The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1865, Page 4

a 4 W YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, wT Volume XEX........-0sererererecerseee .No, 266 =o AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘ OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Your Lira’s uy Dan- Gus—P0-0s-HON-Tas, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Evearsopr's Fruasp— ‘Toopums. WALLAGK'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Tux Srer. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —! or Ti Huwmss or ux airslos Bae, NIBLO'S GARD! Bi — " cope Tau Wutres axe van Snowmen Rrcuine kone tes Wares axp ome Baowes et BROADWAY THEAT! 5 ‘RE, Broadway.—Afternoon and nzogear sTHBATER, _Rowery-—Onava Das Rave— Tun’ Barsuax Vocat IBVING - PaRera. AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth ‘ streot.—Hi vas Paseripioizarson. Matinee a Two o'Oloo RY, MINSTRELS, M. ’ Hall, 473 Broad- ‘woop's rl 7 Sea et, HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ergrorrai Somos, Danons c-fan innce Fawtur—TeLian Cox! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! 58 Broadway, Gow —Brarorian’ Guxatse, Dancin, en mamo-Man-Six. 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Our city subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Hzraup Country subscribers to the New Yong Heratp are re- Quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advortisemonts should be sent to the offico before nine o'clock in the evening. TRIAL OF WIRZ. ‘The most important testimony adduced before the ‘Wirz court martial yesterday was that of Dra. F. 8. Hop- ‘kins and G. L. Rice, two of the rebel medical men who ‘were on duty at the Andersonville prison’ hospital. Dr. Hopkins read a report on the condition of the prison and hospital which he had prepared and submitted to Gen- oral Winder, after receiving instructions, to make a com- plete inspection. He found the causes of the groat mor- tality and the alarming prevalence of disease to b> the crowded state of the pen, the absence of proper or suffl- elent food and medicine and all facilitics for cleanliness, want of wood, water and clothing and of shelter from heat and cold, and the filthy and poisonous condition of ‘the prison, Dr. Hopkins remedies for all these evils; but no attention was ever givon to hia report. An order of General Winder to Dr. H. was submitted, showing that the Richmond authorities were cognizant of the ovils, and that Winder had authority to abate them. The Doctor said it was the implicit confidence Winder had in Wirs which caused the horrible state of things to exist. Dr. Rico gave ovidence in regard to the terrible condition of the prison pen, and the dying of men from starvation, cold, hunger and other causes. The testimony of other wit- ‘esses to the same effect was also taken. ‘The proceedings were closed yesterday amidst a some- ‘what exciting scone. Wirz, who, owing to his weak con- dition, has for some days past reclined on # couch while in the court room, was" requestod to rise for the purpose of being identified by a witness who had been testifying to oases of murder and brutality on his part. When the ‘witness said “That fs the man,’ Wirz glared at him flercely and. made efforts to contradict him, being silenced with difficulty, and was so overcome by his ex- oltement and passion that he sank exhausted and almost lifeless. Measures were immediately taken to resusct- tate him, the court adjourned, and the room was cleared of spectators, It js thought that the accused cannot live to eee the conclusion of the trial. THE NEWS. ‘From Me. J. N. Navarro, Consul Gonoral of the repub lig of Moxico in the United States, we have received some important documents touching the prospects of free gov- @ramont in his country, including communications from President Juarez and Mr. Romero, his Minister in Wash- ington, and circulars from his Secretary of State, Mr. Lardo do Tejada. Juarez loft Chihaahua on the Sth of August, and arrived on the 15th at El Paso, where he os- tablished his government, surrounded by his Cabinet, as we have heretofore announced. But, notwithstanding that he has found it expedient to thus temporarily chango his capital, he is not only hopeful, but confident, of an ‘ultimate completo triumph over the invaders, He has till large bodies of troops at his diposal, who have com- menoed attacking the various detachments of the impe- rialists im detail, now that the Iatter have so greatly weakened their lines by extending them, and he antici- pates decisive victories for his voldiers very soon. He does not think that Maximilian’s forces will be likely to attempt to drive him from El Paso; but, even should thoy succeed in doing 80, he has no idea of abandoning his country, but will remove to somo other point within ite limits, and there continue the struggle, sanguine of ullimate euccess, ‘The officers of the Mexican republic who have arrived hero, having left El Paso about the beginning of tho prosent month, inform us that the people pf that town ‘wore unanimous in an enthuanstic reception of President Juarez, Gonoral Nogrete, with ono hundred officers, had gone to the interior to collect and discipline recruits, and expected to be able to raise a large force in « short time. . ‘The Alabama Convention on Thursday last