The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1863, Page 6

6 NEW YURK HKKALD, THURSDAY, UUTOBER 29, 1863.—TRIP.E SHKKT. bao ‘agi in the West. Five hundred were killod in Cin- | the necessity of these combinations in order to cinnati on Saturday last, and one thousand oa | meet those of the enemy in eupport of Bragg. Monday. We expect, accordingly, an active campaign in The Chicago Zribune (radical abolition) takes'} the Southwest, from Bas Tennessee to the Mis- oe aaa the President on the Missouri | gissinpi river, involving numerous forays, skir- Smallpox has brokea out among the rebel pri- falehee and pdary bettieg, oven thong soners at Fort Delaware. There are now about should beao general enengenent for -monthe TERMS cash in advance, Mouey seat by mail will be | one hundred and fifty cases. to come between the main armies of Thomas In the Surrogate's Court yesterday an order | #24 Bragg. ai tho ris of the sender. Nooo but bank bills current tn seer Tork takia was made for the payment of a debt of $1,700 by In this connection the inealoulable services (HE DAILY HERALD, Tuase couts per copy. the executor of Robert Hog: TAK WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents phigh ar soe application for the compromise fighting cavalry corps of General Ploasanton Anonel eubeceiptios price wan pool ay ms ap rps tac ‘8 es- | suggest the advantages which would be gained 98:1 wens’ reonmaeain ices valet upen judg- | by large additions to the. cavalry of General - W baie ‘oxsceine py ae eee by's estate. | Grant’s forces throughout the vast section A site eriepatarsco Knapp’s estate was di- | under his supreme command. We believe that | Christe wi entory within four days. The |. column of twenty thousand cavalry and ty will was then resumed, and additional me- . dical testimony taken. It was finally adjourned to mounied, infantry, with, » ROMARE, bagi two of ‘the 9th of November. The Surrogate will take up light rifled artillery, could sweep with impuni- the contested will of Thomas Kelly to-day. ty around Bragg’s army from the Tennessee According to the City Inspector's report, there | Tiver to Atlanta and Charleston. Such an ex- were 438 deaths in the city during the past | pedition would need no encumbering wagon week—an increase of 17 as compared with the | traié over a route the cotton fields of which Previous week, a still further increase of 18] this. year have all been devoted to Indian corn; from the, mortality of the week preceding, and | and in cutting off Bragg’s supplies it would 98 more than occurred during the correspond: | jpevitably bring about the removal or dissolu- ing weck last year. The recapitulation table gives | 4; f 9 deaths of alcoholiom,'1 of diseases of the bones; | 107.9" is army. joints, &c.; 85 of the brain and nerves, 3 of the |. 2¢ discovery was made when it was too late generative organs, 17 of the heart and bloed ves- | *batihad General Stoneman, on his great cav- sels, 138 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 4 of old age, | “ty expedition of April-and: May last, been 13 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 7 | instructed to make a dash for Richmond, -he premature births, 89 of diseases of stomach, bow- { could have captured the city, which Lee had drained of its troops to enable him to cope NEW YORK HERALD. OPFIO’ N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. par copy. One Copy Three Copies. .... Five Copies. . Ton Copies... Postage av ‘ents per copy for three months, Volame XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDBN, Broadway.—Brokxe or Bogora. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad-vay.—Bosapaue. WINTER GARDEN. Brosdway.—Russtaw Apwinat— Pius Par—Me Nxicuson'e Wire, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Po.ca-non-tas—My Presenvean. NEW Ds PouKn—8i WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Kuxxetn—Norta 1 ano Baown. ROW ERY THBATRE. Bowery.—Cuaruxo Rusy—Macic Baragr—Wanowaing Mansreus., BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway. Fiannes, Giant Boy, Pytnon, & v1—Vine Deessriy OF Tae Moving Wax |. MARIET- noon sud Kvening. els and other digestive organs: 41 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 10 of diseases of the urinary | with General Hooker on the Rappabannock. organs, and 21 from violent causes. There were | This fact should not be forgotten at Washing- 260 natives of the United States, 111 of Ireland, ton, nor the grand Mississippi raid of Grierson, 4 oF nD i of ray eye 4 of Scotland, | ang its important results in reference to Vicks- and the balance of various foreign countries, The money market continued ‘aie active ets Sure pue Bare Hadagn.... Weave coached te seven per ‘or call loans, Gold was slightly higher; | Stage of the war, we have advanced so far into but not so much was done as usual, It closed at 146%. | the enemy’s country, that a powerful column of Ju the stock market the demand was yery active, and at | mounted men, infantry and cavalry, from each te close prices of everything wore higher. or either of our two principal armies, may speedily bring the war to an end. MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. VLAN SONGS, Dances, BURLESQUES, &¢.