The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1865, Page 4

4 INEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, > EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. prrice !Wolkume XXX. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway,—Sau. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Aropolisan MotelL—ErmioriaN SINGING, DAaNciNa, &c.— ‘me CANDIDATES FOR THE MAYORALTY. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sryc- INGeDaNcinc, BURLESQUE. &C.—MARIETTA ZaNFRETT, ur Tight Rore—Moxs. Prigiont. > gla ' TEMPLE OF MUSIC, corner of Grand and © treets.—THoRPS & OVERIN's MINSTRELS OF ris Pomel INGLE SAx's ACADEMY. ' 2 leptin se NEW NATIONAL CIRCUS, 37 and 89 Bowery.—Equrs- ‘TRIAN, GYMNASTIC AND Toate fog Ppal Fe Muss. HOPE CHAPEL, 72) Broadway.—| , prepeee of een nee Weaxuanrs HOOLEY'S OPERA = Mix- sms ¥t nA Hove, Breokdya. geal [am (SUeRLST- amp Pantomi: nee NEW YORK TOMY, Gis yf - RE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, GiB Broadway. t WASHIN( HALL, Harlem.—Gxonce Cunisrr's Mowracs—Ie's Au Ure Diu. low York, Tuesday, November 28, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. ———~ - Receipts ef Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. f OFFICIAL. Year Ending, May 1, 1885, + $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 Evening Post. 169,427 ‘World 100,000 151,079 Express. .......00008 e 90,548 New Yous Heranp....... Times, Tribane, World and Sun combined... 871,329 THE NEWS. ‘The all firing from the Texas sido of the Rio Grande river, near Matamoros, on the 7th inst., on the imperial steamer Antonio, having on board a number of French marines, ag reported in onr issue of Saturday St, has caused great excitement among the imperialists onthe border. The Matamoros / anchero says the tring ‘was the work of Mexican republicans dressed in the Waited states uniform, and denounces it as a flragrant vio- (ation of American neutrality and “one of the most das- ardly outrages over perpetrated on the frontier.” Itbe Wieves that the settled purpose of the men ongaged in it, who it 's said have been recruiting their forces in Texas, 45 to bring on a war between this country and Maximilian. ‘The French commander of the Antonio, it is stated, did not return the fire from the American bank of the river. ‘From Washington we are informed that our government Thos yet received no intelligence confirmatory of the ex- ‘eiting rumors involving a complication between our troops and the imperialists. Colouel Bravo, a special ‘bearer of despatches from President Juarez to our gov- emmeat, is now on his way to Washington, having reached Kansay City, Missouri, on Friday last, He says the repadiicans have now twenty-five thousand men un- der arms, avd can put seventy-five thousand more in the field as soon as the means can be raised. The latest Vera Cruz advices represent matters m those por- tions of Mexico supposed to be under Maximilian’s do- minion @ a deplorable and most unsettled state. ‘The imp ists have abandoned Cordova and have wtrongty fortified Orizaba, in anticipation of a republican aitack, ‘fhe Empross Charlotte had reached Vera Cruz, ‘and was to leuve there on the 16th inst. on her way to ‘Yucatan. In order to enable the readers of the Henan to get a fear couprehension of affairs along the Rio Grande joundary of our own country and Mexico, which it is wit to educe from the numerous and conflicting egrams coming from various sources, we present is morning a carefully prepared statement of prosent condition of matters thore, of the relative positions of the contending republi- ean and imperial Mexicans and a connedted chronicle of recent events at and in the vicinity of Matamoros and Brownsvilte, the vis-a-vis Mexican and American fron- tier towns whose respective locations render them just now of much importance. We also give a map of the vexed region. All the volunteer troops of our army in Central Texas ‘fare to be withdrawn, and will be replaced by regulars. A large nuraber of the volunteers, both white and colored, had arrived at Galveston from the Rio Grande on the 234 Ainstant, on their way home, to be mustered out of ser- vice. Some of the Texan pcople profess apprehensions of negro outbreaks after the withdrawal of the troops, and have petitioned Provisional Governor Hamilton for the organivation of State militia. ‘The vessel once known as the pirate Chickamauga, sunk by the rebels in Cape Fear river, below Wilming- ton, N. €., on the capture of Forts Fisher and Caswell, by tie uational troops, in January last, has been raired und taken to Wilmington for overhauling and repairs. She ts a screw steamer, and her machinery is said to be atill in excellent condition. The Chickamauga’s piratical caress wasa short but quite gaccessful one, she laving run out from Wilmington through the blockade in Octo- ber, 1864, destroyed several veesols off our Northern coast within the following two months, and returned to her port of deporture, aguin eluding the blockading squadron, a few days before the Cape Fear river forts fell before the combined land and naval attack of the govern- meat forces. Provisional Governor Parvons has recommended to the Legislature of Alabama the passage of an act securing the colored people of the State the same amount of pro- tection that the non-voting whites now enjoy. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, last evening ad- rested » large and brilliant audience in the Philadelphia Academy of Music, his subjec: being ‘Across the Con- tinent’ Mr. Colfax did not touch om the present po- ileal , bat confined bimgelt principally to a de- scription of his recent excursion to the Pacific coost, in- ¢lvd ng an accoun: of his visit to the Mormons at Salt Zake. Iu conclusion he pictured the benefits to accrue to Ue cov ntry and the world from the completion of the great Pacific Railroad, Ata mecting of the wardemocracy of the city held esterday Mr. Marshall 0. Roberts, already selected as the republican candidate, received the unanimous nomi- pation jor Mayor, and Mr. Timothy Cronin was nomi- pated for Corporation Counsel. We publish in oar pres- ent issue the address of the repndlicans urging upon the citizens the claims for election of their candidates for Mayor and Corporation Counsel, Mevsrs. Roberts and Mayor Gunther announces his determination draw from the contest for re-election. ity of the Forty-fourth precinct station house, fn Brooklyn, is still a scene of excitement on account of the City Park tragedy and the arrest of the alleged assassins, We publish to-day the fall confebsion of Yellicer, which, for prodentinl reasons, was partially suppressed before, An interview took place botween Gongates and Mr, Cayas, of the Barcelona Hotel, yester- day, and also Between the former and Captain Peterson. Gonzales %a« brought into the room where the body of Otero was lying, and he exhibited much emotion at the Bight rf it, ‘The funeral and inquest take place to-day. ‘The trial of the Steong divorce cave was resumed yes- terday in the Superior Court, before Indge Garvin. Tho whole day was occupied in the examination of Miss Matilda Museehl, governess in the Strong family during the tims of the alleged adulteries. The testimony of the witness embraced the habits of the family, the conduct of the parties to,each other, the intimacy of the wife with her brother-in-law and a few supposed suspicious Circumstances. The direct and cross-examinations wore ‘very full and searching. The court room was completely filled, and deep interest was manifested in the proceed- Ings. ‘The little village of Astoria, Long Island, was the gcone of nome riotous and disgraceful proceedings yes- terday. A target company, composed of about fifty former members of old voluntecr Engine Company No. 4, of this city, went over there to shoot at a mark, socompaniod by & large crowd, who, on their arrival, <T NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1865. ‘attacked and beat the ferrymaster and others who at- | The State of the Country—The Crisis of | in the ring, comes out in his new réle of Satan tempted to stop their disorderly movements, broke the ferry gates, stole about seventy dollars from the ferry house, and then spread through the town, committing depredations on the villagers and causing dismay among them. In the meantime intelligenco of their ruffianism was sent to the city, and they were met at the Astoria ferry house in the eveuing, when they had renewed their villanous work, by a quad of thirteen Metropolitan Police, who went at the rowdies in carnest, scattering thent with their clubs like chaff before the wind, and s00n restoring them to orter. Mrs, Ann Curran yesterday brought a suit in the Supreme Court, before Judge Smith, against the Warren Naphtha Oil Manufacturing Company, of Williamsburg, for damages caused by the death of her son, who was an employe in said establishment, from inhaling hot air or steam, through alleged carelessness of the proprietors. The latter maintain that the carelessness was entirely on the part of deceased, The ease is not yet concluded, The Packer divorce case was called on yesterday in the Supreme Court, circuit, in Brooklyn, before Judge Lott, Quite an array of counsel appeared for the interested parties; but the trial was not proceeded with, it being agreed, after some discussion, that it should be com- menced to-morrow. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Assistant Dastrict Attorney Bedford moved for sentence upon Wm. Keefe, who was convicted of murder in the second de- gree. Judge Russel sentenced the prisoner to imprison- ment in the State Prison for the term of his natural life. Keefe said he had no il! will.to Mr. Abrams, the man whom he stabbed, and only did it in self-defonce. James McGrath and Wm. Dermot, who pleaded guilty ‘to petty larceny, were each sent tothe State Prison for two years. Charles Turrett, who pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary, was sent to the Penitentiary for one year, John Clarke, who was convicted of an assault with a dangerous woapon, was fined fifty dollars, there being extenuating circumstances in the case. Nearly the whole of the day was spent in trying an indict- mont against David Bartlett for burglary in the third degree, in entering the premises of Francis Cooper, 148 Macdougal streot, on the 16th of August. There over four thousand dollars’ worth of silver ware and jew- elry stolen. The prisoner was seen by Mr. Cooper and agirlon the evening of the burglary in and about the store. The defence introduced three witnesses, who swore that he was in a liquor store on the east s'de of the city from half-past seven till near eleven o'clock on said night, thus contradicting the girl, who said she Kaw the prisoner at half-past eight o'clock, The jury, after de- liberating for half an hour, rendered a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was remanded for sentence. Bartlett pleaded guilty to burglary in 1961, and was sentenced by Recorder Hoffman to the State Prison for four years, The United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Compa- ny’s new steamship South America will sail to-morrow, 29th instant, at three P. M., from pier 43 North river, for Rio Janciro, calling at St. Thomas, Para, Pernam- buco and Bahia. The South America 1s commanied by Captain Tinklepaugh, well known for many years past as one of the most popular masters in the Calfornia line, and Jate of the new steamship New York. The steam- ship Havana, the pioncer ship in this new line, wiil proba- bly arrive here to-day er to-morrow from the above named Zouth American ports, ‘The British bark Copsie, from Baltimore for Liverpool, arrived at Fortress Monroe on Sunday, in tow of the United States revenue cutter Kankakee, which vessel was hailed by tho captain for assistance, the Copsie's second mate and crew having mutinied in Chesapeake bay, refused to go to sea, and threatened the life of the captain and first inate, The Fire Commissioners held a meeting yesterday afternoon and initiated moasures to provide for injured or distressed members and the