The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. aa : JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ‘OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX..............+ .- 257 a ——— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Carrain OF THE Waron—Po-ca-n0n-Tas. WINTER GARDEN, Broad ‘ToooLas. —Everysopy's Friexp— NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—WizakD OF THE Wave—Liau—A Guosr or 4 Durcuman. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Argau Na Pocus; op, ‘tau Wioncow Wevoing. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Macssra. BOWERY THEATRE Bowery.—Tax Gairriwx or tux ‘Taames—SOn00LwasteR—' Bor wits tax Ausurn Hair. BARNUM'S NEW MU |, 590 and 641 Broadway.— deer ‘Cuwosirus—CuiLpagn on Cyprus. Open Day “od voning. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tar Bateman Vooar ano Oncnxsrear Conckrts—Mapame Panera. vas Paxstrpiarrarkun. BBYANT'S MINSTREL: way.—Erarorian MINstRr ‘Trans, Roos. 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Moy 1, 1865, Hemaup........... - $1,095,000 TR assis ince 50 Tribune.......... 1009 Evening Post.... 169,427 WER ero tic nee ners nca vps 100,000 Sun... 151,079 Express 90,548 New Yor Haran. .... $1,095,000 ST1,229 Timea, Tribune, World and Sun combi TRIAL OF WIRZ. Oa ths opening of the military court yesterday com. ‘Munications were presented from the superintendent and surgeon of the Old Capitol Prison, stating that Wirz was suffering from mental prostration to suc! Theref. ‘Resios were examined and the proceedings wi extent a4 to be unable to leave his room. » no wit rief, ain ask 1d « who he a few days the government, and hee ‘The counsel of the accused was furnish the uames of the wits ago charged were tampered with be confessed bis inability ty do so, The court adjourned till w-diay TUE EWws It 4 reported in Washington that, as one of the re sults of th wa by leading men, and asp the White House on Moutay ing the’ y designs ah esident y to withdraw all the a 1 troops frou equired for on daty, ple there to the undisturbed coutrot of thoir own affairs The pr ion of Govegor Perry, of South Caro- Liva, announcing, as the result of the recent contercnce betwoon binseif aad Ge Meade and Gillmore, rals rostoration, toa considerable extent, of civil in tho State} was published in yesterday's B to-day we al Gillmore’s order in ¥ the sar ce is very ‘The judicial and other civa 0: ‘s are to rew fonctions; but all egal eases in which colored per are conceraed are to be tried in the provost marshals courts, and a rested by the civil me tor misdeme sac mediately tfansterred to the nearest military post for crial the Miter of Majo ral Slocum, candidate of the for Secretary of St ta nomination at the rd to in the De New York democr his willingness to w the democracy, wiv atic since Stato Convention, but the existengs of which hay been denied, appears in our columns this morning. Tho letter was written at Vicksburg, Miere-ippi, oo the Sist of Aug ood in it’ the General atatoa that he is ta favor President Jolunson’s re constriction policy, 0 far as yet developed; of the enr- ration of civil law, and owing for itself on the questi m ” be says, “are su ill be endorsed by your convention, aud if the convertion shal) nominate me for Sqcretary of State, I shall accept the nomination. In this connoction, the letter of our Albany correspondent, reviewing the proceedings and action of the couvention, and the present object of politics generally, will be found exceedingly interesting. Geabral Moward, Commissioner of the Bureau of Refu gcos, Wreedmen and Abandoned Lands, on Tnesduy twsued a circular to the Assistant Commissioners making important modifications in previous regulations, It pro- vides tha!, stead of, as Previously, all lands aud real Property in the possession of the bureau being | got part for the use of loyal refugers and | fevodmen, only so much of them shall 1 propriated to such purposes as are necessary for diate vse «When agsiviant commissioners become and sur- They are also to ‘uso promptness with regard to assisting in the yestora- flod that property in their charge ix not abandoned, that the government has no title in it, they are to roudor it to the authorized claimant, tion of property to persons pardoned by the Presiden In another circular issued by General Howard he urges oa them harmonious action with the Prov Govornors and civil authorities of the Southern = nod The steamship Kagle, Captain Lawrence, from Havana | oa tho 9th iwat., arrived here yesterday. Her advices confirm previous reports of the complete evacuation of St. Domingo by the Spaniards, and sayahat the revoln tion in that republic in which Cabral was named Pro tector wall over, but do not specify whether it ie that gontioman or his opponent, Pimental, who has had to @uccumb. The rebel Kirby Smith was still at Matanza: Ip the council of government agents and Indinn 5 * gates at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Tuesday of this week, satemonts wore made on behalf of their tribes by boti: the Seminole and Creek chiefs, the former expressing their wishos for friendship and peace with the govern iment and the establishment among them of chm echools and other civilizing institutions, The Cre that the names of their chiefs and of those of the Indi ‘of the Plains were affixed to