The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1866, Page 4

45 NEW YORK HERALD. 9AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, een eMC ViiiciRNOTTR. atte, ee OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ‘ "8 THEATRE, Bi the St. Nicholas Fil olPoowan be Peastat—tue Poot ov ax Fasiut— Cusppmsi Le TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comc Vocarix—Nxano Minstasigy—Batirr DivsKrissemay7, ac.—0 Toous't Castex. OHARLEY ya, COUBINATION TROUPE, Meobanica’ roadway—in 4 Vagiery or Licut p LavawanLx , Corrs ps Bauurr, ac. on tam Mississirrt. BLEECKER STREET CIRCUS, between Perry and Oharies streets.—Riping, Vacuring, &c. TERI ME GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. genes bine ninth streete.—Tago. THomas’ OucussTaAt ‘ADEN ConcERTS, comimencing at 8 o'Cloo! BOOLEY'S orane. ROUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermoriax Mix @mneisy—BaLLans, Boxnrsqoes ano Panromiaes. YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Litxones wire Ta Oxvityonoaxs Macwoscors "Wise dauy. Open irom $4. H, till 10 P. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisoments handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings; but proper classification cannot be peured after that hour. THE NEWS. EUROPE. London despatches of August 1, received through the cable, quote consols at 8834 for money, and United Btates Five-twonties at 68g. The Liverpool cotton mar- ket was steady, Our special European correspondence, published to- Day, gocs to show that Louls Kossuth, and the Hunga- Jan Gencrai Klapka, are engaged in fomenting a serious ti-Austrian revolutionary movement *in Hungary, and pect that the national cause will be advanced by the of Prussia. Dangerous popplar disturbances were oked for in Vienna should it be officially announced But the Emperor Francis Joseph consents to the exclu- gion of Austria from the German Confederation. Our correspondent in Queenstown, Ireland, asserts that the Fenlan movement has produced the moat injurious effects on the material and industrial interests of Ireland. THE CITY. The cholera continues to increase in this city, there being twenty-four cases and ten deaths reported yester- day. Avcase of cholera has occurred at Castle Garden, and some feeling is exhibited at the proximity of the Battery Barracks Hospital. From Brooklyn the report is more favorable, although there has not been much difference in the number of cholora cases, On yesterday sixteen cases and only three deaths were re- ported. The cholera has broken out in the Kings County “Truant Home.’ There have been sevep- ty-seven confirmed cases of cholera in Kings county since the 27th ultimo, At o meeting of the Board of Health yesterday evening a resolution was Passed requesting the authorities having charge of the institutions on the fsland to forbid the inmetes coming to New York during the prevairnce of tho cholera. Nine new cases of cholera were reported in Philadel- Pphia yesterday, two of them proving fatal. One death from the disease occurred on Tybee Island yesterday. There was no quorum present at the rogular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, most of the members being absent from the city at pre-ent. Aletter trom Genera! Kilpatrick, American Mime Chile, was recetved, thanking the Chamber for ¢ resolutions of thanks to him for his action in referer”, to the bombardment of, Valparaisa, During the month ot July just passed 29,322 emi- gracts have been landed at this port from Europe, Five soldiers and aivilian, late on Wedpesday night, perpetrated a most shocking murder in Westchester county. The soldiers belonged to the Viret United States artillery, and were stationed at Fort Schuyler. ‘They became involved in @ quarrel with one Alexander Elliott at a barroom, and clubbed him. He ran for his life, and was compelled to jump out of the window of his house to escape them as they battered down lis door, He finally aroused his neighbors and the police, In the meantime the prs, while searching for Elliott at his housa, came feross his cousin, a Miss Ellen Hicks, whom tHey shot Ps Ler, TUR eeewrors WEIC ELrewwa aDOUS olvven Pelock yestorday morning. Two mon, named Frank mel and Joseph Fritz, Dio are accused of having been concerned in the alleged snurder of James Dempsey, second mate of the Ameri- can ship Jonathan Godfrey, {2 the month of February dast, while the vessel lay at anchor in the be; of Paler- mo, Sicily, wore yesterday brought befor ral sioner Osborn, who set down theirexaminatiou ior \ nesday next. Full particulars of the alleged mundo have already appeared in the Heras, Judge Daly has declined calling an extra session of the Court of Common Pleas (general term) to review the decl- sions of Judge Cardozo on the Excise law. No business is being transacted by the Excise Board until Judge Daly's decision is rendered. Judge Barourd, sitting in Chambers of the Supreme Court, took occasion yesterday, on an injmnction case Against the Board of Health being called, to ex, opinion that the Excise law is constitutional, alluded to the fai boiling establishments, remarking + they ought to be suinmarily closed up as great nutes ‘The case of Noone against fs an application for » permanent injunction) was again before Judge MeCann yesterday. Mr. McKeon argued the case on bebalf of plainti® when turther proceedings ware adjourned until to-day. Commissioner Osborne yesterday committed Honry Parker and Catherino®choenemen on the charge of deal- fog in counterfeit money. Other cases of counterfeiting will be taken up to-ay. ‘The stock market wae strong yoeterday Mnents were higher. Gold was dat! and closed at ids ‘There was vo vivible tation in commervial sfatrs psterday—the wana weather, tho absence of many derchante, &e., having a tendency to check business. Porchandise was gonerally fire, howev’- and in some stances there was considerable spe foetiog. ton and groceries were rather quiet but at de. ted change in value, though the former was s avy. On ‘Change flour ruled dal’, and 1c, a 206, | heat was dul! and nominally tower on common qu: js Corn A le., while oats wore dail and a trifte oT Pork was very quict and heavy. Beef wae um changed. Lard was quiet bat firine . nomiantty o nek Change. Petrolew edvaveed '50., and bande of one fton-elad, fo and four tr with armaments making 9 | of one hundred and fighty four cune. The (eosports will carry ten of twelve try. leepatches slate that Tampico te woll Prepared for the attgok of the Is ‘Trade on the Rio Grande had een resumed. General V wth two bundred aud Oly me d nailed froze fornia for some poet in & Moxienii Wes con teen ante Anna's property in the x who hax revontly travelled throny He entire Ahir eamon, war ane Present reconstrae Bootheen people, with fox ox a+ whipped, and Lie reve then The paopie are, he mye you ost if from non nbodies th HApressivas nh relation ved by Arn poy to ul that eoieted againat madly loyal, from ong T. tie the ' and secess\oniets in princinto, the b Sera et war Nght exception dof the anedu and nt, many me! Aing Unvoniem a Mpg Out Of the rebHl aruy, The Sout now » preseneation Mm Lhe government, and the opm of Geiay in according (hat right bes atteady bean ta of sectional fecting » General Barry, of the Yaiied States Army, who ne Board of Excise (which | had command of the line of the St. Lawrence recent Fenian troubles on the Casadian border, 's on 4 visit to Montreal, where he will havea public receptivn to-day. General Delafield has been relieved from pnb ta Spector of the Military Academy, and General iver, the Goneral of the army, is placed in charge of the duties for the present. Advices from St. Domingo state that the individuals exiled by President Baez have nearly all returned, ~ amnesty is offered to the former supporters types government, provided they submit to the Present authorities, The troops were moving towards Santiago de ls Cabelore, where a disturbance had been Charles O'Conor finished his Interview with Jeff. Davis yesterday. ‘The visit it is believed was for consultation ‘on the recent report of the Judiciary Committee, and the line of defense to be Iaid down im consequence, Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention are being promptly appointed throughout all the States, Senator Doolittle, Postmaster General A. W. Randall and G, M. Robinson were appointed for Wisconsin at a meeting in Madison, on Wednesday. One of the. district delegate: | seceded because he was opposed to sitting in the Conver tion with Pendleton and Vallandigham. At St Pav! Minnesota, D. 8. Norton, T, Steel and two others were appointed for the State at large. The Berchard block on West Water street, Mijwaukow was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is $50,000. In New Orleans yesterday o street car was fired into by negroes, one white man being killed. Many arrests of armed negroes have been made, Quantities of arms have been found secreted in negro dwelling houses. Martial law has been withdrawn and true bills have been found against the conventionists. Lamirande, the alleged French forgor, who recently escaped from the custody of a United States Marshal in New York, was arrested in Montreal, Canada, yesterday, and will probably be brought here aoon. It will be remem- bered that Lamirando’s defalcations were committed in Poitiers, France, and amounted to a large sum ir the aggregate. A fire occurred at Pithole, Pa., on Wednesday night, destroying oil tanks, engines, &e., to the amount of $150,000. The Union State Central Committee of California on Wednesday adopted the new amendment to tho constitu- tion of the United States, This action is regarded as a usurpation of the powers of the conveation, which is to assemble to-day, Abanquet was given on board the Great Eastern on Monday night in honor of the final success of the great work. Oae hundred guests wore present, Tweive messages were received at the New York Post Office yesterday for transmission to Europe. The internal revenue receipts at the office in’ Washing- ton were over $2,000,000 yesterday. A telegram from Ottawa says that the government has been notitied of another intsnded movement on the part of the Fenians. General Dick Taylor, of rebel