The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1865, Page 4

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The testimony was taken of several who had undergone the tortures of confinement under Wirz’s charge, all of whom bore wit- neas to the sufferings, horrors, filth and wretchedness in the midst of which the soldiers of the republic existed, Jangv ished and starved and rotted to death at Anderson- ville, Among the witnesses was Sergeant Boston Corbett, who, it will be remembered, shot Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln. Mr, Corbett testified, in addition to tho cruelties inflicted on the captives, to having seen Wirz coolly shoot men for merely requesting a release of a few minutes from the poisoned atmosphere of their Jail to breathe the pure air outside. There was another serious difficulty yesterday between the Court and the counsel for Wirz, resulting in the swond abandonment of the case by the latter and in Judge Advocate Chipman being for the second time ap- pointed to defend the prisoner. It resulted from the rounsel, Messrs. Baker and Schade, objecting to re- strictions imposed upon their crosg-examinations of wit- nesses by the Court. The trial wilt be continued to- day. EUROPE. The Montreal steamship North American arrived off Father Point yesterday, with European advices to the 18th inst., one day later than those received by the City of Washington. Anxieties and speculations as to the fate of the cable were pul an end to by the safe arrival of the Great Kastora in Crookhaven on the morning of the 17th inst. Her news seems to have produced a favorable impression, and the telegraph sbares recovered three-quarters per cont, It was supposed that immediate efforts would be made to resume the laying of the cable; but on this Point nothing definite would be known until the 21st inst., when meetings of the Cable Maintenance and Tele- graph Companies would be held. Cholera in Tarkey and Italy and the “ rinderpest"’ in Engiand were continuing their ravages and causing panic and dismay. United States five-twenty government bonds remained stationary at 68. British consols were at 8934 a 805;. American cotton bad declined from a half peuny to one penny per pound. THE NEWS. Gar Vera Cruz letter in this morning’s issuo gives ad- ditional interesting details of the latest Mexican news, the prominent points of which were given in the Hrarp of Sunday ast, It furnishes the accounts of imperial officers of defeats of the Tepubdlicans at Tacimbaro and near the city of San Luis Potosi, end further particulars of the emuaciation of the empire and declaration for the re- public of tho garrison and citizens of Zongolica, iv the State of Vera Cruz, heretofore announced. The impe- malists met with severe repulses in two attacks which they made on this town. General Ruger, commanding at Raleigh, N. C., has re- fused to give ap to the civil authorities, on the demaad of Governor Holden, three citizens arrested for outrages on a colored mau. The General, in reply to the Governor's assertion that civil law now prevails in the State, says ‘that it i@ the duty of the military to proserve order, and that, though acts of violence towards freedmen are com- mon and frequent, the civil oficers take no cognizance of them, and the perpetrators are allowed to escape Punishment. On the occasion recently of the assemblage of the ma. gistrates of Carteret county, North Carolina, to appoint persons to administer the oath of allegiance, after the transaction of the official business a meeting of the civil ‘officers and citizens present was organized, at which a ‘Preamble and resolutions were adopted pledging uncov- ditional loyalty to the national government, expressing a Btrong dosire for the earliest practicable restoration of ‘warestricted civil rule in the State, and endorsing Provis- Jonal Governor Holden as an eminently proper person for elevation to the position of Governor at the approaching election 1 The crime manias of various clasen which have recently spread with such virulence appear to bave yet undergone no abatement. Cold blooded murders, forge- ies, defaications and railroad slaughters are now daily Rooping pace with the leaser transgressions known to the Wriminal calendar. Woe have this morning to chronicle Unree additional iMustrations of the terrors of “riding fon the rail.” One of these was given early yes- Berday morning on the Long Island Railroad, Bout half a mile this side of the village of Jamaica, Wwhereby four persons lost their lives and many more severely injured. The Long Island Railroad Com- y Funs & special train cityward on Monday mornings, ‘ was on time in arriving at Jamaica yesterday muorning. There it should have met the wags porn: ‘og mail train from Hunter's Point; bys th’s latter, being pore three-quarters of ap b ind time, instead of ‘waiting at @ HOt station, steamed on ata ‘urious ng to make up for loat time, and, hem near Van Wyck avenue, collided with the other [tra‘a, killtog (gpF persons aud cruabing aod mangling in b noe N sins ret ee 8 most shocking manner soveral othory whe were sand: ing on the platforms of the cars. ‘The second railroad affair alluded to took place yester- day om the Hudeon River road. Aa axie of @ train from Albany for this city broke near East Haverstraw, and five or six cars were from the rack. Nobody, however, was killed, audit is said that the only persom injured was » man who was riding om the platform, and who had « log and au arm brokea. A train from Raleigh, N. C., for Petersbarg, Va, ran off the track near the latter place on Saturday last, kill- ing two men and injuring others. It is now stated that over thirty persoas were killed and between fifty and sixty others injured by the disas- ter on Friday last on the Tennessee and Alabama Rail- road, at Richland creek. ‘The coroner's inquest in the cage of Miss Ericsson, one of the victims of the explosion on beard the steamboat Arrow, wae rosumed in this city yesterday. Charies B, Spencer, a practical engineer and captain of the govern- ment despatch boat Henry Burden, who was on board the Arrow when the catastrophe occurred, gave his testi- mony, which was interesting. In his opinion the explo- sion was the consequence of the stop valve being closed on the port boiler, for which the engineer was responsi- ble. He had always found the government ingpeciors to be competent men. The inquest was adjourned till next Thursday forenoon. ‘The coroner's investigation relative to the death of John F. Westlake, another of the Arrow’s victims, was concluded in Brooklyn yesterday. Mrs, Van Tassel, widow of the freman of the boat, Whose Life was lost at the time of the explosion, was one of the witnesses. She testified to her husband having frequently told ber that there was more steam carried than the [aw allowed, aud that the boat was liable to be blown up at any moment. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that the explo- sion was caused by the valve of the port boiler connect- ing the two boilers being closed, owing to the culpable negligence of the engineer; that the reputation of the boat was bad, and that her boilers need a thorough exam- ination before she is allowed to continue running. Edward B. Ketchum, the alleged dofaulter and gold check forger, was yesterday taken from the room at Police Headquarters where he had been confined since his arrest, conveyed tothe Tombs Police Court and ar- raigned on charge of forgery. After the reading of the affidavits in the case and remarks by the District Attor- ney and others, it was agreed, at the request of the Prisoner, to postpone the preliminary examination till Wednesday, and he was locked up in one of the Tombs celis, Until near the close of the proceedings young Ketchum preserved the self-possession and coolness which had characterized him since bis apprehension; but these seemed to partially desert him and to be super- seded by despondency when he learned that he was to be committed to that place of safe keeping for criminals of the lowest degree, the Tombs. The legal papers in the charges against him will be laid before the Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions at their meeting on Monday next. The legal contest of certain bankers and brokers of this city with the internal revenue officers, which had previously been twice before the courts ahd docided in favor of the former, was again up on Friday and Satur. day last before Judge Nelson, sitting in the United Siates Circnit Court at Cooperstown, in this State, The dispute results from the bankers and brokers contending that the Internal Revenue act does not authorize their taxa- tion for sales of securities made on their own account, and not for commission, while the revenue officers insist on the reverse interpretation. Elaborate arguments on both sides were made, on the conclusion of which the Judge took the papers and promised his decision in a few days: : ‘A’ number. of Broadway stage drivers, after having been given due notice and allowed a grace of ten days, having neglected to comply this summer’ with the city ordinance which requires them to annually procure a Veonse, at a charge of only twenty-five cents each, about twenty of them were yesterday taken off their stages by the police and conducted before City Marshal Morton, where they weré reprimanded and subjected to individual fines of one doliar. Other stage drivers who have uegiected to comply with the ordinance remain to be yet similurly dealt with. The coroner's inquest relative to the death of Edward C. Audrews, which resulted from bis jumping from an “upper window of the Union Place Hotel, on the night of the 20th instant, during a ft of delirium, was continued and cOnecluded yesterday. The jury, im their verdict, censure Dr. Newby, the attending physician, for not giv- ing in his certificate of burial the indirect cause of death, and also a similar practice which prevails extensively among the physicians of the city in like cages. ‘A yong man giviug his name as Richard Byhard was yesterday committed to the Tombs, in default of one thousand dollars bail, on charge of having attempted to kill police sergeant Richard Lash, by fring a pistol at him