treaties with the rebele with out their knowledge. Colonel Pitchlynn, a Cherokee chief who fought on the rebel side, arrived to tke part fo the council on Tuosday. ‘The Richmond Whig staten that the application for Prrdon of Robert B. Lee, late rebel General-in-Chief, has eon lai before the President, accompanied by a friendly nd comp! imentary note from General Grant. tis sud that the rebel General Joseph E. Johnston haa aocepy'ed Uy presidency of the Danville (Va) Rail- road One of the committee appointed by the people of Richmond, Virg-nia, to invite President Johnson and bis Cabinet (o visit that city, reports that his reception by alt these distingsicbed gentiomen was im the highest @ogroe condi! and dignified, The President expressed Dis intent oo to viel! Doth Virginia and North Carolina as fon as bh offic would permit, Pe one tonete eoind doliars in. coin eaptared in Gowyis irom wo team which Joi, Davis onerigd with NEW. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ___-<aieensnetammenetiaiaae a LETTE CLT ATT him on his fight has arrived safely in Washington been deposited in the national Treasury. A cigar manufacturer named Joseph Fellman was yea: terday under examination before United States Commis- sioner Osborn on a charge of selling * quantity of cigar stamps used by the government officials in denoting boxes of cigars upon which the Internal Revenue Tax bad been paid, It was chargod that he did so with intent to defraud the government. It was claimed that the mere selling of these stamps was no offence, while on the other hand it was contended that defendant had no Tight to have such stamps in’ his possession. The Com missioner reserved his opinion. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Charles Leonard, alias Hawkins, pleaded guilty to grand larceny im stealing a silver watch worth thirty-five dollars from Robert Thompson, on the 19th of August, As he was ‘an old offender, Judge Russel sent him to tho State Pri- son for ive years. Daniel Quinn, charged with assault- ing Mary Ann Smith with a knife, pleaded guilty to an assault with a dangerous weapon, and was remanded for sentence. Washington Harrington was, convicted of petty larceny, in stealing seven dollars from the pre- mises of Frederick Weitzel on the 27th of August. Sen- tence was postponed. Bernard Monahan was acquitted of a charge of burglary, the complainant being Johanna Pilesido, who alleged that he entered her room in Water street and stole a silver watch, Henry Binks was tried on an indictment for burglary, charging him with entering the factory of Archibald P. Bachman, 103 Franklin street, on the night of the 12th of August, and stealing six hundred dollars worth of silk spools, The witness for the prosecution saw aman, about eleven o'clock, run away with a bag which contained the prop- erty, whom he believed was Binks, who was arrested on suspicion. The defence proved by Mr. and Mrs. Marr and Mr. Hindley that the accused was in their company all the evening till midnight. Mr. Marr was the em- ployer of the prisoner, and gave him am excellent char- acter, Assistant District Attorvey Bedford virtually aban- doned the case, and the jury acquitted Binks without leaving their seats. Surrogate Tucker yesterday admitted to probate the contested will of the late Moses W. §. Jackson. The de- ceased died in New Jervey. He was divofted from his first wife, in this State, upon her complaint, and for- bidden to marry again during her lifetime, He, however, married in New Jersey, subsequent to which his first wife died, and he was then married to his second wife a second time, and made his wil in herfayor, It was con- tested, upon allegations of ils defective execution, by the sd by his first wife. ‘The Surrogate con ‘The Surrogate then took up the trial firs, Eliza Saxton, ‘This instrament pur- son of ¢ siders it of the will of ports to dispose of some twenty-five thousand dollars worth of real and personal property. Tt leaves five thon sand dollars to. the surviving husband of the deceas»d. five tb nd dollors to the Roman Catholic Society for n of Children, and the remainder to the 1 relatives. ‘The probate is contested by the . » Surrogate reserved his decision, The An- gevine administration case was summed up by counsel on both sides, and submitted for decision, The Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday's meet- payment sfor supplies amounting to snfirmed contract for altering house of En- gne Company 48,gin West Twenty-ffth street, for $2,200, and disposed of some routine business. ‘The ocean race between the yachts Fleetwing and 1. rietta was completed yesterday, both vessels arriving back at Sandy Hook from Cape Stay about noon, The former was declared the winner by ono hour and forty one minutes, ‘The result of the trial of the engines of the steamors Winooski and Algonquin on Tuesday was that those of the former, with thirty-five pounds of steam, effected sixteen revolutions, while those of the latter, with sixty poonds, only reached thirteen and a half revolutions, When th trial between these vessels will lake place is wot yet known Another French governmenta marine visitor, the steam transport Tarn, Commander de Yonginres, arrived in our harbor yesterday. ‘the Tarn is on her way Vera Cruz to Toulon, and called here for pro: Rear Admiral Beron Diedelin, of the