notoriety, is the reported chief of the new command. A barber named Hull, living in Philadelphia, was assailed by two negroes on Wednesday nicht, and escaped being murdered only by the timely arrival of assistance. The negroes say that Hull’s wife employed them to do the job, promising $800 for it, Mexico—The Time at Hand for Active Inter- vention. Our latest intelligence from the city of Mexico is that a revolution had been attempted there ; that the parties concerned in the move- ment had been arrested and banished to Yuca- tan, and that the whole country was very much excited upon the subject. This meagys that the Mexicans are getting impatient of the delay of Maximilian in packing up and packing off, crown and sceptre, bag and baggage, French, Austrians, Belgians, Turcos and Egyptians, camp and camp followers, back to the Old World where they belong. The Moxicans know that with the retirement of Napoleon rom his “grand ides” of a French protec- rate and balance of power on this continent ximilien, with his Austrians and merce- can do nothing. As the French troops, therefore, are being withdrawn, the armed liberals are multiplying and springing up all over the country, boldly ventaring to grapple with the “Austrian adventurer” even in his stronghold of the Mexican capital. Under this state of things it is probable that the withdrawal of the last instalment of the French and the retirement of his Majesty, poor Max, will take place some time before the period fixed in the imperial programme of evacuation. The Empress Carlotta—long life to her—has acted wisely in withdrawing in time, and from her departure for Fatherland we may infer that the Emperor is pre- paring to follow, and lingers only to secure as much imperial plunder sa possible. Meantime, in view of his retirement, the old clashing revolutionary Mexican fac- ‘ons and leaders are beginning to show thetw-elves again in all their glory. There are already in the field the Juarez fac- tion, the Ortega faction, the Santa Anna faction, and other leaders and factions too numerous to mention. ‘The population of Mexico, in the next place, is cut up into discordant races and parties, including the Church party, the * confiscation party, the old Spanish aristocratic ce—few in numbers but powerful in wealth " mity of purpose—the Indian race—nu- merous, but debased, destitute and helpless— and mixed breeds, who are mercenary, treacherous and unscrupulous. Left to them- selves, these discordant and hostile elements, with the withdrawal of the: bayonets of Maxi- milian, will speedily reduce their country again to its old chronic condition of fighting factions and monthly revolutions. This state »? cbings will then go on until another Enro- pea coalition will be provoked by it, upon the pretence of humanity, law and order, un- less the United States shall in season inter- vene to give the poor Mexicans a stable gov- ernment and to piace them beyond the reach of European usurpations, by making their viry the ward and the ally of their elder the republic. hen General Scott was in ocenpation of the «iy of Mexico, in 1847, an opportunity was offered him to assume the government of that country, in the name and in behalf of the United States, with a salary of a million dol- | lars » year attached to his provisional estab- lishment. But slavery was then in fall blaat in our Southern States, and in connection with this powerful social and political institution General Scott recoiled from the idea of mixing the eqnality of the mized breeds of Mexico with the doctrine of inequality established in the Uniied States between the white and black and mixed races. Hoe thought, in this view of the subject, that nothing but mischief and con- on could follow the absorption of Mexico acceptance of its mongrel people on white basis of equality, and 80 the tempt- ing overtures of annexation made to him were emphatically declined. Plausible as was the political and moral phi- lonophy of General Scott in thie matter, we have always thought that in declining this creat offer a# a free gift of the splendid country of Mexico, with its seven millions of people, | and all its gold and silver mines, be made « rreat mistake, in fact the greatest blander of ‘s life. We know that it has cost us @ great | deal in the matter of onr late rebellion, and | ery years of Mexican anarchy have satisfied us tha\ the Mexieaa people, “such as they are,” vind \ new YORX HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1860. are incompetent to take care of themselves without some assistance in putting them on the right road to self government. This opportu- | nity is now offered to President Johnson, and tt is an opportunity which involves a duty that should no longer be neglected. We have had too much of the shilly-shally non-intervention policy of Mr. Seward. Believing as he does, that “whatever is, is right,” or will come right, if left of itself, nothing can be expected from Mr. Seward. Under his non-intervention policy the best that we can expect of Mexico as @ republic is its old chronic condition of anarchy, bloodshed and predominant