families of those who die from injuries. Some resignations were received, and gome changes were made relative to badges, &¢. In the afternoon the Board of Foremen met and decided to make a formal request of the Commissioners for raise of salary of the whole force, on the ground that the Prasent pay is inadequate to the duties and expenses. ‘The first meeting of the Southern Aid Society sincs its suspension in November, 1800, on account of the war, was held last evening in the American Tract House, ‘This boing merely a preliminary meeting there was not mueh business transacted, except the adoption of the tweasurer’s report, which at present ig not a very on- couraging one. Professor Morse was elected prosident and Lucius Hopkins treasurer for the society. An investigation of alleged frauds on the part of mas. ter workmen in the, Brooklyn Navy Yard, extending through several years past, is now in progress under the supervision of Colonel Orcutt, special government acent. ‘The swindling charged in these cases is said to have been @fiected by returning on the pay rolls more menthan wore employed, It is suspected that the government has been defrauded of hundreda of thousands of doilars in this manner. Four cases of attompted deadly assault received the attention of the police authorities yesterday, Of the principals in these there were committed for trial a man giving his namo as Henry Thorp, and his residence as 145 Thompson street, arrested on charge of being one of @ party of three who early yesterday morning attacked and discharged a pistol at policeman Grichtons, in Wost street, near Chariton, while the latter was engaged in taking into custody one of their confederates, a supposed thief; John Smith, aged twenty, chasged with slab- bing im the breast, early yesterday morning, Daniel Kinckman, of 209 West Thirty-seventh street, while the latter was standing in his doorway, and John Carroll, of 13 Baxter sircet, on charge of stabbing Jeremiah Morgan, of 67 Park stroct, in the side, Michael O'Brien, as alleged, inflicted a se- vere stab on Thomas Curry, abont midnight on Sunday, during a quarrel between the two in Second avenue, near Firet street. O'Brien made his escape at the time. Samuel H. Jordan, a uative of New York, forty-one years of age, and formerly a member of the Seventy- ninth New York Volunteer regiraent, was found dead in his bed in the Frankfort House, corner of Frankfort and William streets, on Sunday afternoon, he having commit- ted suicide by severing two of the main arteries of the right arm, resulting in bleeding to death. A paper found on the person of deceased gave family difficulties as the reason for self-destruction. ‘The health officials of our port have decided to permit all the passengers, both cabin and stecrage, of the steam- ship Atalanta who show no cholera symptoms, and who design going to the Westy to leave tho vessel. Those whose cases are considered doubtfal, but in whom the divease has not yet developed itself, will be sent to Ward’s Island for turther detention. Our Sanitary Police still continue their work of preparing the city against the approaches of the cholera. During the week ending on Saturday last four hundred and eighty-four notices were served by them to individuals for the cleansing of un- healthy localities, and three hundred and ninety-three places were cleaned under notices previously served. ‘The City Inspector's report gives three hundred and eighty as the number of deaths occurring in the city during the week ending yesterday, being fifty jess than in the preceding week nnd sixty less than during the corresponding week last year. Intelligence bas just been received of the death from cholera, in August last, at Amoy, China, of Dr. William Irving, our Consul at that port. ‘The stock market was steady yesterday, but heavy in the afternoon. Governments were weak. Gold was strong, and closed at 147%. ‘There was not a great deal of activity in commercial circles yesterday, and neither foreign wor domestic mer. chandise sold to any great extent. The markets were firm, however, and for some articles an advance was asked. Groceries were dull. Cotton was steady. Petro- leum was a shade Jower, On ‘Change flour was moder- ately active, without decided change. Wheat and corn were lower. Tho demand for the former was moderate, while the latter was very active, Pork was irregular and lower. Beef was steady, with a moderate demand. Lard was dull, irregular and decidedly lower. Whiskey continued dull and nominal. Boovs Porrricat, Appresses.—It appears that the signature of Mr. Francis B, Cutting to the published call for a publie meeting to ratify the nominations of Mozart Hall for Mayor and Corporation Counsel is a clear case of forgery, without the least shadow of authority, and that Mr. Cutting supports Marshall 0, Roberts, and is “opposed to any candidate who during the rebellion failed to give a hearty support to the Union cause.” There are, no doubt, other names used by these Morarters withont autho- tity; but forgery 1s forgery, whether it involves money or character. The Citizens’ Association has made a bad beginning for reform in attach- ing itself as a tail to the kite of Fernando Woot the Republican Party, With the return of peace comes the crisis to the republican party. It is a crisis of life or death, perpetuity or dissolution. This party has carried the government successfully through the most stupendous and perilous civil war from which any government has survived. The people of the loyal States poured out their treasures of men and money for the war with- out stint; but in the absence of able generals to command our armies, and without an effi- cient War Department to furnish the needful supplies and reinforcements in every quarter, all the sacrifices of the people would have come to nothing. The republicans in power provided able generals, the greatest general of the age at the head of them, and provided a war minister whose energy was equal to all emergencies, and who knew “no such word as fait.” The grand result is