The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1867, Page 6

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— anp Arr, Irving Place.—Tar Apventcres or ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteemh street.—Irauian \—Tus Hvcuenors. euypay (THIS) EVENING.—Gaawp Concent at Srzin- war Haw. eed SHEET. “EUROPE. ‘Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, October 12. Despatohes from Paris reprosent that the Italian na- tion ts likely to endorse Garibald.’s intentions towards Rome to such aa exient that King Victor Emanuel will #000 Oross the froatier and prociaim the Etornal City part of the kingdom. The Austr'an Legisia‘ure proposes to abolish the con- cordat with Rome; but the Government opposes the ‘measure. Tho North German Gazette, of Berlin, ex- presses coniidence in the sincerity of Napoleon's desire for peace. The London Times denies that Earl Derby intends to resign the Premiership, The Emperor Na- poleon will reach Paris, frow Biarritz, on the 15th in- stant, The Fenian alarm continues in England. 8ix persons were arrested at the Fenian headquaters in Liverpool, Another Fenian “rising” was arranged in Limerick, Ireland, but prevented by government pre caution, Lhe liabilities of Messra, Campbell & Son, of Liverpool, aro estimated at £250,000. Consols closed at 9434 for money in London. Five- twonties were at 715, in London and 74% im Frankfort, The Paris Bourse closed heavy, with rentes declining on the 11th inst, The Liverpool cotton market was active at an ad- yancé—middling uplands closing at 8 3-16 pence, Bread- stuffs firm, with ao active trade, changed. Our spectal correspondence and files from Europe fur- nish {teresting details of our cable despatenes to the 28th of September, which we publish to-day. THE CITY. The excitement over tho spurious seven-thirty bonds continued unabated in the city yesterday. Four thou- wand dollars’ worth of tuem were received from Cin- cinnati yesterday, and op their being presented at the Subd-Treasury for identification the cierks acknowledged that they could not tell wherber they were counterfeit or not, The clerks at # private banking house, how- over, decided immodiately that they were spurious. An individual who is known, and whose description is now tn the bands of interested parties, presented five thousand dollars’ worth of these bonds recentiy to a house in Buffalo, The government commit repre- senting the interests of the Treasury Department, which has been in this city for a couple of days, returned to Washington yestoraay. The evening schools of New York city include one hig! ‘ool, two colored schools and thirteen male and eleven female schools, To these are admitted persons of every class apd age, from twelve years to sixty, They are taught in the usual rudiments, and in the high school algebra, bookkeeping, navigation, natural philosophy, practical mechanics, the French, German, Spanish aod English ianguages, and other more d:ficuit branches are taught. Tho :cbools are at present in full operation, twenty-one bundred scholars being in attendance, “How New York is fed” is @ problem solved else- where in our columns this morning. To young couples about to commence housekeeping and to single ind» viduals who complain of the fare at their boarding house table tho statistics and facts included in the article will be of unusual interest. A comparative state. it of prices in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, don, Berlin and other prominent cities in all parte of the worldg shows that our metropolis is the most expensive on the globe in the matter of food. The whole cause of this social misfortene lies in the {aot that the food itself comes to the consumers through eo many middie mea, allof whom must make their percentage. ‘The registration of voters for the November election im this State begins on Tuesday next. Owing to the dense, misty rain of yesterday the Jockey Clubd races have been postponed. The first day's races of the fail meeting will take place ou Tuesday next, The programme remains, with this exception, ua- altored, Seven national. flags taken by the robe! privateer Shevsndoah from vessels ta the North Pacife Ocean were sod ai avotion in this city yesterday by order: f the United States agent. Toese fags are the last of ihe memorabdie property found on board the privateer when she came Into possession of the government, A fraud of about $20,000 is alloged to havo been dis- covered in conneciion with the burning of a large cotton warehouse in ibis city." Three bundred bales, heretofore #upposed to have been destroyed by fre, are now said to have beou exported to Kurupe from this warehouse Provisions almost un- | NEW YORK ‘HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. without payment of the revenue o ‘The eee companies will ute the matter in the