The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1867, Page 6

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EUROPE. “By epccial telegram through the Atlantic cablo, dated Pt tho Hacue yesterday, we learn that the alleged forged United States paper found on the man Gardensier. whose Brrest by th» Dutch authorities wo specially reported Yesterday morning, turns out to be revel American Yonds, issued by tho Confederate, or Jeff, Davis govern- mnont. ‘The nows reported by tho Atlantic cable is dated yes- Perday evening, September 16. Gardensier has been examined at the Hague, and more bf the worthless American bonds taken up on his infor- ‘ation. Admiral Farragat, with the officers of his squadron, Wore entertained ata grand féte of the United States Minister in Copenhagen. Members of the Danish gov- ernment, with many officers of the royal navy and a farge number of American citizens were present, and the Most friendly feeling prevailed, Tho United States war vessels lately lying at Cadiz sailed for the coast of Greece, An Irish Fenian leader named Birds, concealed Bince the outbreak, has been arrested near Dublin. + Mossrs, James Hewitt & Co., of Liverpool, largely on- ged in the American trade, have suspended payment. Liabilitos not stated. { Consols closed at 04 11-16 for monoy in London, Five- twenties were at 723s in London, and 76% in Frank- fer. 1 Tho Liverpool cotton markot was quiet, but firm at tho close, with middiing upinnds at 9%{ pence. Bread- Btuffs and provisions without any decided change, By tho steamship City of London, at this port yester- @ay, wo have our special correspondence and European Dies, embracing vory interesting mail reports of our Table despatches to the 5th of September, ; THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen passed a resolution yestorday Girecting the Corporation Counsel to take immediate Measures to prosecute the parties who laid rails across the Battery on Sunday last. } The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and concurred swith the Aldermon in adopting a resolution directing the Corporation Counsel to take the necessary legal steps for Que removal of a railroad track which bas been Iaid in ‘Wost street and across the Battery. Th» Board also con- turred in the passage of a resolution making eight hours @ day's work by persons .in the employ of the city gov- Prument, and in tendering the hospitalities of the city to the Mayor and Common Council of Buffalo. ‘The Board of Andit heard a groat many statements of ‘vlaims yesterday. The most important of them was the Claim of Indgo Roosevelt for $11,000, for difference of jralary as Judge of the Supreme Court from 1852 to 1360. | There have been thirty-five cases of cholera on Gov- ‘ernor's Island among tbe troops this summer, of which fourteen havo proved fatal. No now cases have ap- peared, however, for some time, and the disease itself has entirely disappearod. Mr, T. C. Caliicott. late Collector of the Third district $n Brookiyn, arrived in that city yesterday from Wash- Ington and gave bail in $50,000 before Commissionor ‘Newton for his appearance. Mr. William S Andrews, one of his deputies, has been appointed by the acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue to take his place during his suspension or until some one else is appointed, ‘and will entor upon his duties to-day, Mr. Callicott's aeply to the charges preferred against him was trans. anitted to the Metropolitan Board of Revenue, and con- tains a general conial of the charges. tock markot was unse yostorday. ment securitios were dull closed at 14434. There was only a to business consummated in commercial circles yestorday, but there were fow im- portant changes im value, Coffeo was steady. Cotton fas dull and heavy, On ’Change flour was in fair ae mand and frm, while wheat was quite active bat at towor prices, Corn advanced 2c , while oats were lower. Pork was lower and quiet, Beef and lard were un- changed. Freights wore higher, Naval stores wore dull, and petroloum quite steady, MISCELLANEOUS. An election took place in Richmond yesterday, at which the negroes bandied the ballot for the first time fn Virginia. The question of subscribing $2,000,000 to the Chesapeake and Obio Railroad was carried by over two thousand majority, the darkeys voting for item masse. Some dolay occurred on account of the refusal of the Registering Board to furnish alist of voters, but General Echofleld ordered the list to be furnished and it was done. Th» opponents of the subscription intend to conm- test the election on the ground that negroes have no Fight to voto except in elections for office, and that reg- Isiration being incomplete till the final revision is made, those who voted were therefore not registered voters Genoral Sebofeld has ordered an election of delegates to tho State Convention on the 224 of October, Our Southern letters this morning detail tho sttvation in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, A Noxa- bos county, Mississippl, correspondent, givos an account of a radical meeting called by three negroes and three white men, which the negroes wore induced to attend by the announcomont that their registration tickets would De void if they remained away. A white speaker at the Meeting promieed them the mules and lands of their employers, and then took op @ subscription to bear bis expenses to the general convention to Jackson, He conecied over $6 Woe have special Govern- despatches from St, Thomas on the | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1867.