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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR of the garrison, only five hundred French troops remain- ing. Ite carly poaspasion by the liborals was expected. Some correspondence had taken place between General Douay and the Mexican governmont on the subject of the exchange of prisoners. Another heavy defalcation by a paymaster of the regu- lar army has been discovered in Washington. The sum involved covers many thousands of dollars, and charges have been preferred against him. The name and facts in the case will undoubtedly be soon made public. The Supreme Court having declared the Excise law Constitutional there were many liquor saloons closed in Brooklyn yesterday under the impression that the police would interfere with the sale of intoxicating liquors, The wandering delegation from the Philadelphia Con- vention of mixed radicals have arrived at Cincinnati, where they performed in the Market place. Delegates to the Pittsburg Convention of Soldiers and Sailors opposed to the President’s policy were arriving but slowly in that city yesterday. A delegation of the Society of the Grand Army of tlie Republic from Indi- ana was on hand, and Butler, Banks, Burnside and Lo- gan were expected to-day. Henry Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts, addressed a radical meeting in Indianapolis on Saturday night. He said that the premotions of such men as Granger, Custer and other soldiers who attended the Cleveland Conven- tion would not be confirmed by the Senate, A preacher named McMullen followed in a speech in which he said that the assassination of President Johnson would not be a very serious calamity. McKeever, the driver of the horse General Butler, at the race in Chicago on Saturday last, and who was found on the track badly injured by a blow on the head, died yesterday afternoon. Riley, the driver of Cooley, was still under arrest charged with committing an assault upon the deceased, and other parties had been arrested. Dr. Ferris, the mail agent on the steamer General Buell, who was reported to have been seized by guorillas at Warsaw, Ky., on the Ohio river, last Thursday, was taken to Louisville, the Sheriff and his posse having made the seizure instead of guerillas. Indictments are pending against the agent for the execution of two gue- rillas, by order of Genoral Burbridge, during the war. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87S, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fonrcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We do not return rejected communications. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the owest rates. Volume XXXTI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 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CHARLEY WHITE'S COM Mechanica’ NATION TROUPE, at y—Iv a Vanixry or Lint ts, Corrs pe Bauver, &c. The Policy of President Johnson—A New Proc- Inmation and a New Cabinet. We have, from time to time, in the course of the last twelve months, urged upon President Johnson the necessity, expediency and advan- tages of a comprehensive reconstruction of bis Cabinet. We have pleaded that the Cabinet which carried the administration of Abraham Lincoln through the war was not the Cabinet Hall, 472. Bros ABLE ENTERTAI rm. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Taree Times Dean. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Gawra. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermorian Min- sraxsy, BALLADS, BURLKSQUES AND PANTOMIMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broad Leorcees win Tix Oxy-HyDROGEN MicKoscore — twice i dally. | Heap axp Rigur Aux or Puoust. Open from 8 demanded for the new issues and new ideas A.M, till 10 P. resulting from a restoration of peace—that it is one thing to put down a great rebellion by force of arms, and another thing to restore the submitting States to their proper fraternal re- lations in the general government. But there have been at no time since the dreadful tragedy which cut off in the height of his fame and popularity our much lamented President Lin- coln so many facts and considerations com- bining as may now be advanced in behalf of a new departure by the administration from the starting point of a new proclamation and a new Cabinet. As we understand the situation, the members of the existing Cabinet, actively or passively, are committed to President Johnson’s policy of Southern restoration against the policy of Congress. The active Cabinet members, since the rupture was first officially declared between the President and Congress, have been the Secretaries of State, the Treasury and Navy; the new Attorney General, Stansbury, and the new Postmaster General, Randall; and, singularly enough, the most remarkably passive member has been Mr. Stanton, our late reso- lute, energetic, radical and emphatic Secretary of War. But, actively or passively, this Cabi- not stands committed to the President’s South- ern policy, which we are satisfied ought now to be abandoned in deference to the mani- festly predominant public sentiment of the North. The governmental system of the United States, national and local, rests upon the will of a majority of the people. Respect for this sovereign authority is essential to law and order among us, and