co Tue sock cere strong and excited yesterday. Government securities were siendy. Gold was Srm and closed at 14344 a 14355. There was a light business consummated in commer- cial circles yesterday. In the breadstuffs market, how- ever, there was an unusual degree of activity, the de- mand being mainiy for export, aud prices were again higher. Cotton was active and more steady. Groceries wore dull and generally beavy, On ‘Change flour was decidedly active and 10c, a 0c, higher, Wheat ad- vanced 3c. a Sc., end corn lc, @ 2c., with @ brisk de- mand. Oats were freely dealt in at higher prices. Pork was moderately active and closed steady, while beef was steady and lard quiet and heavy, Freights were active and firmer. Whiskey was unchanged, Petroleum de- clined 4c. per gallon, with less doing. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The further returns of the late elections do not ma- terially alter the resulta, A disposition is manifested by the Onto democracy to contest the election in that State on the ground that a number of negroes had voted. The radical majority 1s so small that such a turn of affairs may leave theif success very doubtful indeed. Io Pennsylvania the majority is now estimated at 1,100 for the democrats, The Legislature stil remains republican. ‘We have files from Bermuda dated to the Ist of October, Tne Royal Gasette of that day says:—'‘We are informed that forty burials of colored persons have taken place since the commencement of this year in the parish of Hamilton.” This se-ms to us a great mor- tality ~Whatcan be the cause or causes?” The quarterly meeting of the clergy of the Church of England took place at Trinity Church, Hamilton, when the Rev. F. Lightbourn gave a very satisfactory answer to the question proposed om the subject of private prayer. - Mr. L. M, Clark, Chief of the First Divisien ef the National Currency Bureae at Washington, bas madea report to the Secretary of the Treasury defining tho Points of difference between the genume and counterfeit seven-thirty bonds. Genera! Sheridan visited Troy yesterday and was enthusiastically received. He was introduced to the municipal authorities, and in company with the Mayor and others visited General John E. Wool. He will go West on Monday, General Imboden, who was refused permission to register at Richmond some days ago on taking the oath in the President’s proclamation, intends applying for @ writ of mandamus to compel the Board to register hid name, If this fails he will carry his case before tho United ‘tates Supreme Court, An inventory of President Lincoln's estate, filed in the courts of Sangamon county, Iil,, on the 29tn of November, 1866, shows that he had $79,482 invested in government securities at the time o! his death, which, with otner sums, notes of band and real estate in his possession, would swell the amount of his property to $85,000, This, with the $25,000 voted his widow by Congress makes the total foot up to $110,000. AD injunction was granted in a Phila elphia court yesterday resiraining tho returo judges of election from counting votes cast by certain soldiers in the United States army at the recent election, A rule was also granted to show cause why an attachment should not issue against the return judges for disobedience and con- tempt in forwarding the returns to the Secretary of State, at Harrisburg, after the injumotion had been is- The California miners are ona strike for six dollarsa day, and have formed a Miner's League, Work has ceased 1n most of the mines. A difficulty recently occured betwoen the escort and the passengers of a Santa Fé coach, brought about by a drunken sergeant, and three men were killed and the sergeant wounced. Two Georgians fought ® duel near Augusta yesterday with pistoia, Nobody was hurt, and the affair was ami- cably settled, A frost visited Memphis on Friday night, The Late Elections—President Johnson and the Democracy. Close upon the heels of the late elections we find d-mocraic wire workers, scene, shifters and offic? seekers, from the East and the West, heading for Washington, and buzzing about the White House like flies in a sugar bowl or pil- grims around the Tomb of the Prophet. These pilgrims have “great expectations.” They demind and expect a general clearing out of the Augean stables, in consequence of the judgmen's of the people of Pennsylvania and Ohio agiinst the radical Jacobins and their radical scheme of universal negro suffrage. Mr. Johnson is called upon to reconstruct his Cabi- net from democratic timber, including some copperhead sticks afflicted with the dry rot and condemned by a public board of inspection half a dozen times already. The modest re- quisition, in short, of a delivery of the spoils of the administration into the hands of the jubilant democracy is made upon Mr. Johnson; and he is expected