The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1866, Page 6

6 pene ets NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFrice N. ¥ Voiume XXXE AM SEME BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome pireet. —Witp Oats. NEW YORK THEATRE, Brosaway opposite New York 1 Beaury aNo Tit Bast, Yo, S14 Broadway. — uk WERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— TERRACE G. N, Third avenue, between Fifty. eighil and Fifty 1 strects.—Tnno, Tadmas’ ORCHESTRAL Ganoven Concen cing at 3 o'clock. IRVING HAL Pearorm mis Mizacies. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broadway, opposite n Hotel—In ragin Eraioriay ENrERTAIN- Dancina anv BugLesques—Tax Hinr0N ing place.—Prorassoe Harte witu and 4 West upworta' ETHIOPIAN BURLESQU 8 B. Weraoor Boarp. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comre Vooavisu—Negro MINsreutsy, Bavter DIVERtissexeNT, &0.—tux Yaxgew Sai.or—IntRicues oF Spain. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Meck, Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Variety or Ligar ano LAUGHABLY ENTERTAINME, Corrs ve Baier, &0, Tus Jzavous Wire. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— Rs, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Wives or Wixpsor. BOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortan Mig- evexisy, Bavtaos, BURLesQuEs AND Paxtomiass. YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— < witt THe Oxy-HypRogeN Microscorz | twice Hxap axp Rignt Ana oy Paosst. Open from 8 , til 10 P.M. MUSIC,—Tae Merry TRIPL E SHEET. «, Friday, September 21, 1866. EUROPE. Our despatches by the Atlantic cable, which are very ample and of an important character, are dated to the 20th of Septe mber. ‘The Turks and insurgent Christians fought a great battle in Candia. The Turks were victorious, A London journai pronounces an alliauce bowween Ruseia and the United States impracticable. Tho abdication of the King of Bavaria is looked for hourly, Italy and Austria have arranged, it is thought, the Venetian debt question. Count Bismarck is taken ill in Berlin; but it is hoped not seriously. ‘Tho King of Prussia returns thanks to his people for their aid during the war. Kiog Victor Emanuel has had to march troops to sup- press a dangerous outbreak by Italian brigands. Maximilian’s imporial bankruptey is acknowledged by the Mexican financial agenis in Paris. We publish a very interesting résumé of the origin and progress of the agitation in Candia which has ended in tue battle between the Turks and Christians and may tead to events of the highost moment in the East. The Paris Déebats and Morgen Port of Vienna express the opinion that Russia wil! immediately reopen the Eastern question in alliance with France, Italy and Aus- tria; Prussia, remote in interest, yermiiling the Czar to repay himself thus for his neuiralty ia the German war. Tho London Times hints that the King of Prussia should have applied the same rigid rule of dynastic ex- tinction to the case of the King of Saxony as he did to that of the King of Hanover, It is intimated that Saxony obtained the more favorable terms through French and Russian inflnence. Cardinal Cullen indicated very plainly that the Pope witl leave the Eternal City on the solution of the Roman quostion by the removal of the French troops. Louis Napoieon’s Italian diplomacy finds little favor in the eves of his Eminence. Indeed it is hinted by an Ultra- montane organ that his Holiness would be more safe and ‘free’ in Malta—a sort of ecclesiastical blow at Catholic France under Bonaparte ruic. The London journals continue to write on the subject of reconstruction in the United States—some in eupport and others in condemnation of President Jobnson'’s plan aod his attitude towards Congress ‘Tho Liverpool police have seized a supply of very dangerous Fenian war munitions, meluding bottles of explosive lquids for firing purposes, in that city. Consols closed in London on the 20th inst. 894 for money, Five-twenties were at 724 at the same time. The Liverpool cotton market, on the 20th inst., for middling uplands, was at 13). Breadataf were generally unchanged. THE CITY. There were three fresh cases of cholera iu the city yesterday and seven vurial permits were issued. In Brooklyn one case only was reported. The weather was dismal, damp and disagreeable. The Board of Health moet yesterday, Certain slangh- tor houses were ¢ ed to be closed until underground connection with sewers could be constructed for their uae, Dr. Dalton reported that during the week ending Wednesday forty casos olera had been voported, of which twenty-Gve proved fatal. The Board, after otner basiness, adjourned uti! Thursday next The Bonrd of Aldermen met yesterday afternonn, A resolution was adop'ed concurring with the Councilmen jt ferry from Twenty-third 10, Jersey Pirty thousand law of 1866 were ordered printed. A resolution was aid on the table as to (he providing of civil justices with badges. The Board atjourned to meet on Monday next. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday. A requisiion was directed to be drawn on we the Comptrolier of the city far $16 A communi. cation was received from Surgeon M jbmitting the names of the medical men who lind peen selected to per form the duties of atiending physicians io the out-door poor, Sieplens, the Central Organizer ofthe Fenians, is re- ceiving large accessions to bis rake in men, money, arms and ammunition every day, The arme are imme diately shipped in mysierious pa keges to Tveland. James McKenue, a conductor op the Figbth Avenue City ravirond, was fined $10 yesterday for an assault one pawengor who refused to pay more than eleven cemts for two faros. . A young lady named Catharine Jane Shannon brouglit ‘ap action against returned voinuteer named Warburton for broach of promise, inthe City Court of Brooklyn, before Judge Reynolds, yeaterday. The defendant fail tng to appear the Judge charged tbe jury to the effect that a breach of promise of marriage was as good & cause for action as a breach of any other contract, and the de- fondant baving failed to appear, the evidence of the Pialotif! was admitted. A verdict of $2,600 damages was rendered, Charles Sinnott, ® discharged soldier, w ‘ested, charged with baving repeated persous’ of two girls aged respect years. He will be examined to. Judge Russel yoaterday, in the General Sessions, sen. tonood an Italian named Emile Goenotini, who was con- victed of robbery, to the State Prison for twenty yearn Proapero Magotieo, hia confederate, pleaded guilty to yesterday tho chargo, and was sentenced to ten years’ imprison. mont at Sing sing ‘The steamship Scotland, Captain Mati, of the National 7 North river to-mortow, at Hing at Queenstown. Jina, will leave pior woive o'clock, for Liverpo ‘Tho stock market was sicady yesterday 4 prices tivanced. Gold opened at 145% and closed at 144%, Vory Little business was transacted yesterday, bat Prices generally were well eastained. Domestic pro- dace, however, was decidedly more active at improved Prives, flour being 6c, 0 10c. higher and wheat gr, a % better. Corn and oats advanced 1g, 4% Park opened nd heavy, but clones firm ruled steady, whilo lard was dull and Neary. Freight were gniet, bat fra. Wulekoy was in moderate demand and firm. MISCELLANEOUS, * Iatea from Rio Jangirg and the seat of war ig aptesniyys em ptr ig rs had yyen eng om from thé 16th to 1th of Jal, aw so botwegn Baron Porto Allegre’s forces from oe Aarne yas thd Bly Mwy wader Congrnl w- Oe NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 41, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mitre, on the part of the allie, hat been | rebel debtsand obligations, But why did he effected, and a determined attack was mado at daybroak gf the 16th on the Paraguayan in. tronchments at Capon Piris. Aftor stubborn resistance tho allies obtained possession of the first line of rifle pits, On the 17th and 18th the battle raged, florcely, the allies attempting to gain the other lines, but were unsuccessful, aad contented themsolves with retaining tho ono they had captured om the 16th. The loss on the part of the allies is osti- mated in Genoral Mitre’s official despatch at one thousand five hundred, several prominent generals of division being among the killed. The Paraguayan loss is estimated by the Brazilians as much greater, Goneral Barrion—a brother-in-law of Lopez—being among tho killed, The gain to the allies by the fight is tho uncovering of a great part of the hidden defences of the enemy and his dislodgment from a work which threatened to cover their loft flank. The fleet was on hand during the engagement, but took no part in it, from some cause unknown, A house fell in at Rio Janeiro on the 17th alt., crushing two shops, and killing aud wounding sevoral persona. A lot of gunpowder was exploded through careless handling, and three persons were killed and several others were severely injured. A large meeting was held on the 25th ult. in that city to favor the projection of a telegraph line to Cayennes, there to connect with Collins to the United States. It was thought the line would receive a concession from the governmont. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention was again in session at Syracuse yesterday, and adjourned sine die, The mass Convention mot at noon, and Adjutant Lan- sing was chosen temporay chairman. He made a fiery address on the occasion of taking the chair, recommond- ing to President Johnson the example of Julius Casar and Chartes the First. A committee on permanent organization was appointed, and in the afternoon reported, General John Cochrane being permanent President. A Commit- tee on Address and Resolutions was then appointed, and, pending their report, General Woodford, the Lieutenant Governor, and General Wilson, of Massachusetts, indulged in remarks upon the President and the situation gene- rally. A longthy address and series of resolutions were thon read, approving the course of Congress’ and disap proving the President's policy. The travelling menagerie of black and tan delogates from the Philadelphia cross-breed Convention opened at Cleveland to a small but select audience last night. Hamilton, Stokes, Warmouth and othors exhibited their budget, the principal attraction, Randolph the negro, having been left at Buffalo. Parson Brownlow was taken suddenly ill at Erie and fainted while attempting to make a specch, The steamship Meteor was seized at Boston fyosterday after sho had cleared for the East Indios. A prize fight took place yesterday on Chouteau Island, near St. Louis, between Michael McCoo! and William M. Davis, in which McCool won tho fight, after thirty-four rounds in a3 many minutes. Nineteen deaths from