—MILES Banauer. WOOD's MINSTREL HALL, SI Broadway.—Eriiortan fonos, DancKs &e.—Paxonass or wax Nota Riven. GUO. CURISTY'S MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway.—Bus. Jesques, Boras, Danchs, &C.-Rvsst4n ADMIRAL. AMERICAN THEATRE, Pantominrs, BUWLEsQUES. 0. 444 Broailway.—Batners, —Mouk BuUNDERS THAN One, Trad 8 dull yesterday. Flour was irregwiar, with @ toleralile business. Wheat was lower, under heavy re ceipis, while corn, which comes forward slowly, was ra. ther firmer. Provisions rally met with a pretty geod demand. Pork advanced 12!zc. a 25c., while beef ruled steady, and lard was a little off. In foreign com modities, with some fow exceptions, not muct: was done. NPY YORK TINBATRE, 486 Lroadway.—Beice or Ma prise S¥ocuipe, Washington Strategy, Every embarrassment of our national armies canbe traced directly to Washington city. Every failure of our armies to do what the Stocks of many kinds of goods are becoming reduced, | country expects them todo; every one of the Bay ata new ae — to tes repleuished, owing to | many “stale, flat and unprofitable conclusions” he bigh rates of gold and exchange. Th teh sc i i serve worth mentioning, in bond, cornit tak crsel os fo, etch campeleme ot, ie! EOEE Tes ee ke former times, aud specu'ators do not find it wo ditticeit, | BAVE been brought, can be traced to the same source. with an easy market, to controt prices. Both exports and imports are at present quite light, though the latter In the season now practically past, the coun- continue to be in excess of the former. It does seem | try has seen war om @ magnificent scale and in that, with our immense surplusage of provisions and | 9 yerieg of immense operations; and three times breadstuffs, we micht, in thése insurrectiouary times, i ‘ rence. One of our correspondents was shot at on | manage to make one hand wash the other, so far as the out of four these great operations have either ended in failure to us or have been without Tuesday evening by guerillas in one of these bee balacatey Laaraied ‘The depression of » the bed te. ouring: simple to7thertuneste a i - reight market is one of the most notable features in | any gi result, owing simply iaterter- skirmishes, and his horse was killed. The rebels | commercial circles, and what ia to be done with the im. ence of the Washington strategists. In the great do not appear in any strength on this side of the | menso surplus tonnage in port acems to be a problem Mississippi campaign we had a glorious suc- Rappahanuock. Yesterday things were perfectly cess, In the central or Chattanooga campaign not readily solved. anes we had a bitter failure. In the summer cam- paign, oa the Potomac, the hard-earned victory of Gettysburg was made barren by Lee's es- eape, and in the faiture of the, Army of the Potomac to give battle to General Lee on hia recent advaace .we have a-national disgrace. Throughout the whole land there’ is hardly a schoolboy who does not now know that for our success on the Mississippi we ave indebted to General Grant’, refusal to per- mit the Washington interference with his plans. No fact of the war is better known ‘than this; for the President has taken particular pains to tell it. And with this fact in relation to that success, and another fact fa relation to the three failures that we have associated with it, we might enunciate the vital law of our great struggle, that we shall always have success where the Washington authorities cannot inter- fere, and failure where they can. For to that interference that General Grant would not sub- mit to, and which has been the bane of every army but his, we are indebted for every one of our last three failures. Lee was not annibi- lated on the Potomac because General Meade was erdered not to give the final blow. Lee escaped, not because our army was not able and ready to destroy his, not because General Meade hesitated to strike, but because he was ordered not to do so. If General Meade was fearful upon any one point, it was lest Lee should get away. But ‘rom Washington, where they never have any doubts, he received most positive assurance that Lee could net cross the river, and the farther instruction to wait until every man of his reinforcements cameup. He waited, and Lee slipped through his fiagers. General Rosecrans was positively ofdered to make the advance that brought on the battle of Chickamauga, though the organs of the War Department attempt lamely to deny it; and re- cently, in Virginia, General Meade was ordered not to fight Lee on the Rapidan or the Rappa- hannock, but to withdraw to Centreville. And all of these failures the country may trace to the War Department, and more par- IRVING WALL, Irving. place —Gorrsomarx’s Concern, OPERA HOUSE, . Bunrxsques, &o TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 29, 1863. LiOOLRY! Boas, Da Brookiyn.