to meet it without any return in the way of a fair and valuable con- sideration. The Blairs and the Blacks, the Walkers, the Jenkinses, the Brights, the Seymours and Hoff- mans, and numerous others of the lame ducks and “ dead ducks” of the same feather, are now enumerated among the President's advisers, or among the aspirints or probabilities for some- thing in the ehuffling and cutting of the cards for ® new up-stairs Cabinet and a new kitchen Cabinet, and a new division of the loaves and spoils all round. But the President hesitates ; his way is not clear before him. It may be that these recent elections call for the surren-" der, on demand, of bis patronage to the demo- cratic pariy; but he does notsee it in that light. He rather leans to the idea that he has had something to do with these elections, and that something is due to him. Nor can he under- stand what claims a party. have upon him after having coolly ignored him or flatly repudiated him betore the people, as these modest, self-appeinted copperhead advisers have done, Whether he aspires simply to re- pair the misfortunes of his administration, or whether he is fascinated by the dim and shadowy chances of a triumphant Johnson party in 1868, he c.nnot realize the advantages of a settlement now with the democracy in which everything is to be given away on his part without anything in exchange. No won- der, then, that, looking to the democratic party, Mr. Jobnson, in his embarrassmenis, not know- ing what else to do, does nothing. Now, recalling the experiente of John Tyler, of blessed memory, and of Millard Fill more, the happy man, there would seem to be nothing left to Mr. Johnson but retirement to the shades of private life at the end of his ap- pointed term, assuming that the axe of im- peachment need no longer disturb his slum- bers. The Baltimore Tyler Convention of 1844 was 8 fanny affair, and the ran of Fillmore and Donaldson in 1856 for the White House was but a repetition of the Van Buren trick of 1848; and all these are profitless examples. What, then, are the Presidential chances for Mr. Jobnson, rejected by the radicals and de- clined by the democrats? His only, chance to redeem his administration, or to wield any power in the coming Presidential contest, lics in an effort to secure the balance of power in the present Congress, which otherwise will hold 8 two-thirds vote against him in each house to the end of his term. But in what direction does such an effort prom'se success? We think that succeas may be achieved in a reconstruc- tion of the Cabinet of such materials as will command the support of the conservative ro- publicans, more or less,in both branches of Congress. Let this reorgan zition be made by the President and submitted to Congress In his annual message, with a recommendation of a | The Alleged Counterfett Bonds—The Condl- compromise on Southern reconstruction and negro suffrage, on the basis of the pending con- stitutional amendment, and we believe that the radical Jacobin leaders will be shorn of their strength in Congress, and that the administra- tion will hold the balance of power in both branches, and thereby be enabled to come out with flying colors and to wield a mighty influ- ence in the Presidential contest, Tied up, as he is now, with the Tenure of Office bill, and a two-thirds majority in each house of Congress dead-set against him, what, without their consent, will any changes in the Cabinet, Custom Houses or Post Offices avail Mr. Johnson or his appointees? As soon as the tw> housss reassemble all this work of his in their absence will be upset, unless it may chance here and there to please them. They have the power, and they will exercise it. Why not, then, try the bold and masterly ex- periment of sn invasion of the republican cita- del itself, and the capture of a portion of the garrison? With General Grant before the country for the succession all other candidates ere eclipsed. An alliance, then, with the con- aervatives of Congress. and General Grant, against the implacable radicals and their dis- organizing schemes, is the only course of wis- dom and encoess lef to Mr. Johnson end his while thrown into conveniont disorder for the movement. Seuthera Whites and Bilacks—Law and Ordor. The reports of Assistant Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the months of July, August and September have been rendered to General Howard. We express the feelings of well disposed people of every shade of politi- cal opinion, both in the North and the South, when we say that we are glad to learn from these reports that a remarkable change for the belter has taken place during the past few months in the relations between whites and blacks in the Southern States. Formorly, as our Washington cor- respondent says, every monthly report from the several Southern districts