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6 NEW YORK HERALD ECROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1863.—TRIPLE SHERT. main in the field and reinforcements are ceived continually, . The interview between Secretary McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins, which promised ® compro- mise tn the matter of appointments, was held yoo terday, and culminated in sarngenn. TN be Appointment, is to be continued frequently, unt Sne_9t Nia ber. te Somrinced of dP. Of views. Spencer Hervey is nominated by Mr. Rollins for Supervisor for New, York city under the new hii ; Sea matings been ded as une mer Sormie, bas been’ so nized by the | treaties of the last fifty years, and reacknow- lodged by the treaty of Paris, Tho great Powers do not claim the right of sending ves- | convention the number and force of armed vessels which the two neighboring Powers— Volume XXXIII......-.- sesesssssesece-N@e 246 | Revenue law, but the Prestdent favors General Russia and Turkey—should maintain there Eagan. AM SSMENTS THIS BVBNING, ie WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1h strect.— Fine FLY. NIBLO’S GARDEN.—BASse BLEUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Live IN THE STRERTS— FALSE COLORS. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fou. Piar. OLYMPIC TITBATRE, Brosiway.Humprr Doprtr. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ExizaBETH, QUEEN ov ENGLAND. BRYANTS' OPERA HO! street.—ETuIOPIAN MINBT! Tammany Building, Mth ¥, £0. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway.—E7H10- PIAN MINSTEELSY, BURLESQUE, 40.—BARBER BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Er! PIAN ENTERTALNMENTS, Binaine, Danounor ae ee TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Couso VooaLi8n, NEGRO NINSTRELBY, &c, Matinee at 25. THEATRE COMIQ"E. 514 Broadway.—THe GREAT Ont- GINAL LinGaup AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Matinee. WOOD'S MUSFUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Aitornoon and evening Performance. IRVING HALL.—GRaND MOVING DIORAMA oF LIN- ©OLN'S FUNERAL CYERMONIES, CENTRAL PA 2 GARDEN, Seventh avenue.--PoroLan GaKDEN Concer. OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn,—Hooter's LOOLFY's Cinous, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Ant, TRIPLE. New York, Wednesda; 00} Minsys September 2, 1868. cha Naws. EUROPE. s report by Atiantic cable is dated yester- day evening, + epember 1. rigat seexs re-election to Parliament, as sirmingiam, ina comprehensive liberal ldress. M. Magne, French Minister of aims that peace will endure in Europe apoleon “desires It.” ‘The inqnest on the f the victims of the railroad disaster in as progressing. Hugiand cricketers embark for Now noney. Five-twenties 717% in London nkfort. Paris Bourse dall. Cotion frm, with middiing uplands at 11 pence. Breadstufis dom. Provisions without marked Ry steamship at this port we have an interesting mail report im detail of our cable tetegrams to the urnal of the 21st of August reports:— se, the celebrated American singer, who produced &o yrroat a sensation this year at the Italian Oper pleson, has arrived at Paris on her nd. Th ‘om nearly all parts of the inte- rior of e very favorable, and the effect upon t » has been proportionately advan- tagcous to the ‘freacury. I is estimated that the sum to be received under this head froin the vitae of the Danube will be nearly £400,000 in excess of the amonnt realized las: year, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Governor has just signed an act to amend the charter of New York city, wich abolishes the Board of Councilinen and spbstitutes therefor Assist- ant Aldermen, le Was passed in the Legislature last sess.on, The Vermont election came off yesterday, and re- sulted in @ repuvi.can victory by from 23,000 to 80,000 majority, a last year of from eight to ton thousand. Atan election for municipal officers in Wilming- ton, Del., yesterday, the republican candidate for Mayor was chosen by a wajority of one hundred over that of lust year. ° The State Democratic Convention for the nomina- tion of u State ticaet meets tn Albany to-day. A lurge number of tue delegates have already arrived, ‘The indications tend strongly towards the nomina- tion of Mayor Gorman, although Senator Murphy will make a strong rave; but Sanford E, Church or Erastus Corning, 5t., may probably be sprung upon the Convention If tie tight isa strong one. Senator Murphy arvived on tue e yesterday, and it ts said he is to be “canvasyd” by Tamiunany wit a view to induce him to withdraw. ‘The Massachuselts Democratic State Convention meets aiso in Hostoa to-day, when it is believed John Quincy Adams will be nominated for Gove-nor, By Atlantic cable we have additional particu. lars of events in Paraguay. When the evacua- tion of Humait: coinmenced the Brazilians made an advance, but were met and defeated with terrible loss, soime of their divisions being com- Pletely cut to pec ‘They were again whipped ti the Gran Chace, and some