the complete triumph of the Union cause. But, as the war party, the republicans had all the advantages‘of the popular side of the question of Union ordisunion. They stood be- fore the countey upon the single and all-ab- sorbing issue of the suppression of the rebel- lion by force of arms, and upon this ground the cause of the Union party and the cause of the Union were regarded by the people of the great North as one. But that is all over now. The republican party, victorious from the war, is now called to the practical work of govern- ment, to the difficult business of repairing dam- ages, including the restoration of the Southern States and Southern whites and blacks on the new basis of universal liberty; the regulation of our national finances, tariffs, taxes, &., and the rectification of our unsettled balances with foreign Powers. In grappling with these deli- cate and momentous questions the republican party may succeed and continue to flourish in power, or it may fail and fall to pieces, For the instruction of the republican leaders let us briefly call their attention to the blunders of the democratic party and the consequences. In 1824 the old republican party of Jeffer son, which was more inclined to red than black, collapsed in the squabble of the poli- ticians for the Presidency. In the scrub race ofthat year General Jackson first came into fall view as the man of the people, and as the man under whom to resuscitate with new blood the old effete Jeffersonian party. In 1828 ac- cordingly the late national democratic party, with the first election of Jackson to the Presi- dency, rallied arovhd him. It held the govern- ment without a break for twelve years, when, under Van Buren, it was in 1840 swept from power as by a resistless tornado. Under Polk, in 1844, the democracy recovered their posi- tion, to be turned out again in 1848, In 1852, on the platform of Henry Clay’s great peace meas- ures of 1850, the party carried the country, North and South, by an overwhelming electoral and popular vote. In 1856 the party narrowly escaped defeat. It fas saved only through the assistance of Fillmore as a second opposition candidate. In 1860, through its own dissen- sions, the great national democratic party, with the Presidency in its grasp, was broken up and dissolved. Now what was the secrot of these misfor- tunes to the old democracy? We need not travel far to find it, Theeparty was controlled by a radical sectional clique of managing poli- ticians—a haughty, imperious Southern clique, full of ultra Southern ideas, and setting them- selves up as the rightful masters of the coun- try and the rightful dictators of democratic principles and measures, General Jackson was too strong for this clique, but it. proved too much for Van Buren. It ruled bim out of the Baltimore National Convention of 1844, al- though it thus opened the way, in Van Buren’s revenge of 1848, “free soil, free speech and free men,” for the now dominant republican party. Van Buren was ousted, but he delivered the first damaging blow to the democratic slave- holding oligarchy of the South in his fall. This party oligarchy next. succecded in in- flicting upon the country iis pernicious dog- mas, principles and policy with poor Pierce and Buchanan, and with all the disasirous consequences which have followed toali ccn- cerned. This Southern ruling democratic juu next tried ihe coercion of Douglas, but Doug- Ins faced them, and at Charleston pushed them to their own destruction. True, the demo- cratic party was thus scattered to the winds; but, with the rebellion, the old slaveholding democratic oligarchy has gone down to rise no more. The republican party is in the same danger of a ruling radical sectional cliqae. What the Virginia and South Carolina managing poli- ticians were to the democracy the Massachu- setts and Ohio leaders threaten to be to the republicans, with their contracted ideas and their pretensions of authority. Here lies the danger most to be avoided. If the republican majority of the coming Congress are wise they will avoid this danger, and shape their course by the safe maps and charts laid before them by President Johnson. His policy is broad and national, like that of Jackson, while the teachings of such false lights as Chase, Sumner and Wilson lead to disasters like those of poor Pierce ana Buchanan. Looking to these les- sons of experience, let the republicans profit by them, and, adhering closely to the safe and popular programme of the administration, let them push forward in the work before them. Thus the party may be established on a solid foundation and hold the government for a long pertod of power, prosperity and unbroken suc- cesses. Porrrics Maxe Stranos Bepyetiows.—One of the most ridiculous features of the present Mayoralty canvass, which has created immense amusement among all observers, is the unholy alliance recently formed between Horace Gree- ley and Fernando Wood. For years past Greeley has been denouncing Wood as fit only for the State Prison, and Wood has spoken in equally loving and respectful terms of Greeley; but now we see them embracing each other, working together and vowing eternal friend- ship and mutual esteem. The renders of the Tribune, accustomed to having Wood denounced in its columns as a jail bird, must be pretty well astonished at reading the eulogies upon him as an able and experienced leader and a champion of municipal reform. The Citizens’ Association, the Tribune Association and Mo- zart Hall tarn ont to be the same concern, run bp the same partjes and in the same interest. Greeley forgets his patriotism and consorte with copperheads; the Citizens become ob- livious of retorm and Me down with the worst of the public plunderers; and Fernando Wodd, changing bis cont with the agility of @ clown rebuking sin. Such a mixed up mess was never set before the sovereign people until this can- vase. But if to outsiders the whole thing looks as if politics were making strange bedfellows, to us, who know and have often exposed the characters of all concerned, this