this respect has been a prominent characteristic of Andrew Johnson, from his first election as alderman of a little village in Tennessee to his occupation of the White House. Consistency, therefore, as well as sound policy on his part, demands of him a cordial adhesion to the restoration plan of Congress and a new departure in support of this policy. New York, Monday, September 24, 1866. Our despatches by the Atlantic cable are dated to Saturday, the 22d of September, at noon. Napoleon is at Biarritz, and Eugénie is to go to Rome to “condole” with Pius the Ninth. A Prussian amnesty decree has been issued in Berlin; but its provisions are not specified. Austria has sont a chargé d’affaires to Berlin, ‘The peace treaty between Saxony and Prussia has not been concluded; but the negotiations are reported as satisfactory. Quite a number of Fenians have been arrested in Liver- pool, and Fenian arms and war munitions seized in various parts of tho city. Our special correspondence from Loniton and Dublin, dated to the 8th of September, is important, as it shows forth the steady progress which is being made by the peoples of England and Ireland towards the complete auainment of their franchise rights, the movement being covered by the reform agitation in the one country and the Fenian excitement in the other. Consols were at 89\4 in London at noon on Saturday, September 22. Five-twonties were at 72}; the samo time. / ‘The Liverpool cotton market was less firm at noon on Saturday. Middling upiands was at thirteen and a half Pence, Breadstuifs were firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. The Cunard steamship Corsica, Captain Le Messurier, reached this port yesterday evening, bringing files from the Bahamas dated at Nassau, N. P., on the 15th of Sep- ember, The British war steamer Nimble, Commander Shatield, arrived at Nassau from a cruise. Considerable ttontion is being paid to the cultivation of cotton on the ‘slanda, Soldiors of the First West India regiment were »mployed in excavating the foundation for the battery a0w being constracted at Hog Island. ‘The number of cholera cases reported yesterday was ‘esa than that of the day before, but there is no certain indigation that the discase is abating. Five cases were reported im this city yesterday, and eight new cases and ‘arco deaths in Brooklyn, showing an increase In the lator city, There were fifty-five deaths from cholera in Nashville on Saturday. The people of the city are fleeing from tho pestilence in every direction. There were eleven sages and four deaths from the disease in Louisville on We have all seen enough of the de- meen amet ne untied mtr seh | vtopmenta “pebllo opinion nthe North since the adjournment of Congress to convince us that the Northern States, from Maine to California, will sustain the constitu- tional amendment of Congress, in view of its conditions affecting politically the leaders of the rebellion and negro representation, and in view of its substantial securities in behalf of the national treasury and the national debt, and against all rebel debts and claims for emancipated slaves. Upon this strong platform of reconstraction the Northern Union party of the war is now rallied for the coming elections for the next Congress, and Vermont and Maine indicate the drift of these elections. Falling in with this popular current of the North on this platform, the President cannot only retrieve his late misfortunes, but he can become at once the master of the situation with the ratification of this new constitutional amendment by the Southern States, looking to him as their pro- tector and leader against the Northern radi- cals, To this end, therefore, the President’s most effective starting point will be from a new proclamation, a new Cabinet of new men, identified with the war tor the Union, and har- monious in sentiment upon this question of Southern restoration. Such a man as Charles Francis Adams, our Minister at London, for the Stave Department would, for in- stance, be universally accepted, and from the ranks of the republican party and war democrats all the other executive departments might be acceptably filled. The day has not yet arrived for the promotion of converted copperheads or reconstructed Southern rebels to these positions. The time will come for absolution to them when the government is made secure with the ratification of this essential constitutional amendment. General Thomas, of Virginia, that able, tried and trusty Southern Union soldier, for Secretary of War, would, on the other hand, be a good practical movement towards the restoration of the South to the Cabinet. A pradent and sagacious statesman adapts himself and his policy to the pressure of events and the exigencies of the day. He does not hesitate to abandon ® programme when he sees that it has become doubtful and dangerous, nor to take a new departure when it promises an easy and decisive triumph over his adversaries, Accordingly we urge upon President Johnson & proclamation to the Southern States in favor of the constitutional amendment before the country, and « harmonious reorganization of his Cabinet on this policy, and in view of a sound and cohesive financial system and a vigorous admlaisiratiqn of que forciga affairs. The steamship Quaker City, of the Leary line, Captain W. H. West, which