The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1865, Page 4

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Nuvo Epo ton Ex uA NTMENT, ' BLITZ NEW HALL, 72) Broadway.—Patace or Intu- mion—Lesusep Caxanys—VenTeiLoquism, &0. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movixc Wax Fiaunas oF Parswanr Lincoun, Jape. Davis, &c. NBW YORK MUSEUM Open from 10 A. M. till 10 — ] New York, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1865, ; oe = ae = NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFTICIAL. ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. Henarp.... - - $1,095,000 ¥vening Post. 169,427 World........ 100,000 Eun. 151,079 Express... 90,548 $1,095,000 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,22" ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrexty Henatp must be handed 4n before ton o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its. gir- eclation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the wountry js increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- ported in the Waexty Hzgaxp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic poople of the United Biates. TRIAL OF WIRZ. The milltary court in Washington engaged iu trying the Andersonville prison keeper resumed proce -dings in the case yesterday, after an unavoidable vacation, owing fo the illness of the accused, of an entiro week. Aft+r conference between the Judge Advocate and Wirz’s coun, se! and a secret deliberation of the court, in regard to the government furnishing time and means to summon ad- ditional witnesses for the defence from the Southern States, it was decided that subpoenas for the desired pernons should be issued and sent to the military com- vandants in whose departments they are suppoved to re- pide. The taking of evidence was then continued, and a pimber of witnesses, including both those who had been «the national and rebel service, were examined, adding to ne testimony heretofore elicited regarding the cruelty and yumanity of Wirz, the sufferings and tortures of the ison pon, the hunting and tearing of fugitives by jounds, the starvation, the punishments of the chain gang and the shooting of men at the dead line. Major Noyes, who arrested Wirz at his home in Georgia, testi- fied that he was not authorized by General Wilson to give the prisoner any promise that he should not be pro- pecuted for his conduct at the prison, and he did not Bhink that he gave any such promise. Captain Moore, ‘who superintended the fitting up of the graveyard at Andersonville recently, and marking the graves of thy mational soldiers who died in the prison, testified that the mambor of burials was twelve thousand nine hundred ‘and twolve, and that the dead bodies were packed closely Yo other in trenches from one hundred to two hundred yards long. EUROPE. ‘The Montreal Company's steamship Damascus, which reached Father Point yesterday, brings advices from ‘Kurope one day later, but containing nothing of special importance. The Paris Moniteur discourses on the late naval {ites with the view of showing that Eogland and France are © one opiniea on all questions of public law. tm view of the alarming spread of the cattle plague, the importation of English, Dutch and Belgian cattle was prohibited in France. A slight improvement was noticeable In United States securities. Five-twenties were quoted in London on the ‘8th inst. at 6834. British consols closed at 89% 2 90. The otton market was virtually unchanged. THE NEWS. ‘Tho message in full of Governor Perry to the South Carolina convention, with a list of the members, is !aid before our readers this morning, The Governor calls ‘Mheir ateontion to the generous and patriotic solicitude Jor the restoration of the Southern States to all their wivil and political nghts manifested by President John- on, who, he says, will as strongly oppose centralization “of power in the national government as he has combat- @4 secemion. Mr. Perry tells the delegates that slavery fs dead and can never be resuscitated, and admonishes hom that uniess they recognize the fact and ratify it in their amended constitution they need not hope for ad- mitiance of their representatives into Congreve. He urgoa kindness and protection to tho freedmen, and be- Jieves that in a few years all the evils necesearily incident to their sudden liberation will have passed away, end that the State will be much richer and more prosperous without slavery than with it; but the is decidedly opposed to negro suffrage, maintaining fvat ours is a white man’s government only. Various changes, 0 a8 to make the constitation and State gov ernment more republican in form are suggested, such as faking from the Legislature, which under the old consti- tution held it, and giving to the people direct, the priv. flege of choosing their Presidential electors, Governor gnd Lieutenant Governor, judges, chancellors and vari- us other State officers. Gloomy as the present ir, the Governor sees a bright future for the State, and believes Bhat, since slavery, the great disturber of the internal speace of (ine nation. has been finally disposed of, nothing ‘will ever again occur to mar the concord between the warious States of the Union. He says that so far, be is happy to state, his policy in conducting the provisional government has fully met the approval of the President, General Wager Swayne, Commissioner of the Burean ‘of Freedmen