It is intended partly in com. memoration of the evacuation of New York by the British in 1783, though the anniversary of that event dose not occur until the following day, the 28th The celebration on this occasion will anticipate the time, however, by cone day, in consideration of the inconvenience to many of the soldiers of a Saturday parade. There will no doubt be a large turhout ands fine display Thomas Whiteey, late @ seaman on board the steam ship Edinburg, was yesterday committed, in default of two thousand dollars bail, on the ebarge of having in August iast stolen about ome thousand dollarf worth of cilk goods from on board that vessel. By 9 supposed incendiary fire the building formerty occupied by Black Joke Engine Company, No. 33, in Fifty-eighth street, near Broadway, was destroyed be- tween one and two o'clock yesterday mornmg The Proper authorities are making an investigation of the Circumstances connected with the fire. Tt is said that a military commission has been ordered, ‘on the strength of complaints by the Prussian govern: ment, for the purpose of investigating the charges against the Massachusetts State suthoritios of enlisting Prussiaa subjects during our late war to fll their quotes, Barthold Dremer, late « clerk ig the fice of ne Auditor of the Treasury Phir] confederates, William Rebe and Harmon Goseman, whe. as stated in Tuceday's Heeatp, were arrestad on charge to Carry et @ huge fraud on the govera- Of the vodchers of soldier’ wr cake na anen ot tal aggregate. 1 te enid that the accused heve made con. MO ck market was higher yosterday, with increamd notivity. Governments wore dull, Gold was steady and jnactivo, closing at LAT, terprise of the American People. For the past four years the enterprise of the American nation has been tremendous. Roused to unparalleled activity by the necessities of the recent gigantic war, our people covered the land with immense armies and the sea with fleets of vessels; they invented improvements in arms and created iron-clads impervious to shot and shell; they produced the greatest generals the world has ever seen and manu- factured cannon of equally immense calibre. At the close of the war the energies thus aroused were directed to other and more bene- ficent flelds of enterprise. The public mind is filled with Titanic projects, which are being carried out with wonderful vigor. Although the English have failed to lay the Atlantic tele- graph, the Americans are certain to succeed in erecting their portion of the overland route from Russia, and they will soon complete the Pacific Railroad. While the miraculous de- velopments in petroleum astonish us here, the discoveries of innumerable mines of gold and silver at the West are no less amazing. The North flourishes with unequalled wealth and prosperity, and in another year the regenerated South will compete with us in the race of pro- grees. Upon every hand we see countless evi- dences of # new and powerful speculative spirit, which disdains to dabble in stocks, but deals directly with the mighty events of the present and the future. Money is so plentiful that it is no longer thought extraordinary when a few of our citizens subscribe twenty thousand dollars to receive a popular general, or one hundred thousand dollars to rebuild a popular church. The fabled marvels of the era of the South Sea bubble are eclipsed by the realities of the present generation. It is the duty of a great public journal to keep pace with the progress of the age and the enterprise of the people. The London Times, which was once the great paper of the world, has fallen into the second rank singe the in- vention of the magnetic telegraph, because it did not understand and perform this duty; and when the present generation of Englishmen shall have passed away the Times will be obso- lete, and one of ita more enterprising rivals, like the Telegraph, will supersede it in influence, as itis already surpassed in circulation. The New York Heratp, on the contrary, has grown with the growth of the country. As we look back over its files for the past twenty-five years we find it the index of the history of the republic, and can almost trace the increase of the United States in the increase of the Hxnatn’s size. We have been extremely successful; but we are not satisfied to rest upon our laurels and hoast of what we have already achieved. Groat papers are like great governments—they must change and improve with the changes and improvements of the age. If governments fail to do this there comes a revolution, such as that which cost King Charles his head, or that which coat the Bourbons their throne. If journals fail to do this they die out. It may take a few years to kill them, bit the result is perfectly certain. We did not establish the Hrratp to make money out of it and then relinquish it for an cfficial position, and thus leave it to expire in other hands, as has been the case with many newspapers. We believe that in a country like this the conductor of a great public journal outranks the officials whom he assists to create, and is more powerful than their President. Our ambition, therefore, has never led us outside of the legitimate path of our profession; but it constantly urges us to use every exertion to make the best possible paper, and to take ad- vantage of every invention, every discovery and every innovation which can assist us in thie object. We are not content with what has been accomplished, but we press forward with the