The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE .N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. —= Volume XEX.........ceccereerereceree .-- Mo, 264 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Suar. RY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lirs ano Timms ow ro kine's ‘Gaupenee—Tue Steixe. "s IN, Broad oEESL ARES BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Huney VIIT.—Tae yaatous Wire. RY TRE, Bowery.—Caave Daa Ruvo— ur Paco omer Frou NG Bxacom. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Your Lirs's 1 Dax- aua—P0-Ca-HON-TAs. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Evzarsopr's Faixn>— “Toopiss. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—-Tux Bataan ‘Vooa. axp Oncumstnat Concents—Mits. Panera. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteonth street—Hunwaxn, ‘wus Paesripigrtarevs. —— ' He 472 Broad- argu MINSTRELS, Mi Bast’ aoa a rf. woop" 514 Broadway.—Ermioriax: DiS MINBT REL, HM ition Fawinx—JuLinn Cox a's Lax, ko. 585 Broadway, opposite FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, “awe vet tan Hotel. —£TH10F1AN Negno-Man-Sin. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadwav.—Ermoriaw wimernrisy BALLETS, Pantomrmxs, BURLESQUES, &0.— Suirus AND Buowns. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- ma, Dancing, Burtxsques, &¢.—EL Nino Eppie—Tux Ex- OnANTMENT. BLITZ NEW HALL, 720 Brondway.—Patace or Iuuv- won—Learnep Cananys—Venrarioquism, £0. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Moving W. 7eAN Uy Pasamant LiveouxJxer, Davia, Bo. ne NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. M. New York, Thursday, September 21, 1865, NOTICE 70 THE PUBLIC. Our city subscribers will confor a favor by reporting any of our city carriors who overcharge for the Hxratp Country subscr.bers to the New Youx Henap are re- quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- sable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of éransmitting money by mail. Advertisements should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. STATE POLITICS. The New York Republican State Convention aseembled in Syracuse yesterday, and was a largo and spirited gath- ering. State Senator Charles J. Folger was chosen tom- porary chairman and Hon. Chauncey M. De- pew permanent presiding Each = gen- Heman on taking the chair addressed the assomblage. After the transaction of consider- able preliminary business, the nomination of candi- dates for State offices was proceeded with, and resulied in the choice of General Francis C. Barlow, of this city, for Secretary of State; Thomas H. H Ilhouse, of Ontario county, for Comptroller; Colonel Howland, of Dutehess, for State Treasurer; General John H. Martindale for At- torney Goneral; J. Platt Goodsell, of Oneida, for +tate | officer. Engineer; Robert E. Dorn, of Schenectady, for Canal Commissioner; General Barnum, of Onondaga, for State Prison Inspector; Ward Hunt, of Oneida, and Jobn K. Porter, of Albany, for Judges of the Court of Ap- pens, and Henry Jones, of Cattaraugus, for Court of App‘als Clerk. All the avore made unanimous, and many 0° them by acclama- tion, and after they got once fairly started at their work the members of the convention moved tcgether harmo- uiously and enthusiastically. It will be seen that the ¢epublicans have made an advance in the military elo- mont of their ticket over that of the democrats, pitting in nomination four army officers against the democrats’ two, The resolutions, which were adopted unanimously, ‘and the reading of which was fr quently interrupted by ‘spplause, congratulate the country on the preservation of the Union and the destruction of slavery; express the most complete confidence in President Johnson ‘and yerfect approval of his reconstr ction policy, and pledge him a most hearty and cordial support; insist that the Southern § 3s shall grant to their colored population the priviloze of the elective franchise; maintain that the ent're national debt most be held asa sored obligat.on, but that not one cent of the liabil'ties incurred in any manner in belal’ of the rebellion must be recognized; expross confidence in th» foreign policy of the administration, and tender to * Seward congratulations for his escape from the knife and tl. for his distinguished s>rvicos, nominations The convention concluded its business and reached a final adjournment. As the result of the Democratic Convention's nomina- ions at Albany on the 7th instant, and those of the re- publicans yosterday, the following aro the two tickets Mow before the people of this State :— Offices, Dem cratic. "tican. Becretary of State.Gen. H. W.Slocum.Gen. F C. Barlow. Comptrolier ...... Lreius Robinson. .T. H._ Hillhoue. ptrolier Attorney General. .Jobn Van Buren n. J, Martindale. Canal Com. .C. W. Armstrong. . Robert E. Dorn, ‘Treaauror. . Gen. M. R. Patrick Colonel Howland, Ina State Prisons. A. J. MeNett. . ino. W. Judges Court App. {fariin Grover. Clerk Court App..E. 0. Perrin...... _ TRIAL OF WIiKZ, Nothing of grave importance was clicited in the Wirz trial yesterday, Witnesses for the prosecution are still oving examined. Dr. A. Thornbury, a revel surgeon who was on duty at Andersonville, testified as to the terrible condition of the prison, and read one of his reports going 40 show that surgeons were not provided with the means of working, or with medicines; that prisoners in the hospital were compelled to lie on the ground without blankets or bed, and that the rations of the men were Bot of the proper kind or tne proper quantity. Thedey's evidence was fully confirmatory of the horrible tales of the sufferings of the privoners and the intnmanity of their jailors heretofore