The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. COBNSE OF FOLTON AND NASSAU STS, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in. the year, Founcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. > THR WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ents per copy. Annual subscription price:— NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OUTOBER 25, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. @1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club @ften. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, andany larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the ‘Wana. Hemaxp the cheapest publication in the country. JOB PRINTING of every dacription, also Stereotyp- ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth @venue.—Tux Crown Diawonps. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—FANCHON. NEW YORK THEATRE. Brow opposite New ¥% Hotel.—Tas Excuss ‘Guvrusman—ROm 71 OO-mLE. ns GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— ‘Wranan uw Paru—Hans JUERGs, ODER DIB PERLEN SCuNUB. @ IAN THALIA THEA’ No. 514 Broadway.— Dea Warsuicn rx Haatte ten Rane Seaeenee BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Macszra. IBVING I we HALL, Bas 14 place.—Mi Mus. Pinuiw rama Agesino Bnranetinenst. afer e’clock—Jznous Horains’ Onrnzon Conczar. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Paorzasor Hanes witt Panrors ais Miracues. ~ ot resscae’y MIMTRRLE Retry cere x ALN Eo. Daxcina anp Buaiesquss—S ocr PECTRAL on Puawrom In.osions. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. ity-fourth street.—Bupworta’s Mi Zand 4 West |. —Breiorias — Guongs anD THB KELLY 4 LEON'S GREAT a MINSTRELS, ‘20 Broadway—In Sones, Dances, Eccenraictias, Be—Dovame ros 2 Wire. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 21 Bowery.—Couto fooattem—Negeo Mixsraeisy' Batter DIvesrisseMant, 40.—CoLumaia’s Jackets or BLUR. WHITE'S COMBINATION TRO! a eee* OONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookyla.— Sea 4 HOUSE, OrRELsy, Buaiesques snavane OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Gaamp Bemoriuay -AINMENT.—Hasey League, tas Hero Nieane Faris ” NEW YORK MUSEUM oy Anessa 8 Broadway.— ge WM RG Re TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thureday, Octeber 25, 1966. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated in Ee Es Fee eh ee eae evening, The United States war vessels Mientonomeh and Augusle are at Cherbourg. ‘The castle of Konigsteis, on the Elbe, has been ceded to Prusdia. Console were at 803, iu London, at noon, United Btates five-twenties were at 68% at noon. ‘The Liverpool eotton market was easier, and prices had declined one-fourth of a penny at noon. Our epecial correspondence and Sles by the Chiaa, Gated to the 13th of October, contain interesting details ef our telegraphic report from Halifax. ‘The Empress of Mexico was at Miramar from Rome. A London journal, of the 18th instant, snys:—“' The in- telligence received from Miramar relative to the health @f the Empress Charlotte is not satisfactory.” Our ‘Parts correspondent details the symptoms, inception and progress of the melancholy attack which seized her Majesty in Rome. The hallucination was evidenced by Ber insisting that she was summoned by Mexican and ther enemies who sought to take her life, so she ab- solutely refused to quit the Vatican. The Pope treated her with much kindness, inviting foreign ladies of dis- (action to remain with ber during the night; the Em- Press being aceommodaied in the palace, contrary to Fale and precedent, ‘It to enld in Paris that Napoleon's health is consid- erably improved. On the contrary, it is reported from Berlin that he is in quite a dangerous condition, and that his death may be looked for at any moment. Most of the Freach journals give up the cause of Maximilian in Mexioo. Some Paris writers, however, ‘amsert thas he will not abdicate, but attempt to rule ina warrowed rea of territory. From the seat of war in Candia we have an accoant of ‘the massacres perpetrated by the Turks oa many usarmed Cbristions after the late defeat of the Sultan's troops, (with official evidences of the jhigh toned feeling which ‘epimates the revolution sts. ‘The Lenton Time: of the 18th of October says:—The Amoricans bave been devising fortifications and casting (PRP on Various models, and they have now tried one of SRMEO Bovelticn against the other. The experiment at Fortress Monroe proved more than the weakuess of un- armored graaite, for it showed the insuiliciency of four- tach armor. THE CITY. The yacht race from Sand's Point to the New London lightehip and back, between the yachts Vesta and Haloyou, was won by the former. The Vesta came in heed one hour, one minute and thirty seconds. The time allowed the Halcyon, according to the rules of the New York Yacht Club, was forty-seven minutes and thirty seconds. The Vosta is the victor by exactly four- teen minutes, A large German redice) republican mass meeting was held last evening at the Thalia theatre. “peeches were made by Messrs. Frederick Schueta, General Carl Schura and R. Well von Gomsbach, strongly favoring the Con. greasional policy. Resolutions denouncing Prosident Johnson