The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1866, Page 6

NEW YORK JANES GoxDoN BENNET r EDITOR AND PROPER DR, OPFOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAL THE DAILY HERAL D, published every day in the year, HERALD. 7 878. Foor conte por copy. Annual subscription price, $14, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- ing and Engr newly and promptly executed at the owest rales. “AMUSEMENTS THIS EV. ENING. TABATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth siveet near Sixta avonue.—Le CuaLer—Many Stvart. BROADWAY THEATRE, strect.—FaNcHon. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broxaway 0) apporie Now Yors Hotel.—Tae Cuitp oF tar ReGimeNt—Rew 1-100 Z1* Broadway, vear Broome IRVING HALL, Place.—Mn. inp Mas. Howaro Pave (N Tai AMUSING NTERTALNMEST DODWORTH'S HALL. 806 Broadway.—Prornsson Hanrz witt Puxvors wis Mimactes. Po! PRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, oppoaiia Metropolitan Is tain Eraior: ion, Stncixa, Daxcisa axp Buries Smaves on Puaxrom [uivsioxs FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, fyrouiy-fourth atrect.—Bopwourd's MINSTRELS. Le mie Battads, BuKLESQuES, &0. GR RAGON KELLY & LEON’S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, ‘7 Broadway—In rarte Sonos, Dances, Eccenraicring, &c.—Dovaine ror 4 Wire Vooas Mivstautsy Barts: &o.—Cou' CHARLEY. WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Meohanics' Hall, 472 Broadw: NA VanInvy oF oque awp LAvgMaue ENTeirainMesrs, CORPS D& BALLer, & Tux Hireoruzatnox. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S "3 PARK THEATRE, Brookyla.— oe Were: HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn —Ermioriax Min- BTRELSY, BALLADS, BUKLESQUES AND PANTOMIME TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio BRTISSI SEAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, Wiliamsburg.—Graxp srslOPiaN ENTERTAINMENT, HARRY Lesiis, THe Hero or Niagana FALLS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Zectunes wire Tax Oxy-Hypnoey Micxoscore — twi daily. Heap axp Rigat Au or Prox’: Open from 4M, til 10 P.M, STUDIO BUILDING, 51 West Tenth street. —Exmrsition oF Mannie 5: TRIPLE SHEET. EUROPE. By tho Atlantic cable we have advices from Kurope dated yesterday evening, October 23. It was reported in’London that tue Turkish army had eon severely defeated by the Curistians after four daya’ Dghting Anothor French imperial manifesto is looked for in Paris, Lord Clarendon 1s dangerously il! in London Consols closed in London at 8914 for money. United States five-twontios were al 63 at the close. ‘Tho Liverpool cotton market wae firin at noon. Mid- dling uplands fifteen and ono-fourth pence. Breadstuits ‘wero firmer at noon, Our files by the Peruvian, dated to the 11th inst., reaohed this city from Quebec yesterday At the plebiscite in Venetian which bas jnat taken plage, tho following is the question on which the people wore called to vote:—“Do you wish to take part in the ©onstitutional monarchy of King Vicor Emanuel It, King of [taly, and his lawful successors?" The affirma- tivo, as reported inthe Hena.o yesterday, was uuavi- mous, The Paris correspondent of the London Siar, writing on the evening of the 10th of October, says:—“La France Confirms the sad news as to the alarming state of pros- tration into which the courageous Empress Charlotte of Mexico has fallen. Hor life is in the utmostdlanger, and the absence of her husband, to whom she is tenderly at- tached, naturally increases the painful situation for those ®round her. She has broken down from over-worked nerves after the immense bodily fatigue of her journey.” M. Auguste Polo, a talented contributor to La Franes, of Paris, writing uuder the nom de plume “Polin,” died An Paris from Asiatic cholera Uctober 9. He resided in New York some five or six years, where he mastered the English language. A brother was murdered a fow ‘Months since by negroes at Cayenne, where his family Dave large estates 7] THE CITY. Tho yachts Vesta and Halcyon started yes'erday ona race from Sands Point to New London and back fora Piece of plate. Tho start was made at 11.56% A. M. from Sands Point, and for a considerable time there was mo wind. Soon, however, a breeze arose from the south- ward that jmpolied both at a good pace. The latest des- Patch shows the Haleyon a mile ahead. The total number of deaths in this city for the week ending Saturday, October 20, is reported at 475, The Principal diseases or causes enumerated are:—From cholera, 5; by accident, 16; diarrhceal diseases, 34; obolera infantum, 18; typhus fever, 13, cramp, 9, diphtheria, 9; zymotic diseases, 131. , / We publish in another cotumn a brief and interesting history of the cholera in this country from the time of its original appearance in 1832; giving tables of the umber of doaths during each visitation and the com- parative mortality of different weeks, beside accounts of the panics created by the epidemics. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening a Union Republican ratification meeting of the First ward ‘was told, @ which an olaborate addreas on the political fesuos of tho day was delivered by General Carl Schurz. The attendance was quite large, An address was also dolivered by Major Haggerty aud appropriate resolutions adopted. ‘The trial of John R. Mareden, John Maxon and Wil- liam MeDormott, charged with frauds on the govern ment, has been again postponed—this time to the November term of the United States Circuit Court, & motion wag made in the Superior Court, special term, yesterday, by Mary Y. Bean, keeper of a female seminary at 63 West Forty-second street, to restrain the landlords from continuing summary proceedings to dis possons her from the premises ihe summary proceed. Anga were before the City Judge, and the queetion of the Jurisdiction of that official in such cares came up for dts. cussion, The further hearing of the case bas been ad- Journed to October 25. A case involving the liability of common carriers hae ‘boon tried in the Supreme Court, Cironit, part 3 John O'Connell brought an action against the American Mransit Company for the lose of « trunk, which he brought with him as baggage on the steamer America from@an Francisco to New York. The jury brought in ‘& verdict for plaintiff, assessing bie loss at $500 Judge Daniels, sitting in special term of the Supreme Court, yesterday, delivered an important decision in tho guit of tho Sixth Avenue Railroad Company against the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company and pthers This action was brought to restrain defendants from running their cars upon the tracks of plaintiffs, Jaid in cortajn portions ef the city. Judge Daniels, in diomissing the complaint, gives an elaborate opinion as to the aw governing railroad companies in this city, as ‘Woll as those which control the public highway. ‘Tho case of Nowell va, Wheeler, in the Superior Court, ‘Was tried for the third time yesterday, and resulted in a Vordict io favor of the plaintiff for $21,016 65, It was ‘Sn action for the failure to pay royalty on sale of coffee Cloansed by & machine invented by plaintiff and worked ‘by the application of beat and friction. A decision was rendered by the General Term of the Court of Common Pieas yesterday against the Manbattan Ges Company for failure to put gar ina house, after re ceiving $15 from a man named Rolet, on, ype understand. ing that the work was io be done An interesting suit for the removal of » testamentary guardian appointed by Francis Gerrety, deconsed, over his two obildren, came up for trini yervorday in Bpectal orm of the Bupreme Court. The suit is eniitied Eltra. Doth Foley by her guardian, John Fo) net George MoDonald, The property in the band: this guardian 1a anid to be worth I $100,000, and piaintity socks to remove him on the Of Incompetency. Tye case ‘wan commenced and will be | Any, MAO Ree ogee 8 LTT Mea Kuali, shacatd mish shgablacd sie ut she ” ‘NEW YORK HERALD, Greenwich Insurance Company of $52,400, was arraigned yesterday before Justice Dodge and commited for further trial. Hoe is alao charged with forgery. The Fonians are again busy in subscribing money to aid in tiberating Ireland. Stephons is expected from the Wost to-morrow, anda great meeting is tobe held on Sunday in Jones’ Wood, at which he will speak for the last time in this country. The steamship Columbia, Captain Slocum, will aail at three P. M. to-day for Havana, from pior No. 4 North river. The mails will close at the Post Office at half. past one o'clock. Tho steamship Genoral Sedgwick, Captain Whitehurst, for Galveston, Texas, vow loading at pier 20 Rast river, has been unavoidably dotained until Saturday noxt, when sho wiil sail at three P. M. The slock market was strong yesterday and prices wore generally higher. Gold advanced to 14734 a 34 be- fore four P, B., aftor selling at 14534. The speedy decline in gold has bad the effect of ‘un. settling commercial values to @ considerable extent, ea- peciaily in foreign goods, and the movement in trade yosterday was accordingly rather slow. The business in breadstuff were leas active, though the corn market was again rampant, prices having further advanced 5c. a Tc. per bushel. Cotton was dull and lower. Coffee was steady and firm. On ‘Change flour was quiet steady. Wheat advanced 3c. a Sc. per bushel. Oats were lc, a 8c. higher. Pork was steady and firm. Beef was unchanged, Lard was dull and scarcely 90 drm. Whiskey was steady. Freights were more active. Pe- trolout was 3¢0. lower, with however more doing at the reduction. ~ MISCELLANEOUS. Nows from Mexioo to Ootober 2 indicates that the French regiments én route home have been ordered back to enable Mojia to retake Matamoros. A letter which we Publish froma Fenian in the Mexican service gives an interesting rémemé of the situation in the republic. It is reported from San Francisco that Mazatlan and Acapulco were to be evacuated by the imperial troops by order of Bazaino and in opposition to the wishes of *Maximilian. The excitement at Baltimore has materially subsided, laving been allayed by the postponement of the hearing of the charges againat the Police Commissioners. It is expected that the excitement will be again aroused should the Governor persist in his purpose of removing the Commissioners. \fo another columa we publish full details of the loss by burning of the Charleston steamship Theodore