The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1866, Page 6

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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Farenci Orens— Mivsvautex Niawt's Dagan, DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broad way.—Pxorrsson Hanrz wi. Pexrone wis Mimacurs SAN biden on yg ik 2 585 Browiway, opposite tho Metropolitan Hotel—In tun Eruioriay EN teuratn- fmrrs, Staging, Dancing AND BuRiKsquics--SPectRay Suaous O8 Puantom ILLusions. WIPTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and ¢ West twenty-fourth street.—Bupworra’s MinsTkeLs. —STHioPrAN, inecmmsy. Battaps, BuRLEsquxs. rue Dragon. dc. St. Gronak ax KKLLY & LEON'S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, 10 Broad In tusim Bons, Daxcrs, Eoventricrins, Be-Lape OkpmuLY's Sucezt, TONY PASTOR'S OPELA BOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comtc Vocauism—Negro Minerasisy Bauer Divantissemnnt, fo. —Wrowr ano Riaut. Matinee at 1 o’Clock. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Meshanics’ Hall, 472 Brosdway—in a Vanirry or Licur = Lavanasts Ewrerrainments, Corrs px Bauier, £0, = ‘Viermas. STRINWAY HALL, Irving piace.—Batuwax Concenrs, MRS. ©. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE. Brookyla.— ton Wrron HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Froottva —Ermiorian Mov ereersy, Bartaps, BORLYsqoRs 4x Partounes. SRAVER'S katy HOUSE, Williamsbury.—Iaise ee —ROOnwATRE NOCKINGS, Dancing Map--Suanow aWrewims, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rroadway.— axes win van Oxy-HyrpsoceN Microscorr twice Ye = Rigur Aux ov Prosst, Open from § Now York, Wednesday, October Jess ailoged that the railroad nuisance which has been exionded through Broadway was laid down with an Shoriy in the charter of the road. The obstruction to travel yesterday was very great. It is almost impossible for the cars of the Dry Dock and Kast Broadway Company to pass, aud passengers up and down town yesterday generally avoided the cars of the line, preferring those of the Second and Third avenues. ‘Tho heavy galo of Monday night did very considerable Gamage to the shipping in the harbor, and it iv feared that the safety of the gulf steamers due to day nas been endaugored ‘The storm also prostrated the telegraph wires enst of Portland, Me,, and in consequence we have no cable hows to-day The United States steamer Bienville, arrived from “t. Thowas yesterday with eighteen cases of fever ov ‘Doard. ‘Three of the crew, names unknown, died on the trip. Tho vessel is 12 quarantine. A meoting to ratiafy the State Democratic ticket was hoid last evening at the Cooper Institute. The proceed. ane we of w very tame character, lacking very much the old apirit that pervaded such political gatherings a fow years ago. The hall was not crowded as of yore, end thors was a marked absence of the leaders who Orst ruled the groat democracy of the city and State of New York. Speeches were mado by Mayor Hoffman, @x-Governor Seymour, General Slocum and others, but Jong before the last of the gentlemen bad their ‘say out the audience had considerably thinned away ‘There wae also an outside meeting, more characteristic of the oorason, at which (here were music processions, ‘Chimons lanterns, spoeches, Kc. The proceeding» were conducted and loved with perfect order. ‘Thore were throe cases of and two deaths from cholera tn this city yesterday. ‘The closing exercises of St. Pa !'s Centennial celevra ton were witnessed yesterday by a very large conrreca tion Im the morning, after holy communion and other appropriate 1 services, Rev. Dr. Righee read the eormon. by Semeuct Avohmuty, D. D., which was deliv ered on the occasion of the dedication of the chapel, one hundred years ago yesterday. It is an able und eloquent @iscourse, contfasting in many particuiare with the character of more modern sermons. In the evening, full choral services, singing and prayer, \ogetler with a ver mon oo “The Fature of Trinity Church,” by Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., closed the celebration ceremonies, From (he Vattor it fe leaned that Trinity church property is esti mated at $6,600,000, An important poiatasto the right of irsuing exeou tions agatoat the person in the case of actions brought by representatives Of decedents for injuries to the per. fon waa raised before Judze Barbour at the Special Torm of the Superior Court yesterday. The plaintit, Homan Mart, recovered a verdict againat Robert McParien Aud Pairick Duffy for injustes to her husband by reason Of the running away of the defendants’ horses. Execu- | Mon was rovurned unsatisfied, and the defendants wern Commitiod to jail, A motion wae made yenterday to Gisoharge one of the defendants from AFret on the Sound that the execution againat his pargom was with oat authority of law. Decision reserved. ‘The Hoard of Supervisors passed @ reeolution yester day to print one million ballots for and againat the Coa. @titetional Convention to be used im the approaching Clngtion Ab (Mt reating libel case ison hearing at the Jeierson Market Police Court. Tho plainud, My George Rodte- oom, © woalthy merchant of this city, accuse Lamhe Levy, @ pedier, and Aaron Martin, with having mate livalious allegations, charging him with having beens everiot ead married already to a Christian wife, in order to proven! hig marriage with Mrs. Juin Levy, « wealthy dowiah widow, of thts city Aliée ashley, “one more unfortunate Keeper of a Rates Of Hfame Rt No. 89 Weet Twenty seventi: sirest, qmeatitnd ou'cibe vem-cday NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1866.