The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BE a EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Foun cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. Apyertiseaxyts, toa limited number, will be inserted ‘uthe Weexiy Heaarp, the European and California Editions, ‘The Ecrorzas Epmiox, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $# per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage, SA XXXx1 AMUSE MENTS ‘THIS APTERNOON AND WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nich bolas Hotel.—Bworuen SaM—FRa Diavoro. Matinee at ©’ Clock. SAN FRANCISC RELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan E riaN SINGING, Daxeia, &c.— Tue Niagata Lear oF “AMILY, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 201 Bowery.—Saw Swarrcey's Minsreet axp Commation TROUPE—PLKASANT Neiguvoxs. Matinee at? ‘Lock. 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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, Ali advertisoments handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings dasured after that hour. THES NEW Ss. ; but proper classification cannot be CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Conference Committee on the Tax bill reported, and the report was agreed to, The tax on cotton is to be three certs; gas and railroad com- panies are allowed to add their tax to their fares, and the fucome tax remains on all incomes of more than six hundred dollars. A number of bills granting pensions to widows and orphans wore passod, and also granting Ponsions to provost marshals and their beirs, In the House the consideration of the Tariff bill was Tosumod. There were not many pagos disposed of, and those were of little importance. The report of the Con- ference Committee on the Tax bill greed to after an interesting debate by a vote of 71 to 57. MEXICO, By the arrival at this port last evening of tho steam- ship Corsica, from Havana, wo received our special cor reapondence from Mexico dated at Tampico the 19th, Moxico city the 22d, and Vera Cruz tho 28th of June. ‘The whole tenor of thn communications goes to show that the Mexican people, so long scattered and hitherto #0 divided in {ntetest, were becoming more and more united, aud much moro warm in the cause of the inde- pendence of their country, Asa first result the imperial ferves, French and native, had sustained a numbor of defeats, of greater or loss severity, in the fleld, and the cause of Maximilian waa still more gloomy in conse- quence. Marshal Razaine had become excited and sot out for San Luis Potosi with, it is said, the intention of opening Aatirring campaign against the liberals in the northwest. Indood, it appeared as if the Marshal dreaded that the Fronck troops would not bo permitted to retire from the country in quiet marching order, but porhaps bo compelled to leave in tho attitude of mon forced fo EQusiT¥Adion dete ufo With his offlcers and soldiers at San Luis Po- tosi, was the object of his visit to the town. If Maximilian could obtain money he might, it is said, raise an army which would perhaps ammtain him for some time longer; but no person could conjecture from what source, foreign or home, ho could hope to draw the funds, His treasury was literally ompty and most of the public works, undertaken after his arrival, were in @ languishing condition, The straits to which the Emperor has been redaced financially may be estimated from the fact alleged in our Washington telegraphic re- port, to the effect that news had been recoived in that city, dated at Vera Cruz on the 21st of Juno, in which tt was alleged that Marsha! Bozaino had agreed to pay to Maximilian the sum of five thousand dollars a month, for his more prossiny uses, from the French army chest. Santa Anna still engrossed a lar; of the public Attention. Tho Mexican liberals od the theory an understanding had been come to between Mr. Seward, tho eror Napoleon and the ex- by which Maximilian would be “let gracefully, Santa Anna restored and elected Prosidont, tho United States Cabinet holding itself realy to approve of tho “eventualities’ arising from tho change of executive. The liberals who were imbued with this idea did not entertain sach an implicit ennfidence in Mr. Seward’s friendship as they did some Months ago, Santa Anna, it is said, will remain unpopu- Jar with thom, Ao matter in what official form he may be presented. The city of Tampico was closely besieged by the lideral forces, who had made a dashing attack, riding tuto {.the placo at one time, Dose rtion he mporial to the liberal army wore frequent The idea of annoxation to the United States was widely fostered in the lheral ranks. Major Van de Groden, an ex-oMoor in the Sixty. eighth of Now York volunteors, was buried with conside wap by the Gerr jeans in Mexioo A very friondly feeling was expressed towards the United States army on the occasion The fever lea! considerably abated in Vora Craz. A letter from General Almonte, Maximilian’s minister at Parts, which in undoubtedly authentic, written from Parts date of May 81, says that the financial com: Mitteo will not pay the salaries of the levations whose ry a frou ns and Am Grafts bad arrived in the city, He asks advice in the matter, as (his summery proceeding interferes consider. ably with