narrated. One witness testified to having heard Wirz say that he had been an orderly sergeant in an Illinois regiment, and had been in Gen- oral Sigel’s command. EUROPE. ‘Two days later Ruropean int lligonce was brought by | the steamship Australas'an, which arrived here yester- flay, from Queenstown on the 10th inst. Tt was reported that the English government had ordered the stationing of two men-o’-war and @ number of gunboats off Bantry Bay and an adjoining station on the Irish const, Furthor particulars are furnished of the great fire in Stamboul, Turkey, on the 6th inst., heretofore briefly noticed. The number of buildings destroyed is eat- mated at twenty-eight hundred, and some accounts make t¢ ng high as twelve thousand. Nearly twenty-three 140 sam of the people were rendered houecless, It was * ceed, though not poo ively ascertained, that many 1 as were killed. low the fire originated is not / explained ; but tire fearful extent of ite ravages . ving tothe hduses being principally constructed od ‘and to an insuficient sapply of water. had almost disappeared from Constantinople, ‘Suropean harvests genorally are reported as abun- wives of Kossuth, ox-Dictator of Hungary, and of 4 voro, the Irish poot, died recently. od States five-twenty bonds stood at 6534 0 6834 In , idon market on the 9th instant. Consols were 80% 480%. In the Liverpool markets there @ very slight advance in cotton. Brendstuffs, Pp. wions and produce wero dull but steady. THE NEWS. 4 Now Orleans despatch states that President Johnson Dus appointed James M. Wells jonal Governor of Le: ana, Me, Wells was chosen ernor in an eleo tive hald by the people some timo ago, and has been for able while acting in that capneiy. It would t owever, from the despatch all ded to, that the Erviuset aves wet cousidor that | ction Ww have been NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1865. ee ars 8 RB «op EO regular and legal, and has therofore put Louisiana back into the provisional condition of reconstruction along with the other States which took part in the rebellion, to work her way upward like them, by regular stages, to the full enjoyment of all the blessings of the Union. Governor Perry, of South Carolina, in a despatch to President Johnson, announces the repeal by the South Carolina convention of the ordinance of secession, of which our readers were informed in ‘Tuesday's Hunavp. ‘The Governor's recommendations for officially recogniz- ing the abolition of slavery, equalizing representation, giving the election of Presidential electora and State offl- cers directly to the people and other reforms have all Deen favorably reported upon, and ‘will, it is said, be adopted. *ghe election to choose delegates tw the North Carolina reconstruction convention, which ts to meet on the 2d of nest month, will take place to-day, and an order has been issued from the military headquarters of the depart- meat forbidding enlisted men or officers of the army throughout the State visiting the polls, and no one will ve allowed to leave camp excepting in case of necessity; but, if there should be attempts made to create dis- turbance at any of the polling places, it is enjoined upon the military officers to see that order 1s preserved, even without a request to that effect from the provisional civil authorities, ‘The Alabama reconstruction convention on Monday last authorized Provisional Governor Parsons to order an election for members of Congress. Governor, members of the Legislature and other State officers are to be elected on the 6th of November. It is reported that a letter was received in Albany yesterday from General Slocum, stating that he had res:gned his military commission and would immodiately start for his home in this State. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday @ motion to insert in the county tax lovy Gfty thousand dollars to pay the census enumerators was made, and at first lost, but, on being renewed, prevailed. (A resolution presented by the President, that the bills of the census enumerators which had already been, or would hereafter be presented, be referred to a special committee, to examine into and ascertain ifthe work had been properly performed, was adopted. The Board of Education, at its session last evening, adopted a resolution appropriating six thousand Qve hun- dred dollars for anew heating apparatus for Grammar School No, 3, in the Nineteenth ward. On the recom- mendation of the Finance Committee the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars was appropriated out of the General Sehool fund to be applied to various school pur- poses, The Committee on By-Laws, Rules and Regula- tions, having the subject of abolishing corporal punish- ment in the schools before them, rendered a report in favor of restricting the power to inflict corporal punish- ment on the children to the Principal, or, in the absence of the Principal, to the Vice Principal only of schools, ‘A resolution was adopted discontinuing, after April 20, 1866, Colored School No. 5, in the Fifth ward. A reso- lution was adopted, on the recommendation of the Exe- cutive Committee on Free Academy, appointing Profes- sor J. E. Frobisher special instructor of elocution in the Free Academy, at an annual salary of two thousand dol- lars, said appointment to take effect upon the adoption of the resolution. Two examinations took place yesterday before United States Commissioner Betts. A man named Michacl Murphy was committed for passing a counterfeit twenty dollar bill at Jones’ Wood, and another, named Henry Phillips, was partially examined on the charge of stealing some rope from the frigate Madawaska, In the general term of the Supreme Court, before Tudges