time later che evacuation was completed, the Paraguayans dismantling all the guns leit bein «, and retiring in good order to their new position on the Tebleusrl The United States sicamer Wasp had gone to Asuncion. Groves, the witness Who is expected to identi’y Whelan as the murderer of D'Arcy MeGee, and who fled recentiy to the United States, has been recap- tured. A charge was trumped up against him at Rome and he was taken to Ogdensburg, where he was made drunk and smuggled over to Canada without going through the ceremonies usuaily re- quired by extradition treaties, Sir John A, McDon- ald is gaul to have directed that he be@aptured at any cost and in manner. Excitement still exista in Montreal over tue proposed Fenian picnic to be held to-day for the pevetit of Whelan. The loyalists have taken Kteps to prevent ft, ‘The Arkansas disiucbence has been quelled by the interference of Governor Clayten and the Sheriff. ‘The courts have been vened and quiet restored throughout (he State. As to the beginning of the aifray we learu by mat] that some negroes in Conway county assaulted ed democrat, who was sum- moned as a juror for the triai of one of their num- ber, and afterwards fired upon two white men, wounding one of them mortally. Two members of the Legisiature then assembied the negroes in large numbers and the whites commenced feeing for safety. About three hundred whites banded together at Lewisburg for mutual protection. Goy- ernor Clayton at L tte Rock mustered tu one hun- dred negroes, armed them and moved to the scene of the disturbance, The Exchange Hotel at Saratoga, the stables at- tached, turee dwelling houses and a number of barns were destroyed by fire on Monday night, involving a loss of $60,000. When the alarm was struck con- siderable excitement ensued in the opera house, whore a large audience was assembled; but no seri- ous personal damage resulted to any one. General Rosecrans, in conversation at the Astor House yesterday, said that he did not believe the Southern leaders intended to issue an address, as has been reported. In regard to the Mexican mission he says the policy will be one of kindness and con- ciliation, and that fiibustering or annexation move- ments will not be favored, Alexander H. Stephens, ina recent conversation with the correspondent of the HERALD, said that he knew Grant personally very well and that he was a remarkable man, of decided military genius, indom- itable energy and determined will—just the man fora coup Métat which would merge the republic into an empire. Blair and Colfax he considered as clever, good fellows and men of ability, integrity and char. acter. Seymour he did not know. ‘The Indian depredations still continue, although it is now stated that the Cheyennes are alone ¢ n- cerned in them, the Sioux and Ked Cloud's band not participating, A fainily of nine persons were mur- dered at Kiowa on Saturday, A party of vo unteors at Premont’s Orchard atta and defeacod a band of Indians, killing four of them. The volantecrs x¢ The President has issued his proclamation an- mouncing the ratification of @ treaty of commerce with Nicaragua, The right of transit across Nicara- gua from ocean to ocean is granted, anda free port is to be established at each end of the route, at which no tonnage or other duties are to be Imposed upon vessels of the United States, In the Board of Health yesterday the rerulations adopted by the State Commissioner in refcre:c) to the cattle quarantine were approved, Ther d rect that all droves arriving be taken to one of the two quarantine yards in the city and all stray cattle ia the streets be seized. Dr. Harris’ vitality statistics show that there were 656 deaths in New York and 287 in Brooklyn during the week. A change of some importance in the naturalization laws of New Hampshire has been made by a decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of that State, It regu- Jates the testimony in cases and abolishes naturaliza- tion in police courts. Mr. Peter Cooper, as President of the Citizens’ As- sociation, has addressed a letter to Street Commis- sioner McLean on the abuses in the Street Depart- ment. He charges that $120,000 have been expended contrary to the provisions of the city charter relative to contracts, and that while during the last six months of 1867 $1°0,000 were drawn from the treasury for repairs, only $25,000 were expended in repairing the streets, jeorge Powell, a Washington Market butcher, was resied at his house in Brooklyn last night ona © a-ge of being concerned in the death of Susannah Lattin, the young girl who died in chilabed at a lying-in establishment tn Amity place. A building in process of demolition on Columbia ‘treet, Albany, fell yesterday and buried among its ruins a number of women and childrcn who were on hp first Noor at the time gathering wood. The dead bodies of two women were taken out during the day and a boy was rescued not much hurt, Parties are busily engaged looking for other bodies. A German was buried alive in Newark yesterday