his household arrangements. TUE CITY. A rogular weekly mecting of the Roard of Health was eid yest . Tho weekly reports of the Sanitary Ruperiutondent and the Inepector of Sanitary Police were received and ordered on file. Letters from the con- aignees of the steamslilp Peruvian and from Dr. Bissell, the Deputy Health Oiicer, in relation to the passengers of the steamship Daniel Webster, were recoived, the first boing laid oa the table and the other referred to Dr, Swinburne, Lewis H. Farlan, a laborer, £ ur years ‘of ago, was reported to bave been attacked with marked #ymptoms of cholera yesterday, but the last accounts winted that he was etill alive. In Brooklyn a man oamed TMenry Devlin was reported to have died of Asiatic cholera. The doctors who at fended him pronounced it to be @ strong case of cholera smnorbus, while the coroner Rhd jury-were of opinion that 1 was A genuine cave of Asintic cholera, and rendered a ‘vordict in accordance therewith. Dr, Bissell reports all well on board the hospital ship Falcon, A regular weekly meoting of tho Commissioners of Fxciee was held yesterday, whon it was teported that fix thousand four hundred and six liconses had already beon granted. During the day & large namber of tn Junctions were served on the Commissioners, making a total of nearly eight handred already served. The Board of Councilmen were in session yesterday and transacted a large amount of routine business The Board adopted a resolution authgrizing tho Street Jommisaionor to make a contrd@t fur the period of twenty years for lighting the streets and venues of tho city wiih coal gas, thus Roberta, Aca and White voted in the es vo, some of them asserting that tho measure was ® great swindle, and that the men-who voted for it would be marked by the citizens, A remonstrance was received from the West side Association against the contemplated opening of up.town streets, which thoy allege belong to the Park Commission. The paper was referred. The case of Frank Allen, a seaman, charged with at- tempt to kill the mate of the English steamer William Penn, at sea, on the 23d of June, was resumed before Commissioner Osborn yesterday, Tho prisoner was com- mitted. Eleanor A. Jonos, a woman who has been living at the house of Mr. Ziess, No, 266 East Tenth street, with a Dr. August Von Frech as his wife, committed auicide yostor- day morning by shooting herself with a pistol! on the steps of the house No. 447 Second avenue. It sppears that Dr. Frech had taken another wife and deserted Eleanor, refusing to see hor or have any explanation with her, Yestesday she was refused admission, as usual, when she called to see him, and, maddened by Joalousy, she took hor own lifo, as above stated. It is believed that it was her intention to kill the Doctor if she could have seen him. The case of Joseph Mack, a seaman, who died, it is supposed, from the effects of cruel treatment at the hands of the captain and mate of the ship T. J. South- ard, was under investigation by Coroner Naumann yes- terday, Evidence was adduced showing that the do- ceased had been severely beaten by the mate and had been hung up by the neck to the rigging. Further in- vestigation was postponed until the 18th inst., to await the arrival of a material witness, Surrogate Tucker having summoned Genoral Bonjamin F, Butler to account for his administration of the estate of the late Colonel Andrew J. Butler, the Genora! yester- day obtained an extension of time until the 23d instant, when his account of receipts and disbursements ia to be rendered. Among the claims filed in tho Surrogate’s office is one for $75,000, for cotton, sugar, carriages, &e., to that amount, alleged to have been seized by Colonel Butler from one Robert W. Rayne, of New Orleans, during the military occupancy of that city. Other claims are awaiting the rendering of General Butler’s account on the 23d instant, the adjudication of which is expected to involve some interesting questions. At Irving Hall last evening the prizo speaking of pupils of the College of the City of Now York was witnogsed by a large audience, Tho exercises consisted of dectamation, recitations, &c., interspersed with ctiatoe musical selections. The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, wili sail at noon to-day, for Queonstown and Liverpool, from pier 44 North river. The nails will close at the Post Offico at half-past ten A. M. The sicamship Pennsylvania, Captain Lewis, of tho Na tonal Steam Navigation lino, will sail to-day, at noon, from pier 47 North river, for Liverpool, via Queonstown, The steamship Bavaria, Captain Taube, will sail at twelve o'clock noon to-ay from Hoboken for Cowos and Hamburg. The mails for tho Gorman Statos, via Ham- burg, will close at the Post Offlcamt half-past ten o’clook, ‘The steamship Sheridan, Captain Bolton, of the Crom- woll line, will sail for Now Orloans direct at three o'clock P. M. to day, from pier No. 9 North river, Tho steamship Missouri, Captata Loveland, of Garrison & Ailen‘s sidewheel lino, will sail from pier 13 North river, at three P, M. to-day, for Savannah direct, Tho steamship Saragoasa, Captain Crowell, will sail for Charleston at three P. M. to-day, from pior No, 14 East river, foot of Wall street, There was not much activity in commercial