Ingraham, Sutherland and Leonard, the case of the Bank of the State of Georgia versus Robert Lewin, which had before been in litigation, was yesterday again up. The contest was over a bill for which the defendant was indebted to plaintiff, amounting originally to $10,340 70, but which, by renewal some yoars azo, when the former was unable to pay, was increased to $10,- 497 37. This the defendant objected to, charging usury; but the court ruled that the interest and the difference in exchange between New York and Savannah made the account all right, and decided in favor of plaintiff. ‘The Moimford litigation was again in court yesterday, before Judge Barnard, on a motion to compel the Life and Trust Company to pay to plaintiffs the amount of the r claim—twenty-cight thousand dollars—in advance of other creditors, on giving a bond to defendants to se- cure them from loss in caso of @ final decision against the - the plaintiff The conrt granted tho required order. An action was brought in the Superior Court yester- day, before Judge Monerie’, by 8. H. Stuart, against the Gresnwich Saving? Bank, to compel the latter corpora- tion to pay over to the assignee of Charles Brown the sum of $4,013, which th» Phenix Bank ims was part of the Jenkins defalcation. Judgment was given for the plaintiff ‘An application was made yesterday before Judge Bar- nard for the attachment of F. L. King, by his client, Anna Lorking, in the event of his not delivering up to petitioner certain drafts or bills of exchange, amounting to fifty thousand dollars, The defence is that Mr. King holds the said bills as security for fees and disbursements, amounting to two thousand dollars, to which he is enti- tled as counsel for petitioner. A curious suit was brought before Judge Alker, of the Marine Court, yesterday morning. The plaintiff, a boy fourteen years old, was-‘bitten by a dog on the 25th of last June, while passing the corner of Fifth street and avenue A. The dog belonged to Mr. Theodore Ellesh, and, according to the complaint, was a most vicious and ferocious animal, and in the habit of attacking people, The defendant, on the other hand, atlegos that his dog is naturally quict and inoffensive, and that the plaintift provoked the attack by his own want of care and reason. able precaution. The complainant asks for five hundred dollars damages. There was a large number of cases disposed of yester- day in the Court of General Sessions. Mary Cary, charged with stealing one hundred and twenty-seven dollars from Alexander Ward, pleaded guilty to an at- tempt at grand larceny. Wm. Hill pleaded guilty to an attempt to steal forty dollars from Rebecca Tickner, of 417 Sixth avenue, on the 10th of August. Those priconers were each sent to the tate Prison tor two years Henry Sebinidt pleaded guilty to burglary in the second degree, he having, on the night of the 7th inst., entered the houre of James Carson, 35 West Thirty-fourth strect, and carried away six hundred dollars worth of jewetry. Judge Russel sent him to the State Prison for ten years, John Smith, jointly indicted with John Williams (whose right name is James Gilmore), for burglary in the first degree, in entering the house 146 Wost Forty-seventh street, cm the night of the 20th of August, pleaded guilty to the third grade of that offence, was convicted of the second grade and sent to the State Prison for five years, W Iliams"having shown his provious good character, the Court moditied the sentence to six years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. Thomas Hayes and Wm. G. Fulton, against whom were two complaints for robbing passen- gors on board tho steamer Dean Richmond, wore tried and acquitted. Francis Storms, a respectable German artist, was tried on a chargo of stealing a horse and wagon, owned by Daniel Darrow; but, as it appeared from the testimony that the accused only used it for the purpose of going to his boarding house to get a carpet bag, in order to leave on the German steamer, the jury | acquitted him u: the felonious intent. Tho Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions yes- terday dismissed the charge against Wm. Kehoe, keeper of a saloon at 29 Coonties slip, who shot Frank Billar- gen on tho 15th Inst. It appeared that the deceased and other boatmen went into this place, using revonge- ful and threatening expressions to Kehoe, who, in at- tempting to eject them, was resisted by Billargen, who drew a knife, whereupon Kehoe procured a revolver and fired, killing the decoased. He gave himself up to tho authorities, saying that he acted in self-defence. Dis- trict Attorney Hall, in sending the papers to the Grand Jury, made this endorsement—‘In my judgment this is & case of justifiable shooting. If more rowdies were shot in like manner the better it would be for the city.”’ Surrogate Tucker was yesterday occupied by the trial of the alleged will of James Hampton, deceased, who was @ negro gardener, owning a house and lot on Seven- tioth street, The will leaves the property to a Mrs. Wilson, also colored, and is contested by Hampton's aunt. The decision was reserved by tho Surrogate. Sceretary of War Stanton is at present in the city, having arrived here on Tuesday, and will remain for a few days, during which he will make an inspection of* our harbor defences. Secretary of the Navy Welles, accompanied by his sen, E. T. Welles; Vice Admiral Farragut and Admiral Pauid- ine, yesterday visited the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tho distinguished party were received with a salute, con- ducted on a tour of inspection throughout the establish. ment, and were hospitably entertained by Admiral Bell, commandant, Another visitor of distinction to the yard yosterday was