passed an ordinance ratifying all laws of the Legislature passod during tho rebellion not inconsistent with the national constitution. Fuller details of the proceodings of the Convention than those heretofore published will be found in our Montgomery despatches. Bishop Mondo, of Virginia, in his address to the Epis. Copal Convention of the State, now in session at Rich- mond, has strongly urged rounion with the Northern ‘wing of the charoh. The committee appointed to con- ‘sider the portion of the address referring to this mattor Presented « roport, which was almost unanimously adopted by the Convention, commending the conciliatory ‘and fraternal course proposed, and referring the subject to the noxt General Council. Afall and interesting account of the secrot springs, ¢gage «end movements, manwuvrings and counter. mancouvrings, tricks, bickerings and factional cross pur- posss of the late Republican State Convention is given in oar Byreouse correspondence, publi this morning. ‘The Board of Fire Commissioners, at their meeting yonerday, po business of public interest. A @ made in Metropeliiad enaine companios Noa.'8, 1, @/and others The next meoting is to be held on next Monday { ‘The caso of Captain Anderson, of the ship Villafranca, charged with maltreatment of his passengers, was con- tinued yesterday before United States Commissioner Osborn, Asusual, the court room was crowded with persons interested in tho matter. A number of witnesses’ Were examined, among them William D. Morgan, of the firm of E. E, Morgan & Co,, consignees of the Villafranca, ‘and the London inspector who inspected her provisions, The former testified to the kind character of Captain Anderson, and the latter tothe geod quality of the food on board. The ship’s scales and Measures were exhibited in court, and the carpenter, who dealt out the provisions, said that on these scales he weighed out a pound of meat for each pasasengor; but it appeared that they would not weigh less than four pounds, On this discovery the carpenter was dumb- founde@}and left the stand. Other witnesses testified that the Villafranca’s supplies were good and plentiful, and the case was further adjourned over to Monday my E. Sherman, an engraver and modeller, yestor- day received a verdict in the Marine Court for two hun- dred and sixty-eight dollars against the Continental Bank Note Company, for alleged discharge from theig service in violation of a contract ontered into by the two parties, ‘The case of Madame Richards, charged with stealing one hundred and sixty dollars from James Brown, while in her saloon, was concluded yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, and resulted in her acquittal. Mary ‘ann Murray, jointly charged with Mra. Richards, was discharged. Thomas Brady, who was convicted on Thursday of robbery, and recommended to mercy by tho Jury, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the State Prison. Theodore Losey, who pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, was sent to the State Prison for two years. William Thompson, guilty of an attempt at grand larceny, was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for two years and six months. Thomas - Byan pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary in break- ing into the premises of Albert L. Scott, 505 Broadway, on the night of the 2lst of July, and stealing one thou- sand dollars worth of gloves and hose, The goods were revovered by a detective. Ryan was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. Francis J. Sharpe, the groom of Leo. Hudson, the equestrienne, charged with stealing from that lady a watch, diamonds and jewelry, amounting in value to three thousand dollars, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. The property was stolen from the dress- ing room of a theatre in Nashville, in February, A detective arrested Sharpe in Albany, and brought him to Schenectady, where he sold a portion of the jewelry. He was sent to the City Prison for one year. George W. Willis, indicted for stealing a tin box containing three thousand dollars frem the office of Alpheus Fobée, in Exchange place, pleaded guilty to an attempt at larceny. ‘The prisoner was arrested in Albany, and two thousand dollars were recovered. Frederick Baum pleaded guilty to attempting to steal a gold watch from J. H. An- dereyea, on the 7th inst. These prisoners were re- manded for sentence, Eugene Hollingwood, jointly charged with threo others, was convicted of an assault with intent to kill Mrs. Eiiza Bayly. Om the 28th of March the prisoner and his friends went into the saloon of Thos. F. Bayly, No. 4James street, and refused to pay for drinks, whereupon a diffculty arose, and Holling- wood aimed a pistol at Bayly, the contents of which reached the breast of Mrs, Bayly, who was standing wore placed on the tops. While crossing a bridgo several of these were struck by the timbers and swept off, three Killed and others injured. An tron foundry and machine shop at Louisville were burned early on last Tuesday morning, entailing Joss of upwards of thirty thousand @ollars, on which there was an insurance of eight thousand dollars, six thousand of it being in New York and Brooklyn offices, By the caving in of a wall of the building destroyed three firemen were injured, two of them soriously. The fire