on Sunday evening, on the corner of Church and Lis- Penard streets. Augustus Miller was yesterday committed on charge, in company with William Amos, who escaped, of assault- ir. William Kurtz, of No, 98 Sheriff street, on Sun- day evening, and attempting:to steal his watch, while he was quietly sitting oo Lis own stoop. While resisting the assailants Mr. Kurtz, and Mr. George Handley, who came to his assistance, both received stabs. At a special session of the Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday, seven witnesses of No. 41 Engine were ex- amined concerning the late Ridge street riot. They maintained their entire innocence as stoutly as did the members of Engine No. 6 theirs the other day. The Commissioners closed the investigation, and at the even- ing session adopted a resolution, disbanding both com- panies, and instructing a special commissioner to At up their premises for companies to be organized on the new plan, Atthe regular tri-weekly session of the Board various important resolutions were adopted, and com- munications were received from the Comptroller and others, George W. Anderson was employed as clerk in the department, at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, and arrangements wore made for simplifying and modifying the duties of employes and officers generally. ‘The Philadeiphia Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, one of the notable pattiotic and philanthropic tastitutions of the war, was closed yesterday, after having been con- stantly open for four years and three months. ft was located in the vicinity of the Baltimore and Washington it Broad and Prime streets, and furnished nce entertainment to one million two hundred thousand soldiers passing through the city, free of expense to them or the government. An enthusiastic meeting of the Fenian fraternity, under the auspices of the Garryowen Circle, was held last night at Temperance Hall, in Hudson street, near Spring. Addresses were made and songs sung, anda large number of new names were enrolled. General W. I. H. Brooks, ina communication to Gen- eral Hooker, which appears in another part of to-day’s Herp, alludes to the statements of the latter officer in regard to bis failure at the battle of Chancellorsville, and replies to his alleged charges against the conduct on that occasion of the brave, skilful and lamented General Sedg- wick, then commander of the Sixth corps. Major General O. 0. Howard, lately commander of the Army of the Tennessee, and now Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, arrived in Chicago on a visit on Saturday last. He had an enthusiastic reception from the citizens, and de- livered an address to a large audience on freedmen's affairs. A great base ball match was played in Washington yes- terday, on the President's grounds, in the presence of ten thousand spectators, between the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, and the National Club, of Washington, tho former winning by a score of eighty-seven to twelve, The Atlantic Club, of Brooklyn, will play with the Na- tionals in Washington to-day. The President is expected to bo one of the spectators of the sport. An old lady, the wife of Ephraim Griswold, a wealthy resident of Williston, Vermont, was murdered yesterday morning during the absence from home of her husband. The murderer or murderers took a large amount of money which was in the house, According to the City Inspector's report, there were 008 deaths in the city during the past week—being a de. crease of 9 as compared with the mortality of the wook previous, and 40 less than occurred daring the corre. sponding week last year. The recapitulationgtable gives the following result:—Acute diseases, 359; chronic diseases, 216; external causes, &c., 84. There were 460 natives of the United States, 98 of Ireland, 37 of Germany, 6 of England, 2 of Scotland, and the balance of various for. eign count ‘The stock market was lower yesterday. Government securities were steady. Gold was firm, aud closed at “ore as but little change in the complézion of cém- Mercia) afairs yesterday. A moderate business was dono in imported Mmerobagdize, but trade on ‘Change was by the conflicting accounts from Liverpool. Broadstut opened highor, but closed heaty «i Galibdag's prowe Provisions, with tho egcpetion of Tard, wore hoary. Whisker was firm, Tho Appreaching State Klections—The Troubles of the Politiciams—A Straight Course for Andy Johnson, ‘The politicians, on both sides, are beginning to make their preparations, in the building of their platforms and the selection of their can- didates, for our approaching Northern State elections. In Maine, where the election comes off in Septembeg, both parties are fairly in the field, and there the demoorats, looking to the new order of things, have taken a fais stand in eupport of President Johnson, leaving only a fow “glittering generalities,” in the shape of abstractions, as the difference between their creed and that ot the republicans. In Pennsyl- vania and Ohio, the State elections of which come off in October, both parties have like- wise