matters yesterday, but the markets were generally buoyant in consequence of tho firmnoss of gold. On ’Change tho business in common grades of flower was at lower prices, but prime parcels realized full rates, Wheat was de- pressed by heavy arrivals. Corn came in in large quan- tities, but with an active demand an advance was estab- lished. Oats wore also firmer. Pork lower. Beef steady, Lard dull and heavy. Petroloum quiet, Whis- key dull, In the grocery market there was but little business. Cotton was in better domand. MISCELLANEOUS. The great conflagration in Portland was caused by a firecracker, which was thoughtlessly thrown by a boy among some shavings. Large amounts of supplies are being received from the neighboring citics for the use of the sufferers, Tho funds and securi- ties of the First National Bank wero saved, A mocting in aid of tho houseless will be hold at tho Astor House in this city to-day. Mayor Hoffman has issued a proctamation calling for contributions, which he will take chargo of for the relief of tho sufferers. The citizens of Brookiyn have urged tho Mayor to make a similar call, and he has done so, A subscription list has been opened at the banking house No. 18 New street, and thirty-flve hundred doliars have been already aub- scribed. Contributions for the sam RUTPOR, ait "set amrls a vugnout the country, The New Orleans Odd Fellows’ Hall was burned on the night of the 4th, The loss is catimated at three hun- dred thousand dollars, The building was considered one of the most magnificent in the city. Dr. Somers, of Rockville, Md., was arrested recently for assaulting a colored man, and the justice of the peace before whom he was brought requirea him to give bait to answer. This ho refused to do, his counsel contending that a negro could not testify against a white man in the courts of Maryland. Tho Justice decided that the Civil Rights bill abrogated the State law. He was supported in his opinion*by Chief Justice Bowie, who rofused to grant a writ of babeas corpus for the prisoner's release. A lotter from Como, Italy, of June 14, in tho Paris Siecle, says:—Yesterday Miss Grant, a relative of tho celebrated American general, sent forty pounds to Gene- ral Garibaldi to distr’bute among his poorost volanteers, Benjamin S, Rhett, and not Barnwet! Rhott, was the Bame of the person assassinated recently near Charles- ton, He was a younger Srother of the ex-Senator. The Fourth was universally celebrated: in Now Or- leans, In Loutsville the celebration was confined to private picnics, there being no municipal demonstration, Horace Maynard and others addressed an assembly near Nashville, and the negroes held a celebration at Fort Gillen, near that city. A party of the Fifth cavalry rogiment broke up the colored jabilee. Toe Isternat Revesve Tax Bo.—Spreciat Favors to Moyorotms.—The Committee of Conference of the two houses of Congress have at last, it appears, agreed that in the tax on in- comes only six hundred dollars shall be ex- empted, and that gas companies, street rail- road companies and ferry companies shall be allowed to add the amount of government tax to consumers and the fares of passengers until the first of April, 1867. This is in keeping with the whole system of legislation which has marked this Congress in financial bills, tariff bills, tax bills, special jobs and appropriation bills. A legion of pet banks, at an expense of twenty-flve or thirty millions annually to the Treasury, is established ; from six to ten mil- lions of dollars more are appropriated to the snbsistence of lazy Southern whites and blacks. denominated refugees and freedmon, next wo have tax bills which appear to be deliberately framed for the benefit of corporations aad mo- nopolies at the expense of the masses of the people, and then we have a tariff bill perfectly remorseless In its extortions upon the commu- nity at largo, in order to increase the profits of the wealthy manufneturing companies of New England and Pennaylvania. Against this outrageous system of legislative discriminations in favor of rich monopolies and manufacturing combinations, and jobbers and cliques of spoilemen and plunderers, at the ex- pense of the body of the people, we have noth- ing to expect from this Congress. We must submit to take what is givenus. But in tho appreaching fall elections for the next Con- gress the people will have an opportunity to right their wrongs and to punish their faithless agents at Washington by cutting them adrift. Let the people then remember the tariff, bank, tax and appropriation bills of this Congress, and prepare for a final settlement with it in the coming fall elections. Expulsion is the only argument which will roach the Congressman who has betrayed his constituents in his raven. ous pursuit of government spoils and plunder. Let euch dishonored servants be pald off and warciding (ue yoto of bis Honur the Mayor, Moasra | dismiagod, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1866. Congress on the Finances of the Country. The official statement as to the revenue of the government for the year ending last month shows the amount to be five hundred and fifty millions of dollars. But in fact itis more than that in legal money. A hundred and seventy millions was from oustoms, which