The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF PULTON AND NASSAU 878. = ae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Evearsopr’s Friexp— ‘Toopixs. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Sznr. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lirs ap Toms or Ricuagp III.—Kive’s Garpensr—Tux Staixe. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—ALcaymist—GODENSEI— ‘Tux Wurres anp tux Browns. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ricaaxp III. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Czave Daa Rito— ‘Mr Faciow Ciers—Fioatine Beacon. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Your Lira’s uw Dan- un—Po-0A-HON-TAs. IRVING HALL, Irving amp Oxcugstaal Concents—! —Tue Bareman Vocst Lum, Pamera, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Hsauann, ‘THE PRESTIDIGITATEUR. "Hall, 473 Broad: "Dawons,' Ac. — Tania BRYANTS WoOoD's MIN! iL HALL, 514 |way.—ETHIOPIAN i ed ISTRELS, Togs Mae, LY JULIEN cext—Dixm’s 885 Broadway, iway, opposil SAN FRANCISCO MINS Metropolitan Hotel —ZruioriaN SINGING, ac. — Nzcuo-Man-Sin. AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Eruioriaw Minerrecsy—Bauiers, Parrowmes, SURLESQUES, 4£0.— Situs ann Browns. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- ine, Dancing, Buaiesquxs, &0.—Bi Nuvo Eppa Tux Ex- (OHANTMENT. BLITZ NEW HALL, 720 Broadway.—Patace or Iu.v- si0n—Leannep CaNnanys—Venrui.oquis, &c. VANNUCHI’S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Moving Wax Figures or Paesipent Lixcoun, Jarre. Davis, &0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 10.4. M. till 10 P.M. September 22, 1865, TRIAL OF WIRZ. A number of witnesses were examined in the Wirz court martial yesterday, disclosing, if possible, even more heinous and revolting acts and conduct on the part of the accused and other rebel prison officers than had hitherto been elicited. J, Burns Walker testified that on tho 4th of March General Howell Cobb mado a speech at Andersonville, which the paroled prisoners were allowed to listen to. Cobb declared he was sorry any prisoners had been taken, and that if he had his way he would hang every one of them, and advised tho citizens to hang any of the Yankees who might » to their houses. He commended the cruel tr inflicted by Wirz, and said;—“If President Lincoln ever géts me he will hang mo, and if 1 evor get Im I will hang him.” Ambrose Spencer, whose home was nine miles from Andersonville, testified that he had visited the prison often, and that its condition was the most filthy and wretched that could be conceived. The poisonous odor from it could be smelled two miles distant, There was plenty of all kinds of supplies in the vicinity to have made the pris- oners comfortable, Provisions and other necessaries were collected for thom by benevolent ladies of the neighborhood; but these they were not allowed to re- ceive, and Wirz, General Winder and Captain R. B. Win- der proposed, as a punishment for these ladies, that a house of ill fame should be established, and that they should all be placed in it. General Winder spoke about it with much profanity and indecency of language, and said he “would as soon the damned Yankees should die there as anywhere else.” Wirz boasted that he would make the prison destroy as many Yankees as were got- ting killed at the front. Dr. J. B. Head, rebel surgeon in the Andersonville prison hospital, testified to the diveaso and terrible suffering there produced by want of proper food, medicine and shelter. His wife and a number of other ladies collected supplies for the sufferers; but he was refused the privilege of distributing them, and his Jife was threatened by the prison officers for his agency in the matter. These supplies were afterwards given to rebel soldiers, A large amount of other testimony was adduced in regard to the sufferings and misery of the captives and the brutality and inhumanity of Wira, ‘the Winders and other prison officers. THE NEWS. The steamship Columbia, Captain Barton, arrived here yesterday, from Havana on the 16th inst. She brought nothing later trom Mexico. A royal decree is issued ordering the Spanish army in Cuba to be reduced te the dimensions of which it consisted previous to the Domi- nican invasion. It is snid that several Havanese inte- rested in the slave trade aro endeavoring to raise by sub- scription a fund of threo hundred thousand dollars to be used for the purpose of endeavoring to bribe the Spanish Cabinet into an arrangoment by which negroes from Africa may be imported into Cuha without molestation. A Havana paper states that tho indebtedness of Cuba to Spain, which in 1327 was one hundred and sixty-seven millions of dollars, is now reduced to seventy-eight mil- lions. Later news has been received from St. Domingo, by way of Havana. The country is quiet. The Protector Cabral has imprisoned his predecessor in power, Pimen- tal, and his advisers. Preparations were making for the election of permanent President, General Valverde is the most prominent candidate, In tho Alabama Reconstruction Convention on Monday last an ordinance was introduced, but had not been nally acted upon at the date of our latest advices, declaring null and void the secession ordinance and all acts under or in conformity with it. This accords with ‘tho spirit of the Mississippi Convention’s action, but not with that of tho delogates in the South Carolina Conven- tion, who seemed to look upon their secession ordinance asa legal enactment, and took the trouble to repeal it. Resolutions have been introduced in the Alabama Con- vention plodging a cordial support of President Johnson's administration, and