—TRIPLE SHERT, William Wallace, a three i shh ne ied yepnendny from falling down ap area ‘The Montgomery Santa Anna sult has been decided against Montgomery. The propeller Clayton sunk at Pavonia ferry on Sun- day night. More arrests for alleged illegal registry were mado yee- John Foster, under examination in the U. & Commis sioner’s office for counterfeiting, has been committedffor trial, Philip Melling has been committed im $1,000 bail to answer the charge of torging Judge Monell’s name to naturalization papers. George Calvert, clerk in the employ of ©. C. Parks, 34 New street, yesterday absconded with $40,000 in gold checks belonging to his employer, Ten thousand of the amount has boen cashed; payment on the reat has been stopped. ‘The Grand Jury has found a bill of indictment againss Lieutenant Braine, the Chesapeake pirate, and he is to be tried before the United States Circuit Court in No- vember, James Smyth, foreman at the drag store of Reynolds, Platt & Co., committed suicide yesterday, on account of ‘ta difficulty with the bookkeeper. ’’ ‘The Conservative Republican County and Judiciary Convention met last night, and adjourned sine dée with- out making any more nominations, deeming it ‘inex- pedient’’ to do so. The total number of deaths in Brooklyn during the week ending Saturday was one hundred and sixty-one, of which thirty were mon, thirty-nine women, fifty-cight boys and thirty-four girls. ‘The fine steamship Morro: Castle, Captain R. Adame, belonging to Garrison & Allen’s Atlantic Mail Steamship ine, willsail at three P, M. to-day for Havana direct. ‘The mails will close at the Post office at half-past one o'clock. The stock market was irregular, closing firm yester- day. Gold closed at 146. Quietude was the prevailing feature in most depart- ments of trade yesterday, and though there were some moteworthy exceptions to the general rule, the volume of business was much circumscribed, As a rule, [itaported merchandise was quiet, but the markots were gonerally steady with a firm fecling noticeable on the part of sellers, who see no cause in the existing situation of affairs for apprehending any very spoedy ‘ collapee,”’ and accordingly are firm in their views. It is a notice- able fact, however, that thero are fewer speculative ven- tures now-a-days than there have been for a long time, ‘and business men are apparently beginning to exercise a little more caution. On ‘Change the chief interest was again centred in corn, which advanced 10c. per bushel, under great excitement. Wheat was also 3c. a 5c. higher, but flour was steady. Pork was firmer. Lard was quiet, Petroleum was duli and lower. MISCELLANEOUS. The Fenian excitement has extended to all parts. of the country and Canada, and offers of aid and assistance in the prosecution of any design for the liberation of the convicted prisoners continue to pour upon the officials of the order in New York city. Meetings for this pur- pose have been held in Buffalo, Cincinnats, Philadelphia, Albany and other cities. An Episcopal church ia Brantford, ©. W., was sacked by the Fenians on the re- ceipt of the nows that Lynch and McMahon were to be hanged. The schooner Arlington put into Fortress Monroe, on the 29th, with all the crew sick except Captain Halsey and asmall boy. Jobn Parr, of Now York, and stephen Bcrogg'ns, the cook, had died. Bishop Lynch visited Jef Davis on the 28th, He states that the state prisoner's health is much im- paired. General Dick Taylor, the brother-in-law of Davis, also visited him yesterday. James Lewis, one of the alleged murderers of Rev, J, C,R , »na, attempted suicide by cutting his throat at Pougiskcepsie yesterday. F -We publish this morning highly interesting evidence elicited im the case of the Baitimore Police Commia- sioners. The case for the defence was opened yeater- day, and it is expected that a decision will be rendered by the Governor to-day. The first of the match games of billiards between McDevitt and Goldthwaite was won by the former last night in Boston, ine serids of the most romarkable runs on record, beating bis opponent over five hundred points, The Southern Politicians on the Constitu- tional Amendment. ‘The old ruling ¢lass of Southern politicians, as by a common instinct of self-preservation against their “manifest destiny,” are coming out in flerce hostility against the constitutional amendment proposed by