—Etnioriax THE SITUATION. No fighting has occurred in the Army of the Po- tomac, if we except the occasional skirmishes along the front which are of almost hourly occur- The War in the Southwest—A Fine Oven- ing for Amothcr Grierson or Stencinan Expedition. While the opinion prevails on both sides that the two hostile armies in Virginia will go into winter quarters without any further active cam- paigning of any consequence, we judge from the recent lively operations in the Southwest that still greater events are impending in that quarter, notwithstanding the near approach of the winter season. We think, it altogether moat significantly and numb gere alluded to, ie pcerrybed oe ptt oe hate ott and the presupposed coalition between the two | cavements, equivalent in their general results magoates, Alexander and Abraham, is delicately | to a great battle, will come off in Tennessee and and humourously touched upon. Southwestern Virginia, er along the northern The orders of Generals Grant and Thomas | border of Georgia and Alabama. their respective commands, As we understand it, the important’ field of the first of the Military Department of the a beroere ppp jecohi cig Grant vanreoet Ph ie States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Missasig nt, Set: eee ee oe Alabama and Miasissipyi, including also aes Cumberland, together with the farewell order of r. C2 : portions of, Virginia and North Carolina General Rosecrans, will be found in another | which hinge upon East Tennessee. The pivot column. ‘hat of the latter is full of kindly senti- upon which all the military operations over ment for the army he has left, of honest com- | this extensive area must pow turn is meadation of the character of his successor, | the army of General Thomas at Chattanooga. General Thomas, and of unqualified patriotism and | It occupies the heart of the enemy’s country—a devotion to the country. position which the rebels confess is of greater Despatches from Leavenworth, Kansas, say that importance ‘to their equine, 488 bested stands, the rebels were threatening Forts Blunt and Smith, met gigs ore poner ba ‘ies on nessee, we hold the wheat, sheep and cattle producing districts, and the saltpetre caves and sult works upon which the army of Bragg and By the United States transport America, from Hilton Head, we have news from Charleston to the 22d inst., at which time everything was quict thore. Tho extracts from the Southern journals, which we give to-Jay, will be read with more than or- dinary intereat. The views entertained of the visit of the Russian fleet, and Mrs, Lincoln's toast to the Cvar on board the Muscovite flagship are upon assuming and that a battle in that vicinity is imminent. A despatch from Chattanooga, dated on Satur- day, contains the important news that the actions of the rebels would seem to show that Bragg is } the people of Georgia and the neighboring ‘moving in large force upon Cleveland, Tennessee, | States are, toa great extent, depending for their with the purpose of breaking through our lines in | Winter supplies of food, clothing, salt and gun- It was generally believed that this kok The maton byte Art serra 2 : - +, | that if our army be not speedily dis! rom movement is co-operated in by a portion of Lee's Chattanooga’ and driven’ back kt -lesit to (Max freesboro, it will be aptto hold its present position till ready to descend again into the plains of Georgia; that, in a word, our occupa- tion of Chattanooga during the winter will be followed by a more terrible blow in the spring to the “confederacy” than that of Fort Donel- The steamship Roanoke, Captain Drew, from | son, New Orleans or Vicksburg. ticularly to General Halleck. For it is but Havana on the 21st inst., arrived at this port yes- Hence the urgent necessity to Jeff. Davis to just to give to the radical character of Mr. terday. She brings intelligence of another attack | break through the tightening and suffocating Secretary Stanton full credit for its particn- on Puerto Plata by the insurgents of St. Domingo, | coils of the anaconda at Chattanooga. Hence lar virtue in pugnacity—Mr. Stanton desires ry bio Nae suburbs of the town were fired and | the desperate efforts of Bragg to cut off Gen. that our armies should fight. Whether the setts cen Thomas from his base of supplies and to cut A nuamber of indictments for crimes of ordinary | ‘© #ank him and the supporting army of Gene- | gent: and for the failure to annihilate Lee on importance, and were then discharged. The Court | Tl Burnside on the east. In all these attempts | the Potomac, or to fight him on the Rapidan, then adjourned for the term. the rebels, though partially successful in the | Genera] Halleck, and not Mr. Stanton, is respon- The French have begun to utilize the Suez route, | outset, have been completely repuleed—on the | i416 Through this Washington strategy six if not the canal, as fifteen hundred men are to be | west, across the Tennessee river, and on the months have been lost, and we are at the com- wet vie ie Oe Ee east, entirely out of Bast Tennessee into Vir-| moncement of another winter. Are all of these The Te an taaa oo rrr » ane ginia. But still their nts apr pei Will | failures honestly the result of military blunders, rala in both Inion and rebel armies who have | oompel them to persevere in their efforts to re- fy "4 poten a resaegpertDints erat torent Parte saves Ckciieléces and the invaluable country aie” ° Es Cake pede wi a owe be piryplbveanncestivsrie srg! 5 angie end BN sappies OF Sent and Mieate Teaeeee aay be very grandly put down next year, just Se Union. Rebet, | Rebel deserters report the despatch of several | in time to make excellent,capital for the next Med vad died of wounds............29 a } divisions by Bragg eastward, as if for a flank | p,..igential election? Bist : dlenese movement Of aformidable character in that Dison aa: . direction; but we apprehend that this is a ruse Sertovs Cuaross AGainst THE GoveRnMENtT.