sailed from this port for Charleston, 8. C., om Saturday, took out nearly six thousand cases of dry goods, consigned by New York merchants to firms in (he South, and was obliged to leave as many more stand- ing on the wharf. Since the war there has never been sach a demand for freight to and from the South as at proaent, The Quaker City also took out a considerable number of passengers, A woman named Catharine Reiw:he committed suicide \t Hoboken on Saturday evening by hanging herself with a clothes line. An inquest was held yesterday over the body of Mr. Poter Funari tho Italian artist in plaster who was shot by Alexander Urania, on Friday morning, at No. 145 Kim street. The wife of the deceased was examined and the jury rendered a veriict that death was caused by & pistol ahot wound from Urania. The Stephens headquarters have been the recipients of numerous dovations from Hungarian, Polish and Fronch refugees who are anxious to ald the cause of Irish freedom. A meeting of the Brotherhood was held yesterday, when resolutions favoring the eary com- menoement of the war in Ireland were passed. Stephens, Kelly, @loeson and others addressed the meeting avow- ng themselves ready to return to Ireland whenever ordered. ‘The four story tenement house No. 188 avenue A, on the corner of Thirteenth street, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning about one o'clock, The family of Comnotiug Rottiger, consisting of himself, bis wife and three daaghtors, aged respectively eight, ten and six- orn, wore occupying the third story, and fearing to leap from the windows were »!! burned to death, being found ying together in oe croup, their remains baked to a oriap, Another family of five persona, named Hartz, leaped from tho fourth story, a bed being held velow for them to alight on, and two of them—the fathor, Philip Hartz, and a son, Edward Hartz—missing the bed in their fall, were so severely injured that their lives are deapaired of Ail of the rest were more or leas injured. The dam e building is about $3,000, and the household of all the inmates wore de- sroyed. The evid en at the investigation over the bodies of the victins leads to the conclusion that the firo was the work of an inevndiary, and $1,000 roward is offered for his detection. The services at the various churches were very in- teresting yesterday, although a silence considered ominious was observed by Mr. Boocher and Dr. Chapin on the subject of potitica. Rev. W. H. Boole supported Congress tn his addremes, but with this and s fow other oxcoptions the general tendency of the pulpit oratory wea Obristianly and spiritual. Mra. Birzabeth Mousiey, who lived at 57 North Moore stroot, cut her throat with a razor yesterday while alone in her partor and died almost immediately. ‘The nows from South America is to the effect that the AiMouttion between this country and the allied forces of Brazil and the Argentine republic, occasioned by the re- Tusal of the latter countries to allow our Minister to Paraguay to pass through their territory to his post, has beoe amicably settied by the Minister being allowed to continue on bis route. Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister at Washi has official despatches from Vora Cruz to the voik iodaat which confirm the news from that point published ia the Hemaro On Saturday, resident Juares was about make = Wi boadquarters in = Mon torey expedition had been sent against Quronue, sich tad boon evacuated by the mala portivn | Ae , NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Mexico—Farther Evidence of Napoleon's Double Dealing. Some days since we published » report that the French soldiers in Mexico were enlisting in Maximilian’s native regiments in about equal proportions. It was also stated that while Napoleon was withdrawing mere skeleton regi- ments of the French fresh and full regiments were being landed at Mexican seaports. All this information is amply confirmed by later intelligence. Our Vera Cruz correspondence published yesterday states that it was gen- erally understood and given out that the Eighty-first French regiment of the line was en route for Vera Cruz to embark at once for Europe; but on investigation it was found that only one battalion of said regiment was going down, and that the remaining portion—fifteen hundred to two thousand men—were ready to take up the flag of the empire in lieu of the flag of the French as soon as the battalion re- ferred to left Mexico. Our correspondent further states that France’s money is being expended in large amounts, in every direction, to increase the strength of the imperial army. A Vera Cruz paper confirms these statements and furthermore says “the French government permits the enlistment in France of volunteers, and will give to the imperial government of Mexico arms and munitions of war.” The same paper states that those who have studied the very latest developments are asking, “What difference will it make to the United States government whether it fights French regiments, directly known as such, or French regiments in disguise, under the colors of the empire?” This is a very natural and pertinent quee- tion and one that should be brought home to the American government with the least possi- ble delay. That there has been a lack of good faith toward the United States