and rose from the grave two hours afterwards by means of # patent coffin intended for the use of per- sons buried in a trance. The Coroner’s jury in the case of the girl Mary Ann Russell, who was outraged and killed at Peeks- kill last week, have brought in a sealed verdict. ‘The suspected murderer has disappeared. A pedestrian match of one hundred miles in twenty-four hours is to commence at Rensselaer Park, Troy, on Friday, in which Weston, Payne, Haydock, Bendon and Fervuson, all great lights in pedestrianism, are to be matched, The Tennessee Legislature has appointed a com- mittee to lay the condition of affairs in the State before President Johnson and ask for the presence of a United States force. The New England fair opened in New Haven yes- terday. A large crowd was in attendance and the exhibition was fine. The yacht Fleetwing, from Newport, August 31, anchored off Staten Island at half-past ten yesterday morning. The stock market was variable yesterday, but closed steady, Government securities were dull. Goid cloged at 14544. Our Relations with Turkey. The very cordial manner in which the Sul- tan of Turkey a few days since received Ad- miral Farragut, and the imperial compliment to the United States, through the personal favor extended to the Admiral, entirely unso- licited by him, of permission for the flagship Franklin, bearing the American Admi- ral’s pennant, to pass through the Dar- danelles to the Golden Horn, suggests a few reflections on the relations of the United States to the Sublime Porte, and the probable or possible effect of the resolution of the Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, introduced into Congress on the 6th of July, and passed before the adjourn- ment of that body, instructing the President to request of the Turkish government the re- moval of all restrictions upon the free naviga- tion of the Bosphorus ; or, in other words, to request that vessels of war of any foreign Power shall be permitted to pass at will through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea. It is indeed remarkable, in view of the im- portance of the resolution of Mr. Kelley, that it should have received so little consideration pending its passage, which can only be ex- plained by the fact of its introduction at a very late period of the session, when the press of legislative business might have prevented its full discussion. The fact seems to have been entirely ignored that the navigation of the Bosphorus by vessels of war has been regu- lated by the European Powers. The resolu- tion of Mr. Kelley was based upon the theory of the ‘common rights” of nations, which is not applicable to the present case. In Europe it has been the habit of the ene- mies of Turkey to manifest a remarkable fa- cility in applying the moat contradictory argu- ments to explain or apologize for any move- ment detrimental to Turkish interests. On one occasion, if it should better suit their purpose, they ask of the Ottoman government a recognition of ‘common rights,” and on an- other they will insist upon the maintenance of old treaty stipulations which are in direct con- flict with common rights. But Americans certainly, in discussing the affairs of the Orient, have no inducement to lose sight either of consistency or justice, as we have no wish to make acquisitions in the East or mingle in the diplomatic troubles of the Old World, where neither our honor nor interest is involved. We have nothing to gain by @ diplomatic wrangle with Turkey, and there is no reason why we should not maintain the most friendly rela- tions. The Sultan, on all suitable occasions, will, According to the telegraphic accounts of hisrecent annual levee, when our Minister, Mr. Morris, appeared in plain evening dress in accordance with the regulation of Congress, | his reception by the Sultan was so cordial and friendly as to be generally remarked. The question which the resolution of Mr. | Kelley will open between the United States and | Turkey is one not likely to be disposed of simply by Congressional resolutions. It will | open a controversy in regard to vexatious | points which the great Powers of Europe have sought to settle by different treaties, and will bring us into contict, not simply with Turkey, but with the international legislation of Eu- rope. Even if Turkey could, consistently with her policy, accede to our request 60 far as we | are concerned, we could hardly expect special favors not enjoyed by England or France, and it would be especially unbecoming in us to ask for a distinction in our favor by the very same | mail, we might say, which transmitted Con- gressional resolutions of sympathy with a re- bellion against the Turkish government. The honorable Ry wlive from Pennayt- vania cannot ignore (ve fact that the Black has manifested his appreciation of our good | | was definitely fixed, in order that future diff- | culties might be avoided, Shall we abide by the stipulations of the treaties of Europe, and consequently abandon to arbitration all