The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, MANAGER. JR. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches | must be addressed New York Herauo, Letters and packages should be properly sealed Rejected communications will not be retarned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. Volume XXXITI..... seeee No. 252 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, corner of Broome treet, OTHELLO. FRENCH THEATR set and Sixth aves nue.—ELizawern, QuEex WORRELL 5 THEATRE, oppor IGT site New York OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadwa: Riv Van WINKLE, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty. fourth street.—Fra DiavoLo—Too Mecu ror Goop Narone. VERY THEATRE, te —MY FELLOW wery, near Canal street.—Tive K. 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Battaps aND Buriesqves,—I ROOLEY'S MINSTRELSY, CANO. ruIOPLAN Racio APR: EUM OF ANATOMY, rurat History anp P merunys Daity, NEW YORK MU Agr, Caninet oF suiTeTx, 618 Rroadw. M. till 10 o'clock P. 3 Scrence ann KoANIC Tx. Open from 8 A. New York, Monday, September 9, 1867. taab NOW s. EUROPE. Tho Atlantic cable news report of yesterday's date had not reached us when the HERacp went to press this morning By the stoamehip City of Baltimore, at this port yes- terda, we havo interesting mail details of our cable despatehes to the 20th of August, including the text of Napoleon's speeches delivered at Arras and Lille on his rotura from Salzburg, MISCELLANEOUS. The President's new amnesty proclamation was issued yesterday. In the preamble the non-existence of organ- vod rebeliion in the South, or reasonable ground for ap- pehending any renewal of the same, the danger of standing armies, martial law, the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the right of trial by jury, to public liberty in time of peace, and the tend of unnecessa- TY pains, penaities, coafiscations and the usual elements of a vindictive policy to binder reconstraction, are given among the reasons for the issuance of a more genoral amnesty, The excepted classes number three:—Certain ofMicials and agents of the rebel vernment, all who treated prisoners of war barbarously, and all connected with the assassination plot, . The #hore end of the Gulf cable from Key West to Yunta Rosa has been finally laid, and communication between Cuba and the United States is at last perfected, ‘The news from Havana is to September 5. The cigar makers of the city had demanded a retarn to old prices, bat the Captain General had issued aa order that they shall be dealt with as disturbers of the peace if they per- sist in their demands. A negro rising in St. Thomas is reported. They attacked the fort but were repulsed with considerable loss. Vera Cruz dates to September 1, aud Mexico city to August 28, bave been received via Havana and the Caba cable, Maximiliaa’s body bad not arrived at Vera Cruz, nor had it been matilated, as reported. Consul Otter- bourg is acting for the French, Belgian and Italian gov- eruments, as well as our own, Santa Ana's defeace is being prepared. Generel O’Horon was shot on the 2ist wit, All the generals condemned at Querétaro had been pardoned, A convocation of the Mexican people had been decreed by Juarez for the election of a President, ‘ a and magistrates of the Supreme Court. It is Aileged that further damaging disclosures of the doings of Ashley and Butler in thetr alleged conspiracy against the President are about to be made by the Attorney General. A Captain Chandler, who formerly was in charge of tho Washington jail, said to be a radical, is tbo supposed authority for the new developments. Oria M. Beach, the President of the late Farmers’ and Cittzens’ National Bank of Brooklyn, E. D., it is said, was at tbe time of its failure connected with several ot, mining and navigation companies, and various railroad projects, It ts uaderstood from good authority that a warrant bas been issued for the arrest of the collector of one of our Revenue districts for alleged connivance in whiskey frauda. The illicit whiskey trade, how it is carried on, how the operators escape detection and how the heavy whiskey taxes are paid, is fully sot forth in an article on the subject in this morning's Hxrato, The servant girls of Troy held a monster mass meeting on Saturday night to protest against any further de- mand for money far the Fenians. They passed resolu- tions severely denouncing the manner in which previous contributions bad been expended, and questioned the propriety of attempting to liberate Ireland by subjugat- ing Canada, An inquest om the body of Kate Concannon, who died from the effect of an outrage at the hands of three men was held yesterday, Two men, named Beatty and Foley, were arrested on suspicion, and their statements being contradictory before the Coroner, the jury ren- dered a verdict tmplicating both of them The programme of arrangements for the dedication of | Antietam Cemetery bas been published, The General Grant, General McClelina and General will be among the notables present. A hymna com by Rov. Edward Meyer, of Philadelphia, will be sung, and a poom by Clarence Buhler, of Now York, will be read. The building on Lexington avenue erected by the Dominican Fathers for temporary purp of worsbip | was opened yesterday wiih appropriate exercises, The Jarge church intended for the Order will ye situated on Lexington avenue, between