The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87S, ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, ‘Annual subscription price, $14- at Five Four cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, Annual subseription price: every Saturday, gents per copys one Copy... Three Copies Five Copies. Ten Copies... Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 cach, Anextra copy will be sent to every club Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be.sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the Wnexiy Henan the cheapest publication in the country. Postage five cents per copy for three months. TERMS cash inadvance. 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Open from 8 A.M, til 10 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, September 13, 186 Sealed proposals for the plumbing work on the new Herat Bor.pina, corner of Park row and Ann street, may be addressed to James Gorvox Beyserr, Naw Yore Heravo Orrick, until noon on Saturday, 16th inst. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr, John Kellum, architect, No. 179 Broadway. THE NWBW 4. EUROPE. Our special European correspondence and files by the China, dated to the 2d of Soptember, contain very im- portant details of the telegraphic report from Halifax published in the Henap on Tuesday. The texts of the peace treaties concluded between Prussia and Austria, at Prague, and between Prussia and Bavaria, at Berlin, are published in the Hmratp this morning. We have had these importemt documents specially reported from the above named cities, one of them inthe German language, so as to be placed on board the China at Queenstown, in ordor that we might be able to furnish them exelusively to our readers. ‘Tho leading journals in the English cities express the opinion that the radical “faction” in the United States will force the country into another civil war sooner than forego their Congressional spoils and chances of obtain- ing the sole executive power. President Johnson's policy and the action of the Philadelphia Convention are very gonerally endorsed. The Opinion Nationale, of Paris, recommends the French creditors of republican Mex'co to draw a sponge over their claims and permit a peaceable restoration of the Juarez government after the withdrawal of Napole- ons troops. Our cable enterprise in furnishing the American peo- ple with daily reports of the leading events im Europe, by special and extended submarine telegrams, is ac- knowledged in terms of admiration and wonder by the’ Paris press. THE CITY. There wore ten fresh cases of cholera reported iu this city yesterday, and sixteen deaths occurred from the ‘same disease. In Brooklyn but one fresh casp was re- portedr not believed to be fatal. About twenty of the miscogens left this city yester- day “without cause or provocation” and are by this timo distributing themselves throughout this State and Now England, A small squad still remain here, bat will probably leave soon without any further demonstration. Brownlow and those who left with him yesterday ap- Poared at Boston during the evening. ‘A meoting of the tobacco manufacturers of this and neighboring cities was held yesterday at the Astor House to take steps to check the evasions of the revenue law by dishonest traders, and also to adopt # uniform scale of prices, Yesterday afternoon Reliance Engine Company, No. 7, of Philadelphia, arrived in this city and proceeded to Brooklyn, whore they were received by the entire Fire Department, who, after béing reviewed, marched through the principal streets of the city. There were about fifteen hundred men and thirty-one apparatas in tho procession. The display was one of the finest of the Kind witnessed in Brooklyn for some time past, The Philadelphians will remain a few days as the guests of Franklin Engine, No. 3, of the latter city, and will visit the various places of note in Kings county. Two offcers of the Danwh government ate in this county at preseut to waperintend the settlement of eight thousand Scandinavian emigrants who are to arrive by the steamers of the new tine established be- tween this city and the Baltic ports. fhe government of the Scandinavian nations in Rurope are taking lively Interest in the welfare of tho emigrants from those countries, and have forwarded these gentiemen as government agents for that purpose. The Pensacola, Lieutenant Commandor A, Kautz, will sail to-day or to-morrow from the Navy Yard at Brook. lyn, to join the South Pacific squadron of next stated in yesterdays issue. . belonging to the navy yard in Brooklyn, collided ih the ferry boat Idaho, in the fast river, yesterday, and two of the men were drowned. Gonzales and Pellicer, the murderers of Otero in the city park of Brooklyn last winter, will be removed to Nowburg to-day, when the date of their execution will ‘be fixed by the Supreme Court of the Second Judicial District, ‘The case of Keyser va Baker was tried yesterday at the Fourth District Court. The witnesses for the de- fendant swore that the lot of land, cleaned by Keyser ffor the Health Board, had been in a cleanly condition Jor five years, Mr. Keyeer's witnesses, after swearing W one thing, eontradicted themselves