was filled with accounts of outrages on the blacks and the poverty of the people; but now these re- ports are for the most part short, mentioning but few cases of violence and testifying to the Spparenily earnest desire of the people to live in peace and obey the laws. “Law and order” appears to be the watchword of both whites and blacks. These encouraging reports, coupled with the generally favorable accounts of the crops of grain and cereals in several of the Southern States, relieve somewhat the anxi- ety which the recent incendiary appeals of such malign ints as Hunnicatt, of Richmond, are only too well calculated to excite. We have unquestionable evidence thatet the bi-weekly meetings of the negroes at many of the county court houses of Virginia the appeals of the incendiary Hunnicutt have reached too many willing ears, and that an unusual demand fer lucifer matches was beginning to arise among the excitable young girls and old women, who, as Hunnicutt threatened, would be able and eager to apply the torch to the dwellings of their former masters. But we are happy to learn that, after all, the amicable relations which, despite all false representations to the contrary, used to exist between master and servant throughout the South, have not yet lost thy force of their influence. Even the alleged recalcitrancy of the freedmen to the United States authorit.es, as in the case of those who were reported to have opposed successful armed resistance when ordered to vacate lands on which tuey had squatted in Norfolk county, happily proves, on investigation, to have had no foundation in fact. Moreover, the statistics of colored education in Virzinia show that ten thousand negroes in that Stafe have learned bow to read during the past year, and our hopes are sanguine that not a few Virginia negrves will soon know enough to reject indig- nantiy the wicked counsels of Hunnicutt and hus set’ Law and order will, we trust, be maintained, and prosperity, in which all sec- tions of the Union may share, will be the ulti- mate result, The East River Bridges. The necessity for some safe, expeditious and reliable conveyance across the East river, for the immense traffic between New York and Brooklyn, was so forcibly brought before the Legislature last winter that acts were passed incorporating three companies for the purpose of bridging the river at three different points. The inconvenience and uncertainty of the East river ferryboats were fully shown last winter, when the river became blocked with ice, and in a fog collisions were inevitable. Tho citi- zens of New York and Brooklyn may con- gratulate themselves on having the building of these bridges in the hands of private con- tractors, who are obliged to have them com- pleted in throe years and who have no appro- priation like that which generally accompa- nies Corporation jobs. All the great bridges in this country—the Niagara and the two bridgesacross the Ohio river at Cincinnati and Louisville, as well as,the contemplated one across the Mississippi at St. Louis—have beon either built or commenced by private corpora- tions. What a contrast is presented between the despatch and completeness in the execu- tion of these great works and the endless Cor- poration jobs in this city, so forcibly exempli- fied in Harlem Bridge and in the Court House ! In the one case the interests of the contractors wore identified with tue speedy completion of their work, and in the other millions of dollars have been swallowed up and are still being squandered by hungry commissions composed of corrupt officifie. At every session of the Legis- latare large appropriations have been asked and given for Harlem Bridge and the Court House, until the original estimates would hardly pay the interest on the total sum ex- pended. In bridges we havea sufiicient ex- ample of what our public officials can do in that line in the misshapen nondescript on Broad- way. A half dozen elegant and convenient bridges could be thrown across this thorough- fare for the money which the unsightly Loew affair cost. The people of both cities on the East river may, therefore, hope that the three bridge corporations will do their work with despatch and satisfaction, as the terms of their charters leave them no alternative. They should, how- ever, lose no time in pushing the work forward and uniting, by its completion, the people of New York and Brooklyn in the closest bonds of union. Their interests’ are identical with those of the citizons of both cities in the wand completion of the work tien ef the Treasury Department. We said some timo ago, when commenting upon the irregularities in the Treasury Depart- ment, that probably there would be astounding developments before long about matters in the Treasury. We published only the substance of a part of what we had heard, fearing to alarm