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NEW YORK HERALD. JAM?? GORDON BENNETT, KD1T0B AND PROPRIETOR. OrriOK N. W. OOBNBB OF FCLTON AND NASSAU 8T8. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in Pie year, Fern cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14-. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, al Fits cents per copy. Annual subscription prioe: ? OoeOopv ?? Three Copies 8 Five Copies 8 Ten Copios 19 JOB PRINTING o/ every description, alio Stereotyp ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed al tK* owes! ratet Volume XXXI No. 903 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street? Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK THEATRK, Broidway opposite New York Hotel? Naval Enoacimbnt? Bf.autt ani> the Beast. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Siitn a ve il ua.? Media. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.? FeUnIIaKUNS. OERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nog. 15 and 47 Bowery ? Othello. TBRRACE GARDEN, Third avenue, betwesn Fifty eighth aud rifty-uiath atMets.?Timo Thomas' Orchestral (iiRiiu Concerts, commencing at 8 o'clock. IRVING HALL, Irving place.? Professor Harts will Perform his Miracles. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 5S6 Broadwar, opposite tb? Metropolitan Hotel? In thbir Ethiopian Entkktain MENTS, S[ NUING, l)ANClNO AMD BURLESQUES? Tub IllLION niAD I NSTITUTB FIFTn AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, No*. 2 and 4 West TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 301 Bowerv. ?Comic Vooalism? Nkuko MuuTRKLsr, Bali.ut Divertissement, Ac.? Tui Yankee Sailok? Intrigues or Sfain. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics' Hall, 472 Broadway? In a Varittt or Light and Laughable Entertainments, Corps de Ballet, Ac. The Jealous Wipe. MRS F. 3. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. His Last Viotort; ok, A Lion in the Toils. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.? King Henrt IV. ?OOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.? Ethiopi as Mis. ItaELsr, Ballads. I3urlk?que* vni> Pantomime). NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMV. 618 Rro/idway. IjKotdrks with thp Oxr-riTDnoaKN Microsoopk twice dally. Head and Right Arm or Probst. Open from 8 A. M. till 10 P. M. TBIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, September 'iO, 1866. van niiws. EUROPE. Our despatches by the Atlantic i ablo are dated to Tues day evening, September 18. Tho mauiiesto of the French Emporor to the Eu ropean Powers on tbo crisis, as rendered by the cable, Is of an assuring, peaceful character. The changes re sulting from tho war are favorablo to France. Prussia and Italy are drawn closer. The Roman Convention will he executed. The lialtic and Mediterranean are free Austria Is pacifled ? \ perfect military organiza tion mast be maintained, notwithstanding. Napoleon will not permit French officers to hold office under Maximilian, in deference to the principle of the Monroe doctrine. The Prussian Heat off Kiel has been put out of com mission. The Upper House of the Prussian Legislature has PABssd the new electoral law. The forts of the Quadrilateral are to be immediately transferred to Venetla. Austria makes a timely concession to the Hungailan Mile*. The man who attempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia has been executed. Consols closed in London ?' 89 '4 for money on Tues day, September 18. Five-twenties were quoted at Tl% at the closo the same day. In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands rimed at 18 '^d. on the 18th Inst, a slight advance, expe rienced at uoon, being lost before the close Breadstuff's were generally unchanged. THE CITT. There wer? eight new cmm of cholera and three death* from the tame disease reported in this city yes terday. Three new cases and four deaths from the dis ease were reported in Brooklyn. Four fresh oases and ote death from the disease were reported from the Quarantine. The President of the Board of Health, ac companied by several gentlemen and members of the press, visited the monster Abattoir alCummunipaw yes terday morning. The Board of Education held its regular meeting yes terday. An assistant teacher in the male department of Orammar School No. 6 was dismissed for inflicting cor poreal punishment on pupils. An assistant superinten dent of grammar schools was appointed for two years. Darnel Buckley, school trustee of the Fifth ward, was dismissed. $*,644 wss appropriated for repairs, Ac. , of Orammar School No. 20. $2#i was appropriated for BOiteeu for the female department of Orammar School No. 18 The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, the President, Qulian 0. Verplanck, In the chair. 8 pe- 1 flea Iknss for the alterations to be made In the buildings at Ward's Island were submitted and referred to the Com mittee on Buildings. A communication was received from the master of the ship Msrrla Green leaf, asking for the remission of tlie floe of ITS inflicted by the Com mis ?toners for hie omission of s passenger's name from bis paeeenger list. The Fesst of the Atonement, the most important of the fast day* to the Jewish calendar, was Observed univers ally by the Hebrews yesterday. Mr. H M. Stewart, a r<n pec table merchant on Wash ington street, has instituted proceedings for divorce against hts wlfs, whom bo accuses of bSng too affection ate ton Mr. Wm. C. Kneelaud, while her husband waa stricken with typhoid fever. Mr. Stewart has slso com menced an action in the Supreme Court for crtm. con., planing the damages at $10,000. Thomas W. Kelly, a patrolman of the Metropolitan Polioe, was before the Police Commissioners yesterday, on a complaint made by John W Campbell, a German oittsen, who cbargee him with having enticed away his (the plaintiff's) wife from her hone and children. From the evidence of Campbell It appears that Kelly boarded at his houee for a long time, when be became too inti mate with his wife who had recently disappeared Kelly dented knowing her whereabouts. The case was stdiourned until neon today, when the m suing wife will appear as a witness. An inquest waa tieiti Before Coroner Gover yesterdsy, on the body of Mrs. I'hillippine Rausch, n victim to the disaster near the Deshrossss street ferry, on last Sunday, when the ferry boat D. 8. Gregory collided with the ?learner George Washington The amplest testimony eras elicited, showing treat culpability on the part of the pilot of the ferry boat, a verdict was rsndsred In as* oordaaoe with the facts, in whith s censure on the pilot was embodied. Two weeks since Judge Barnard granted an alternative mandamus addressed to Street Commissioner Cornell, directing him to exhibit certain vouchers and records of his department to Mr. Richard M. Hsnry, a citizen who bad mads spplioation therefor A return to this manda atus was made yesterdsy by the Street Commissioner, who swears to a lengthy affidavit, eettlng forth that it would be very injurious to ths routins of business of hit depwtmeat If he were to exbtb.t the records of his nfflre te every olttsea who desired to sxamiaa tbem. After hearing the argument of counsel Judge Bsrnard reserved his dsciaten. The rhmaix Bsnk defalcation has come up In our Count in a new shape. A suit has been commenced by the bank against the sureties of James Earls, the assist ant teller, who was implleatad with Jsskiaa la the defal oaUop, and who committed nlclde after being arretted. ftmtn. Seat aad Sayre, the defeadasta, ware bondsmen fee gar* in Ike asm ef $$,?$$, A metioa was yeeter a ttr (M4e befor* Judge Autherfaad, by defendants, fur an <ntm the bank te Ale a farther hill ef 'nvvSf&xassni. Sessions sentence for a breach of the Health law, In keep ing a fat malting establishment, was again up before Judge Sutherland yesterday on a motion to admit the prisoner to ball, a common law certiorari having been previously granted. Judge Sutherland dilated at length upon his legal powers in the premises, and ex pressed the opinion that ho had no authority to admit the prisoner to bail. He remarked that he would oonfer with his associate justices upon the point, and adjourned over the case until Friday nest. The stock market was strong yesterday and prioes ad vanced. Gold closed at 14&){. There was a fair business in both foreign and domestic goods yesterday, and as a general thing full prices pre vailed. On 'Change flour and wheat were quiet, but without decided change. Cora was Xc. a lc. lower, while oats were steady. Pork was heavy and lower. Beef was steady, while lard was dull, but steady. Freights were soarcely so Arm. Whiskey firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Mexico is dated at Mexico city to September I, and Vera Crux to September 8. Maximilian had received a despatch from some person unknown saying that all was useless. On the strength of this rumors are prevalent that Max Is a prisoner to Baxalne, that he wishes to go to Europe and the Marshal will not let him, and others equally wild. There is no doubt that there is a difference between him and the French. Citizens living near Vera Crux are removing Inside the olty walls for protection, and fortifications are being constructed. It Is reported in the capital that Bazaine and Douay are to leave on the next packet. Madame Escandon had piesonted a long memorial asking the release of her husband, who is charged with heavy peculations on the Imperial government. Our dates from Panama and the South American Statos are to the 12th Inst. Several of the Colombian Stale authorities had threatened to resist the enforce ment of Mosquera's orders, and domestic trouble was anticipated. Favorable concessions had boen granted by tho Colombian government to the projected railway across the tathmu*. Quoen Emma arrived at Panama on the Oth, and sailed for tbe Sandwich Islands the same evening. The Panama Legislature convened on the 1st inst., and inaugurated Olarte as Governor of New Gra nada. The two vessels purchased by Viouna MacKenna in this country for Chile were not considered adaptable to war purposes. Montoro, the deposed admiral of ' the Peruvian navy, was still In custody, Salcedo, the Chilean commander, having charge of the navies of both Powers, and Tucker, the ex-rebel, who was appointed to supersede Montero, having a subordi nate command under him. The terms of the new treaty belwcon Chile and Bolivia are published in our corres pondence. Gottschalk gave a grand concert at Santiago on the night of August 12, and the next day he was pre sented by a decree of tbe Council with a gold medal. A ball was given on the 9th ult. by General Kilpatrick at the American Legation. Our Havana correspondence is dated September 15 . Tho quarantine on vessels coming from the United States still continues in toroe to the great detriment of trade, but would probably be soon removed. Tho house of Don Miguel Bon in Fan Jago de Cuba had failed, with liabilities at $247,000 and assets at only $77,000. An ice making concern was about being established. There was more Qrmnoss in tho sugar markots. Elections for Presidont were to commence In Nicaragua in November. No government has yet been Installed in St. Domingo, and that little ropublic is given up to the disorders at tendant on a state of anarchy. Hayti is in the same con dition, and President Geflrard is threatened with another revolution. Outlaws ovorritn the country, and horrible crimes are committed with impunity. A meeting of Fenians was held In Troy last night, and was addressed by General Gleeson, of the Stephens wing. Considerable excitemont prevails among tbe circlos in this city, relative to the expected invasion of Canada. It is supposed, considering the relnforoemonts arriving in the provinces, that tbe movement would prove a dis astrous failure. A picnic will be given at Jones' Wood on Monday next under the auspicos of Stephens' friends. We publish this morning an opinion from the Attorney General of the United States in regard to tbe power of the Presideut where sppointments to office have been made In the recess prior to the last session of the Senate, and there was a failure during the session to make a per manent appointment, either by the refusal of the Senate iu otnftrm th* nwmiuflc, ? failure to act on tne nomi nation or other causo, to make another temporary ap pointment In the present recess. In his discussion of tbe subject the Attorney General takos up the general question whether the President can All up a vacancy In the recess which exists in the prior session. After a review of tbe precedents established since the founda tion of the government, and an examination of the con stitution and existing laws on the subject, be arrives at tbe affirmative of the proposition, and consequently of the original question submitted to him. H. G. Norton, one of -the travelling Mlscegens, who telegraphed to the Clevelsnd Convention that he would expose the workings behind the scenes of his late friends, has wholly deserted them and made a confes sion. He says the whole intention of the party Is to make a living by exhibiting themselves as martyrs to Southern ferocity, and when this resource falls and they are in danger of coming under the vagrancy law, they propose to excite a negro insurrection or another war. He says that Randolph, the negro, eats, drinks and sleeps with Jack Hamilton. The heavy rata* la the West have been the occaaton of considerable damage at Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Bridge* on aeveral of the railroad* were *wept awa y. The damage la Indianapoli* I* now estimated at $300,000 and three more person* are reported drowned. A man named David Higglna, employed on the Morrl* and Esees Railroad, waa knocked down and run over by a train, at Orange, on Tuesday evening. The maa, who la *ald to belong to New Tork, died almost instantly. The awitchmeo on the Erie railroad employed In the neighborhood of the Jersey City depot struck for higher wage* on Monday and, their demand bslng refused, left off work and substitute* were provided. The New Jertey Legislature, la Joint Melon yesterday, confirmed the election of A. 0. Cattell to be United Statee Senator, the democratic member* not voting. A large meeting wa* held In Toledo, Ohio, last night, to ratify the proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention of August 11 General Mullen and General Pteedman were the principal speaker*. A radical meeting was held at Paterson. New Jersey. l**t evening, which was addressed by John Minor Botts, in which he attacked the poll:y of the President, favor ing hi* impeachment, and advocated the adoption of the conatitntlonal amendment. He thought that each State should settle the question of negro suffrage for itaelf. A Convention ot Soldier* and Bailor* ot the Stat* of New York wa* In senlon at 8yracu*e yesterday. Reso lution* were adopted declaring the power of reconstruc tion to be vested In Congroer and the pardon* extended to rebel* to have no effort In releasing them from liabili ty le trial for th*lr treason, and approving of the repub lican candidates for State officer*. Delegate* were ap pointed to the Pittaburg Convention which meet* on the 3 ?th, General Barlow and Colonel McKean being cho*en delegate* at large The Convention then adjourned until Ihl* morning. The Producer*' Bank, to Chioago, auapended yester day. General Baird's report or the New Orleanarlot i* rreat Ing much excitement among tbe people In that city. The low by the burning of Brenham, Texas, by rnit*d Si at** soldier* recently, I* estimated at SIM, TOO. The surgeon In atleadanca on Secretary Seward re port* that he i* much improved, and will, ao doubt, aoon r*cov*r hi* health. A cn#e of cholera re*uK*d fatally la Hudaon City on Tneeday Forty-three death* occurred In Nashville ye*, terday from the aame diaease, a ad tweaty-flve la Savaa aah dating the pa*t week. Gsnxrai. Grant on thi Const it ittional AMRNDimirr.? For sob* time put tbe paper* have been pretending to give General Grant's opinions about politics and the President and this tiling and that thing; bnt all who know tbe General are aware that he never publicly ex* protect his views upon these matters. He has hit private notions about politics and politi ciane, and be keeps thorn to hlmselt Wo believe, however, that he has no snch hesitancy In on* doming tbe constitutional amendment now bo* fore the States and In advising the South to accept It and settle the whole business. Gen eral Grant regards this subject as of national Importance and hi beyond all oonstderatlooa of partisanship, and consequently his hopee and wishes In regard to it are expressed with out his nsnal wise reserve The CoMtUatlMuU Aaondnent? Ilea. Jun Brooks ud Hoi. ThtMwi Ntereti the Name Platform. The Hon. James Brooks, through the columns of an obscure journal made up of seoond hand materials ? a sort of shoddy newspaper ? has come out with a flippant little stump speech against the constitutional amendment now be fore the States for their ratification. He does not like it Neither does the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, nor General B. P. Butler, nor Wendell Phillips, nor any of the tribe of radioal lead ers. Nor is it the first time or the second in which Mr. Brooks and Mr. Stevens have been found pulling together. On the District of Co lumbia Negro Suffrage bill in the House of Representatives, early in the last session, when the conservative republicans, with the help of the democrats, could have defeated Stevens on the test question, Stevens carried his point with the aid of the democratic vote, including the vote of Mr. Brooks. Again, to wards the close of the session, when this con stitutional amendment as first reported was be fore the House, the democrats came to the rescue of Stevens and enabled him to carry his point against the moderate republicans. The test question was upon the third section of the amendment as originally reported, dis franchising till the 4th of July, 1867, every man guilty of voluntarily giving aid and com fort to the rebellion. This was the ultimatum of Stevens. The most ferocious of all bis vio lent speeches was bis terrible closing speech against any surrender of this condition. It was to him the pith and substance of the amendment, and this plan of Congress, he pro tested, would be a surrender to the rebels if shorn of this sweeping disfranchisement. A republican member desired to make a motion to strike out this third section ; but Stevens in terposed the previous question, which, if adopted, cuts off all motions to amend and brings the House at once to the main question. With the aid of the democrats the conservative republicans could have voted down the pre vious question; but a sufficient number of the democrats preferred to support the motion of Stevens, and thus they carried his plan through the House. We cannot find the name of Mr. Brooks in these proceedings, but the votes of his fellow democrats who voted for the pre vious question and his dodging are enough to fix his position. This sweeping disfranchise ment of the Stevens plan was stricken out in the Senate, where the amendment was put into its present shape; but the country owes nothing to Mr. Brooks for the modification. The amendment as it now stands is not his plan, nor is it the plan of Mr. Stevens. Both these men, we take It, dislike this amendment because it does not suit the factious purposes of either to bring this business to a speedy and decisive settlement. Against the warning* of Stevens and the flip pant objections of Brooks we urge upon the politicians and white people of the Southern States the adoption of this constitutional amend ment. The public mind of the North is not in the mood for a repetition of the supercilious, imperious and insolent demands of such South ern fire-eaters and revolutionists as defeated the great object of the Border State Peace Con vention of 1801. We have had enough of the folly of domineering Southern fire-eaters and enough of the fanaticism of Northern radicals, and we want peace, and we can get it in the re storation of the Union on the basis of this peace ultimatum of tbe republican conservatives of Congress. We feel entirely justified in admon ishing the Southern States that delay is danger ous to them ; that if they reject these condi tions of Congress they will be for more likely to get something much worse instead of any* thing better ; that a State government, accord ing to the Supreme Court, if recognized by Congress, is the State ; that if not recognized by Congress, there Is no appeal but to ths next Congress, and that in such an appeal there Is no living chance of anything better than this ameudment for the excluded States. It is the victorious party in a war that dio tates the treaty of peace ; and as the terms of restoration and peace offered to the South by Congress propose nothing of confiscation, no enforcement of negro sufflrage, no vengeance, no exclusions from federal offices that cannot be remedied, no disfranchisements, bnt only those seenrities deemed necessary for the safety of the national treasury, tbe liberty of the blacks and the future peace of the Union, we would appeal to the excluded Southern States to come into tbe general government as last as possible on these generous terms offered through Congress by the victorious North. We urge this course beoause it is abundantly mani fest that nothing less will satisfy tbe great dominant Union war party and Congressional peace party of tbe North. Aa Important Movement Among the l.ikernW of England *nd Ireland. A large and very influential number of magis trates, clergymen, municipal officers in Ireland, ss well aa members of Parliament, have in vited tbe distinguished English liberal, John Bright, to attend a complimentary banquet to be given in Dublin. In his letter accepting the invitation Mr. Bright says he does so be cause his friends in Ireland are of opinion thai " something may be done to make a more per fect union between the liberals of Ireland and the liberal party in England," with a view to wiser legislation for both countries. This is a very important and comprehensive movement, and will no doubt create consider able sensation among certain classes in Eng lsnd. By the union of the English and Irish liberals upon the sound basis and enlightened principles advocated by Mr. Bright additional strength will be given to the reform agitation and a fresh impulse imparted to the spirit of progress now animating the masses of Europe. Mr. Bright has long been ? terror to the aris tocracy of Great Britain. His vigorous Intel lect and broad, Intelligent and independent political views have made him the master mind of the great liberal movement In Eng land. Possessing characteristics equally solid, expansive and comprehensive, be infasee Into the minds of his friends the liveliest enthusiasm for ths liberal cause and at the same time chal lenges ths admiration of his opponents. In all that relatee to commerce, to the manufacturing interests or to ths political economy of his oonntry, Mr. Bright stands in a most oonspies oas light And now, after winning aa envia ble distinction on English soil ss ths great liberal leader and practical states man, be goee to Ireland to |irs a sensible direction to tbe liberal cause there. This is what Irelaad has loag aeeded. However afneere tbe friends of (rto Ubertr may have been and are now, it cannot be denied that many of their plan* for securing reform and liberation hare been wild, imprac ticable and dangerous. Plausible schemes have lacked cohesion, organization and proper management. Mr. Bright will no doubt put the liberals in Ireland in such a state of organization as to do away with the Fenian associations altogether and at the same time accomplish many oi the reforms which the Fenians are en deavoring unsuccessfully to attain. There will be no longer any necessity for head centres, forced loans, willing contributions, midnight drills or Canadian raids. With a man so pure and high minded as John Bright as the leader of the English and Irish liberals the Fenian organization will become useless. The move ment of Mr. Bright will entirely absorb it These united liberals will constitute a formida ble barrier to the encroachments of the Eng lish crown and pave the way for a general emancipation of the masses from the thraldom of the English aristocracy. But we do not think this democratic movement of Mr. Bright will be confined to the British kingdom alone. It may be destined to spread through France, Germany and Italy, and involve entire Europe in its effects. The people of France are any thing but quiescent, notwithstanding the extra ordinary efforts of the Emperor to pacify, employ and amuse them. And if Mr. Bright should succeed in firing up the Irish heart to the work of uniting upon some reasonable, tangible and attainable method of reform which the Irish nation so sadly needs, he may next undertake the labor of a liberal mission ary among Napoleon's ouvriers, and extend his journey through Germany and Italy with benefit to the progressive and restless spirits in those countries. At all events this Dublin banquet, tendered by so influential and power ful a class of persons to the sagacious English liberal leader, will be hailed as an omen that the spirit of the European demooracy and re sistance to the encroachments of European aristocracy are not flagging, but are on a wider, more enlightened and more comprehensive career than ever. Complication of Adair* In Europe. Although the news bj mail from Europe which we published yesterday has been an ticipated to some extent by the cable tele grams, there is much that is strikingly interest ing not noticcd before. We may notice espe cially the address of the Duke de Persigny at Montbrison at the inauguration of the Diana Hnll at that plaoe. The occasion did not seem to warrant any such elaborate and profound views of governmonts and governmental policy as he uttered. Indeed they were, to use a common cxprewion, ferfetcbed. But the Duke de Persigny followed tile example o/his mas ter, the Emperor Napoleon, and, we may say, the example of many public men of other countries at the present day, In taking advan tage of any public opportunity, however In significant, to make a sort of oracular declara tion on public affairs. The Duke was inspired probably by hints from Napoleon. The substance of this truly Napoleonic ad dress" a pica for absolutism. In true French and Napoleon theoretic style he speaks of the program of Ideas, of the elevation of the masses of the " development of practical lib erty, of ? the reign of a mighty democracy just begmning/'of the ? banquet of civiliza tion when the "popular masses so long disin herited demand their share in government. He says, m enthusiastic style, that the people ?re cry.ng out ? in their mighty aspirations to the sovereign of their choice (Napoleon), 'King of the people, onward !' ? This sort of bifalutln talk may suit the excitable and mercurial Frenchmen, bnt in our practical common sense way of viewing things we naturally ask, What does It all amount to! What Is there in it? Words, words, mere theories; and nothing but words and theories. That 1s all there is in it K .?^ LP,lrU ?f tha ?ddw" " discover what the Dnke Is aiming at " True liberty " he say,, "cannot exist without authority?_that ?, imperial or kingly authority? ? that the t dut7 of a prince is to secure public order " and that this is to be maintained "by the sword which God or the nation gives him as is own. and ? that to desire to tear it from 0Wn# ?f ,,ber* U ? "iffn that the liberty thus invoked is but a lie." In illustration of this doctrine he mentions the case of the Ring of Prussia following his own will rather than that of the legislature or people "The deputies of Prussia," he said, who in their inexperience believed that they were augmenting their new liberty by dimin ishing the privilege of the crown were certainlv animated by honest intentions. But what would have occurred but for the re MlutloD ol the King? Afl.r h,,i?g db.rm,d Prince lh*7 would themselves have been exposed, without defence, to those violent spirits who are always ready to (alsily the con ditlons of liberty and to exaggerate ils conse quences." Without going into the question of how far Prussia has or has not been benefited In tbe late extraordinary crisis she has passed through by the Ring's assumption of authority we must say that we have rarely seen so' thorough and such an ingenions plea for ab solutism as this of the Duke de Persigny. Now, what does all this French theory and these idfra Napol/ennu amount to? It is neither more nor less than an effort to recon cile two principles of government that are utterly irreconcilable? tbe imperial and the democratic. Great stress is laid upon the idea of universal suffrage, of giving the whole mass of the people what is railed a voice in tbe gov ernment. But we have seen in France how universal suffrage may exist without liberty and under tbe most deepotio government. In fact, under such a government as that of Napo leon this pretended universal suffrage is a farce. Persigny, Napoleon and all the rest of the men ?t the head of affltirs in France are mere ?ctors, declaiming pretty theories' to a people who are teo apt to swallow them as established prineiples. But taking in view the principles at work throughout Europe, as well as la France, we think we see a state of thinga In the fature that will npeet all these fine theories. All tbe lives of Cmar that Napoleon or his friends may write, and all the ingenions speeches of such men aa the Dnke de Persigny canaot arrest the progress of common sense ideas on tbe subject ?f government. Tbe Emperor, or possibly his successor, may for a short time obscure the truth; but in tbe end the principles of tree de mocracy, of the republican democracy or America, most prevail. These principles, in reality , are now operating in Ik rope in Croa tia* aa undersell of nooalat seatimeai tl??t the royalist theorists will not long be able to resist The war may be closed for a time, the war of dynasties or nationalities may have ceased for the present, but another and greater war is coming ? a war of principles? a war for trne liberty. This fact is not lost sight of by the press of Europe, for we see some of the journals there are anxiously speculating on the future influenoe of the United States in the world. They begin to advise a combination of the European monarchical Powers to resist this inevitable influence. On the whole, we con clude that whilo there may be a lull In the war fevor of the Old World, and an anxious effort made to prevent a renewal of the war, the ideas of true democratic liberty which are fermenting must break out again in a new form before long. Bin Butler and Wknwbll Phillips fob Con oress. ? A country paper has nominated Ben Butler for the Presidency, probably by way of a joke; but both Butler and Wendell Phillips have been seriously nominated for Congress by the radicals of Massachusetts. Butler may get into Congress, but he will never get the Presi dency while his name is Bethel Fisher. As for Wendell Phillips, he ought to go to Congress, for he is a good orator and would soon find his level there. He has been rampaging about the country alone altogether too long, and we want to locate him somewhere. If he will come out in favor of the constitutional amendment we will present his claims, Buch as they are, to the people. HEAVY 8T0KMS IN THE WEST. The Freshet In Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Sept, 10, 1806, The damage of the great flood of yesterday is heavier than at first supposed. It will not fall much short of $300,000. Railroad communication is almost entirely broken. The bridge over Pleasant Run, about a mile from this city, on the JofTcrsonville railroad, has been washed away. A man named Wlshmire, who was on the bridge at the time, was drowned. Henry G. Collls, and a man named Jason, were drowned In the city. The Flood In Cincinnati and Vicinity? Ureat Deat ruction of Property? IiOm of iilfe, dir. Cincinnati, Sept. 19, ISM. It has rained Incessantly since six o'clock last ovoning. Considerable damage has been done to property iu Cen tral and Southern Ohio. The bridges on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati, the Chicago, Air Line, and tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, have bean washod away. The Little Miami, and Ohio and Mississippi, and Ma rietta and Cincinnati roads have sustained no damage, and trains are running regularly. Cincinnati, Sept. 19? Evening. The great storm continue!), and roports from the rail roads and the crops are disheartening. There ts no railroad communication from thin city to Dayton, In dianapolis or Chicago, all the roads having bridges gone. The Indianapolis road is the worst damaged, and canuot be repairofl for several days. 7* .ryrry? Accounts from Dsyics feflreSMu the flood there as the most remarkable ever known for the season. That city is completely isolated by the freshet, no trains beiug able to get In or out in any direction. The track of the Dayton and Michigan road is swept away iu several 8 laces. A bridge on the Dayton and Wentern road, near few Paris, is gone; also five bridges on the Indiana Cen tral, between Columbus and Plqua. The Atlantic and Oreat Western road has several ex tensive slides, and the Dayton and Sandusky U sub merged In many places for hundreds of yards. The town of McPhersonville, opposite Dayton, was tan feet under water this morning. The streams between Lewisburg and Urban* are higher than ever known bifore. The torn crop in the bottom* baa fufT red terribly. Thousands of acres are six or sight feet under water. The Whitewater and Miami rivers have been higher to-day than ever known. The train from Indianapolis was expected here to-night, having made several traus fern, but a fresh slide has occurred on this end, near th e Whitewater river. Despatches from Coiambns to-night say the Scioto is unprecedentedly high, having riseu twelve feet since last evening. The whole valley oppoute Columbus is overflowed, and the National road is washed away in plaoes. The river at Are P. M. stood four inches higher than during the great freshet of 184T. Manv families have been driven from their homes. No trains are run ning on the Columbus and Indianapolis road. The bridge across the Miami river at Plqua has be-n swspt off, drowning three men, and killing a fourth by crushing nlm. Trains on the Pittsburg, Columbus aad Cincinnati road are detained by damage to the trestle work at Newark. Two men were drowned yesterday by the freshet at Cambridge City. The damage to property can be estimated by millions. Tho Freshet In Indiana. Indian a pous, Sept. 19, 1W. The damage done by the freshet is this city will amount to three or four hundred thousand dollars. The damage to the railroads is very great. Communication on ths Columbus sad Iadisnapolis and the Cincinnati and Indianapolis roads is still suspended. Ths first train aince the storm on the Louisville road went out to-night Hettrr Bain at (.oaiarllle. Lotovills, Sept. 19, llMS We were visited last night with the heaviest tain storm that we have had for many yearn POPULAR IDEAS Indian Car a. A correspondent complains that tbe great American staple, Indian corn, Um uover been appreciated in foreign oouatrlM, and aays that even during the famine tn Inland it was with th? greatest difficulty the poor starving people of that country could ba induced to eat II. Our correapoadent suggests that wa should endeavor to make ibis Important article more generally known, and bints at the propriety of sanding it next year to the Parte exhibition, made into all the style* of American food, such as bread, griddle cakes, boiled and fried hominy, pnddinga, Ac. If the article cannot be tntnv doced Into the exhibition In Its cooked state, be pro poses that the restaurants in the neighborhood be supplied with It ao that people could get It to eat. Medal Tenement House*. "A friend of tba poor" calls the attention of wealthy and philanthropic citliens to the feasibility of forming a company for the purpose of building model lodging housee for the poor, and thinks that the scheme would pay a legal per cent age. The benefits that would accrue from such an undertaking, we are told, would be radons and manifold aa a protection against epidemics, the Im provement socially and morally of this class of people, and the fostering of labor. Ac. Mbt|i Railway Arrea* Itarlea. "A Subscriber" tells us tbat a plan has bean protected for a ship railway acroaa the Isthmus of Darien, which is at once the moat stupendous and yet feasible under' taking that the genius of man arar conreired. We are not told wbal the plaa la, however, but simply that It ran be constructed in one-fourth of the time and at a muoli lower coat than tba canal proposed some years ago Treatment af Meldler* In Ike Kaaalar Araar. A soldier writing from Fort Larned, Kansaa. complaina of the shameful manner in which the privates In the ranks of the regular army are treated by their oflcera, and says tbat tha men are not treated aa kindly as alavee were before tba war. Bealdea this, they are poorly fed and worked very bard, and many spend all their pay to get enough to enl. As a natural consequence of auch treatment ba says tba man are growing tired of the ser vice, and many good soldiers arow their intentloa of tearing If aShlrs are not mora properly managed. Oasgersse Tkereagkfsre. "OlUtan" calls the attention of the authorities to ths great danger attending pedeatrians along tha sidewalks in front of tha new bulldinga now being erected In Broadway. Parsons riding in omnibuses rua an equal risk from the precarious condition of tha plies of bricks, and it frequently bsppena that the stages ro<ne in con tact with theee mounds and tumble them about thoie in the Immediate vicinity in a vary daagamus manner WW TOM CmftHIOtUL NOMINA TlflKS. Twentv ?fo"bllc?n Conrasswnai *(?m??i'ion ' f^th a .-war a. . ? ?K * u,. Olapp waa nominated for Coagrsos from this dtstrlet TheMawibliean Union a?ventioa*^fthe,TwiJ'J''J^| K ?ait9 to in. ??m,a?i?j * ?wZSXe^rL^ ??*"U r*t"?s^t^r, (h# NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. SPESIAl TELEGRAM TO 'THE NEW VOM HERALD. General Bnlrd'a Report on the IaIii Rio* 4'rratlntf Much KxeUement? Keeliic of eh* People of tho Soitk-Tke Brrnhtm Riot, &?? N?w Oklxanb, Sept. 10, IMS. General Baird's report has created much excitement here. The Timet clearly expose* sever*! or General Baird'e misstatements. The Mayor's secretary is out im a letter detailing the Mayor's conversation with General Balrd, and showing that the Chief Magistrate was earu-^ est in his desire to avoid riot and bloodshed. I have recently travelled over Vlrgluia, Tennessee, Ahu baraa, Mississippi and Louisiana, and everywhere ob served peace and quiet. Wherever I have been ?*? officers and Northern abolitionists are treated oourJ teously, and In all those States they are as fully protected as If they were in Massachusetts. I failed to find any bitterness towards the government oe Northern people . Ex Confederate soldiers are m unit for restoration and friendly intercourse with tho! North. The only violent denunciation of Yankees i?> from the cowards who remained in tho rear. There are,' however, In this city a class or enemies who, in th? theatres, hiss when national airs are played. None of the respectable citizens encourage these demonstrations. The South accept the results or the war in good faith, but will never consent to the voting of negrojd If their voice will be heard. Brevet Colonel Mason, of the Seventeenth Infantryw has investigated the Brenliaa riots. He doubts whothel United States soldiors broke up the negro ball, inl thinks the two Boldlers were afterwards wounded with* out provocation, and he declares that the subsequent burning of stores was done by men In the undress uni-j form of the United States, but cannot say positively they were soldiers. Captain Smith, of the Seventeenth infantry, the commanding officer there, and four soldier* charged with burning, refuse to surrender to the pro cess. The Galveston Civilian of the 15tb, Just received, says U is said that a committee of the legislature Is to bo sent to investigate the circumstances of the burning of Brenham by the United States soldiers. A military committee Is already engaged In a similar in. vestlgatlon. In the meantime a gentleman rrom Bren. ham informs the Telegraph that the citizens generally ars armed and keep out a guard of fifty moo, who prevent the entrance into the town or any of the soldiery, white the latter are in camp a little distance rrom the town, fnrted up and engaged in digging rifle pits. The loss resulting from the conflagration is estimated at $153,700, divided among some thirty citizens. The statement telegraphed to the Tribune of the mur der of six negro soldiers at Jefferson. Texas, is denied by General Sheridan. It ts a radical falsohooU, telegraphed for effect upon Northern elections. CITY INTELLIGENCE. A Nkw Citt Railroad. ? A cUartor was granted hut winter to the Dry Dock and East U roadway line, and signed by Governor Kenton in May, Tor the laying el another cross-town railroad. It runs from Grand street ferry to Varick street, down Varick street to Canal street, along Canal street to Deabrosses street and thonoo to North river. Little more than half the track has been laid and the work is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. In the course or a week cars will run to Broadway, and about the first of next month through the entire line. There is some delay caused by thai* being a lack of cars. The fare will be 6 c. This com< pany now run throe different lines, vie. ' The Dry Dock and East Broadway, the Aveuue B end Thirty-fourth and Grand street and t'ortlandt street lines, this new one making the fourth. The company have no conneo> tion whatever with the Belt line. New York Abumut Room.? General Forrero Is fitting up a large building on Broadway, between Tweutyeiglith and Twenty-ninth streets, to be used for oalls, concerts, fairs and lectures. Since the destruction of the Ultp Assembly Rooms in the early (>-\rt of last spring there has been no establishment of tVe lclnd in the city. The ball or lecture room will be on the second floor. It will |u Jwi(f wnmoti dp wan much Uats. Wtfper; droning and Waiting rooms are }o be on the same floor By this arrangement the Inconvenience of having to travel several blocks in search of a supper will be avoided. It is expected that tho establishment will be thrown open to the public about the middle of next month, and will, no doubt, be very extensively patron <<:ed duriug ths coming season. \ Fcltox Strkxt (Nio* Dajlv Pkati* M son wo ? After nine consecutive years of daily meetlugs th? above iustl-J tution still continues, without the least abatement oi luterest to the religious world, and will hold tts ninth, anniversary on Monday, the 24th instant, at twelve o'clock, at the North Dutch church, corner of Fulton and William streets, in which numerous clergymen al ibis city and from other cities aud State* will take part. A Simoasxiox to tub Sraerr Railway Companibs ? Fires are every day oocurrng which necessitate the lay lag of hose In the public thorough fares. By thta means where the hose runs across the tracks of our street rallsrays the cars are obliged to stop, thus caus?