— : —— ——| to cover the march of the bulk of Bragg’s army | One of the eepperhead journals of this city ' + Totm!.----+es eseees bed 5 | to the rear of Thomas on the Nashville Rail- | made the deliberate assertion last week that the road. In any event we have the fullest confi- | retreat of Meade and the re-election of Gov- that direction. forces from Virginia, moving down by way of Lynchburg and Bristol, with the intention of driv- ing Burnside from East Tennessee and turning the flank of this army, and thus, if possible, compelling dita retivement om Chattanooga. ? MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Three 1. undred and twenty-one thousand barrels d ten millions five } pelle op teat Prien roan received’ tig eee dence in the vigilance, skill and strength of | ernor Curtin were assignable to one and the Milwaukee, W ‘sconsin. ee Thomas, and in the general combinations of | same cause—viz, the reduction of Meade’s army Governor Bac, Kingham, of Connecticut, has call- | Gra®’ to the extent of twelve or ran thousand Penn- ed an extra sessio.0 of the Legislature, to meet at The late Rragk soon Corinth by the enemy, | sylvania troops, and the sending of those troops Hartford, on the 3! of November. The object is | which was ¥o handecuiely nh ve f Gey. Qg- } into their own State to vote for the republican to have some plan adopted by which the quota of | terhaus, had for ita object ah iahte. UPON the | candidate. To this charge against the adpoiaig- the State ander the President's last call for “ nv sgh Co- | tration we attach no credence. The *me pape communications of Gen. Thomas, altho. eh Pp - papet troope may be promptly fitied. rinth is over two handed aii eal of Glin. made a like positive state int recently that The anti-prohibitionists, or liquor dealers, of this aides. At the yee a the election in this {19% is to be influenced by State have tesa wm addeees-407 0s AMMA ca. tame,time the main object of Gen. Bben: and that Mende’ ‘Warning them to exercine great care in selecting Lee's late advance in Virginia was doubtless @ | like Niger 7 der th rtenigf isto BY candidates for their suffrages, and to vote for no | diversion in support of Bragg in Georgia. We | again dep.."¢d, eters fe ety Pte ‘mim whose affinities incline to any kind of fanati- | foresee, too, that the late advance upon and | may come home By ote For the, administration cin, The docament has the democratic stripe. | eapture of Canton, in Central Mississippi, by | candidates. If there b * any truth in these Governor Andrew Jounson, of Tennessee, is | General McPherson, was a movement in sup- | charges, there can be no ten of ecodeunetes Of opision that aa election can now be safely | port of General Thomas, although five hund ‘gement of the aod foiriy bold for members of the State Legista, | Por slog . r undred | employed te denounce the man. cong or for- ture. Until that is accomplished Tennessee can- | tree wipe soavsdanabhy eae safely conclude | War Department that will be toon. Sastiog gut be represented in ; a movements of our various army | cible. If they be entirely without fon. ash. A new paper mill, capable of manufacturing columns and detachments in Tennessee, Mis- | as we believe they are, no measure of fa two thousand pounds of paper per day, is being sissippi, Alabama and Georgia, under the su- | ment can be resorted to that will be too seven. erooted at Indianapolis. The high price of paper | Pteme direction of General Grant, are now and | towards those who would thus try to bring the hhas induced the erection of many new mills during | Will be in support of the main army at Chatta- government into contempt and odium. We the Inst year. nooga and its comprehensive designe. ' ‘Tho sonson for slaughtering hogs has commenced leave it to the administration to say, by its | plenty The battle of Chickamauga has developed | action, whether these charges are ‘rid oe al a cl can See a7 ee ee 7 pp, a stuenon ano Ammntoan [non-Cns.