bar- bariem. As our next door neighbor, and as our fol- lower in the great experiment of popular in- stitutions, Mexico is entitled to something more than the do-nothing policy of Mr. Seward. + Our interests, our commerce, our prestige, our | influence as a nation, and our future safety, demand from us some active relief to our | poor and enfeebled sister republic, We are called upon to put her firmly on her feet, to stand over ber and support her till she can stand alone, and when she can do that there will be no reason to fear the experiment of leaving her to herself or of annexing her to the Union, whites, negroes, Indiang, mulattoes, mestizoes, zambos and all, equality or no equality. We are called upon especially to intervene in behalf of the Mexican republic in order to forestall any further intrignes and coalitions for % Mexican monarchy in the shape of French or English protectorate. The moral, political, ami gommercial balance of power offered in the political control of Mexico, as a protégé of “the great republic,” it is the duty of President Jobnson to secure, and we trust that this golden opportunity will not, like that of General Scott, be foolishly thrown away. As a ward of the United States, we may, in a very short time, draw from Mex- ico to our commerce and our treasury a hun- dred millions a year. Activii of the Politicians—What’s in the Wind? The extraordinary Attivity among the poli- ticians in all directions indicates that some- thing unusual is in the wind. Conventions are being held in various localities and State com- mittees summoned to assemble at the fashiona- ble watering places. It is difficult to divine what all this commotion means, except it may be the alarm over the Philadelphia Convention fo be held on the 14th inst. Some of these gatherings are called for the purpose of elect- ing delegates to that body, while others, no doubt, meet’ to perfect measures in hopes of counteracting its effect. The latter is probably the object of the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee at Saratoga to-do- There is, however, a current rumor that Thur- low Weed has manipulated a majority of that committee and secured the votes of a sufficient number to endorse the Philadelphia movement by two majority. If this is the correct state of the case we may expect to see two manifestoce issued from that body, and the doctrine of secession again carried into practice in a small way, which will have important bearings upon the fall elections in this State. We apprehend that but little faith can be placed in this rumor. It may be that a ma- jority of the State Commitice will vote to en- dorse the Philadelphia Convention, but ac- cording to the composition of the committee, between the Weed and radical interests, as it stood before the assembling of the present Congress, there is a majority of one in the com- mittee on the Weed side. But one of that majority isa member of Congress, and voted with the radicals. It is understood that an- other has refused to sign the call for the Phila- delphia Convention, while still another has on several occagiona taken decided bg oop | against Mr. Johnson’s policy. With the loss these, unless there are changes on the other side, it is not probable that an endorsement of the Philadelphia Convention can be carried. Yet the friends of Governor Fenton assert positively that Weedshas secured two majority of the committce in favor of that proposition, and will put it through. They are at any rate very much alarmed and exercised over the fact. They consider it so sure that they ara preparing a counter-movement. Be the reault on this question as It may, the programme of operations for the committee to-day is, un- questionably, to issue a enll for a State Con- vention to nominate State officers, to el upon who shall be nominated and to | arrange the schedale for the fall campaign. It is probable that an effort will be made to secure the influence of the committee in urging the Governor to call an extra session of the Legislature, under the pretence of rati- fying the constitutional amendiment, but in reality to consummate the bargain between Stephens, of the Croton Board, and Waldo Hutchins, in reference to the patronage of that department by the extension of the term of office of the former. As the latter is part of the programme to secure the nomination of a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, it is antici- pated that a spicy controversy will take place between the friends of the different aspirants for that position, both in and out of the com- mittee. If they manage to settle all these points amicably the committee will have about all that it can attend to without taking up the Philadefphia Convention, In the meantime delegates are being elected in all sections of the State to attend the con- vention to be held at Saratoga on the 9th inst., which meets to settle upon the representatives from this State in the Philadelphia gathering. In this we discover a contestover the question who is to be the power behind the throne. Ttis a controversy over the point who shall pull the wires