D, Wagner, bound from Boston to Charleston, S.C. Hor passengers, twenty-six in number, wore all saved, as was also the crew, four of whom were badly burned. The steamer, valuod at $150,000, and the cargo aro a total loss, The captain and passengers have arrived atthe Atlantic docks, Brooklyn, on board the brig Velocity, of this port. x Commodore Lawrence, commanding the Atlantic coast squadron, has arrived at Fortress Monroe, and is taking steps to consolidate his with the North Atlantic and Woat Ipdia squadrons, Rear Admiral Palmer is to com- mand the new squadron. The consolidation will be com- pleted in a few days. The people of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, have peti- toned Queen Victoria to allow the colony to withdraw from the British and annox itself to the United States government. A government commission is at present engaged in investigating tho Evening Star disaster. The trial of Colonel Lynoh and other Fenian prisoners at Toronto begins to-day. It is thought that a tow of the prominent prisoners will be sentenced to death and then reprieved. ‘The California Steam Navigation Company's boat Julia was blown up by the explosion of the steam drum, by which eight persons were killed and seven or eight wounded. Within the past week George Peabody, the American millionaire banker, has given away $800,000 to chari- table and literary institutions. Yale and Harvard Col- loges each received $150,000, and tho Peabody Institute, at Baltimore, received an additional half million. We publish elsowhere the sermon of Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louts, at the close of the Plenary Counoil of the Catholics at Baltimore. President Johnson was Present during its delivery. We also give the address of Archbishop Purcell to Archbishop Spaulding, and the reply of the latter on dissolving the Council. ‘The Captain Kidd treasure excitement has extended to New Haven, Conn., anda company has been formed to continue the search for the buried gold. Mra. Havey P. Allen was inatantly killed yesterday at Canarsie station, on the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad, by being run over by a gravel train. Charles McKiel, of old Spring, in tho boat Rapid, won the sculling race at Poughkeepsie yosterday. New York city creditors of the suspended firm of Alden, Frink & Co., charge that the firm lately bought $20,000 worth of goods in this city, and sold the came here at auction. Gilbert Eaton, gon of the weil known oar builder, of Troy, was killed on the 16th inst., at Lincoln, Hlinoia, by aman named Warwick. The Vermont Legislature yesterday olected Luke P. Poland United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of Senator Collamer; George F. Edmunds to fill the un- expired term of Senator Foot, and Justin 8. Morrill to sucoeed Mr. Collamer from the 4th of March next. Tho Tycoon of Japan is dead. A son of Prince Milo, said to be In favor of foreign intercourse, is mentioned as his successor. Paymaster Enleun, United States Army, was robbed at Fort Baize, on the 5th inst., of $60,000 in greenbacks and $53,000 in vouchers. A communication from United States Consul Kil- patrick, at Nassao, narrates the damage done to vessels in the Bahamas by the lato hurrican Tue Turearenen Riots i Battiwore.—The proclamation of the Governor of the State of Maryland, cautioning all those who are inciting riots in the city of Baltimore that the whole power of the State will be exhausted to com- pel obedience to the laws and to preserve the peace of the commonwealth, is well timed ‘ond places the conduct of the radical agita- tors in its correct Tight. There is no possible justification for the threatened resistance of the Police Commissioners to the laws of the State. If, as they allege, the Governor has not the legal power to remove them, they should test the question in the courts and not organ- ize an armed rebellion against the authority of the Exeeutive of the State. The report spread by the Commissioners and their friends that a compromise had been offered by the Governor, based upon the consent of the Po- lice Commissioners to divide up the inspectors of election, and which is distinctly denied by the Governor, shows that the revolutionary officers are sensible of the wenkness of their position and the illegality of their action. Sworn charges have béen made against them of violations of law and miscon- duet in’ their official capacity, and these charges, as the Governor declares, must be investigated. There can be no compromise of the laws of the State. But the present action of the Commissioners alone proves them to be wnfit persons to hold control of the police and should occasion their removal. The proclamation of Governor Swann should be followed up b¥%q almilar proclamation from the Governor of Louisiana, if any resistance is offered by the radical copperheads and ex- rebels to the execution of the laws in that State. In both cases the leaders of the rioters should be arrested and punished. If every act of an executive that may happen to displease one political faction or another is to be held as a justification for rioting and blood- shed, the whole country will We given over to anarchy. These