—During the reo.206 trial trip all of the French iron-clads were mors’ oF 188 damaged, and all but two proved to be failures. We have done much better than that wie: °UF Monitors, and next week we shat! Jaunch o!t famous Dictator, which will knock all the Europea iron-clade into old iron if it ever engages them in battle, France Angry at Esatam—The Freach journals are menacing England with the total loss of the alliance between the two govera- ments in case the latter abandons the former ia the Polish question. As this allianoe has long beea bat a name, we imagine that England will not be much affected by she threats@f ber neighbor. Musical. “TL MROVATORE” AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ‘An immense audience assembled at se Academy of Strange Devetopments. Genes! Rosecrans, in @ public speech at the Merchants’ Exchange fa Cincinnati, on the 2th inst. eaid that “if the forces recently went to Chattanooga had been ordered there bef'Te, a8 they ought to bave been, the backbone o the rebellion would ere this have been brekes.” General Rosecrans speaks very much to the purpose and very Plainly. Others have insisted upon the im- portance of the ample reinforcement of our army at the same place; but the observation of General Rosecrans bas its peculiar force from the intimate knowledge that he way be sup- posed to possess of the whole subject; yet we question very much whether the War Depart- ment and General Halleck witt nos consider that in the enunciation of thie fact General Rosecrans has committed a misdemeanor of a very serious nature. But, as the country should know, the hero of Corinth and Stone river is in this particular regard an old sioner. His speech at Cincinnati did not contaim his first reflection on that criminal waste of time by which the War Department bas made the war outlast the hope for peace. He has spoken be- fore this clearly and fearlessly in condemna.- tion of the paltry manner in which the war has been carried on; und in that fact may, per- haps, be found the real cause of his removal. He ‘was. removed, not for want of ability as a commander, not for delinquen- cy in the discharge of his duties, not because he did net have the confidence of the country aad of bis army, but because he could not see with admiration or even patience that pitifat political intrigues were of the first importance to the War Department, and that the salvation of the country and the prosecution of the war were matters ef secondary consideration. Gencral Roscerans in 1861 laid before the government a plan by which he could operate trom Western Virginia upon the rebel position at Manassas and flank it. Though practicable, it was not acted wpon. In the next year he pro- jected a plan for the capture of Lynchburg which would have given us possession of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. Generat McClellan and the Secretary of War both ap- | proved of this plan; but “the clamor of politicians , and the necessities ef military, rank compelled the administration te create the Mountain De- partment for the benefit ef other generals;” anc thus, “to please a political fuction. a prac- tiewt plan of operations which would have prowl of immense advantage to the federal amu was thrown aside, and the season frittered away in a campaign barren of results.” Had Geneval Rosecrans’ seeond plan been acted upon Stonewall Jackson's advance down the Shenan- doa Valley would never have taken place; Mc- Dowell would have formed a junction with General McCiellan, then in front of Richmond; Richmond must have fallen, and General Lee, instend of crushing Pope, and advancing into Marylaud, would haye-surreadered with Rich- mond: or have been competted to retreat through North Carotina, while that State would probably have risen against him at every step of the way. Now, to bave presented these plans to the War Department would, inasmuch as they were not acted upon, be a great crime in any mau; lout to present these plans and tell ot it also in a crime too great to be borne, and it should be expected tbat any geueral guilty of it must die.sf two or three secretaries of war and a military adviser could between them shuttle off his mortal o@il, General Rosecrans appears to have beom guilty of the greater crime. In the receatly published “Annals of the Army of the Cumbertand” there is » biography of General Rovecraos. in which these facts ap- pear, and we give im amother column some ex- tracts from it that bear on this point. Ifwe may judge from appearances, the facts were furnished by General Rosevraas, and the severe reflec- tions on the War Department which they im- ply, aod whieh weve thus assumed to emanate from that General, were more than the War Department could bear. General Rosecrans was removed immediately upon the publication of the book. Politics, Politicians and the Albany Lebby. ‘The canvaas in this city and throughout the State is being pushed with great vigor. An army of atump orators are travelling the State pouring forth a lot of nonsensical trash and billingsgate of just about as much im- portance as the harangues of a lot of fish- women against each other. The excitement, if there is any, is unquestionably at the bighest pitch of the canvass, whilat the wrangles of the politicians—their charges, counter charges and recriminations against each other--know no bounds. In this city the politicians are search- ing all the political cesspools, byways, old rubbish and refuse matter of the past for the purpose of proving this and that politician a rascal, thief, vagabond and everything else but what he ought to be. This is carried on to such an extent that were we to believe all that the politicians say of each other we should be competled to admit that our political affairs are managed by a regular set of State prison con- victs. But these personal attacks are made for some special object. The