behind the scenes which will control tho movements of the automatons on the stage and before the people, Weed is try- ing hard to secure this position, but it is im- possible to tell whether he will be snccessfnl or not. The different aspirants are at work directing all their energies in thie direction, and time alone can tell who will win. The movements, the wire-pulling and the secret operations on all sides are full of interest just now, for even the shent-por-shent faction, which clings to a little paper in this city, is making a desperate effort to have a hand in this work, and is evidently determined not to be ruled out Taking it altogether, there is a general upheaving among the politicians, and a com- motion that indicates something more serious than the cholera, The Philadelphia Conven- tion is beyond @ doubt the prime canse of all this, and it has created an uncertainty in re gard to their future political bread and butter, ‘What is now seen is onlv the commencement of the turmoil and excitement, the first rum- | under our observation wa are satisfied that te bling of the storm thot is preparing for the | pursuance of similar course by the newspa- fall campaign. The Spanish Chilean War to be Resamea Sailing of Another Fleet for the Pacific. Our Havans letter contains the important information that the war of the Spaniards against the allied republics of the Pacific coast is to be resnmed, and that the Chincha Islands were to be occupied by a large force of infan- try, to be landed under the protection of a new fleet of Spanish war vessels, This is in accordance with the Spanish plans as promul- gated at Madrid, where, in the Spanish Cortes the Minister of Marine lately announced that the war was to continue, that the Chincha Islands were to be seized, and the war termi- nate only in a treaty securing the full satisfac- tion due to Spanish interesta. With this intention » new flect is sent to the Pacific. The fleet is to consist of the iron-clad Tetuan, of forty-one guns (said to be superior to the Numancia), the frivates Navas de Tolosa, Princesa de Asturias, Conception, and Isabel IL, with a number of transports. Of these vessels the Tetuan and Navas de Tolosa left Havana on the 29th ult., and it is presumed the others are en route to Rio Janeiro. This fleet is not less formidable than that which lately fled discomfited from the waters of the Pacific on the approach of the Peruvian iron- clads Huescar and Independencia; but there, is litfle probability that it will effect angting moro than did that of Nufiez, The iren-clads of the Pernvians are very formidale vessels ana donntiess tay 82 bo proiogt the inter- ests of the allies in their own waters against anything that the Spanish fleet can hope to accomplish six thousand miles from home. The reanlt of the war which Spain has thus un- wisely determined to resume can be very easily prophesied in the light of past experience. Yhe new fleet will find no more defenceless fowns to bombard, and may yet discover that she] has come, like the prisoner to the feast of the e cannibals, « not to eat, but to be eaten.” The Cholern Scare. Tho state of fadhs disclosed by the medical reports from Ward’ and Pls jackwell’s Islands, as well as from the Kings Gounty penitentiary and jail, has contributed very mutt fo intensify the alarm caused by the steady increase Ot wav cholera. We do not, however, see in it suffl- cient to justify the panic thus causod. It only proves what was already known to every one, that where the seeds of contagion are carefully nourished they will fructify and spread. If cholera did’ not happen to be the prevailing epidemic, there existed in the filthy, crowded and ill-ventilated condition of the wards of these establishments influences that must have other e epidemic equally fata? as soon ee aA began to opéFate upon them. Bat what a stigma does this state of th'ngs cast upon the keepers and visiting committees of our prisons! Nothing can excuse their con- duct for permitting {ts continaance in the pres- ence of ascourge so prompt to seize hold of it. If they had paid the slightest attention to the re- ports of the Board of Health or to the warnings of the newspapers, they must have known that the condition of the establishments under their @uperintendence was incompatible with im- munity from it. Nor is the Board of Health itaelf freo from blame in the mstter A care- fal inspection of the prisons and peniteutiarles was among the first of ite duties, and its members are all the more censurable from the fact thet there existed in connection with these establishments organizations which could have been promptly mado use of to carry out their instructions. ‘Thns far all the facts developed in regard to the spread of the cholera go to confirm the theory that those who observe the ordinary rules of personal cleanliness and who pay at- tention to their diet and the propor ventilation of their dwellings bave but little to fear from it Not a single death has as yet occurred from the disease which has ‘not been direcily traceable to the violation of one or more of these precautions. At