progressive spirit of the people and the First among the improvements which we now propose is the erection, on the corner of Ann street and Broadway, of a new Heratp office, to be built of American marble, and in the style of the Louvre. This will be the most complete and the most splendid newspaper establishment in the world, and one of the handsomest edifices in the country. News- papers have suffered too long in public estima- tion from their obscure and contracted quar- tera, When the Jews lent money in dingy offices, located in out-of-the-way lanes and alleys, they were denounced as vile usurers; but now that gentlemen carry on the same business in magnificent buildings, publicly situated, they are respectable bankers. When some of our leading citizens sold dry goods in little wooden shops they were termed “counter jumpers” and pedlers of tape; but now that they have accommodated their increased trade in vast marble stores they wear the title of merchant princes. The present Heratp build- ings are of large size, and compose the most comfortable newspaper office in the city; but they are far too small for our business, We bave been cramped in them for several years, and we have purchased the adjacent property, summoned our architects to make surveys, and tried every plan to enlarge them sufficiently; but in vain. Our natural reluctance to leave & location so familiar to us and to the public bas been overcome by the necessities of our journal, which now demand that « building shall be erected with special reference to the requirements of its varied departments. With this view we have bought the prominent site formerly occupied by the American Museum, at a price which some ignorant intermeddlers may consider too high, but with which we are perfectly satisfied. The contracts for the erec- tion of our new office upon this site are signed and sealed, and the building will be pushed forward with the utmost despatch consistent with the bess workmanship. We hope to sig- nalize our occupation of this splendid edifice party on the ground that be is « republican. Mosey makes the mare go. Reconstrection and the of the Southern Membere—Hon. Schuyler Col- fax om the Conetitution. The important question before the country is, what will be done in Congress in respect to the admission of the Southern members? The fight of the radicals against reconstruction will be made on this point. If the party of Wendell Phillips, Thad Stevens and Sumner shall be in the majority the oath intended to exclude the South from Congress will be insisted upon, the members from the late rebel States will be retused admission, and the complete settlement and reconstruction of the country will be in- definitely postponed. All the bad results, all the dangers to the country that are the conse- quence of our unsettled political condition will then be upon us. We will be in a state of domestic anarchy, with our foreign relations in a complicated condition, and our national honor at stake on @ question that we will not dare to take up. Worse even than this: the impossibility of straightening out our financial difficulties will imperil the national credit. And this will all be forced upon us merely that a set of extremists may carry out some fanati- cal notions about the nigger and equal rights. On the other hand, if these men should be in the minority the wisely moderate policy of Mr. Johnson will prevail. The settlement of the country will be the primary thought of all, and reconstruction will be secured on the best conditions that can be made for both sides. Between these extreme parties there are many trimmers ready to join either as circumstances may require, and that these fellows consider the result very doubtful may be seen by the exact balance which they hold between the two sides. We see this in the speech delivered at Washington some days ago by the Hon. Schuyler Colfax. The honorable gentleman expressed the pleasure he would feel at the entire reconstruction of the country—the re- turn of the States to their “appropriate orbits.” His expression, it is true, was a little am- biguous; but that is not evidence of insin- cerity. We must not suppose that his thoughts on reconstruction are as doubtful as his phrases. His ambiguity was the result of circumstances. He is an orator. Orators must be warm and passionate. Passion deals in poetical phrases, and poctical phrases are ambiguous. Has not Burke shown that distinctness is the greatest possible enemy of the poetical and sublime in speech—that to define an idea is to render it prosaic and little? Certainly. And our orators, to preserve the position with the people, must be sublime, even if the people have to take their opinions @ little on trust. Tried by this test of ambiguity, and exaz- ined through and through, Mr. Colfax’s Wash- ington speech must be admitted to be a fine piece of the sublime. It is so uncertain what the honorable gentleman means that every party may take its choice. He says he would “hail the day” of reconstruction, and so forth, which is hearty, and leads us to believe that he sustains the Presi- dent’s policy and wants te sottle the national troubles at once. But in the next breath he begs us toremember that our fathers Gid not secure the bleasings of the constitution until eight years after the war of independence was over. Is Colfax ready to defer reconstruc- tion for eight years if that will suit the strongest party in Congress? He praises the next Con- gress in