a young Japanese named Kisabro, who was taken through it and shown all the objects of in- terest A convention of delegates from the several Assembly district associations of the United Bervice Society met last night at Masonic Hall, in East Thirteenth streot, when officers of the central organization were elcctod, Colonel Hillyer being chosen President. On being con- ducted to the chair the Colonel addressed his brothor veterans in @ brief but forcible speech. A resolution of respect for the memory of President Lincoln was adopted, and considerable business of interest to the members was transacted. Acricket match which drew together a large throng of interested spectators was commenced yesterday between the St. George Club, of this oity, and the Young America Club, of Philadelpbia, on the grounds of the former, at Hoboken, More than usual interest is takon in this game on account of it being considered a trial of skill between American and English cricketers. At the conclusion of the playing yesterday the Young Ameri- cans were far ahead. It will be continued at ten o'clock this forenoon. A new line of steamers, composed of the George Leary, Jame: T. Brady, Dictator and Magenta, all new and ele- gantly fitted up side-wheel vessels, has recently com- meneed running on the route between Baltimore and Richmond, touching at Fortress Monroe, Norfolk, City Point and Petersburg. One of the boats leaves Baltimore daily at six P.M. During a fight on Tuesday night at Falk’s brewery, in 110th street, between two rival parties of mon who had been attending a picnic, two brothers, named Daniel and William Clafly, were so severely stabbed that the former died almost immediately, and the latter is not expected to live, Several persons feupposed to have been con- cerned in the affray have been arrested. A coroner's investigation took place in Brooklyn yes- torday relative to the death of John Keavy, alleged to have been caused by a gunshot wound inflicted by a man. named Mathews, on the corner of Washington avenue and Butler street, on the night of the 13th inst. After hearing all the evidence the jury returned a verdict of guilty against Mathews, and ho was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. The case of Jeremiah TownSend, the bookkeeper of the Townsend Savings Bank, of New Haven, Conn., who absconded last spring with about one hun- dred thousand dollars belonging to that institu- tion, and was subsequently arrested in England and brought back to this country, was dis- posed of in the Superior Court in New Haven on Tuesday of this week, Ths proceedings were viet, the accuse pleading guilty to the charge. After affecting addresses from counsel on both sides and the presiding judge, in which the previous good character and respectable con- nections of Townsend were alluded to, he was sentenced to seven years’ confinement in the State Prison. The monument in Baltimore to Thomas Wildey, tho father of Odd Fellowship in this country, was unveiled yesterday with all the appropriate imposing ceremonies of the Order, There was a large procession on the occa- sion of members of various lodges, including the Grand Lodge of the United States, wearing their regalia, carry- ing banners, and marching to the music of numerous bands, Prosident Jobnson, to the great disappointment of thousands, was not able to be present. A man named Love was committed for trial in Chicago on Saturday last, in default of thirty thousand dollars bail, on charge of having in his possession thirty-one thousand dollars worth of bonds alleged to form a por- tion of the effects of robberies, amounting altogether to ‘about three hundred thousand dollars, which have been for some months past being perpetrated on banks in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The European capitalists arrived in Detroit yesterday, and were handsomely entertained by the merchants of that city, an excursion, a ball and a banquet forming parts of the hospitalities. Wednesday, the 18th of October, has been appointed a day of general thanksgiving in Canada for the late abun- dant harvest. The stock market was dull and barely steady yester- day. Governments were firm. Gold was quiet, and closed at 143%. ‘The merchandise markets were steady yesterday, and there were no violent fluctuations in prices. Foreign goods were in moderate demand at unchanged prices. Domestic produce was steady, with a fair demand. Gro- ceries were steady. Cotton was quiet. Petroloum was in fair demand and firm. Pork was steady. Lard was firm. Whiskey was also firm. Flour was 10c. a 15c, better. Wheat and corn were Ic. a 2c. better, and oats were heavy. That terrible French revolution which changed the most presumptuous, oppressive and offensive monarchy in Europe to the re- public of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,” as an astounding transformation, is almost equalled by the revolution which has come upon South Carolina. Mark the contrast be- tween the speeches of her ruling oligarchy at her secession convention of 1860 and the address of her present Provisional Governor Perry to the convention called to reorganize the State as a loyal member of the Union. See what four years of withering war have done in ber case. Where now is that gorgeous fabric of an imperial Southern confederacy, resting upon the corner stone of slavery, and bring- ing the destinies of all nations under the -ove- reign will of King Cotton? It has all vanished like a mirage in the desert, and the once impe- rious city of Charleston, which dreamed of the glory of Rome, has narrowly escaped the fate of Carthage ! The ruins of Sumter tell the story of South Carolina. The condition of the fortress is the condition of the