Congress as the basis of Southern restoration. From Virginia to Texas they denounce it as an outrage upon State rights, Southern honor and Southern chivalry, and counsel itsindignant rejection by every Southern State concerned. We have be- fore us, for example, the “report of the Com- mittee on Federal Relations” of the House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature, to which was referred this proposed amendmeat— a report which will serve to show the objec- tions against thix amendment universaily en- tertained by those old dictatorial politicians who ruled the South before the deluge. The commitice in this report begins with the objection of Mr. Sharkey, of Mississippi, late Provisional Governor—that as the constitution uitemplates the participation by all the States, through their representatives in Con- gress, in proposing amendments,” and that “as representatives from nearly one-third of the States were excluded from the Congress pro- posing this amendment,” this whole proceeding is s aullity. According to this theory the amendmept abolishing and interdicting slavery, which bas become part and parcel of the constitution, is a nullity; for in the Congress which passed it nearly one-third of the States | were not represented. The committee here are only playing the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet lefi out. They leave out the late re- bellion, with the consequences of its failure, and start from the delusive notion that the Tights of the States and the people concerned are just precisely the same as if nothing bad happened in the South in the shape of a final appeal to the sword. Thus this report goes on fo say that this amendment in “ ite first section propotcs to deprive the States of the right which they have possessed since the revolution of 1776—to determine what shall constitute citizenship of a State,” and that “its object is to declure | negroes to be citizens of the United States j and of the several States.” Just so, But the | committee do not think it proper or desirable | that “the broad, comprehensive principles” which from the beginning have pervaded the constitution on this subject should be aban- doned. Here is another great oversight. The principles referred te recognizing and author- izing political distinctions between the while and black races were all abolished with the abolition of slavery, How ofien shall we bave to’ remind ibese antediluvian Southern politi- cians that ‘there has been a deluge and that the constitution as it was bas ceased to exist— thet with the abolition of slavery all races of wep in this country, “excepting Indians pot tated,” atand in the cofeliitioh on « footing of equality He who believes that slovery is constitutionally abolished, therefore, can have | no valid objection to thie new amendment tonohing the civil righty of the negroes as citizens. This Texas upon the old constitution, as if they expected within a fow days to advertise for the recapture of their missing slaves. Of the third section of the amendment, excluding from civil offices, federal and State, till absolved by a two-thirds vote of Congress, all persons guilty of violat- ing, by joining the late rebeliion, an. official oath to support the constitution, this Texas committee say “it proposes to stigmatize and degrade all that is most clevated and most worthy, and it coolly asks us to be the instru- ments of the degradation of our own people.” This may seem rather hard ; but as a penalty for treason it is not so very cruel after all, It is certainly much better than the banging which the law calls for ; and, moreover, it is the fate of war. : The fourth section of the amendment, relating to the national debt, all rebel debts and obli- gations and to claims for emancipated slaves, this report says has been sufficiently provided for by the action of the late Texas State Con- vention. But another State Convention may repudiate all this work unless it be fixed in the federal constitution—the supreme law of the land. If Texas, therefore, is honest in this busi- ness, she cannot object to this ratification. It is this security for the future, touching the national debt, all rebel debts and engagements and claims for liberated slaves, which, more than anything else, gives this amendment its Strength in the North, and which will make it, sooner or later, part of the constitution, even it all the Southern States to-day were to adopt the principle of universal suffrage, negroes and all. After the most stupendous, bloody and costly civil war in the history of mankind for the life of the nation, the victorious and power- ful North will have these securities for the future embraced in this constitutional amend- ment. The raling Southern politicians of the old fire-eating and domineering school of the South- ern chivalry may denounce it and fight against it and array their State Legislatures in opposi- tion to it; but the North will hold to it as its ultimatum; and so this year or next year, or