~TRIPLE~ SHEET. 24, Porto Rico on the 34, St. Domingo om the 1st of September; Hayti on the 16th and Venezuela on 2ist of August, Seven hundred troops had arrived at Porto Rico, and two war vessels destined for St Thomas bad been detained, ‘The tobacco crop of St. Dostiaee is re large ag it was last year. The government we i pola. 7. ‘Tho press of Hayti was protesting against some proposed actions of Salnave relative to the public money. ‘Advices from Mexico state that the primary élections will bo held on the 22d, when the citizens will also vote on certain proposed amendments to the constitution. Under tho Civil Rights bill of Mexico eight classes of thoso who were connected with the intervention are permitted to vote, and two of them are permitted to become candidates for office, The dying address of General O'Horan is pub- lished {n our columns this morning. The Milibustering expedition attributed to Santa Ana’s son in Havana has turned out to bea swindle on the part of a Mr. Leh- mann, who claims to be a Pennsylvanian, and who, after obtaining a comfortable sum from several Germans in the city to aid him tn his enterprise, had disappeared, By means of the Cuba cable, we are placed in posses- sion of advices from Mexico city to the 9th, and Vera Cruz to the 13th instant, Admiral Togethoff was refused the body of Maximilian, Juarez asserting that he could not give it to him until he came with documentary pow- ers to receive it on the part of the relatives of the doad prince, Our Havana letter is dated September 4 The Austrian frigate intended to carry Maximilian’s remains to Austria had arrived, Vico Admiral Togethoff will return in her, taking charge of the remains, It was reported’ that in anawer to the complaint of a committeo of storekeepers that the taxation was too heavy,.the Authorities answered that there were baySuots enough in Havana to enforce the collection of thom, Advicos from Hasti state disturbances had broken out in various parts of the republic. Recruiting for the army was going on by impressment, school boys in the streets being seized upon in some instances, Mr. McPherson, the Clerk of the House of Representa- tives, has made known his opinions on impeachment. He thinks the President will not be impeached, because there is so great a difference of opinion among the republican members. It is probable that General Hancock's trip to Washing- ton will be given up, and that he will be ordered to pro- ceed immediately to New Orleans, on account of the death of General Griffin. General J. A. Mower is in temporary command at present, and he has commenced his administration by ordering the discontinuance of all armed public mectings. The order issued some timo ago by Gonoral Griffin whilo commanding in Texas, relative to the removal of certain Judges of the Supreme Court, bas been revoked. The yellow fever at Houston, Texas, is raging fear- fully, and has become prevalent in numerous other towns in tho interior of the State. In Houston one thousand cases are reported, with from ten to fifteen deaths daily. The Portmaster and the Collector had both died and the commandant and his family were sick. occurred on Saturday and Sunday. The dedication of the Antietam celebration takes place to-day, Among the distinguished persons who will accompany the President on the occasion aro the Ministers of England, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Ruesia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Honduras, Tho vicinity of the cometery was crowded with visitors as early ag yesterday, eager to see the ceremonies, In the Consti(utional Convention yesterday a motion to adjourn disclosed the fact that there was not a quorum present, a division being called and the motion lost. Tho motion wus again put and carried, No other business of much importanee was transacted. General Canby has issued an order somewhat modify- ing Sickles’ order No, 32, and declaring all citizens who havo paid taxes and been registered as voters eligible to sit on juries, No further property qualification is re- quired, The Governors in his district are authorized to have the jury lists revised accordingly. The Indian chiefs, it is said, have exhibited a more friendly disposition since the removal of General Han- cock; and it is now highly probable that they will aceept the proposition to hold them together on reserva- tions. They hated Hancock, and looked upon him as inimical to their interests. Tho habeas corpus case of Milliken will be heard at Momphis, Tern, before Judge Swayne, of the United ‘States Supreme Court, to-day. The writ served on Lieu- tenant Hugo was oeyed by order of General Thomas. Silvester Qiuller was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Elizabeth, N. J., yesterday, He was charged with the murder of John Firman at Westfield, A gang of burelars, consisting of a man and two boys, who have been ext ly operating in Maine, have been broken up by the arrest of the parties, A dwelling house near East Abiogdon, Mass,, was burned on Sunday ‘night, and two young ladies perished in the fame. Presidential Intrigues at Washington—Mr, Chase Mastering the Situation. With the appointment by President Lincoln, in 1861, of Mr. Chase to the Treasury Depart- ment, he began to engineer and zealously set himself to work for the Presidential succession. To this end the enormous political power placed in his