ques- | tons not already settled by them, or become the champions of the theory of ‘common right” in the Dardanelles, which is inoompati- ble with the special concessions and privileges ' guaranteed by the treaties ? No claim is made that American commerce would be benefited by the presence of United States men-of-war in the Black Sea, and, in fact, it would be difficult to disoover in what respect American interests are to be benefited by the resolution of Mr. Kelley. No complaint can be made against the Porte that illiberal restrictions are pnt upon commercial vessels, nor, indeed, have any objections been offered to the regulations concerning trade, quarantine or police, and it will hardly be claimed that any American resident, missionary or tourist requires the presence of naval power for the protection of his rights. The quarantine pro- visions in force in Turkey are no more severe than those of New York or any other seaport, and the system of police does not interfere with commerce and the prompt transaction of busi- ness to any greater extent than in other coun- tries. If, therefore, our commerce is not to be benefited and the rights of our citizens and tho dignity of our flag are insured—if we have no wrong to redress and no advantage to gain— what good result will be effected by provoking diplomatic difficulties with the Ottoman gov- ernment? Noone can suppose that the reso- lution of Mr. Kelley will effect the purpose sought, or that it can be seriously considered by the Turkish government. Are we prepared to sustain our position by going to war for a bagatelle, for a matter in which we have not the slightest interest under the sun? If not, why make ourselves ridiculous by such Con- gressional buncombe, which is not consistent with what should be the attitude of the Ameri- can government towards foreign Powers—hon- orable, dignified and just? The navigation of the Bosphorus and Black Sea is already perfectly free to commercial ships. Russia expressly stipulated in the treaty of Adrianople (July, 1829,) not only for the right of her own ships, but for those of all other Powers; and the treaty of Paris (March, 1856,) distinctly confirms this privilege to com- merce. Article thirteen guarantees free com- merce to the ports of the Black Sea, and stipu- lates that the regulations of quarantine and police shall be conceived in a spirit favor- able to the development of commerce. Tho treaty concluded between the United States and the Porte (February, 1862,) puts us upon an equal footing with all other Powers. The government of the Sultan interprets in the most liberal manner the provisions of these treaties. The same large-minded liberality which is making Turkey a conspicuous Power permeates the government in its domestic ad- ministration and in its foreign relations. The memorable words of Abdul Aziz, the Sultan, at the opening of the Council of State, are the key-note to the politics of Turkey. The Vermont HlectionAn Overwhelming Republican Victory. It will be seen by our telegraphic despatches that the election in Vermont yesterday resulted in the success of the republican ticket by a largely increased majority, if not the largest fora number of years—say between twenty-five and thirty thousand. The republican majority in 1864 was upwards of twenty-nine thousand, in 1867 a little over twenty thousand, As we have already stated, the republicans anticipated a gain of about eight thousand votes, and it is not likely they are disappointed unless agree- ably so. Various causes might be assigned for this result ; but we forbear at present to specu- late upon them. There can be no doubt, however, but that to the course of certain fire- eating Southern orators in proclaiming their unwavering devotion to the rebel flag, in their vulgar and vicious denunciations of General Grant, in their revival of the dead issues of the past, and in other ways, alike unwise, impo- litic and revolutionary, in all of which they were aided by their allies, the copperhead press of the North, can this democratic col- lapse in Vermont be mainly attributed. It does not appear that the great financial ques- tions of the day were brought out in the can- vass. The people were not made to under- stand that now was the time for them to attempt to seek relief from the terrible burden of taxation. Instead, the old rallying cries of the war were raised, and the Vermonters went to the ballot box as if they expected to be called upon to fight their old battles over again, This sentiment was, no doubt, ac- celerated by the nicely concocted stories of rebel outrages upon Union men in the South, by the reports of an actual collision in at least one of the Southern States, and by other means always at the command of the radical leaders to influence the tender and patriotic sensibilities of the New England people. The chief {ssues of the Presidential campaign have, however, been discussed in the State of Maine by the champions of both parties; and it is proper to await the result of the election there a fortnight hence before a safe judgment can be formed of the tendency of the popular mind in the New England States upon the grave questions now before the whole | American nation. Wait until we hear from | Maine. sat ema fea Tur New Reon or TaMMANY.