mere triumph of this or that faction, or the election to an office, would not prompt such a system of charges and bitter ;vituperation.. Nor would private pique or mere persoual animosity carry any person eo far. We are therefore compelled to look else- where for the cause. In doing so we are not forced to look far. For years past the fat pickings of the Albany lobby have been one of the great incentives to politicians. It never made any difference what faction of the repub- lican party or what faction of the democratic party was successful: the Albany lobby proe- pered the same. If the oxts, who are always splitting their throats in denunciation of their opponents for their operations in the lobby, happened to succeed, it simply plaeed another set of men in the lobby, and matters then'would run on as usual, only a little more recklessly, as it was Jast winter, when the radical repnbli- cans bad the Legislature for the first time. This. being their first chance, they improved the op- portunity with a vengeance, as their numerous attempts to biack mail candidates for United States Senator and private. lawyers to make terms for the cémmittee on which they were to put billsthrough clearly prove. These men who open out with such bitter animosity know very well what they will do in the Albany lobby if they succeed—how they witl squeeze the toll out of this or that city railroad, Gansevoort or other big job that may turn up, and at onee charge some other faction as being after the very same thing. The probable proits that may be received ou the passage of a certain railroad bill are counted up; otber jobs are figured over and added to this, until the sum is swollen. to such a respectable figure that they see at once that they will lose an immense sum unless they secure it forthwith. Here 14 the point where the bad blood is engendered. They imagine: that the money is within their grasp. Their only fear is that the leaders of another faction will get their hands on it first. Thea come these bitter vituperations. The facts found in the cesspools are brought forward and applied with great euergy. ‘The scene presented by this is worthy the atteation of au artist. The anxious politician has figured up his gnios if he can ouly be able to keep some other person ont. Whilst re- volving the amount over in bis mind he imagines that a personal euemy is making rapid strides for the same prise. The next thing we bear is the cry of thief, public prostitute, lobby king, debaucher of the Legislature and public plunderer. Why all these charges? Simply because each politician imagines some other 14 trying to get hold of his prize, Never did this description of affairs apply as truthfully as it does at the present time to politics in this city, and, in fact, we may say, to almost the eu- tire State. The public must well understand the excitement that hag existed for the lust nine months in regard to the contest over the Broadway Railroad; how stocks have jumped up and down; how Wall street, as well as political circles, has been excited. They will also bear in mind that the question is not settled yet, notwithstanding a late mysterious report of the decision of a judge in one of the river counties — a decision which, contrary to all custom, is kept from the public, and still remains almost a sealed book. There is. no use in disguising the affair. This question will form one of the most exciting topics of the next session of the Legislature. There will be added to the list of applicants two or three new parties. In fact, the politicians are nearly all trying to have a finger in the pie. Those who ase connected with one scheme are pouring hot.shot into thore connected with the other side. Soreheads are at this work really more than any one else. They are all alike, whatever they may profess. It does not make a farthing’s difference which set of politicians are, successful: the city rail- roads and other jobs will be placed upon the car- pet asthe prize to quarrel over. What are we to do, then? says a taxpayer. That, we ad- mit, is « hard question to answer. The present condition of the politics of the country is such that we see no other course but to select the best men nominated, or, to use the slang phrase of the politicians, go it blind. Experience, however, has taught us one thing, and that isto look out for those politi- cians who are constantly charging npon some one else lobby corruption, and boasting of their own virtue in that connection. The events of ‘the last three years have shown conclusively that this class does not stop with any moderate pickings, but jump in all over when they get an opportunity. We need no better proof of this than the action of the virtuous radicals ever since the war commenged, or the course of the same class at Albang Inet winter, when a lead- ing radical republican editor tried to buy of the Legislature she election of his favorite can- didate for the United States Senate. “I Trovatore.”” We have eo often noticed ¢his owf- d@aewere, and the public are 6o faminar witl Kaggoms, (6 is useless for us to dwell upon them at preseot, Go wit atate, Dowever, that the performanes was #groat euc- cess. Mme. Medort, as