in this Mexican business by the Emperor Napoleon evidence of considerable weight is being furnished by nearly every arrival from Mexico. Besides the double dealing in the enlistment of volunteers under the eyes of the French government, the insincerity on the part of Napoleon in not withdrawing his regiments in pursuance of an agreement with the American Minister in Paris, and the shallow and disingenuous, not to say dishonorable, act of supplying the place of the flag of France with the flag of the empire, while the body of the regiments re- main as before, are in themselves grounds sufficient to warrant our government in promptly interfering, by force of arms if necessary, in the affairs of Mexico. This whole muddle of the empire in Mexico has been managed ina most imbecile manner by our government. It has shown neither dignity, self-respect nor vigor in vindicating the Ameri- can policy of non-intervention claimed to have been so notoriously outraged by the French Emperor. It.is fally time now to put in a strong arm in the settlement of the ques- tion. The period for continuing the Seward policy of dilly-dallying with this as well as with other foreign questions is passed; and now we trust a new era, full of freshness, power and dignity, will distinguish the man- agement of the matter of extinguishing the empire in Mexico. Exrremewrme wrra Fort Dersnces.—Our Fortress Monroe correspondent furnishes in another column the result of the first day’s ex- perimental firing of two heavy Rodman guns at an fron-plated granite wall seven feet nine inches thick, under the supervision cf the Board of Engineers, in order to test the capacity of this kind of fort defence. It does not appear that the experiment so far was very successful, the iron plates and granite buttresses yielding considerably to the weight of metal hurled against them. The guns employed were a fifteen-inch smooth bore and a twelve-inch riffe hore of the Rodman pattern, carrying respect- ively four bandred and thirty pound and six hundred and twenty pound shot. This was a pretty severe test, and after five stots the tar get became very shaky, the iron plates being split in many places and the granite wall seamed and splintered. It is ofthe utmost im- portance that our government should continue these experiments vigorously. All other nations are alive to the necessity of improving every arm of offenee and defence in warfare. In Eng- land and France improvements and experi- ments are continually being made. No doubt these governments are stimulated by the ex- traordinary advance made by us during the late war in the science of artillery and the ap- pliances of iron plating. We have justseen a great war decided in Europe by one slight im- provement in a single military arm—the Prue sian needle-gun. We know not how soon we may be callod upon to pat into operation the practical results of any improvement in the use of arms and the security of our coast defences. Just now we have at the entrance of New York harbor two apparently good forts, which might have withstood an ordinary attack some years ago, but we are certain that they are now not capable of resisting the improved artillery of the present day. Fort Hamilton is secured by its earthworks, but neither Fort Riehmond nor Lafayette, nor Castle William, on Governor's Isiand, is good for anything. Floating bat- teries would be more reliable than any other kind of defence. Admiral Farragut bas said and proved in bis own case at Vicksburg and New Orleans that a ship, if properly handled, can run pastany stationary fortification, but a floating battery that can follow ber up and cripple her by repeatedly hammering at her is not so easily avoided. If the system of iron- plated forts should prove successful after the experiments at Fortress Monroe, all the forts slong the coast should be clad with iron at once and made impregnable to shot if possi- ble. It is the duty of our government to keep abead of other countries in the improvement of firearms and methods of defence. We have taken the lead in this respect, and we should keep it. We trust, then, that experiments of all kinds will be tried until the nearest thing to perfection is reached. Tas Tares Parcapecraia Conventions.— The three Philadelphia conventions dave all been failures. The first was ® conservative convention of democrats and Johnson repu’s- licans. That has been entirely broken down in New York by the bad faith of the demo- Tob much copper proved fatal to pe Geet convention, Wo much nigger hes ruined the bybrid second and thiftd. Mean- while the country has struck out for itself a path between the two extremes, and regard- leas of factions or conventions is moving for the constitutional amendment as the only way of settling the whole business, The truth is that these antiquated modes of operating on the public mind have had their day. The mere dictum of a convention is no longer potent with the people. All the old parties and the power of the old convention system were buried by the war in one common grave. Our people now think for themselves, and find in the enterprise of a powerful and independent press abundant material on which to base their opinions, There is not the slightest probability that any of these three conventions—the conservative, the nigger or the Northern—will