—Tammany Hall is now in all the glory of a full possessiop of the democracy of the metropolis, The sub- mission of such men as Fernando Wood and the “Big Judge” simply signifies that Tammany is at last absolute master of our Corporation spoils and Corporation rings. But this cannot last long, and on or before the Lat of Decem- ber we may look for some inside equabblings which will result ina new lot of bolters or a new division of tho plunder, MAIN®.—The result of the Vermont election yestorday only increases the general interest in Maine, under the general conviction that the issuo in Maine will signify someshing more than Vermont. | Latest from China and Japan. We published yesterday letters from our special correspondents at Hioga Bay, June 28; Tientsin, June 28; Shanghao and Hong Kong, July 14, and Yokohama, July 25, The letters from Japan announced the vigorous resump- tion of hostilities, the oapture of Jeddo by the adherents of the Mikado, by whom nearly a third of the city had been burned; the opposi- tion to them on the part of three large armies— one at Osaka, another at Kioto and the third daily expected at Jeddo—the disturbing fluo- tuations in the monoy market, and a rowing match between the crew of the United States steamer Oneida and that of the British steamer Zebra, off Hioga, in which the Americans were twice the winners—an offset, suoh es it is, to the recent defeat of the Sappho. The letters from China complain, apparently with reason, of the irregularity in the trips of the steamers of the Pacific Mail Company, They announce the discovery of gold and silver mines in the neighborhood of the open port of Cheefoo, and state that the arrival of Mr. J. Ross Browne was anxiously looked for, in the hope that he may prevail upon the authorities to open the new coal mines in the north, which are still closed to foreigners. The wreck and loss of the steamship Benares on the 23d of May are mentioned. The appoint- ment of three Americans in the civil service is noted as a suggestive sign of the times. Other interesting particulars are given, and the letters both from China and Japan illustrate the increasing intimacy between the inhabi- tants of the United States and those of the remote countries on the other side of the Pacific. The news from Japan is specially interesting, as tending to confirm the prodic- tions of the HeRarp that the late Tycoon, the representative of our modern ideas of progress, will probably be successful in his struggle against the Mikado and the reactionary adher- ents of the latter and may yet become the sole recognized ruler of Japan. The Peace Question in KEurope—France and Spain. By one of our latest cable despatches we are made aware that a prominent member of the reigning house in Spain has been sent to Paris on a most important mission. The Prince Gir- genti, by birth and by his recent marriage a prominent member of the house of Bourbon, has arrived in Paris. His mission, it is said, is to assure the Emperor Napoleon that in the event of his engaging in a war against Prussia Spain would undertake the guardianship of Rome and the Holy Father, on condition that the Emperor will bind himself to protect Queen Isabella and her throne. If true, it is a funny proposal, From one point of view it is ridicu- lous; from another point of view it is full of meaning. Queen Isabella cannot maintain her own position; therefore her promise of as- sistance to France is absurd. But Queen Isa- bella, maintained on her throne, will lend all her help to France. Therefore her proposal to France is deeply suggestive. What is the lesson? It is neither more nor less than this: that Europe does not believe in the peace intentions of the French govern- ment. Spain, the most helpless and the most needy of all the European nations, has not been able to keep silence any longer. Trem- bling for the immediate future, it seeks in ad- vance—and, therefore, betrays the situation— to make the best terms possible with France. It is no business of ours what France may do with Spain. We have again and again told Napoleon what he should do with that country ; but the present movement of the Spanish gov- ernment is proof sufficient that, so far as Spain is judge, Europe is on the eve of a great war. We have no hesitation in repeating what we have said before—that the necessity of France and the welfare of Europe equally point to an early and terrible war. France, which periodically must let off a cértain amount of blood, has reached that stage once again in her history whgn she must either have civil war or a fierce struggle with one or more of her neighbors. Michelet, in his exeellent history of France, says that his country needs periodical bloodletting, and that if it has it not in one way it must have