are paid in gold, This would make the total amount in legal money or currency over six hundred and twenty millions, This immense sum is all drawn from the ordinary sources of taxation and not from loans; it is not a revenue for war purposes or in war times, but one in time of peace and for the peace establish- ment of government. It is unprecedented in this country, and we think there bas been nothing like it in the history of any other country, Over six hundred and twenty millions of ordinary peace revenue! We wonder if the people, if our plain, honest farmers, mechanics, and tradesmen—tho taxpayors—ever thought about this. It is enongh to make them open their eyes with astonishment. We may feel proud of @ country with such resources, but upon re- flection the questions naturally arise, Is this enormous revenue necessary? Is it not an un- necessary burden upon the people? Is it not @ source of vast corruption and of danger? We know how it is aptto be with individuals who roll in wealth, especially with those who have the ready use of the wealth of others. We know that this necessarily leads to extrava- gance and dissipation. How much more is it the case with governments, and particularly with such a government as ours? We have only to look at the doings of Congress, which holds the purse strings, to satisfy ourselves of the evils of a redundant revenue, There are times when a powerful and healthy opposition in the national legislature may hold in check extravagance and corruption, but never when @ dominant and unscrupulous party, like that of the radical republicans now in power, can carry everything before it. Constituted as the present Oongress is it would be contrary to ex- perlence and human nature to expect any- thing else than corruption and waste of the public money. The overwhelming radi- cal majority laugh at the feeble opposition of & few men, and carry their corrupt schemes over the veto of an honest President. If we were to go back four or five years, to the time when the present ruling party com- mencod to control the legislation of the coun- try, and examine all that it has done, we should find that the sum of a thousand millions, fully one-third of the national debt, has beon reck- lessly wasted. How many of the friends of Chase, Thaddeus Stevens, Sumner, Wade, Wil- son and the other radical leaders and mem- bers of Congress have been made rich during that time out of the Treasury? A list of the jobs now before Congress, or that have been acted upon by one or both houses, to appropriate public money and pro- perty for the benefit of individuals and partisans would be startling to contemplate. Tho public are familiar with the infamous Freodmen’s Bureau bill, which the President vetoed in its original shape; the Montana bill, which he also vetoed; the scheme to establish a costly system of education for the negroes; the proposition to loan money to Mexico; an enormous job to build the Mississippi levées; the national debt con- solidation scheme, which would put forty mil- lions or so into the pockets of Jay Cooke and others; the national bank fraud, by which the government squanders away twenty to thirty asian millions upon a yantand daperrg "and schemes. ‘Theso haye been brought to light and have been more or less ventilated; but there are a number of othera being worked up by the lobby and in the committee rooms. The last ee. EET job is the Tariff bill. Those who framed ani are manipulating this abominable bill pretend that it will not in- crease the revenue and that it is to regulate duties on a more just principle. But this is not so. The people are to be cheated by the Tariff bill as they have been by the other acts and doings of this Congress, Prices are now going up in consequence of the increased du- ties proposed. The bill will probably add fifty millions or more to the revenue, and that at a time when the revenue is enor- mously too great. If a considerable portion of the debt were liquidated by such burdensome taxation there might be some excuse for it, but this is not done, nor will be done; such an immense income only furnishes a tund fora corrupt Congress to squan- der away. The Tariff bill is a bil! to enrich a few manufacturers and capitalists and those who havo stocks of goods on hand. It is not needed and can be for no other purpose. The people, the industrious classes, the farmers, and all who labor, will have to pay increased prices for what they use and wear for the benefit of a few. Such is tho state of things we have been brought to and that we shall have to endure, from the acts of the most cor- rupt Congress that ever assembled. How long will such a body—will such doings be toler- ated? We shall see whether there be common sense and viriue enough in the country to re- pudiate the men who are doing all this. The elections in the fall will let us know what we may expect in the future, In the meantime the President should veto the Tariff bill and all the other nefarious jobs of tho radicals, and should enlighten the public on the whole sub- ject of our finances and system of legisiation with regard to them. Tat New York Mcstom—This commend- able enterprise is being pushed rapidly forward, and in a short time this city, which has been for so many years deprived of such an institu- tion, will have a museum complete in all popu- lar, scientific and dramatic details. The site of the new museum is on Broadway near Thir- tieth street, and is one of the best and most accessible in this city. The edifice already at- tracts considerable attention from its unique architectural design. Orrrcuat, History or tar War—Asornen Coxanxsstoxat, Jop.