requesting him to pardon Jeff. Davis and to declare a general amnesty to rebels. It is not yet known whether they will be adopted. On Wednesday of this weck a resolution was adopted requesting the Gov- ernor to organize the State militia to pute stop to the Prevalent lawlessness. Tho slavery abolition ordinance was debated, and laid over till yesterday. General Connor's troops engaged in the expedition against the hostile Indians of the Plains attacked and ‘defeated a large force on the 28th of August, near the Big Horn river, and took from them five hundred head of cattle and a large quantity of plunder. A number of General Connor's men, including several officers, were killed and wounded. In the council at Fort Smith, Arkansas, seventy-five loyal and seventy-four disloyal Indian delegates, not in. cluding the Chiefs, had signed the treaty of peace with the government commissioners up to yesterday. The Choctaws and Chickasaws signed it yesterday, and the council was finally closed. Provisional Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has directed ‘that tho present organizations for holding courts in that State shall be continued, and that in regard to trial and (punishment for crime nogroes must be put on an equality awith white mon, Joseph R. Anderson, of the Tredegar Iron Works, at Richmond, was pardoned by the President yesterday. Hoe belonged to three ef the exempted classes, having graduated at West Point, having been a rebel general, and being worth over twenty thousand dollara, Fayette McMullen, of Virginia, formerly, we believe, Governor of Washington Territory, was, it is said, also pardoned. ‘The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention was held at Madison on Wodnosday. Harris ©. Hobart was nomi- nated for Governor, The resolutions endorse the Presi- dent’s reconstruction policy, pledge him support and Oppose negro suffrage and the suspension of the habeas corpus writ. ‘The oxamination of the charges against Captain Ander- gon, of the American emigrant ship Villafranca, of cruel treatment of his passengers on @ recent voyage from London to New York, was continued yesterday before United States Commissionor Osborn, The court room wns crowded with those interested in the case, including the crow of the vessel and the passengers. Of the latter a fow additional gave their evidence, corroborating what had before been t>stified regarding the insufficiency and unwholesomences of tho food, and the case for the prose- cution wae closed, Several witnesses then testified for the defences. and th tr statements were flat contradictions of the charger ort allowance and unwholesomeness Of tiv obip’s fuga aud Gf CMM OB Wee vert of tbe ee NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1865. Captain. The carpenter of the vessel, who served out the food, said that he always gave each one the full allowance, that the provisions were good, and that Cap- tain Anderson was the kindest man he ever saw on any vessel. Tho case is still unconcluded. ‘The Lafarge-Niblo litigation, growing out of work done upon the Lafarge Hotel, and which has been all through the courte, even at the Appeals, in various forms and phases, again turned up yesterday. It was in the form of an appeal to the general term of the Supreme Court from an order directing the costs of the suit to be paid by tho exeoutors of the Lafarge estate to Mr. William Niblo, as assignee, In the case of the dog biting suit in the Marine Court, whore a boy was attacked and injured by a dog belong- ing to Dr. Ellesh, a verdict was rendered yesterday grant- ing the plaintiff two hundred dollars damages. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Thomas Brady, a young man, was convicted of robbery in the first degroe, being charged with having, on the night of tho 11th inst, attacked James Blackburn and stolen from him one hundred and forty dollars, in Nineteenth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Brady was re- manded for sentence, Ellen Richards, jointly charged with Mary Ann Murray by James Brown with stealing one hundred and sixty dollars, was placed on trial. The larceny is charged to have been committed at her house, No. 3 Mulberry street, on the 16th of July. A number of the lady boarders were examined to contradict the statement of the complainant, The case will be finished this morning. ‘A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to choose three Commissioners of Pilots, and Messrs. Robert L. Taylor, Ezra Nye and Charles H. Marshall were unanimously elected. A committeo was appointed to consider the. feasibility of petitioning Con- ‘| gross for the passage of a law permitting & portion of the duties on imports to be paid in legal tender notes, A resolution commending Secretary Stanton and Chief Jus- tice Chase for their public services, and requesting them, during their present stay in the city, to visit the Cham- ber and receive the welcome of its members, was adopted. Yesterday was the opening day in the metropolis for the ladies’ fall fashions, and, as usual, the occasion was ono of absorbing interest to the fair portion of New York’s population. The weather, contrary to its custom when the grand opening time comes around, was in this instance all that could be desired. The sky was clear, the air was mild and balmy, the streets were in fine con- dition, and there were more ladies out and there was more business done than on any previous similar occa- sion in a long while. Funeral ceremonies in commemoration of General Alexander Schoemmelfinnig, of the national army, who died at his home in Pennsylvania, on the 7th inst., of consumption contracted in the service