any ordinary period the infraction o? them would be sufficient to breed disease. How can it be expected that people reckless of them should escape at ® time when the atmosphere is poisoned by the seeds of a fresh epidemic? It would be just as reasona- ble for a glutton to look for immunity from apoplexy or a drunkard from delirium tremens. Those who love dirt and a foul atmosphere must pay the penalty of their nastiness, We can suggest no means of protection for them, nor, indeed, is any desirable. There is a class of persons, however, who, from other causes not dependent on themeclvce, are liable to become a prey to the disease, whose safety has not been considered in the precautionary meesures that have thus far been adopted. They may be cleanly, regnlur and temperate in their habits, and live in the proper conditions of atmosphere, and yet be as readily seized with it as persons observing none of these conditions, We allude to the large number of nervons and physically de- pressed persons (especially females) who are to be fonnd in all city populations. It isa well established fact that during the previous visita- tions of the pest this class furnished a consid- erable porportion of the deaths set down to it. In many instances, it is true, they were killed, not by the disease, but by the apprehension of it, There is nothing, however, which so readily prepares the system for the reception of the malady as fear, and therefore everything should be avoided which has a tendency to aggravate the existing alarm. It seems to ws that the prees, in ite desire to secure the public againet the consequences of indifference and want of energy on the part of the authorities, has wholly overlooked this consideration. We have now reached the point where srgaments and warnings are pow- erleas to stimulate them to any greater degree of activity. Nothing more, it may be assumed, enn or will be done than the Board of Health is at present doing. We therefore do not see the use of publishing articles and reports the only effect of which is to terrify the timid and to help the spread of the disease. In Paris, daring the period when the epidemic was carrying off three or four handred persons daily, the newspapers were entirely silent on the subject, and no official reports of any kind were issued, This reticonce was not the ro- sult of government policy merely. It was urged upon it by the medical profession, and in acting upon thelr recommendations the pers and Board of Health of this elty would contribute very much to tranguillize Soyo MUG wed pros. eo opiomu ve If it be true that nothing helps itso much ass panic it is evident that the excitement which both are endeavoring to keep up and intensify will be productive of the very worst conse- quences, a By tai The Revolution in Europe—Rapid Strides of Modern Warfare. Far removed as we are from the scones of actual strife, and incapable of being affected in any very sensible degree by whatever may be the result, it is yot impossible for us to be unconcerned spectators of what is now trans- piring on the continent of Europe. Events, startling by their suddenness and alarming by their magnitude, have followed each other with, a rapidity which has been altogether bewil,aer- ing. It is only a few weeks ince this war commenced; yet how mch has véen dona Provinces and kingde 5 havé ‘been overrun and wasted. Anc¥‘nt thrones and proud dys nasties have fon, The peacefa) inhabitants of busy towr’s and rural hamlets have expe- rienced *711 the horrors of war. Blood has been 7,oured forth in actual torrents. Human life“has been sacrificed to an extent all but, if “not entirely, unparalleled in the annals of war. The proud and powerful empire of Austria, whose history carries us back by an almost un- broken chain to ihe days of the Roman Cmsars, has been hopelessly crushed. Prussia, rising figh each successive effort, and, as it re- Founding frotevery siroke to.a higher posi- tion, towers befors Th Watfong as a very Co- lossus of strength. Central Europe Yn tast is revolutionized, and surrounding nations stand aghast, expectant and uncertain as to the probable issue of events. If the most recent intelligence prove’to be correct, that a treaty of peace has actually been signed, to the Prussian army must be accorded the signal honor of having accomplished the largest re- sults in the briefest space of time, at least of any army in modern times, With the immediate objects for which this war was undertaken, or with those who are to be looked upon as its recognized leaders, we have never been able largely to sympathize. Jt has not been—so far at least as the North has hégm concerned, whatever may be said for Italy—a pedpie’s war. It was not begun in their quarrel. It has nol been carried on with aview to their benefit. Results, however, are not always exactly proportioned to intention, and we shall not be surptiagd to find that to all the people concerned -ihe highest good has been the consequence. It is desirable, in the inter- ests of humanity, that Germany be brought into amore united and compact state, and that a constitution be