in this goneration or the next, this amendment will be carried through. The States excluded from Congress meantime are only damaging themselves by their foolish resistance. If the November Northern elections, like those of September and October, are disregarded by the South, then we guess that in making our esti- mates of the next Presidential contest all the States wholly committed to the rebellion, except one, may be left out of our estimates of the next Presidential election. Germany—Her New Organization and the Op- Desition Party. The difficulties that lie in the way of the crys- tallization of a great German empire around Prussia, and that now threaten some embar- rassmonts in the consolidation of the new Power, will disappear. Prussia has in her favor the great fact that she goes with the in- evitable tendency of the age—that she is up to the spirit of the time. If she forces any move in the changes she does not imitate what was done at Vienna in 1815; she does not force States or peoples into unnataral relations to carry out an arbitrary political programme; she only forces them forward a little faster than they were going in the direction that they must inevitably have taken when they could contemplate their own future apart from prejudice and passion. Bismarck, like maay other great men, came at @ fortunate epoch, and was able to accomplish what has been done in Germany not so much in virtue of his own great genius as because the past century of German history has prepared these very events, Richelieu may be justly regarded as the political father of modern France—the organizer of one great kingdom from many discordant parts—the brain that, forcing this Power down and lifting another up, made one harmonious whole where there had been only Jealousy, dissension and anarchy. But the various peoples that he so brought together were ready for the change and the States in a nearly analogous position in Germany are also ready for the change, and will soon begin to see their true position, though portions of the people are still in the bitterness of the late struggle. All will eventually recognize that Bismarck has guided events for the best inter- ests of Germany, and will see that any other solution must have left the German race in the same condition of national nonentity in which they bave been kept for so many ages by their own disputes and the will of various poten- tates. But there will be trouble nevertheless in the organization of the new relations. The ecrec- tion of a great German Power had become necessary for the political symmetry of Burope; and for the erection of auch a Power nothing was wanting but the consent of France. Consent was given; for the present Emperor saw in these events the final destrac- tion of the Vienna arrangement. It was better for France that the great Power should grow around Prussia rather than around Austria; and it was also better for Ciermany, inwemuch as Prussia is really German in fact and at heart, while Austria is neither. And the very facts that make Prussia more acceptable than Austria to France and to Germany, are what inspire in Prussia an active opposition to the development of the Prussian pro- gramme. The old aristocratic party’ regard Bismarck as the worst of revolutionists. Their sympathies in the war were with Austria. They are of the Austrian school of politics and government, and believe in the Austrian aystem, and consequently they see only danger and ruin in an enlightened understanding with revolutionary France, and especially in the proposition to base government on universal suffrage. To this party the aggrandisement of the Prussian monarchy is only a disester, inar- much as it involves the carrying of govern- ment nearer to the people and the poptlari- zation of a rale that should only be founded on force and divine right. This party is now clamorous in its denunciations of the new policy, and will perhaps effect some distrac- tion in the kingdom: but it is hardly centrated around’ the great norilern Power. ‘The old party in Prussia, Austria and elsewhere may have enough vitality to . make one more fight } but another war will only make more clear the pre-eminence and power of Prus- sia. Preponderance in Germany at the expense of all minor sovereignties is the future of this Power, and has been since Francis If. ex-!, changed the title of Emperor of Germany for that of Emperor of Austria. Defeated once in the attempt to establish a German contedera- tion with herself at the bead, Prussia has now succeeded and has even carried the idea fur- ther; and every new struggle against her will only afford her a new occasion to advance her interests and establish her supremacy on more positive bases, The present disaffection of the people of Frankfort and of Hanover are acci- dental discords only. Peoples that have learned to be quiet under almost every government. will be at least as quiet under Prussia as under any other; and as the advantages, commercial and legal, of