the public, though much of the informa- tion had the stamp of truth on it, We called then for an investigation ; we called upon the President to have the Printing Bureau and other branches of the Treasury thoroughly overhauled. This is but a short time since. Nothing, however, as far as we know, was done- Mr. McCulloch, probably, was afraid to have his department probed, and the President, per- haps, had too much confidence in the Secretary. Now we have the etartling announcement that a large amount of seven-thirty bonds have important one, which the people want ex- plained. One report, evidently dictated by Treasury officials, represents them to be torged by outside parties, while ano:her doubts this. There appears, at least, reason for suspicion that they were fraudulently issued through those in the employ of the government. The fact that these bonds circulated freely, even in the banks, and that there is so much doubt about the character of them, stren.thons this suspicion. In saying this we have no wish to excite unnecessary alarm. The credit of the government cannot be shaken beyoad the tem- porary effect of the present excitement, which may be made use of by Wall sireet stock gamblers for a day or two, for it siands upon a firmer foundation than Mr. McCulloch and his subordinates. But ingorder to overcome the temporary effect and to inspire co sfidence it is necessary that we should know the worst—the whole truth. Any holding back ot information, which the Treasury Department seems disposed to do, will only make the matter worse. A thorough investigation is imperatively de- manded, and the President himself, as the head of the government, should order the most searching inquiry to be made by persons of character and intelligence pn- connected with the Treasury, and then lay the facts before the public. This suould be done, too, without delay or waiting forany action on the part of Congress, Yes, every branch of the Treasury Department should be thoroughly overhauled. But whatever may be the character of these spurious seven-thirty bonds, whether forgeries outside of the Department or fraudulent issues from it, there is one fact that stands oat promi- nently which cannot be controverted, and that is that the Treasury has been shockingly mis- managed. No investigation 1s necessary to piove this; it stands out conspicuously, so that every one can eee it, The stupendous frauds in the internal revenue, amounting to one hundred and fifty millions or more, result from the utter inefficiency of Mr. McCulloch. As the head of the Treasury it is his dufy to keep a vigilant eye over every branch of that service and to protect the government from robbery ; yet there has not been a day and hardly an hour in which the most barefaced frauds have not been committed. The latest evidence of his incompetency and the irregu- larities in his department is seen in the case of the spurious seven-thirty bonds. However, this is not all we have against him by any means. He is the humble disciple and tool ot Mr. Chase, and all his efforts are directed to- ward carrying out the ruinous financial policy and political schemes of bis master. He up- holds tho infamous national bank system, which robs the public of twenty to thirty mil- lions a year in taking the profits of a na- tional currency which rightly belong to the people and government, He, like Mr. Chase, would fasten upon the country this gigantic and dangerous monopoly, that threatens to swallow up all the profits of industry and to control the affairs of the republic in the inte- rest of a moneyed oligarchy. He uses the im- Mmense resources of the Treasury and the enormous surplus fund in it to control the money and stock market, by which a certain set of his friends and the friends of Mr. Chase are made rich. He has been withdrawing the non-interest bearing legal tenders and adding to the debt bearing gold interest, thus in- creasing the burdens of the people, when he should have bought up and cancelled as much of the interest bearing debt 1s possible, and so have reduced the debt and lightened our burdens. He holds all the time about two hundred millions in the Treasury unem- ployed, reckoning the gold in currency, thus losing at least twelve millions a year in inte- rest. We might go on further to show the in- capacity of this Secretary of the Treasury, but this is enough. Ifwe were to say that his mal- administration of the Treasury costs the country s hundred millions a year, In addition to all the serious consequences hereafter, we should underestimate the loss. His ideas of na- tional finance are very contracted. He should never have left the counter of a country bank. ‘This great country needs « statesman for Secre- tary of the Treasury, and it is to be hoped that the President will have sense enough to dis- miss Mr. McCulloch