was evidently incendiary in its origin. The following New York offices had tngurances on property destroyed at the great fire at Augusta, Me., on the 17th inst:—Home, $52,000; Niagara, $7,000, and the Morns, $5,200. ‘The stock market was more active and higher yester- day. Governments were steady. Gold was steady, and closed at 148%. There was a fair degree of activity in commercial firmness than for several days. Nearly all kinds of foreign goods wore held higher, and, in some cases, alto- gether above the views of buyers. Groceries were steady. Cotton was unchanged. Potroleum was active. On *Changé flour and grain were higher. Pork wasdull, Beef was active. Lard was higher. Whiskey was firm. The Commanding Position of New York in Support of President Johnson. The Empire State, through the action of both her great political parties in support of President Johnson, occupies a lofty and com- manding position before the country. For the first time in the history of the Union since the days of Monroe both parties bave mct on the platform of the administration, as if'to inan- gurate another “era of good feeling.” We had something like this in 1852, when the whigs and the democrats adopted the same national platform in support of Henry Clay’s great compromise measures of 1850. ‘Thus both parties in 1852 trimmed their sails to the popu- lar breeze; but the people, while believing. in Clay’s adjustment, diftrusted the ‘disturbing abolition affiliations of the whig party, and 20 poor Pierce was elected by an overwhelming majority of the popular ‘and electoral vote North and South. Thatelection wasthe death of the old whig party; and in behalf of the great compromise settlement, culminating in this remarkable event, the State of New York led the way. Had poor Pierce shaped his policy according to the instructions of the American people so emphatically pronounced in his election, he might have re-established the democratic party in power for half a century longer. But he was puffed up with his self-conceit; he “was weak and foolish; he turned his back upon the people, and was led by a clique of Southern conspirators into the rash, bloody and disas- trous experiment of that Kansas-Nebraska bill. From that day began the dissolution of the old Jacksonian democratic party, which was con- by. Judge Russel sentenced the prisoner to the State Prison for seven years, The United States mail steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, of Cromwell’s line, will sail to-day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for New Orleans direct, from pier 9 North river, The mails will close at balf- past one o'clock in the afternoon. The steamship North Star, Captain A. G. Jones, will also sail to-day, at three o'clock in the afternoon for New Orleans, frem pier 46 North river. ‘The steamship Quaker City, Captain Wm. H. West, of Leary’s line, will sail at six o'clock, this (Saturday) after- noon for Charleston, from pier 14 Kast river. The mails will close at half-past four o’clock in the afternoon. The steam revenue cutter Salmon P. Chase, the first completed of the six vessels of her class authorized to be built. bz Congress to ply on the Northern lakes to pre- vent smaggling from Canada, went on her trial trip down out barbor yesterday and out to sea, and 'acquit- ted herself in a most satisfactory manner. All six of the vessels are to be sidewheel steamers of the. samo dimensions, and each will carry one thirty-pounder Par- rott gun and two twenty-four pounder Dahigren howitzers. ‘Tho others are also'‘nearly completed, and it is expocted that they will sood take their places on the lakes. The French steam corvette Roland arrived in our harbor yesterday from Sydney, Cape Breton, making five French war vessels now im this port. The steamship Colorada, which sailed from San Fran- cisco for Panama on Monday last, carried two million and twenty thousand dollars in gold, of which one mil- lion threo hundred and fifty thousand is for this city. The American Institute Fair building, in Fourteenth street, was crowded last night with visitors, among whom was General‘Hooker, who divided with the arti- cles regularly on exhibition the interest of the mass of spectators. He was followed in bis tour of inspection by the crowd, who insisted on an address. Finally the Gen2- ral yielded to their demands and made a brief but good humored speech. Subsequently he was entertained at a collation in one of the committee rooms, where he made another hort address, Early yesterday morning @ fire broke out on tho third floor of No. 233 West Thirty-fifth streot, occupied by Charles Burgdorf, a cabinetmaker, completely destroying that building and doing some damage to No. 234. There were other persons besides Burgdorf occupying different portions of 232, whose losses are considerable. Burg- dorf, whose insurance is for fifteen hundred dollars, while the value of his stock is estimated at not ovor six hundred, was arrested, together witli his wife and stop- daughter, on suspicion of having fired the place, and all three-were committed for examination. About half-past twelve o’clock this morning a fire broke out in the basement of No. 15 Spruce street, in the printing establishment of Scott & Williams, Hose was quickly attached to the stationary engine in Mr. Green's place, No, 