—The proposal to publish at government expense an official history of the rebellion ia another of those scandalous jobs of which the present contemptible Con- gress has been so prolific. Such a work could havo no value whatever to unprejudiced per- sons, The official history of the robellion, whother political or military, is the most unre- liable which we now have; and any further addition to it will be a mere multiplication of words without ideas, and falsehoods without sense or decency. From time immemorial official reports have been magnificent los ; ant | corrupt Congress will be without dignity, originality or trath. ‘The Case of ex-Postmaster Fowler. The action of the government authorities in entering a nolle prosequi in the indictment against Isaac V. Fowler, for embezzlement of the public funds while Postmaster of New York some years ago, has naturally excited no little comment among all classes. With many, perhaps, the result of this long latent prosecu- tion finds favor upon the grounds urged by” the District Attorney in presenting the case, that the New York public were magnanimous and forgiving. The argument may weigh with others, that Fowler did not enjoy the fruits of the defalcation himself, and that he was not only urged to the commission of the theft by his political friends, but that the money was appropriated to the uses of # political party, with the knowledge if not the actual sanction of the Postmaster General’s Department at Washington. To our mind these facts, if they be true, are an aggravation of the offence, and wo are disposed to regard the matter of the defalcation and the condoning of the offence by the government authorities as a great moral wrong, & dangerous precedent, and a proceed- ing wholly unworthy of a great, free republi- can government like ours. It prosents itself to us as an incentive to crime on the part of public officials, What-right has the govern- ment or the political party is represents to authorize the stealing of the publio funds for party purposes—admitting that these were the circumstances under which this dofalcation arose—and not the persofal extravagances of the individual officeholdert * For Fowler, personally, we have no ill will. If he was used as @ tool by politicians we regrot his weakness, but we protest against the principle introduced into our system of dispensing law and justice as developed in this case. The poor man who stcals the price of a loaf to keep his children, it may be, from starvation, finds no favor, The State Prison ia his doom, but people will argue that a man who happens to be a politician can go soot free for a more heinous offence; in fact, that politics, whon used in behalf of the ruling powers legalize felony. It is againat the bad moral effect or such a course on the part of the government that we protest. The case of Fowlor is but a single illustration, This course may be and probably has been pursued in many other cases. We haveseen young men led astray, in commercial life, into the commission of crimes against the community consigned to Sing Sing for a term of years, which they will probably serve out, while fellows who have some strong pelitical affiliations and political friends are pardoned after a few weeks’ incarceration. The offect of such proceedings is more domoralizing than can be easily imagined. It is a temptation to commit crime of which many avail themselves and which has an, evil influence upon the en- tire community. If Fowler had any of the instincts of an honest man he would rather feol relief in his unobserved exile, conscious of the wrong ho has done, than seck to return to the scenes of public life of which he once made so conspi- cuous a featur¢é, No doubt he will be received here on his return with the same éclat that the rougher elements of New York society accord- ed to Bill Poole on his decease. The sachems of Tammany and the braves of all the demo- cratic strongholds will receive him with a cor- dial embrace; but weshould suppose that the . twhich Rp Sima SUA se nap bodng pre wl hiss comfort abroad for some years past to the un- enviable notoriety which awaits him here. The story of this defalcation has been dead for many years. The public had forgotten It, and the name of the official defaulter had been blotted almost out of memory by the frequent cases of a similar character that have since oécurred. But the whole tale is revived by the late judicial action, and we are reminded thereby of the disgraceful fact that for the past five years or more men of influence in the poli- tical world, men even in judicial station, have been exercising their power to procure par- don for a man who, whatever the extenuating circumstances may be, was at best a plunderer of the public Treasury, of money obtained from the hard-working and heavily-taxed peo- ple. We are compelled, in the performance of our duty as conservators of public morality and public justice, to condemn the encourage- ment offered to crime in official station which the law officers of the government have thought proper to extend in this case. It is a danger- ous example to set in the very woakest point of our whole governmental system. Tar Lawmanpe Exrraprrion Cass.