Sirty-tifth and Sixty-sizth streets, and work will soon be commenced upon ft, The corner stone of the new Catholic church to be erected on Debevoise street, betwern Lafayette street and DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn, was laid yesterday. On the occasion the religious and temperance societies of the parish aide | ed | | is a disgrace to our legislation. NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1867. Se Governor Hetm, of Kentucky, who was inaugurated last. Tuesday, died yesterday at his residence in Elizabeth- tqwn. General Sickies sailed yesterday from Charleston for New York. Severai cases of yellow fever bave arrived at Mem. phis on a steamboat from New Orleans. The Great Issue—The mu Against the Puritan and the Nigger. The result of the election in California is the ‘ll of the republican party, announcing the kn absolute repudiation by the people of all the | dangerous notions that constitute its political | programme, as well as the repndiation of the dongerous mea who are its leaders. Parties that no longer have the will of the people be- hind them may linger feebly on the stage for a while, but their end is not distant. When all the successes of an organization must be secured by corrupt means, when its triumphs are due to bargains, not to innate force, when its pur- poses are not the people’s purposes, it is evi- dent that its real power is gone, and that it must be hustled fromi the sigut of the nation, ‘The first President of the United States whose election was not an expression of the national will, but was a defiance of that will and the result of a bargain, was Jolin Quincy Adams. Betore the people the decision in 1824 was in favor of General Jackson—Jackson had the largest popular vote—but as the election was not secured by the people’s voice it went to the House of Representatives, and there the Presi- dency was handed over, by bargaining, toa candidate who had not been the first favorite with the people. Mr. Adams had a popular vote smaller than Jackson’s; Crawford and Clay had each a still smaller vole; but through the influence of Clay a combination was made on Adams, and the popular will indicated in Jackson’s plurality went for nothing with the scheming leaders. Adams was President and Clay bad the first place in the Cabinet. This association, for such a purpose, of Adams and Clay, was what John Randolph called “a corrupt coalition between a Puritan and a blackleg.” Th» people agreed with Randolph in their opinions of this game, and did not for- get the men who had sold them out. Not one of those involved in this bargain ever recovered the national confidence. Al!, even Clay, with his great abilities, were remembered, to be kept from all places ofhigh trastand power;and four years later, when the people chose a President again, they gave their most unequivocal voice for the favorite, Jackson, and declared the pur- pose of the people to be tree from the thral- dom that corrupt leaders bad established. They blotted out at once the whole party and the whole political edifice of the corrupt coalition ; and the leaders of that coalition, despite all effort, were kept down forever by the deter- mined purpose of the nation, We have been four years under the thraldom fixed upon us by another corrupt coalition— that of the Puritan and the nigger—only this was a more atrocious bargain than the other, as the ni 1 purpose that has been betrayed was one nearer the national heart than any mere choice of a magistrate, however high. With all their might, with all the emphasis of ballot and bullet, the people made their will apparent, and the politicians scored it and traded it away in their games. To vindicate the will of the majority and maintain the exis:- ence of the nation the people mde every sac- rifice that is in a people’s power. With an unlooked for exercise of strength the nation put down the greatest rebellion of which there is any record, and then required of the domi- nant party only that it should pacify the coun- try and restore peace, exicting from tke con- quered merely such a guarantee as would theoretically provide against the recurrence of the war; for, practically, the nation looked upon the defeat of the South in the struggle fairly fought out as the best of all guarantees for future peace. And what dil the leaders in view of this plain purpose? They ignored it entirely, treated the known will of the nation with an insulting indifference supposed to be characteristic only of Cesarism. jeiwa@n Puritan and nigger was made the bargain to give to the half civilized slave supremacy over his former master, in order that the political balance of this brutal, ignorant and unreason- ing vote might retain the Puritan in power. That is the exact present position of the radi- cal party, In accomplishing its purpose thus far it has traded away every tittle of principle it originally had from the sources of power, and has reduced the business of government to a grand swindle, filling high places with cor- ruption beyond all parallel. Will the people submit? Will they consent to see the princi- ples upon which the nation stands traded to und fro, between scoundrels to whom the gambiers, thimble-riggers and pocketbook- droppers of our streets are, by comparison, honest dealers? Will they see the very heart and life of the nation rotted out, that a craven, bratal people, to