it in another. The time for such bloodletting seems again to have arrived, and it is not difficult to see which of the two ways is more to the advantage of the present ruler of France. A foreign war, if a civil war is to be avoided, has become an ab- solute necessity to France—a necessity felt equally by the people and by the government. The welfare of Europe is equally concerned in this matter. War burdens are being borne by all the nations, The fear of war is felt to bes heavier tax on industry and capital than war itself. Matters have reached @ point at which there must be either war or general disarmament. Of the two war is in- finitely the more probable. Whether we shall have or shall not have war will depend very much on the course which the elections now in progress shall take in France. If the early symptoms are unfavorable foreign war must be considered certain. Napoleon is bent above everything else on establishing his dynasty. Rather than fail without effort he is prepared for any struggle and for any result. We leave it to Napoleon to do what he may with Spain. He is already master of the South of Europe. His dificulty—and the difficulty is not a slight one—is with the North. Campaign Minstrelsy. Disraeli (the elder) says somewhere that it would be as difficult to discover the origin of rhyming as that of dancing, In every age every people—the Chinese, the Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Scandinavians, the Germans, the Spanish, the French, the Eug- lish—has had a versified popular literature of its own. In this country each Presidential campaign has had its own minstrelsy, in which the fun and foolery and occasionally the wit and poetry of the time have found vent. Be- yond all comparison the most jovial campaign minstrelsy we have ever had was that which was sung all over the land previous,to the elec- tion of Harrison and Tyler. Old Joe Hoxie, who “‘still lives,” was then young and, as the | Spiritualists would say, “inspirational,” and ‘fuirly sung the people out of their senses and Tippecanoe into the White House. But aiter a careful and impartial perusal of the songs thus far inspired by the actual Presiden- tial contest we must confess that we find in those of neither the democratic nor the repub- lican muse a single Hine eqnal to the memorable Lippewanoe and Tyler too, We do not expect too mush from aithor | } muse, We are well aware that, as in the case of the famous “‘Lillibulero,” the most influeatial songs have been by no means the most poetical. A happy refrain, » felicitous phrase or nick- mame, or an energetic and sometimes even Coarse expression of the popular sentiment, has often made the fortune of a very indifferent song in times of political excitement. But if we must pronounce a verdict upon the relative merits of the democratic and the republican rhymes suggested by the present campaign we shall have to say six of the one and half a dozen of the other. Both are about equally devoid of postry and wit, Even the lines which bear the names of the late Miles O'Reilly and of Whittier—although, of course, superior to the rest—oannot prevent us from calling upon fhe bards of the two parties to try to do something better than has yet been con- tributed by them to the fugitive literature of the day. It will not be easy to fire either the democratio or the republican heart with such campaign minstrelsy as we have givea speci- mens of to-day. ‘The Evacuation of Fort Humaita. The details of the late news from the seat of war on the Rio Paraguay, which appear in this morning's Hzratp, throw a clear light on the prospect before the allies in their endeavor to crush the heroic little republic of Paraguay. Instead of the war being near a close, as the first newg pretended, the probabilities are that the three years’ campaign around Fort Humaité will have to be repoated on the banks of the Rio Tebiouari. Here the Mar- shal-President has been erecting fortifications as formidable as those he has just evacuated. The experience gained by his engineers at and around Fort Humaité justifies the belief that the line of the Tebiouari will give the allies more trouble than that of the Paran4. The facts that the Paraguayans evacuated Fort Humaitd only when their new line of defence was fully prepared, and that they administered two rude lessons to the allies when the latter at- tempted to hurry the evacuation, show that the reports about Marshal de Caxias having famished the garrison were untrue. On the 16th of July Marshal de Caxias, who had learned of the contemplated evacuation, ordered a column of sixteen thousand men to immediately take possession of the works. This column succeeded in occupying a redoubt, and was preparing to enter the remaining forti- fications when the Paraguayans opened a murderous fire of musketry and artillery on it, This fire was followed up by an advance of the Paraguayans at the point of the bayonet, which drove the allied column back whence it had come. The allied losses were very severe in