alliance is but another illustration of the old proverb that birds of a feather flock together. Still, some- body ought to take care of Greeley. He is losing his senses and his hypocrisy and devel- oping his true character, and this will ruin him. ‘The Recent Important News from Mexico The news from the Rio Grande which we publish this morning furnishes some very ex- traordinary symptoms of the progress of events in that quartet. It will be seen that @ French gunboat has been fired into from the American side of the Rio Grande by « num- ber of persons wearing the uniform of United States soldiers, and that two marines on board were wounded. Furthermore, “it ap- pears that the liberal strength is being rapidly augmented by arrivals from the American side of the Rio Grande of persons already habited in the United States uniform—a style of uni- form that has been generally adopted by the Mexican republicans, on account of the pres- tige it carries with it, Thus is the ball beginning to open on the Rio Grande in a manner which must enlist the attention and sympathies of Americans, and at the same time awaken a lively sensation throughout Europe. The Americans now cross- ing the Rio Grande and joining the cause of the Mexican republic we believe to be but the beginning of an exodus from American to Mexican territory, which by the middle of next summer will swell to the proportions of great armies. It is not wide of the mark to estimate the number of this force at a hundred thou- sand men—all hardy adventurers, tilibusters, disbanded soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies, and those enterprising, go- ahead Yankee spirits who never rest when any- thing daring and dashing is going on. They may not go in large numbers, but in squads of three, five, ten or twenty, Our government cannot help that, nor can it decide what par- ‘ticular style of dress our citizens must wear. Or, if deemed advisable, they can go in larger bodies, in accordance with the proclamation of Maximilian inviting emigrants to what he calls his dominions. Once thoroughly established on Mexican soil, under the flag of the Mexican re- public, the work of overturning the empire ef Maximilian, driving out the French and restor- ing republican institutions will require buta brief measure of time. For all these things money is now being raised in New York on bonds of the Mexican republic, and it would not at all surprise us to hear that some of it had already found its way into the hands of some of the liberal leaders in this country for the purpose of encouraging-a parti- cular kind of emigration to Mexico. Material ald in other respects may be furnished the liberal cause by our citizens, and it may be that all this will end in a rumpus with France, unless Napoleon withdraws his troops Mexican territory. ee But why should Napoleon remonstfate if we furnish money and supplies of men and war- like munitions to the struggling republicans of Mexico? Civil war now rages in Mexico as it did in our country last year. The Mexican republicans are fighting for their nationality just as we did for our own against the treachery and rank hostility, under the cloak of neu- trality, of both France and England. Napo- leon openly allowed negotiations to be carried on-for @ rebel cotton loan on his own Bourse during the rebellion. The bankers Ebrianger & Co. made no disguise of their operations to extend financial aid to the rebel cause. Napo- leon permitted Mason, Slidell and other rebel agents to harbor traitors to the government of the United States, and furnish them with funds fo propagate their treason and to enlist the sympathy of his subjects. He uttered no word of caution to bis Ministers and other officials when the cause of the United States govern- ment was assailed by rebel emissaries and con- genial spirits among his own imperial coun- eillors, Why should Napoleon now complain if our government refrain from exercising its powers, when left at its own discretion, in a matter which involves a game of tit for tat? Napoleon, as well os England, could have shortened the rebellion -at least two years and a half had he and his perfidious ally performed their whole duty as neue trals and withheld their recognition of the rebels as belligerents. But, on the contrary, they allowed armed ships to leave their ports on piratical and dastardly expeditions against our unprotected commerce; they furnished our enemies with money and supplies of cannon and all other munitions of war; they sent them drugs, medicines, surgical instruments, cloth- ing, and all those essentials which enabled them to protract for a long period an impracti- cable contest for an impossible triumph. Now the tables are turned. The poisoned chalice touches the lips of the French Emperor, and he sees his interpretation ofthe laws of neutrality practically applied to his own case in the strait into which his protég¢, Maximilian, has been brought in Mexico. He finds that Mexican liberals can negotiate bonds in New York in aid of their cause, just as the rebels did in London and Paris in aid of theirs. He finds that Ameri- can emigrants will go acroes the Rio Grande with a style of wardrobe that suits them best, and that Mexican liberals, with singular obstinacy, insist upon wearing clothes cut just after what- ever fashion they choose. There isa very good reason why Napoleon should not yet offended at the cut of an American’s cloth at this time. It must be remembered that these things are occurring only on our southern border. It is only there the Americans are at present put- ting into practical operation the laws of neu- trality as defined by France ond England. When the time comes we will see how Canada, on our northern border, will stand a sample of this same description of neutrality, mingled with a wholesome infusion of the lively spirit of Fenianism. But we trust that our government will not prematurely sacrifice its position of neutrality on the Rio Grande. We know it will demand nothing but what is right, as we are confident it will