for the Btate of Alabama, has designated Aho judicial officers and magistrates of Alabama ap- pointed by Governor Parsons as agents of the Freed- ancn's Bureau for the administration of justice in all ‘Cases wherein negroes are concerned. This action Is the ‘Teverse of that of General Meade in South Carolina, sorhere the administration of Justice in all cases in which @he colored people are interested is vested in the mili- tary courts only, Governor Parsons advises a)! judicial oifioers of the State to accept the appointment conferred Dy General Swayne, with its imposed condition that meagre ll be received in the courts, and orders ail such Officers to report promptly thelr acceptance or meefusat of the appointment tendered, In cage of the mon-acceptance of the conditions martial law is to pre. rveil The Now York Republican State Convention mests at * Syracuse to-day, for the purpose of nominating candi- dates for Secretary of State, Comptroller, State Treasurer, Attorney General, State Engincer and Surveyor, Canal Commissioner, Inspector of State Prisons, two Judges of the Court of Appeals and Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Last night delegates were arriving in considerable num- bers, and there was every indication of a large attend. ance, ‘The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention is to be held at Madison to-day also. Recently while » party of national soldiers were in ‘search of lost government cattle near Gaylesville, Ala- Dama, they were attacked bys sheriff with a posse of men, who claimed to be acting under authority from Governor Pursons. One of the soldiers was killed and thirteen of the sheriffs men were made prisoners, This collision between the civil and military is to be invest!- gated by a board of army officers. Owing to the financial straits to which s majority of the Souther people have found themselves reduced now that the war is ended, to their want of information in re- gard to the requirements of tho Internal Revenue laws, and for other reasons, the Secretary of the Treasury has order- ed that all articles in the lately rebeliious States which can be shown to have been manufactured before the estab- Ushment of the collection district in which they are found, shall be held free from the present aseeasment or collection of tax, unless tramsported beyond the State limits, ‘The trial of the rebel steamboat burners wag.com- menced in St Louis yesterday. ‘The counsel of the prisoners has given notice of bis intention to summon as witnesses Jeff. Davis and the members of his exploded Cabinet: ‘ A contradiction of the report recently put afloat, evi- dently with the design of injuring tho cause of the Mexican republic, that President Juares designed leaving his country and secking a refuge bere, is contained ma letter from that distinguished raler, dated at El Paso on the 17th of August, just received by a gentleman in this city. Mr. Juarez says he has no idea of abandoning his country or his country’s cause. He had temporarily established the government at EI Paso, but would soon take up his residence in one of the interior cities, He is determined to fulfil his duty of proserviag’ the popular government of his uative land, and does not despair of success. ‘The nationa! convention of Odd Fellows continued in session in Baltimore yesterday, ‘The city was crowded with strangers drawn together from every part of the country to attend this reunion of the Order, and up to « late hour last night the ra‘iroad trains continued to bring in accessions to the number, Today the monument to Thomas Wildey, the father of Odd Fel- lowstrp in the United States, will bo inaugurated with a procession and imposing ceremonles. Yesterday 2 com mittee of the delezates visited Washington and called on President Johnson for the purpose of inviting him to b> present on the interesting occasion, that if possible he would be with them, and it is believed that he will attend. It's said that Beerctary Seward has been informed by the Governor of Vermont that the St. Albans banks have -recoived from the Canadian authorities the full amount stolen from them by the rebel raiders, ‘The municipal suthorities of St. Louis, during the re- cent visit of Generals Grant and Sherman to that city, in order to give the people a better opportunity to seo and grect them, made arrangements with those distin- guished officers to visit Lafayette park on last Friday afternoon, and there they hud a most enthustastfe r:cep- tion by some ten thousand persons, male and female. General Grant, in reply to an address, made one of his characteristically brief spe-ches, The Board of Supervisors were in session yesterday, and were principally occupied with che county tax levy. In reply to the inquiries of the Board, a communication ‘was received. from “the ‘Corpo: ration Counsel giving as his opinion that the Supervisors have no discretion in the matter of paying the census ennmerators, but that itis their daty, if they have been notiGod that the returns have boon acoopted by the See- ‘tate, to insert im the tax levy an amount snf- pay each of ihere men three dollurs per day for his services. The Counsel also stated that the police justices presiding in the Court of Special Sessions are entitied, in addition to their other rogular salaries, w compensation equal to that received by the City Judge at the timo of the enactment of the law which devolved