New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-14
IEw-YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ID, 1866

American Asg hearing great deal of such talk would De
glad 10 enthusiastic French nterlocuors that the
best of the talk IS true dont-painfuy dent-get any
proof that tits rue Whereat arises or less surprised
expression Of friendly French regret. l can honestly
make the only possible general answers 1.-The mass OF
American liberals considerably behind the mass of
French liberals Let your correspondent say in passing
that mathematical proposition be truer than this
Just uttered. don't venture 10 say but distinctly do
saw without the slightest risk Of contradiction that the
best and best known French writing advocates of-not
merely our cause but of the great human cause i'm
piled and implicated in fight, are still tooth and nail
for us-on condition that we u.s. It's enough TO shake
the faith of an American in any political creed TO be
asked where is, and what means, and whittier dns the
creed Of has Government to-day
What farce "Comedie Humane says Balzac, d1ol-
lngly in the rsked play Of Dante and with that must
pretermit theatrical news TO q new letter.
II is raining; it rained yesterday and the day before
that and so backward with few intervening dry days,
through the month of August And so we afraid that,
whatever the quantity the quality OF the VINE crop tns
year viii be poor The grain harvest has now been tested D
thrashngfoor and MILL and estimated for all France 70
yield fifth less than full crop. The rayages OF the
gasshoppers will have reduced the expectation OF Wheat
from Algeria TO a small figure.
Mr. Barnums attention is respectfully directed to an al
yertsemen in the papers here announcing the sale at ac:
ton next October ofthe domain San Martina IN the lssnd
of Ulba the sometime residence Of Napoleon the FIRST
hefnure Of the villa and quite museum OF att anu
curosties all carefully preserved in the state he e
them 1914 To say nothing OF the eXorbtan Vaue OF
of the old shoes and cast of clothes LETT IN inc
closets the wood the place reduced to Wakhg-suchs
would alone more than pay the enterprsng purchaser.
Last week Tuesday there sale az the aucuonroohs
of clothes originally made for the C. 3 A. late deceased
its marine. The bidding not lively. The last days Oh
the Pomp ean Villa in the Avenue Montague are at hand
The builder Prince Napoleon, having grown tired oil that
expensive payhng, which, however mneh archaeological
critics may find fault with IT, sufficiently like the an
cien House OF Domed TO be uncomfortaby past habi
taton TO civilized moderns sold il last Spring 20 COM
pany who tined exploit IL cafe concert and otherwise,
without 1t has lately been sold again, and VIII
probably be torn down make for the ordinary ye-
story block unless it be kept little to be shown as
curiosity the multitude Of visitors whom all Pans are
expecting TO profit by next year.
Bookseller Dentu has bought the right OF publishing
inc Catalogue Of the Universal Exposition of 1867 Tor
500 900 francs.
Besides a new edition in vols Syo, Of Labouiaye 5
Historic des Etats Uais l620-lS0 the following are
worth noting among the new books Htore Generate de
Ia Vile de PARIS u is 10 be composed OF an extensive
collection of documents in all kinds edited by different
competent specialists which shall show the GROWTH ana
change Of the city through the past centuries The general
plan of il conceived by the Project Houssman and cordially
approved by the Emperor promises TO be executed-Eh
aid of the City Treasury-in style that viii make OF II
Of the striking monuments OF their combined regns
The Of the two volumes that have appeared IS Gen
era Historical Introdueon the second IT, ToPogrdPiqht
Hsfortgue du Viear PARIS, curious book of great anti
quaan research the labor Of 20 years by A. Berry IL
treats Of the Region do PieuE Louvre ct des IieHt,
TuHeries illustrated with ~ folio engrayings and IL
wood cuts To these added two large engraved plans
Of the old Louvre and the Tuileries
Theatrcas and Ell oeieralibus by next mail