killed, wounded and missing. Whole divi- sions are reported as having been cut to pieces. From this repulse itis evident that the late Brazilian accounts of the reduced state of the Paraguayan garrison were entirely false. It required no more than four thousand men (and no women among them) to drive sixteen thou- sand helter-skelter at the point of the bayonet, as was done July 16 at Fort Humaité. Two days later the allies met with as signal and disastrous a repulse when attempting to drive the Paraguayans from their Gran Chaco defences, nearly opposite Fort Humait’. Our accounts now state that it wasa full week after these occurrences’ that Marshal de Caxias ven- tured to occupy Fort Humaiti, and this only when sure that the place had been abandoned by Marshal Lopez. The new position of this gallant commander is about fifty miles further up the Rio Paraguay and about one hundred and forty miles south of his capital, Asuncion. The late Ministerial trouble in Brazil will probably account for the partial version of these events which was at first transmitted. The truth, however, will probably hasten the downfall of the conservatives and their pet commander on the Rio Paraguay, if it do not endanger the popularity of the Emperor as well as the stability of his throne. The best thing he can do is to make peace at once with Marshal Lopez and settle amicably the ques- tion of the preponderance on the Rio de la Plata. tribute towards making the glory of Lopez so resplendent as to dim the lustre of the Braszil- ian crown, Napoleon the Peace Officer of Europe. M. Magne, Minister of Finance of France, visited the city of his birth immediately after the success of the new loan. He was enter- tained at a grand banquet by his fellow towns- men, to whom he delivered what is classed in France as a “pacific” address, The Minister claimed that peace would endure for the rea- sons that “Europe needed it” and Napoleon “desired it ;" “‘France was strong enough to preserve peace, and it was no one’s interest to break it.” The French Emperor is thus ele- vated to the position of chief special constable of Europe, promoted, after many years, from that of private constable living in London. M. Magrfe’s speech may, how- ever, like the Irishman’s dream, be read by “conthraries ;” for the man who can command peace because he “desires” it can equally make war should he “desire” it. Napoleon the First always alleged before a campaign that ‘‘no one had an interest in war.” After the campaign was opened he asserted that some one or other of his ‘“perfidions” neigh- bors broke the peace and ‘‘goaded” him into hostilities. Itis to be hoped that Napoleon the Third will not be “goaded” to throw up his commission as peace officer and draw on M. Magne for the credits for ‘the army of France.” Wuy Nor?—By Atlantic telegraph we learn that the Corporation of the city of Cork, Lre- land, have adopted, by a unanimous vote, resolution urging the British government to pardon and discharge from imprisonment all persons serving out sentences for complicity in Fenian disturbances. As none of the parties incarcerated have done the least damage to the British government there seems to be no reason why they should be kept in prison at the public expense. However earnest in their intentions, they have been utterly harmless in their action; and there are thonsands on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the Cork Cor- poration, who would be glad to see them sot | free. Many of them are citizens of Amorica, and many of them soldiers of the republic, who fought bravely for ita flag, ‘‘boys in blue,” as wo have to call them—especially in eloction times. Therefore, in. response to the resolu- tian of the By keeping up this war he will con-* ish corporatars. We say, why nob? | A distinguished Israelite of Keokuk, Iows, has been recently discoursing upon politics. He is evidently not a rabbi, but, we should Judge, rather a politician, from the tenor of his speech. The hostility to General Grant on the part of the children of Judah on account of certain orders issned by him during the war Inimical to the Jewish race formed a part of the theme of this gentleman's address; but he argues that this little circumstance should not influence the Israelites in the coming elec- tion to the extent of arraying themselves on the side of anarchy and war against equal jus tice, peace and order. In other words, this learned Hebrew is on the stump for General Grant, although he admits that the indigna- tion of his race against the radical candidate may be just. Unlike the leading Jew of Shak- speare’s genius—who declared that if a Chris- tian pinched him he would squirm, if he tickled him he would be compelled to laugh, if he spit upon his gabardine he would cherish up a deadly revenge—this learned Hebrew says, “If ® man spit in my face publicly, if he had kicked me, if by voting for him I could save liberty and justice, I would do it,” Now, in this charitable soatiment there is a direct con- tradiction of the spirit which