frigate Thetis, which arrived here on Tucsday day pay an ‘There was ale of gov day at the Erie Bastu, South Brook, ichmond, De Molay, good and Hudson were dispased of, Four oth which were to have been sold were withdrawn. ‘The steamship Morro € , commanded by the vete ran Captain R. Adams, having been thoroughly over- nd refitted, has taken her place in the line for for which port she will sail at three o'clock P. rom pier No. 4 North river, ‘The mails will palf-past one P. M. A meeting of the Shipownors’ Association was held day at their rooms in Pine street. The only matter of particular interest under consideration was one in re: Jation to the difficulties experienced by shipowners in collecting their freight charges from unknown con. sign Attor some remarks on the subject a Pesolution was adopted instracting the Exorutive Committee to re- port the necessary legislation to remedy present evils in The American Institute Fair, iu Fourteenth street, was largely attended last evening, thoagh the exhibition arrangements are yet far from being completed. Each day workmen are busy in putting machinery in place ond adding articles to the collection on view. The New York State Agricultural Soeiety’s Fair, which opened at Utieaon Tuesday, was well attended both on that day and yesterday, and is promonneed a perfect success. The total number of entrivs is twenty- one hundred. Among the persons present yesterday were General Hooker, Postmaster General Dennison, and ex-Governors Joim A. King and Horatio Seymour. The fair will continue open to-day and to-morrow. Over ten th 1 people were on the grounds of the: National dorse Fatr at Hartford, Connecticut, yesterday. ‘The display of horves is said to be very fine. One of the cars of the Boston mail train, on the New Haven Raitroad, which arrived in this city yesterday morning, when between Bridgeport and Norwatk, was the scene of 4 most terrible and exciting afair, One of the passengers, named Peter Hamill, said to be « clerey- man, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, aved about thirty five, who proved to be insane, was observed to deliberately tuke from his pocket a razor, and suddenly draw it across his throat, inflicting a large gash, front which the blood spiried out ina stream, The conductor and passengers rushed towards him; but, seizing and brandishing a knife, he drove them all out of the car and plunged the ito the already hideous wound. Onavriving «1 Nor juinped from one of the car windows and rushed: throngh the streets, pursued by several persons, whom for some time be kept off by throwing bricks and stones, Finally be was captured, bound, placed on board the train, brought to this city, and conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, Even after his captors bad possession of him he fought desperately with them, It is thought that he: cannot recover from the effects of his injuries There was a discussion at Metropotiten Halt, in Sixth arenne, last evening, np e question, “Should the constitution of the United States secure the elective fran: case to all, independent of State iawst Several gentle: men took part in the debate, which was adjourned over to next week The members of the Helvetia Rifle Club, or Swiss sharpshooters, of this city, yesterday commenced « four days shooting festival at Guttenbarg, N. J. A number of prizes were shot for, The exercises will be resumed at eight o'clock this morning. The inquest inthe case of Laura Mill, the wife of Franklin Mills, engineer ina printing office in Fulton | street, Brooklyn, was commenced before Coroner Barrett yesterday afternoon. The testimony was wnimportant, as the witnesses who were cognizant of the facis were not prevent, and the Coroner adjourned the case till to- day at three o'clock, when some very important testi- mony is expected to be elicited, By the collision between the steamers Leary and Sea Gull, in August iast, in Chesapeake Bay, Mr, Varnum 8. Mills, clerk of the Leary, was thrown overboard and drowned, It was ten days before his body was found, | and it was then go discolored that it could not be identi- | \ fled except by a letter from his wife which he had in hie pocket, The deceased was son of V. 6. Mills, many years attached to the Marine Court. A grandson of Lafayette has recently arrived in this country. On last Monday night he was present at a political meeting in Boston. The stock market was heavy yesterday weak, but at the clone recovered to 143. The fall in gold exorts but little influence in commer. chal circles, the large transactions of the past few weeks having reduced stocks so low that, as @ general thing, Prices are well sustained. Yesterday foreign goods were held firm. Groceries wore steady. Gotton was firm. Petroleum was active at full prices. On ‘Change flour and grein were heavy and lower, Provisions were Gold was The Maine Election and President John- son’s Position Before the Country. Tho election just held in the State of Maine reveals no change in the political atmosphere of that State. The result is the same that we have annually chronicled ever since the cap- ture of that State by the republicans about ten years ago, which was brought about by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise during poor Pierce’s administration. The election, however, was purely local, with no distinct is- sue