this duty upon them, and that the necomary sum to mect this extra pay should also be inserted in the tax levy, The communication was laid over and ordered to be printed. A resolution to insert Mfty thourand dollars to pay the enumerators was defeated, and after some further proceedings the entire tax lovy was laid aside for action at a future meeting. ‘The cases of Frank Ferris and Roger Lamb, both con- vicled of the murder of their wives, were yesterday bo- fore the general term of the Supreme Court, on appeal from the Court of General Scssions, The princ:pal grounds of appeal in the case of Ferris were that ths trial, verdict and judgment took place after the expiration of the third week of the term, the legal limit for the sitting of the Court of General Sessions, and also for other alleged informalities in the form of trial, and because the defence of homi- cidal insanity set up by the prisoner was not a fenciful one, but one indicated at every step in the testimony. In the case of Lamb the grounds of appeal were that the court below erred in not allowing the defence to prove that his wife was of a quarrclsome, vindictive and brutal disposition, and also in charging the jury that the law presumes malice from the mere act of killing, and in re- fusing to charge that if the jury have reasonable doubt as to what degree of guilt to find itis their daty to con- viet of the lesser. In the case of Mr. Loeffer against Mra. Glenn, which was an action for the recovery of three hundred dollars for painting @ portrait of the defendant's dead son, a verdict was rendered yesterday in the Marine Court in favor of the plaintiff. Ta the Court of General feasions yesterday Theodore Losey, indicted for forgery in. the third degree, im at- tempting to pas a forged check on the leather Manafac- turers’ Bank for ninety dollars, purporting to be signed by Thomas Kerr, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that offence, and was remande’ for sentence. James Koliy, charged with stealing o1.¢ bindred dollars worth of cotton goods from Albert Cheseborough, on the 25th of August, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. ‘The Court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. Ellen Hardy, indicted for stealing one hundred and twenty-five dollars worth of wear- ing apparel from. Katharine Driscoll, of 128 West Twenty-seventh street, on the 30th of June, pleaded guilty to the offence, and was sent to the State Prison for two years. Wm. Thompson, being charged with stealing a gold watch from Edwin 1. Wood while on the corner of Houston street, pleaded to an attempt at grand larcony. He was pursued and arrested in a rear building in Crosby street, where the watch was found. Sentence was postponed. The cace of William Stockton, charged with burglariously entering & room in the Dey Strect House, oocupied by Dr. Dis- brow, waa concluded, and resulted in the acquittal of the accused. George Maher, alias Muggins, charged with robbing Patrick Campbell of thirty-one dollars, was tried; but the testimony of the complainant was so un- reliable that Assistant District Attorney Bedford aban- doned the case, and the jury rendored a verdict of ‘not guilty’ without leaving their seats, Edward Sweeny was convicted of stealing seventy-five dollars from James Gilmartin on the 14th of August, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. Another meeting of officers of our city banks was held yesterday for the purpose of considering plans for the redemption of national bank notes. There was consider- able discussion, and some resolutions were adopted and committees appointod; but no final ayatem to effect the desired object was settled upon, and an adjournment took place till Taesday next, when it is expected that the special committee's report on the subject will be suo- mitted and discussed. Chief Justice Chase arrived in this city yeaterday from ‘Washington, and was called upon during the day by a number of prominent gentlemen. ‘The party of English capitaliete arrived at Toledo, Ohio, yesterday, and were entertained by an excursion on Lake Brie during the day and a ball and banquet at night. A delegation of Chicago officials arrived hore last even- ing for the purpose of visiting and gathoring informa- tion in regard to our city institutions, with the view of applying it in the management of their own, Yesterday afternoon # highwayman, named Gallagher, who recently escaped from the prison van while being conveyed to jail, waa rearrested by two policemen in Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, near the City Park; but soon after several of Gallagher's confederates attacked the officers, beat them im a shocking manner and took away their prisoner, and all succeeded im escaping. A meeting of the licensed hackmon of the city was heid last evening at the Fifth Ward Hotel, Wost Broad: The Prokident said | way, to take action for reliving themselves from many annoyances of which they complain they are subjected in the pursuit of their business by the police. Ata pre- vious meeting the hackmen organized an association and elected officers, and last night a committee was appoint- ed to draw up a constitution and by laws. ‘The stock market was extremely dull yesterday. Gov- ernments were frm. Gold was strong and closed at 144, ‘The demand for general merchandise was moderate yesterday ; but the markets were firm as a general thing, in sympathy