and supportiag the principles of the republican party were enthusiastically adopted. The meeting closed @ 2 late hour. Charies Jackson, a native of Toronto, C. W., was sbot, or shot himself, ia Williamsburg, on Tuesday night. He ‘accuses some unknown man of assassinating bim, but it 1a beheved that he shot himself from some mysterious Motive, The wound is thought to be mortal. ‘The parade of the veterans in Brooklyn to-day will be- gin at the Fulton ferry, about ten o'clock, with the re- Ception of the Governor. The line of march will be through Fulton, Sends and Washington streets to the City Ball, thence through Remsen, Henry, Atlantic, Hanson Greets, and Fulton, Gates, Clintén and Myrtle avenues, by Cumberland street to Fort Greene. ‘The National Railroad Convention, in sension yester- ay at the Bt, Nicholas hotel, announced thet their atm end purpose was the improvement of railroad cometrac- (ios, maintenance and management of gallroads, not political or sectional agitation. A Temperance Convention, under the auspices of the Grand Division, Sons of Temperance, of Eastern New York, was held yesterday, at Odd Fellows Hall. Up- wards of three hundred delegates were present, repre- wenting about eighty subordinate divisions. Am appeal in the case of Dennstacdt versus Anschutt, the opera manager, is to be argued before the General ‘Term of the Common Pleas ina few days. The action for qalary due to plaintiff as ballet master, and was do cided aguinat defendant by a referee to whom the matter was referred. A full account is published in another columa, and the cave will be found to develop some uteresting points as to operatic and ballet manago- neat. & motion for alimony in the caso of Bogart —Eraiortan Mim. ap Pantomaes. & Bogart purpose. The suit for the removal of George McDonald, testa- mentary guardian of the children of Francis Gerrety, came out.as to the marriage of Elizabeth Gerrety, the plaintiff, with John Foley. ‘The hearing of the case of L. Morton Montgomery against A. L. D. Santa Anna was had yesterday, before James H. Coleman, Esq, referee, when one witness was ‘sworn on behalf of the defendant; but on account of the absence of the plaintiff's counsel, the case was further adjourned until ten o’clock to-morrow, the 26th inst. ‘The referee announced that he would then proceed with the hearing until the case was closed. A meoting in behalf of the Quebec sufferers was held ‘at the Produce Exchange yesterday. An address waa made by General Hiram Walbridge, and a committee of ten appointed to devise means for extending relief. ‘The transactions of the Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday was unimportant. ‘The work of raising the sunken ship Charles A. Fare- well is favorably progressing at pier 36 East river. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday till near the close of business when there wags fractional decline. Gold closed at 147, Governments were dull. Business was irregular yesterday, being unsettled to some extent by the erratic movements of the gold pre- mium. The activity and advance in flour and grain were the chief features, Coffee was quite active and firm. Cotton was dull and lower. On Change flour was active and 16c. a 25c. higher, Wheat was more active ‘and 8, a Sc. higher. Corn advanced lc. a 2c. and oats 9c. @ 3c. Pork was scarcely so firm. Beef was un- changed. The lard market was dull and lower. Whis- key was without decided change. Freighta were dull and almost nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from Mexico to the 9th and Vera Cruz: to the 13th instant have been received. The situation of the empire is daily growing worse. It has latterly lost Goaymas, Hermosillo, Ures, Lianor, Zongolica and other places of less importance. On the 6th an important conference took place at the palace at Chapultepec, apon the most efficacious means to obtain funds for the Trea- sury, and a committee was appointed to draw up a re- port, which was all that was accomplished. Maximilian and his court were preparing to go to Vera Cruz, to meet Carlotta, who was expected there by the 1st of Novem- ber. It is not stated whether or not Maximilian was preparing to go further. Efforts are making to indie, Forney, the Police Com- tatesioners of Baltimore and the editor of the Baltimore damerican for attempts to incieariot, It is said that President Johnson approves Gorernor Swana’s procisms- tion and will assist him in enforcing his authority. It ts eaported in our Charleston correspondeace thet ‘the prominent leaders of South Carolisa are aiding Gov- erner Orr to carry the constitutional amendment through the Logiwiature, as a measure ¢f relief to President Joha- oon, Private letters from Spain received in Havana indicate the utter instability of the present Spanish Cabinet and aay that the country in on the eve of a complete revolu- ton. q It ia said that the Spanish government has purchased of the United States two monitors, at an expense of two miltion dollars, and, as the government has no available funds, two wealthy merchants of Havana have gone se- curity for the amount, ‘The trial of Colonel Robert B. Lynch, the Fenian pris- omer, at Toronto, commenced yesterday. Our