uniform government for a whole natural division of country are seen, the people will. become as good Prussians in Hanover, Hesse, Nassau and Frankfort now. as they will in Saxony and Bavaria by and by. The Mexican Settlement. The news from Washington indicates that the programme which we laid down some days ago for the settlement of the diff- culties concerning Mexico is about to be carried out. There is probably an under- standing, or one being matured, between our government and that of France, as well as between ours and President Juarez’, of Mexico, relative to a final solution of that trou- blesome question. The French and Maximilian, theretore, will soon quit the soil of Mexico, leav- ing that republic in precisely the same inde- pendent situation it occupied previous to the intervention. The evacuation will take place as speedily as possible, for important state reasons and asa@ matter of policy, prudence and economy. There will not be, probably, a vestige of the so-called empire or French inter- vention left after a few months, The accom- plishment of this object without a war, and so smoothly, willbe very gratifying to the people of the United States and will redound to the honor of President Johnson’s administration. In this settlement of Mexican affairs it-ap- pears that President Juarez wisely leans upon the support of our govern- ment; and our government freely and properly extends its powerful arm to the dis- tracted and disorganized sister republic. As might have been expected, several of the old, ambitious chiefs of Mexico show their heads again the moment there iss prospect of the French leaving. These agitators, or “buc- caneers,” as General Sheridan properly calls them, kept out of the way while the republic, under the heroic President Juarez, was fighting for ite existence. Now they show themselves again, under one pretence or another, for the purpose of renewing civil war and for their own ambitious ends. Santa Anna has been endeavoring to raise a force to carry out his ambitious views, and Ortega has actually an organized body ready to commence operations. And who Is all this aimed at? The French are going, and therefore the arms of these ninth hour patriots are not to be used against them. No; they are to be used against the republic itself; against Juarez, who alone is the chief ofthe republic recognized by the United States. ‘We know of no other legitimate government in Mexico. No other bas been possible; and, under the circumstance, Mr. Ortega’s pretences are not only ridiculous, but they are revolu- tionary and wicked. Weare glad to see that the administration at Washington, after having had so much trouble in solving the Mexican difficulty, is not going to permit any of these anscrupulous, revolutionary chiefs to plunge that country into another civil war. If Ortega, Santa Anna and the rest of such men were really patriotic and wished well to their country, they would give President Juarez all the aid possible to restore peace, order and prosperity in Mexico. In urranging for the departure of the French and for setting the republic on its legs, it ap- pears that the United States may undertake to pay or guarantee the legitimate debt owing to France, receiving for this and other consider- ations a slice of. territory in Northern Mex- ico, This would be a valuable acquisition to us, ag it would give us a shorier line to the Pacific coast from Texas. some valuable forts and very rich silver mines. It is a sparsely settled territory and of little value to Mexico. That republic, indeed, would be greatly bene- fited by the development we should give to the country. A large trade would necessarily grow op with the adjoining States of Mexico, and general enterprise would be stimulated. Mexico would gain by the cession equally with ourselves, Let this programme, then, which we laid down some days ago, and which the administration seems to be working upon, be carried out without delay. lt will be the best solution of Mexican difficulties for all con- cerned—tor France, for us and for Mexico her- self, and it will stand in history as a glorious act of the present administration. THe APPLICTIONS OF SmcRETARY Sewann.— Despatches from Washington received on Monday morning announced the death of Secretary Seward’s only daughter. In this re. cent affliction the venerable Secretary of State has the sympathy of the entire country without regard to political affiliation or partisan bostil- ity. Public men, in the exercise of their func. tions, are open to adverse critici#m, and in our community they seldom escape the lash. Mr. Seward lias proved no exception to this rule. Ne has been vehemenily attacked by his politi- cal adversaries, yet we ventate to say that there is not one in the United States to-day who does not heartily sympathize and ‘condole with him in his last great sofrow. Tromestic afiliction has crowded upon. the honrebeold of the Secretary of Stute for the past ‘few years with « weight that might break down