squabbles are local in their character and affect only a set of scheming political ad- venturere. The good sense of the people is against them. They will be readily put down if they should result in an actual outbreak, and the lawe will be vindicated and enforced. But they are none the less a diagrace to the national reputation, apd the miserable demagogues who incite them should be hgld to a strict eccount- ability. Woe to them if they exolte too far thy Prospect ef a Reduction in Duties and Taxes. We have information which leads us to be- lieve that the Revenue Commission, appointed to make investigations into the subject of revenue and to report thereon, will recom- mend a reduction or taking off entirely the tax on manufactures and raw articles, as well as & reduction of the income tax, probably to three per cent on incomes over a thousand dol- lars, and cutting it off on all under that amount. It is believed, too, that the Secretary of the Treasury will endorse this recommenda- tion in his own report to Congress next De- cember. To show the importance of the views of this Commission and the probability that Congress may act upon them, we call attention to the declared object which the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress had in creating a Com- mission, When Mr. Fessenden was Secretary he recommended in his report for 1864 that Congreas should authorize him to appoint a Commission, to be composed of three suitable and efficient officers, to take into consideration the entire revenue system of the country, foreign as well as internal, to sift it thoroughly, and to make such recommendations for ing it ae their investigations might suggest. met the approval of Congress. That bély saw that a Commission of this character was the beat to take up the subject, that it would have nothing else to occupy itself with, and that it would have the entire period between the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses to consider the important matter. The Com- mission was created accordingly and was composed of three gentlemen elected especially on account of their experi- ence and ability as political. economists and statisticians, Ithas beenin session since last spring and has gone through '9 vast amount of work. Producers, manufacturers, merchants and consumers have been examined by it, and statistics have been compiled with great care upon the whole subject. The result of these labors will be found in the forthcom- ing report which we refer to and in the recom- mendation which we understand will be made both by the Commission and the Secretary of the Treasury for a reduotion ne duties and taxes. This will be gratifying indéttighets x the whole country for while we are ablo to bear the present burdens and have borne them without a murmur, there is no necessity to raise @ superabundant revenue. In fact, to do 30 only leads to extravagance, corruption and demoralization. The revenue the last facal year approached six hundred millions, and it is estimated that it will reach between six and seven hundred millions the year ending 1867, The interest on the debt in round numbers: is @ hundred and fifty millions. The current ex- penses of the government ought not to exceed a hundred and fifty millions more, including pensions, support of the Freedmen’s Bureau and for claims growing out of the war, as well as for the gupport.of the regular departments of government. This is really a high estimate and might be reduced probably the first year. It certainly would be too large for times of peace after we have disposed of claims grow- ing ou of the war and the Freedmen’s Bureau. Then there should be a permanent sinking fund established which need not exceed fifty millions a year. From three hundred to three hundred and fifty millions would be an ample revenue. But if Congress will abolish the present national bank system, or rather if it will substitute non-interest bearing legal ten- ders for the present national bank currency, and with these legal tenders buy up the inter- est bearing bonds which the banks deposit as security for their issue and draw interest from, @ great reduction can be made in our expendi- tures, Twenty millions a year at least would be saved—a sum which now is an absolute gra- tulty to the monopolizing and dangerous na- tional bank corporations. This sum might form the sinking fund, which of itself at compound interest would liquidate the debt within thirty- five years. In that case the entire revenue for current expenses, interest and all, need not ex- ceed three hundred millions. Half the present revenue—half our present taxes and duties would be sufficient for all these purposes if the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress have ability enough to establish a proper financial system. Let us hope that in the proposed reduction of duties and taxes Mr. McCulloch and Con- gress will not forget the South, that section of our country which has no opportugity of speaking for itself. An onerous tax lies heavily on the productions ofa people who are crushed to the earth by poverty and mis- fortunes, The tax on cotton should be the first to be abolished. The South and the Southern people are least able of any under their pre- sent distress to bear a tax on production. We want to stimulate the productions of that splendid section of the republic and not to check them. Looking, then, at our immense superfluous income, we are gratified to see that there isa prospect of our burdens being lightened everywhere, South as well as North, and that we may hope to take a new and states- manlike course in our financial system as well as in our foreign policy. Tae Porttayp Fire—Rarw 0 }O- Tiox.