hands of furnishing the funds necessary to carry on a gigantic war were so skilfully managed that in the spring of 1864 he boldly claimed the right to the succession against Lincoln himself. His calculations in this view proved to be singularly defective ; but he had done too much and had advanced too far to abandon his grand design. There has, con- sequently, been no abatement in his efforts to remove all impediments and to secure every instrument calculated to make him master of the situation in 1868. Mr. Chase’s financial system, including his one dollar greenbacks, was skilfully contrived as the nucleus of a powerful Chase party. But in the vast disbursements of the War Office, and in the popularity acquired and likely to be acquired by our army heroes, there was some- thing to be looked after. Mr. Cameron, as the War Secretary, was not, in this view, the man adapted to Mr. Chase’s purposes. Hence the removal of Cameron and the appointment of Stanton in his place. Stanton, whatever may have been his own ambition, from the start became a zealous coworker with and confidant of the aspiring head of the Treasury. Between thom the removal of General McClellan, when his popularity threatened to be dangerous, was contrived and finally accomplished, though ina very bungling and blundering way. Having thus succeeded in shelving McClellan, Stanton, in the interest of Chase, undertook the same game with Sherman, and would have displaced him but for the kindly intervention of General Grant. Politically, however, Sherman was damaged almost beyond recovery ; and if now we find General Grant in a position from which he cannot turn to the right hand or the leit, nor yet move straight forward, nor stand still without danger, the credit, such as {t is, be« longs to Mr. Chase and his faithful colaborer, Stanton. But the entanglement of Grant in the re- construction meshes of the War Depart- ment has involved the shelving of even the faithful Stanton, and here, doubtiess, Mr. Chase has mado good use of the confiding Mr, Johnson, and likewise in the removal of Sheridan and Sickles—the only men among the Southern military commanders whose abilities, publio services and popularity were to be feared in looking over the complications of the Presidential chessboard. It will be thus per- ceived that Mr. Chase may bo said to have cleared the track very adrottly of some very serious obstructions, in disposing, for the time being, of Cameron, McClellan, Grant, Stanton, Sheridan and Sickles. Nor do his ayccesses in mastering the radi- cal situation stop here. In the very outset his management and displacement of Mr, Soward In New Orleans one hundred and three deaths as rival aspirant was a masterly acbieve- ment, though he- did not succeed in the at- tempted removal of Seward from Lincoln’s Cabinet. Nor must it be forgotten that upon the heels of Lee’s surrender Mr. Chase, in a Southern missionary tour, secured a pre-emp- tive claim to negro suffrage. Backed up by this power in the South, and supported by Mr. Johnson passively, and by Secretary McCulloch actively, in his financial system, Mr. Chase may surély be pronounced master of the radical situation at Washington as matters now stand. His most dangerous rivals, in their popularity and in their claims upon-the public gratitude, have been set aside or neutralized by knock- ing their heads together. - The negro vote of the South, in the next place, isa great radical card, and this belongs to Chase by right of pre-emption. But all these advantages gained are only cecondary to the stupendous political power pledged to Mr. Chase in the financial system which he put in motion, and which the administration is pursuing as’ zealously as if also pledged to its designer for the succession. From the historical events recited, all neatly dovetailing together, ond all consistently work- ing to the benefit of Mr. Chase, we may safely conclude that he has the republican conven- tion of 1868 fairly within his grasp, and that bis defeat therein can be achieved only by a chain of events in the interval to next spring wholly unlooked for by Mr. Chase and his radical assistant managers. As for President Johnson’s impeachment, the report and the testimony, we dare say, whatever may be Mr. Chase’s obligations to Mr. Johnson, will be used in the interest of the Chief Justice as a good campaign document. Such is the grati- tude of scheming politicians. War News from South America. In our correspondence from Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, published on Saturday, it ap- peared that the republic of Paraguay was getting the best of it in the war with Brazil and her allies; but yesterday we published a telegram from Lisbon, dated September 15, purporting to give news of a different tenor. This news, it is said, came by the mail steamer from Rio Janeiro, and if so may be the latest. In that it is reported that the allies had recently gained advantages over the Paraguayans, and that they had captured Corumba and seriously threatened the strongly fortified Paraguayan position at Humaité. It is possible this may be the case, for the scales of war turn frequently in that country from one side to the other. Still the telegram is couched in very indefinite language, and, considering the source from which it came, we should receive it with some doubt. But what2>ver may have been the success of one side or the other, it is not likely the war is about to close. The heroism and skill