whom slavery was more a benefit than a degradation, may be set in power above the white men of the country? California answers “No!” And in her voice we may hear what is to come from the people of New York and Pennsylvania—the doom of the political trader. The people are no longer to be deceived by the shibboleth of party cries that have covered with the nome of freedom all this atrocious scheming. They will rloke a salutary example of the schomers, The Naugatuck Railway Accident. The details of this terrible accident, which we printed in yesterday's Henan, together with the finding of the Coroner's jury, have once more brought vividly before the mind of the public the dangers to which they are ex- posed in travelling by any of our lines of raif- That such accidents should be possible It is easy to denounce the miserable economy of the pro- prietors and the wretched ineMciency of the Board of Management ; but this evil is not so to be cured. It is a disgrace to the railway proprietors that an impartial jury should de- clare the bridge to be “an insufficient struc- tare,” bnt it is a greater disgrace to our legis lators who permit sach rickety structures to way. turned out in procession | Prot. Watson, the Detroit astronomer, on Friday night Alscovered still another planet, bitherto unkaown, in the vicinity of Neptune. The board of managers of the nations! asylums for disabled volunteer soldiers met to Washington yester day, when a highly satisfactory report of operations was presented. President Jobnson, General Grant and ral Butler were present as members of the Board, Colorado Jowett has written a letter to President John. ron giving him some information affecting safety of country. “Te fever is raging at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, bus whother it 12 the “break bone’ or yellow fever is wadeorton, * exist, Conscientious scruples bave never been proverbial of public bodtes, least of all of that | class of public bodies who have a mercenary ; end to serve. | It is vain to look for reform from such sources, unless reform is extorted. | It is a matter, this, which nearly concerns the | public welfare, and it is enough to say that the | people themselves are chiefly to blame if the \ evil is not removed. No bridge need be inse- cute ; no bridge ought to be allowed to be inse- cure. The people ought to have their own | inspectors, and we know no reason why they should not have them at oncé. Our National Finances—The Next Great Issue Looming Up. It is a common and correct remark, that people in political matiers, as well as in those of business, are governed by their interests. ‘True, they are sometimes mistaken and bam- boozled by politicians for a time, but in the end they rarely fail to see what tends to their interest, and act accordingly. Hence, we may be sure that it will not be long before our national finances must become the great ques- tion which will occupy politicians and states- men, and on which parties will be divided and reorganized. The political troubles of the time, growing out of the war, involving chiefly the question of reconstruction and restoration ‘of the Southern States, with the collateral issues between the Executive, Congress and the Judiciary, must soon come to an end— | unless, indeed, the radical Chase politicians, with the high tariff men, the bondholders and the national banks, should be able to keep the country ina state of disorganization for the owa purposes, The people are becoming very impatient under the state of things existing at present, and, we believe, will demand a cessa- tion of agitation and a return to harmony. They are positively disgusted and worn out with the war of factions over the late rebel States and the negroes, which they see has no other object than the power and spoils of oNice. The people of California have led off in their election against this wearisome and dan- gerous agitation, and there is reason to believe the other States in the fall elections will follow. The politicians will be checked in their ruinous course by the all powerfu! voice of the people. Then will come up in all its bearings the subject of our national finances, including the revenue system, taxation, the management and payment of the debt, the curreacy and the national banks. We see already this important subject loom- ing up, and prominent public men in different sections of the country are taking their ground for the contest, irrespective of old party issues or affiliations. We noticed a short time since the” address of one of the ablest men of the democratic party in the West, Mr. Pendleton, on the question. This gentleman showed in an able manner the ruinous policy of the on-to- specie-payment theorists, of the national bank monopolists and the grasping bondholders. He expressed, undoubtedly, the views, not only of the mass of his own party, but the mass of all parties in the West; for the Chicago Tribune and other leading radical organs express similar views. A few days ago the opinions of a bold New England radical leader, General Butler, were circulated through the press. Few men are shrewder than he, and though he did not prove to be much of a war horse at Fort Fisher, he can scent the political battle afar off. Here are two prominent men, of different sections of the country and belonging to opposite parties, agreeing in, the main upon financial matters. Both