a man already oppressed “with the storms of steie;? yet he bes manfally borne up agaig at them and Ovérshadows ‘@ll fecling of political hostility,. all bitterness, all petty animosities. In sympa- thy for the keen suffering of the father the eareer of the statesman is forgotten. Those who sustained and those who opposed him in public life unite now in a eommon bond of sympathy with his private sorrows. The American people, it may be said, are intense in their political loves and hatreds, vehement alike in their adulatiow and their de- nunciation of political friends or foes; but they are always magnanimous. Their hostility to the politician never extends to the man, and we have no donbt that the telegram which an- nounced the death of Miss Fannie Seward—the latest affliction which has belallen the Secre- tary of State—was read in every household throughout the country with foclings of the deepest sympathy for the venerable statesman in his great bereavement. ‘The Governer of the State and the Corpora ton Ring. The Baron von Hoffman has been travelling through the State fora month past, and with his seven leagued political boots has been striding over # vast extent of ground in his stump speeches, covering all the national issues that have been under’ consideration in Congress since the surrender of Lee’s army to General Grant, including the question of the reconstruction of the ex-rebel States and the Proposed constitutional amendmenis which have been offered to the South. as the basis of her restoration to representation in the Con- gress of the United States. All of the Baron’s nicely rounded sentences have elicited applause from his auditors, and his platitudes have no doubt been accepted as most profound political reasoning. But what has the Baron von Hoffman gotto do with these questions? What influ- ence does he exercise over the. President and Congress? What does it matter to the people of the State of New York whether: their chief executive officer favors or opposes a policy in which he has no voice and with which he has nothing to do? The Governor of the State of New York is called upon to decide upon matters relating to State polity; but upon these points the Baron von Hoffman has been dumb. He has not told the people of the interior that if elected Gov- ernor he would veto any bill that might be passed by the Legislature looking to the re- form of the corrupt municipal government of the city of New York. He has not assured them that he would suppress any proposed investigation into the official conduct of the of- ficeholders attached to the Corporation “ring,” or that he would pocket the charges against the Street Commissioner’s Department or any other department of the city government that. might happen te be under the control of his friends, And yet every intelligent voter | ought to know that this is the work the Baron von Hoffman would be called upon to perform in Albany, and that his election as Gevernor, while it would have no effect whatever on national politics, would secure to the Tammany Trump and the Corporation “ring” the control ot the municipal government of New York city for two years to come. The voters of the State should not allow the Baron von Hoffman’s fine mustache and pretty speeches to divert their attention from these facts. The last Legislature ousted Mr. Boole and his hygienic bummers from office and created a Board of Health whose labors saved the country from the ravages of a pestilence. The Baron von Hoffman made numerous pilgrimages to Albany to defeat the Health bill in his capacity as Mayor of the city. He would have vetoed it and have retained Mr. Boole’s crew in office if he had been Governor of the State. The paid Fire Department met in like manner the oppo- sition of Mayor Hoffman, and the bunkers and rowdies of the old volunteer organization would have been saved from extermination by the interposition of the Executive veto if he had then held the office he now seeks.. These are matters that come home to the people of the State. The issues belonging to national legis- lation may very well te considered in the election of members of Congress; but in the choice of a Governor of the State tlie home in- terests of the people are of paramount import- ance. Mr. Hoffman, as tlie nominee and candi- date of the corrupt Corporation “ ring ” in this city, is bound band and foot to their tortunes ; and to clect him Governor would be to block the wheels of reformatory legislation and to give two years longer lease of power to the corrupt men who for the past ten years have been plundering the eity treasury and enrich- ing themselves by the most infamous jobs at thé expense of the taxpayers of New York. Tux New Fruxew Loax.