on national questions—both parties having endorsed President Jobnson—the Republican Convention pledging the President its “cordial support in the great Work of securing national union, the restoration, equality of human rights and enduring peace ;” while the de- mocracy declared, “we will cordially support Andrew Johnson in the policy he has taken toward placing the rebel States in their proper situation and harmonizing conflicting ques- tions.” Thus it will be’ seen that they were essentially the same on that point. It is true the republicans had something to say about holding the Southern States under provisional governments, the removal of all disabilities of color, equality of races, as well as that the negroes should have conferred upon them all the political rights of freedom, in fact as well as in name, This was put in as a morsel for the radicals to ease them down. The de- mocracy, on the other hand, had to offer some- thing as sop to the copperhead element, which they did by referring to the barbarous spirit of the war and the declaration in favor of the general government paying all the local or town war debts. Thus they nearly offset each other, and went into the canvags more on local issues than otherwise, there not being sufficient interest in a national point of view to call out the entire vote. From this result we judge that as long as the republican party adhere to President Johnson and support bim they will be able to retain their supremacy in all the strong republican States. At the same time it may be considered certain that there will not be for the present any change in the patronage which will sig- nify that Mr. Johnson is going over to the demo- cratic party. If the managers of that political organization desire to receive the benefit of his wise leadership they must go over to him, as they have done in their convention in this State. But the election in Maine is no criterion as to the result in New York, where the parties are more evenly balanced. The public mind in this State, under the influence of the inde- pendent press, moves quicker and takes hold of the questions which affect the nation sooner than in most other States, being nearer the com- mercial centre, more directly under its contro! and affected more readily by the interests of commerce. The great mass of the American people endorse and approve the course and policy of President Johnson. The commercial interests of the nation are also identified with ihe success of his policy of restoration, caleu- lated, aa it is, to restore peace and prosperity to the whole country sooner than in any other form. Mr. ‘ohnson occupies a firm position, and one that makes him not only master of the sil- uation, but compels all parties to come to him if they desive success. Backed, a3 he is, by public opiaion, he occupics a stronger posi- tion than that held by Mr. Lincoln during the progress of the war. ‘he parly politicians tried to break the latter down throvgh the undermining ptans of the Chase Teeasury agents and the Cleveland Conven- tion; but the public, good was deeply inter- ested in the success of the war and the preser- vation of the Union. This enabled Mr. Lincoln to baffle all the necromancy of this class of poli- ticians, and secure bis triumphant re-election. The war being over and the rebellion sup- pressed, ihe paramount interests of the country now demand the speed? reorganization and adjustment of the questions involved, with the early return of progpevity and order to all sec- tions. This givea to Mr. Jobnaon, if anything, a stronger bold upon the public mind than Mr. Lincoln held during his term. This feeling in his favor is daily Increasing, and is accelerated hy the development of events. President Johnson, im coming into power at the close of the war—a war despructive and devastating in its results—and just as it had proved everywhere successful, found the politi- cal affairs of the country in a chaotic state. It soon became essential for him to. form a policy which would cement the victories of war, heal the wounds and harmonize the discordant cle- ments, His position before the country is totat y unlike that occupied by either Tyler or Fillmore. The former undertook to control events in @ manner that would place himself at the head of the democratic party. But both parties were then thoroughly organized and in- tact. The democracy, confident in their own strength, repelled him. Fillmore, on the other hand, endeavored to manipulate the whig party, but found its managers too powerful for him and failed. Mr. Johnson has none of these barriers in his way. Both poiitical parties, by the success of the war and the suppression of the rebellion, have lost their distinctive char- acter. The restoration of the country being the only question, he has.the formation of the issues in his hand. In this respect his position is nearer parallel with that occupied by Jeffer- son and Jackson when they assumed the duties of the Chief Magistrate of the nation than any other. Like them his advent to. power is at a] time when the country required an exhibition of bold and wise statesmanship. Like them he has.the opportunity to inaugurate the policy which will goveun the country for a quarter of « century at least. In taking hold of the quea- tions of the hour in a broad, constitutional and statesmanlike manner he has planted himself in an impregnable position. He has struck the public chord and identified with himself the material interests of the nation. The confi- dence of the public in his course increases siep by step with the development of the policy of his administration. From present indications he will be so emphatically backed by public opinion by the time that the next Congress | assembles that even such radical Jacobins as + Wilson and Sumner will not dare raise their voices in the Senate against his policy. This result is so apparent that the success of either political party in the local elections in the | Northern States this fall will hardly affeet it. Tur Ick Broxen.