proclaimed their State candidates and the principles for which they enter into the contest. In both these great States the republican radi- cals have been overruled by general declara- tions in support of President Johnson; so that thus far the projected split between the radicals and the administration has been warded off. ‘The radicals, perhaps, have concluded that it will be wiser and safer to postpone their medi- tated purpose of rale or rnin till-after these fall electiona;'and so the republican conservatives for the present, with some qualifications, are permitted to lead the way. ri But how is it with the democracy in Ohio and Pennsylvania? In both these States they have failed to come up to the mark. Their manag- ing politicians, still adhering to what they call “the time honored principles of the party,” find it impossible to reeoncile their faith with the men or measures of the administration. In Ohio the party is still encumbered with such copperhead leaders as those dead cocks in the pit, Vallandigham and Pendleton, and their resolutions of 1798, and their thrice condemned Chicago abominations; while in Pennsylvania Black & Co., the last remains of the wretched South Carolina State rights and secession administration of poor old Bu- cbanan, harp away at their old music, and dic- tate their old exploded State rights heresies as the living faith of the democratic cburch, Verily, these hide-bound and incurable cop- perhead leaders of the democracy belong to the school of the French and Kentucky Bour- bons, “who never forget anything and never learn anything.” What is the history, for inatance, of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799? They were first taken up by Jefferson as a party hobby against John Adams and the old federalists; but when thoy had served the purpose of Jefferson he dropped them. They covered the dangerous idea of the State right of secession, though in a’ roundabout way; and asa scarecrow against the absorbing central system of the. old federal party they served their turn, and were then cast aside by Jefferson as obsolete ideas. They were next taken up as the platform of the seditious Hartford Conven- tion of the federal party itselfi—a movement which killed that party and buried it among the things of the past. We next find these mischievous State rights resolutions of 1798 and 1799 adopted as the platform of Calhoun and his nullification followers; and though Calhoun, with his State rights, to ‘nullify a law of Con- gress, was promptly throttled and set aside by Old Hickory, the great South Carolina expounder of State rights only changed his base to the right of secession, upon which we have had the final squelching of these aforesaid resolutions, at the end of a vast and sanguinary foar years’ civil war, with the suppression of Jeff. Davis and his Southern confederacy, and the destruction of ils corner stone of African slavery. The managing politicians of the democratic party in Ohio and Pennsylvania, in failing to recognize this impressive settlement of the old South Carolina dogmas of State sovereignty, as drawn from those party claptrap resolutions of 1798 and 1799, have tailed to keep pace with the march of events, and hence they can only succeed in their coming State elections through the follies and discords of the party in power. Such expounders of democracy as Vallandigham and Pendleton, and poor old Buchanan, and his man Black, might still have served as party leaders had the war resulted in “a failure;’ but, as it is, they are dead weights, and carry with them only.the prestige of defeat and disgrace. The democracy only in learning how to dispense with these dead weights will learn the secret of success upon their own merits. At present their only re- liance appears-to be in the follies and divisions of the republicans, such as those developed between the Weed and Greeley factions of New York. But as thé Southern restoration policy of President Johnson unquestionably commands the confidence of the great body of the people, North and South, East and West, it matters little whether the democratic politicians are afraid to come up squarely to his support, or whether the republican radicals are afraid to break with him. Inthis view of the subject, too, it is immaterial how these approaching State elections may go, the main issue on both sides being avoided. The great body of the American people desire the complete restora- tion of the Southern States as soon as practica- ble, so that law and order, industry and trade, may be revived therein; so that the great com- mercial staples of those States may be de- veloped again for the relief of the Treasury, and to assist us in the payment of our national taxes, and in the redemption of our national debt. Let us get those States firmly on their feet again, as we may do during the coming winter, and then next year’s surplus produc- tions may be equal to the addition of two hun- dred millions to our exports. Nor can we hope to prosper as a people, including rich and poor, in meeting the burdens imposed by the war, without the assistance of the