of the country, took place last night at Clinton Hall, under the auspices of the German Union League, in the presence of a con- siderable assemblage. The stand was draped in mourn- ing and decorated with battle flags and the American and German national colors. Eulogies were delivered by several gentlemen, and funeral choruses were sung by the Arion Socicty. Coroner Gover held an inquest in regard to the death of Daniel Clafly, which resulted from stabs inflicted on him during a fight on last Tuesday night in the barroom of Falk’s brewery, in 110th street, and a number of per- sons who were present at the time of the fatal occur- rence gave their evidence; but it was insufficient in the minds of the jury to fix the murderous act upon any one. Yesterday, however, on the strength of an aff- davit made by James Claffy, brother of the deccased, a man named August Gunther, in the employ of tho Eighth Avenuo Railroad Company, was arrested and committed on suspicion of being the person who inflicted the fatal wounds. Judge Hall, of the United States District Court in Buffalo, has given his decision in tno Colchester case, fining the defendant forty dollars and directing him to pay the costs of trial, in all four hundred and seventy- three dollars, The lager beer brewery of Mr, Baumer, the United States Hotel, eight or ten dwelling houses and somo other buildings, opposite the Cypress Hills Cemotery, on Long Island, were early yesterday morning destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at fifty thousand dollars. The convention of Congregational churches of this State in session at Oswego was brought to a final adjourn- ment yesterday, after the transaction of considerable business of interest to the denomination. Among the resolutions was one insisting on tho political and civil equality of the negro with the white man, Tho cricket match at Hoboken, between the elevens of the St. George Club, of this city, and the Young America Club, of Philadelphia, which was commenced on Wednesday, was concluded yesterday, and resulted in the latter being the winners by a total score of one hundred and eighty to one hundred and nineteen. A baso ball match was played yesterday on the Capitoline grounds, Brooklyn, between the Atlantic and Eckford clubs, which was won by the Atlantica, the score being twenty-eight to twenty-three. ‘A violent oarthquake shock, which shook the ground and the houses, but threw down none of the latter, and which was preceded by subterrancan rumbling, was experienced throughout the entire island of Porto Rico early in the morning of the 29th ult., causing great terror among tho inhabitants. The republicans of the Empire State have had their convention and have placed their State ticket and platform before the people for the November election. Their ticket, like that of the democrats, is an army ticket, and their platform, evading the question of negro suf- frage, is but an amplification of that of John B. Haskin, which marks the new departure of the democracy. Both parties believe in Andy Jobnson, and both cordially support his Southern restoration policy. We go, say the democrats, for our brave soldiers; we go for the restoration of the Southern States, and of civil authority everywhere, as fast as possible; we go for Andy Johnson; we go for equal taxes and the payment of the national debt; we go for the Monroe doctrine and we recognize the abolition of slavery. The republicans respond, All this is our property:—And Syracuse does its best to out-thunder Albany with the same thunder. With both parties thus occupying substan- tially the same ground, there ie little or nothing to fight over in this fall campaignin New York. As in 1820, under Monroe, we were “all re- publicans and all federalists,” so in 1865, under Johnson, we are all republicans and all democrats upon national issues, at least in the great State of New York. The republicans have the advantage ia the occupation of the State. They have carried it, we believe, in every election since 1855, excepting the elec- tion of 1862, in which the success of the demo- cracy gave them a grand opportunity to make sure of the Presidential election of 1864, which they threw away. Abandoning the strong war platform upon which Seymour was elected, he and they drifted after their copperhead peace- at-any-price leaders, and persisted in following them until the voice of the nation against the Chicago peace platform brought the honest men of the party to their senses, Thus it has turned out that in New York these pernicious copperhead leaders have becn cast adrift, and that the democracy have ad- vanced to the solid and popular platform of President Johnson’s administration. In the same way tho disorganizing abolition radicals have been rejected from the councils of the republican party,-and thus copperheads and radicals have alike become powerless for mis- chief. However our State election may go in November, President Johnson’s course will be endorsed. The advantages of occupation and the probabilities are in favor of tho republi- cans; but the State is close, and the resvits we shall consider uncertain until we shall have heard from the Pennsylvania and Ohio October elections, The democrats in those States are and a good dealof their old party dross and rubbish; but from present appearances they will, in being relieved of the Chicago platform, make a much better fight this year, in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, than they did last year. One way or the other, so far as New York is concerned, the result in a national view will be substantially the same—a popular endorsement of the domestic and