—A national bank bas been established at Portland, Oregon, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. This is the first monoyed institution having authority to issue bills ever organized on tho shores of the Pacifio Ocean. The ice is now broken, and the yellow Huggets and slugs that have formed the our- cong of that eggtion of the Union will probably soon give place to the more modern basis of trade—paper promises, If the people being inflicted with “red dog” and “wild cat” money they may consider themselves fw rtunate. Opera and Empire on the Continent, escape | larity. 14, 1865, striking illustration of their co'mparative popu- | ifnecessary, Te local inws of the Staten, tng The opera is tor a fo'w nights; the drama is for all time. No wonder that, in view of all these contrasta, the thea'tres are re- garded asa public benefit, while th.’ opera is Ame,vican | denounced as a public nuisance. And 20 won- der that the American masses believe. in the ‘The various attempts to establish that Ex‘ro- | Monroe doctrine, the republic and the goon told pean institution, an empire, upon this conti- | drama, and are anxious to see those Europe,*® nent have signally failed. To this rule then? is but one exception, the case of Brazil; but we believe that Brazil has now entered upon a course of policy which will soon prove de- structive, and that, within a very few years, institutions, the empire and the opera, kicked off this continent together. Our November State Election—The Pros Ppect.: The New York democracy, from their action this empire will be transformed into a repub- | a§ the late Albany Convention, stand far in lic. The imperial experiment in Mexico is | advance of their brethren of any other State. manifestly a failure. The public opinion of | The party in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jer- this country unanimously sustains Juarez, and | sey continues too much under the discipline of the government steadily but diplomatically copperhead leaders and the drawbacks of cop- supports him in hit struggle against the | perhead “cardinal principles,” so that in those Freneb. Ultimately the bogus Emperor Maxi- | States, as in Maine, the elections this full, on a milian must pack up his purple and withdraw. reduced scale, will most probably be but a This result will be accomplished either by our | repetition of those of last year. In Maine the diplomacy or our arms, according as fate and | gemocrats had a fair administration platform; Napoleon deoree; but that it will inevitably be | put they still adhered to their old party land- accomplished by the one or the other is a fact | marks too closely to inaugurate a political ro- which admits of »no matter of doubt. Canada, the colony of the British empire, is ready to yolution. In New York, however, under the sagacious fall, like 9 ripe pear, into the lap of the United | enyincering of Dean Richmond and his work- States. England virtually relinquishes the effort. to retain her power thore, even though ing associates, looking to fixed facts and prac- tical things, the democracy have taken a new she is not yet entirely willing to allow us to | departure. The old Southern democratic tal- succeed her in the possession of such vast ter- lacy of State sovereignty, the abominable here- ritories. The compromise which she proposes is a confederation of the provinces; but that is sies of the Chicago Convenition, its shent-per- shent managers and copperhead leaders, from simply creating a Canadian United States. | Horatio Seymour down to Ben Wood, have all Clearly, then, the latest attempts to transplant | hoon cut adriftand abandoned, and the party— that European exotic—an empire—to the free ticket and platform, principles and eandidates— soil of the New World are as futile a8 the | hos ranged itself fairly and squarely under the numerous unsuccessful attempts that have pro- | panner of President Johnson’s administration. ceded them. But there is another European exotic—the opera—which it is equally imposstble to culli- vats here. The opera goes with the empire, and republicans will have nothing to do with The stone which the democratic build- ers from 1861 to 1864 rejected has be- come the head of the corner. The New York democracy recognize the fact, and, leaving the dead to bury the dead, they step either of them. President Jobnson recently | forward to the living issues of the day. Their observed that he did not know such a person 98 | platform on the results of the war and the glo- the Emperor Maximilian, and he is just as igno- | rious services of the army, on the slavery ques- rant of the existence of such a thing as opera. In