cholera were reported in Nash- ville yesterday. The epidemic is decreasing in that city. ir, Romero, the Mexican minister at Washington, has received official despatches from Vera Cruz via New Orleans, which confirm portions of the news published in our correspondence from Mexico yosterday, In ad- dition, his despatches state that the cities of Huepotillan and Tacopoastie had been captured by the liberals, and it was rumored that Toluca, only forty-five miles from the city of Mexico, and Taxpan, a port near Vera Cruz, were also captured. Tho imperialists had withdrawn from Guaymas and Mazatlan, and now hold only two ports, Vera Cruz and Acapulco, We have Bermuda journals of the 11th of September, but the news which they contain is quite unimportant. Secretary Seward has beon pronounced out of danger. A grand reviow of the British forces in Montreal was held yesterday before Major General Meade, who is there ona visit. The Canadian government are satisfied with the Peabody rifle, and, itis understood, have contracted with a United States firm to have Enfield rifles converted fwto breech-loaders, The new currency arrangements go into effect on the 25th. In the meantime, the Bank of Montreal notes are used as legal tender, being stamped with the words ‘Provisional note.” Alfred Docken was nominated for Governor of North Carolina by @ Convention of the unconditional Union men of that State, yesterday. The Uonvention takes strong ground in favor of the proposed constioutionsl amend- ment, which is the principal question on which the race isto be made, Governor Holden ts of the opinion that the candidate of the Convention wi!l be elected, The heavy ram storm ia tho neighborhood of Cincin- nati was still prevailing yesterday. Every railroad lead- ing out of the city was damaged except two. The freshet is unprecedented. The Ohio river rose ten feet in the twenty-four hours ending yesterday. A heavy rain was also falling at St, Louis) The corn crop in the lowlands about Indianapolis was greatly damaged by the flood. The weather was clearing up there yesterday, and the rain had ceased, General Grant has declined participating in the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention at Pittsburg, gn the ground that he has nothing to do with politics. Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, an aged lady, living in a thickly populated portion of Philadelphia, was found on Wednes- day morning dead in her room, her throat being cut from ear to ear, and with several severe bruises on her head. No clue whatever is given to the murdor, no one having been seen to enter or leave the house, either by the front or back entrance during the day. It is be- loved however, by some persons, that a German pauper, who formerly lived at the place, committed the murder, and the police are after him. The Union Party of the War and the North- ern Democracy. The political firm of Seward, Weed and Ray- mond, like the sails of a fishing schooner on a new tack, appears te-be shivering in the wind. It seems that these conservative republic: in cutting loose from their late pariy associa- tions and in striking hands with the democracy at the Philadelphia August Convention, ex- pected something more from them than a fusion upon the same platform. A reorganization of the democratic element with the amalgamat- ing republicans was counted upon with at least a fuir share to the latter of the Congreer- sional and gubernatorial nominations of the new party. It was indced suppored that the old democratic organization, with its unfor- tunate and unforgiven record of the rebel- lion, was io be buried out of sight, and that ite materials, with the floating debris from the republican party, were to be recast in the form of a new national Union party with anew name for ite new departare, It appears, how- ever, that the democracy think they have done enough in accepting the Philadelphia resolu- tions, and that they expect the Johnson repub- licans to take back seats in the old democratic synagogue as organized and governed at ite Chicago Peace-at-any-price Convention. How much a Congressional nomination or two would effect in the reparation of this misiake we can- not tell, nor is it of any consequence to know, since it is apparent, North and South, East and Weat, that things have gone too far for any possible combination to defeat the great con- stitutional amendment now before the country. From the results of the Maine election the facta stand out in bold relief that the Union party of the war, since August last, has not been losing, but has been and is gaining strength—that it remains not only intact, but as earnestly active as at any time since the opening bombardment of Fort Sumter. It has s0 happened, too, that in the organized opposi- tion the old antagonistic forces of the war still hold the field, and that from such significant events as the New Orleans massagre sod the unfortunate incidents of the President's late excursiog ihe public mind of the North has become fixed in its purpose of such a restora- tion of the Union as will embrace substantial and irrevocable ‘ies for the future. of pamet eoee well in bfe conditions b Southern States disorganized and Fee by the re- bellion, especially in requiring of enid States ® ratification of the constitutional amondmont abolishing slavery aud the repudiation of all require