have any special effect on the coming elections, The niggerheads will be defeated and the copperheads will be de- feated. Thad Stevens will be ousted from power by the adoption of the constitutional amendment and the consequent admission of the Southern States into Congress. Wendell Phillips may possibly be elected, but his principles will be ignored, and the copper- heads will never be heard from at all. The Next State Election and the State Con- stitutional Convention. The constitution of the State of New York, as adopted in 1847, provides that at the general election to be held in 1866, and in each twen- tieth year thereafter, and also at such times as the Legislature may by law provide, the ques- tion “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote’ for members of the Legislature; and in case a majority shall decide in favor of a convention the Legislature at its next session shall provide by law for the election of delegates. The last Legislature passed an act providing for sub- mitting this question to the people, and also describing the mode in which it shall be done. At each poll a box marked “Convention” shall be provided, and ballots inscribed “For & convention to revise the constitution and amend the samo,” or the words “Against a convention,” &c., shall be deposited therein. This is one of the most important questions that will come before the people at the next election. The State constitution of twenty years ago cannot answer the purposes of a constitution for the present day. At the period of the adoption of the existing constitution we had not emerged from a war with a neighboring republic. and all the relations of life by the introduction of ocean steam navigation, the electric tele- graph, internal communication by railways, canals, &c., had not begum to be felt. In the interim we have also had a tremendous national struggle which shook the foundations of the government, but which has happily been over- come. Within twenty years the State has nearly doubled its population, bringing with the in- crease new pursuits, new political views and new ideas of a fixed and substantial form of republican government. And furthermore, there has since been laid a cable that locks the Old and the mon commercial embrace and altogether changes the features of mercantile and financial transactions throughout the world. All these great changes, following naturally in the career of our country’s progress, require constitu- tional amendment as well as statute law to cor- respond with them: This is the time to do it. We have, moreover, several essentially im- |’ portant changes to make in the constitution |' toaching our own municipal relations with the State government. In the first place we have tried an elective judiciary, and it has proven a lamentable failure, a signal collapse. Ex- perience convinces us that it is better to hold ome man responsible for an im- Proper appointment to the bench than half & million. man’s bead than: those of # hundred score. In the second place we hold that all promi- nent State efficers—Canal and Railroad Com- missioners, State. Prison Inspectors and the like—shoul@ be appointed by the Chief Magistrate of the State, with the advice and consent. of the Senate. Then the people would have a care about whom they elected Governor and State Senators. In the third place search- ing and radical reforms are necessaty in the government of the city of New York. Present there is no government here at all. is a rump controlled by contractors and cor rupt politicians, whose enly ambition seems to be to line their own pockets and pile on the taxes. Under this ramp. the taxes of the city have been increased trom ten to twenty-three millions per annum. The last effort of this rump of a city government is to make one of The momentum given to commerce New Worlds in a com- It is easier to chop off one At It their own clique Governor of the State ; but, fortunately for the city and State, it is pretty well ascertained he will be defeated. We re- quire in the new constitution a specific pro- vision giving the clty a Board of Control that shall have power to supervise ell the proceed- ings of the municipal functionaries and punish delinquents. This reform is imperatively de- manded under the new constitution. For the above and many other sound reasons we ad- vise the electors of the State to vete “yea” on the proposition to call a convention to amend the constitution of the State. Tax Monetary Convention. Berween France, Bava, Irate anp Swrramretann—We pub- lished recently the articles and terms of a convention entered into between France, Bek cium, Italy and Switzerland for the purpose of forming a monetary unity for those States. The following is the preamble stating the object of the convention:— His the King of the dia the eee ere the Swiss |, being equally desizous o| ontabliabit harmony betweea their ment on the part of France—for it andoabtedly originated there—for soveral reasons. First, it is @ step in keeping with the progressive spirit of the ago to bring about a uniform and simple medium of commercial interenurse among the nations of the world. We have at different times called for a convention of all nations to establish a uniform syszem of coins, weights and measures upon some general principle, as, for instance, that