despatches contain the opening speech of the Queen’s counsel and the evidence of some of the crown witteses, A letter from Colonel Lynch to General Neil was also read in evidence. Amumber of other witnesses were examined, including ‘Thomas Riley, the informer, ‘The trial of Jef Davie has been postponed to next opring. The further delay is attributed by Chief Justice Chase to the ‘‘stapid blundering of the fast Congress in meddling with the geographical boundaries of the Judicial districts without making the proper allotment of judges.” Charles F. Rich has been found guilty of bribings momber of the New Jersey Legislature. Daniel Holsman is now on trial for trying to bribe another member to vote in favor of the Web Basin bill and against the Morris and Essex Railroad contract. Deputy Sheriff John W. Simonson, of Elizabeth, was yesterday acquitted of the charge of murder in shooting Asa Dizon while engaged in illegal eystering. President Arvelo, of Venezuela, has been deposed by his Cabinet, and General Colina has been appointed Chief ‘Magistrate in his place. President Valverde, of Laguayra, has been supplanted by Genorai La Rosas. ‘The next Indiana Legistature will sand—Senate, thirty republicans to tweaty democrats; House, sixty republi- cans to forty democrats. Awhale mensaring sixty fect in length was washed asbore at Reckaway beach on Monday. A large fire ta the heart of Nashville cecurred em Tues- day night, destroying property to the value of « mitlion of dolar. Tas Recent Catgotic Cocncn. mw Batt uonz—A Fravp ON THS FaTHers oF THE Caurnca.—We learn that a considerable de- gree of indignation was caused among the prelates of the Catholic church, recently in council in Baltimore, on account of the pur loining and publishing of certain documents which were not intended for the eye of the vulgar. It seems that the letters of Cardinal Barnabo to Archbishop Spalding, with the subject matters that were to be discussed and acted on—all in Latin—were printed exclusively for the use of the members of the Council. There were but forty-five copies struck off, so as to allow one for each bishop, and, to guard against accidents, there were particular instructions given that each bishop might exhibit the document to the priests of his own diocese, and to no other buman being. In spite of these pre- cautions, however, a prowling reporter of one of the daily journals of this city; not having the fear of the Church before his eyes, and instigated, probably, by the old enemy of the Church, managed to get pos- session of the precious documents, carry them off and have their contents published. But, to make matters worse, the translation made of them is represented as having been as incorrect as King James’ version of the Bible. The reverend fathers were justly in- dignant first at the perpetration of the fraud, and next, at the distorted translation that was given to the public. We are glad that our skirts are clear and that no attaché of ours was guilty either of purloining the documents or of making ® mistranslation of them, and we pity the unfortuate devil who has the two fold crime to answer for. In this connection we may state that a pastoral to the Catholics of the United States is to be issued in a few days by the prelates assembled in Council. Although | salons of the body are formally c! ers will remain o day oF Note their |s Toward the United States. The governments of France and England have lately made a remarkable change in their respective attitudes toward the United States. They are pursuing s course not unlike that pur- sued by the same Powers toward us through all the years of the war, though now they have a widely different object in view. Napoleon and Palmerston, while our hands were full of the great war, summed up their policy with reference to these States by each urging the other to go at us. Eada saw that the great republic was then in the extremest danger and believed that it might be brought to the earth by a timely blow delivered then. Each also wished to gee the great republic prostrate; but they were less ambitious of the honor of laying it low than desirous to keep clear of any little mistakes in the matter. So from month to month and year to year they pointed out to one another how feasible the thing was; but their conduct was always controllél by mutual distrust, suspicion. and fear. England had once been drawn into a great war in the East, in which she played merely the game of France and only improved the position of the Emperor Napoleon before the world. Those were not legitimate English objects; the war of the entente cordiale was @ great blunder. There must not be another such, and therefore Eng- land played sby on the question of interven- tion. France, on the other hand, had been fooled by England. All the Western Powers had gone into the Mexican muddle hand in hand, and, England suddenly changing her mind, France had been left in the lurch in that difficulty. So it behooved her to be shy also. And while thus the great Western Powers fought shy of one another in our case we put down the rebellion, and their great oppor- tunity was lost. Now there is a great change. There is an equal emulation, an equal yneasiness