South, The sooner we secure this powerful assistance the better it will be for us all, North and South, rich and poor, whites and blacks, people and Treasury. And hence we are with the country in support of the restoration policy of Andrew Johnson. That party which most cordially supports him in this policy, and which most emphatically advocates the foreign policy of a rigid settle. ment with England and France, and the re- moval of European monarchies from this con- tinent, will be the victorious party of 1868, and of the remainipg belagce of the nineteenth century, President Johnson, on our domestic 4 ign affairs, holds the game in his hands. ‘e are satisfied that in reference to his foreign poliéy he is og, sound a9 in his domooratic polloy, and that the cofintry will sugtain him in both. , while perplexed cI TMOlany 66 howd side ace Gaunderiga and EW YORK HERALD, TUBSVAY, AUG OST 29, balancing, and hedging and dodging, the ad- ministration, sustained by the country, will go steadily on with its great designs. Thus, with the expiration of the present term of Andrew Johnson, we may find, as in the time of Monroe, all old party lines obliterated, and he may be re-elected without opposition; or, from his re- tirement, we may have, with three, four, or half a dozen candidates,a regular scrub race for the succession, as in 1824. Much Ado About Nothing—Who Killed Cock Rebin? The war has left us « large residuum of pug- nacity yet unexpended, which certain of our politicians and editors appear to be now in- tently working into use for the adjustment of their personal quarrels. Perhape, indeed, these gentlemen may have been engaged in s free fight among themselves for the past four years; but it was not until the far resonant thunders of battle ceased to shake the welkin that we could distinguish the shrill treble of Greeley and the double bass of Thurlow Weed bandy- ing charges to and fro of “having defeated Wadsworth.” : : “ You did: it,” shrieks Greeley ina white heat of anger, only surpassed by the whiteness. of bis gréat coat. “Yon did: it, ‘by your abominable machinery and bargains, by your intrigues for Broadway railroads and other lobby jobs, and by the wink given to your subservient henchmen. “ Tu quoque,” retorts Thurlow, with long forefinger shaken mena- cingly. “ Tu quoque, I tell you, which is pure German for ‘you're another.’ It was not I, but you, who defeated and killed the republi- can Cock Robin of 1862; you, by your ‘imme- diate emancipation’ schemes and placing un- conditional niggerism as paramount to un- conditional loyalty.” Now, of course it is all nonsense that these two gentlemen are quarrelling about; but in the clamor they raise, and the importance they seem to attach to it, they can only be likened to two of those dun-colored flies, known to anglers as dung flies, adhering to the glowing wheels of a locomotive, and crying one to an- other as the dust rises behind them in suffo- cating clouds:—“What great fellows we are, brother fly! What a fuss we are kicking up, and how rapidly we impel this vast machine by the fury and pertinacity of our bickerings!” It is in the interest of peace, therefore, and in order to dispel the illusions of those two pestilent contenders, and to suve the public any further diatribes from their respective press, that we now propose to tell them the true secret of General Wadsworth’s defeat in his race for the Governorship—a defeat for which we hereby assume the whole respensi- bility, and are willing to give certificates to the two parties chiefly in interest that it was neither Greeley’s unconditional niggerism nor Weeéd’s conditional lobbying which had the decisive, or even the slightest, effect in producing that result, The whole matter was quietly arranged in « conversation between Prince Jobn Van Buren and ourself, and the following was its modus operandi:—In the fall of 1862, after the State nominations had been made, Prince John Van Buren cailed upon us at Fort Washington for our opinion and advice upon the immediate situation of affairs; and, not finding us «at home, forthwith burried down to this office. The [rince wanted to know how the cat was going to jump and what should be done to make it jump in the right direction for the best inter- ests ofthe whole country. ‘“Let Seymour come out unconditionally for the Union and the war to sustain the Union” was our reply. “Let him ignore all minor issues”—for the time was not then ripe for emancipation to be talked of—“and, placing himself fairly and squarely on a war democratic platform in a speech which you must send him down here to deliver, he shall have our support, and will be elected in spite of all the Wadsworths and all the uncon- ditional niggeriam from here to John 0’ Groat’s.” The astute Van Buren acted on our hint, and Seymour—for he was then tractable, being a candidate—-came down and delivered the re- quired speech, as per order given; and it was this that elected him, and that defeated and politically killed the republican Cock Robin of that year. Had Seymour possessed the back- bone to have adhered to the principles which