fereign policy of President Johnson. Such being the case, we may pro- fitably turn from the secondary issues between the two parties on national affairs to the consid- eration of our local affairs, and to the ways and means at hand for a sweeping and searching revolution in the government of the Forty Thieves of this metropolis, We have seen that citizen organizations are laughed at by the ruling “ y’ and their disciplined bands of electioneering paymasters and confederate ruf- fians. The remedy, though of a different kind, must be like that applied to the Southern re- bellion by General Grant, when called to the head of the armies of the Union—it must be “short, sharp and decisive.” The only way in which we can secure a thorough-going reformation in our city gov- ernment {s by the removal of our present plundering City Fathers from top to bottom, and the substitution of a provisional govern- ment in the shape of a council, as we have here- tofore suggested, emanating from the Execu- tive and Legislature of the State. It was hardly to be expected that the Democratic State Convention would touch upon this re- form; but it is a very remarkable and some- what suspicious omission on the part of the republicans. Thurlow Weed, or his faithful protégé Master Raymond, may probably have some Corporation axes to grind, concerning which silence is wisdom on their part. Other- wise it is difficult to understand why the Re- publican State Convention did not make a re- formation of our shocking municipal abuses a plank in their State platform; for surely this is a matter in which the people of the whole State are deeply and directly concerned. If Horace Greeley had any tact as a managing politician he could turn this thing to a good account in the November elections for the Legislature. Here we have an issue upon which a genuine reform Legislature may be secured, and here we have a ficld, over the length and breadth of the State, in which our Citizens’ Association may work to some pur- pose. The Party of the Future. Now that the political conventions in several large States have been held and their plat forms enunciated, there is no difficulty in ar- riving at the conclusion that a new and power- ful party will arise from among the great masses of the people, which will embrace the conservative elements of all parties, and which will rally around the same elements of the republican party of the North, liberated as the latter have just been from the radical Jaco- bin leaders and factions of the past. The old democratic party, with its Vallan- dighams, Ben Woods, Pendletons, Jeff. Davises and other factionists and agitators of their day, was the pasty of the South, with its allies among the copperheads of. the North and West. The late republican party, with its Sumners, Ben Wades, Wendell Phillipses, Gar- risons, Cheevers, Ward Beechers and others of the same revolutionary and disturbing char- acter, was the party of the North and East, with its radical affiliations among the drunken Senators of the West. Recent events have shown that all these mischievous leaders have been thrown overboard by the people through their delegates in State conventions, and that, as we have stated, a new, pure, mag- nificent party, created in the Middle States, and radiating thence all over the country North and South, will become the great progressive Ame- rican party of the present age. The strength of all the old parties will be united in this party of the future. The extremes may go to the dogs, where they should have been sent long ago. This consolidation of the conservative elements of former political organizations is fittingly commenced in the Middle States, with their centre in New York, whence has emanated the most of the capital that has given vitality to the building of railroads, canals, telegraph lines, and furnished the impetus to the develop- ment of the vast mineral resources of the country. It has the only regularly and firmly established steamship lines to foreign ports and to those of the great Atlantic seaboard. Its California interests and those on the Pacific coast generally are of greater magnitude than those of any other city in the world. No finan- cial measure of the government during the war was completed without consultation with the capitalists and financiers of New York. And now no enterprise of importance in any part of the Western hemisphere is concluded or even contemplated without the aid and advice of the moneyed men of New York. We say it is proper, then, that the grand movement of organizing the great party of the Middle States—the party whose magnificent proportions will in a short time be viewed with satisfaction by sensible men and patriots in every part of the land—shall be commenced here in New York. The Republican Convention at Syracuse the other day sounded the key note for revolutionizing all the old parties, and formed the nucleus for the construction of the new one. It proclaimed a platform which will meet the views of the South. The South will rally around a party which has every prestige of success. They have been too long !aid out in the cold to wish to attach themselves to any party that is likely to bring them again into political defeat and fisaster. They have trusted the old democratic party and found it false to their interests or powerless to aid them in the crisis of their struggle. They do not mean to hold an impotent position in the gov- ernment of the country; but, having tasted the bitter fruits of a bloody and unsuccessful war for independence, they are determined to cease to live in a state of subordination, and to as- pire to place and influence among