—The sin- gular escape of Sureau Lamirande from the custody of one of the Deputy Marshals in this city develops o very remarkable mode of dealing with important prisoners. Here was a man qecused of embezzling funds from the branch Bank of Trance at Poictiers, who escaped from that country and came to this city and was here arrested on that charge. His case has been under examination for some time past before a United States Commissioner, and was so nearly concluded that the counsel on both sides were to sum up the case on Tues- day ; but, owing to the illness of the attorney for the defence (the final argument was post- poned until Thursday. The Deputy Sheriff thon left the court and took the prisoner to a private boarding house in an aristocratic portion of the city, to obtain a dinner, While there, Lamirande offered the officer in charge a glass of claret, which he drank, and soon after fell asleep. As might have been ex- pected, when the Deputy Marshal awoke from his nap, the prisoner had absconded, leaving the officer of the court locked up in his room. The prisoner no doubt concluded that it was only fair that the officer who shared his meals and wine should also bear a portion of the confinement under lock and key. Now this system of taking meu arrestod for great offences out to dine at whatever place they may select, may be in accord- ance with the established custom; if 90, the sooner the system is abolished the better. Had the prisoner been some poor man without funds, who had stolen sufficient to keep himself and family from starving, be would doubtless have been hurried off to jail in the most unceremonious manner, and perhaps beaten with a club if he had suggested the idea of stopping at a restaurant for a lunch. But bere is a man who is charged with robbing a bank of soveral thousand francs, and is thereipre supposed to have plenty of funds, and this is sufficient to gotten up under the pusvicgs of the yroagmt . iaduce Wwe offigag of the law to araul aur ce: quest that may aak, and to go out of hia way in order to give the prisoner an opportunity to dine at his favorite place. This in effect is nothing more nor leas than toadying to wealth, ® practice which is becoming too frequent among our officials, and is a disgrace to the American people. Because a man has a little money the marshal consents to become the ser- vant of the man he is directed to lock firmly up in jail to awalt his trial. The next we shall hear will be that the officers of our courts are becoming the servants and valets of the rich culprits, and contenting themselves with ex- ercising their authority upon some poor fellow who has been obliged to steal a loaf of bread to keep from starving. This case is not the first of the kind on record, and it is time that an example should be made by the punishment of the negligent official, and this mode of treat- ing men arrested for grave offences stopped. We have had quite enough of that kind of ex- tradition for our own credit. Progress of Events in Mextco. The imperial establishment in Mexico is cer- tainly approaching itsend. We never doubted that the end must come sooner or later, for it was impossible that any government inimical to the will of the American people and to the time-honored policy of the American govern- ment could continue to exist in that country. But the circumstances under which the s0- called empire of Maximilian was created ren- dered its existence more precarious and short- lived. We can only wonder that the acknow- ledged astute Emperor of the French displayed so little sagacity in attempting to 03- tablish an empire on our border, and that under a European Prince, in direct defiance of the Monroe doctrine and the sentiment of the American people. At any time this would have been regarded an offence and a grave breach of international comity ; but as this attempt was made when the United States governmont had its hands full of domestic trouble the unfriendly act was much aggravated. It was like kicking a man when ho is down. Consequently it aroused our pride and provoked our indignation. To permit Maximilian to remain in Mexico, there- fore, would be a standing insult to thia great nation. This was utterly impossible. Our time- oncted policy and self-respect equally de- seats the removal of the imperial establish- ment, We bave boon very moderate in our treatment of tho case, as a great people can afford to be; we hxve not declared war against either France or Maximilian, but we have pro- tested, and that has bewn sufficient. The em- pire rapidly crumbles fo pieces under the moral resistance of the great republic. The news dated st Tampicd on the 19th, Mexico city the 22d, and Vera Cruz the 26th of June, which we pnblish to-day, is very encouraging to the liberal cause. President Juarez, with his Cabinet and departments of government, were abont to leave El Paso for the city of Chihuahua on the 10th ultimo, the State of that name being free