advance as one that will be very al and very honest. This is, perhaps, natural ina man who wants to be elected Speaker. But may not this fact that he wants to be Speaker also ex- p lain the hesitancy, the indecision, the doubt with which Colfax touches the question whether to admit the Southern members or repudiate at once all that has been done toward reconstruc- tion? He runs hastily over what is against the Southern States in the argument—that they were violent, unrelenting rebels, and were absolutely conquered; that many Southern men are un. relenting rebels still, and that these are the ones the South has sent to Congress to the ex- clusion of others; that the new Southern would. be members were even members of the rebel Congress, and that these men who tried “to blot out this nation from the map of the world now propose to resume their former business of governing the country they struggled so earnestly to ruin.” Is this to show the radicals how well Colfax can state their case if they should prove to be in the majority? But he makes no declaration against Mr. Johnson. He does not shout that the whole result of our triumph in the war has been sur- rendered in the endeavor to restore harmony and peace. He is so far from such a declara tion that he says the President’s action has been “eminently wise and patriotic.” More than this, he says, openly, “In President John- son I have unshaken confidence.” This will show the supporters of the President how straight Mr. Colfax can stand on their side the line. But if the radicals should not like this admiration of the Presideut they can take notice that Mr. Colfax more particularly likes that part of the President’s career which shows him as a friend of the darkies. Above all, he likes the President’s announcement to a nigger regiment that this is not particu- larly “a white man’s country.” Better even than this, the radicals will notice that Mr. Colfax wants to make the preamble to the Declaration of Independence a part of the constitution. That preamble lays down the politico-philo- sophical dogma that all men are created equal, and our orator would like to make that dogma part of the organic law of the land. Does this mean negro suffrage? Per- haps; but Mr. Colfax does not say so. So those opposed to the measure and those who favor it may have their own opinions as to what he means. At this point Mr. Colfax’s ambiguity, and consequently his sublimity, reach the nicest extreme. Every one may also have bis opinion on the propriety of cramming our constitution with philosophical or other dogmas. Such things are very nice in theories and platforms, but the constitution is a rule for practical life. As we all recognize, the simple truth is that men are not created equal, but feeble and im- becile, dependent in every. possible respect, and as unequal physically and mentally—not to say socially—as imagination can conceive. However, if the dogma is to go in let it go; we euggest that seyeral others should go Yue same time. Wo ought not to be par- i tial by admitting into our constitution merely one olass of philosophers. On the contrary, if wo put in one dogma we ought to put in a sories, ond make tye instrument an official sys- also the impenetrability of matter, the atomic theory, and the inevitable effervescence of acids and alkalies on contact. The law of gravitation, which has the remarkable effect of making water run down hill, is also important. All these are as important in @ constitution as any abstraction about equality, and they ought all to goin together. Then we will have a constitution worthy of Plato’s Atlantis, Moore’s Utopia and Harrington’s Oceana—grand na- tions that we ought to admire and imitate. It is to make “improvements” like this on our constitution that the radicals fight. Phil- lips, Stevens, Sumner and the rest would delay reconstruction—would fill the country with the untold evils of political anarchy—would dare financial ruin—merely to force into the consti- tution the crazy nonsense of their political dreams, and the President would settle the country by a straightforward, honest policy, without the assistance of these philosophers. That is the issue, disguise it as they may. The Mexican E: ire Approachin; Collapse—Maximilian Frightened. Notwithstanding the contradictory intelli- gence received from day to day from Mexico, we believe the main facts embraced in the latest news from that quarter, published on Tuesday, to be substantially correct. From the latest reports it appears that Maxi- milian, adopting the policy of the rebels when the Union lines were closing around them, has abandoned his outermost and scattered posts and concentrated his forces into three corps d@armée, just as Lee concentrated his forces in three corps d’armée in Virginia. He has otherwise changed his tactics, and seems now to be manceuvring so much after the manner of the rebel leaders that it would seem the finger of some one of them was busy in plan- ning his military operations. Furthermore, still adhering to the policy of the leading rebels—like Mason, Slidell and others, who sent their families to Europe and the North, many to the city of New York, when it was uncomfortable and dangerous for them to re- main in the Southern States—Maximilian has consented to be separated from his beautiful consort, Madame Carlotta, and sent her, bag and baggage, off to Europe. Still another event showing that things must be drawing to @ crisis in Maximilian’s dominions—we