State. It must be rebuilt from its foundations. The local oligarchy, the institutions, ideas and class distinctions of a hundred years’ ripening have all been shat tered by shot and shell into a heap of rubbish- ‘From these ruins Governor Perry is called by. President Johnson to rebuild the fabric of the State, and, with a hitch or two, he goes to his task like a skilful workman. The convention summoned together by him has assembled, and he has chalked out the work which it is re- quired to do. He tells the members, first, in general terms, that it is their duty to organize a State government, “whereby justice may be established, domestic tranquillity insured, and loyal citizens protected in all their rights of life, liberty and property,” and whereby the State may be restored to her “constitutional relations to the federal government,” and then he proceeds to his specifications. He admonishes the convention that “African slavery, a cherished institution of South Caro- lina from her earliest colonial history,” “is gone, dead forever, never to be revived or hoped for in the future of the State.” After the sacrifice, in an exhausting war, of the white bone and sinew of the State, and pro- perty to the extent of two hundred and fifty millions of the three hundred millions of her wealth, and all for the perpetuation of African slavery, this tremendous fact, that “it is gone, dead forever,” is presented as the starting point of the convention. They must build upon the corner stone of Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation, They must de- clare slavery abolished in their new State constitution. It is the fixed condition prece- dent of the President’s amnesty, the condition to a readmission to Congress, from which there is no escap.. This may be a painful duty, but the Governor is sure that the members of the convention, patriotic and honorable men, will fulfil it, He next advises them, and all con- cerned, that “by a wise, just and humane treat- ment of your freed men and women you may attach them to you as strongly in their new condition as they were while your slaves.” The Governor then proceeds to recommend “popularizing the State constitution in sev- eral particulars.” The representation in the State Senate is arbitrary, unjust and unequal. It ought to be rectified. ‘fhe Legislature bas heretofore elected the Governor and cast the | that tho error occurred by so: Presidential electoral vote of the State, These powers should now be given to the people. Upon the suffrage question Governor Perry thinks that to extend the suffrage now to the freedmen, “in their present ignorant and de- graded condition, would be little less than folly and madness.” Butin his argument upon this subject the Governor permits his zeal to outrun his discretion. He talks of the “radical republican party of the North,” aa if that party had no vote in Congress upon the acceptance of the work of his convention, He re- peats the old exploded notions of South Carolina before the deluge, that “this is the white man’s government, intended for white men only”—notions which, since the deluge, are, even in South Carolina, utterly ab- gurd and unmeaning nonsense. They are oal- culated to do no good, but will be apt to make mischief, as excellent ammunition for Northern radical agitators. We must say, moreover, to Governor Perry, that the exclusion of the blacks from the bene- fits of the government does not enter into the programme of President Johnson. ‘The insti- tation of slavery having gone by the bosrd, the blacks must be recognized as citizens, whatever their restrictions for the present in view of the general interests of the community. It is a pity that this otherwise admirable ad- dress of Governor Perry should be spoiled by his exploded heresies concerning the negro’s rights. It never was wise, and it is now ex- ceedingly foolish, for any Southern Provisional Governor to recall the inflammatory precepts of the Dred Scott decision. But, considering the stupendous revolution which South Carolina is called to recognize within her borders, it is not strange that even Governor Perry should failto meet it fully. In the main he has done well; but we apprehend that he must drop the Dred Scott decision or he will fail to tough bottom in Congress, ope ‘ Tax Soipiers at Home—Taem Inrivence.— During the past summer nearly a million men have returned to their homes from the army. They are the most patriotic men in the com- munity. The soldier, wherever you see him, is the one man in twenty who was ready to give his life for his county, and went out to do it, He is the one who laid aside all his ordi- nary pursuits, while the others thought about it; and his patriotic sacrifices and endeavors, his hardships, his trials, his triumphs, have only made him love the country still more, and he comes home a more earnest patriot than he was when he went. These men care but little for the quibbles of the politicians or the terrible wordy wrath of the radicals. Nigger suffrage does not vex thetr souls. They were willing that Sambo should have a chance to be shot, and will, per- haps, not stand in the way of his securing an equivalent privilege. But there is one point on which they are positive, and that is the sup- port of the administration. They went for Old Abe through and through, and now they go with equal completeness for Andy Johnson as the whole-hearted repre- sentative man of the people. His blunt directness, his obvious purpose to be just to all, his resolute adherence to the spirit of the constitution against all the clamor and quibble of the political cliques—all these take hold of the soldiers’ hearts as did the similar characteristics of his great predecessor, and