of the Paraguayans, together with the diffi- cult nature pf the country for the enemy’s ope- rations, forbid the indulgence of such a hope, unless, indeed, Brazil and her allies give up the apparent hopeless contest. It isa most iniquitous war. Whatever may be the faults of Lopez, the Paraguayan President or Dictator, he is fighting for the independence of his country and for the republican principle against the ambition of imperialism, and it is quite evident the peo- ple of Paraguay earnestly support him. Is it not time that the United States government made its voice heard for the purpose of stop- ping this bloody and wicked war on republi- canism? A monarch on the American Conti- nent is an exotic. The imperial monarchy of Brazil was born of revolution, as that of Mexico was. The house of Braganza, being driven from Portugal by the revolutionary wars in Europe and by the first Napoleon, seized upon the opportunity when the South American States were in trouble, to plant itself in Brazil, just as Maximilian and Louis Napoleon took the opportunity, during our rebellion, to create an empire in Mexico. The latter, through the moral power of the United States, soon came to an end. The Emperor of Brazil wants to extend his empire over the South American Continent, and for this began first by making war on the republic of Paraguay. It is s monarchy against republicanism—imperial endeavoring to spread itself over nent, Will this great republic pe wicked war to go on for any such p We are the dominating power of Americ should adopt and pursue a vigorous policy, only to end the preseat war, but also to main- tain republican governments over the whole Continent. Let them do what they please in Europe, but here monarchy is a noxious exotic and should not be permitied to grow. Amec- ica for the Americans—America and republi- canism—over the whole Continent siould henceforth be the platform and policy both of the United States and all our sister republics, Fre je Rev We print in another column further particu- lars in the history of the recent operations in whiskey, in which it is charged that certain government functionaries “combined, coniede- rated and agreed to cheat and defraud the United States.” It will be seen that Mr. Calli- cott, the collector for whom neither Weed nor Greeley wishes to be responsible, makes a statement denying specifically and circumstan- tially all the points in the charge against him. We can, of course, only leave his guilt or inno- cence to be determined by a proper tribunal ; but it would be quite like the way in which the business of the Treasury Department is done if, with a revenue system actually drop- ping to pieces with corruption, the government had at last made a case on one of the collectors who may be able to prove himself absolutely guiltless, Whatever may be the issue of the Callicott investigation, there can be no doubt in the mind of any one who has considered tho subject that the most extensive frauds are systematically carried on in this depart- ment of the government service, It is no exaggeration to say thata single “opera- tion” is often so large that ita proceeds are a fortune for a collector of moderate tastes—one to whom “ three courses are as good as ten.” One operation will enrich o man, and to the number of these lucrative operations there is searcely a limit. And this happens in one branch of that wonderful financial system which Mr. Chase fastened upon the country, and for which he bas received praises that he must blush only to remember. By another part of his financial system—the money print- ing burean—the people have heen plundered to an extent that it seems hardly possible to compute; and a third part—the nationg! bank aystem—is perhaps the very greatest swindle over deliberately organized. All this swindling end jobbery and robbery the people owe to the one republican leader—Mr, Chase ; and all these revenue frauds, printing bureau frauds and hational bank frauds, are only the first outcroppings, the first legitimate fruits of the financial institutions established by Mr. Chase to perpetuate the power of hia party. If these are the first fruits, what will the full harvest be? The Condition of Affairs in Mexico. From our Mexican correspondence, published yesterday, which gives the news from the cap- ital up to August 25, we see that our neigh- boring republic is falling back into its chronic condition of anarchy. The foreign enemy had scarcely evacuated the country, and the blood of the usurping emperor was hardly cold when the old internecine war among the Mexicans themselves was reopened. From the blood ruthlessly, savagely and unnecessarily spilt by the Juarez government in the hour of its triumph, there is likely to spring a crop of blood to vex and to destroy many of the chiefs who knew not how to temper success with mercy. “The people,” as our correspondent says, “so long accustomed to revolution and anarchical disquiet, find that tranquillity and prosperity are unwholesome, and they long for the revolutionary leaders’ and the war path.” It would have been better to have said the chiefs or leaders, rather than the people, desire anarchy, though it appears the people are incapable of self-government, Juarez has issued a proclamation, calling a general election for Congress, and at the same time submitting certain amendments to the constitution to the vote of the people. The whole tone of this document is gloomy and complaining. The President is evi- dently apprehensive of trouble, though he expressea hope in the future. Some of his reommendations for a reform in the constitution, to assimilate it more to the constitution of the United States, of which he appears to have an exalted opinion, are very well ; but he has made a great mistake in proposing to muzzle the press. The press is the great instrument that enlightens the pub- lic and supports constitutional liberty. The Latin race and those who have been governed by it and mixed up with it, like the Mexicans, cannot underatand this. The Anglo-Saxons and all fhe northern people of Europe, and the people of the United States which have sprung from them, understand it well. We maintain constitutional liberty because we have a free press. With us and with the nations of Europe referred to the press has no censor, and is not at the mercy of the arbitrary dictates of gov- ernment. It is subject to the laws, asx every- thing else is, and not to the will or caprice ot presidents, monarchs or their ministers. If public sentiment be expressed through the press and the ballot box there is no necessity to resort to the sword or torevolution. Juarez, at the commencement of his re-established authority, has committed a great blunder. It only shows what we have repeatedly said, that the Mexicans are not capable of self-govern- ment, nad, therefore, must continue to be the prey of revolution and anarchy till governed by a higher and superior race, Garibaldi. According to the latest telegram about Gari- baldi the Italian government threatens to commence legal proceedings against the brother conspirator of Mazzini in opposition to Charles Albert, the masculine Florence Night- ingale of the cholera hospital at Marseilles, the soldier of fortune who offered his services in turn to the Bey of Tunis ; to the republic of Rio Grande ; to Pope Pius IX.; to the Provisional government of Rome (after Charles Albert had declined them); to the soap and candle dealers of Staten Island and Manhattan Island ; to the Commonwealth army of Valparaiso ; to the Sardinian Generals, and to King Victor Emanuel himself, whom he saluted on his march to Gaeta as King of Italy, and whoso loyal subject he no doubt has continued to be. The legal proceedings in question aro said to be threatened against Garibaldi if he persists in his alleged preparations for a hostile attack upon | the city of Rome. Now we have good reason | tor supposing that the story of this latest tele- | m is but on? more of a lot of similar ca- the Earopean press has dissemi- na'et about Garibaldi. We incline to the be- | Left that both Victor Emanuel and his faithful | wily, Garibaldi, are in perfect understanding | with each other, Filibuster and blatherskite as Garibaldi is, ike so many men of a like type in Europe and America, we presume that he is in full collusion with Victor Emanuel, and that both the one and the other know just how far to go and no further, without compro- mising themselves with any party. Thus the ex-soap boiler has bubbled and boiled over and over again whenover the namo of Louis Napoleon has arisen to the surface of current affairs, but he has always cooled off whenever there has been an opportunity for intermed- dling with the imperial policy in Italy. This opposition to Louis Napoleon has long been one of Garibaldi’s pet cards, but somehow he has foreborne from playing it whenever he has had, or might have imagined he had, a chance to play it against the Emperor of the French. This story that Victor Emanuel is to arrest and prosecute his righthand man is about on 9 level with the intelligence of the collectors of European news in the days when their enter- prise was in its infancy. The Reaction menced in the City Press. We understand that the radical organs in this city have lost one-third of their sub- seribers within the past three months. This falling off is in consequence of the dissatisfac- tion of prudent business mon and intelligent, fair-minded citizens with the violent tirades and bloody revolutionary schemes of the extreme radicals, who are ready to plunge the country into all sorts of dangers and diffi- culties rather than lose possession of the spoils of the government. It is an indication of the reaction that is going on all over the Union, and that will soon appear in Pennsylvania and New York, just the same as it has been seen already in California and Maine, That Callicott Draft, Did Thurlow Weed endorse the draft for twelve hundred dollars paid to Callicott in 1863 by the Republican State Committee? This question bas not yet been answered. Greeley has explained his share in Calli- cott—why will not Weed do the same? The question is a plain one; did he or did be not endorse the draft in question? If Weed refuses to answer, will State Senator Low, or the brother of ex-United States Senator Harris give us the informationt ‘The Fall Season of Amusements. The managers of the metropolitan theatres are preparing @ rare feast of music and the drama for their guests. Since the public as- serted their rights as the legitimate censors of the stage the old system of meanness, arro- gance and humbug has been swept away, and the amusement oaterers have been at their wits’ end to devise some new dainty to tickle the public palate. The table is spread now, the dishes are uncovered and each manager places before us his bill of fare. The charm- ing little French theatre, under the supervision of Mesars, Grau and Bateman, will