—Among the many examples of the pro- gressive spirit and enterprise of this country is the rapidity with which great misfortunes are retrieved. It is but little more than three months since the greater portion of the city of Portland was burned, and it appears that up to this time nearly seven handred new buildings have been erected upon the ruins of the disastrous conflagration. It is to be hoped that they have been consiructed of « substan- tial form, with a view to security against future calamities by fire. This disaster has developed another remarkable trait in the character of the American people—their boundless charity. The appeal for aid to the sufferers by the Port- land fire has been answered by a contribution from all parte of the country amounting to nearly half a million of dollara, Thus our en- terprise and our benevolence go hand in hand. When a heavy calamity befalls one portion of the country the sympathies and the purses of the whole people are tendered to the sufferers. Nor is this manifegtation of charity confined to those in our own cities, The appeal from Quebec to the New York Stock Exchange, after the recent awful conflagration in the former city, has been answered by ® prompt contribution of two thousand dollars, and we have no doubt that not only will that sum be increased, but that other set jes wil] come to tho resoue also. Even of aur own iaternin anee tom a dealt) | lead WEDNESDAY, OCTUBER 24, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET: benevolence, these donations may be timely; for, though Canada is now a foreign country, she may before long become a part of the United States, and Quebeq, rebuilt and reju- venated, bo one’ of our flourishing Northern cities, The frequent large and destructive fires which have oocurred on this continent within a short time convey a lesson and a warning. ‘The leason is to be found in the fact that the spread of fire is attributable to the miserable construction of the buildings. The warning suggests the necessity of erecting more sub- stantial buildings in future. Carlotta in Kurope—‘I Am Net Mad! I Am Not Mad:” The question whether the Empress Carlotta of Mexico is sane or insane seems to trouble some people mightily. The statements as to her insanity are very positive, but the facts offered to corroborate these statements are very weak. Certain Paris, London and Bel- gian journals unite in declaring that the mind of the wife of Maximilian is unsettled ; but they base this assertion upon such simple facts as the summons. of the Count de Flandre to Rome, the long visit of Carlotta to the Vatican and thé gossip of private correspondents. On the other hand, the Paris Patrie denounces the rumors es entirely false. Most of the Ameri- can papers have eagerly accepted the insanity story as correct, however, and think that they find in the cable telegram of yesterday proof positive of its authenticity. The cable tells us that “a steamer will sail from Trieste for Mexico forthwith, by express order of the Emperor Francis Joseph.” How that can be construed as evidence of Carlotta’s insanity wo are una- Ble to perooive. Our contemporaries may be ingenious énough to discover in it confirmation strong as Holy Writ ; but to us it appears just the contrary. They reason that the Aus- trian Emperor bas sont this steamer to bring Maximilian home because Carlotta is crazy. A much quicker way of getting Maximilian back to Europe in such an event would be a despatch per the cable, upon the receipt of which he could take a French steamer or charter an American vossel. The expense would be leas and the saving of time considerable. Francis Joseph is too poor to send a’sleatmer when a telegram would do, and too shrewd to use steam instead of lightning when he is in a burry. On the whole we are strongly inclined to be- lieve that Carlotta has lost her temper and her cause, but not her reason. The Lord knows that she has suffered enough to try the temper of a saint, and as for her cause, it was hopeless, We believe, too, that the steamer at Trieste is to convey her back to Mexico to arrange for Maximilian’s final departure. Carlotta has shown herself to be a Indy of too heroic a temperament to become insane over her digap- pointments. With loving devotion she left the refinements and luxuries of Miramar and vol- untarily exiled herself to Mexico in order to help her husband build up an empire. After her arrival there she labored faithfully and in cessantly to the same end. Whatever popn- larity Maximilian may possess among the Mexicans he owes entirely to Carlotta. If grace, beauty, benevolence, goodness and a sincere disposition to benefit the people could have ostablished the usurper’s