they all go home Johnson men to the core. There is thus spread over every part of the North an immense unbonght, unpaid, spon- taneous influence in support of the President. The soldiers affect greatly the communities in which they live, especially in the rural dis- tricts. They have been out and seen the world and the war, and they become the centres of little circles that unconsciously adopt their views. Their influence on the result of our elections will be obvious; and the politicians already foresee this, and bid wisely for it in the nomination of military men for all offices, But the influence of the soldier will go further than this. It will originate snch a full and hearty support of the Prosident as will carry his re- construction policy through without jar or jolt. It will put the radical party out of existence— and thus the soldiers who saved the country will be a main influence in its settlement, Tae Eytenre Corpiate Between France anp Enouanp.—It appears by-our late European newe that France and England are on the most delightful terms. They are perfectly charmed with each other, and are entirely in consonance upon all questions, especially upon public law. The necessity of establishing an entonte cordiale between these two nations always becomes ap- parent to their statesmen when they are men- aced with any difficulty from abroad, and there is, therefore, upon all such occasions, a great public demonstration made of their per- fect unanimity and exceeding great friendship, which is intended as « threat to outside na- tions. Sometimes it is a visit of Napoleon to the Queen of England, or a visit of the Queen to the Tuileries; again it is the massing of an army of observation * on the frontier of some neighboring country. Just now the method adopted is a grand inter- national naval review, to show the combined strength of the two countries on the sea, which may be taken as a gentle hint to the United States; and such, indeed, was intimated the other day by one of their newspapers, which challenged the Americans to observe what a magnificent navy was at the command of Eng- land and France. Everybody understands the meaning of the late extraordinary exhibition of good feeling between them. England has some fears of a rising in Ireland, and Louis Napoleon foresees that he may be required to withdraw his troops and his deputy from Mexico. We have not the slightest objection to an entente cordiale between France and England. We are delighted to see them shaking hands across the Straits of Dover. It is fraternal, and, moreover, refreshing to our sense of humanity. The policy of any country or all the countries of Europe has no effect upon our policy. It never did have, and it never will. They can be on good or bad terms with each other, just as they please. We care not a fig for their innuendoes or their menaces, but will keep on attending to our own business in our own way, as we have always done. American Seconrrms.—We publish in an- other column an explanation by the agent of Reuter’s telegram company of the error which prevailed in England relative to another gov- ernment loan, which news was said to have been carried out by the Moravian, and upon the receipt of which the quotation of American securities fell nearly one ver cent. It avpears telegvaphing, either on (he line be York and Father Point or between Londoa- derry and London. Upon the correction of this mistake, no doubt, our five-twentics will advance in value again to sixty-nine and an eighth, at which they were being very briskly taken before the Moravian’s incorrect tele- grams were received in London. ‘The British Press and the Rebel Loan. No fact of the present time has been more painfully apparent than that the press of Great Britain exhibited toward this country in the late war a malignity of spirit and » height of misrepresentation and slander without parallel in history, We see now, in the developments of the history of the rebel cotton loan, the special occasion of it. That press was bought, The rebel loan was “watered” for the special benefit of the men ready to prostitute their pens to this bad purpose. It was declared that the loan was larger than it really was, and the extra shares thus tacked on were distibuted with a liberal hand to the men wht could make British public opinion. %% was the usual modern bribe. It wovd have been immense in the event of suotess. It was worthlcss in view of failure, and eo the London Times was worked terribly that Spence and the rest might secure their price. This stimulated the attempt to do what might be done to break us down; and now the bitterness of disappointment stimulates the Times to continue its villifica- tion of us as @ people. Exactly this kind of attempt to influence the opinion of the world is common in English history; only it is generally the British govern- ment that employs and directs the British press and pays the bribe. Its bribes are places, or money—whatever it is convenient to give or will be taken; but one of Eng land’s great powers in her disputes with other ations is a purchased press. She uses suc- the pen and the tongue. Wherever one fails or is not compatible another is always at hand. Through the press, as the great so-called lever of public opinion, she has’ been enabled to exercise an influence that has in its day over- turned thrones and changed the fate of nations. Through the power of the tongue, adeptly and ably employed, she has created that public opinion which has been so considerable a lever in the affairs of the world. These latter means, skilfully used, did more to place Napoleon L in a false position before the world than Russia or Waterloo—a position so powerfully