with the high price of gold, Nearly all kinds of imported merchandise were held very firm, and for some kinds higher prices were demanded. Domestic produce was also rather firmer, but not active, Cotton was the turn firmer. Groceries were firmer. Petroleum was leas active, but held higher. On Change flour was & shado lower, but wheat and corn were firmer, Pork and lard and whiskey were all rather higher. There was an active speculative movement in hemp, and the trans- actions were heavy. ‘The market for beef cattle was Grmer this week, and prices were about 3c. higher on all grades. Prime cat- tle sold readily at 18c. a 183¢c., and some few were esti- mated at 19c, The demand was good at the advance, and the yards were nearly emptied at an early hour. ‘The market at the clove was depressed by a government sale of cattle, and prices ruled lower. Milch cows sold at $35 a $80 2 $100. Veale were active at.9c. » 130, and choice sometimes brought 133¢c. Sheep sold freely at ‘Tige. a 8c. Prices varied from $4 to $8. Hogs were also higher. The salea were at from 18%c. to 14%. ‘The total receipts wore:—6,176 beeves, 122 cows, 1,266 voals, 22,073 sheep and lambs, and 11,160 hogs. The Independent Press and the Radi- ecals-Fright of the Radicals East and ‘West. The independent press of this country has assumed the position for which we designed it when we established the Herarp. Our great cities are centres of thought, of intelligence and of statesmanship, as well as of business, commerce and society; and the leading papers of those cities, entirely independent. of the government, of parties and of politicians, are exerting that influence upon public affairs which legitimately belongs to them. If their power is not yet so absolutely controlling as it will ultimately become, it is because some members of the preas are not worthy of the position they are called upon to fill, But in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and other’ cities of rather leas rank we find journals, supported by the public and not by any party or faction, dispensing patronage instead of begging it, that stand, like the old. Roman tribunes, be- tween the political aristocracy and the people, and by their control of the masses shape and carry out the destiny of the coun- try. It was to occupy this post of honor, of dignity and of usefulness that we founded the Herarp, and with that object kept steadily in view we have created, during the past thirty years, the best news- paper in the ‘world. The politicians hate this journal, and have always hated it, because we took the part of the people sent CE ex- posed their schemes and would not be bri into silence by sharing their spoils. When the Heratp was started they predicted that, it would not succeed on account of ita antagonism to them; but ithas succeeded, and, better still, its success has brought into existence other independent papersin our large cities that will entirely supersede the old party hacks, and aid in fully developing this magnificent continent in the new and grand era which ia just now dawning upon us. The absorbing subject now under discussion before these tribunes of the people is the reor- ganization policy of President Johnson, and it is most curious and interesting to watch the progross they are making in the thorough ¢lu- cidation of the arguments upon both sides. As we turn over our numerous exchanges we find, of course, a diversity of opinion in regard to President Johnson’s course; but without quot- ing trom the various papers to show the shades of difference between them we. may sum up their views in a few gencral remarks. The radical papers are all more or less opposed to the President; some openly, like the Chicago Tribune; others sneakingly, indecently and meanly, like Dana’s Chicago Republican. The conservative press, both re- publican and democratic, is giving the Presi- dent @ support more or less cordial, but some- what biased by motives of self-interest among the republicans and by political speculations among the democrats. The copperhead jour- nals vacillate sadly, insulting the President one day by claiming him as a convert, and abusing him the next day for declaring that traitors ought to be punished. Of the two sections, East and West, the Eustern press is the more politic in its dealings with the important ques- tion at issue, and the Western press is the more disposed to the insolent, border-ruffian style of treating President Johnson. The independent press takes ground widely diverse from that occupied by the radicals and the copperhends. It supports the President, like the conservative papers, but it is influenced by no partisan con- siderations. The Heratp, which was the first independent journal to endorse Mr. Johnson when he was providentially promoted to the Presidency, is a fair illustration of the inde- pendent press generally. We sustain the Pre- sident because we believe him to be right, be- cause his policy is truly mational, be- cause he is acting for the best interests of both the North and the South, and because we apprehend that the negro suffrage, confis- cation and extermination doctrines enunciated by Chase, Stevens, Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Greeley and the drunken Senators from the West, will inevitably involve us in another bloody civil war. That these opinions are being extensively adopted by the people is most evident; for even the members