the old, corrapt, enervated and debauched sociely where empires flourish the opera natur- ally takes root. Its squabbles, scandals, liai- sons and other evil fruit furnish pleasant excite- ment to imperial courts. Nowhere in the world is opera truly popular; but every empire is willing to pay a subsidy to keep it going, in order. to amuse the nobility, and give employ- ment to those hangers-on of courts who have nothing else to do, and furnish a lounging place for the gentlemen and a dress parade for the ladies. In all countrigs its characteristics are the game. Its managers do not pay their debts ; its artists are detected in intrigues ; its directors drift into controversies with the press ; ils musicians quarrel with each other; thosc connected with it are accused of all sorts of crimes ; and the results are a constant fuss and flurry which interest those blase people who belong to the so-caliod “ best society,” but de- cidedly disgust the plain, matter-of-fact middle classes, who do not patronize the aristocratic amusement, and are therefore untble to appre- ciate those nice shades of distinction which uppertendom seeks to make beiween a com- mon swindler and a manager who breaks his pecuniary promises, between a courtesan and a kept mistress, bei ween [navery in linsey-wool- sey and knavery in full dress wielding & baton. We once fondly imagined that when the opera was transferred to republican New York it might be naturalized, like any other foreigner, and that we might eventually refine, purify and popularize it. This scheme has, however, proved impracticable. Opera here has beon accompanied with the seme grossness, 1 . ness, corruptions, quarrels, scandals, libel suits, swindles, disgraceful escapades and general immorality that have surrounded it in London and Paris, Aecording to the confessions of those who have endeavored to manage it, the opera has never been pecuniarily successfal, even in liberal New York, except during a cer- twin stage of our civil war when our society was demoralized and the country seemed going to the dogs, Just at that period, too, Maxi- milian brought over his temporary empire for Mexico. The two institutions flourished to- gether for a little while during the heat of our civil war; but their prosperity was brief, and in their ignominious death they will not be divided, Unlike the opera, the drama is a popular, « republican, a democratic form of amusement. ‘The people patronize, support and enjoy the theatres. Give them the drama and tly are perfectly satisfied. So far as their taste for music is concerned, they are quite content with the concerts by excellent artists which are open every season, A comparison between the receipts of the theatres and the opera in this city, or in any other metropolis, shows that the drama is as universally admired as the opera is universally unpopular. Except in | Paris, where nothing succeeds without govern- | ment aid, the theatres require no subsidies nor subscriptions in advance. They are not only self-sustaining, but they real- | ize fortunes for their lessees and pro- prietors. Besides this, they encourage litera- ture in all its forms, and also farnish employ- ment to. thousands of reputable, industrious and talented persons. The opera, on the othor hand, is as exclusive in its disbursements as in its patrons. Its salaries are divided among half dozen leading artists, who are almost invariably foreigners, and who seldom reflect credit either upon the land that gave them birth or that in which they sojourn. The mem- bers of the orchestm would find. more: constant, regular and remunerative employment in the orchestras of the theatres, besides having the certainty of being paid when their work is. per- formed. The men and women ot the chorus do not depend upon the opera for subsistence. They have other avocations during the day, | and would be much better off in mind, body and purse if the opera were abolished and they were permitied to spend their evenings like reasonable beings, instead of standing awk- wardly ina semi-circle before the footlights, | dressed in absurd costumes, and inharmoniously | howling out a string of words of whose sense | and meaning they are totally ignorant. As the opera can be given but a few nights in the week, daring very few weeks in the year, none of these employed in it, except the prin- cipal artists, subsist upon it; whereas almost all our theatres are now open all the year round, and furnish steady employment to their attachds, Tho difference between the relative time that the theatres and the opera are kept tion, the national debt, taxation, the Montoe doctrine and the Southern restoration policy of President Johnson, covers the whole ground, and leaves the republicans no other ground to stand upon. We expect, accordingly, that the New York republicans, with the advice and consent of Weed and Greeley, at their approaching State Convention, will adopt substantially the new democratic platform and at least one-half of the democratic ticket. The only question upon which they can make a positive and sharply de- fined contest 1s the question of negro suffrage; but we apprehend that upon this subject the republican leaders in New York, like those of Ohio and Pennsylvania, will find it expedient to wait a little longer. Negro suffrage will be turned over to the new