animated Shylock, who held to the traditionary doo- trine of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, a pound of flesh on the letter of the bond. Therefore he argues that the Jews should vote for Grant in order that historians may not have the opportunity of writing the fact that an enslaved and oppressed race like the Jews went back upon the nesroes, negro suf- frage and negro equality, But perhaps the most striking point in his speech is the allusion to the sacrifice of Calvary as a political blunder made by somo leading aristocratic Jews of eighteen hundred years ago, the effects of which ‘‘blunder,” he says, have beon visited upon the whole Jewish race down to the present day. Tho Hebrow orator, whose name is Green, with the prefix of Noah—a representative of one of the first families of Judea—conjures his countrymen not to make another “blunder” by voting against Geavral Grant, Newspapers and Internal RevenueAbsu:d Attempt to Tax the Press. The Internal Revenue Collector of the Thirty-second district has served us with a notice that we have been assessed a tax on our business, that this tax is now due, that we are required to pay it, and that unless paid the usual penalty will be enforced. We are not informed, however, under what law this attempt to tax the press is made. If it be under the act of March 31, 1868, exempt- ing certain manufactures and taxing otiers, we maintain that the printing and publishing of a newspaper is not a manufactured articlo in the sense of the law and was not intended to be included as such, This attempt to tax the press is a forced and absurd construction of the act by ignorant assessors. Then nows- papers pay a special tax in the way of license, and this law of March 31, 1868, exempts every person, firm, corporation or article otherwise specially taxed. On this ground, therefore, we are exempted if there were no other rea- son for exemption. But the act in question only repeals sections ninety-four and nincty- five of the Internal Revenue law approved June 30, 1864. In section ninety-six—an unrepealed section of the act of March 2, 1867—newspapers, with a number of other things, are exempt. Then, again, in section thirty-four, act of March 2, 1867, ‘‘all acts and parts of acts imposing any tax upon advertiso- ments” are repealed. The whole tenor of the Internal Revenue laws as regards the press, a8 well as the letter in the specific sections to which we have referred, show that Congress did not intend to tax newspapers. Incomes from the newspaper business pay a tax the same as all other incomes, but the business itself is not taxed. It {is nota manufacturing business in the sense of the law. Congress might as woll tax the rays of the sun, for the press is almost as necessary and useful to the whole people. We intend to resist the forced and absurd con- struction of the law by the assessors, and we believe the press generally will do the same. This act of March 31, 1868, was ingeniously slipped through by the manufacturers and their lobby agents in and out of Congress for their own special advantages, and is another instance of outrageous cluss and sectional legislation; but we are not going to per- mit the officers of the government to mako it more invidious and oppressive than was in- tended. Avotner INTERNATIONAL Yaont Race.— We see that the beaten American yacht Sappho has challenged the English yacht Aline to try another bout in British waters, Had not the winning boat Cambria gone to Spain on a cruise no doubt the gage which Captain Baldwin, of the Sappho, has thrown down to the owners of the Aline—the s»cond in the late race—would have been as spiritedly offered to the owners of the sucovss{ul com- petitor for the championship. As the chai- lenge for a second race has been accepted, we hope that the captain of the Sappho will see that such condition will be made as may leave no room for complaint when the contest is over. Wartine ror tar Vervtor—President John- son. Itis given out that he contemplites a holiday trip to Tennessee, but that his decision in the matter will probably depend upon the Judgment of Senator Morgan and Representa- tive Schenck in reference to a September ses- sion of Congress. Those gentlemen have not yet considered the question formally, but we sus- pect that in the course of a woek or two they will issue their call. The Southern ‘‘carpei- baggers” demand September session, and they will not take no for an answer. Mean- time “‘all is quiet on the Potomac.” Hienty Important—The nogotiations in progress between Rollins and McCulloch for a division of the new offices—® score or so— under the new Internal Revenue lawa between | the republicans and the democrats, balf and | half. Both sides are hungry—the democrats from fasting and the republicans from an insa- tiable appetite—+and the probability, therefore, is that Rolling nd McCulloch, with the con- sent of An/a¥ Johnson, will come to terms on the grand idea that half a loaf is better thon nothing, Rollins and MeOulloch are men