the masters and rulers of the nation. To do this they must attach themselves to the strongest party, and be in among tho first upon the organization of the new party with the New York conservative republican plat- form for its base. To attach themselves to the democratic party, as such, at this day, is to keep them for many years from enjoying the fruits of their restoration to the Union. It ts like tying themselves to a dead fish floating down stream. The Syracuse republican plat form contains all they oan roasonably expect at the hands of » triumphant party. It is 0 for pampered with Vallandicham and Buchanan better ond mora neeetion) nlatixm fos the. South than all the hollow pretensions the democrats can make in a thousand pistforms, with Sam Tilden at their head and Jobuny Green at their tail. Besides, all true and in- fluential men in the democratic party in this State, including its substantial conservative element, it is expected will drop the old demo- cracy and fall into line with their Southern | friends in giving aid, strength and intensity to the new party of all parties that is destined to govern this country, with President Johnson as its leader and champion, for many years to come. Prepare, then, we say to all old politi- cians, to make way for the new and magnificent party of the future. The Candidates—The Effect of the War in Putting the Corrupt Politicians Out of the Way. Both. the political parties of this State accord the places of honor on their tickets to sol- diers—to men who have become known to the public only in virtue of their honorable and glorious services in the country’s cause. And the men thus chosen are in all ways worthy of the distinction that the parties desire to give. Hitherto the choice between candidates has been a choice of evils, and we could only con- gratulate the community in the election of one on the ground that he was perhaps a little less objectionable than the other. But now we see two men named for a given office, either of whom will honor the place more than the place will honor him, and we can heartily rejoice in the election of a good man whoever may win. General Slocum has commanded with high honor throughout this war. He had a division in the Army of the Potomac on the peninsula, and served: through that campaign and through the one under Pope. In Maryland, on the way to Antietam, he went over South Mountain at Crampton’s Pass to the serious cost of the enemy. He served gallantly at Antietam, his division being part of Franklin’a corps. He was subsequently promoted to the command of the Twelfth corps—one of the best fighting organizationsin the army. He commanded the Twelfth at Chancellorsville, and with itstopped that advance of the enemy which nearly swept our line away on the stampede of the Eleventh corps. It is a singular fact that at that very time Barlow commanded a brigade in the Eleventh; but he was one of the gallant fellows that stayed on the ground. Slocum had checked the rebel advance at Chancellorsville, and the enemy never would have gotten beyond his lines if the army had been handled with the simplest disposition to fight by its “fighting” commander, who marched it to the rear on suspicion that it had been beaten. General Slocum marched the Twelfth to Gettysburg, and reached that field late in the afternoon of the first day. Being the ranking officer, and in command on the whole field for a time, he made the first disposition of his own corps and of the Third corps as they came up and joined their wearied comrades of the First and Eleventh. He commanded the right wing in the battles of the second and third days, and held his lines through some of the hardest fighting in that terrific battle. His next service was in the Southwest, whither his corps and the Eleventh were sent after the de- feat of Chickamauga. He and Howard equally sustained the reputation of the old Potomac army in the new relations, and it was Slocum’s own command which fought that “battle above the clouds” identified with the name of Hooker. Slocum served with distinguished gallantry through the whole struggle against Johnston, and was the man who took posses- sion of Atlanta. When Hood switched off and started for Canada by way of Nashville, Sher- man reorganized his army tor his promenade to Savannah, dividing it into a right and left wing. Howard had-one wing and Slocum the other. Such is the splendid record of the dem- ocratic candidate. ‘ Barlow’s record is different in character, but not less brilliant; for, while Slocum has always been nearer to the directing power of the vari- ous armies, and so to some extent removed as a rule from the immediate dust of the struggle, it has always been Barlow’s peculiar fortune to be at that very spot where the opposing forces came together. He was always at the point of contact, and in the thickest of the collision. He was also with the Army of the Potomac, but had not yet reached a coloneley when his present opponent commanded a di- vision. He served through the same campaign as Slocum to Antietam, where he was wounded. He commanded a brigade in the Eleventh corps at Chancelloraville, and was left on the ground for dead. He commanded a division of the same corps at Gettysburg, and was wounded and taken by the enemy. Inthe reorganized army that went with Grant from the Rapidan he commanded a splendid division in the Second corps and carried it through the hardest of that hard fighting by the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Coal Harbor, the Chickahominy, the Weldon road, the Jeru- salem plank road, and finally in the storming of the enemy’s lines that ended the war. This also