of the decimal system which we have adopted in our currency and which the Fréneh have adopted in their monsures. Next, wo regard it as an excellent movement, calqulated 40 break dowa the miserable aod © 24, 1866, annoying consplications in the money and ex- changes in the different parts of Europe. It is difficult for a stranger to understand them, particularly in travelling through the numer- ous States of Germany, where he is always subject to being fleeced. But we look upon this movement as an adroit stroke of policy on the part of the French government to umke France the con- trolling moneyed Power of the Continent. At present London exercises that power. Bank of England notes can be used everywhere, and negotiations in the British pound sterling are everywhere understood and used very gener- ally. The success of this convention in estab- lishing a uniform currency threugh the coun- tries named will have the effect of destroying the monetary influence of England and concen- trating it in Paris. The uniform coin that the convention may adopt will be the basis of exchange as welf as the medium of commerce throughout all southern and southwestern Europe. The little shaving monopolies of separate or small communities have lived their day. Like the telegraph and other monopolies of the petty German States, which taxed and perplexed travellers so much, they are des- tined to give way before the grand movements and liberal views of the times, But why not make the system of uniformity proposed a general one for both Europe and America? We repeat what we have urged before: let us have a convention of all the civilized nations to establish uniform coinage, weights and measures, The Birmi am Referm Meeting. Representative reform is still the all-absorb- ing topic of discussion in Great Britain. The success of the Birmingham demonstration, which has been quite unprecedented, and which certainly has materially advanced the cause which reformers have at heart, seems to have filled the public mind with something akin to astonishment. Mr. Bright, who was the hero of the day, has, by this his latest effort in the people’s cause, not only increased’ his already brilliant reputation as an orator, but won for himself a place in the esteem and affection of the industrial classes of his countrymen, from which he is not likely soon or easily to be dis- lodged. Whatever be the justice or injustice of his attacks om his political opponents he has spoken out for the-people once again, manfully and well. The excitement occasioned by the Hyde Park affair had not yet subsided when demonstrations of all but unparalleled magnitude, and occurring almost simul- taneously in different parts of the city, stirred London to its very centre. These again were quickly followed by others, smaller, per- haps, but not less significant, in various parts of the country. And now we are in possession of full details of this great Birmingham gath- ering—a gathering from which doubtless much was expected, but of which it is not too much to say that among all human assemblies, and in some very important and very ennobling features, it stands ulone. Never before, perhaps, in the history of the- world have two hundred’ thousand people volun- tarily come together for the purpose; not of putting forth the often unjust, always dangerous, though sometimes necessary hand of force, but of contributing the weight of their moral influence towards the settlement’ of » political question. Never, certainly, has any assembly at all approaching it in bulk and composed of similar material, been:charac- terized by more perfect propriety of outward conduct. That sucha meeting could be held in one of the busiest and most populous.centres of English industry, and that throughout the entire day nothing should have occurred to-dis- turb the order and‘ barmony of its proceedings, speaks well, on the whole, it must be admitted, for English liberty, and reflects the highest credit on the intelligence and self-posseszion of the masses of whom it was composed. The Birmingham demonstration is the noblest and most effective answer which has yet been given to those vile aspersions flung on the Eaglish people by Mr. Lowe and those who followed him into the Gave Adullam. It has, besides, substantially settled the question of reform and rendered it imperative on whatever party may hold the reins of power to. intro- duce on the openiag of Parliament a fresh Re- form bill. Great, however, as has been the success of this meeting, and much as it has done, it is not likely to be the last ofits kind of which we shal? hear during the recess. The people are at last awake. The flame is certain to spread more and more. Tn contemplating this Birmingham meeting it is impoesible not to leel, especially when it is looked at in connection with what is taking place in other parts of the world, that the suc- cess of popalar institutions. in. America is ex-. ercising a leavening influence upon the masses of human society everywhere, and that the people, im consequence, are nov merely be- . coming alive to their rigais, but are gradually - arriving at a knowledge ofthe truth that they} can afford te demand the reeognition of those. rights with calmness aad with dignity. I is one indication more that the age of absolute forms and worn out