of the Massachusetts Republican Convention, after Mstening to a most radical diatribe from Sumner, dared not go before their constituents upon any other than a President Johnson plat- form. Just as the independent press rallied the masses to the support of the government at the outbreak of the rebellion, and to the sup- port of Lincoln at the last Presidential elec- tion, #0 they will rally the masses to the sup- port of Andrew Johnson; and we risk nothing in predicting that before the next Congress meets there will be a decided majority of both houses in favor of his policy. The radicals are justly and badly frightened at the influence which they see the independent press wielding over the popular mind. The Chi- cago Tribune accuses the New York republicans of cowardice in not opposing “the Tennessee democrat”—which is border-raffian slang for President Johnson—more boldly and manfully. It prays the Lord, or the devil, to uphold their weak hands and strengthen their feeble knees, and give them stiffer backbones. It accuses them of already “half ratifying” the President’s measures, It declares that they “cannot long walk with. this catlike step and secretive air without being set down for knaves of some kind.” It imoudontly revoqls the whole sogret of the negro suffrage agitation, by stating that negro suffrage “will be worth in ten years six hundred thousand votes to the party that adopts it.” Finally, this insolent, ultra-radical organ stigmatizes its brethren in the East as cunning, dishonest “court puppets,” and es ostriches sticking their heads in the sand and unduly elevating their posteriors. The Chicago Tribune bas some reason for this outbreak of indeceney and ill temper; but if it were sit- uated like its Eastern contemporaries, and could see as far into the future, it would be as mildly radical as they. The radical papers here are surrounded by masses of people who ardently sustain President Johnson, and they cannot but feel the effect of the popular electricity generated by the independent press, which outwits and overthrows the poli- ticlans by appealing directly to the voters, They appreciate the full force of the fact, ap- parently overlooked by the Western radicals, that the war has ended, and that peace bas sent six hundred thousand soldier voters to their homes. These returned soldiers are, to a men, devoted to Andy Johnson, as they were to Lin- coln, and are ready to go through fire and water to serve him, Their suffrages will change the political complexion of every State if there be any issue forced upon the public in regard to which our soldiers can vote ass unit, The quarrel with President Jobnson, which the drunken Senators and border-ruffian journals of the West are trying to raise, will be just such an issne, and the Eastern radicals are shrewd enough to see this and to beware of it, Bat as the radicals of the West cannot injure President Johnson any more than they could injure Lincoln, unless they can induce the Eastern republicans to act with them; and as the Eastern republicans dare not throw down the glove to Johnson any more than they dared sustain Fremont against Lincoln, for fear of the inevitable consequences at, the ballot box, we arrive at the conclusion that the President will be perfectly safe and his policy completely triumphant. They may call him a “Tennessee democrat,” as they called Lincoln “an Illinois slavedriver ;” but such language will only make him more firm in his purposes. He relies upon the independent preas, and the press, through its ideas and argu- ments, leads and acts with the people. ° Thus sustained, he can afford to laugh at the impo- tent fury of a few agitators on the stump, in the papers and in Congress. The Right of , Suffrage—Extraordinary Powers of the Police Board. An act of the last Legislature vests:in the Commissioners of Police the entire conduct and canvass of the elections in this city. ‘There is practically no eee {big statement, set 80 EG public Fh aS the vigilance of citizens themselves, as well aa the! willingness to supervise the registry and the polls, may qualify the fact, The law provides that the police shall have charge of the polls, keep order and arrest for illegal voting, or any obstruction of the polling places; it gives ‘the Police Gommiasioners the appointment of four registrars to register voters, and it makes these registrars the inspectors of election at the ballot boxes. When the polls are closed two canvassers, also appointed by the Police Board, count the votes. , It is evident that this sweeping concentra- tion of power over the suffrages of the city must challenge the keenest scrutiny, and ren- der the discharge of their duties by the Police Commissioners a subject of the most dangerous character to trifle with. However it may work there will be one point certain in the result— the public will know exactly whom to hold re- sponsible. Under the old system of electing inspectors and canvassers there was no such thing as responsibility of this nature. The more recent plan of having the Board of Su- pervisors name the officers of election has been superseded, upon the complaints of their par- tial and partisan action. We have now to see how far the new plan of giving the whole thing to the Police Board will remedy these com- plaints. But-it is evident that no plan can be made to work if the reliable and honest men of the community should to any great extent