without delay and put a statesman in his place. Murder by Steam. “Culpable negligence or wiliul desiga ;” ; these are the two horns of the dilemma with one or the other of which the Coroner's jury up the river declares that the Jaw must trans- fix the officers of the C, Vanderbilt, as the causes of tho collision between that boat and the Dean Richmond some time since. The verdict is strong enough, if it means anything more than a flourish of rhetorical indignation— and we doubtit it does, If the men or women killed by that accident came to their untimely end by the “culpable negligence or wilful design” of the officers of the Vanderbilt, then the least crime of which those officers can pos- sily be guilty is manslaughter, and their least punishment must be good terms in the State Prison; but it is doubtful whether the case will be carried to that proper result, or wheiber our mild-tempered justice will not be content with the sounding indignation of the Cor- oner’s jury. We note that petit jury gave, the other day, a verdict of five thousand dol- lars damages in the case of a man killed by the fault of bis employers, and, since juries are in this humor, those who lost fathers or hus- bands by this steamboat calumity may find some pecuniary remedy in civii suits against the owners, The Baroums—Corruption in Connecticut. it will not soon be forgotten that the great Tepublican par y—that marvel of political purity and high purpose, of moral ideas and tremendous taxes—once ran a Woolly Horse candidate for Congress on a platform sustained at dif rent corners by Joyce Heth, the fat Circassian girl, the What-is-it and the Fejeo Mermaid. Neithor will it be forgotten that this candidate was repudiated by the decent men of the “land of steady habiw,” and that a worthy citizen in the iron trade was chosen to represent the district by a handsome majority. It has alnce ocourred to the Woolly Horse can- didate that he might get the seat, notwith- standing the votes were against him, ‘or his party has a good major.ty in Congress, and if he could only set before a Congressional com- mittee a tolerable bash of testimony,, well filled with t charges of bribery egainst bis opponent, and give Congress any tolerable excuse to vote on his claim, parly division would be sure to seitle it in hie favor. Hence a Congressional investigation into the Conneoticat election, part of the testimony in which we gave yesterday. First came the evi- dence of @ cashier, who testified that about the first of April bis bank paid a large number of checks for various sums, all drawn by the Iron Man. Here it will be seen that the case is im- mensely in tavor of the Woolly Horse at the very ourset; for what circumstance could be more suspicious than this? Indeed, the eye of fancy at.once takes in its little picture of a pro- cession of happy Connecticut lubbers filing out of the bank Jooravich bundles of hundred dol- lar bills under their arms, which they have re- spectively been paid for such priceless pieces of property as their votes. But, presto! at the next qvestion this cashier declares that the first ot April was one of the Iron Man’s regular pay days ; that the nuiber of checks was not unusual—not more thin he might have drawn on any common first of April—on any routine fool’s day, time out of mind, when he wasn’t a candidate at all. Here it is evident that this cashier is a sort of cow with acrumpled hoin, an unbappy ‘oot an an impossible temper, who scarcely gives a pail of milk before she kicks it over, And this was one of the Woolly Horse candidate’s own witnesses, Another of the Woolly Horse’s witnesses swore to a terrible fact, namely—that he was not bribed to vote for the Iron Man! How can the Iron Man get over that? There is a great deal more testi- mony of this sort; but in all the testimony thus taken there is only one man who specifi- cally alleges that he paid to certain persons money for their vores. He paid one bundred doliars to a man named Han, he paid money to & man named Woodin, and he bought in this way the votes of four or five othera. And the money thus paid was not the Iron Man’s money, but the other man’s; and the votes thus bought were not bought for the Iran Man, but for the Woolly Horse candidate. All the wit- nesses thus far examined are the Woolly Horse witnesses, and all the corruption proved is proved on the wrong sid». If the Woolly Horse’s own witnesses prove so much against him, what will the Iron Man’s witnesses prove ? If it is not impertinent, we would like to know the Congressional committes’s opinion of this investigation, and how the members like it, as far as they’ve got? The Situation tn Italy. ‘by a cable despatch which we print in this day’s Heratp we are made aware that the Italian question is approaching a solution, al- though not precisely oi the kind which