pyivilegesis rapidly vaa- ishing away and that better cimes are already dasning apon the world. AFFAIRS IN POUGHNEEPSIE, The Champion Rewor of the United States Challenged te Rew a Five Mile Race—Tem- perance Revival, &c. Povarkannne, Sept, 22, 1866, Jobn McKiel, of Gold Spring, N. Y., who won the seeond prize in the late » id regatta, and who Some time since defeated Gilbert Ward in a. three mile tace on the Hudsom bas sont a chal @ the cham. rower of the United States— Walter Brown, |, Maine—to row a five mile race an —" Sing Sing and Albany, ‘ort re on the the sam of Povoskxnram, Sept. 28, 1868 ‘The most enthasiastic tomperance revival ever known ip this State ts sing on here. Nightly meetings are held, and me hal mn have recently signed the ge, iveluding « inebriates of yours’ atand- ing. A Father Mathew Society has been organized, and already its ranks aro swelled to hundreds. Nearty two thousand persons attended the mestmg at Pine’s —— to-night, at which over one hundred signed the pledge. THE SHIPMENT OF SUPPLIES FOR THE MEXICAN LIBERALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BERALD. Prvayctat, Acency or tae Rervatio of Mexico, 57 Broapwar, New Tork, Sept. 21, 1806. Tn order to oorrect some of the statements of your cor- Tespoudent at Brazos Santingo, in his letier dated Angust 30, which appeared in your paper the 19th inat., permit us lo remark that we sro not aud have not been in any way pecuniary interested to the extent of a single dollar im any whiok have been sent to the republic of Mexico, it business in connection with AMUSEMENTS. ‘The Metropolitan Entertainments. Ristori’s advent and acting appear to have {efused al ready new life into the dramatic and musical manage- ment of New York and Brooklyn. Programmes ar- ranged with more care have been issued, engagements have been entered into and are being perfected with ar- tistes of eminence, and it really appears @# if the saste and feeling of the public will be more generallyon- sulted in the production of pieces in the future, fhe anmouncements for the week include THE BROADWAY THEATRE, Mr, J. H. Hackett, the comedian and Shakeperian de~! lineator, commences an engagement limited to twelve nights and two matinées,at the Broadway Theatre this evening. Mr. Hackett opens in his famous impersona- tion of Sir Johm Falstaff, in the Merry Wives of Windsor. He will be supported with Justice Shallow, by Mr. J. H. Jack; Doctor Caius, Mr. Dan’ Symons (his first appear- ance in America); Mrs, Ford, Miss Alice Gray; Mrs. Page, Mrs. G. W. Stoddard; Dame Quickly, Mrs. @. H. Gu- bert, and a full cast of power ineach character. ‘THE GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Mr. Bogumil Dawison, the great German artiste; onterm the second week of his engagement at the Stadt (Ger- man) theatre, under circumstances worthy in every spect of his high reputation. Mr, Dawison, supported by | the whole force of the company, will’ perform three’ evenings during the week, thus:—Tueeday, as Fransisde Moor, in Schiller’s drama, the Robbers; Thursday, aw Shylock, in the Merchant of Venice, and Saturday; im Dr. Gutzkow's classic comedy, The King’s Lieutenant. NEW YORK THEATRE, ‘The managers of the New York theatre, Broadway, near Righth street, having effected an-engagement with Miss Fanny Young, s talented burlesque actress from they Austrahan theatres, will introduce that young lady to the audience this evening. The performances commence with: the two act comedy, entitled A Fine Old English Gentleman; after which will be given tho rather start- ling burlesque of Rum-ti-foo-zle; or, the Loves of Lord Lovel and Nancy’ Bell, with Lady Belt by Miss Fanny Young. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. i Tony Pastor produces this evening, at his Opera house, in the Bowery, a new drama; entitled ‘Young America 1n Ireland, with Tony Pastor a» George Washington Sport. Also the first appearance’ of the female gymoast, Senorita’ do Lopez, with her threo In- fant Acrobats, aged three, five and seven years. The first appearance of the comic artiste, Mr. Harry Bur- chard. A new grand ballet divertissiment, named the Aniwated Flowers, The first appearance of the-Hiber- nian Boys, and another batch of original songs, by Tony Pastor. This is sufficient for one evening; but Tomy has other novelties in preparation and just on hand. GERMAN THALIA- THEATRE. The management of this establishment, whieh is situate in Broadway, opposite the St Nicholas Hotet, au- nounces for this (Monday) evening, the presentation of Richards Wanderleben, in Wild Oats, BUDWORTA’S MINSTRATS. The company directed by Mr. Budworth draws crowded and very fashionable audiences to the new Fifth Avenue Opera House, where the costly enterprise undertakem for its organization only stimulates the management tothe issue of very comprehensive bills of entertainment, After the production of some excellent pieces this ovem- ing, Kehoes- from Fatherland will be given by Mr. J, H. Budworth, Mr. Griffin introducing the wonderful curiosity, The Egyptian Sphynx. The-performances con- clude with the African opera, Virgiuny Cupids, with Cuff (in imitation of the late T. D. Rice), by J. H. Bad- worth; Sam Johnson, W. 8 Budworth; Pete, R. Hughes; Rose, Fred:Abbott, CHARLEY winte's TROUPE. Charley White's Minstrels and combination company