when ander oress NEW YORK HEKALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEKT, examination, Hils Honor promised to give # decision in & day or two, ‘The caso was interesting, as It shows ap the manner in which the Health Board con:ractors per- formed thoir work, ‘The case of Christian Gies, convicted at Special Ses- sions of @ breach of the Health law im keeping a fat- molting establishment, was argued before Judge Suther- land yesterday, on a motion for tho issuing of a writ of certiorari, The Court took the papers and reserved its decision, The stock market was firmer and more active yester- day. Governments were heavy. Gold was firm and closed at 146 a 3. A fair business was done in commercial circles, the steadiness of gold imparting a greater degres of conf- dence to the merchants, which was evinced 1m tholr greater willingness to do business, Prices of nearly all kinds of both foreign and domestie goods were firm, and the tendency was quite gonorally upward, On ‘Change flour advanced 100. a 25c. per barrel, white wheat was 3c. a Sc. higher, Corn was firmer, and oats were dull and a shade easier. Pork was steady, Boef and lard were unchanged, Freights were quiet, Whiskey was more active at steady rates, MISCELLANEOUS. The President loft Louisville abruptly on Tuesday night, and reached Cincinnati yesterday morning. He was welcomed by W. 8. Groesbeck, held a short reception at the Spencer House, and in the afternoon started for Cqlumbus, At Xenia a few insults were offered, to which no attention was paid, however. At Columbus a public reception was tendered him and a supper was given by the authorities, General Grant was called on by a crowd at Wood's theatre, in Cincinnati, for a view of him, but he informed the leader of the party that ho considered the demonstration ono intended to bo in op- position to the President, and it annoyed him. He would not appear. Our letter from Rio Janero is dated August 8. The latest news from the seat of war in may ig unim- portant. The allies are where they wore at our last ad- vices, in a morass under tho guns of the enemy. They were still unable to advance or withdraw. The small pox had broken out in @ malignant form among the allied soldiers, and physicians were so scarce that it was proposed to impress a number. A seizure of 8,000 horses had been made for use in removing the camp. No change has been reported on board the flect which is lying where it was before, fishing for torpedoes. Infor- mation was received from Corientes on the 16th of July that the Paraguayans were advancing on the allied camp, but no further news of the movement had been received. The Paraguayans had, report said, been reinforced by 10,000 men. On the 8ist of July a new mintstry was formed by the Emperor of Brazil, after consultation with bis councillor, a distinguished liberal , who has formed the government of men of similar ante - cdents, On the 4th of August the new ministry moet, when they were received with a decided opposition in the galleries and hastily adjourned, but ona vote they afterwards found themselves in a majority, although a small one, James Watson Webb, the United States Min- ister, arrived onthe 2dof August. The storeship On- ward was inthe harbor, The Brooklyn sailed on the 4th ult. for Babia, The Chiie-Peruvian flect was expected nthe river Plate. We have files from British Guina, dated at George- town on the 23d of August. Four immigrants con- victed of the crime of wilful murder, underwent tho extreme penalty of the law in Georgetown. Charges of forgery proferred against Mr. G. A. Legall, of the Colo- nial Civil Engineer's Department, were still under in- vestigation. Two of his sureties notified their intention to withdraw from their bonds, as thoy believed Mr. Logall was about to leave the colony. The weather during the fortnight had been very hot, with heavy showers. The health of the colony continued good. Our commercial report says:—Business continues much in the same state, Broadstuffsand American provisions have come to hand freely, and prices are quite nominal for most articles. Flour in full supply; Baltimore at $9, and extra Ohio at $9602 $10. Pork still in, timited supply, and prices firm; mess at $30, clear $32, prime mess $28, Half barrels beef in over supply, and sales made at $11 50 for cash; some late sales have been made for $12 for three momha, . Our special correspondent with the United States mis- sion in Russia, dating at St. Petersburg on the 24th August, reports the scone at the imperial banquet given to the officers at the Peterhoff Palace, and also gives verbatim the words used by the Czar in proposing his toast—“Tho United States.” All soldiers and sailors of this State who served during the rebellion have been declared ex officio delegates to the National Convention to moot at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 17th instant, and will be conveyed there at reduced rates by ail railroads leading to that city. Ample ac- commodations have been provided in Cleveland for their reception and entertainment, A largo meoting of the soldiers and sailora of Mary- land, to select delegates to the Cleveland Convention, was held in Baltimore yesterday. A serics