the ratification of that amendment? Because without it by three-fourths of the States the abolition of slavery remained sub- ject to the will of the seyeral States, So pow, when the question has been raised by North- ern democratic journals of the unconatitu- tionality of the present Congress, some further safeguards than its existing laws are deemed necessary by the Union party of the war interested in the validity of the national cur- renecy and the cash value of our national seourities, Hence the increasing strength among the Northern people of this restoration plan of Congress, which seeks to make the redemption of the national debt, the repudia- tion of all rebel debts and of all claims for emancipated slaves a part of the supreme law of the land, beyond the reach of any Congress and any political party which future events may bring into power. The Northern domocracy “havs professed their adhesion to the obligations of the national war debt and the repudiation of the ddbta of the rebellion; but while the men among them who proclaimed the war for the Union wicon- stitutional, unholy and unjust remain as the managers, oracles and leading candidates of the party, all these recent professions will be accepted by the masses of the people who carried the country through the war as false pretences and electioneering tricks. Against the war record of such mon, for instance, as Pillsbury, defeated the other day in Maine, and of Heister Clymer, whose manifest destiny is a similar defeat in Pennsylvania, their present professions go for nothing. So it is apparent from past and passing events that the restora- tion plan of Congress, as the platform of the Union party of the war, will sweep the North againat the old opposition of the peace party of the war, The new wine of restoration can- not be put into the old bottles of the Chicago Peace-at-any-price Convention, any more than it can be put into the broken radical crockery of “Old Thad Stevens.” The sooner therefore the responsible white people of the Southern States adapt thomselves to the predominant public sentiment of the North, in the acceptance of this restoration ultimatum of Congress, the better it will be for them. Their political and business interests, their political and social security, all invite them to the ratification of this restoration amendment without further loss of time. They have the choice left open to them of giving or denying the blacks a vote in their elections. Each State is left free to make its election of negro suffrage and negro representation or the sacrifice of the one with the denial of the other. The rule will apply to all the States—to New York as well as South Carolina—and to every restriction in all upon the test of universal suf- frage, whether applied to white or black men. In this and in its other provisions this amend- ment will be sustained by the North, and if the Southern States in good faith accepted it sub- stantially from President Johnson, why should they hesitate to fix it in the federal constitu- tion? bn RET TS. | Mr, Borrs on rae Rigat Track —John Minor Botts delivered an address in Paterson, New Jersey, a few evenings since, in which he took occasion to disclaim being a radical and also to complain of a want of justice done him by this jourual. If we have done Mr. Botts any injustice we are sorry for it ; but as it is a gen- erally accepted axiom that “a man should be judged by the company he keeps,” we believed ourselves justified in classifying Mr. Botts with such political itinerants as Brownlow, Jack Hamilton, the negro Randolph and others of a similar character. But we notice by this Pater- son address that on some essential points Mr. Botts agrees with us. He is opposed to forcing negro suffrage on the South. So are we. He is opposed to the radical torch and turpentine, devastation and confiscation doctrine. So are we. He is in favor of letting the South settle the question of suffrage themselves, as is pro- posed by the constitutional amendment. Upon this proposition we also agree. There are, to be sure, some points of difference between us ; but as Mr. Botts, like ourselves, repudiates equally the radicals and fire-eaters, some of his shortcomings and extreme notions may be overlooked. Mr. Botts appeals to the Heratp to set him right before the people of the South. We have done so by reporting his speech in full. He saye the Richmond papers vilify and calumniate him, and that they have not the circulation, if they had the inclination, to enable his explanation ond views to reach the Southern people. This is irne of all the partiean papers in the country. Asa general thing they have bui & small circulation; but their ill temper, selfishness and vituperation are none the less outrageous. Their predomi- nating characteristic is # thirst for public plun- der. Many of them would imperil the exist- ence of the government and see the greatest principles sacrificed rather than they should be thwarted or impeded in their hungry race for the epoile, even to the election of some con- femptible character to the Legislature, or, meaner stil], to the Common Council or Board of Aldermen. Some of the Southern papers, particularly those of Richmond, are more viru- lent and senselesely vindictive than they were before the war. Others again in the North are recklessly urging ® renewal of the contest. This