from imporialists, Since that time Juarez“ has heard, probably, of the cap- ture of Matamoros by his forces; and in that event it a believed he .would advance atill farther and establish his government at Monte- rey. The French were leaving all tye northern States, and the limits of the ephemeral empire were daily becoming more and more limited. Marshal Bazaine, excited and considerably | alarmed by the news of the recent defects of the imperial forces in the field, had mounted wor hoses ana #0t ONT TOM Mexico city for San Lais Potosi, with the reported intention of opening an active campaign against the liberals in the northwest, and thus retrieving, if possible, the prestige of tho: French military name. It appears, however, as if the Marshal would be very well pleased if he could now assure himself of being able to retire the French army in safety from the violated soil of the republic. The city of Tampico was closely besieged by the liberals on the 19th of June, the troopa of Juarez making a few spirited dashes into the very streets of the place and inflicting severe injuries en the imperialists before they retired. With the evacuation of the country by the French the republicans are inspired to mako fresh efforts, and we ace how well they aro succeeding. But it is not only the resolution or courage of the Mexicans that Maximilian has to contend against ; he is beset by another evil that will soon overwhelm him. Hig treasury is empty, and no one will give him credit. His former friends and supporters, seeing the desperate situation he is in, begin to desert him, like rats deserting a sinking ship. We publish in an- other part ofthe paper a despatch from General Almonte, Maximilian’s Minister in Paris, to the Minister of Foreign Affaira in Mexico, com- plaining that the Imperial Mexican Legation in that city and elsewhere abroad cannot get any more money to pay their bills The qde- spatch, which was interrupted and is genuine, is written in a very lugubrious and despairing strain, and shows how rapidly the ratting pro- cess is going on. The Financial Committee of Mexico in Faris would pay no more drafts; and his Excellency, Sefior Almonte, thought it a “disagreeable occurrence” and a “painful position” to be placed in. Our telegraph!» report from Washington, last night, sintes that news has been received im that city from Vera Cruz, under date of the 2lat of June, to the effect that Marshal Bazaine had agreed to pay the most pressing money wants of the Emperor, to the extent of five thousand dollars monthly, the cash to be taken from. the French army chest ; the Austrian prince thus becoming in reality @ military pensioner of the Bona- parte. We think the Emperor Napoleon is treating his royal brother and proteyé very _ shabbily, ead = we) recommend Maximilian to go home at once and take com mand of the Austrian navy. Nuwpolson is se crotly arrayed againat his native couatry, Aus- tria, and bis brother, Francis Joseph, and may | soon become an open enemy, and Maximilian, tay have an opportunity of avenging himaadf for such shabby treatment. At all events ‘dia dream of an empire in Mexico i# all up. fhe persistent opposition and courage of the Moxicans, the complete failure to raise means to pay even the bills of his servants atroad, the troubles in Europe, which will prevent Lis obtaining any aid from there, the desertion of hia false friends and the determination of the United States not to tolerate his government, all warn him in a loud voice to leare the soil of Mexico as soon as ible. From our special Mexican cor vespondence, pe to-lay, it will be yoen that the iberals rogard with great distrriat any negotia- b rie solual or prospective, hetweca Saata tua Saorolary Seward an, Navolooa, a The Calamity in Portiand—Aimost th@ Annthilation of am American Com- mercial City—Appeal to the Bemevolont of New York. We published yesterday accounts of the ter rible conflagration which commenced in the city of Portland, Maine, on the evening of the Fourth of July, and had not been extinguished at the closing of our lateat despatch. The fire com- nenced in a small wooden building, and under the pressure of » strong gale of wind swal- lowed up one-third of the city. The burnt dis- trict extends already # mile and a half in one direction and a quarter of a mile in another, It embraces not only the principal business portion of the city, including banks, ware- houses, hotels, churches, &c., but also the rosi- dences of merchants and others, thus ocoa- sioning a double affliction, depriving citizens not only of their places of business but of their homes—literally burning them out of house and store. Two thousand families, or, estima ing each family to be composed of five persons, ten thousand individuals, including women and children, are rendered houseless by this dire calamity. Most of the provision stores and markets have been consumed, and there is consequently a great lack of food as well as ot shelter among the destitute. Briefly, a state of famine and destitution prevails in a once thriv- ing American commercial city. What is the duty of the commercial metro- polis of the country upon a melancholy ocom sion like this? The answer will come home to every philanthrophic heart. It is to render promptly material