as to each other between these:firm allies ; but’ all their eagerness is at present as to who shall go the farthest the other way—who shall bid highest for the amity and friendship of the United States. This somersault dates from the Emperor's latest visit to Biarritz. Just as the Emperor arranged at Biarritz, last year, a reconstruction of Europe, 8o he initiated this yeara rearrangement of his American relations. Mr. Bigelow, the Ameri- can Minister, was invited thither, and between him and the new French Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Moustier, the Emperor proposed the initiatory steps for hig final withdrawal from Mexico and the consolidation of friendly rela- tions between France and the United States on # sound treaty basis,” Thus was originated that movement for the settlement of the Mexican question over which the State Department at Washington is now busy. And this is but a necessary part of the present legitimate policy of the Emperor of France. It is an extension of the main point in his Eurepean programme. By his operations, carried on through Bismarck and the Prussian and Italian armies, he broke up the great Northern coalition. Russia, Aus- tria and Prussia, the great combined foes of France, were completely separated from one another. Austria is pushed out of Germany and so crippled for the benefit of Italy that this last Power, the inevitable ally of France, may be fairly played off against her for any emer- gency. Prussia, elevated to a first rate Power by the consent of France, sees her best inter- ests to be in the West of Europe rather than in the East, and stands on the French frontier as a bulwark, where before she stood as a danger- ous and threatening neighbor. The whole situation is changed for France in the interest of peace and good will and a quiet succession of the Napoleonic dynasty. The policy of the Napoleonic dynasty is now identified with an establishment of,.pationalities that is most favorable to the lasting peace of Europe, and that fact is everything in favor of the stability of the dynasty. It is now undoubtedly the Emperor’s purpose to arrange his American re- lations ag clearly as he has those in Europe, keeping in view always that great main point of the good will of the world toward the Napo- leonic dynasty. But it is odd to see the alacrity with which England rusbes forward on thisexample. The ardor and gush of her newly formed friendship for us, and the loftiness of the respect with which she is disposed to listen to our merits, are wonderful. If she does not at once come down with her cash and pay the Alabama claims, sho, at all events, is willing to refer those claims to a commission, even though she onee refused todoso and declared that she would take no further part in that uo- Profitable discussion. Her most bitter anti- American organs are urging @ modification of the British Neutrality laws, admitting in so many words that British law is not just and not what it ought to be. Behold the British lion in the dust of his penitence! But it is hardly strange that England should begin to feel the want of a few friends in the world and to fear that a fast alliance between France and the United States may shut her out from two pos- sible sources of sympathy in the troubles that are gathering around her. With the English people uneasy, discontented, determined on reform or ready for revolution; with Ireland kept down by force and Canada at the mercy of the Power that England has so abused and insulted, it is time that that once great Power modified the arrogance and insolence of her tone toward other nations. It is our turn now, and itis for us to show how different is the conduct of @ government that receives its in- spirations from the will of a truly great and tree people; and it is for us at the same time to seize the occasion of this favorable disposi- tion of the two Powers to settle on « firm national basis all the outstanding points of our European policy. } Tar Tammany Reur Serie Ovcr To Tae Woors.—The Tammany rump have sold out, body, soul and breeches, to the Woods. They have put up @ straw candidate in the Ninth diatrict, with the avowed purpose of electing Mr. Fernando Wood to Congress. In the Fourth district their candidate will withdraw at the eleventh bour in favor of Mr. Ben Wood for Congress. For Register they have thrown overboard all their own candidates and nomi- nated Mr. Fernando Wood's candidate, McCool. This wholesale selling out of the Tammany gen is to enable the rump to re-elect Mr. Brennan as Comptroller in December, by the aid of the Woods and Mozart Hall. The bargain reaches Aldermen and Councilmen and looks to a continuation of the powor of the “ ring?’ Byers 1 the welfare of the protection fo pet interested ” his Qageed vefore the Special Term of the Common | France and Eaginnd—Their Present Attitude | gain in the November election. It becomes more and more evident every day that if the city is to be redeemed at all the work must be done at once by the defeat of the “ring” ticket trom Governor down. The Constitutional Amendment—A Cabinet Lawyer's Objections. Mr. Secretary Browning, of the Interior De- partment, has written @ long letter (too long for our columns at present) setting forth his objections to the constitutional amendment proposed by Congress as the basis of the res- toration of the excluded Southern States. But as this letter is said to have been made public by the President’s desire and with the under standing that “it fully represents his present position,” the views of Mr. Browning thus set forth are entitled to some attention. He complains of the dangerous powers pos- sessed by Congress, and is very much alarmed at the idea of their enlargement. He is of the opinion that “if the present Congress were not restrained by positive and emphatic provisions of the constitution they would greatly abridge, if they did not altogether annihilate, the power of appointment and removal from office” and the veto power of the Executive. Perhaps they would, and perhaps the Executive would have made short work. ere this with Congress if not restrained by the constitution. It is enough for us that both these departments have been thus restrained. Coming at length to the amend- ment, Mr. Browning is afraid that with its adoption “new and enormous powers will be claimed and exercised by Congress,” and that “the whole structure of our government will be gradually but surely revolutionized. And so with the judiciary”—the State judiciaries will be annihilated. In a few words, the great fear of Mr. Browning is that this amend- iment in its operation will do away with State sovereignty, legislative and judicial, and will put the legislatures and the courts of the several States under Congress and the federal courts. If Mr. Browning had gone a step further and declared that the right ofeecession was a necessary element of State sovereignty and safety, his arguments on State rights and constitutional checks and bal- ances would have been exactly the old South Carolina argument of Calhoun and his follow- ers. We hold that this old Southern theory of our government was demolished at Petersburg and surrendered at Appomattox Court House with Lee’s army; and so we dismiss this branch of the argument. But, says Mr. Browning, “another blow which the proposed amendment aims at the government which our fathers founded is in the change of the basis of representation.” Whatare we to understand by “the govern- ment which our flhers founded?” It must mean the constitution; but twelve amendments were made to that instrument within fifteen years after its adoption, and the thirteenth, ‘which bas been added under President John- son’s administration, establishes a stupendous revolution in “the government which our fathers founded.” Has Mr. Browning forgotten this? As founded by the fathers, the govern- ment recognized the existence in the States of African slavery, and provided for its protec- tlow; including the protection of the African slave trade for twenty years. That govern- ment recognized, authorized and confirmed all the distinctions made im the slave States be- tween the white and black races down to the disastrous Dred Scott decision, in which Chief Justice Taney declared that under the constitu- tion the black man, bond or free, “had no rights which » white man was bound to respect.” That was ‘the government founded by our fathers,” ee expounded and practically enforced down to the late re- bellion. But as all these distinctions estab- lished between the white and black races, including the representation of three-fifths of the black slaves of the slave States, depended upon the recognition of slavery in the constitution, they have all been swept away with the abolition of slavery effected by a change of the constitution under the present administration. Stick a pin just there, Mr. Browning, and go with us a little further. On the old Southern dogma of State sovereignty and for the perpetuation of African slavery in & separate confederacy, some ten or eleven States joined a rebellion against “the gov- ernment which our fathers founded.” They appealed to arms on their dogma of State sovereignty and to make secure and per- manent their system of slavery. They were defeated in this final appeal. They have thus been compelled, and through the efforts of President Johnson, to ratify the smend- ment of Congress abolishing slavery; and the other amendment only aims to fix in the constitution the other issues decided by the sword, that last appeal of factious sections and nations. This is where we stand. We cannot deal now with “the government which our fathers founded.” It ceased to exist with the abolition of slavery. We can- not plead the constitution as it was. We must take it as it is and deal with things, Rot as we would have them, but as we fod them, Mr. Browning. The last objection of this Cabinet lawyer to this constitutional amendment is that it will require a standing army in the Southern States to enforce it against the class of old Southern rights politicians excluded from the federal councils hereafter until absolved by a two- thirds vote of Congress. But this is begging the question, and it is a matter of opinion which remains to be tried. We have no fear upon this score. When the States concerned are ready to accept the terms proposed they will ratity the amendment, and we can wait till they are ready. We would advise them, for their own good, to come in at once, and aban- don the idea of returning such men as Jeff Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, Breckinridge, Hunter, Mason, Slidell, Toombs, Wise and Benjamin to Congress; but the case is in the hands of the States concerned. The ultimatum of the present Congress, we have to say in con- clusion, will certainly hold them to the end of President Johnson’s existing term of office, and that General Grant will be his successor there is every reason to believe. The issue is thus narrowed down to this proposition: Will the exchaded States accept the amendment under President Johnson or wait for General Grant? Tux Starz ap Couwrr Nomixations.