observe that the brave rebel and incorrigible inebriate, General Magruder, has taken the oath of alle- giance to the empire and become a Mexican subject. Sinaloa has gone up. So will So- nora. So will the ducal possessions of irandfather Whitehead Gwin. And finally, after receiving all the reinforcements he ex- pects from Napoleon—after adopting all the expedients that ex-rebel ingenuity may sug- gest—so will Maximilian’s empire, following in the footsteps of the ex-confederacy, go up and totally collapse. We think it about time the female portions of the imperial family were leaving for more comfortable quarters. It might also be well for those of his Imperial Majesty’s court to follow the example, and leave for Europe or the North. The same advice might be taken by those silly ex-rebels, who,. rather than return to their allegiance to the country of their birth, whose bosom still yearns to receive them as reclaimed and repentant sons, prefer to hover, like moths, around the flickering glare of the expiring candle ‘of imperialism under Maximilian. Let all those who wish to escape trouble in Mexico about these days emigrate to some more settled country. Those who cannot afford to go to Europe—to Paris or London—may find an asylum in the great and magnanimous city of New York, which, as General Grant says, will, within twenty years, be the metropolis of the world. We especially invite Madame Carlotta to come to this city and make it her home. Our citizens, whose hearts are ever penetrated at the picture of a lovely and estimable woman in distress, will gladly welcome her. We have no doubt they will make her a present of a splendid mansion in a fashionable and aristo- cratic locality; not in a fever and ague district, like that of the lower part of Fifth avenue or Madison square, but upon some salubrious lo- cality like Murray Hill. The citizens of New York have already provided homes for two French monarchs—one king and one emperor— Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon; why should they not be equally kind to an unfor- tunate lady, whose misfortunes arise from the perfidy of one of those monarchs to the nation which once afforded him an asylum? Napoleon wanted to establish Madame Carlotta as Em- press on the imperial throne of Mexico in oppo- sition to the wishes of the American people but Madame Carlotta,a wiser and more illustrious woman than Napoleon is « man, concludes to abandon the empty honor and return to a more peaceful and congenial sphere. We again invite Madame to eome to New York and make this city her home. Here she will find a city that will not be disturbed by revo- lution or wars for a century to come. By going from Mexico to Europe, in homely phrase, she “gets out of the frying pan into the fire.” The distant rumbling of the thunders of revolution in Europe come to us with every gale across the sea. Every monarch totters on his throne, and there is no knowing at what moment the volcano that underlies the crust of the monarchical, or, more properly, the “empirical” system of Europe,may barst forth. Here in New York are peace and plenty, pros perity and brown stone palaces, and a new and magnificent Opera House in contemplation. Let Madame Carlotta make the imperial city of New York her future home. It may be asked if we have no further reasons than those given above for believing that the empire of Maximilian is approaching a collapse. We answer, of course we have. In the first place, there is the appointment of General Logan, who always means what he says ; and when he said in Congress, just before the outbreak of the rebellion, that if the South- erners attempted to close the Mississippi the “great Northwest would carve their way to the Gulf of Mexico,” he helped them do it. He now says he will accept the mission to the republic of Mexico, provided he has a retinue of twenty thousand armed men to accompany him to the Mexican capital. And lastly, we find that all the regular cavalry regiments of the United States, with a single exception, have beon ordered to rendezvous at a point in Texas which is remarkable for its abundance of forage, and is handy in case their services should be required on the Rio Grande, What Ls force but the advance of Generat body guard, destined to accompany to the balls of the Montezumast There- fore, why should not Maximilian be frightened and his empire approaching 8 collapse? ———_—__—_—_—- Our Municipal Campaign—The Muddle of Cliques and Factions. The political parties, rings, cliques and fac- tions of this city are nicely cut up for @ lively serub race for Mayor. Like misery, politics makes strange bedfellows. The Citizens’ Asso- ciation was first in the field, with the ticket of John Hecker for Mayor and Richard O’Gorman for Corporation Counsel. This ticket, being @ mixed commission, was intended as s fank movement against the republican and demo- cratic rings. Next the McKeon democracy set up Gunther and O’Gorman. Then comes Tam- many Hall with her ticket of Recorder Hoffman and O’Gorman ; and lastly, Mozart adopts the ticket of Hecker and O’Gorman. Mr. O’Gorman’s election as Corporation Counsel is thus secured against all contingen- cies; but the struggle for Mayor, ag it will be seen, is considerably mixed. Greeley and Fernando Wood, the radical abolitionist and the radical copperhead, strike hands upon Hecker and O’Gorman. Ben Wood, the Siamese twin to Fernando, says of Mr. Hecker that “the philanthropy which he has shown by his extensive