Congress, where, in con- nection with the readmission of the late rebel States to the two houses, the settlement of the question constitutionally belongs. Meantime the genera) adhesion of both the great parties of the North to Andrew Johnson’s policy will go far to shape the policy of Congress. Anticipating toa great extent the fusion of democrats and republicans in this State, in support of this policy in November, we may profitably turn evr attention to the great ques- tion of municipal reform in this metropolis. The democrats have failed to touch this ques- tion. Let the republicans take it up im their convention and make it a legislative issue, and they may give us a Legislature competent and eager for a great reformation. Thus, before the expiration of the coming winter, this shock- ingly misgoverned: and shamefully plundered city may be made to rejoice in the total ex- pulsion of its present corrupt cliques and riugs, and in the substitution of a provisional legisla- tive commission, preparatory te a new char- ter. Not one of the rebel States at the end of the war needed so badly a provisional! govern- ment as this city needs it to-day. There ix 80 much to be done in. the way of reform that we think the best way'is to begiu with a pro- visional government. This is Andy Johnson‘s policy in the South.. Let the republicans of New York make it the issue in November for this city, and they'may yet take the wind out of the sails of the Albany Regency. The Radical Raid on the President's. Policy. The radical journals, in their insane hos- tility to President Johnsen, do not perceive that they are making consummate fools of them- selves. The people of all parties fully sustain the magnanimous and statesmanlike policy of the President, and in the face of such a verdict the miserable mouthings of partisan journals are but as the hiss of the snake after his fangs are exiracied. It is amusing (ogee the pretexts upon which the Jacobin papers seize in order to cavil at Mr. Johnson's programme of recon- struction. The Chicago 7yibwne, for instance, assures us that the friends of the Union will learn “ with profound regret” that the President has endorsed the action of Governor Sharkey in organizing the militia.of the State of Missis- sippi. It affects to believe that in so doing he has re-established a formidable rebel army, equal in numbers to that which the rebel leaders had in the field during the last year of the war. Assuming that President Jobnson will adopt the same policy in the other nine Southern States, the Tribune makes ont an army | of one hundred and sixty-one thousand men, ready for another rebellion. Nothing could be more absurd than this deduction. The Southern States have had a surfeit of fighting, and they. want no more bitier experience of warfure against the government. In case of a foreign war, of course, they would be willing enough to unite with the North in support of the Moaroe | doctrine, or in any other cause. The | spirit manifested. by the leading men of | the South, since the torianes of war went | against them, is sufficient proof thet they are ready to accept the result of the arbitrament of the sword upon which they staked their | wildly conceived Lopes of a separate confede- racy. The interview which they had with Pre- sident Johnaon the other day, and the frank and honest manner im which they received his enunciation of the policy which he means to pursue, is evidence enough far any one, except @ stupid radical journalist, that the germ of rebellion has lost all its vitality, and that there is 20 more likelihood of a remewal of the re- bellion by the Chioago Tribune’s one hundred and sixty-one thousand men in buckram than there is of the immediate realization of the millennium. a ‘That the Southern States as well as the open is not less marked than the difference be- | Northern States must have a militia force a8 {ween their rolative reodiots. aud is emat love | herqinfose (0 vseverre the oragn and enforce, wd ’ dent. That they will be a more effective of soldiers than they were before the war there can be no doubt, because the young men who will now compose the militia have been trained in the field; but they will be force strictly loyal to the government, which President Johns son has assured them shall be conducted ac cording to the constitution, free from all aniy mosities or persecutions towards the Southern States in consequence of their recent mis- gu.‘ded attempt to overpower the national autho."ity, and equally free from any design to centr lize power in the government at Wash- the policy of Mr. Johnson is so grand, a0 noble, so patriotl., that it has disarmed even the bitterest secessionists of the South. It ia only from tive narrow thinded Jacobins of the North, who mre disunionis(s at heart, that he meets with any’ opposition. The cavillings of the Chicago Tribu ve and other radical journals, however, are but aa’ a feather in the blast ofa tempest against the plans which Mr. Johnson has inaugurated for the’ complete restoration of the Union in all its fo, "™er prosperity and glory, and which, please @ 74 and the will 0. the people, who sustain him, bh? Will carry out, The Woman’s Bure: a ration of a Female Mitlem “"™ We propose the establishment of a\," ’ bureau as a national institution, an'd %* © healthy outlet for the superfluous: philanvdreF