—It appears that the Tammany ramp have resolved to sacrifice everything, State nominations and county nominations as well, in order to sectfe * prolonged lease of life to the Corporation © They would gladly sell out the prize ring for the Corporation ring if they dared, but or not, the whole matter will be settled by the next Legislature, which will have a large re- publican majority and will put a practical stop to all these combinations by abolishing the Street Commissioner’s Department, estab- lishing a Board of Public Works and securing such other reforms in the city government as will effectually break up the power of the “ ring.” Tax Cumecr Azgarep Agar ram Rivo.— It is usually s pretty solemn and serious thing for malefactors to find themselves consigned to the care of spiritual advisers. It generally in- icates the close of their career. We wish that the prognostic may hold good in the case of the malefactors of our municipal “ring;” for we see that the clergy have taken charge of their case; and it must be confessed that a barder case has never tested the saving powers of grace. The abominations connected with the management of our municipal affairs have been exposed in every possible way and all sorts of indignant protests and denunciations have, for years past, been uttered by the press and the public. But all to no avail. The Church has now entered the lists as an ally to the press and the people, and if the powers of evil do not suecumb before that combination, then we must consider the “ring” as en illus- tration of irredeemable depravity. The Rev. Mr. Stryker (most appropriate name) turned out and “pitehed in” last Sunday evening in the most vigorous style, and his attack will, of course, be followed up by other athletic sons of the Church. Perhaps Beecher may, to vary the entertainment at the Plymouth arena, make his appearance next Sunday as Clerical Cham- pion No. 2; and we have no doubt that Cheever might be induced to break the monotony of bis usual Sabbath negro performances and brighten up the sombre atmosphere of the Church of the Puritans by a lusty set-to’ with the heavy weights of the “Ring.” If these champions of the Church will only give notice of the affair, we promise to send some of our most graphic and experienced chroniclers of such events to write glowing but impartial de- scriptions thereof. By all means let the good fight be persevered in, and if the “ring” be not thoroughly demolished, then we mast seck safety from it in an utter destruction of the whole municipal system. But for the present we consign our quarrel to the hands of the clergy. ‘Tas Rowe Onan axp tee Latest Cananp— The rump organ of the Corporation risg and of the Tammany guerillas pub’ @ silly canard in relation to the Ann street improve- ment, in ihe hope of covering up the fact that the Baron von Hoffman is the candidate of the band of Forty Thieves whe have ruled the city of New York for the past ten years. It is need- less for us to reply to the balderdash and falee- hoods of the defeated jobbers fa this or any other public work; for the backers of the ramp organ were the real jobbers in the Ann street improvement. It was by a set of railroad men, and probably Mr. Thurlow Weed and Mr. Peter B. Sweeney, the ardent support- ers of Mr. Hoffman, know more about it than any other parties in the city. As to the Henao, every person knows that it bas but one proprietor, and that no other individual has any control over ite columns or any share in its business. But this silly canard will not save the friends of the rump organ. The people kuow well enough that the Baron von Hoffman is the candidate and representative of the “ ring.” The ring nominated him ; the ring are laboring for his election; the last forlorn hope of the ring is to make him Governor of the State, so that he may veto all the acts that may, be passed by the Legislature for the reform of the city government during his term of office and pocket all the charges that may be made against corrupt city officials. In view of these facts, it is the merest balderdash to talk about Mayor Hoffman's “vetoes.” He bas never ve- toed @ job that could not be passed without his consent, and he has signed every warrant for money that fas been presented to him by the jobbers. It has been in his power to pro- tect the taxpayers by refusing to sign war- rants when the money they call for has been appropriated for corrapt jobs. He bas never done so. On the contrary, after putting bim- self on record against some of the schemes of plunder concocted by the ring, he has promptly signed the warrants to enable them to draw the money for these very jobs out of the city treasury. PotrricaL Ivcenpianims.