Leonora, was a@mirabie. Sho exegyad acted the role with all ber usual power and enrwtw, and was greatly applauded throughout teeevening. Stle was in fine voice, Milo. Sulzer, a3 Axuona, sang with offect. Sho soba the role conscientiousty, and though she necks the power it requires ebe was much applauded. Signor Mazzoleni, a8 Manrico, was.emuspally succca>~ ful. Hé waa encored often, and met frourthe commence ment of Lhe opera until its ead with the warmest apy plause. Bolliat was im good voice, and sang an@ected, very en tisfactority. On Friday, by general request, “Zona” wilt be given ab the Academy of Music. On Saturday there wall be a grand matinee, We would call the attention of the public em the fact (hat the period for swbseribing expires on Vrtdwy next. During the coming season of twelve nights we aro'te bave “Faust and “Lucrezia Borgia,” givoo with a the eclat of European opera houses , at & price infinitely emalt in comparison. ‘The publie will, we hope, liberatly pa- tronise Marstzele iv thie undertaking. To-night Miss Kellogg wit sing io ‘Martha’ at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Sho willbe assiated le this, one of her most succesoful roles, by Mie. Fulmer, Lottvand Biacht: f THE GOTTSCHARK CONCERT. ‘The fourth and:iaet of the'Gottschalk concerts wilfmke place at:Irving Hall to-night. Mies Lacy Simone will ting at this concert, which, judging frem the programme, wit ve oue of the most brilliant as pet giveu. “AIAWATHA'’ AT IRVING HALL. Mr. Robert Stoepot’s- symphony of * Hiawatha” wilt te performed at Irving Hall on: Tuesday evening next, wit tho aesistance of Mr. 8.0. Gampbel, the popular bark teno; Mr, Castle; a favorite: teuos, and the New Yor Singing Academy. Mrs. Matilda Meron will road the descriptive portious-of the poomm Lectures and: Hoadiags. Mr. Stephen Massett, tho author of “When the Moon ea the Lake is Reaming,’’ ‘She Love-Knot,” ‘You're all ther World to Ste," “I?ll Coolefor Thee, Mary, stake’ Back the: Riog,’” Tit Think-ot Theo,’ **@ur Good Ship Baile nds about one bundred aud Mity- two other beautiful and: popular ballads, is preparing @ serio comic. meto-dramatic: lecture, reading or recitation, with which he will shortly take the fet. tr. Massett's history is moat wondertul, He was born of rich tut, honest parents, in Eugland, and-bas sinee deco travetting ait over che world in search of bis forte. He thought he bad it wben be came across the pieneforte; but he wae mistaken. Now ne thinks it 18 lecturing, aad we thiak se wo. ‘The tile of his new envertainmost w “Driftiag About.” We hope tnat‘he will deift about with it eats ‘o-finds a fortune. TH® WOMEN OF TURKEY. Mc. Oscangan inaugurated bis character tecturos on the women of Turkey at the Cooper Institate last Saterday Sveuing. Notwithstanding the extseme inciemeacy ef the weather, bis audience was very distingue ond more: oumerous thea at any of (be places of pwblic amusement. ‘Had the weather been five there is ne deubt that many would not have been.abie to gaia adamesion. This leo- ture was more than ever unique, entertaimiog and insteue- | tive Tho personifications of the women as they appear iu outdoor lite transported allot us who beve travelled jo the [ast back agaia to the scenes which are 60 varied, picturesque and peculiar, But we sawamore than aoy of us mea, and but [ew women, even, waehave sojourced im tlie land of the Sultan ever raw before Vetls, tations and sable guardians were all dispeosed with as i( bya me gician’s wand, and all at oace we found oersetven withia the eacréd precincts of the harem, . This tablean of @ ‘Turkish reception war exceedingly effsetiwe: a Deautifal houri reclining on a sofa entertained « Turkish geatieman, a kinsman, and, of course, of the uapro- hibited. While the. orchestra dinceursed a touching, wild, Turkish melody, 2wo veautiful Cireassian girs pre- seated a narguile andebivouk to the guest aed the lady respectively. They retired and presently returned: one ef them, kneeling, preseated a silver tray comtaining qweet- meats, sherbet, Ke., while in the opposite corner stout a girl with a coffee pot suspended by chains of silver, ead & sable guardian holding « salver containing the coffee cups, ove of which the Circassinus prosented to the Eflen- di and the Hanum respectively ; for thas it was Uaat Mocka’s berry, from Arabia pure, q 1 fine (Bina cups, came in at last, Gold cups of fligree, mude to secure The band from burning. underneath them placed. The music changed to a more lively air, and jhe Circaa~ sian girls, who stood by with foktod hands. at a sign frome the lady, suddenip began to teip. the light fantastic too» with their merry.castanets, The-costumes, the sparkling; gems and the graceful motions of the dancing girls pro duced a most enchanting scone, wh as cnthusiasticniy ly encored. A desire was univers ‘elt and expressed, by she audiences for a repetition. of this lecture, mang of whom came forward and unged Mr. Oscanyan bx ail means to givs the public another opportunity to oajoy this novel and highly interesting entertainment. We ua- derstand thas Mr. Oscanyan will gratity the public by re- eating it this evening, at Niblo’s Saloon, Tur Quota, or New Yorx.