is all wrong and foolish; moreover it is wicked and dangerous. There has been fight- ing enough, and the newspapers all over the country, be their influence great or small, should strive to allay and soothe rather than to arouse and inflame the passions of the peo- ple. We have no doubt Mr. Botts’ speech, as reported in the Heratp, will have a good effect in the South; and while we congratulate that gentleman upon his repudiation of the radi- cals, we have to urge upon him a vigorous sup- port of the constitutional amendment. Then he will not only be on the right track, but on the high road of accomplishing a great and permanent good to his country. Tus Ravesce Service —We soo by 9 des. patch from Washington that it is proposed to sell the steamers now employed in the revenue service and supply their places with the old topsail schooners. The objections to this are various. First of all, the expense of purchas- ing a number of new cutters will be onormous and the salaries of their offigers and crows will be very heavy. these schooners will névor be able fo catch the emugglers that now infest the const, aa they havo Do great spood and draw too mach water. What is wanted for the revenue service te a small fleet of light draught steamers, and tf the department will not provide these and intands to ratnrn to the old fashioned sailing vessels, wo had better abolish the revenue service allogether. That will be choaper in the end than maintaining a jot of schooners that cannot overhaul a canal boat, much leas a smuggler’s saucy craft, Russia’s Advocacy of the European Eani- librium—An Impertal Rebuke to Foreign Intermeddiers and Dynastic Scribes. The editors of the leading journals of Si. Petersburg and Moscow are engaged in an animated and independent canvass of the in- tereats and diplomacy of Russia as likely to be affocted and shaped by the issue of the Ger- man war and the efforts of Prussia for terri- torial reconstruction and the unity of Father- land. We have already published extracts from these papers which go to show that the writers are permitted a perfect freedom of ex- proasion on subjecis relating to the imperial policy, and that they avail thomselves of it in a spirit of hoalthy conservatiam to assure both their fellow subjects and neighbors that while the rights of the nation will bo jealously guarded from the shores of tho Baltic to the Russo-German border, the advance of the peo- ples towards the attainment of their fran- chises will not be frowned on or impeded. The Journal of St. Petersburg—the Cabinet organ of the Czar—commenting on the issue of the Prusgian military mission of General Man- teuffel to the Court, says in words which we re- print, that the Emperor Alexander proposed to the envoy of King William that the European neutrals should invoke a participation of all the Powers in a common consultation of “ the ter- ritorial and political modifications of the equi- librium, based upon treaties which had been signed by all the Powers in common.” The Journal goes on to inform its readers that the other Cabinets did not support this proposition, and that “ the principle of European solidarily” being “ignored for a time’ by these Powers, the imperial government “reserved the judg- ment and rights of Russia” and maintained “its action free.” This important announcement is accompa- nied by a dignified yet stern rebuke to “for- eign correspondents” in St. Petersburg who, in “glaring contradictions” qnd sentences “not in conformity with truth,” and, when “not admittéd to confidence,” have ventured to proclaim the attitude which Russia has assumed towards Germany, and assert that she “has assented without reserve to the aggrandizement of Prussia.” This wholesome counterblast, inspired uo doubt by royal authority, reduces the statements of the English and French acribes who write of the home and foreign policy of Russia, in a moment to their proper standard value—“not io conformity with truth’—in the eyes of the people of Europe. We cannot but hope that it will be immediately followed by one equally severe and pointed to the correspondents from Lon- don and Paris who seck to misrepresent tho intent, objects and feeling of the perfected alliance between Russia and the United States, as expressed in the national ovations accorded to our naval officers during their visit to the empire. Fettered by the prejudices of class, and warped in their judgments by narrow dynastic interests or the wild theories ofan experimental imperio-democracy, the London Times, with the other prominent newspapers both of England and France, has failed to com- prehend the great mission intrusted in com- mon to Russia and the United States, and is consequently unable to see the easy reconcilement of principles of government, ap- parently diverse and contradic: , When un- dertaken for the good of the peoples both in the Old and New Worlds. The English cor- respondents in St. Petersburg represent the receptions given to the United States officers by the Russians as a series of international junketings, accompanied with “idle talk,” » “display of bunkum,” an exhibition of “con- vivial proclivities” and “an amount of liquor- ing up unparalleled even in the United States.” The London News publishes a letter from the Russian capital, in which it is assumed that the United States, having sympathized with “the