we then put in his month, and proved true to the war democratic platform on which, under our advice and with our aid, he was elected, he would never have lost the Governorship to this day, and might possibly have been elevated ! last year to a yet higher and more conspicuous | position. The right stuf was not in him, ; however, and he soon backslided from our teachings. Events and the folly of the South brought the world round in 1863 to the policy | which General Wadsworth had prematurely and | injudiciously advocated during the preceding | year; while the Governor, elected by the adop- tion of our advice, crawled, crablike, back as public opinion progressed, and finally took up his dismal abode in that limbo of lost politi- cians known as the copperhead shent-per-shent democracy. And now, after this full and complete setting forth of all the facts as they occurred, let us hope that those two belligerent cuttle fish of the republican party, Messrs. Weed and Greeley, will forthwith cease to discolor the waters of journalism by the exuded bitterness and black- ness of their respective gallbags. Let Weed stick to his fleshpots at Albany and Washington, while Greeley continues his amusing essays as & philosopher, and his really useful labors as a farmer and inventor of new compost heaps at Chappaqua. It was neither Greeley’s uncon- ditional niggerism nor the conditional lobby- ing of his rival, we say again, which defeated Wadsworth; but a few of our own plain, com- mon sense words dropped into the ear of Prince John Van Buren, and greedily accepted and acted upon—at least for 60 long as be was a ‘candidate, but no longer—by Horatio Seymour. Is it not high time, we ask, that this farce of “much ado about nothing” should be brought to an end? Ovr Forsign Retations—ENGLAND AND THE Sumnanvosn.—The most important point in our foreign relations is the question that we have with England over the English ships that have cruised against our commerce during the war, and that have injured it to the extent ofa thou- sand millions, This question is just now brought out prominently by the operations of the She- nandoah in destroying our whalers in the Pa- cific Ocean. The Shenandoah is an English ship. She was bailt at Glasgow in 1863, and her last registered owner was 0 Liverpool mer- chant. She sailed from London in 1864, and her uns wore cartied from Lavergoal at the 1866. same period on a British ship and transferred tu the Shenandoah in Portuguese waters. is manned by « British crew, and is coaled as occasion requires by British ships, who carry British in spirit also as in fact, and is a true ex- pression of British sentiments towards us. The English bate us, liberals and all. The liberals were the colleagues of the abolitionists in plunging this country into war, and it was only the fear of our power that prevented the gov- ernment from going further in the recognition of the confederacy than it did. There is hardly a person in England who reads at all but has read the record of the Shenandoah’s recent acts with absolute pleasure. England tostered this whole system—furnished the spirit, the men and the ships to carry it on—and doesnot with- draw: her countenance even now, when it hes gone into positive and unqyestioned piracy. Our government should take the most vigorous course in the settlement of this matter. It should render a bill to the Britis government for every ship destroyed, and for indemnity to the merchants ruined by these British ships. The bill will run up a thousand millions, and our government should insist upon the pay- ment of that sum, or upon some arrangement before an international congress that will re- sult in the withdrawal of European Powers from this continent, and in the establishment of maritime law on « better basis than it now stands. The Blatr-Seward War—Contest for the Control of President Johnson’s Policy. Between the great acts of the plays of all the elder Greek dramatists there was invaria- bly introduced a chorus to sum up the actions of the performers and the developments of the plot, so far as gone, as also to foreshadow the scenes and vicissitudes about to follow, and the parts to be taken therein by the respective actors. It is in this light that we are to regard the speech recently delivered by Montgomery Blair to a rustic audience in Maryland—Blair playing chorus to the last act of our civil war, on which the curtain has just been rung down by the master hand of General Grant, and’ at the same time atiempting to indicate, and by indicating to control, what will be the next developments of President Johnson’s policy. And a mighty curious speech indeed, when we come to examine it in such a light, is this of our Murylapd chorus, who is as essentially the mouthpiece of the Blair family in border State politics as is Thurlow Weed’ of the Seward family in the politics and pickings of New York. Between the two choruses, however, there is this essential difference—that behind the Seward family stands a vast constituency ready upon nearly all occasions to ratify by their votes the words of its chorus or