of resolutions were adopted approving the policy of the President, and a delegation to Cleve- land was appointed. Colonel Maulsbury, the chairman, while making an address, was interrupted by a radical, whén a rush was made for the latter and he retreated, firing a pistol at the crowd as he went. On being arrested he confessed that there was a plot among other radicals to provoke a riot, which had been sup- pressed only by the promptitude of the persons present, The Canadian papers are urging that the United States government is responsible for the Fenian trouble, and demand that England should declare war if the Fenians ‘are not suppressed. The periodical attack is expected atany moment, and the preparations gre now mainly making for defence by arresting every one supposed by any one else to be a Fenian or to have any afMlaity with the brotherhood. A man named Amzi H. Van Gieson slipped off the plat- form of onc of the cars at the Contre street depot, Now- ark, on the New Jersey Raijiroad yesterday morning and was so mangledfby being run ovor that death ensued ina fow hours. The decoased was formorly a clerk in a New York bank. The convention of the officers of the National banks of the Northwest, was largely attonded in Chicago yeator- day. The object of the convention is consultation’ in reference to redemptions, taxations on circulations and deposita, and the amendment introduced in Congress by ‘Mr. Hooper, {from the Committeejon Banks and Banking, which requires national banks to redeem their carrency in New York, Philadelphia, or Bostow. The convention passed resolutions disapproving of the amendment, and also proposing co-operation with parties in the East to have Judge Nelson’s decision regarding the taxation of national bank stocks reversed, General Grant has accepted an invitation to be present at the annual mooting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, which will be held at Cincinnati on the 16th of November. A party of white soldiers created a disturbance at a ball in Bronbam, Texas, on Friday night, when a fight ensued, in which two of the soldiers wore wounded. ‘They afterwards broke into a store in the town, which was soon discovered to be on fire, and was destroyed, with several others, the loss amounting to $85,000. A collision on the North Carolina Railroad, on Tuesday, resulted in the killing of three persons and the injury of threo others. Brownaville bee state that Canales bad resigned the command of to Hinagosa, Ortega had left San Antonio with three hundred men for Lovedo, ‘Tho engine at the planing mill of 8. & G. Rork, in Al- Dany, exploded yesterdsy morning, killing ton men and wounding another, Two others aro missing, and it is not known but that they are among the killed. The logs in property is estimated at $30,000. Surgeon General Barnes, who has been lying ill at Chicago of cholera morbus, and not congestive chills, as formerly reported, was mach improved yesterday. The Democratic State Convention was again in session at Albany yesterday, A pertianent organization retain- ing Sanford KE. Church as Chairman was reported and agreed to, A platform was then adopted unanimously. It reaffirms the principles set forth by the Philadelphia Convention of August 14, and further affirms the inten- tion to be a determined effort to restore the just balance of governmental power and arrest the monstrous cor- ruption which is prevalent, The Convention procesded to nominate @ candidate for Governor, which resulted in the choice of John T. Hoffman, Gonoral Dix withdraw. ing io his favor, Robert H. Pruyn was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, William W. Wright for Canal Com- missioner, and Frank B. Gallagher for Inspector of State Prisons, A Gro was discovered early last evening in the sperm and lard oil store of Brewster & Allen, in Washington street The store had just been closed when the fre broke out, aod the steam engine used for hoisting pur- poses was working at full speed. ‘The loss is about $16,000. eight cases of choler im Richmond yee- Vorday, thirty-six deaths from the dissase in St. Lovie AS cS A SS A Te tS TN ee race a ee ee sl ETS Ee ALI EN that a I Rec eee a A Ooi SEE eg EIR Sesh Se A Se REE OS OEE ee NE OE REE a ee ee eee os sear es ‘The Recent and the Coming Elections—The - Prospects. It is a historical axiom that revolutions never go backwards, Its truth has been affirmed in the great political events of this country since the adjournment of Congress, and especifilly in the recent State elections. It was reasonable to suppose that the Jacobinical violence, recklessness and ferocity of such political reformers as Ben Butler in the East, Senator Chandler in the West, and Parson Brownlow in the South, would have a damag- ing effect upon their party when brought to judgment before the people; but it is strikingly apparent from the result of the late elections in Maine that the popular mind is controlled by larger questions, against which the sayings or doings of this or that fanatical politician go for nothing. That great body of the Ameri- can people to which we are indebted for the suppression of the most formidable rebellion in the history of mankind, are evidently