is a glorious record, and the more glorious as Barlow is still quite a young man, and not, like his opponent, bred to the profession of arms. Slocum was a West Pointer, but has studied law, and Barlow was a practising law- yer in this city when the war broke out. Slo- cum is considerably the older and has naturally more maturity of thought. Barlow is more alive with the energy of youth, but takes also @ very calm and clear look at things. The pleasantest fact for the people in the nomination of men like these by both parties is the readiness with which the politicians give way and acknowledge that their time has come. For some years past our political atmosphere had been growing more and more corrupt. The same facts that keep the decent men of the city out of city politics, promised to spread over the State, and it was the same in other States. The politicians were becoming everywhere @ special class by themselves of the most disreputable men in every commu- nity, and all the offices were being filled by those who were far from being the ablest or the most honest of our citizens. Every one wondered what would be the limit of this, and saw in it the inévitable eventual defeat of our Tepublican institutions. All means to get bet- ter men into office seemed to he vain. The corrupt politicians had the whip hand and kept it. But now we see the change. The war brought out from the heart of our civil soci- ety—fnom business aad all the of life— the best men In the country, and placed them high before the people. It made splendid ‘TDAMCs syne on io thelr quiet businoss way forever perhaps, and those splendid namge the politi- reap the benefit of these in partisan victoria; } THE NEW MEN. SKETCHES OF THE BEPUBLICAN CANDIDATES General Francis C. Barlow. ‘The candidate for Secretary of State nomirhted by the Republican Convention at Syrdouse is & native of this ‘State, and like his opponent, General Slocum, a distin- guished soldier of the war for the Union. He graduated af ‘Yale College in the class of 1865, and at the beginning of the late war was a private in the Twelfth New York State Natfonal Guard, and as such enlisted for the three months: service.at the first call of President Lincoln. He was Promoted as first Heutenant, of the regiment, and com- missioned as such on May 8, 1861. He sorved through the three months service with the Twelfth New York, being engaged at Bull Ron, and was mustered out with the regiment om the $d of August, 1861. He then engaged in recruiting and on November 9, 1861, was commie- sioned lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-first New York Vol- unteers, He was promoted to be colonel while command- ing the regiment before Yorktown, April 14, 1862. He led his command through the Peninsula campaign, dis- tinguinshing himeelf especially at Fair Oaks and Sav- age’s Station. Atthe battle of Antietam he was wounded 0 severely by a canister shot in the groin, and by & spent ball in the breast, that it was supposed he could not recover. While lying in hospital, after the battle, he received his commission as brigadier general for distin- overthrow of all our corrupt political systems. ‘The Centre of American Civilization. New York is the centre of American intel- lect, cultare and civilization, The press of New York, the society of New York, the fash- ions of New York, the stage of New York, the business of New York, the pulpits of New York, the commerce of New York, and, in short, all things in New York are the best that can be found in this country or on this conti- nent. The State of New York is always far in the van of progress. No other American city but New York can compare with such European capitals as Paris, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Madrid. New,York is a truly na- tional city. It draws its wealth from all quar- ters of the country, and, indeed, from all quar- ters of the world. Here we see the American character developed to the highest degree of perfection of which it is at present capable. When foreign tourists visit the United States they make their headquarters in New York, paying only chance visits to other American Cities. The great ambition of the people of all other sections of the country is to come to New York. Thus we remark that the testi- mony of both foreigners and natives agrees as to the supremacy of this State and city. With a constituency so enlightened and intelligent no wonder that the platforms of both of the political parties in New York should be pre- cisely such as the necessities of the republic in this crisis appear to require. When we consider philosophically the condi- tion of the other sections of the country, we easily discover the reason of our superiority. The South we may now leave out of the ac- count, since everything there is chaotic, its so- ciety and {te institutions being in the process of thorough reorganization. But, as that reorgan- ization is occurritig under New York influ- encea—as the men, the money, the business capacity, the tact and the intelligence of New York are largely concerned in it, we may an- ticipate for the South a splendid future. The East is bigoted, fanatic, transcendental, theo- retical, narrow-minded. Its people are afflicted with peculiar mental manias.. In religion they are either rigidly Calvanistic or absurdly loose, atheistical, speculative. Their minds, kept down by their system of education, react, break from all restraints and indulge in the most fanciful and the most terrible license, More people go to church in New England than in New York, perhaps; but there are also more rapes, murders and other horrid and un- natural crimes committed