decline to serve as officers of election, in the same man- ner as they too frequently stay away altogether from the polls. The duty to be required of the registrars will be one or two days at the work of registry, three weeks before the day of elec- tion; one day for corrections, three days*before election, and the duty of inspectors for one day at the polls, making three or fonr days in all, for which five dollars a day will be allowed, the two canvassers being also paid for making up the retarns. No clerks are provided for, and the whole of the duties must be discharged by the election officers personally. The Police Commissioners are now making up their list of appointments, fifteen hundred in number. There are upwards of two hun- dred election districts or polling places in the city, and it would be surprising if the list of registrars and canvassers, which will probably be published next week, did not con- tain names which should be closely challenged and scrutinized. On these the Commissioners propose to hear all objections. But possibly the principal difficulty will be found in indno- ing many who may be named from the respon- sible and business clacses to give up the time necessary to discharge the duty. These should be brought to « sense of their responsibility. They should be made to feel the importance of their work, and we hope that party interest, if not the public interests, will occasion snch competition for these positions that the Police Board can bave no grounds for falling back upon the excuse of their predecessore—the refusal of good men to serve as inspectors and canvassers. * ‘Dae Loxpon Toes—Tue Mit 1 THE Cocoa Nour—We have at length obtained a clue to the mystery of the active, persistent, laborious and unscrupulous efforts of the London Times and some other British metropolitan journals to bolster up the cause of Jeff. Davis from the beginning to the end of the late rebellion. Those journals were paid for their services in behalf of Southern independence. Davis had a contingent fund or two in London for his “detached service,” as well as at Montreal, How much hard cash, how mach of the profits of this or that blockade runner or of Jeff.’s tical cruisers were employed in the manu- facture of British public opinion we shall probably never know; but we have secured some statistics of the rebel cotton loan which are very suggestive, For example, among the investments in this tempting Yazoo speculation of twelve millions of dollars. whioh wag secured by 9 pledge of —Or say three hundred and seventy-five thou- sand dollars, as the stock held by one journal in this rebel cotton loan. The London Morw forked over the check forthe money. Some- body had to suffer, but the Hon. Ben was paid. Now we would suggest to the by the Hon. Ben Wood with Jake Thompson. Mowicrpat. Reroru.—Papers have been sub- mitted to the Governor containing charges sagainst the Mayor, and other members of the eity government, urging « wholesale removal on the ground of a corrupt administration of the various offices. What the. Governor will do it is difficult to determine in the multiplicity of the charges. and the views in rélation. to them ; but it seems rather more than likely that the whole movement will degenerate into a question of party politics, and be as bad one way as the other. There is hardly a hope that any public benefit can come out of it. It will not affect the progress of corruption in our municipal affairs, which does and will go on, and become worse and worse every day. There is but one remedy for our condition, and that lies with the people of the State at large. There is now no exciting national issue, for the parties agree and are only anxious which shall be first to declare the identical impulses that move them all. All are for Johnson, from the republiggns. of Mageachgeotty 10 hy demotrats ek 6 present occasion, therefore, in the absence of a national issue, is favorable to a full consideration of the condi- “tion of this city by the people of the State. Let the vital question for the election of a Legisla- tare be the reorganization of this city. Let the people of the State remember the large they have in this city in common with our bet. cipal-corruption cannot control. That Legis lature should appoint a council or board of eleven persons to supersede entirely our whole present municipal system—to sweep away all d bureaus or commissions—to take their places and to” have full authority. They must have in themselves the power to do all the necessary acts of city government. The Park Commission illustrates the value of this. Had that commission not had full power the magnificent embellishments of that great work would hardly be begun by this time. The lauded system of “checks and balances,” relied upon to secure official honesty, is the greatest of mistakes. It only secures delay and stupendous robbery where the robbery would be insignificant without it. Ifevery department must approve, every department has to be bought and the price goes up accordingly. The council should have full authority to govern the city for five years, and should in that time establish and put in working order a system of municipal government adapted to our wants, the heads of which should be elected by the people upon the expiration of the five years. In that time a council of eleven intellgent men could establish a practical, decent, honest, working organization, and the appointment of such a council with such powers is the only present hope of municipal reform. A Serrize reom THE Secretary or Srate.