Russian doings in Poland,” Russia “adhered to the side of the Northerners” during the clvil war in America, and now permits an “anti- British demonstration” in return for that “made by the Russian squadron in American waters three years since.” Moved by this trash and crammed by one- sided statements forwarded by the antiquated red tapists of England serving near the Court of Russia, the London News of last Wednesday, as we are informed by the Atlantic cable, pronounces that a “Russo-American alliance is impracticable.” Having the wish father to the thought in such a direction, the aristocracy of England will, we doubt not, be considerably consoled by this wholesale declaration, even although it proceeds from such a poor authority as the News. In such terms and by such inferences Eng- land and France really give vent to their chagrin and disappointment at the formal and open reunion of the two young and giant nations of the world in bonds of amity strong enough to assure the perfection of the grand and ennobling objects whioh each have in view, The foreign correspondents who speak “not in conformity with truth” will likely receive another unpleasant official bint shortly in St. Petersburg. Tae Fare or Jerrersos Davis.—We have assurances from some reverend gentlemen who recently visited Jeff Davis in prison that his health is so far affected that he cannot live three months, whether free or captive. These gentlemen, it appears, have appealed to the President for bis release. Various accounts have been circulated, from time To time, as to the condition of Mr. Davis’ health—some repre- senting it as unusually good, others as most pre- carious; hut this is the first time that a definite limit bas been set down to his existence. How- ever, whother these conflicting reports be true on one side ortho other is not the point. The question is, who is responsible for the deten- tion of Davis in Fortress Monroe? Whose fault is it that be has not been tried long ago, aud his case disposed of, either by his convic- tion or acquittal? If he is to be detained for years antil he perishes in pricon, while the andy of jusiies are left unserved, who shall bear the blame? It is said that the President says itis the fault of Congress. Congress charges the Prosident with the delay, and others again put the blame apon Chief Justice Chase. It is time that this matter should be seitied in some way. Itisa disgrace to aur arstem of Juris he ee ° to the several States, whereas the radical ultinins prudence that the case of Jeff Davis should be allowed to remain in abeyance ail this time. If he is amenable to the law let him have the benefit of the law. If there is any doubt as to the probability of his conviction, why detain him in prison? We adhere to our first impres- sions, that the ends of justice would bo best subserved and the dignity of the nation best sustained by opening the doors of Fortress Monroe and letting him go whithersoever he will, At any rate, let his case be dealt with promptly. The country is about as weary of the subject a3 the prisoner is of his captivity. The Increasing Prosperity of New YVork—Ite Glorious Futnre. Every day furnishes some fresh evidence of the increasing prosperity of the city of New York. New and magnificent buildings are going up in various parts of the city. These include not only private residences, but costly structures Yor business purposes. New hotels are being erected upon plans which require lavish expenditures, while old and most popu- lar ones are being enlarged and beautified to enable them to keep pace with the growing and more fastidious tastes of our people. Places of public amusement have also to expend larger sums to satisfy the appetite of our eilizens, which the revival in such attractions—the advent among us of such renowned artists as Madame Ristorl—has created. The great busi- ness centres which have been in a transitory state for years are now settling down upona substantial basis in the proper localities, and an air of thriftiness and unusual prosperity pervades every class of business in the com- mercial metropolis. One returning from an absence of a twelvemonth is amazed at seeing magnificent structures erected as if by magic upon what were formerly bare vacant lots or occupied by tumble down buildings neither ornamental nor useful. The styles of archi- tecture are also more novel and beautiful than heretofore, while the material used is of a de- scription that combines durability with taste and elegance. While the exteriors of these new edifices are thus ornamental, the improvements and the conveniences of their interiors are equally atriking. The work of plumbing or suppiyiig these execrsive buildings with Croton water, the healing apparatus, &¢., the chasteness of many of the cast iron designs used in most of the new fire-proof structures, have kept pace with the improved tastes and demands of our people in other re- spects. We challenge the world to produce finer, more elaborate or more convenient buildings for especial business purposes than have been recently erected or are now in course of completion in the city of New York. These are among the evidences of the wonder- ful prosperity of the city at this time. If fur- ther testimony were needed we have but to refer to the present unexampled extent of ad- vertising in the Heratp. We have been obliged