are opposed to a contraction of currency and to the monstrous national bank monopoly; both denounce the shameful donation of twenty to thirty millions a year in the profits on national circulation—profits which rightly belong to the people and government and which ought to go into the Treasury ; both are in favor of making the national debt uniform in characier, of reducing the interest, and of paying it off as speedily as possible in currency—the same money which the gove .ment received when contracting it; and wey agree that we should have a uniform legal tender circulation, and that government securities should be taxed as other property is. There are many other promi- nent men, particularly in the West, who hold similar opinions. This was seen in the debates of Congress during the last two or three sessions, Even the veteran Pennsylvania statesnfin, Thad Stevens, stood firmly against the contraction theorists. Neverin the history ofany country, perhaps, did the public men and the people make so much progress in getting right views on an important matter as they have in this country on the subject of our national finances. Two or three years ago it was little understood. Congressmen and the people were led by the Chase and McCulloch school of financial quacks; but latterly they have become better insirncted. A great change is going on in public sonti- menj, and it will not be long before this country will emancipate itself both from the crude theories of our own financial tyros and the exploded dogmas of British bullionists. The independent press has been the powerful instrument of educating the people up to this point. It is hardly necessary to refer to the course of the Heratp for several years past, for our readers will remember how persistently we have assailed the contraction theories, the national bank monopoly and the wretched financial policy of the government generally. The views expressed by General Butler, Mr. Pendleton and others, are in thé main the same which we had previously published over and over again. Our labor has not been in vain. This subject, which now begins to loom up prominently, must be the absorbing one. Far- seeing statesmen, as we have noticed, are pre- paring themselves for the contest. The national bank monopoly will have to go under; we shall have to come to a uniform enrrency, and that of government legal tenders ; the bondholders will have to bear @ part of the burdens of tax- ation as other people do; contraction of the currency must be resisted, and an ample cir- culation maintained to promote the active ix dustry of the country, and till a large portion of the debt be paid. The debt should be paid by currency —in the same money as was given for it, and the whole should be consolidated in one form, with reduced interest, and be placed in process of regular liquidation. This is the platform of the future, the one to which the mass of the people everywhere will rally. Whatever party adopts it will be the party of the future, and the political leaders who place themselves upon it will be the coming men that are to govern the republic. The Plethora of Money In Enatand. We copy trom the London Times, in another column, an article on the snperabundance of money in England remaining unemployed, The Bank of England rate of interest was two per cent—so low that the Times says “it never has been lower.” Yet trade was dull. The vast accumulation of money in the Bank vaults has been going on some time, The accumnla- tion in the Bank of France is still greater. The Times explains this extraordinary anomaly of a redundance of money with dulness of trade as arising from capitalists being afraid to venture in business or to lot out their capital, and that this is caused in a great measure by the recol- lection of former guffering from speculation and the unsettled state of Europe. There is undoubtedly some truth in this; but we think there are other causes as well. The opportn- nities.in England for the safe and profitable investment of capital are becoming fewer every year. England has almost reached the limit of profitable production. We repeat our advice to European capitalists to send their money to this country. Our resources are boundless, and so far from having reached the limit of production here, wé have only just begun to de- velop. Here they can get a high rate of interest, three or four times over what they get in Europe, and with the best securi'y, Let them send their surplus money to us. We can absorb it all, and much more. Let the President Resign! ‘The political war has at lengih reached that point where a strong, bold movement on the part of President Johnson is the only thing that will resiore the country to peace and prosperity. The radicals have struck blow atter blow at all the intelligence of the country, until they threaten to level it with the vilest standard that the land can produce. To obtain political victory it matters not how many cherished principles they trample under foot; how many safeguards of our republicanism they tear down; how thoroughly they obliterate every element of stability in the country; how near to the verge of military despolim they drive the car of s'ate. They are bent on win- ning the race for party, and they have sank country far in the background, a3 a considera- tion of little imporiance in comparison. To defeat them, to restore our repfublican