—From the time when Mr. Fialin firat attached himeelf to the fortunes of Prince Louis Napoleon until now, when be is Duke de Persigny, by crea- tion of Napoleon IIL, he has always been able to foreshadow the policy of bis friend and mas- ter. We must therefore give a ceriain im- portance to the rumor copied by the Hrraiy from the Indépendance of Brussels, to the effect that the Duke bas submitied to the Emperer & memorial containing several suggestions as to the policy demanded by the actual state of affairs in Eorope, and perticularly by the fresh complications which sre likely to arise out of recent events on the Contivent. Among there suggestions the Duke de Persigny pro- pores » new loan of a milliard of trance (forty millions sterling, or two hundred million dol- lars), and it is said that General, Fleury and Berov, Hausemaan approve the echeme and have recommended it to the Emgeror ‘The Duke de Persigny does wot appear very welt satisfied with the line of poliky pursued by the Freneb government. However, a a pacific policy secms, for the preseim: ai \emst, to dave been determined upon—p-erhaps not the which he would himeelf/bave preferred as most favorable to the intecvats of the im- perial dynasty—be insists o> necessity of doing something at once IM quicken and develop the iniernal mategial prosperity of France by way of comperaation for whai he intimates might have besen done to promote possible that it can have the success which | kept the heim still in his grasp. One of the | ite external glory and, power. He therefore rumor hae eltributed to it and. eapplant the | bloodiest chapters in the history, of Alirobam | proposes an immense loan, to he devoid to Bismarck policy in the councils of the King. | Lincoln’s assassination was the atieck apon | public works which | We have seen the history of suck # party in our | Oya coupir; | who believe Mr. Seward, whieh brovght his life to the low. The injuries intlicted. apon bis son at are fossil politicians | ons ebb. fa cates would go to | that time, white defending bir. father, will prob- | able employment, mittee next object to the | tuin if we did not forever permit the Southern | ably never be effaced. Abo wt the same period, second section as secheme “to force negro suf- | gentionien to rin the national machine? The | it will be remembered, Mo. Seward’s wite died, frage upon the Southern States.” But itis no | mere spread of ideas kills sacha party, and will | and now, to fill up the measure of his affliction, such thing. Each State may regulate ite suffrage to suititestf, All that is required Is that suffrage do it as effectnally im Prussia as it did here. Tt is possible, too, that there may be | pome of youth. ant fedors] rooreseguation shall ge fonather: ! another war belors can ualted Gexmaas con: | This canis gucvemir.e of domoaiic hie only daughter bas ‘been carried off in the y benefit and enrich | the country, relieve the sufferers by the recent | inundations and sappiy the poor with profit- These are mainly the oxten. | sible objects ot /ine propoxed loan of « mil. Viard. But this vet sum weuld include « bundred millions tra the conversion of musk+te. ‘The tent wow'd be used fot only for the purposes Alcea ms alone Jus Aau bu cua aa ican loan into government stock, and especial, to provide for unforeseen eventa, . The question is at present agitated through- out France of such a reform of the French mill- tary system as would largely increase the army (ani the navy as well), and fully restore to the empire ils preponderating force among the na- tions of Europe. Such a loan as ihe Duke de Persigny proposes would push vigorously for- ward to completion the reorganization and the rearming of both land and sew forces. This process of reorganization and rearming is already assuming formidable proportions, All the resources of modern science are to be ex- hausted in the improvement of weapons and engines of war. Thus at Toulon each of the new vessela isto have a powerful ram,and their cannon, especially those on the Revanelie, are enormous. An experiment has just beer successfully made at Toulon of s method in- vented by an inhabitant of Lyons for the pre- servation of irom-ciads. By means of galvanism' the iron plating is thoroughly coated witll ‘ per, varying from a line to half a line in - ness, before being put in position, so that-the entire armor is perfectly insulated from the oxygenating action of salt water, ‘Together with the question of the loan, which is in part intended to: defray the éxpenses of many an experiment like this, the French gov- ernment is bound to study other questions of’ urgency—the probabilities of its immediate: future and the all-important question of its foreign alliances as modified by recent events. Particylarly it must defend with jealous care ite dynastic interests and its own theory of the ‘balance of power against the aggressive in- fivence of Bismarck, even if it shall become necessary to interfere forcibly with the present alliance between Prussia and Italy. Revecrep: Appresses.