to issue triple sheets daily for some time, and still can barely furnish space for advertisers and at the aame time maintain our usual va- riety and copiousness of news matter. But we believe this to be only the beginning of a new era in the business fortunes and commercial preponderance of our great city. One or two Atlantic cables have already been successfully laid, and we bave.no doubt that ere long there will be @ dozen lines of direct communication with the Old World, all competing with each other and striving to be the quickest and most reliable in concentrating intelligence here in New York. To this commanding centre the telegrams of the commercial world must in due time all be sent for transmission (o Europe from Asia, and to Asia, all America, the Pacific islands and coast ; in short, to all parte of the western hemisphere as well as many other por- tions of the civilized globe, as the nearest and safest centre of comamnication from the capi- tals of Europe. Thus will the city of New York, with its vast lines of telegraph all over this continent, become the radius of a gigantic telegraph web stretching to every part of the earth. What a glorious future there is in store for our city, and through it for the entire nation, if rabid politicians do not again evoke the bloody spectre of fraternal strife ! Napotkon anp Maximriian.—Tue recent re- fusal of Napoleon to permit French oficers to serve under Maximilian in Mexico evinces a deference to the wihes of this government which is very gratifying. The reason which the Emperor alleges for this decision is an um willingness on hie part to conflict with the Monroe doctrine, which is held so dear by the American people, and a disinclination to op- pose the views of the United States govern- ment. While it must be necessarily a matier of pride to the American public to find that the course of the French Emperor with re- gard to Mexico is directed by a due considera- tion for their opinions, we are disposed to feel some pity for Napoleon under the afflictions and humiliations which the course of events has brought upon him. He has had to sub- mit to many drawbacks of late. His achemes have been thwarted in so many quarters, he bas had io back out of his carefully digested plans so often witbin the past year or two, that the prestige of his dynasty has suffered very severely. Bismarck completely outwitted him in bis arrangements in the Gorman war, He was cheated out of his favorite European Con- gress, in which he hoped to have a voice in the reconstruction of the map of Europe. Prussia took the compass and pencil in hand and measured off the Continent to suit herself. He was foiled in bis attempt to provoke a re- newal of the war, according to late accounts, and in every way he has been obliged to forego his plans for the extension of French territory and the division of Central Europe. His Mexican attempt has proved a complete fiasco; for he has been compelled to retrace all his steps in that country. His protégé, Maximilian, is now wholly abandoned to his fate. Not only is the French contingent of troops Ywing with- drawn, but even the services of yoluntesr offi- cers of the French army are dented him, “owing to the protest of the United States government.” French interest in Mexico, therefore, is abandoned, and Maximilian must make the best time he can in clearing out of the country. Tar Ravtcat Pian Nor Tat Puan Avorrap BY Coxonass.—The radical plaa of restoration, aa first reported from the Joint Committee of Fifteen, provided for the disfranchisoment of all rebels till the 4th of Jaly, 1370; the plan adopted by Congress proposes only that certain limited classes of rebels shall be ineligible to any federal offices hereafter till absolved by & two-thirds vote of each House of Congress. The regulation of the suffrage ia this wlan is Loft tum is universal suffrage, and at once, right of wrong, negroes and all. The plan adopted by: Congress was carried by the conservatives of the dominant party, and it will be carried by the conservative masses of the North, because it is fair and just and is nothing more than the fixing in the constitution of the President’s plaa and his recommendations. News from tus Seat or War w Socra Amenica.—We have received from Rio Janeiro news up to August 25 by the steamer North America, which shows that the allies on the Paraguay had received their long expected reinforcements under Baron Porto Ailogre. A most stubborn and sanguinary battle com- menced on the 16th of July and continued till the 18th, with alternate successes betweon tha allies and the forces of Lopez. The slaughtot was great on both sides. The allies claim to have taken and held the most advanced line of the Paraguayan intrenchments, which they commenced to strengthen and arm with heavy cannon and mortars. But there does not ap- pear to have been any definite result, except the repulse of a dangerous Paraguayan advance. This news is from allied sources and must be taken with due allowance assuch, The details are published to-day in anothes part of the Hzrarp. Ssxuina Gotp.