13, and the flames were thus kept under until the firemen arrived. Up to the time of our going to press the fire is still burning; but there is no Wkelbood that it will spread any further. Tho damago will not probably be more than to the amount of two thousand dollars, and that will be principally by water. How the fire originated has not yet been ascertained. The hands of the establishment, which is run night and day, had quit work for supper, and one of thom, who was in the base- mont at the time, stated to the Assistant Fire Marshal that i first broke out in a room used for storage of waste paper, in the back part of the substeliar, but from what cause is unknown at present. Complaint was made yesterday to the Police Commis- sionors by one of the sanitary officers regarding the filthy and crowded condition of the tenement houses 220 and 222 Kast Seventeenth street. The buildings are twenty-five by forty-five feet, five stories high, and they furnish homes respectively for seventy-five and seventy. seven persons, and the atmosphere within them is said to be perfectly poisonous. Mr. Sheenan, the owner, was sent for, and promised to have the premises fumi- Pout &@ thousand of the colored people of this city and Brooklyn yesterday celebrated the second anniver- sary of the issue by President Lincoln of his emancipa- tion proclamation, at Myrtle avenue park, in the latter city. They had speaking, music, danoing, eating and drinking, and appeared to enjoy themselves finely. The European capitaltats spent yesterday in viewing the objects of interest at and in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, At night the falls were illuminated in honor of their visit, there was a display of fireworks, and the dis- tinguished party were entertained at a banquet at tho International Hotel. ; One of the Chicago theatres, known as the Museum, was on last Tuesday evening the scene of a tragedy more genuine than those usually represented on the stage. George B. Beach, one of the actors, twenty-seven yours of ago, Was shot in the greenroom by his wife, a young and boautifal woman, aged only eighteen, They had been married a little over a year, but separated soon after the wedding, on account of disagreements, and had lived very little together during all the {me of their married life, The husband bad 4! for.9 divorce, and bis wife insisted on hie withdrawing it. This she could not induce bim to do, and therefore determined to take his life. She did not fully succeed in her decign, however, ‘as tho wound inflicted, though ® severe one, was not ponsidered necessarily mortal. She was arrested and committed, but soomed to have no compunctions regard. ing her bloody deed. ‘The Columbes and Indianapolis Central Ratiroad was on last Monday evening the scene of another railroed slaughter. There was a far greater namber of passon- core than could cat into Ys cam, and the saroles ones | countrs, summated in the revolutionary rupture of the Charleston Convention of 1860; and confirmed in the irrevocable split a few weeks later at ‘Baltimore. All these things, culminating in the late sanguinary rebellion, may be traced directly to the weakneas, faithlessness and criminal folly of poor Pierce. Against him, and in the tremendous Northern anti-slavery reaction thus brought about, the State of New York led those resistless columns which Gast the democracy out of power and into dis- grace in 1860. There, excepting the lucid in- terval of 1862, the party has since remained, in co! nee of its adhesion to its incurable copperhead leaders, New York, with the signal from Fort Sum- ter, led off in the war for the Union; and in every great political revolution or reaction of the country we find that New York has exer- cised the influence which properly belongs to the most powerful State of the Union. It is in this view that we attach the highest im- portance to the present attitude of both par- ties in this State, in reference to President Jobnson’s domestic and foreign policy. By their official action, as we may term it, the democratic party and the republican party stand upon the same platform. In reference to their principles and their candidates there is hardly anything to quarrel over between them. The intolerant abolition radicals threat- ena bolt against the doings at Syracuse, and the intractable copperheads are disgusted with the doings at Albany, and of these two small discordant factions the opposition elements to President Johnson’s policy are composed. If the republicans are defeated in November it will be in the house of their radical friends ; if the democrats fail to recover the State they may charge the account to their copperhead brethren. In either event, however, the ad- ministration will stand endorsed by New York and by both parties, The moral effect of this emphatic approval of President Johnson by the masses of both parties of this State will be felt in all the other States, and will be recognized in Congress as @ true development of the public opinion of the country at large. The members of the new Congress, like Andrew Johnson with - dent Lincoln, were elected upon the all-ab- sorbing issue last year of the subjugation of the rebellion and the extinguishment of slay- ery. The rebellion has been since put down and slavery has been abolished. President