—The copperhead .or- gans of the North have recently been render- ing themselves ridiculous by volunteering advice to the non-represented States im rela- tion to the proposed constitutional amend- ments. “Reject the amendments,” they say, “and we will stand by you.” The Soutlern- ers are not disposed to take this advice-in good part. They bluntly tell the Northern copper. heads that, while they are ready enougli to.mse them, they do not trust them. A Texas.paper says of these allies:—“They deserted the South and the truth at the Charleston Conven- tion in 1860 tor the sake of office;: they fought against the South and in favor of radical abo- litionism during the war for the sake ot office; and yet, after all their bypocrisies and all their dishonor, they were distrusted during the war, and are: distrusted still.” A: Miasis- sippi paper says :—“ The South will take her own course in relation to these amendments, and it she rejects them, as she no- doubt will, it will not be because of the advice of tem who have been to her more treacherous-tham the radicals of the North.” THE LITERARY CONSTELLATION. This asdociation, comprising at present some fifty mees- ‘bora, gave its alnth Literary and musical soirée at Irving Hail, last evening. The exercises inctuded: essaya.and declamations, and introduced Measra, - garon, Blamensteil, Friedlander, Sink, Cohen and Lau- terbach, who all produced a more or less favorable tin- loudly on “True Greatness’ and Mr. Lauterbach, Sa of hod: ght of Naeny was a pombastic, and interspersed Tost tragioal’ ra, was heartily ded and reca lied at the clone of a sprech which, with the two specified above, conatil the better features of the programme. The of the exercises was relieved by the piano ef 8. Friedenrich and the vocalizing of Gertrude cleared, and at tant a dancing was commenesd and participated in through the night by.« very large aad brilliant audience. CHINA AND BURMAN. A Description of: the Custems ef the Peoplp- A Lecture by Mr, Sutheriund, a&c. A very interesting lecture upon the customs andhabite of the peopie of China and Burmab, was delivered last evening at the Spring Street Presbyterian church, by Mr. B.D. L, Sutherland, Superintendent of the Bank Street Methodist Episcopal Sabbath School, to the children.be- louging to the Sabbath school of the first named okurob. The church was filed, and the lecturer was listened to with the closest attention. In -poaking of the obediener of children in China to their parents, he said that they have great respect for them while alive, and pray for and worship them when dend. Women in Chine: live « very disagreeable life. A woman cannot sit at the same table with her sens, consequently from her inferior posi tion the suicide of a wite ir a common thing. in. China, sect of women that dedicate themselves Delieve that when they die they will be born As aman, aud @ man’s i in pac anie spunea ak’ spe ye who comes and names over the and the» person usally buys the cheupast, Ifthe physician that be can care the and the per. veeaias, ine Ln t Sige tor Ain tes, \f'a saum ihn: teens a house, the owner of that bonse is responsivle for the death of thas individua! until some sufficient ton ts given. in Chima are very poor. man © sick, @& carpenter comes and bix vouin aud then makes {t within bearing of fon, and when it is completed, the carpenter, and puta it by bis bedeide to wee if it greatest work of respect that a son father is to presemt him with « sofip. im one corner of # room and if the.owner too fleshy to get into it be has another owe speaker then spoke of the dierent religions of and Burmah. He seid that a Chinamam vevemtells truth even when be lowes by Going eo, They wil lie the sake of lying i you ask them, hew relivions they have they saay sav three, but recognize four, The first was Coninci . Speaker contimued by sayiag that ‘onfucias lived 560 years B.C. Such a taan did live, and is wershipped by any Chinamen. He ix acknowledged ag great head of religion throoghout the empire of and bas jit bil ? rfl more followers than any other mnam.thas livedon the earth, There are Mfieen hundred vem les throug ng. by hiring priests to do it are v0 lazy as lo write Hpom A pieoe of paper sad place it, where the wind blows, and every time it moved the Tildge. ‘They have nett cws'wwns poheefoed paper , n rethey are such Tuo pene aon gre 8 of the be oy nt Vomh te to be im the future wor! je in OF fabulogis proportions, ‘being six hundred miles high ana havi hg seven heads, &c. He then spoke of the diferent i sia, and exhibved ® collection of idole and curiosities from China thar were presented to the Jane street Ann: William W. Cornell, of this city, on€ ot enongh (0 contain Aman, who HD Ae in apewer to ( prayers, and hove mame vignified, / COi\e AO answer, THE OFFICIAL OTE OF AENMSTLYAN:A, Hawt: done, Va Oct ©, tan. A letter from the Seerete zy of the Conmonwentih Slate. that the following 18 U & complete oftteint vote for Governor — Geary oc coven s0r.2t4 Clymer. 290,098 Goary's majority Bax FRAvOMrO, Oey, WO. 186 An Arizona l¢ er, routing party from Fort Me! inded fiiteem two equaws and seven obit 4 Camilla, from the Arotic ovwan, brings seron Parrots of Qigat este Yasue, pounds, af