for some days past we had been led to expect. “The situation,” we are told, “is grave.” The be- lief is general that the whole nation will back up the Garibaldi movement to res‘ore Rome to Italy. Victor Emanucl, it was expected, would soon pass the Roman frontier and proclaim Rome part of the Italian kingdom. If the spirit of this despatch is confirmed by subse- quent news, the difficulty will be solved in the only way which can be considered satisfactory and final. Such was the solution which we originally The capture of Garibaldi, how- ever, disturbed our opinion scarcely less than it disconcerted the plans of the party of action. An insurrectionary band without a leader, all history had told us, can scarcely fail to become thé prey of weakness and disorder. Of the party of action Garibaldi was the recognized chief, the very soul and centre of its life and hopes. Without Garibaldi, we had yet tolearn that that party could doanything. The inteli- gence which we have received of the doings of the party since the General’s capture has not been encouraging. This last despatch con- vinces us that, though suffering from the want of a leader, they have neither abandoned their purpose nor been completely disorganized. On the contrary, we now learn that they are full of life and hope and on the eve of victory. It is exceedingly difficult, if not im- possible, to look at this Italian move- ment without seeing the figure of Louis Napoleon. Ea:rnestly, eagerly, he looks upon the scene. His eye, however, is compelied ever and anon to take in a wider range. If he thinks of Italy and Rome, he also thinks of Germany. If he has thoughts of the Holy Father, he has, also, thoughts of the French people. The French people—that is Napoleon's central thought. His desire to be well with them, above ail otber causes, determines at the present moment bis Italian and German policy. To involve France in war Napoleon has no desire, unless he can confidently count on success, To have actively and by force of arms interfered in this Italian imbroglio would, it is all but certain, have led to @ war, in which, not to speak more strong)y, success on the part of France would have been doubtfal. Hence it is that Napoleon, refusing to interfere otherwise than by words, has hitherto con- tented himself with being an anxious, a seriously thoughtful and an interested on- looker. The situation is really delicate. Much will depend upon the courso which Napoleon may yet take, He is s{ill at Biarriz, and does not return to Paris till Tuesday. Meanwhile, all | fears may be laid aside as to tho person.t Rae US ENE SEE Se “safety of the Holy Father. Violence is alto- gether out of the question. Victor Emanuel is responsible, and tae presence of his troops will be a guarantee of protection, Storm Signals to Protect Vessels at Sen. The fw notices we have had of the ap- proaching season of storms and the accidenis that bave lately occurred at sea have had the effect of caliing attention to the necessity of some system of signals along the coast to warn vessels of danger. We published a sensible communication on the subject in, last Friday's Heratp, and we learn that the shipowners and insurance agents of New York, Philadelphia and Boston are cont-mplating the adoptiomof amore reliable and effic ent mode of commu- nication with those portions of the coast most dreaded by mariners, In a very stormy sea- son—as last winter, for instance—the wrecks and dam ge to vessels along our coast, particularly from Cape Hatteras and northward, are fright- ful. At times the whole of the Atlantic and gulf coast is dangerous. It is known that storms travel at a certain rate and in a certa.n direciion. The “law of storms,” as it is called, is now pretty well understood, so that if we had the meuns of warning vessels at a distance ot the coming danger much loss of property and life could be saved. For example, a terri- ble storm from the north has just struck New York, is travelling southward et a knowa velocity, and must strike the cogst of Virginia aod the Carolinas with fury within a given time. Suppose there were storm signsls at the Capes of the Delaware, Cape Hatteras and at other important points, and a mag- netic telegraph was connected with olf of them, we could then warn the numbers of vessels coming f.om the south, or about leaving port, of approaching danger—of a danger which they m.ght not o:herwi.e suspect until it came upon them, Tuis, then, is just what is proposed—to have storm signals along the coast, counected by magneiiv te egraph, so as to give instant warning io time for vessels to avoid danger by running into port or by otherw.se protecting themselves, No time should be lost in providing this system of sign ls. It could be done even before the gales of midwinter set in. We have no doubt Congress would aid this