insti- tutious, now becomes with us the mighty problem. To do this we must dive down below the radical froth, and in a deeper cur- rent sock safety in the almost buried common sense of the people. To make the people feel the full import of that which rests so heavily upon them, Andrew Johnson should resiga and appeal to them. Let him res'gn and demand that a convention of all the States be called to take measures against this political ruin that Congress is burl ng against the republic. Let him tell the people that he fiads it impossible to resist entirely this attempt of Congress to assume dic atorial pogver and inaugurate new revolution. Let him show to them the political picture as it exists—commerca wrecked, the Treasury Depariment in ruins, the revenue administeved tor the benefit of those who hold the offices, the wealth of tle nation squandered, an exhaustive Indian war on hand for the benefit of agents and contractors, hatf the States under military dictatorship, the other balf threatened with a similar government, corruption everywhere, vico making a throne of virius, and the country driving madly through the same political phases that pro- ceded the French Revolution. Are the people prepared for all this? Are they prepared to see the negro element set up at auction as the instrument through which the unprincipled politicians may ride into power? Do they taste the bitterness in advance of what such afuiure has in store for them? If they do not, then is the country already dead, and naught but a long night of anarchy and revolution can awaken it from its letbargy. The negro to shape our political future ! to drive our great republic to its destiny! Are we so lost to all respect of race and brain power that we can seltle down before this radical idol and see in its biackaess the glory of the land, instead of its ruin? Let Mr. Johnson look to this, and let him rise to the demands of the time by throwing himself into the arms of the people, who, nauseated with this radical rule, are ready for change anda reaction which will restore health and vigor to the land. The President, leading in the movement, may form a new party, and, through the overwhelming votes of the intel- ligence of the country, be restored to the executive power. The country wants in such‘ a party no narrow platform of faction, but the great and broad elements of action that will restore the nation to its former vigor. Finances and progress must be the moving forces. The rebellion must be forgotten, and universal amnesty must cut the South aloof from the proconsulships that threaten to advance northward. The radicals must be taught that there is something besides party ambition for the spoils to give motive power toa political faction, They must learn, too, that the nation in a terrible reaction, will hold them to account for the desolation which for two years has marked their political track. The negro, too, filled with false ideas of the réle he is to play in the future, must be placed on the level of his intellectual ability; and, with every guarantee of freedom, let him work his way upwards to the fall extent of his powers. Now is the moment for Mr. Johnson to seize fortune atthe flood. The reaction is coming. Let him resign and lead it. The © For the hundredth time, says our correspond- ent at the city of Mexico—writing on the 16ih of July—for the hundredth time in its history the “independence” of Mexico has been de- clared established. If we are to interpret the word as signifying “independence” ot all those noble sentiments and generous impulses which govern a nation truly great, “ independence: of the obligations of civilizition and humanity, “independence” of the opinion of all the rest ot the world where enlightened Christianity prevails, then, indeed, we may regard this hua- dredth announcement as warranted by the facts, and as likely to prove permanen!, But if it is intended to imply that the government of the so-called liberals, headed by the puppet of the creole mule driver, Escobedo, is firmly established, the pronunciamiento is as mean- ingless and as unsubstential now as it was when put forth by the ragged band of patriots who stood shivering at El Paso, in Northern Chi- huahua, ready to fly at the first approach of the dreaded French, The fact is, the mongrsl barbarians of Mexico have never more strikingly exhibited their unfitness for sel-government than since the United States relieved them of the presence of the French army, and enabled them to conquer Maximilian by bribing one of their own treach- erous countrymen on the side of the imperial- ists to betray him Into their hands. From that time to the present thé country has run red with blood, and the Mexican butchers—the most ferocious when their enemies are the most powerless—are demanding its continued flow. We are told by our correspondent that another batch of fourteen unhappy were con- demned on July 16 to add their blood to that which already stains the soil of Querétaro, and that General Diaz had angrily protested against any farther executions, declaring that the country was already sufficiently disgraced in the eyes of the world by the deeds of the last six months, So heated had the Juarez and Diaz controversy grown that a rupture between the civil and military powers was anticipated. The robbing and murdering, for which Mexico has always been distinguished, was never so