spokesman; while Montgomery Blair talks on behalf of a fumily behind which there stands no constitu- ency of gratifying and ratifying voters, and which can only exist as a power in politics through the individual intellect, pluck, brass and assumptions of its respective, if not re- spected, members. It is on behalf of the Blair family, and to wean President Johnson from the alleged fatal blandishmentis of its rivals, that Mr. Lincolo’s ex-Postmaster General has made his recent speech, attacking with equal bitterness the Seward family, the Stanton family snd the Holt family, the main gravemen of his charge in each case running back to a period anterior to the firing upon Fort Sumter, and conse- quently possessing no earthly or unearthly in- terest for any human being, save possibly for some antiquarian explorer of political inconsis- tencies, or the delver after prominent examples of how far opinions may be modified by the alterations of time and the teachings of ex- perience. Not to have understood the war while it was still a babe in swaddling clothes, and not to have foreseen its sudden growth into an armed giant sweeping away with desolating scythe all our ideas of the past, may have been either a misfortune or a blun- der; while not to recognize the influence of that war upon our politics, but still to go on peddling and pottering with the old stale tricks of party legerdemain upon a country made earnest hy the blood and sacrifices of its recent struggle, is nothing short of a crime, and one for which the Blair tugloman, it we judge tightly, stands in some danger of being cou- victed. The country to-day aske no questions as to what Seward, or Stanton, or Holt, or even the great Blair family, either thought or said or did in the last days of Buchanan’s presidency. Even the question, “How have they deported deal, President Johnson; and in the selepa of the permanent surroundings of yourd- ministration do not forget that the men saved the country have a claim to be its which the people neither ignore nor will fort. Jupes Epwonpe anp Srrarroatisu.—We he received a number of communications pitcht =, into Judge Edmonds and his illogical ara ments in favor of spiritualism. We may fit room for some of them some day. We ma say, however, that the-Judge exhibited 6 gres want of decency and discretion when he spoln of the reporters and penny-eliners as he did for it is'to them he is indebted for all his dis- tinction as a Judge and all his popularity as a man, CITY INTELLIGENCE: Teovstx Amoxo tax Broapwar Stace Ditvanc—" ‘Twustr ov Tazm Under Aprast.—Some ten days ago Captain Brackett, of the Twenty-sixth precinct police, sent notices to the proprietors of the various lines of stages running on Broadway and the Bowery that they must procure licenses for their stages and the drivers of the same, in compliance with articles six and seven, chapter thirty-nine of the ordinance regulating hacks, stages, &c., or he should proceed to enforce the law forthwith. The Captain gave them teh days’ grace im which to apply to the Mayor's office for licenses, during which time licenses were taken out for all stages save one line, but none were taken for the drivers, The tem days having expired on Saturday, and the drivers not ap- [repo at the Mayor's office, Captain Brackett directed his car and stage inspectors to take the drivers off the boxes and bring them before Mr. Morton, City Marshal, In order, however, that the public might not b2 too | seriously inconvenienced by the sudden stoppage of the stages, he directed that three or four drivers of each line, enough to show the others what they might expect, should b» brought in. This was accordingly done, and & more indignant assemblage probably never made their bow before Marshal Morton since his accession to office. ‘They offered a variety of excuses for their non-compliance with the ordinance, but none that availed to save them a severe reprimand and the fine of oue dollar each, There were some twenty arrested and fined yesterday, and the arrests will continue to be made until the jehus are all lensed. The ebject of compelling the stage driver to take ont a license for himself, in addition to the one takem out for the stag’, fs not so much to gain @ revenue to the city as to have a check upon the driver, who knows that any misconduct on his part may lead to the revocation of his liconse, and thus deprive him of employment. The fee demanded for the license is only twenty-five cents, and cannot therefore be looked upon in any case as an+ act of extortion. Meena or tus Garrvowsy CikcLe ov THR Fayian Baorsxruoov.—This circle held an enthusiastic public meeting last evening at Temperauce Hall, on Hudson street, near Spring. Mr. Fitzsimmons sang a aational air, after which Mr. Costello, the Centre, introduced Mr. James Brennan, General Organizer of this State, who spoke for about’ an hour, presenting the Fenisa question in its statistical and logical bearings, and de- monstrating, to the satisfaction of & large audience of ladies and gentlemen that the Engjish army can be conquered by the combinations of the Fenian me which ho said are suro to culminate quicker than lethar- gists and degenerates will fain believe. In tae on oo favored oe [me naqpayne “ rave their hands. Every one presen jo as mea, did 80,“ with that right hand,’ said the speaker, “sign this roll, as Joha Hancock did the American | parchment, ‘Stand (rue to the old ireaty atone, And the glory of old Garryowen.’ A moat singular manifestation of enthusiasm followed this clever appeal of tho speaker, and from all of the hall came applications i oa. verted” walked through the aisle C4 were greeted with cheers and waving of handkerchiefs by the ladice. Some fifty had cnrolled their names and the secretaries were atill busy when our reporter loft. Lose ov tux Commonorr McDonovcH.—The oxamination im regard to the loss of the Commodore McDouough, which, it was understood, would commence yesterday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, did not take place. All of her officers were pr-seat in the Navy Yard peti ‘the ex- amination, but loft during the pf Bao for ma various residences to await further orders. It was thas as the captain's report, which had been sent in, wes a very full one, no further proceedings in the case would be necessary. Fine «x Seaoce Sreast.—Betweon ight and oiee o'clock on Monday morning a fire waa discovered in the New Yori Courier office, No. 9 Spruce street. It origi- nated in a closet used for storage of old newspaper Giles ‘and waste paper. The alarm was promptly givea by William Russell, who has charge of tife building, and im avery short time a stream of water from Mr. Greea’s steam engine, No. 13 Spruce street, was playing on the fire; and the flames were nearly out, it is alleged, when some firemen entered the building, and finding out that the water was through private hose, ordered the man in charge to back out, in the meantime allowing the fre to gain headway, until another hose was tin, and three streams were put on, deluging the unnecessa- rily with water. Such were the complaints made by the. occupants of the building. It that dealer, Stock water about $1, for $15,000, in the Steaticn a ower "Home New Haven, Norwich aad Sprit insurance nies, The aes, 1s owned by the Allen estate. damaged about $150, and insured for $10, Home,City and Continental insurance origin of the fire is not known at No one had’ Fm ix Tago Avuros.—Botweea eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday night a fire broke out in an oyster ea- toon at No. 106 Third ar owned Evans. Damage about $50. ‘Cause of Gre ——— themselves throughout the war?” is no longer an interrogatory the answer to which can prove of any vital interest. The war is done and over with, and we have the evidence of success that all who bore prominent parts therein—Montgomery Blair himself, as one of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet, not excepted—did their spiritings with accept- ance. The only question now before the coun- ia the Jealous Wife. The house was densely crowd. ed in every part, the audioace being a fashten- formance. His fret scene, with the exchange of “high! looks” between the Cardinal and Buckingham, was finest point made, and drew a full a from ween Mrs. Kean im both ber try in regard to any of these gentlemen which can materially interest the public mind is one as to their fitness and capacity for the days of reconstruction and peace upon which we have now #0 happily entered. What they may have said or done before the war is of no account, For what they did during the war, or may claim to have done to secure our success, we are properly grateful; bat it is only when the Blair fugleman impugos their present fitness for their places, and attempts to prove that with other Cabinet advisers President Joha- son’s great policy of reconstruction and reor- ganization could be more promptly and effi- ciently carried out, that he strikes any chord capable of at Public asitention and chaining both our curiosity and interest. And what is the summing up? Blair, on be- half of his family, strikes for the control of President Johnson end his policy in this speech. Weed, on behalf of the Seward family, has beon adroitly engaged in the same attempted cap- ture during the past conple of months, his chief weapons being in the form of letters, all aiming to demionstfate that it was he, and he alone, who made Mr. Johnson Vice President, and that it is héydad he | f coarse in- cluding bis patrons, the family —who can maintain tie Tennessee statesman at his present dimy dlevadon. What should be the Prosident’s coures af aonduot la recerd te shone ‘Anteucs Wano’s Mormon Ewruntanruart.—A large fashionable audience filled Irving Hall lest evening welcome Artemus Ward back to the city, after nearly year's absence, and to show their appreciation of his culiar talent, before his departure for Rurope, where rangements are now being made for his appearance te reopen on the 24 of September. Out of Now York) thoro is no thoatre in which & mote cultivated taste or a dictous and liberal eras wana as Mrs. Srow has dhown thes ta the taocny as i) am the eae ned ities socket s coal dicegters. bid