fus- tened upon him that half a century of enlightenment has failed to fully rein- state him. By assiduously writing him down as a “Corsican adventurer,” a “brutal and overbearing tyrant,” a “usurper and blood-thirsty wretch,” he was held up as an ebject of natural abborrence to the human race, and a stigma fastened upon him, which, in some respects, may never be entirely oblit- erated. Even Walter Scott was induced to decry this man, sprung from the people; and another writer, otherwise unknown to literary history, one Goldsmith, to indite the most abominable and indecent libel against him and his family ever permitted to rest upon the shelves of a library. . The same course, adopted in.the case of Louis Napoleon, signally failéd;, and after sneering at and scorning thd’“madman of Hum,” the “special policeman of London,” John Bull has been forced to swallow his words, however indigestible, and recognize the “nephew of his uncle” as the brother in royal- ty to the Queen, the maker of treaties of amity and concord with his own nation, and the very obvious bugbear of the present British people, despite their boasted power and their con- tinued arrogance. Still holding fast to the error of his way, John is now secking to lower our position among nations by traducing and slandering us before the world; and the means in our case is still the same—a venal press. Unwilling and unable to meet us in a fair way, England resorts to her threadbare scan- dals of “brutality,” “cupidity” and “extrava- gance;” but the world is grown too enlight- ened to be affected by such efforts. The libels of the London Times, the Post, the Herald and the Quarterly fall dead. Men reason and judge from the facts as presented by history, and are not, as formerly, biassed and prejudiced by the vain rantings of unscrupulous writers. Punch has taken the cue and honorably retired from the unequal contest. Let the remainder of British Httérateur take the hint and abstain from further making themselves ridiculous and their country a scorn and ® by-word among men. The American nation sees before it a future of prosperity when the British sun shall have set forever on its boasted possessions, and the British foreign policy be no longer of im- portance among nations and peoples. Juarez Won’r Give Ur tae Sair.—The re- port that President Juarez had removed his government from Chihuahua to El Paso has been accepted in some quarters as an indica- tion that he was about to evacuate Mexico and leave everything plain sailing for the would-be Emperor, This, however, by no means follows. Juarez is not going to give up the ship. He declares that he does not intend to abandon his country or his country’s cause. The friends of Maximilian, of course, represent the appear- ance of the republican President on the frontier of the United States as s virtual renunciation of his claims; but they may be grievously mis- taken. It is very likely that Maximilian will leave Mexico before Juarez does. Canavian Bonné to Kear tar Prace.—The Canadian authorities having paid over the sum stolen from the banks at St. Albans, Ver- mont, by the rebel raiders—amounting to some seventy thousand dollars in gold and bank notes—the act’may be regarded as bonds given by Canada _as a guarantee for future good be- havior. There will be no danger of rebel raids from the Canadian border if the bill of ex- pense has tobe foted by the Canadian people Axpy Jonxson anp THe Opp Frtiows.—We perceive that President Johnson has had an in- terview with a body of Odd Fellows, who aim to restore friendly relations between the bro- therhood North and South. The Order of Odd Fellows is a high-toned, philanthropic and be- nevolent one, and the diffusion of its principles of brotherly love all over the country can do a great deal of good. But we opine that the oddest fellows Andy Johnson has had to deal with lately are the Jacobin radicals. He will, however, be able to manage them, and if he cannot make them labor to restore the era of good feeling, he can, at all events, render their movements harmless. Oar Cuiergo Correspondence. Cuscago, UL, Sept. 17, 1865. A Tar ON THe LAKE After breakfust yesterday morning the party of Buro- pean visiturs wore waited upoo by Mr. J. HL Bowen, the President of the Loard of Trade of Chicago, who eseorted them to 4 neighboring wharf, where a steamtug was in readiness to convey them ona tour of inapoction of the river and lake, When all were on board the vessel put of and sailed down the river, Mr. Bowen pointing out as they passed the famous grain clevators and other objects of interest on the river. Entering the lake, the vessel ‘steamed out to the coffer-daum os crib, the terminus gt the tuanel which is to supply the city with fresh pure water. The whole party were enthusiastic im thoi admiration of so novel and bold a project, and spent \ some time in questioning tho engineer as to the details of the work. ‘The veasel next stoamed toward the southern portion, ‘of the city and afforded the spectators a fine view of tha! really beautiful section of Chicago. AT THE BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING. Returning to the starting point again the party disem- — barked, and under the guidance of Mr. Bowen proceeded to the new building of the Trade where a large number of merchants bad sssombled. @ome mo. ments their entrance was unnoticed, and they had full leisure to observe the manner in which business was transacted. Crowds of bo; were gathorod around the tables, whereon ipal articles seemed to be eam of flour, which the buyers Lancgper oy and or mani it ‘Dalis of dough, after the ner sel ‘house, Mr dising visit aa ere BF creed hy genase adr words of introduction he presented the erat hho proceeded. to address them tind tong boon wi ; Sates rae Chicage whi they had heard #0 much—A oliy which made them grateful for its bene- volence in forwarding to Ireland and Scotland grain in time of famine and destitution. Tho people of Chi- cago, in developing the degen wealth of the North- west, bad materially a! the prosperity of Great Britain, where they found so extensive a ret, SIR MORTON PETO ‘was next introduced, amid applause. He enumer- ated the kindnesses and welcomes to which he and hia fri_nds had been og since their bobs ‘oy ‘this gd om, 28 & proof © good wil wich dha ant abonid continue to-oxist between the peo- of the two countries. Pe of the board were then addressed bp Messrs. Cosham and McHenry, after which the party Circulated through the room for a short period observing the forms of the trade transactions. 