appear at Bryants’ Mechanics’ Hall, Boocdway, in a new bill, embraeing an entire change of programme. A wonder will be produced in the persom of Master Frank Ashton, “a boneless boy,” eight years old, assisted by his father, W. H. Ashton, Fanmy Forrest, a favorite vocalist, makes a first appearance at the house. A com- prehensive list of pieces will be included, with the pante mime entitied Cat-Pot-Pic, or the Persecuted Clown, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Mesers. Birch, Wambold, Bernard: & Backus have beon patronized extensively, as usual, since the reopen~- ing of: their hall, No. 585 Broadway. They have out a very good Will, including Othello and-Macbeth, by Billy Birch and (harley Backus, and Childrem of Cypress, or- Babes in the Wood, The entertainments conclude with tbe burlesque, The Biack Cook, introducing the Africam.. ballet troupe. M. MARTE AT IRVING HALL ‘This extraordinary illusionist enters the second week of his wonderful and attractive works at Irving Hall. this ovening. Very peculiar foatares im bis operations are that the articles used are composed of crystal and | the prineipal illusions accomplisted in the midst of the audieace. COMBINATION ENTRRTAINMENT AT ARGUS HALL. At-this ball, No. 600 Broadway, is given a combina-. tion entertainment, cemsisting of an exhibition of original . paintings, with parior concerts, arranged on the plan of the London perlor concerts. KXPLY aND Leow’s IOuBTRELS, The opening night of this.troupe: is postponed to. Monday, the Ist of October, the extensive alterations which.are being mede atthe hall, No. 720 Broadway, Not beimg yet completed. RISTORI IN. BROOKLYN. Next Thursday evening, September 27, Madame Ade- laide Ristori makes her debut in Brooklyn, at the Acad-. emy ef Music, appearing in her greab rile of Medea. ‘TRE FARK THEATRE, DROORLTE. Mrs, F. B. Conway, in hor spirited enterprise, bas mede. arrengemonts to.prodace as this favorite place of amuse- ment, this evening and during the week, a new play, en- titled Three Tiraes Dead—a wery close and exciting dram- tization of Migs Braddon’s novel. The piece haabees, prepared for the stage with care, nad will be brought oat, with new scenery and a)propriate appointments ROOLEY'S OPFRA NOUSH, BROOKLYN. Tony Denier, the pantomimst, Aschy Hughes,.Dave Reed and Jetnny Moigan; are still on the boards as Hooley’s, in all the arausing axcellencios which Sotlow from their exertions with the acting of the othor/mem. bers of thooompany. VESTVALI IN AROOKLYN. The farswell performances of Mile. Vestvali tak place atthe Breoklyn Academy of. Music ported by a strong east, a full ehora: chestra, Vestvali will appear in Games, with four songs. MR, JOSH PROCTOR AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEIT OF mute, Mr. Tayleure heg thus fer oujeyed & seascer, of pros~ pority atthis house. On Friday evening next he wilt introduce to the Brooklyn public the well known American tragedian Mr. Dnsep’s Proctor, who.appeam im his original role of the Jibbewninosay, in the danma of Nick of the Woods, The picee will be given in efetive style, It willbe Mr. Rrootor’s only appearance In the “Oiny of Chusshes."’ He, will be followed, om the Sth pragimo, by Mrs. Jean M. Lander, Mincellancous. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams commenoodsa moat sue~ ecasful sengon at the Opera House, Mitteirg, on Monday last, The house has been crowded every night, camp stools even being brought into use in the passage ways. It is seven years since these artista played in Pittsburg, and the people gave them a most cordial welcome bunk. ‘They will returm to New York at the expiration of the preseat week. ‘The favorite artiste Mrs. Jean M. Lander is about toanter upom her engagements for the season with renewed vigor, Negotiations are pending which wilt probably afford the playgoers of New Yerk an opportanity of seeing her at a Broadway theasre some time in the ‘winter. Mr. Goorge Fawcett Rowe, a talented rapreseniative of high comedy, returns to America from London sed Paris within a week, with some attractive novoltion in hia line, ‘The steamship Torusem at this port on Satarday landed a great curiosty ip the shape of s young elephant of “African descent,” Imported directly from the forest and jungle of that somewhat kindred voll for the cotlec- Mion of ‘Yankee’ Robinson, the Asrerioan showman, having bis headquarters in Chicage, Although thou. sands of dollars have been expended im attompts to bring an African oleyhant to America, this is the fignt instance of success, The infant siranger @ only thity. oight inches bigh. government is simply to sell ite bonds, paying its orders for proceeds thereof. The catyo of the samer Srerman was pr ‘haed hor yi fg aon tof the ANRIVAL OF THE AT CINCINMATA. mips Lntanpiany for its Is, and was the property Crvcrnmant, Sept. 8, 1888. t ‘oy the agent im dhargo as“ private terday reception of American oitimens,” ia order to falliog | night Ya Conrt Ea) into the ands of people inimical to the fovern: | waa welcomed by Wr. Ly HR ment, and they Were removed to Brownsville, where ing. Spesohes were maae by Branscomh, they comained subject to the order of the officers of the Miksourt, General Thomas, of Governor Brownlow'’s reqablia whenever apeded, Tourn, reapeostully, + Mr Fowler, of Coe JOBN W. MuLIeS & On eee