deter- mined to have substantial securities for the future before they pronounce the good work of the restoration of the Union complete—that, in short, Southern reconstruction shall reat upon the solid foundation of the federal constitu- tion, regardless of the disturbing forces of radidals, copperheads, rebels, ruffians or fana- tics, North or South. From the elections which have occurred since the constitutional amendment was adopted by Congress for the reconstruction of the Southern States, we are satisfied that that amendment is to become the basis of Southern restoration—that it will carry and be carried by all the Northern State elections yet to come, and that with New Jersey leading off it will be ratified by them alland become part and parcel of the supreme law of the land. Nor have we any fear of the consequences, There is nothing, after all, so very objection- able in this amendment—nothing which Presi- dent Johnson himself has not, at one time or another, recommended to some Southern State orto Congress, and nothing upon which there should have been a disagreement between the President and Congress. Let us for a moment look at this amendment again. It provides:— First—-That all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens thoreof and of the States in which they reside, and on a footing of equality in re- gard to their civil rights, Second—That the enumeration of the people for repre- sentation in Congress shall be abridged in proportion to the abridgment of the right of suffrage—males ghove the age of twenty-one years—in any State on account of race or color. Third—That a large schedule of persons, civil and mili- tary, engaged in the late robeilion, shall be ineligible to any federal office hereafter until absolved by a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress. Fourth—That the national war debt shall be held sa- cred, an¢ that all rebel debts and obligations shall be uttorly repudiated and hold illegal and void. Fi/th—That Congress shatl have power to enforce the provisions of this article, This amendment is the reconstruction plan and platform of Congress, and there is no good reason, we say, why it should not have been adopted also by the President, inasmuch as he stands committed in some shape to all its pro- visions. It is not the platform of Thaddeus Stevens, Sumner, or any of the noisy radicals of Congress, They can do nothing. [t was adopted against their remonstrances and in spite of their threats. It embodies substantially, in fact, the President’s original programme, and if carried in these comiug October and Novem- ber elections—as we predict it will be, from Massachusetts and New York westward—we trust that the administration, in deference to the will of the people, will come back to it. Why not? Surely this amendment engrafted upon the constitution will be amply sufficient for the restoration of the Union, internal peace, sectional harmony and tht security of the government and the Treasury for many generations to come, against all disturbing factions of either section. Parson Brown- low, in leading off with the State of Tennessee for the ratification, has shown that a good thing may be done bya bad man and for a bad motive; but that Tennessee should thus lead off for this amendment is a very remark- able and significant fact—that New Jerscy should next follow is almost as strange; but from good or bad designs, thus started, the amendment will surely go through. The President’s quarrel and rupture with Congreas was an unfortunate mistake. From recent events, South and North, it is clear that it will prove fatal blunder to his administra- tion, unless he abandons it as the issue before the people. The old contests in England be- tween King and Parliament are full of instruc- tion on this subject. Had Mr. Jehnson taken our friendly advice, and made the distinguish- ing features of his administration a vigorous foreign policy and a sound financial system, he might ere this have become as popular a Presi- dent as Androw Jackson. Ho has yet a fair field before him in which to retrieve his misfor- tunes. Let him begin de novo, by a recon- struction of his Cabinet, beginning with his particular marplot, the Secretary of State; and let him give us a Cabinet and a policy, foreigh and domestic, shaped to meet the exigencies of the day and the developments of public opinion, and his administration may still be- come universally acceptable and gloriously successful. We speak to him as a friend, and; we think, in the voice of the people. Grimr.