— In reference to the suit instituted in England by the United States against Prioleau and others for the recovery of one thousand three '| hundred and fifty bales of “Confederate” cot- ton, the Vice Chancellor sitting in judgment decided in favor of the United States substan- tially as the Power absorbing the late de facto government of the so-called “Confederate States.” Whereupon Mr. Seward, in « letter to Mr. Adams, instructs him to inform all con- cerned that “the United States do not admit that the combination of disloyal citizens who have raised the standard of insurrection is now, or has at any previous time, been a gov- erament de facto, or in any sense s political Power capable of taking, holding, giving, as- serting or maintaining corporate rights im any form, whether municipal or international. It is true that a different view of the character of the insurgents has seemed (o find favor with some portions of the British nation, and even with the British government,” and that “it must be remembered, however, that as often aa that antagonistical opinion has been advanced by her Britannic Majesty’s government in its intercourse with the United States it has been as firmly, though, as we trust, as courteously, denied.” This is a settler, not only in reference to the cotton in question, but in regard to all debts, loans, contracts, &c., of every description en- tered into with the late so-called Confederate States, or in behalf of the cause thereof in any shape or form, at home or abroad. Everything in the shape of cotton or other property held anywhere as the property of the so-called Con- federate States, is now the property of the United States, de facto and de jure. We dare say that after the reception of Mr. Seward’s letter there will be no more meetings of the holders of the rebel cotton loan to discuss the question of its redemption by the United States. Waat Wri tae Rervpticans Do ar Syna- cuse?—Some say that they will renominate the demooratic ticket, or part of it, and adopt the democratic platform; and others that they will frame « platform of their own and a new ticket also. We would advise them to make « new ticket entirely, and, if they want to win, to } make it of eqldters {hroughout. They should 1 Drogheda, an Irish nobleman somewhat noted for nis strone, rebel proclivities, with Lady all | the little ‘and @ retinue of servants, artived in | Ri , Va., on the 17th instant, and went, it Bee- | ing with , on the following day. solely and ingly of resolution to support sustain in all weys the administration of Pres- 5 E f the resolutions adopted at the recent Demo eratic Convention at Albany. It saya— @iscovered in the New York Times a sorry © time server, and in the New York Tribune's feeble squeaker, fires away at 9. fearful'rate round shot and shell, long shot and grape at ’ tary law, while President Johneon is earnestly laboring, South and North, to re-establish the supremacy of civil law. The simple issue, be- whether the country shall hereafter be ruled by the constitution and the people, or by the bayonet.and a military despotism. President , Johnson, invested by Congress with the powers of an absolute despot, is laboring to cast them off as soon as possible. The abolition Jacobins have a different game to play. ‘They wishito prolong their power by holding the South under military law, and they demand of the President that he shall be their obedient instra- ment to this end. The stakes are tremendotis, but the odds are on the side of Andy Johusan. the Fenjan organization in the North numbers two hundred and twenty-one any day-on the great question of the liberation of Ireland, and to aid and assist in that.noble i i : : i : August 17, in which be says:— ¥ 1 Sars Canta ie ee ee ae t will to remain here some time, after which I ax invented by the go-called ‘correspondent of the ‘Phita. | delphia Prest’’ ia flee, and involves the purposy 6f pro- curing the recognition of Maximilian by. the United ‘The cause of Maximilian must indeed be weak when it ia necessary to resort to fabrication In order to bolster up g ‘This simple letter of President Juarez dispels all the re- cent fabrications as the rising sun dispels the morning dew, Personal Intelligence. Among the names of the freshmen at Harvard Univer. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase arrived in this city from entirely unofficial, he having come to New York for the purpose of escorting homeward his son-in-law, daughter and grand ohild, he was waited upon by a number of pro- minent politicians and several of his old friends, whom he remained at home to recetve, only absenting himself an hour or 80, when he was driven to the jewelry estab- ment of Mesera. Ti & Co, Som tne Set Janice welcomed geting the dovernor Andrew, ‘atopp: Park Hote wher’ he Intends to Temain until Thussday neXt; 6x. . Be, ir. an Austin ge} bas alread, been intimated, the visit of the ge] and will be orief, ae 7 bratty fea the ity on Fi » ier brain | ete ty en -Govenser ‘Morgan, on Thureday evening 4 Robert EK. Lee, President elect of pee j Virgmta, the ‘‘model’”’ Southern whe bs or eeanag eeattcs grea Lae wo td his country, too, because bis 34 going to do #0, & moatin the oo! fen nbes encase ah noxt. Joo Johnston, the having got sereae ae Sanaa