—Several of our contempora- ries, apparently from interested motives, are urging the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the gold on hand. This can benefit nobody except a few brokers who are short of gold and want to buy it cheaply of the government. Let Mr. McCulloch keep every dollar of gold he can get safely locked in the Treasury. This will inspire public confidence in our national securities, it will maintain the pricea of our bonds in Europe, it will be ready to pay our interest when due, and it will be very useful some rainy day. WASHINGTON. Wasmnartoy, Sept, 20, 1866, Health of the Secretary of State. Secretary Seward’s hoalth has go much improved that he is pronounced out of danger. ‘ “ Fyeedmen’s Byregu Agaire—Cholera Among en the jae pe &e. Major General Wager Swayne, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Alabama, a fow days 3 telegraphed the Commussionér jn reference to some er- Toneous statements which had beef g:yen to the public through the press, and stated to have occurfed jn his dis. trict. He subsequently addressed to the Commissioner a lotiar, in which he says:—‘‘I bog leave to remark that for some weeks past the attention of parties here hag been drawn to the systematic dissemination of items at the North, apparently by one person, detalling all sorta of sensational occurrences to persons of both races. The scene is generally laid in Mobile, and the story unis formly ‘without foundation.’ Major General T: J. Wood, Assistant Commissioner of Freedmen’s Affairs in Mississippi, reports to the Com. missioner that there has been considerable mortality im the State from cholera, which is owing principally to the want of proper caution by the freedmen, among whom | tho greater loss has been. The disease is not parg ticularly virulent, he says, but yields readily to treat- ment, The cholera has appeared in the District of Jackson, and it is feared that its increase is inevitable. The Bureau surgeon has been tnstructed to use every means in hia power to allay the suffering of the afflicted and to prevent the spread of the discase. The cholera is’ also reported at Davia’ Bend, but not increasing. In reference to the crops the General states that notwithstanding the appeare ance of the army worm, he thinks there will be a fair cotton crop, but the corn crop will be very poor. Major General Joff C. Davis, Assistant Commissioner of Freedmen’s Affairs in the State of Kentucky, reports to the Head of the Bureau that in the month of August Jast, there were 3,180 rations issued in the State, to 860 Persons—203 men and 166 women. These rations were issued to refugecs and freedmen in the State Hospital, and 77 of them received but temporary shelter and care. ‘The General reports that there are uo confiscated lands in the State of Kentucky. No Prespect of the I Bounties. There is no prospect of the immediate payment of the bounties authorized by Congress at the late session. I¢ is estimated that about forty thousand claims are on file, with that number increasing at the rate of four or five hundred per day. jedinte Payment of Appeintments. The following appointments wero made to-day:—M. 8. Perkins to be United States Attorney in West Tenues. see; Samuel Walker to be United States Marshal for West Virginia, and Michael Dunn as Deputy Postmaster at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. STEAMERS SUNK ON THE OHIO AND ARKANSAS RIVERS. Crscixvati, Sept. 20, 1866. vee despatches received here to-day annousce the sinking of two more steamers, The J. R. Cilmorg bound from Cineinnati to Arkansas river strack a wreck near Mound Cuy, Ill, yesterday, and sunk in @f- teen minotee The crew and passengers were all saved, though the escape of many was very narrom The loss on boat and cargo i+ estimated at $260,000, 6 other steamer lost ix the Fort Smith, which sunk ih the Arkecres river. No lives lost, Boat and cargo a total wr THE LATEST REGARDING THE PHILADELPHIA MURDER. Pwitapenrmts, Sept. 20, 1966. The police believe they are on the track of the mur- dever of Mre. Miller, Re i» suppored to be Gottlies Miller, ® miserable pauper, whose left side s paralyzed, caurng him to waik slowly the aid of @ heavy stick. Hie father formerly owned fhe honve where the deceased lived and Gottlieb was wall acquainted wtth the locality. He had been in the habit of visiting the house, and the deceased was Rind to him, freqa' giving him his victuals, Detectives ara in search en4 think they will capture Lim betewe morn- ing. THE STEAMSHIP METEOR AGAIN SEIZED. Bosrox, Sept. 20, 1866 The steamsbip Meteor which cleared yesterday for the East Indies, wae again seized to-day by the govern- ment ALNaxT, Sept. 20, 1866 The Democratic State Central Committees met in thie city pod nized by electing Samuel J. Tilden, of Now Work, man, and Peter Cagyer, of Albany, as secretary. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. Sax Francisco, Sept. 19, 1966. The election in Montana on the 4th inst. is reported to aa resulted in @ democratic victory by a majority of “An Idaho correspondent says Major Marshal bad a fight with Tadians at Three Sgn A Ed about the les of September, and captured thirty-five toeir number, whom he hung. Fire is Dev Stammt.—A few minutes before nine; ovclock tart night a fire broke out on the top floor of the’ fivo story building No, 18 Dey street. The firemen were: early at work and by the direction of the Chief Engineer reams were it to bear fi pr dia nw % Two lines were strchet comes roof batiding, thus us placing the, fire betwoen the streams, Mgrs ha i the story by subduing the any end in two tenn! oui. guished fe fire. The