power, Car- lotta would have succeeded. When affairs grew more and more complicated, and every friend seemed to fail ber, the ex- cellences of this lady’s character became even more illustrious. She who had left her country now prepared to endure the severe trial of separation from her husband. She volunteered to return to Europe, consult in per- son with Napoleon and the Pope, and see what arrangements could be made for sustaining the empire. Maximilian consenied, and, almost unattended, his devoted wife crossed the At- lantic. She saw Napoleon and was told that he could and would do nothing more for Maximi- lian. Having sent a telegram to this effect to her husband, Carlotta then retired to Miramar for a litile rest. Next she went to Rome and found the Pope unable and unwilling to help her. Of course she was disappointed; of course she had a good cry; but after that she summoned ber brother, the Count de Flandre, returned with him to Miramar and at once Prepared to sail for Mexico in the special steamer from Trieste. Now where, in all these incidents, is there any evidence of madness? The publications in the papers amount to nothing. The papers all published the scandal about Mrs. and Senator Sprague, which Chief Justice Chase has authorized us to contradict. The news- papers all published the last Philadelphia canard, which has been branded as a forgery. The summons to the Count de Flandre was but natural; for to whom else should Carlotta turn in her trouble than to her brother? The visit to the Vatican was no proof of insanity. Carlotta’s declaration that she would not leave the palace until the Pope had com- plied with hor request was merely a charming piece of feminine persistency, The Pope, who clearly understands human nature much bet- ter than the gossippers, took the matter very coolly. He showed Carlotta into his study, continued his ordinary audiences, ate his dinner alone—since sr etiquette forbade pim tg jnvitg bis guesi—went out for his ‘post-pran ial drive, and when he came back the Empross was gone, as he had expected, her patience having been thoroughly exhausted. No doubt Carlotta felt very badly. Perhaps she had a nervous ache and required the attentions of a phy clan, as the papers assert. This would have been very like a woman. But it would be very un- like a woman, and especially such s woman as Carlotta, to lose her senses while a handker- chief and bottle of smelling salte were at- tainable and while her absent husband still needed her best services. It is reasonable to |. presume that, as an empress, Carlotta was cut to the quick by Napoleon’s indifference, and that, @8 9 good Catholic, she was grievously wounded by the Pope’s refusal to sanction Maximilian’s acts; but there is nothing in this to suggest insanity. The Mexican scheme, once so important, has been almost forgotten by Napoleon in the pressure of more important affairs nearer home, and the Pope could bardly be expected to recall his official condemnation of Maximilian’s anti-churoh policy at the re- quest Of Maximilian’s wife. Carlotta has done her best; she is worthy to be ranked among modern heroines; but she hes That is the whole story. bee of on & lanatic sg tied she will Tey yer Mexico fe EE of thp disease will remain among us all the winter, to broak out afresh in spring, with any encouragements in the way accumulations of filth or standing pools on sinks of miasma. Our Board of Health, there fore, shonid not relax their effonts, on ao couat of the approach of the cold season, to! keep the cities under their charge clean andi wholesome. But, pestilence or no pestilence; the Board has proved itself one of the beat and most essential institutions of this ey ge district, and its field of duties’ ought to be enlarged instead of being diminished. Erescts or Prorecrion—Tas Conors Fan- urr.—Our high protective tariff does not, it seems, work quite so well for our manufac- turers as they anticipated. One of the largest firms in the country, working five factories and employing upwards of a thousand hands, has just gone by the board, and, it is expected, will bring down with it a number of other In Cohoes and Troy, where it had financial ald Spain and the Pepe. We learn by the Atlanfic telegraph that “Spain has announced ber intention to uphold the temporal power of the+Pope after the French forces leave Rome.” This announce- ment will not take Europe by surprise, as Something equivatent to ft has been for some moaths expected, and it will be received less as an evidence of the devoted courage of the Queen of Spain than of the fatuity and weak- neas of those who govern her councils. The Spanish protectorate is not a solution of the Roman question for any one but the Emperor Napoleon, For him it affords a complete and easy escape from a position that he cotffd no longer hold, and that but a few days ayo it seemed he could not quit without humiliation. He has pledged France for the safety of the Pope's temporality, but he has committed him- self to the doctrine of nationalities and is bound by his own convention to withdraw the French troops from Rome. How withdraw his troops and yet protect the Pope from the eager, grand and growing spirit of Italian