general throughout the country as at the pres- ent time, and disaffected and ambitious leaders are springing up in every quarter, secking with their gueriila bands to revolutionize the goy- ernment whose “independence” is so boast- fully proclaimed, So far from being firmly cstabl’shed, the gov- ernment of Juarez is resting over a mine which may at any moment explode and blow it to atoms. Bloodthirsty, cruel and arbitrary at home, and insolent to friendly foreign Powers, it ueither enjoys the affections of its own people nor the sympathy of outside nations. It will go on from one enormity to another until it breaks up into factions, each under iis own leader, who will set to work destroying each other, until every Mexican greaser now in power shall have been shot or drivea from the country, to give place to a new set of barba- rians. The sooner the whole nation completes within itself the famous history of the battle of the Kilkenny cats the better it will be for civilization and humanity. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Anrivat ov tas Revenug Curren Noerueaven —The United States steam rovenue cuiter Northerner, Captain McGowan, with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, J. F. Hartland on board from an official cruise along the eastern coast, and last from New London, arrived at this port yesterday, will proceed to Washington to day. Passinc Counterrert Monsy.—Officers Brady and Cot- trell, of the Twenty-second precinct, at alate hour on Sat- urday evening, discovered @ man and woman acting in quite @ saspicious manner on Eighth aveous, entoring nearly every store they passed and leaving each in a hur- ried manner. As both the officers above mentioned had suspected this same pair for a long time past of being “shovers’’ of counterfeit money, they very naturally paid particular attention to the movements of the duo and followed them, at a distance, for several blocks. After ““piping’’ the couple for some time one of the officers entered a store aud ascertained that the suspected ones had bought some trifling articls for which they vendered pay- mont in counterfeit twenty-five cont stamps. Fully sat- istied that the man and woman were the “shovers’’ the officers proceeded to arrest them. The man when ac- costed by the policeman submitted with good grace, but tho woman ran off, and, while run- ning, threw. quantity of counterfeit twenty-five cont stamps into the street. Oflicer Brady finaily overhauled her and found a quantity of the stamps which she had thrown away. The prisoners were locked up in the Twenty-second precinct station house to await their arraignment befora the United States Court to-day. They gave their names as Frede- rick and Elizabeth Davis. The man says he ts a cigar — by trade, and the woman ciaims to be a housd- eoper. Kioxeo sy a Honse.—Jos, Militscher, a dry goods salesman, was yesterday taken to Bellevue Hospital by a Mr. Thos. H. Yarneil, from the corner of Broome and Goerck streets, having been kicked by a horse attached toa car ‘of the Gand Btreet and Forty-second street ling, while standing on the front platform, and sustained a fracture of (he jaw. Pronazty Fatat. Acorpent.—A woman named Ann Hurloy, who resides at 75 Division street, while passing along East Broadway and opposite No. 89 of the same street, foll through a grating on the sidewalk, injuring herself, tt ts feared, fatally, She was conveyed to her residence and medical aid summoned, Free iv Sevevts Avenoe.—Botweon sevon and eight o’clock on Sunday morning a dre occurred in the second hand clothing store 240 Seventh avenue, owned by Heien Wilson, The flames were soon extinguished without giving an alarm. The circamstances of the origin of the fire were so suspicions that the police of the Sixteenth procinet telegraphed for Fire Marshal Baker to investigate the matter. The damago done to the stock will be about $150; insured for $1,000 im the Park insurance Company. Fine ty Wasiftyaton Stresr.—About a quarter to five o'clock on Sunday afternoon a fire originated in the smoke house No. 518 Washington street, owned by L. Earle, resuiting in a loas of about $300, Said to ve ine sured. The fire was caused by the dripping fat from the meat igniting and setiing fire to the meat. THEATRICAL GOSSIP. Dramatic, Pseudo-Operatic, Comic and Spece ta The fall season opens in some respects brilliantly, there being at least no dearth of variety in the manner in which New York managers cater to the very pampered dramatic palate of the public Two or three grand spoctaculars exist in embryo and are just goasipped about, first among them being a grand drama of Turkish society, in which the lovers of the histrionic will be regaled with a faithful transcript of the Turk of the fifteenth century. The Broadway theatre, always managed with com- mondable tact by Mr. William Moore, still continues to present Edwin Forrest, a lion of the boards, in bts most appreciated riles, Forrest as Virginius, Forrest as Othello—before losing his occupation—Forrest as the cunning old Cardinal and Forrest as Damon (and al! in the samo week) are attractions enough to make the fortune of any manager, even were the support less ab! Timo meilows the actor, and of this Forrest is an illus- tration—though he seems while having gained in art to have lost nothing in magoetic enerzy, Manager Hayes opens the Olympic this evening for the fall season with Jefferson— by the way, one of our most inimitable comedians—as Rip Van Winkle, the sloopy old Teuton, who was 30 utterly given to conservatism of all sorts that he slopt nearly a quarter of acentury, and insisted that the world should stand still while be did so, On this occasion, also, Miss Bossie Foote, aa English actress, makes her debut on the American boards. At the Fifth Avenue theatre the new burlesque and comedy company are doing the old !egend of Cinderella, varied with Falconor's clever extravaganza, and will open this week with Fra Diavolo, with Mr. LeMngweil as Boppo and Mrs. Sediey Brown as the brother of the ‘sulpbureous cognomen.’’ Mr. Leffingweli’s broad burlesque, Clorinda, has set the whole house ta a com- motion with laughter during the past week, and the same may be expected of Beppo, ‘The Theatre Francais is still oceupied by Mrs. Lander, whose Elizabeth, following that of the great foreign (ragédienne, bas mot with a singular but most complete success—as, in fact, it has deserved. Mrs, Lander will start upon a Western tour in a week or two, and Will be succeeded by Ristori, who is expected to arrive here to- morrow, and about whom fashion is already making peoparations for a flurry. Ristori reappears in America with an Original réperioire, inclusive of Marie Antoine'te, a plece never before playet; Myrrha, Jeanne d'Are, Bea- trier, Norma, and othor Madame La Grango is also expected to arrive to-morrow in company with Madame Ristori, as well as the Comic Opera troupe, marshalled by Batemaa, which will be devoted to the production of those piquant operatic pleasantries lately so popular in Paris, Mr. Freleigh, of the Bowery theatre, still manages with consummate skill as a caterer to fill that newly renovated edidce nightly. ‘Time and Tide,’’ which wait for no man, nor need in this case to wait foran audience, is the present attraction. It isan English sensational drama, the situations of which are very farcical or very tragic, just as (bey happen to be overdone or done without tear. ing the passion to tatters, Mr. Joha de Pol, the new manager at Banvard’s Mu- sour, has concluded to try the eflect of the spectacular and fagical, having imported a grand ba'let froupe ex- pressiy for the season. The Devil's Auction, produced with magio ofecta without number, takes the initiative here ase fall attraction. Under the Gas Light still continues the attrac. tion at the New York Theatre, and is likely to bave a considerable run, principally ewing to the fact that it has one or two exceedingly effective dramatic novelties in the way of stage scenery, and partially to the further fact that ite title bas in it something suggestive of an American dramatic waut, viz.:-a steady attempt to develop American society and manners af dramatic matorial. Of opera houses, the number of which seems to in. crease monthly in a sort of geometrical ratio, there is Nothing especially new to be moted, all being mostly en. gaged in capital buriesques of the ancient and digaiféd, of whieh KiU Trovatore may serve as & specimen, WASHINGTON PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. Amnesty and Pardon Extended to Par- ticipators in the Rebellion. The Excepted Classes Reduced from Fourteen to Three. Radical Politicians Preparing for the Work of Retaliation. THE CONOVER DISCLOSURES AGAIN. THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION, Wasuincton, Sept. 8, 1867. ‘Vhe following pardon proclamation, although prepared yesterday, was not issued until this afternoon -. A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Whereas ‘in the month of July, anno Domini 1861, the two houses of Congress, with extraordinary upani- mity, solemnly declared that the war then existing was not waged on the part of the government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subju- gation, ner purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitu- tion, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired, and that, as soon as these objects should be accom- plished the war ought to cease; and Whereas the President of tho United States, om the Sth day of December, anno Domini 1863, and oa the 26th day of March, anno Domini 1864, did, with the objects of suppressing the then existing rebel- lion, of inducing all persons to return to their locality, and of restoring the authority of the United States, issue proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to all per- sons who had directly or indirectly participated in the then existing rebellion, except as in those proclamations was specified and reserved; and x Whereas the President of the United States did, on the 29th day of May, anno Domini 1895, issue a farther proclamation with the same objects before mea- tioned, and to the end that the authority of the govern- mont of the United States might bo restored, and that peace, order and freedom might be established; and the President did, by the said last mentioned pro- clamation, proclaim and declare that he thereby granted to all persons who bad directly or in- directly particpated in the then existing re- bellion, except as therein excopted, amnesty and pardon, with restoration of all the rights of prqperty, except as to slaves, aud except in certain cases where legal proceedings had been instituted; but upon condi- tion that such persons should take and subscribe an oath therein pftséribed, which oath should be