submit to nothing that is wrong. We are sure its desire is for peaceful relations with all the world just at this jumoture. In the meantime it cannot be helped if some of our ambitious youths and aspiring heroes take the example of England and France during our late struggle, and do, as they pretended to, as- sist the weaker side by joining the ropublican eause in Mexico. Who knows but this may be the beginning of a crusade against imperialism that will end in sweeping the detested purple from our entire continent? The Approac! Mayoralty Election, There areuow three strong candidates in the field for the Mayoralty, viz: Hoffman, Gunther and Roberis. Farmer, the soup candidate, does not amount to anything, and therefore we exclude him from the list. .Hecker, the bran bread candidate, has no chance whatever, and might better save his credit and his money by withdrawing. Already he is said to have ex- pended about twenty thousand dollars; but what has become of it and who has pocketed it nobody knows. Everybody is aware, however, that he is in the hands of men accustomed to put candidates through the mill to the tune of “money makes the mare go,” and he will proba- bly come out of the contest without a dollar and with very few votes. The determination of Gunther to remain s candidate at all hazards gives Mr. Roberts a very fair chance of success, Gunther will secure a large portion of the Ger- map vote, @ large portion of the secession vote, @ large portion of the Mozart vote and some of the Tammany vote, thus presenting considerable strength, besides weakening Heff- man, whom he may possibly neutralize, and leaving Mr. Roberts the very opportunity that Opdyke had a few years ago in a similar trian- gular contest. We cannot Wélieve that any number of the republicans will follow the lead of Greeley in pinning their fortunes to the coat tails of Fernando Wood, and we therefore credit Roberts with the full republican strength. Should he hold this he may be elected; but should his party desert him Hoffman will be successful. We need scarcely add that either of these gentlemen would make an honest, up- right, worthy, intelligent, able and popular Mayor. But our hopes of municipal reform are not at all involved in this Mayoralty canvass. We expect that the next Legislature will take hold of this city, abolish the Board of Supervisors, the various departments and the Common Council; unite New York, Brooklyn, Williams- burg and the adjacent towns and villages in a vast metropolis, numbering nearly two mil- Hons of inhabitants; give the legislative ad- ministration of this metropolis to a commission composed of the best men of the State, and in- trust the executive power to a Metropolitan Mayor. This sweeping reform is demanded by the necessities of the times, and is the only one that will be at all effectual. Our city affairs are now in such a snarl that nothing but a bill of this recreative character can disentangle them. At present a good Mayor cannot relieve us by proventing corruption, nor « bad Mayor make matters much worse. The. next Legisla- ture will have the power, and we believe that it will have the inclination, to end.our troubles at once, and to give us a good government and @ magnificent metropolis. Instead of voting at the approaching election for a “reform” candi- date—who can reform nothing, even if he be elected, and who is accompanied and supported by a swarm of the bungriest cormorants that ever wanted to get at the public treasury—we advise our readers to vote for a person like Roberts or Hoffman, who will be a fit repre- sentative of the metropolis, and who may thus become our Metropolitan Mayor. If, through all the muddle of this canvass—and it is the worst we ever saw—the fact that the next Le- gislature is pledged to a complete reconstruc- tion is kept steadily in mind by the intelligent voters, they will perceive very clearly that such so-called “reformers” as Fernando Wood mean no good; that they ought not to be sup- ported, and that, if successful, they will give us no end of trouble in again ousting them from office. ‘Tuorre ann Ovenin's Mixstaets.—The above company presented last evening, in thoir new hall, corner of Grand and Crosby streets, a varied and interesting pro- gramme, which was duly appreciated by a crowd which filled the spacious building to repletion. The troupe numbers twenty-three members, and the appearance of each, attired in the costume of the nationality he repre- sented, was at once beautiful and grotesque. The open- ing programme comprised song and chorus, burlesque ‘and dance, and each of the members displayed a profl- ciency in his branch throwing the efforts of previous minstrel bands in the shade. The songs—many of which were new—were rendered finely, the dances gracefull and the buriesques ridiculously, ‘All were pleased; and, from the —— encores of the audience, we promise a brilliant and lengthened success to the cot a A pro- gramme of a similar nature will be presented through the week, and successive novelties aro announced for an ear! representation, With a troupe like that ot Thorpe Overin anything may be done, Tux Ngw Natiovay Cu This attractive establieh- ment, which has achieved such remarkable success from the vory first night of its opening, may now be re- garded asa triumph of enterprise directed with a view of localizing a first class resort both of amusement and refinement im this city. So crowded has the house (Nos. 87 and 89 Bowery) become that. Mr. Montpellier, the proprictor, was reluctantly compelled to turn some hundreds of his patrons from the doors last Saturday evening. Last night there was a like result, This even- ing all the equestrians will be out. beautiful horses, ponies and mul educated, others unlearned. The singers, jester, clowns, converrationalists, contortionists, rope performers and dancers—both Jadies and gentlemn—will also appear in force. Mars, E. A. Parye’s Coxceet.