benevolence to the poor marks him as a true democrat and asa man entitled to the support of the workingmen.” The Hon. Ben’s opinion of Recorder Hoffman is some- what different. He says that Hoffman “is dis- tinguished for nothing but brutal severity to adopted citizens and a shameless prostitution of his office to the behests of fanatical aboli- tionism,” and for his connection with “the street cleaning contract,” which has become 80 notorious, - __ There is. then, a decided rupture between Tammany and Mozart on the Mayor. But what is the Hon. Ben Wood driving at in his charge of Recorder Hoffman’s “brutality to adopted citizens” and “the prostitution of his office to the behests of fanatical abolitionism?” The Times, we guess, furnishes the desired exple- nation in its endorsement of Mr. Hoffman as “an able, honest and capable man, who during the riots (July, 1863) proved his fidelity in a judicial office to the country and the law”— that is, in his summary punishments of certain parties proved to be active rioters. Those rioters, it would thus appear, are under the special protection of the Woods, while they are at the same time welcomed to the Tribune office with “the experienced and able” Fer- nando. But how ia it that the Times has discovered such an admirable candidate for Mayor in Re- corder Hoffmant We cannot tell; but it is sup- posed to be according to the wish of the “old man” of Albany. The World, a Tammany organ, evidently thinks that between the “old man” and the frisky Raymond Recorder Hoff- man is ina fair way of a liberal republican support; and to keep the Times in this good frame of mind the pleasant Mr. Mantilini Marble comes to the defence of Master Raymond against those sanguinary and bloodthiraty Fenians, Colonel O'Mahony and B. Doran Killian. “They are all wrong, and Mr. Ray- mond will be protected, don’t you see?” Tho inflexible Greeley, however, sticks to Heoker, go that there is every prospect of a regular split among the republicans os well as the democrats. As Sir Lucius O’Trigger or B. Doran Killian has it, “this is a very pretty quarrel as it stands, and it would be a pity to spoil it” Fellow citizens, rejoice. Party lines in this city for once are broken up; radicals and cop- perheads, republican chiefs and Tammany sachems, Ben Wood and Horace Greeley, the lion and the lamb, are lying down together, and the millennium is coming. “Brazu—Tae Caarm Broxey.”—Since the downfall of their confederacy unsubdued Southern men in sundry places in the South have been .getting up companies for the pur- pose of emigrating to Brazil, as the best refuge remaining for the irrepressible Southera slaveholder. But the Richmond Whig has the information from the Freeman’s Jow~ nal that in Brazil the Cabinet or Minis- try of the Emperor is chiefly composed of negroes; that there is not one man of pure white blood in the Ministry; that the judges of the courts are oftener negroes than white men, and says that if all this is true Brazil is no place for the Southern white man seeking a refuge from negro equality. We think so too, and that the best thing the dis- gusted ex-slaveholders of the South and poor whites can do is to try to reconcile themselves to their own country and the fortunes of war. Betweex Two Bonpuzs or Har.—Greeley goes heartily for Hecker for Mayor ; Raymond goes half-way for Hoffman; but the poets of the Post neatly harmonize these extremes by supporting both Hecker and Hoffman. Tue Saw Francisco Mnewrrera. —This company fills the house No. 585 Broadway every evening, despite the weather. Few care to take note either of rain or change of temperature, when they know they are bound for @ comfortable and elegant place of amusement, and that Henry Rice, D, 8. Wambold, Billy Birch, Charley Backus aud others of ‘that ilk’ are there before them. ‘Tony Pastor's Orns Hovar.—William M. Reeve made his third appearance in New York during four years at this popular and favorite place of amusement last even- ing. The house was crowded, the performances varied and excellent ae usual, and every one went home de- lighted. With his play and fun every evening Tony Pastor is likely to become a great dramatic physician, keeping the public im spirits and health, ef Tue New Naviowat Crews. —All the horser, ponies, mules—‘‘comic’ mules—jugglers, dancers, stmgers, con- tortioniats and so forth, organized py Mr. Montpellier into the abovenamed effective and clegant troupe, were out in full foree yesterday afternoon and evening at the circus house, Nos. $T and 39 Bowery. The people wore also there, and in goodly numbers, vo their hearty amuse- ment and delight, The circus is opem this evening, Matinee on Saturday Maaw at Hore Cnarnt. —This evening Professor Wise- man recommences his performances at this establish. ment, of which he has taken a six months’ lease, The entertainments given by the Professor are of @ most amusitig and attractive character, hie diablerie often taking a humorous turn and convulsing people at the ox- ponse of some witling in the audience, Of the clover. neat of hie tren we have froquestiy before Bas Sana to the Gexterous pear R- Boe dey one in Wie line thst we have haa here, except Herrmane. ———_— ‘The Alabama Leqtetature. Mowroowmar, Nor. 90, 1685. Poth houses of the Legisiaiure have organized = The Governor's momage will be read ou Wedaoatay. le Fortress Monroe. nig Cr0F cernan I aanon, Hoy. 28, in steamer Gulf Stream, 4 days from Mobile wah eomen tot Now York. ua) aetived a ak