attract crowds this winter to the discussion of legiti- mate drama and opéra comique. The theatre has been greatly improved in every respect, and is now a perfect bijou of elegance and comfort. Wallack’s will shortly reopen for the regular dramatic season, about which there are a dozen conflicting opinions, all, however, highly favorable towards the establishment. The management is in secret session deciding on what novelties may be selected with a view towards keeping up the credit and position of the house. Banvard’s Opera House will soon gleam with calcium ‘lights and tinselled scenery, and the danseuse will pirouette for the first time on its boards in the Devil’s Auction. The old Knickerbocker sleeps his twenty years every night at the Olympic, and is astonished to find that the Revolution has changed the British provinces into the United States. Shakspeare has taken a box for the season at the Broadway, and the Bowery still rejoices in drama, tragedy, farce and specta- cle, all in one night. New York is exhibited by gaslight at the New York theatre, and the Worrell sisters rejoice to see their house deco- rated every night with the sign, “standing room only.” Mrs. Conway is winning new laurels at her pretty little Park theatre over in Brooklyn, and hundreds of Germans troop towards the Stadt theatre, and make the Bowery resound with guttural expressions of delight at L’Arronge and his operettas. Pike’s Opera House is rapidly approaching completion, and will soon introduce Italian opera to the deni- zens of the west side. The minstrels and vari- eties have each an olla podrida bill of every- thing that can make even a misanthrope langh, impressing burlesque, cork opera and ballet into their service. Charles Dickens is packing his seachest and preparing his reportorial jokes and stories for our special benefit, and the younger Dumas is in a quandary whether Madame Aubray’s ideas would be orthodox on this side of the Atlantic or not. The York- shire schoolmaster, Dick Swiveller, Quilp, Pickwick, Captain Cuttle, &c., will make their first bow in the metropolis probably next month, under the management of “Boz,” and Arthur Sketchley will describe Mrs. Browne’s trip to Paris at Irving Hall. The season, as may be seen, promises a great many novelties and curiosities, and beauty and fashion will have enough to occupy them until the swallows come again. It isto be hoped, however, that the managers will faithfully fulfil their promises of presenting everything in a complete man- ner, and will carry out their programmes to the letter. If they do so, then success will be their handmaid, and at the close of the season they may claim equality in point of wealth, honestly acquired, however, with a national bank director or @ olty contractor, sonst Imperialism in France. In this day’s Hera we give some extracts from some of the leading English weeklies, in which the ajtuation in France is reflected with singular truthfulness. These extracts, taken in connection with those which we have recently given, both from the English and the Conti- nental press, very clearly show that much as imperialism has done for France, it has not exactly “crowtied the edifice” in the way the Emperor would wish to seé {t crowned. France has doubtless had much outward and material prosperity during the Emperor’s reign. The advaritages of a strong government have from the first been beneficially felt Powerful and respected abroad, and trusted at home, the government of Louis Napoleon has secured for the French people an amount of real pros- perity perhaps never equalled, certainly never surpassed, in her previous history. The secret of this prosperity it is not difficult to discover. The French people love the appearance of suc- cess. Like some plants of which wo have heard, in the sunshine they flourish, in the shade they droop and die. All this Napoleon well knows, and by dexterous management he has been successful in giving them the sunshine. France, as a natural consequence, has acquired the habit of leaning too much on the Emperor, The Emperor, on the other hand, has been at- tempting a little more than is possible. Of late fortune has not been so easily managed. The sunshine has not been just so brilliant. “Dark spots” have appeared on the “horizon.” France is ill at ease ; trade is paralyzed ; money lies useless in the vaults; the Emperor is doing all he can to restore confidence; the task is felt to be hard. The moral is a simple one. Cesarism may be strong, but Cesarism may also be weak. The government of one man may be the best government possible; but it may also be the worst. If Napoleon cannot restore France to prosperity bis eighteen years’ rale may pass away like the baseless fabric of vision. Success is necessary both for France and Napoleon ; and in this lies the difficulty of the present situation. Just as Pram as Buick ann Warre.—The Presidential platform of Wendell Phillips is Old Thad Stevens for the head of the ticket and Fred Douglass for the tail. As Old Thad is not supposed to be in a condition to passa sound insurance office examination, an “acci- dent” may make Fred Douglass President and place the doctrine of negro equality upon a substantial foundation. THE INDIAN WAR. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Stage Stations and Tr. Attacked on the Smoky t= Route<Several Teamsters Killed and Wounded=White Men Disguised as Ladinns Among the Attacking Party. Leaverwortn, Kansas, Sept. 16, £807. The Indians have resumed hostilities on the Smoky Hill route. On Friday they attacked several stage stations, capturing some stock. On Saturday they at- tacked a government train at Bunker Hill, killing two teamsters and wounded three, captured one woman and three children and stampeded all the animals, The teamsters subsequently recaptured and rescaed the ‘woman and children, Lieutenant Howard, Adjutant Fifth United States in- fantry, lost a horse and $5,000 incurrency, White men disguised as Indians were among the attacking party. The Indians lost-two killed, The troops will act entirely on the defensive until the Peace Commission meet the southora tribes ua Detobas. ALLEGED Fravps in 1H2 Payasten’s Deranruanr.—The select cbmmittee appointed by the last House of Repre- sentatives to investigate alleged frauds in the Paymas- ter’s Department of the United States army, which hag been in seasion at the Astor House for some days closed its proceedings yesterday, and adjourned to im Washington on Thursday next, The committees hag examined about twolve witnesses in relation to frauds in Norfolk, New Orleans and other places, members of the committee are Messrs. Lincoln, of New York (Chairman); of Wisconsin; Scofield, of Pennsylvania, and Sine, of Indiana. It is under- ‘stood that the committee have Major General Shert- dan before it in reference to frauds committed in New Orleans, which that officer had under investigation when: commander of tho Fifth Military district, Arrempren Ropemgy or 4 Sarz,—A number of bury glars entered, by means of falso keys, on Saturday night last, the offices of R. P. Buck, commission merchant, 29 South street, They then movod the safe from the front to the middle office and attempted to break it open, aud continued their work, unsuccessfully, however, until Sunday afternoon, when they were frightened off by the entrance of a man connected with the establishment, and whom they locked up afier them and then made good their retreat, They had two plates off the safe were in full blast when interrupted by the appearance the man referred to, There was deposted in the safe upwards of one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars, none of which the thieves succeeded in ab- stracting. Arras -aT QUuARANTINE.—Yesterday the steamship Mariposa, Captain Quick, arrived from New Orleans, with eleven passengers, The cargo consists of cotton, sugar and tobacco, The chief enginéor died on the fourth day out and was buried at sea. Captain Quick reported that he died of consumption. The vessels discharging carga at the Upper Quarantine are—steamship General Grant, from New Orleans; steamship Perit, from Galveston, and bark Wallace, from Havana, The vessels detained in Lower Quarantine are—steamship Tillie, from Galveston; brig E. Fiche, from Havana, and bark R. Caruana, from Matanzas, All the patients in the hospital are conva: lescing. There have been no arrivals of vessels from any or with sickness on board for the last two or three ys. Testinc Warer Merers.—The Croton Aqueduct Board, ‘being desirous of improving, if possible, on the class of water meters at present in use by that department, commenced yesterday a series of tests on meters which had been sent in for that purpose, The experiments ‘were conducted at the Croton pipe yard, situated at thé foot of East Twenty-fourth street, East river, and were superintended by Mr. E. A. Fuertes, one of the neers of the Department. A number of inventors other gentlemen interested in the result of the experi ments were present and watched the ngs with reat interest. Ten meters have been sent in, ur days will be occupied in conducting th Yesterday only three meters were partially tested, with the object of ascertaining what effect passing thi the meter would have on a stream of water, and also te note the amount of leakage. The difference in the re- sisting power of the meters experimented with yester- day was very great, but no reliable data of their capa- bilities can be ascertained until they have been thor. oughly tested, which will be done during the present woe! ‘ Tur Book Trape Satz.—The book trade sale, which has been steadily progressing for the past two weeks at the auction rooms of Mossrs, Loavitt, Strebeigh & Co., ‘at Clinton Hall, closed yesterday afternoon. Nearly all the invoices disposed of yosterday consisted of stationery and juvenile books, and the at tendance of urchasers was vory limited, most of the wavy buyers having left for home on Saturday, Over eleven thousand books have altogether been distributed since the opening of the sale, representing, it is estimated, about a million of dollars, This has certainly been pecuniarily the largest book sale that bas ever taken place in Now York, or indeed upon this continent. Fam or Tas Cotorgp Youxa Mxy’s Currstian Assocta- Tiox.—This association held its first annual festival in the basement of Shiloh church, corner of Prince and Marion streets, last evening. There was no speaking or singing, and tho edibles, placed on four tables which occupied the sides of the room, were loaded down with the dolicacies of the season, served by the sisters of the five congregations—Zion, Shiloh, Abyssinian Bap- tist, Bethel and St. Philip's, from which tho acgoviation, a laudable one, draws its strength. The young men the churches named organized an associalion in Febru- ary last for mutual improvement and for the purpose, additional thereto, of inducing young men of their race to leave the bitliard room and the dram shop, and as a colored gentleman informed our reporter last night, “De Lord hab camper blessed dar errffurt.”” The society have reading and library rooms at No. 97 Woos- ter street, rented since April last, where they have col. lected some three hundred volumes, besides having con- siantly on hand the latest religious and secular monthly, weekly and daily publications, The festival of last night wes held for the benefit of the library, and was Proncinoed a decided success, ‘Tue Saaxsrzans Guarp.