—Mre, Payne, the well known and accomplished contralto of Calvary chnrch, gives a concert to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at Dod- worth Hall, She will be assisted by Mrs. J. E. Thomas, soprano, Mr. J. N. Pattison and Signor Albites, The con- gregation, with whom the i. isa great favorite, have taken charge of all the preliminary arrangements. Frauds In the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Colone! Orcutt, Special Agent for the United States government, bas been engaged for several days past investigating the subject of alleged extensive frauds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The nature of these frauds extends for a number of years back to the present time, and consists in making false returns by the master work. man in the nuraber of hands employed, returning a8 employes a number of mythical “John Smithe,’’ “Robert Browns,” “im Fitzgeraide,” “Pat Murphys,” the por- sonality of whom existed only if the brains of those who drew the fraudulent pay. Jn tte way hundreds of thon- eande of dollars have been surreptitiously obtained, It is to stop this financial leak and bring the offenders to jus- tice that the prevent investigation !s instituted. Colouel Orcutt has all the tact and energy to sift thie matter to the bottom. His report and suggestions will be of gront public interest in these days of heavy taxation. If ficient cause is found against any of the alleged of ere they will be forthwith arrested and rent beto United States Commissioner Newton, The investigation iv carried on at Colonel Orcutt’s office, No. $2 Franklin | street. News from New Orleans. New Ontras, Nov. 26, 1866. The wharves and landings have been relinquished to the cily authorities, the government reserving one thou- sand feet of the levee for its own use. Governor Wells appointed an agent to eoize eight hun- dred bales of cotton in Galveston and ship the same to this city, it being the property of the State of Louis- “he steamer F. Vernon, from Galveston for New Or. Jeans, was caught in the gale of the 17th inat., lost her rudder and drifted to Paes Cavallo, Governor Parsons, of Alal has ded to the State islature the passage of an act declaring thas the freedmen shall have the same measure of pro- w that is now secured to the non-voting white pop- ulation. for Hel Arkansas, ‘The Collector ‘of Internal Revenue ved a despatch from Cincinnat! directing him to se! boat with three thousand barrels of ofl en route to St, Louia, on jts arrival } elected representative " @ITY POLITICS The Mayoralty. NOMINATIONS OF THE WAR DEMOCRACY, A meeting of the General Committee of the War De- mocracy of the city and county of New York was hela yesterday evening, for the purpose of making nomina- Was unanimously nominated for Mayor. Mr. Timothy Cronin was unanimously nominated for Corporation Counsel. A committee of six was appointed to inform the candidates of their nomination. ADDRESS OF THE UNION PARTY. To tHe Etxotoxs ov tux Crry or New YORK:— FeLtow Cirizems—An important election, affecting the interests of the metropolis into the distant future, will be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of December. The chief executive and law officers, together with three-quarters of the of the municipality and a portion hans of the ic education, are to be chosen, for Mayor, and for Murray the Corporation, The Union party ask 1 arity =a for these candidates, in execution of ita broad plans the reinstitution of go" and with the fier idl fnercasing taxath “ag gad Flo ion. The demecratio, party have nominated their favorites, The democratic we Jong ruled this city, and the lations rosea tions under which we are ute ve sprung up and perpetuated and augmented - under ie It i from the domination of this party that an oppressed people now It isa maxim thut the bat is scheme ene or successfully combat its schemes. Pindidate must join the ring. And itis vain to look te any officer elected by this party, for relief from the evils that aflict the body politic, A bitter fountain cannot send forth sweet waters, And we are thus compelled to refuse spport to candidates who are excluded from all possibility of remedying the general extravagance, im competency and dissoluten which have crept inte public affairs under the fostering influences of the deme- cratic y. tar opponents to this movement of the Union party are in the feld upon the nomination of asmall commit- tee appointed by a few of the members of the Citizens” Association, Coalescing with. the branch of the demo- cratic party that has hitherto been the most disloyal, they seek to draw to their support some credulous voters from the Union party, under the ory of a non-partisan movement for reform. Our citizens have never been assembled in general mass meeting for deliberation and for the selection of candidates that would be acceptable to those who were ready to espouse such a non-partisan movement; and these nominations, made in secret, which take both lead- - candidates from oho party, entirely ignoring the other, are by that act robbed of the confidence of the community, and the movement discovers itself to be = part of the machinery used by designing and ambitious men. One of these candidates has been an avowed and dangerous enemy of the national government in its dark days, and the other has appeared by his writings as the champion of humaa slavery, And we are thus compelled to refuse support to candidates one of whom is liable te become an enemy of the city government, and the other to favor class legislation and the unequal application of ofa pate the laws. It is a matter of congratulation the Union party , that the division of its opponent wing ont of the inevitable quarrels of the corrupt for spoils—affords the reasonable expectation that our candidates will be tri- umphantly elected. All that it requires fs a united, firm front, and the victory for the city will be gained under the game ban- ner that made us triumphant in the State and nation. Marshall 0. Roberts is extensively identified with the industrial, commercial and landed interests of the city; ho has been a true and generous supporter of the gov- ernment of his