—There has bean a great deal of dispute in regard to the quota of New York under tbe present call for volun- teers. At last. it is officially settled that one hundred and eight thousand men will make. us all square-upon this and all previous calls and upon the draft. This number is very large— larger than anybody expected; but, large as it is, we axe going to have all the men in the-field sooner than any other State. New York owes this to herself, her proud position and hee high reputation. Tue. Frexcn Press on te Russian Wasit.— The French press gives a very Bunsbyish opin- ion upon the reception of the Russians in New York. Some of the papers say it is vory signi- ficant. Others say that it has no significance at all. Some say it is a bad thing for ua Others say it is a bad thiag for the South and for Europe. When these French doctovs disagree it is not for us to decide which opinion is cor- rect. ‘Time will show. ‘Oar Russian Visitors, The Russian officers, who proceeded to Niagara.aa@ vicinity last week, retursod to this city ata late heur om Tuesday ovening. On the Sth of November the bail ta honor of the Russians will tako place at the Aculeny of Music, ‘Tickets for the same cau be had at No 49 Walt street Fraxck axp Centra Ammriga.—The gov- ernments of Central America aze taking um- brage at the course pursued by France in Mexico. They anticipate, as well they may, that Napoleon will turn his attention to them the moment he has secured the prey he is now endeavoring to gobble up; and hence these Central American governments are annoyed and frightened, and are devising plans whereby danger may be avoided. Fine ARTS.—An interesting collection of portraits, most Of them westified with the history of the couniry, wilt De disposed of to-monrow by public sale, a. Me. Lond’s auction room. They embrace fin cimene by Gibert . W. Jarvis, Rembrandt Peale, Iemaa, Otis, Wood, Savage and a number of other American Artista. Those possessing galleries ought wot to tose the Opportunity of adsling to them from a collection of sxe updoubted value as th e ‘The French Admiral gavé a splendid entertainment Yesterday oo board of his flagship, La Guerriere, now at thw port, Among the guests were Admiral Paulding, Captain Meade, United Stites Navy, and several other high officers ef the Brooklyo Navy Yard; also Coant de Giorgi, Austrian Minister to the United States; Mr. H. Keben, Austrian Vice Consul; Mr. Borg, Actimg French Consal General; Judge Rooverelt and famtiy, E. Cupard ‘and family, and a great many other ladies and zeot!ineo of the best New York sociely. There is & young woman jo Nova Scotia, sevoutesc years of age, who i@ seven feet two inches in height, rea forty-three joches ronnd the waist, thirty three taenes trom hee armpit to. the tip of ber Gogers, weighs 274 poands and bas afoot thirteen inches long She is good looking, quite sooial, although ditdent, cet being accustomed to see ile public, and ber vame i Anna Swan Rvsata ano Irany.—We published yesterday the details of a new treaty of commerce between Russia and Italy. The extreme liberality of this treaty confers credit upon both nations, and proves how great is the desire of both to advance civilization and mutual good feeling. It ever pleases us to notice such evidences of the advancement of that Power—Russia— which England and France would fain have the world believe incapable of aught eave the most brutal tyranny. Mouns’ Awazons—It is stated that the rebel | “ae in Mobile have dressed themselves in fer clothes and paraded around the fortifi- cations in order to make & show of strength. It is aleo stated in the London Times that one ba Tux First Svow.—The first snow of the sea- of the Mexican deputies rted thas the son fell af St. Louis on the 22d inst. There is Rt: . = ont, with her daughter, was ia Ames resence of the beautiful wife of Maximilian in evety Indication that the coming winter will be | reek Yo. vale the ‘yom ‘iia. Ya Mexico would be worth an army of forty | extremely severe. It may be a very gay winter tne inort lovely views of land sad ocous thonsand men. These facts show how useful womea may be in time of war. Why don’t for shoddy; but, with Goal at eleven dollars a 7 ee ton, it can scarcely fail to be a very hard winter | land: A, Van Vechten, Albany , Capt Steteor, United states Navy. 2. Maitory, Onansets Greeley, Dan Dickinson, Wendell Phillipe and | for the poor. Under these circumstances , put, Gens 1). Karneand indy, Wasuington, 3: 0 Pro afew more of our old grannies and scolds take | Jet us all remember that charity covers a mul- | 917,104 i com Sn the field and do the State some servic titude of sins. | OOS A Re a Axentcay Yacuts m Exoraso—The yacht Gypsy has been purchased by a member of | an end to the vexing question of Poland by “e Royal Yacht Club. This is the second fast | quietly obliterating that unfortunate country. t% iq Tehave sold to Englishmen. We have | As fast as she captures provinces she incorpo- te mare of the same sort on hand, however, | rates them into Russia proper, and will no doubt ore long thus definitely settle the matter. Musie inet evewing to hear Verdi's most popular opera, © ——— Diane eee: