The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-24

'he confederafes OF treacherous Cassidy, VINO ea
beavers to throw the responsibility of its publ
cation on othera. False to his own engagements,
the Confidence man Of the Albany Regency re-
sorts to every arti6ce to divert attention from
himself ard the slaughter house, and fasten it,
upon other men. One of the drunken vaga-
bond New York letter writers who food
the country papers with their unmitgated
trash appears TO be the tool of the
butcher hoy. bought for less than the
price OF calf and writes the silly ep'stle
to Virginia paper which we inserted yesterday
AS specimen of that class of compositions
which Only require to be published In New
York to show their falsehood and absurdity. OF
these loaing letter writer's who hail from New
York, but have no residence unless that they
eleep for the most part in the station houses,
there are about a dozen in ALL and every story
they pick up about the low groggeries, or the
purlieus OF Tammany Hall, or any other disre-
putabe den, is grist for their mill; and no mat
ter bow lying, how utterly improbable on its
very face it is cent az news to the country papers,
and swallowed as gospel by their enlightened
readers. Wherever New Yorker happens to
bgnt on any of these letters he enjoys laugh
at the expense Of the paper which gives place
to such stupid fabrications, invented either by
the Ignorant writer, or by some politician who
wishes to set story af0at at distance which
he knows could not for moment gain credence
here. The shameless effrontery of these scribes
is only equalled by their mendacity, and one
half the time they are SO drunk that they know
DOT what they write, and perpetrate balderdash
on par with the famous "quadrilateral" article
of a city contemporary who discovered hume
rous elbows in the Mincio formed by the sympa,
,hies of youth"
Louis N apoleon's Knack OF rIindtng His Own
Busincss-A Lesa0n to the Statesmen Of Eu-
rope.
General Jackson once interrupted some sug-
gestions from Mr.. Livingston by suddenly ask
ing him if be ever heard of the man who made
his fortune by minding bis owe business This
is what Louis Napoleon shows that he possesses
in an eminent degree, aud also that Of not per.
hitting himself to be thwarted by lending him.
sell to the aims and purposes of others.
This he exhibited in the entente cordiale with
England, which redounded to his great advau-
tage and lasted as long as it could be of any
service to him. He showed it also in the Cri-
mean war, which he made to suit himself,
and which he stopped when his own pur.
poses were gained. But it has been more appa
rent than ever in the recent war in Italy, both in
its inception and 10 the peace of Viilatranca.
When be entered upon this war nearly every
Power hoped to derive great advantages from his
course of action. Sardinia was to become the
great Power of Italy; Prussia hoped to see
Austria shorn Of rich territories and much
power, and thus reduced in her German infu-
ence; England thought that collision between
the two great military Powers of the Continent
would leave her predominant in Western Europe
through their exhaustion; the revolutionists
thought that Louis Napoleon was to become
their tool, and contribute to the overthrow of the
Pope and King Bomba, the liberation of Italy
and Hungary, the revolution of Germany aud
finally Of the overthrow of Imperialism in France
ITSELF
But Louis Napoleon saw where his interests
and the interests Of France lay, and when he got
there he stopped. While still on his course the
selfish diplomatists and the puny statesmen of
other Powers lowered around him, poured in
situations through the telegraph into his ear,
and each tried to swerve him into the further
ance OF bis own puny designs. He listened to
all, nodded to all, and still minded his own
business, without troubling himself about
as statesman in Europe. There are 80 few
who do it that he stands out among them
in bold relief; and by the same rule
that holds good in private affairs, the advice of
'he man who seeks none in managing his own
business is sought by everybody else Thus he
has become the arbiter of Europe.
While the war in Italy ragged all feared that
it would extend and become general in Europe
and many laid plans for stopping it or combining
its course. Each tried to make the peace he
wished to bring about to serve his own in
terests and consequently, when the peace of Vii
lafraDca was made by Louis Napoleon himself
without any one knowing anything about it, aud
purely on account of its bearing ON France, all
were dissatisfied with it. Sardinia grumbled
because she had not got all she wanted. Prussia
is angry that Austria was not completely
BUNDLED, and is almost ready to go to war with
her for having made peace without her inter-
vention. The revolutionary elements are dis
satisfied because Louis Napoleon managed his
own business instead of theirs.
But the most ridiculous figure is cut by the
Coburgs in England, with their allies, the tories
and the semi-tories. The speech Of Lord
John Russell, which we published yester-
day, on the motion of Lord Elcho that
England should decline to 60 into a con-
gress to settle the details of the peace Of Villa
franca, shows this in the most perfect manner.
The British Minister of Foreign Affairs shows
what fools the Cabinet had made of themselves
by their propinquity to mind other peoples bust