—The Shakespeare Guard of the Fourth ward, Joseph Remboldt Captain, and mus- ering about nincty-five members, went out yesterday to Broadway Park, accompanied by Matters Band. Forty-five prizes were contended for, and the gay tar- getoers returned soon after dusk to their homes, amply satisfied with their day’s umusement, . ‘Vismxo FirsMex.—To-morrow afternoon Eagle Hose Company No, 2, of Buffalo, will arrive in this city, on route home from Philadelphia, where they bave been ona visit, and will be received at the foot of Cortlandt street by the New York Firemen’s Association, under command of Henry Wilson. They will be escorted up Broadway to Fourteenth thence to Sixth avenue, and down Sixth avenue to the headquarters of the Asso- ciation, corner of Fourth street. collation will be given therh, after which they will visit the theatres and be escorted to their quarters the Howard Hotel. On Thufsday they will be reviewed by the or and Com- mon Council, after which they will vicit boken, and be received by Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, of that city. On Friday they will vwit the Park and our ublic baildings, leaving for home at six o'clock P. M. ey are accompanied by his Honor the Mayor of Buf- falo, and sev members of the Common Council, and the Chief Engineer, Fatat. Fatt.-rA child five years of age, named Bertha Beiler, while playing on the roof of her parent's resi- dence, No. 103 Ridge streot, last evening, fell over the edge and to the sidewalk and was instantly killed, Recxiess Juurivo.—George A. Golden, a German, jumped from one of the Hudson River Railroad tiaing last evening, whilo it waa passing near Fort Washington, and te gna if not seriously injured, AMUSEMENTS. Broadway Thea A highly critical audience filled the Broadway theatre last evening, which commenced the third week of Mr. Forrest's engagement, King Lear was thg programme, and most excellently was that splendid tragedy rendered. Mr. Forrest's delineation of this character has been so often described in the Hsratp that it would appear to be almost a work of supererogation to bestow any lengthy eriticism on 1t again. Suffice it to say that the rendering last evening was fully loctive as any that this cele- brated tragodian bas ever before essayed. All the finer shades of mental working that the immortal Shakspeare has embodied in this grand croation of bis imagination were portrayed with that high regard for true art which ts characteristic of the actor who personated it, The almost imperceptible manner in which the old ki glides into mado” the poigoant grief that takes of bim when the ingrat- tude of his daughters has become fully aopereat, the glimmer of kingly authority which, ever an anon, Lam jo his Se aged Lae through mist of lunacy, an bare da ‘arg reason that marks the last ack af the eS were re ith a vividness that none but an artist of mind is capable of. The anathema scene in the first act was also rendered with startling effect, and ht forth the unantinous piaudiis of the auditory, in compliance with whose calls the actor was obliged to come before the curtain, The excellent support given ‘by the company added much to the success of Fe formance, Mr. Barton Hill as Edgar, Mr. Dramm: an Edmond and Miss Lillie as Cordelia, being particularly poticeable in this regard. Park Theatre, Brooklyn. Mrs. D. P. Bowers appeared aa Mary Stuart last night, in a drama of that namo, which comprised nearly all Scnil version, with a great deal more besides. The little Park thoatre was crowded to excess, and the representative of the unhappy Queen of Scots ‘was re- ceived with woll deserved appiasuse, We have not seen on the Metropolitan gtage any supetior rendering of this réle than Mrs, Bowers gave last night, and that too in spite of the inefficient support which, io some cases, would bave daunted any Yess cour- agen thorough artiste. Quiet, Indylike, bse sad. aeen intenas! y of passion, most Charming. grace, of motion and admirable ' elocu- tion, entirely froo from the screaming vehem- once of some more talked of sar: sho the Queen of my a = might command res: ir, Conway was a preuy sympathy; love tes and Mise Campbell w yafolentty: Witt ctive Elizabet The rest of the cast we pass ia filence, Mra, Bowers should have a carefully selected company of her own to do jrstice to her bich talents. If it were #0, she might acknowledge no superior in certain role ai least, Central Park Amphitheatre. An open air entertainment has been inaugurated at t @ corner of Fifty-ninth streot and Sixth avenue, which vids fair to be largely patronized by the neighboring im- habitants, The porformance at the Cootrai Park Am phitheatro is of a varied character, although more inence is given to rope walking than Wi tures of the entertainment. Madame Celestine, the “great Australian rope walker,"’ and Heory Leste, not the sincer, bat the “hero of Niagara,” port aiternoon and evening, and there ke tendance