granted her consistent with the rights of a great and intelligent people, and Pyyssian ambition and selfishness will be for- given aud forgotten if they contribute to that important end. Italy seems to have a right to Venice and to Rome, although some of her recent movements have been characterized neither by wisdom nor by prudence. For Aus- tria, once so proud, now 60 lowly, it is im- possible not to feel, When the princes are fallen and the mighty are brought low, it is difficult to restrain the tear of sfMpathy. But from Austria humbled her remaining popula- tion are more likely to obtain those rights and privileges for which they so vainly struggled in the days of her haughty and imperial splen- dor. Come what may of thrones and dynas- ties—come what may of venerable names and ancient landmarks, we must still sag, let the people prosper. It is difficult to resist the conviction that all which it was intended to do by this war will notbedone. Napoleon has not obtained for France those much-ceyeted Rhine provinces, and efter that emphatic declaration of Russia, France will not rashly stretch forth her hands, The Roman question, too, still remains, and cannot fail, if left unsettled now, to prove a source of fature difficulty. France is not likely to withdraw her troops from Rome with- out some compensation, and Prussia is as little likely to grant that compensation by « reduc- tion of her territory. Will Napoleon be able to solve those difficulties even yet? It is diffi- cult to say. If those two matters are satisfac- torily arranged, we see no hindrance to the re-establishment of peace. And then, with Italian ambition satisfied, with German unity reslized, and with Ausiria still large and pow- erfal enough to command respect, and having a carecr of growing usefulness and prosperity open to her towards the Kasi, Europe may find that the balance of power has not been se- riously affected, and that the prospects of fa- ture disturbance are at least remote. SARATOGA ‘Racrse ApaxponeD.—A despatch from Saratoga states that the race course at that place ix to be abandoned, and that the annaal Northern meeting of the Southern stables ix to take place hereafier at some other point. It is asserted that this change has been occasioned by the fxet that the hotel keepers consider that horse racing injures the character of the place as a fashionable resort; while, on the other hand, the proprietors of the race grounds aver that it is owing to the waat of liberality om the part of the landlords in not contributing more generously to the support of the course. But whatever may be the reason, there is no doubt that a race course, no matter how well it may be conducted—and we are assured that the Saratoga course has been well managed— attracts to such places crowds of charac. ters with whom the fastidious do not desire to mingle. They no doubt encourage a spirit of gambling; and sporting clubs and betting are the rage whenever the racing season recurs, It racing in this couniry were relieved of these evils and drawbacks no doubt the amusement would become as fashionable and popular here as it i im England, where faro banks and roulette tables are not tolerat- ed. While on the subject of gambling, we may state that we frequently hear of the grand raids the police make upon some out-of-the- way and humble den of gambiers, arrest the parties, seive their implements and harry the prisoners off to the station houses. But very rarely do we hear of anything of the kind being done to the gambling princes in their splendid palaces in the most fashionable quarters of the city. These are the alluring temples of vice which do the most serious French anthorities did, we believe, the very | damage; for they corrupt the morals of old and wisest thing that could bave been done for | young and pave the pathway to a life of the seourity of the excitable population which | wretchednese, dissipation and crime. We they had under their charge. would suggest fhat when the authority of the From the facts that have recently fallen | law is invoked ( suoprees gambling the The Adventures of & Chilean Miptomatios = ‘Mow York. We hope that orreaders have not been sag grossed in the r4cent news from Europe, Mggries: and New Orleans, and about the cable ‘ind the) cholera, e440 have overtooked the ae letter {com Benjamin Vioung MacKopea fo friep ay in Chile,’ tranglatiba of which was pall liraed in our Wogpseday’s issue. Mr. MacKenna, fike many ther foreigners before him, baw been presty well treated in New York, and he repays our kindness in the usual manner by hotding us up to ridicule. ae plain of this, for, no doubt, we deser¥é Tt. MacKenng only follows the example of Marryatt, Dickens, Mrs. other highly distinguished people, who made up ther minds that we must be a set of fools or we would not have received them s0 com dially. There isa great deal of truth in this logic, and our visitors have any amount of fan in observing and describing our foibles. It te not every one, however, who has hit us off se neatly as Mr. MacKenna, or who could be se good-natured atront it after all the attentions he has received, especially from United States Marshal Murray. Mr. MacKenna tells his friends at home that be has not assumed any of the grand titles, such as Ambassador, Minister Plenipe- @Mtidry and Envoy Extraordinary, with which he figures in the newspapers. He would have them believe that the absurd Americans have dubbed bim with these marks of distinction without his consent and it spite of his mode’t protests. The fondness of Americans for titles bas long since become proverbial. Dickens pointed out, many years ago, that every other man in this country was a captain, or a colonel, or a general ; and since then we have created no small number of chevaliers, and the Pres- dent has made at least one D.D. Mr, Mac Kenna, therefore, may hayg fallen 9 viotim te this curious American habit, and it may te quite true, as he states, that having been acc dentally styled an ambassador by the Paname papers, an ambassador he remained until the dato of bie Istton We perfectly agree with him, however, that he does not tive in 0 otyle befitting the position. “This it Ambassa- dor, living in a single apartment, gherein is his bed, bis washstand and his writing éabinet;” having “neither cook, nor majordomo, @@f lackeys, nor even a little shaver to brad” his coat or black his boots;” eating “at the first restaurant;” not riding in a carriage, “ex- cept upon’ extraordinary occasions ;” golag about town on foot over the enow and ice, aad thus often slipping and “occupying sites om some of the most aristocratic parte of Broad- way and Fifth avenue,” and declining te ge © to theatres, balls and private partics, “because ~ he bad no coat fit for the oocasion”—cortelaly this presents us with @ picture of republics simplicity greatly at variance with the popalar idea of his aristocratic state and grandeur, In bis receptions at the various clubs of tifis city Mr. MacKenna, it appears, met with some -very singular mishaps. Invited to deliveren address before the Travellers’ Club, he ool lected a number of official documents, suches the Chilean tax levy, Custom House reports, and copies of the speeches of Senators and Deputies, to which to refer for bis facts, figures and statistics, These documents and volumes were piled upon the table before him when he rose to address the clab; but what was his astonishment when Mr. Dunbar, the President, introduced him as “one of the most distim- guished and prolific authors in South America, as is proven by this pile of books, all of which Mr. MacKenna has written and generously pre- sented to the club.” This story will stick to President Dunbar for life ; but he will suffer in company with the members of the Uniem League Club, who paraded Mr. MacKenna aa an ambassador, dragged him to » crimson ve vet chair next the President, and insisted upem his making a speech, which was ordered to be printed at the club’s expense. Mr. MacKenna may well laugh at “the grand humbugs of this most mighty repnblic” afier that. Still he is hardly justifiable in making game of Mr. Peter Cooper also. He relates that at the map meeting on Washifigton’s birthday he hag pened to be recognized by Mr. Cooper, whe said, “Oh, Mr. MacKenna, you are from Cile, are you not?” “ Yes,” replied MacKenna, “5 am from Chile.” “Well, then,” replied Mr. Cooper, “come and have a chair; here, usher, give this gentleman ® chair; he is the Am bassador from ile.” The usher, “having never heard of a country named Cile in the world,” conducied Mr. MacKenme to the most prominent part of the platform, and exclaimed in a stentorian tone, “Gentlemen, let the Ambassador from Sicily have a seat!” With this anecdote My, MacKenna concludes his most amusing letter, which ought to be posted in every club in the city as a warning to the members to be mere careful in their dealings with distinguished foreigners hereatter. It may possibly not rem- der Mr. MacKenna’s further sojourn among as pecnliarly agreeable; mt it is by far the cleverest document that we have yet seen from his pen. F Porrixa roe Camx—The great Atlantie cable has been working “perfectly” end “splendidly” since Saturday last, at least eo }weare told by the numerous laudatory tele- grams from Heart’s Content. It seems to have been in admirable condition to answer the pam pose of gratifying Mr. Field snd gratuitously advertising the company. The public are new tired of this telegraph cable puffery. They desire proof of ite being in “admirable work ing condition,” which can only be furnished by sending to the American prees late and reliable European news—war, political aad financial The exclusive tclegram from Low don to the Henao, published on Monday last, waa the first anthentic news despatch sent over the cable. Since then there haye beens fow meager, straggling news telegrams, but the principal work hae been that of self-pulfery or childish telegrams of congratulation be tween people in authority who wonld other wine never have been heard of scrom the Ab lantic. We have had enough of this. Let the intelligence from Kurope-—and there ought be plenty of tt—to furnish to ihe Amerions ope, Bull Run Russell,amé —y,