registered for permanent preservation; and Whereas in and by the said last mentioned proclame- tion of the 29th day of May A. D. 1865, fourteen exten- sive classes of porsons, therein specially described, were altogether excepted and excluded from the benefits thereof; and Whereas the President of the United States did, om the 2d day of April. anno Domini 1966, issue a procia- mation declaring that the insurrection was at an end, and was thenceforth to be so regarded; and Whereas there now exists no organized armed resist- ance of fsguided citizens or others to the authority of the United States in the States of Georgia, South Caro. lina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Texas, and the laws can be sustained and enforced therein by the proper civil authority, Siate or) federal, and the peo- ple of said States are well and loyally disposed, and have conformed, or, if permitted to do so, will conform, in their legislation to the conditions of affairs growing out of ths amendment to the constitution of the United States prohibiting slavery within the limits and juriadic- tion of the United States; and Whereas thero no longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend within the States which were involved In the late rebellion any renewal thereof, or any unlaw/ul resistance by the people of said States to the constitr tion and laws of the United States; and Whereas as large standing armies, military oocupa- tion, martial law, military tribunals and the suspension of tho privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and the- right of trial by jury are in time of peace dangerous te public liberty, incompatible with the individaal rights of the citizen, contrary to the genius and apirit of our free institutio ind exhaustive of the national resources, and ought not therefore to be sanctioned or allowed ex- cept in cases of actual necessity, for repeiling invasion or suppressing insurrection or, rabelmon; and Whereas a retaliatory or vindictive policy, attended by unnecessary disqualifications, pains, penalties, contisca- tions and disfranchisements now, a8 always, could only tend to hinder reconciliation among the people and na- tional restoration, while it must seriously embarrass, ob- struct and repress popular energies and national indus- try and enterprise; and Whereas for these reasons it is now deemed essential to the public welfare and to the more perfect restora- tion of constitutional law and order that the said last mentioned proclamation, so as aforesaid issued on the 29¢h day of May, anno Domini 1865, should be modified, and that the full and beneficent pardon conceded thereby should be opened and further extended toa large number of persons who, by its aforesaid excep- tions, have been hitherto excluded from Executive clemency; Now, therefore, be it known that I, Axoraw Jomyson, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the fuli pardon described in the said pro- clamation of the 20th day of May, anno Domini 1865, shall henceforth be opened and extended to all persona who, directly or indirectly, participated in the late rebel- lion,” with she restoration of all privileges, tmmuni- ties and rights of property, except as to property with regard to slaves and except im cases of legal proceedings under the laws of the United States; but upon this condition, neverthe- Jess, that every such person who shall seek to avail him- self of this proclamation shall take and subscribe the following oath, and shall cause the same to be registered for permanent preservation in the same manner and with the same effect as with the o@bh preacribed the said proclamation of the 29th day of May, 1865, vi: I do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully sui provect and defend the constitution of the United and the union of the States therounder, and that] in like manner abide by and tee flaw « gr all la aad proclamations which have been during the i rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God. ‘The following persona, and no others, are excluded from the benefits of this proclamation and of the said proclamation of the 20th day of May, A. D. 1965, namely: — First.—The chief or pretended chief executive officers, including the President, Vice President aad ali heads of departments of the pretended Confederate or rebei gov- ernment, or who were agents thereof in foreign States and countries, and all who held, or pretended to hold, in the service of the said pretended Confederate govern- ment, ® military rank or title above the grade of briga- dier general, or naval rank or title above that of captain, and all who were or pretended to be Governors of States, ile maintaining, abetting or submittiag to and acqul- ‘eacing in the rebellion. Second.—All persons who in any way treated other- wise than lawful prisoners of war perso: ia any capacity were employed or engaged in the military OF naval service of the United States, Third. —A)l persons who, at the time they may seek to obtain the benefits of this proclamation, are actually in civil, military of maval confinement or custody, or legally held to bail, either before or after conviction, and ail persons who were engaged, directly or indirectly, ia tho assassination of the late President of the Unitet States, of in any plot or conspiracy in any manner thore- with connected, la vevtimony whereof [ have signed those provente