3 CTs per: contac wie Wiens “ewasnou OD the steambug ind proceeded tip the Oh tiver, where they wore own the working of the elevators,” and inspected the Cxtansive cattle yai The handsome depot of the filt- nois Centra: Toad Visited, In the evening % banquot of unexcelled varicty and * quality of viands was eprea, a the Tremont House. The — room was decorated w‘t i aeata rank flags S the nations represented by the pants, while a ban interspersed tho feast with delicious music, MAYOR RICE “me presided, and, after some words of welconid, gave theut “The health of a peerless, lady, as much Toeper din this country as in England—the Queen,” wiitch was drank standing, the band playing “God Save the Queen. "* He next proposed “The health of the President of the United States,” and, after fts appropriate reception, toasted “Our Honored Guests.” ir Morton Peto responded. Referri siastic reception thoy had met with, reciprocal feelings of Kngland in the fact that it waa during our great struggle her capitalists had invested in thoir great onterpriso—a proof of thoir confidence in the stability of American institut ons. On their return to Eng- latid they could say they saw no signs of exhaustion, and that Amer ca was as powerful as ever. Tho absorption of the vast armies of the country was a matter of great won- dorment tohim. European nations had retained standing armies, but here was an instance of a Europe ever could boast settling back community. er toasts and foliowod until the conclusion Othe of the banquet, which in has, not be:n sur- passed in es the aserment in Whose houor it ve Sir Morton, Mr. Coshanr’ the Mr. Kin- Sunday School Union on the the Sunday school system ip to the enthu- © exhibited the cr force thaa anto the civil Arrival of the Capitalists at Detroit. Darnorr, Sept. 20, 1865. The European capitalists arrived here this afternoon, and wore rece:ved by the Board of Commerce, who took them on an excursion to Lake St. Clair and through the Detroit river. A collation on board was followed by speeches from the committee and their distinguished guests. The ceremonies of the day will concludo with a ball at the Russell House, where the party are stopping. Wat.ack’s Taeatee—This establishment opens to- night. This will be the most brilliant oopasion of the theatrical seacon so far. It is the first theatre that opens with a now play; it has been beautifully decorated since the close, and there have been some excelieut names added to the company. All these circumstances will as- sist to secure to the managerthe success that his enter- prise and liberality d2serve. The company at this thea- tre is the strongest we have. The former company of first-rates is retained throughout for the present season, and the addition that the public will most appreciate is that of that careful and admirable actor, Mr. E. L. Da- venport. No other stock company in the country has this genticman’s cqual as a leading actor, and itis. at once to his own credit, and to the credit of the theatre that he has been induced to retinquish the glitter and show of the starry career for the positive honors of the metropoli- tan boards. The new decoration of the theatre is very sei et ee ge, elties are announced as in active ——, and it is said not to be the intention to run any play for a considerable time, whatever its success may be; but to keep up a variety In novelty, to withdraw pieces without ox! ee sul juently as tion, and to return them to the stage ry en regular vi it the public taste may require. The of this theatre are to a sl : apy Tae Paenporargur at Tus Acapeuy.—Hermann dis- tances all his contemporaries in the art of magic, and we - question if any of his predecessors ever equalled him. He even excels what he was himself when tn this coun- try before, and he bas the faculty of creating at will the most surprising tricks, Some of those which he performs now he invented, if we may use such a term® since he has been in the city. Every conceivable thing highly interesting to the spiritual) drum trick. Mr. mayer, the is the inventor of thie extraord ba the Lad 7 Lad or Ise, ros tolligent! on the whole, Herrmann is the reigning day. Victorta Reata.—Two very fine specimens of tho beautiful and curious annual plant, (he Victoria Regia, ‘are at presont on exhbition by Mr, B. Balkey, at No. 807 Broadway. The flower of this wondé “Mt produetion attains a size from twelve to fifteen inches in diametor, ‘and resembles, upon ‘its first opening, « gigantic white yory delicato and agrocabie. Ristori he ros of we plant aro nearly circular, and sometimes fifteen to o ghteen feet in eter, ag on tho outer surface and crimson within, and = tor. Thoy are sometimes used soo sen obiiarga as rafts of boats on which to cross Small streams, To the atident of botany and the lover of the wonderful in naturo the Victoria Reaia is worthy or je attontion