there. People starve in Massachusetts, a State. noted for its pseudo philanthropy and its inter- ferences with the affairs of other portions of the nation. The West, settled chiefly by emi- grants from New England and from Europe, has much the same characteristics, but upon a somewhat different scale. The West is even more arrogant and insolent than New England. It says the same things ina more domineering and border-ruffian tone. If Boston and Sumner are fair representatives of New England, Chi- cago and the drunken Senators from that region are fair representatives of the West. Where New England has a finger in everybody else’s pie the West sticks in its whole hand. New England deals in abuse; the West in downright blackguardism and a great deal of knocking down and dragging out. It is as in- sane as New England, and upon pretty nearly the same topics; but the insanity is of a wilder and more demonstrative form, and calls more loudly for a strait waistcoat. In one respect, however, both New England and the West are exactly alike, and that is in regard to their marked, decided, indisputable inferiority to New York, which is by all odds the best and proudest development of the American nation and the centre of American civilization. Tue Eurme Stare Marntains ITs SCEPTRE.— The State of New York has furnished a remark- able lesson to the whole country in abolishing all parties, and going with all its strength, its greatness and its political prestige in support of President Johnson and his statesmanlike policy. It is only befitting the position which this State occupies that it should be so. Being the first State in the Union, commercially and intellectually—the centre from which radiates the paramount spirit of the country, its enter- prise, refinement, wealth and power—it is na- tural and proper that it should lead the van in the magnanimous movement of reconstrac- tion, knowing no parties or interests that do not belong to the whole country. In compari- son with New York the other States, which hang on the outer edge of civilization, are be- hindhand, benighted as it were, clinging to their old factious instincts, and holding on to the landmarks of petty parties that are almost extinct. While these States continue to em- broil themselves in little factious fights, and to quibble about questions that, in view of the great work béfore us, are effete as well as con- temptible, the Empire State, in the action of the two recent conventions at Albany and Syracuse, has given proof that the broad and liberal spirit which conducted it to commercial prosperity apd a high order of civilization pre- vails also in its political councils. Arrival of the Europe: Niagara Falls. Niacana Faris, Sept. 21, 1965, The European capitalists arrived here this evening, and are staying at the ‘International Hotel. They left Detroit at nino A. M., and were warmly welcomed at London, C, W., where they were received by a commit- tee of the citizens, who had provided «@ collation, after which they visited the annual fair now being held near the town. It is their intention to remain here afew days. During the interval they wili view objects of in- terest in this vicinity, and also inspect the recently com- pleted line of the Erie and Niagara Railway. News from Mexico. New Ontnans, Sept. 20, 1865, The special Mexican correspondent of the Times, under date of August 20, says military operations wilt be ac- tively resumed in October, The country is rapidly going to destruction between the Freneh, liberals and: guerillas, Cortina had made a capture of one hundred thousand He reported for duty in April, 1868, having recovered from his wounds, and was assigned to duty in the Eleventh corps. He commanded a division of Howard’s corps at Gettysburg. He was wounded during this engagement in the side, and left for dead on the field. While lying umder fire he received another wound in the finger, and another in the back. The rebels took him in charge, but soon after evacuating the field, loft him without paroling him, their surgeons having pronounced his wounds mortal. He, however, 80 far recovered under the tender nursing of his wife, who had made herself famous by her services as a voluntary nurse in the Potomac army hospitals, (and who subse- quently died from a fever contracted while naming the wounded soldiers), that ho was able to remove to Balti- more, where he’ eventually ontirely recovered. His health was go much improved that the War Department placed him on court martial duty at Washington, He was brovetted major general of volunteers for his sor- vice at Gettysburg, and on his complete recovery was again assigned to duty with the Potomacarmy. This was in March, 1864, as commander of the First division of the Eleventh army corps. In command of this fine body of troops he made the campsign of Rich- mond with Grant, and he distinguished himsclf at the Wilderness by leading his division in the grand charge which resulted in the capture of the rebel General Ed, Johnson's entire division, He continued with the affhy uni{l November, 1864, when, his wounds breaking out afresh, he was compelled to relinquish his com- mand, and on Ieave of the War Department remained off duty during the winter. We believe he mado 4 short visit to Kurope. If he did {t was a short one indeed, for ho was again at the front in time to engage in the cam- paign around Petersbury, and to win on the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1865, the full :ink of Major Genoral. He and General Slocum are foomen wupity, of cach other's steel, and New York may congratulate herself m case a the election of either to the position of Secretary