nationality, ready to sweep before it any obsta- cle less than the military power of a country like France? The copversion of some portion of the French troops into volunteer Paps: brigades did not meet the necessity of the case, and was a pitiful subterfuge. The Spanish announcement, however, meets every requirement; for while to the whole outside world Spain is merely a man of straw in this connection, the Pope is of all others estopped from underrating the strength of that most Catholic Power, and must accept Spain as the full equivalent of France, while France thus seizes the opportunity to escape from a difficulty that has compromised the freedom of her actions for so longa time. The announcement of the Queen of Spain is a great triumph of the Emperor’s diplomacy. But Spain thus adds one more Je he a welghis thai have already brought her to bank- ruptcy and are fast hurrying her to the ex- tremity of national disaster. Barely able to stagger onward through her own troubles, how can she sustain the Pope? Will the union of the two feeblest Powers of Europe give strength the screw on to.such an extent that invited foreign competition, and now the Belgian manufactarers are beating thep on thelr own ground in spite of the heavy duties which they have to pay. The present scale of prices in domestic manufactures cannot be long maintained. Foreign skill and enterprise will soon break them down, and then manufacturers, as well as our legislators, see the impolicy of maintaining « tariff whi imposes needless burdens on the it of the country and involves heavy waste collection. A tariff on a few articles of genoral consumption would raise all the azguve * is gecedsaty to pay the expénsed t Sal ornmibnt and liquidate the national debt. revenue required to maintain an a f gatherers is es productive wealth lost to the country. The success of the reforms effedted by the British government in its system of S tion sufficiently demonstraies the ae It is only since it heat F to either? Spain takes the place that was no | giso, 5 longer tenable for France; having F6eently | Jato atid simplify it tia: it bas beeh sits made herself contemptible by her Sohduct on | roduee j oxpenditare and t to eer nee] this side the Atlantic, she makes herself ridigu- | a 1 “he New England manufacturi lous by her new position in Europe. ain lost her American colonies, a whois conthient, and brought herself to her present position mainly through an unenlightened adhesion and subserviency to the Church; and now, in what must go before the world as only a new phase of that adhesion, what can she do but pug the throne in the most imminent danger or forfeit her last title'to the respect of the world by a new demonstration of her impotence ? interests are too selfishly blind and too po ful at present to see or admit the justice of thi reasoning. The time is not far distant, however, when they will be the first to acknowledge it and when they will eagerly seek a reform of the entire system. Tar Arter Dovors or THE Tammany Rump.— ‘Phe Tammany'rump held their convention pte Monday evening and put in the fleld candi dates for the county offices to be filled at the November election. The rump, sensible of their weakness, sheltered themselves the skirts of outside organizations and declin any fight upon distinctive candidates of own. Mr. Hackett, who had previously beem put in nomination by two of these outside or ganizations, was endorsed by the rump for corder; Mr. Tucker, whe had likewise oe two previous nominations, was endorsed by: rump for Surrogate; Dr. Schirmer, with one prior nomination and the endgrsement of the German Club, received their support for ner; and Mr. McCool, a copperhead of the Fery nando Wood school, and the choice of Mozart democracy, was nominated by the for Register. . With unexampled impudence the affect to be ashamed of Mr. John Morriseeds and postpone action in his Congressior district to as late a day as possible. the same time they were ready enough accept his aid to nominate their “ring” didate for Governor, and are using money freely in their several commit But he will hold their noses to the grin and compel them either to openly endorse him or to resort to their old policy of pitting a man of straw against him and secretly ac bim their votes. Mr. Morrissey owes It to self, however, to require an open from the rump; for he has more right to be ashamed of them than they have to affect fo be ashamed of him. The present action of the rump, whose only, strength now lies in their ingenuity in trading and cheating, indicates their willingness to con- sent to any bargains that will enable them to temporarily retain their power in the city by prolonging the existence of the Corporation ring in the December election. There is no hope, therefore, for any reformation in the city government in December, unless all who desire to secure an honest administration of municipal affairs and to finally destroy the power of the infamous “ring,” combine to strike the blow in November by defeating its candidate for Governor. Insxcure Bottpmas.