project to protect commeice, but in the m antime the insurance companis and shipowaers should set abvut carrying it out, The Rebellion in Chinn. Our cable despatcues state that the robeis are gaining ground in China and are now seriously tbreatening Pekin. This Chinese rebellion has seen many phases of defeat and success since it was first opened, in 1850. Ia first great leader held his ground fora few years and then gave place to a schoolmaster, who proclaimed himself the second Son of God. His rare talents enabled him to assume and rotain command of the insurg nts. From the f.ct that nearly ail the adventurous foreigners, including missionarizs, have joined the rebel standard, it is some indica'ion that that is tie party ot progress, alihouzh it ha; not yet been fully determined which side is the most inclined to shake off the exclusiveness wiich has here- tofore shut out the Chinese from the world. It was supposed that in 1857 the present government had completely overcome the rebellion; but it again mide serious front. The treaty which celed the Chinese teffivory on the left bank of the Amoor to Russia, it waz rumored, bound the Russians to assist China in overcoming the rebels; but up to this time no aid has been rendered by Russian troops. i We have a great interest in the internal con- dition of the Chinese empire, for we are rapidly increasing our trade with that couatry. The shipmenis from Sin Francisco to the eastera coast of Asia indicate how importint it is that we should urge the opening of the Flowery Land to Americin enterprise. If the retels capture Pekin a new government may decree a new policy, and an empire whos population numbers one half of the inhabiiants of the world may afford a market for an immense increase in the interchange of products. More Rev Frauds to Be Made Public. General Hillyer, one of the internal revenue men for this district, 1s now in Washingtou, and itis reported that he is likely to be placed at the head of the board whose duty it is to in- vestigite and expose all fraudulent iransactions in the revenue business,” There were roceatly riven to the public some evidences that all is not harmony between Hillyer and Weed and others who have the repuiation of managing this department; and this indicates that if Hillyer is appointed we will have a rare crop of the richest exposures. Poss/bly some honest men mey come by their rights in tuis quarrel yet. ‘ GENERAL SHERMAN i Town. Lieutenant General W. T, Sherman arrived in this city from Washington, en route to St, Louis, early yes- terday morning, and ws the guest of Mr. William scott, 64 East Twenty-third street, General Sherman, accom- panied by a few personal friends, yesterday attended the Marie Antoinette matinée at the Fronco theatre, and at the close of the performance had ao interviow in the green room with Madame Ristori, taking occasion te rovew his acquaintance with the great trigédienne, with whom he bad previously been on terms of intimate friendship. This morning he will attend Divine service at Calvary church, West Twenty-third street, and to- morrow will leave the city by an @arly train for st, Louis. WE FRENCH THEATAE—THE GRAND DUCHESS, As usual on tho nights of this opera, the French theatre was crowded from parquet to gallery—the dlite of the city | Oilliag the boxes and orchestra chairs, Pre. vious to the rising of the curtain Mr. Bateman came for- ward and stated that, owing to the indisposition of Mile, Tostée, be was compelled tociaim the indulgence of the audience, but stated that Mlle, Isabelle Armand would underiake the part of the Grand Duchess, Mr, Bateman’s statement was received and acknowledged in the most cordiat manner by all, and the opera proceeded. Under the cireumstances of Mile, Tostée’s indisposition, safficient to prevent her singing, being known only ata very late hour, we cannot too highly cot manageria) tact displayed by Mr, Bateman lady so woil qualified as Milo, Armand to un arduous task without having the advantage of rehearsal of lengthened preparation; but it affords us genuine pleasure in being able to state that opera passed off most brilliantly and without a single bitch, Mille, Ar- mand has pleasing features, an agreeable voice and great talent as an actress, and she was, in the course of the evening, honored with several encores, There was no lack of enthusiasm for all the various charming morceaue with which the opera is so thickly Studded, and the night's nmusement was most enjoyable. On Tuesday next the Grand Duchoss will be repeated, and also on Wednesday afternoon. It will also be pre sented at the Brooklyn Academy on Monday night, by Which time we do not doubt that Mile, Tostee will | be able to assume the réle which she has rendered so delightfully s'nce her arrival hera, ‘The Grand Duchess, {a decidedly tho olece of the season,