country ; he is in favor of the largest pos- sible reduction in the expenditures of the city goverm- ment; he will recommend or appoint for positions: —— Fosbrnen —_ pty, oe ee bring be whole executive power of the mayoralty into support the measures for the cleanliness and health of the city + and port which are so much needed, and which the threatened visitation of the cholera most sternly demands Shall be comprehensive and immediate. It i universally admitted that if there is one man whe been forward in all measures for the benofit and honor of this oily, who has contributed liberally to every object worthy of & citizen's pride and support, who has been entirely above the contro! of oti pullers and d: 3 who is ‘im of his neigh! whom our citizens should rejoice to see in nomina- tion for any office, and should make unusual, determined and victorious efforts to elect, that man is MarshallO. _ Roberts. ‘With such an officer as the Chief Magistrate of the city, possessing the confidence of the Legislature of the State, which has already been elected by the same Union party which places him in pomn we may and expect that his tne for good will be increased the legiglative cont of functions which morality bas hitherto consistently refused to the dem- coratio Yacumbents of that ofice. With his election wilt be inaugurated the municipal feform which all good zones desire. In consonance with the hieh princi which have governed the nomination: for Mayor, and that of the ex- rporatic 2 ects ae hat ‘aad ta pomienies jon, the y have in nom! idates for the e candi other offices who will, it is confidentty believed, justify, by an honest and ablo oe their respective ‘duties, the confidence of their fellow The above address istiznea by Elliott F. Sinclair hor y John H. White, John Lobdell, hundred and fifty other prominent ci ‘and bas the endorsement of the officers of the Union mittee. The following is the correspondence between the Union General Committee and Mr. Roberts:— New Yore, Nov. 25, 1866. Marsuau 0. Rosarrs, On bebalf of the Union men of the LAs New York, the undersigned, a committee appointed that purpose by the Union Convention which met last evening, tender to you the nomination as the Union candidate for Mayor Your nomination contest. ‘The Union men of this city consider that the Mayor of New York is not a mere agent for the performance of certain specific duties. In the and political affairs the Chief cupies © most prominent and influent ‘ition before the of the nion men of this city patriotism and loyalty of the people of name the citizen to occupy that position. As members of the party which carried the count: trinmph through the recent terrible struggle, now administers the government of the nation, and by Jarge majorities the governments of nearly overy of the he gov Union endo Mp eed cae right, and revard it as an im ty, the people one of their number as a Sindiate for the Mayoralty. The Union party demand and will insist apon « thor- ongh and radical reform in the management of the city government, the abolition of sinecures and useless the retrenchment of expenditures and the reduction the taxation of the city, Upon the grounds and principles thus briefly indicated we present your name to the people of this city as the Union candidate for Mayor, knowing GF 9 will die~ charge the duties of the offlce with patriotism, dignity, honesty and energy; that your olection will secure a just, economical and eflicient administration of our city gov- ernment, and that it will be your pride and steadfast effort to promote the welfare of our people and cahance the glory of this great and noble city. ISAAC DAYTON, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, LANSING C. MOORE, WILLIAM ATKINAON, SHERIDAN SHOOK, OWEN W, BRENNAN, ROBERT EDWARDS, JAMES (KELLY, pnt WILLIAM R. STEWART, President of the Convention. New York, Nov, 26, 1865. Thave had the honor to receive from your hands a letter communicating to me the action of the Union Con- vention of this city, placing me im nomination fot the office of Mayor of New York, in which you are so kind as to express the opinion that my clevation to that im- portant office would tend to place in the ascendency im this city those sincere and loyal Union sentiments whic, are now predominant in the federal ndmin’stration an@ in the government of the States, and would also help im the reiormation of the city government and in the relief of the citizens from the disgraces and oppressions which now afflict all classes of our population, Under a free and popular government like oure, thou, a citizen may be justi in not seeking or striving for public office or political distinction, he has no right to decline public service, however atduous, to which he iw called by the genuine and spontaneous wishes of hie fellow citizens, In thie feeling, but with much distrust of my qualifica- tions for the important duties which the representatlvem of the Union party haye calied La to undertake, if the popular suffrage should con! their choico, I ace cept the nomination so tendered to me, avd assore you and the great party which you , and all of my fellow citizens who may give me support at the polls, that ag E have but one motive in entering into the canvass, 80 I shall have but one purpose in admin- istering the office, and that is to cont ‘afl that shail tie in my power to make the government of the city of New York loyal 10 ne te aoe State, and honest ‘and faithful in ite duties to the from whom and for whom it holds its powers. thanks to the Convention for the personal honor they have done me, ‘and to you, gentlomen, for the kind manner in which ds me, Iam, with You have addressed me, Tap MALL 0. ROBERTS. Feuow wo withdrawn or will withdraw from the Mayoralt; 1 poet compel me o thus publicly deny the same, Tana / Pe A fe LoD wee fennel hd T would be pleased to eee try his ekill at remedying the many abuses which oxtst in our municipal ornment 5 and I would not have acceded to the wishos of tm friends who desigad my re-cloctiqn ayd acvapted the i | |