assistance to the sufferers, The city of New York, the first among our commercial cities, should be among the leading cities to advance tho required aid. Our active merchants have never been slow to respond to an appeal like this; our retired merchants haye always responded nobly oa such occasions; our millionaires have in; variably taken part in bestowing a sharo of the blessings of wealth upon a stricken com- munity, apd the local authorities have seized Such opportunities to accomplish some good for their suffering fellow-creatures, Let them and all our charitably disposed citizens take immediate steps toward relieving the suffering citizens of Pogtland in this lamentable ex- tremity. Weare glad to perceive that Mayor Hoffman, with that instinctive sontiment of philanthropy and justice which aciuates bis public acts, has issued a proclamation calling upon our citizens to contribute their aid in this cause; and we trust it will be cordially received and responded to. Contributions will be sont free by express and steamships to the afflicted population of Portland. Let it be but remembered that a visitation like thts upon the oity of New York would compara- tively render three hundred and fifty thou- sand people houseless and destroy one-third of the business portion of the metropolis, and we are confident our citizens will unanimously come forward and extend the required relief. Fire-Eiaters Wanted In Washington. There are a number of Southern fire-caters of she blood-and-thunder order scattered over the aceded Stafes. Since the close of the war they have been out of employment, and are consequently seedy, thirsty and bard-up. While the rebwllion lasted they seldom or nover showed themselves at the front ; but there was plenty of occupation for them in the rear, where they:hung Union men, confiscated cot- ton, robbed and persecuted women and chil- dren, whippal and flayed negroes, enjoyed themselves hugrely and lived upon the tat of the land and the best in the market. The com trast between this happiness and their present forlorn condition is deplorable. They dare not interfere with the negroes, except in remote corners of the South where United States officials do not yet appear; and’ they cannot even get up a decent fight, except among themselves, as in the recent case of the Pol- lards at Richmond. Poor, moody, ovt at elbows, out of liquors.and out of business, these fire- eaters do not know what to do with them- selves. Lot us give them a bit of practical advice, They are wanted at Washington, and can make money there without having to earn it by hard work—to which no true fire-eater wouldiconde- scend. At Washington there are a Tot of radical Congressmen, all anxious for @ renomination, and ail extremely dowbtful about their chances of getting it. They feet that nothing will save them from oblivion ex- cept some stirring excitement that shall make martyrs of them, and cause an-outburst of popular sympathy in theic favor. For a good flogging, a trifling and not very painful stab or a pistol shot, aimed at some portion of thetr anatomy, not necessarily vital, they will pay roundly. If the attack upon them could be mace by a notorious Southerner and were per- formed in public and accompanied by the phrase, “Let me kill this great Union patriot,’ or words to that effect, five hundred dollars would not be too much for the job. Bon Wade tried this dodge some time ago, by re- presenting that a visitor who came to ask him 4 political favor was an assassin, determined to deprive the Union of the services of the im- mortal Wade. This worked very well for a wilie, until somebody exposed it. In the abaeace of any fire-eaters Grinnell got himaolf eaned by General Rossean; but unfortunately he timed the affair wrongly, and avother man was being nominated in Iowa at about the time that Grinnell was beisg flogged in Wash- ington. Still, ali the coumtry papers sald that Grinnell would have been renominated bad the intelligence reached Iowa soon enough. Ins stead of insulting oar brave generals let the radical Congressmen employ regular fire-oat- ors to make raartyrs of them, and they can be fogged at asy moment they like, and thua. secrire (heir renominations. Amasoments. THR MATINERS TO-DAT. At Woods theatre, Browlwar, Mr Barton Hill, the comedian, gives his last representations of Brother Sam to-day, at the matinge and im the evening. Tho Wierell > perform. Frat and Brother “am at the matinse mat Performanes of the season st Toay, ‘The last Pastor's Opeta House, in the Bowery, takes piace at tue ssaal hour this afteraoon, The progtatnme lwoludee the City Messen zor, Stumping the Country, OVjollo ank Macbeth, Expos of Spiritnalism and other p'¢ cos, Charley White's combiaation troupe will ‘appear in matinde performance at co Mechanics’ (Byyante’) Halt, wencing at half-past two ¢,'clock. There ot and many other al’ ractions. Thomas will givo & matings at Koch'e Terrace ¢ fn, on Third aventg, at ‘four o'clock and an eveiling performance at eight IM orchestral gardea concerts have become quits popular, and furnish @xcel. lent avasic to the large audios which nightly orowd them. An otcheateal concert will ba given at Loon Park thie, Aioroowa, WadOe Hie EUoKOR Of Car! Borgqaoe Brondwa, wi'l be ay Mr, Thon dh