of tate, Gencral John H. Martindale. ‘The republican candidate for the Attorney Generalship of New York graduated at West Point, No. 3 in the class of 1835, and was commissioned a brevet second lientenant of the First dragoons on July 1 of that year. He resigned in the following year and accepted the position of assistant engineer of tho Saratoga and Washington Railroad. On leaving this position he began the practice of law at Batavia and Rochester. During 1842 he was chosen as the District Attorney of Gen- esee eounty, New York, and held the office for soveral years. When Goneral McClellan began the organization of the grand army of the United States, Mr. Martindale was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers, and assigned 4 command near Washington, his commission as brigadier genoral boing dated from the 9th of August, 1861. He participated in tho advance towards Manassas, March, 1862, and in the siege of York- town to May 4, 1862, in General Fitz John Porter's divi- sion, and was afterwards placed in command of a brigade in the Fifth army corps. Be took partin the battle of Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862; in the engagements at Gaines’ Mill, June 2%, and Chickahominy, June 25, 1862, and in many of tho struggles connected with the “seven days’ contests,” end- ing with Malvern Hill, July 1. After the Army of the Potomac had been safoly moved to Harrison's ” James river, General Martindale had temporarily to give up his command on account of sickness, and when be had recovered he was taken before a court of inquiry to investigate certain char; brought inst him of misconduct at Malvern Hill. The investigation, which took place in October, 1862, fully acquitted him of all blame in the matter. When the Twenty-second army corps was organized General Martindale was placed im command of a division under General Heintzeli and atterwards made commander of the military di of Washington and vicinity. He was subsequently re- stored to active service and commanded the division of the Eighteenth army in the operations south of Richmond. When Baldy Smith was relioved from command of the Eighteenth corps General Martin- dale was temporaril ed in command, until relieved by General E. 0. C. resigned from the service September 13, 1864. Thomas H. Hillhouse, the candidate for Comptroller, was Adjutant General under Governor Morgan. He is a citizen of Ontario county, and has served as State Senator. General Henry A. Barnum. The candidate for Inspector of Prisons, like Genoral Barlow, is a young and gallant soldier developed by the late war. He went out in 1861 as a captain in the Twelfth New York Volunteers, and was soon after promoted to be major. He was severely wounded during the Peninsular campaign. In March, 1862, ho was rolieved from duty with his regiment, and attached to tho staff of Brig- adier General James 8. Wadsworth, with whom he remained until bis promotion to the coloneley of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth New York Volunteers. His regiment was sont’ with General Hooker's corps to the relief of Chattandoga in 1868, and ‘was engaged in the famous midnight battle in Lookout valley, and in the great battle at ooga. He was designated by General Thomas, after the last battle, for his gallantry and good conduct to take to Washington the flags captured fine ry | the Cum! the rebels. Of the ten flags four wore captured by Colonel sins tao eatg rtansore tas je of Hooker's cam| ane ‘he farnous march of Sherman to the soa, and thence uo wus breveled a Drkadlar general of volunteer, der. He was a jor junt on January 12, 1865, for gallant conduct during these campaigns. THE DEMOCRATIC SOLDIER CANDIDATES, TO THB EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Your, Sept. 21, 186, In your synopsis of news to-day, in noticing the Re- publican State Convention just held, you say:—“It will be seen that the republicans have made an advance im the military element of their ticket over that of the dem- ccrats, putting in nomination four army officers against the democrats’ two.” This isa mistake. Genorals Slo- cum and Patrick are the two, doubtless, meant only to be included in the democratic State ticket. There are three— one other, Colonel Andrew J. McNett is # military man, and most emphatically ho is on the democratic State ticket, for State Prison Inspector. Colonel McNett orgaa- ized several companies of the Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers, and entered the service in September, 1861. This was when there were no bounties, and it was diff- cult to raise men—the great ‘uprising’ having subsided. He afterwards joined the Ninoty-third New York Volun- teers, with one company from ny ge county, an@ was promoted from eo rank be sg J in thes regiment to lieutenant colonel, and, finally, full colonel? in the One Hundred and Forty-frst New York Volun- teers. gh the ie ae ge t= Army of the Potomac w breaking camp mouth, in June, 1863. Aor tf up to the dis- banding of Sherman's army, Pitalists at tars wah: although his wounds are net he dollars in silver, Juarez was still at Chihuahua, Many see i pousets = Tea ay net ortho arbitrary arrests aro reported by the Maximilian govern- | «¢ront,'” He writes with his left hand. 8.8. ment. The liberals are masters of Durango, and have captured several hundred Belgians. Maximilian prom isn ine of stoamors betwecn, New Orleans and ore raz, ——— to mi the gallant Fourteenth worn in the donse consequence of aver-spequlation or gam- Smoke, Fortunately vs we ‘eoigenee oe : we Gane ahh feancuet Fob ake oy red Nino the air giving pete commiasign merchen iia Chigage Tribune, CY sa. BW