—The extraordinary result of the clec- tions in Vermont and Maine, and the prospect ahead, have brought to grief many of the trim- ming politicians. Mr. Raymond has been set- ting his sails all along first to one breeze and then to another, with the expectation of catch- ing the most favorable; but he has missed it. He is lett high and dry on the inhospitable shore of politics; the tide and wind are against him, and he has no friends to help. He has come to grief and raves in the anguish of his heart. He speaks of two rival Congresses, of possible coup d’¢tats, o6 revolution looming up in the future, and all sorts of evils. In the un- happy state of his mind he conjures up fright- ful spectres and has horrible dreams of the time to come. We truly pity his condition, while at the same time we feel assured that his grievous forebodings are only the visions of 4 disordered and disappointed mind. The country will be safe; a few scheming politi- cians who have overreached themselves, like Raymond, Weed and Seward, and ayfew des- perate Jacobins like Stevens, Chandler, Brown- low, Butler, Sumner and Wade, will be thrown overboard to save the ship. The majority of the republican party will be conservative enough to bring us safely through. We hope, therefore, Mr. Raymond will not die of grief. We extend to him our commiseration, and should he feel the necessity of a retreat from the cares of the world we offer him as we offered Greeley in the event of serious trouble, a delightful asylum at Washington Heights, where he can feast upon goed roast beef and Chateau Margaux and assuage his sorrows. End of the Pope’s Temporal Power-America the Now Field for His Labors. It is not improbable that the present year will witness, among its other numerous mira- cles, the renunciation of all temporal power by the Pope of Rome and the abandonment of Rome itself. Events bave been tending to- wards this fora long time. The downfall of the temporal authority of his Holiness began when the French Revolution of 1830 suceceded, and the spirit of revolution has been the in- direct cause of his downfall. In 1830 Austria, under Mettérnich, was the only great Power of Europe able or w ling to sustain the Pope in his temporal power. After 1830 France be- came a joint pariy with Ausiria in the protec- torate, and this reduced the Pope to li'tle more than an automaton, who, for the protection of the two Powers, yielded up his obedience and granted his blessing on their schemes, Later Metternieh fell, and with him Austria*ceased to xe a power at Rome, and France claimed to be the only guardian of the Pope. In the contest in Italy in 1859 the temporal supremacy of the Pope was one of the points contended for, and in the treaty of Villafranca the “honorary presidency of the Pope in Italy” is the first of the enumerated terms. Since that time Austria has been powerless; and that she might once more obtain the strength sufficient to relieve the Head of the Church from the supervising care of that most formidable of friends and most detested of favorites, Louis Napoleon, has been the chief hope of the Papacy. That hope was finally dissipated by tho triumph of the heretic Bismarck and the overthrow of the faithful Austria at Sadowa. The power of the Pope’s faithless Napoleon in Italy, as well as that of the more faithful Austria, ia now broken, and the excommunicated Victor Emanuel, backed by Prussia, has become all powerful, and may look with confidence to the unity of all the Italian States, including Rome as the capital. There is now no friendly Power in Europe capable of sustaining the Pope in his temporal dominions against which Victor Emanuel has formidable designs. The territory of the Pope has been reduced to a very small part of Italy, and he {s at the mercy of the Italian revolution- ists. A few months more may witness the oc- cupatjon of Rome by Victor Emanuel and its abandonment by the Pope. The most senst- ble and dignified course for Pius IX., under all the circumstances, is to quietly admit that the worst has come to the worst ; and since he must abandon Rome, let him make his arrangements for an extended tour of the world, and hence- forth, like the apostles of old, “go about doing good” by saving profligate souls instead of cursing refractory crowns. Naturally the Pope in this new character as an itinerant preacher will seek the widest ficld for his talents, and of course he will visit America, The Pope evidently believes that he has great strength in America from the fact that he has directed that the faithful here shall have the lion’s share of the Roman loan, South America, too, jg » wide field open for renewed efforts on his part. The.early per- sonal labors of his Holiness, when a volunteer missionary of the late Pope in Peru and Chile, resulted in the Catholization of those and ad- jacent countries in form only. The spirit is still wanting there, and the Catholic fervor here, as well as further south, might be in- creased by the presence of his Holiness. We can safely promise him, in his new character as an itinerant, ® brilliant débw in this city and a highly successful tour of the States. He would be received in this metropolis with greater honors than were bestowed upon Louis Kossuth or Andy Johnson, or even the Prince of Wales or Japanese Tom- my. In his various capacities as a noble- man of high degree, as the {Head of the Church, temporal prince with considerable patronage still under his control, and as the living representative of the heretic’s famous “scarlet woman of Babylon,” he would com- mand attention and recognition from all classes, social and political, faithful and here- tical. His arrival would create a sensation both in Fifth avenue and at Washington, in the numerous cathedrals of New York and the churches of Brooklyn. Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, who is as conservative and sensi- qli_in his religious as in his political views, night easily bé induced to make the wel- coming speech; while the expenses of the reception would be willingly paid by a hundred and forty of our richest re- ligious, if not patriotic, citizens, such as those who paid the bill for the President’s parade. By all means let the Pope announce, and beforehand, his intention to come to America, Such an announcement would so excite the fervor of our Catholic citizens and the interest of our Protestant friends who have the honor of the city at heart that enough funds might be at once raised to finish the grand cathedral now in course of erection on Fifth avenue in time to welcome the Pope therein. ‘Tae MRPHISTOPHELES OF THE ADMINIBTRATION.— We should like to know from Mr. Seward, the Mephistopheles of the administration, who it was that got up the Presidential pilgrimage to Chicago, and for what purpose it was gotten up. Such an imposing affair could hardly be intended to do honor merely to the memory of man who was nothing greater than a success- fal scheming politician. Did our Mephisto- pheles Secretary plan it for the purpose 6f damaging the President? Has he still ambi- tion to take the Presidential chair? Or was he playing some other deep and tricky game? He seemed to enjoy himself greatly and to be the Merry Andrew of the party, while the earnest and honest President was suffering the grossest insults and mortification. This Chicago pilgri- mage and flasco throws suspicion upon the Secretary, to say the least, and we want light upon the subject. Tue Avpaxy Coxvextion—Mayor Horrman vor Goverxor.—The Albany Democratic and Conservative State Convention has done its work and settled its manifest destiny in the nomination of Mayor Hoffman, a local demo- cratic politician of Tammany Hall, for Governor. His manifest destiny is an inglorious defeat, unless revolutions sometimes go backwards, Seward, Weed and Raymond have been buried in Tammany Hall, and the Tammany rumps, with these ecosasions, will, in all probability, be buried out of sight in the November election. If Generel Slocum. » djetinguisbed soldier of the war, for Secretary of State, could no touch bottom against the republicans by thirty thousand votes last year, what is the chance this year for Hoffman, a man of the Tammany ring, against Fenton, who, in 1864, ran ahead of tie Presidential ticket of Lincoln and Jobo- sont We understand that the Maine election satisfied the Albany democrats that Seward, Weed and Raymond could give them no strength, and that General Dix, as a genuine conservative Johnson war democrat, was accordingly set .aside as entirely out of the question, In falling back, however, upon their own party ranks, these Albany democrats have apparently given up the contest in advance. Having given them our candidate, our opinions, and our conditions touching this election, we have, at all events, nothing further to say. The Arrival of Ristori, the Queen of Tragedy. Several months ago the Duchess Carlotta, appointed by Napoleon to be Empress of the Latin race, arrived upon this continent. Her reception was enthusiastic. During her tour through Mexico and Yucatan vast crowds turned out to welcome her. It seemed that hor déd was a decided success. But after the popular curiosity had been satisfied it was dis- covered that the Empress Carlotta would not draw. Her audiences diminished in numbers and the applause rapidly subsided. Much as they admired her as a woman the people of Mexico could not accept her in her réle of Em- press. Notwithstanding its auspicious com- mencement her engagement was, therefore, on the whole, a failure; and we were not at all surprised when she terminated her perform- ances, returned to Europe, and after a brief and unsatisfactory interview with her manager, Napoleon, retired to her husband’s chateau at Miramar. But scarcely has Carlotta departed than another sovereign of the Latin race lands upon these shores. We allude to Ristori, the great artiste, who ranks as the Marchioness del Griilo by her marriage and as the queen of tragedy by her genius. This lady, who has been en- gaged, not by the imperial manager, Napoleon, but by the manager with the imperial, the famous Grau, reached this city on Tuesday evening by the steamer Pereire, is now stop- ping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and will make her déut at the French theatre on the 24th instant, At the close of her series of perform- ances here she will tour through the United States, as Carlotta did through Mexico; and we have no doubt that she will be everywhore welcomed most heartily. In all our ‘eading cities she will be as successful a2 Carlotta was unsuccessful in winning tbat permanent popu- larity which is the reward of noble exertions. Impressario Gran, with a mustache upon his upper lip and an imperial upon his lower lip, hag mor iact ‘han Napoleon, and knows that if the people of the Uniled Staies are pleased the conquest of all the rest of the world will be easy. Acting upon this principle Grau need fear no failure and will never meet his Bismarck; and Ristori’s engagement will be so profitable that at its close she can return to Italy and build a