—There is no doubt that the country is a good deal disturbed just now about politics and the public mind consid- erably excited but the occasion has efter all only developed a lot of political incendiaries who are going about the country making bloodthirsty speeches and writing violent arti- cles in the newspapers. The chiefs of this gang are Ben Butler, Brownlow, Prentiss, Forsyth of Mobile, Forney, Schurz and « few noisy fellows in Richmond. They are talking about another civil war, more revolution, impeachments, re- sistance to law, riot and massacre, and so forth. This is all balderdash. We should like to know who is going to war, and what about? Who iggoing to fight, and what adversary is any one going to fight with? Certainly not the Southern people ; for they have had enough and a little too much of it. Not the soldiers of the Northern army. They won a great vic- tory, and they are now naturally looking for the spolia opima. Quiet berths in the Ous- tom House are their ambition, rather than the unrest of the tented field. They want offices and not battles; and they ought to get the offices, However, there is no denying that these political incendiaries are doing much mischief by endeavoring to disturb social order through- out the country, as well as damaging our credit abroad and depreciating United States seeuri- ties with people who do not understand the character and overrate the influence of these Northern blusterers and Southern fire-eatérs. Moreover, they sre misleading the South by encouraging the Southern people to try agsin the old blunder which the failure of the re- beliion has offectually demonstrated that attempt to be, dug to reject the constitutional amendment, embraces the best terms that the people of thé North are dis- posed to offer them, as can be seen by the verdict pronounced st the October elections ee Taz Mose, Muzsosams.—Tbe country has again to thank Mr. George Peabddy, the model millionaire, for gifts amounting to nearly a million of dollars, bestowed upon educational institations. The beneficence of Mr. Peabody is wonderfal, even in this age of great men, great ideas and great enterprises. It deserves some such public recognition from the Presi- dent of the United States, the representative of the whole American people, as it has already received from Queen Victoria, in the name of the people of England. In William B. Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Peter Cooper and A. T. Stewart wé have other millionaires who in- ‘tend to follow Mr. Peabody’s noble example. John Jacob Astor built the Astor Library, and the ‘present head of the Astor family /” should rival it with another magnifieent pres- ent to the metropolis. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave a splendid steamship to the government, and he should now do something for the poorer classes. Peter Cooper has erected an excel- lent Institute, and he should now provide homes for those whom he has instructed. A. T. Stewart is completing a superb marble palace on Fifth avenue, which he intends to throw open to-the public as an Art Gallery, and he should at once carry out his latest project of expending a million of dollars in houses for our laboring population. The republic has reason to be proud of men who use their wealth ao wisely, and their examples should atimulate others to equal generosity. THE BALTIMORE EXCITEMENT, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Dead Duck Forney, the Editors of the Balti. mere American and the Police Commis- sioners to be Indicted—The Governor Will Have Sufficient Evidence to Justify His Action—The President Promises te Aid Him. .’ Bairimons, Oot. 24, 1866. Attempts are being made to secure indictments against Jobn W. Forney, the editors of the American and the Police Commissioners for attempts to incite riot and insurrection. Witnesses are already summoned. The Grand Jury bave not yet acted. There is no change in the situation. Abundant evi- dence will be furnished on Friday to justify the Gover- Ror in any actionhe may take. There is no truth in the statements that returned rebels registered here. They have all held aloof, ‘The tone of the radical press is considerably modified. Neither the rebel raider, Harry Gilmore, nor his triends have had anything to do in this matter, ‘The city is very quiet, There are no new developments in regard to the Police Commissioners. Their counsel still adpere to thetr Original determination not to participate in the ezamina- can Army Turned Rebbers. Naw Oguzans, Oct. 24, 1866. Another deputation of political plotters have left for i i i i vf a) tl i ‘The order establishing a quarantine bes been rescinded. ‘Three Hundred Delegates tm Counctl_Kighty Divisions Represe: and Results of Thetr | i ; ie i i i F il Ly i : b if 3 ieki i i F i F i A i if e? Hi g i E SF! 3 i ! t TH i a F | ® i i | f | i The steam hip Ava sailed to-day, with seventy-orvg paasengors for Live®pvot and tweaty for Halifas, woko peo 2 ,