of the United States government. We are OQ particular what department it is’ organiced under, or whether the Secretary of War, o ¢ the Navy, of State, of the Treasury, or of the Inte “iot has the honor of building it up. We shallew *9 be content if it falls to the share of the Pos - master General. Perhaps the Secretary of War ought not to have it, as that furctionary already has the honor and the odor of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an institution of a similar but less rea- sonable nature. Altogether we would fayor giving it to the Navy. Old Welles bas nothing to do just now, and could attend to it. More- over, that department has an off-hand, sammary manner of dealing that would be of great ad- vantage. The persons who oppose women can never be caught in the meshes of the law, or by the processes of regular justice—they are such eely, slippery fellows that they always go through and get away whole. They must be crushed by a noble defiance of ordinary legak methods; and the men of the Navy Depart- ment have a happy faculty at that kind of crushing. The Navy Depariment, also, would be apt to give the direction of it to one of its heroes, and the generous nature of a sailor would be just what is wanted in the superin- tendent. He ought to be gallant and hand- some. We will be quite satisfied if he is only half as brave, as earnest and as simple-hearted as Howard is. 4 ‘This woman’s bureau should be a tribunal of even-handed justice between our four millions or more of poor women and all the persons with whom they have any transactions what- ever. It should have a general and particular supervision of these poor women’s lives. Land- lords, manufacturers and grocerymen should be considered as its natural enemies. It must have power to decree divorce wherever a heart- less husband is in the way, or a drunker one exercises his muscle on his wife’s riba. It mast also have power to cast into prison any fine lady taken on Broadway, beautiful with embroidery and fine linen, unless she can prove that the seamstress was well paid. If women are ill and cannot work, or idle and will not work, the bureau must in either case be empowered to draw on the Treasury for their support. This bureau would: supplement, if it did not supersede, the ordinary courts of justice; From its peculiar nature-it would be able to decide questions that courts could not inquire into, and would be the very knight errant of institutions. Nearly all the miseries of women’s lives lie ina sphere that it is be- yond the power of ordinary tribunals to regu- late; they hinge around social questions that courts cannot touch at all. Hence the sphere of the bureau would be'a most extensive one, and hence, indeed, the necessity for it. It would settle all the points of woman’s rights. Under its operation it would be impossible for any woman any longer to he wretched, to want for food, to wonder liow she shall keep herself out of the poorhouse and her children out of the State prison, or where she should get any of the necessaries of decent life. In-short, the . establishment of this bureau would go far to-- ward the realization ofa millennium for female humanity. This proposition is. not Quixotic or Pick- wickian, Let any one who is disposed. to regard it in that light remember that the gov- ernment has now in operation one institution of the same nature, whose object isto do for the four millions of robust niggers that remain: in the Southern States just what we propose shall be done for four mid- lious of helpless white women, who- need it a great deal. more. No one con- siders the Freedmen’s Bureau either a pieoe of Quixotism or a joke—ot course not; and, there- fore, we protest egainst any one regarding the Woman’s Bureau in. any ridiculous light whatever. Is it all right to feed a hardy. buck nigger and absurd to do the same for a belp- less white woman? Is it seriously right and proper to put guardians over men who-are in- telligent enough to be trusted with votes and is at the same time ridiculously aomsensi- cal to guard in the same way the rights tf all these poor women, who, however titey; know, their rights, cannot maintain them for ai single gecond? Can we have w bureau, mabataiaed at immense expense, and comprisiog an army of place holdeys and soldiors, merely to guard: the rights of the four millions of niggers? And shall we bave no provision whatever for guard- ing the rights of the four millions offpoor white women? This is a national shame that we should at once wipe away. Let ws have the Woman’s Bureau by all means. Maxine, Bap Worse.—The attemypt of the man- agers of the clearing houses of New York, Bos- ton and Philadelphia to depreciate the bills of the country national banks. will, ¢ successful, force the trading community to pay tribute to bill brokers, The notes of thecoumtry banks are, in all respects, equal to those of the New York. institutions, and those who are,required to subs mit to a discount of a quarter,‘to a half per cent in exchanging the national currency bills for greenbacks, will look upon the transaction as the smallest kind of a financial shave. If these moneyed moguls who are now sitting in judg- ment upon the ¢ountry bank issues would order their banks to pay specie for their bills there would be rome show of reason in their dolibe~ rations. woman’s .