castle more splendid than that of Miramar upon the Lake of Como or wherever else she prefers. At the very outset of Ristori’s career in this country, however, she will have to encounter and defeat a wicked monster, such as we read of in fairy tales, called Phineas Barnum. This dreadful p hag captured Sir Wallack, Sir Wheatley, Sir Stuart, and other managerial knights, and has imprisoned them in his mu- seum of curiosities, after magically transform- ing them inito various unsightly shapes, such as the Feejee Mermaid, Joyce Heth and the Woolly Horse. In this Barnum we anticipate that Ris- tori will find her only foe. He will ride to as- sail her armed cap-a-pie with rusty armor and mounted upon one of his bogus wild buffaloes from the prairies of Hoboken. In his hand will be that terrible Indian club with which Pow- hatan did not kill Captain Smith. The fat wo- man, seated majestically upon the codfish that Barnum calls a whale, will act as his esquire, and the “What Is It?” which is supposed to be 8 poor idiotic negro girl, will serve as his page. Thus equipped and escorted, and loudly blowing his own trumpet, this monstro- sity, who is more frightful than the dragon killed by St. George, will advance to the attack and endeavor to make Ristori sub- mit to the same Barnumizing process that has proven so fatal to numerous victims. We have no fears of the result, however. As in the story books, so in fact, dramatic virtue, em- bodied in Ristoriswill triumph over theatrical vice, represented by Barnum. The Queen of Tragedy will smite the monster hip and thigh and cut off his hideous head. Then, as the legends tell, the doors of his museum will be thrown open and all his captives will be re. leased. Sir Wallack, who now figures as the Feejec Mermaid, will resume his former gentle- manly deportment, and the “What Is Ii?” will be sent to « lunatic asylum. Sir Wheatley, who now exists as old Joyce Heth in breeches, will be restored to bis managerial functions, and the Circassian girl will go back to Ger- many. Sir Stuart, who now hobbles about in the character of the Woolly Horse, will be him- self again and gallantly escort the fat woman to her friends. A splendid revival of the drama and a general decline of humbug will ensue, and Ristori will finish her engagement amid the plandits of the American people and the blessings of the managers whom she has eman- cipated. . Avenican Newsrarer Enterrrise.—The press of Europe expresses astonishment at the enter- prise of the Heratp tor its full telegraphic despatches of European news. The French, German and Madrid newspapers, and even the London, which are the most enterprising of any in Europe, have seen nothing like it before. They can hardly realize the fact that thousands of dollars are spent daily for news from that side of the Atlantic. But this is only the commencement of what we intend to do, As an additional proof of the length we are going in this reapect, we publish in another part of the paper the text of the treaties of peace between Prussia and Bavaria and between Prussian and Austria. These treaties we publish exclusively. No other American paper has them. They were sent to us in advance of their publication in any European newspaper, and by our correspond- ents who furnish the telegraphic news for the American public. The Hzpatp is abead of the London Times and other European papers in obtaining these treaties, for they were sent to us before any of those journals could, publish them. The Washington newspapera often take their news of matters transviriag.in that city from the metropolitan preas, and it would nod ao surprising to see by and by Europeas news \copied from the Hxratp and sent back by tole! gxeph to the Old World, WASHINGTON. Wasuixaron, Sept. 12, 1866, Surgeon General Barnes Out of Danger. A telegram was received at the War Dopartmeu6 this morning, about nine o'clock, from Surgeon General Barnes’ physician, announcing that the General was) much better at that time, and no doubt was thon enter- tained of bis recovery, The illuess of the Surgeum General is occasioned by cholera morbus, mot cougeste ive chills, as has been very generally reported. An Escort to Officers to New Mexico, An order has been issued by the War Depurtment, directing a detachment of one hundred recruits of the Third United States cavalry to leave Fort Leavenworth: at an early date, which will act as an escort to the officers of those regiments serving m New Mexico who are re- quired to join their regiments this tall. Health of Washington. Returns to the Board of Health of this city indicate that it continues to be in as healthy a condition a3 haw yet been reported during the present season. Bus one case where symptoms of Asiatic cholera were discoverad. has been reported to the Board, and this, after examina— tion, was found to be not a case of cholera, Fraudulent Running of Distilleries. Toformation has boeu received at the office of Internal Revenue that in various localities throughout the cous- try distilleries are running in defiance of the provisions of the’ new Internal Revenue law concerning them, The regulations in relation thereto, which have just bees issued, contain the following paragraph :— Under no circumstance must a age 8 be allowed to run until the requirements of law and the foregoit regulations have been complied with, and any distillery found running without such compliance must be imme- diately stopped by the collector. The Survey of Arizona. It having been deemed expedient to commence sur- voying operations in the Territory of Arizona, the Com- missioner of the General Land Office has instructed the Surveyor General of Santa Fé, New Mexico, that be con- curs in a suggestion made by that officer, that the mon- ument erected in 1861 by the Mexican boundary commis- sion, situated at the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers, be the initial point of the survey. From thia point the Surveyor Genera is directed to establish the basp and meredian lines. The appropriation remaining unexpended for theso survoys is $1,400, which the Sur- veyor General is authorized to apply towards their ea tablishmoent. The Excelsiors of Brooklyn to Visit the Nattonal Capital. The Exoolsior Base Hull Club of Brooklyn, N. Y¥., which is to play a match with the National Base Ball Club of this city, on the grounds of the latter, south of the President's Mansion, next Taesday, at half-past twe o'clock P. M., will arrive here on the 16th, and the gen- tlemen of the club will be the guests of the Nationals during their stay. The two clube, it is expected, will visit Great Falls and Mount Vernon before the Excelsiora return to Brooklyn, . 2 , » Surgeons in the Pensjon Bureau. The Commissioner of Pensions to-day appointed Joal N. Angier, of Titusville, Pa. a Pension notary, and James G. McPherson, Of West Virginia, and John Levergood, of ter, Pa., examiutng stirgeons of the Pension office facture, Inspect: nd Sale of Distilled Spirit Regulations concerning the manufacture, inzpection,, and sale of distilled spirits have been issued from the office of Internal Revenue :— section 32, thore is laid oP PMR EA Wah ee 2 Berta to be alles on the opirits Tad led, a “the distit f OF 8 w odd sbncrinice Pith the above The king or keeping by any person mash, wash fit for und: boiler or other vesrel for i = Ly i 3 3 tion of spirita. Any such officer now interested im the same must divest himself of such interest within sixty days after August 1, 1866, if he would avoid the penaity, The Conversion of Irom Inte Steel. G. J. Abbott, our consul at Sheffield, England, under date of the 27th of August, informs the Secretary of the Treasury that he attended a meeting of the Britwh Aaso- ciation on the 26th of August, on which occasion a paper was read on the subject of converting melted cast irom into steel by the pneumatic process, The reading of the paper was followed by a discussion in which Mr. Bessemer avd other prominent gentlemen in the irom interest participated. The Consul says that he calie@ the attention of Mr, Bossemer to the statements of his opponents, charging as a defect in his method of convert- ing iron‘into steel that when large masses of melted iron, from three to twelve tons weight, are converted into steet it does not become homogeneous, Mr. Bessemer partly admitted the force of the objection by stating that in the works mear London am improvement was recently made by which after the introduction of the speigel cisen, the whole is stirred up by arms fitted to a revolving cyl- inder. He also said that the iron of the United States which he had seen was peculiarly adapted to the manu- facture of steel by his process, In England only the ery best iron can be used for this process, and that ay, near Parnes Abbey. Mr. Abbot concludes by saying:—‘ Valuable as ie the invention of Mr. Bessemer, [ cannot recommend it te American manufacturers unless ba | make use in the of the very best pig iron, and that whieh is com- rt a dan sulphur, phosphorus and other tm- puri FIRE IN WASHINGTON STREET. Burning of an OM Store—Loss Knstimated at About $15,000. At about ten minutes after six o'clock Inst evening @ fire was discovered by policemen Gunson and Cook, of the Fifth prectuct, in the four story building No, 330 Washington street, occupied by Brewster & Allen, dealera in lard, sperm and Iard off. Tt sooms by the facts elicited by the’ Fire Marshal that the store was closed by the er justat six.o'clock, and in less than ten minutes after a dense smoke was seen gushing out of the third and fourth story windows. Officers Will the Filth precinct, broke open the door and entered the building, They hurried up the stairs, but could nob reach farther than the third fliht, the smoke being too dense to permit them to’ go further, They also found the hatehway open on the second and purposes work i low thia fire econ ko soon after closing the store and the steam engine lere running is a matter for the Fire Marshal to lavectignte, The estimated loss on stock is said to be abous $10,000, Insured for $20,000 in city companies, ‘The building u owned by this firm, and the dat done to it wilt ‘amount to abont $3,000; fully fnetr: ‘The storage store No, 322 Washington st by Steuer & Nicholsoo, was slightly damaged The firemen deserving of much Favat Paws. —an fall down the steps of the front cofler at No. 60 street leet and on being wes found bedesd. Ha we of ’