> Ing detention and great inconvenience among the pa*-, seugern It is suggested that on every tilth or t -nth car a portable bridge be placed, having a track upon It, and so carved that it may be laid upon the track so that tg will protect the hose and at the same time afford a pa*< sage for the cars. By this means, at the outlay of * very email satu of money, all that trouble which arise* so frequently when street cars are thus delayed night be obviated, at a having of much tine, and consequently ol money. 'LosasaonntaK's Boonrrr? A meeting of the 'I.oag shore and Lumbermen's Protective Association waa hoi 4 last evening at No. 103 Bowery. The business of thf meeting was ohieAy the initiation of new mentor* and the collection of Ones and dues. DtsooviRT or Hen an Bo**s. ? As eoms workmen wero recently engaged la reasovtng rubbish and digging foun dations for the erection of n wall in the rear of No. M Reade street thoy unearthed a skull and sonant other bones of a full grown human being. This locality having been formerly the sit* of some bo. is* of ill fame the discovery led to no small amount of excite ment and specnlstion. WimnSAWAt or a Fsaavaoar roa Raman.? Tha steamer General Hedgwlck haa been withdrawn from the Pesksktll rout* tor the present, in order to increane her accommodation* aud add to the comfort of the travelling public. THE FENIANS. Ksthsslsstlc Meetlsg is Trs;-H|werh el IJes*? ml Uleews-He Ktherts tho Cellertlea mi Armm and Asssissltl**, ss that the War may Commence thin Year, dr, Trot, N. Y , Sept IB, ISM. There wa* a large and eathnslaattr gathering of K-*'nn* at Harmony Ball in this oily to-night, to i"**4 Osneml Uleeeen and staff, who were present bv -pocinl Invitation from tho leading members of tho <vrt*nl*ation hen aad In the immediate vicinity. **? "as elegantlv dec** rated with festoons of t?r?f? and evergreens, tastefully interspersed with mo?*>es. On the way from (he hotel to the hall load cheers were given tor Jam** Stephen* and Genera: Oloexon. Tho arrival of the party was the 1 1 goal for the moat vocttor ooa cheering, clapping of bands and stamping of feet. UeueraJ Gloeson escended the platform immediately afles entering and spoke at considerable length on the present c Midi tion of the Fenian Brotherhood In Ireland. Ha ?aid it was abaolutely impossible that an organisation essentially of a military character, which had beon la progress tor so many years, could now fall to the ground because it had recently suffered from reversal. On tha contrary, it had rocelved new vitality, and would flourish until ihe independence of Ireland was gained on Irish soil. The General concluded by calling upon all present to exercise their best exertions in collecting arms and ammunition to place in the hands of the Army of the L R , no that nothing might Interfere to preveut th? war from commencing this year several members of the Roberts party were present, and appeared to take a deep interest in the remarks of i. en' rat Gleeson It was hinted that a certain Senatotf had Intimated his inteotlon of forsaking Roberts and going over to Stephana. Abontthe Invasion of! aanda Vnlno of Amort* roa flftaeaehlp Abroad -The Pirate Meat IHoaday, A*. At preaant there is considerable aicitement among tha Fenian circles of thi* city in relation to the next more meat on Canada Recant information from over tha border loads to the supposition that It will reanlt In a die* astrou* failure. Numerous suspected Fenians hare ar rived bars who state that If Canada Is again Invaded, and the movement ehontd promise to be successful, the Canadians otmld immediately aaek to bo aaneted to the United States. In that contingency the Fenian In vader* would dad themselves In a dilemma, and ha obliged to desist from all waiiiks operations, or atoe oon t-nd with the whole power of tha Catted Mates govern meat. Sir h would b* the fats of the movement, even If ad Urst successful. That probabilities however vary doubtfni. la a few weeks from ths present time there will b* nearly twenty thousand ragnlar troops In Canada. 1st addition to these there is a large fores of voluntas!*, and the government officials an thoroughly aroused to thw neceseitv of maintaining a strict guard along the frontier until the inclemencies or a Canadian winter preclude al| possibility of an Invasion Such are the v.esvs enter-* tamed by the moat Intelligent of the Fenians who hav% recently arrived from Canada AMani< am cmesjionr asaoan During th > next few weeks there will be many effort* made to have naturalised American ciussnm secured in all their rights. The feet tttaa 'he American government is elthsr powerless1 or unwilling to pro; net IU adopted citlsens whsa oetaid?L the limits of ths t ailed fttste* will be impressed on th* minds of the people, end ell legitimate means sre to ha used tor the purpoee o' having radical alterations mad* in this rsspect , tws a i user sum ncmc, f On Monday neit there will be a fna* Fenian ptonld at .tones Wood, under the snstd.de of the ?sfrh**| branch of ths organisation, ft is stpectei that t M attoadanna will Im unusually tyt? end many prominent reoiane noiuding the 0 t? I R , win b* nrensnt *n< mK"wsthe nesm -*