—We noticed the fact yesterday that the foundation of a building being erected on Broadway, near Grand street, had sunk, causing the floors to give way in the centre and become depressed to a considerable angle, creating much apprehension for the safety of the entire structure. This building has nearly reached its fall elevation, and no one can observe it—now that it has become an object of notice—without being strack by the pasteboard thickness of the walls in the upper stories and trembling for the possible conse- quences if it had been finished and occupied before the action of the Croton water had sapped the foundation and thus given timely warning of a collapse which might have proved more disastrous at somé future time. Unfortunately this building is not an excep- tion, There are many more now in course of constraction on Broadway and other thorough- fares—some of which we have previously men- tioned—that are not calculated to bear the weight which will have to be supported by the walls when they are employed for business purposes, and which, in case of fire, will most certainly prove easy conductors of the devour- ing flames. Brick walls from twelve to sixteen inches thick cannot sustain the weight of stone- fronted buildings four and five stories high; and yet these are just the class of buildings which are going up in all quarters of the city. All these incompleted structures should be pulled down and strong -fire-proof houses erected on their sites. Buildings impervious to fire, constructed of iron and marble, like the new Hzratp establishment, are re- quired in a great city like New York, and not mere shells of brick and mortar and tinder boxes of wood and plaster. The Fesults of the observations made throughout the city by our reporters, publisbed in another column, will show the extent to which this prac- tice of erecting dangerous buildings is now prevailing, and will suggest the necessity of putting a stop to it atonce by the interposition of the law. Ove oF THE Ficuttna Reotwexts.—We have before us the “Report of the Operations of the First New Jersey Cavalry” during the late, re- bellion, from which it appears that this fighting regiment, from December 29, 1861, to April 9, 1865, was engaged in ninety-seven fighte with the enemy, beginning at Pohick Church, near Mount Vernon, and ending at Appomattox Court House, Among these recorded engage- oe are Qrogs Keys, the gecond Bull Run, antilly, F ickeburg, Gettysbufg, Gaines’ Mills, Cold Harbor and the whole run of Grant's tremendous campaign from the Wilderness to Richmond and Petersburg, and thence to the smoking out, running down and final surrender of the remnant of Lee’s army. If there was a regiment of the first Napoleon's “Old Guard” that could present euch a roll of battles as this we nevér learned its name. Errect or Poxrricat Aorrations on Ovw Frvances.—Our five-twenty securities, which ran up to seventy-two immediately after the sup- pression of the rebellion, and were sustained for a long time at about that figure, have lately fallen to sixty-eight and three-quarters, at which they are quoted in our cable telegrama of this morning. Gold in Wall street yesterday advanced over two per cent, and was quoted at 147%. “4 These damaging effects on our finances have but one origin, and that is to be found im the bitter and violent political agitations of the radical and copperhead leaders in this country. European people imagine we are the eve of another great revolution, when really’ the fight for power between the two violent factions of the country can do little to retard, the rapidly increasing prosperity of the people or endanger the stability of the government. It only damages our morals. The same useless and violent agitation serves the purpose of the } gold gamblers at home, and we can see from, yesterday's market report how sharp Wall! street operators ran gold up on the strength of the Baltimore political difficulties. Tbe moral’ can be easily read and the remedy divined the taxpaying, non-agitating pertion of pul Tue Governor's TwAaNKSGIviING Arpornt- ment—Tae Cnotera.—Governor Fenton has issued a proclamation appointing Thursday, the 29th of November, as a day of general thankegiving for the people of this Common- wealth. In touching upon the blessings which they have enjoyed during the past year, he says:—“The skill and humanity of our people, through the favor of Providence, bave kept the pestilence at bay and saved our crowded cities from the calamities of other lands.” This, as a passing tribute to our faithful and ¢fficient Board of Health, is well merited. The meee ———_"_— TWE TORNADO IN THE WEST. Crrcrwsati, Oot 23, 1966, The tornado of Sunday was but aMghtly felt in thie services of this Board in behalf of the commu- | *!*!'ty. erable damage wae dono. The nity of this over populated district, and its ona ae fom ee cy midnight anti? cleanliness, health and business prosperity, } '1%*,°,clork Je a rons White river was way ee cannot be over estimated; and we hope that the Board will still continue its beneficent labors. The cholera is afill upon the outskirts of the thetropolis or ifs suburbs, as will be perceived from the current health reports of the little settlement of Hudson City, Lover inJorpey, I ia probable that some asada | mato crops were blown down in the!