Johnson has thus been left perfectly tree to take his own course in the great work of Southern re- construction. The course which he has adopted meets the approval of the people North and South. The party that elected him and the party that opposed him last November will both in the coming November elections— especially in New York—stand upon the John- son platform of Southern reconstruction. Is it not fair, then, to infer that, in obedience to the voice of their home conventions and their constituents, the New York members of the new Congress, republicans and dem- ocrats, with an exception or two, will range themselves when they come together in Wash- ington on the side of the administration? Is it not fair to suppose that such will be.the course with the bulk of the members on both sides from all the other States? We have but little doubt upon the subject, What can the ma- jority party of this new Congress expect to gain by a break with President Johnson? They can expect nothing else from this experi- ment than such a popular judgment against them in the Congressional elections of next sutumn as will make sure the success of the Johnson programme in the next Congress, and of the Presidential succession on the Johnson platform. Wo therefore conclude that the President's policy of Southern reconstruction will be sup- ported .and carried out by the coming Con- gress; that the republican and democratic membets generally will be guided by their State conventions and the voice of their con- stituents, and it is in this view that we can justly bosst ot New York to-day as ocoupying # glorious and commanding position before the circles yesterday, and there was more buoyancy and.-| both indulging in o remarkable series of antics abont the recent Democratic State Convention. Ben Wood says that Mr. John B. Haskin sold out the party. Nonsense, The boot is om the other leg. Did Mr. Haskin get twenty-five thousand dollars on » heck from Montreal for his aale? And ean that check be put in eyi- dence before a military commission? Greeley is in a very different humor from Ben Wood, He laughs, and shouts, and cuts all sorts of capers over the fate of Confidence Cassidy, Man- tilini Marble, Secesh Seymour and the other peace democrats. He declares that Mr. John B, Haskin has cut off all their heads at = single blow; and for once poor Greeley is right.’ Both the Wood brotliérs have lost their heads, too; but this is not so much of a loss to Ben, since his head never had any brains in it. No wonder, then, that Greeley chuckles, and crows, and grins through column after column of bis paper, and cannot conceal his delight at the fate of his old enemies, the hunker democrats. Mr. Haskin has certainly polished them off and Greeley has good reason for his mirth. But when we look at the Tribune philosopher we perceive that he is also without a head. That white hat is visible no more. His white coat is streaked with gore. He has evidently been under the guillotine. If we glance at the Times office we find that Weed and Ray- mond are equally headless, The’ Republican State Convention has served them in the same way that the democratic convention served the butcher boy Cassidy, of the Argus; Mantilini Marble, the man-milliner of the World; Secesh Seymour, of Utica, and all the rest of that set. Seward sits grimly in his bureau at Washington; but ‘he, tod, carries his head under his arm. There never was a greater triumph for the people and for Andy Johnson. All the old politicians are without their heads, and are running about in this most melancholy plight, not knowing which way to turn, Under these circumstances Greeley’s laughter is forced and ghastly. If he can grin and make faces at the hunker democrats the hunkers can reciprocate by hold- ing up te ridicule the old line whigs, There has been a general slaughter, and no one vic- tim has the moral right to poke fun at his companions in misery. Andy Johnson, of Tennessee ; John B. Haskin, of Westchester, and Dean Richmond, of the Central Railroad— four hundred miles to Buffalo—have upset all the machines and caused more political deaths than a railroad accident. Mantilini Marble, Confidence Cassidy and old fogy Comstock confess that their resolutions went into the waste basket at Albany, and served a purpose for which they were never intended. But are Greeley, Weed and Raymond any better off? Not at all. They came up to Syracuse, as Marble, Cassidy and Comstock came to Twed- dle Hall, “with their carpet bags filled with old editorials which they were anxious to have printed asa platform,” and they, also, were hustled out of the way, dragged under the guil- lotine and summarily beheaded, while the jan- itor of Weiting Hall took charge of their papers and sprinkled sawdust over their bleed- ing forms, In both conventions Andy Johnson and the people were completely victorious, and the radical and rebel editors and politi- cians, with their rabbish about arbitrary arrests, negro suffrage, military trials and unconditional confiscation, were massacred without mercy and without the hope of a resurrection. The consequence of this magnificent popular revolution in both parties is®that this great, this glorious State of New York is @ unit for President Johnson. There are two tickets, but there is only one platform, and that is Andy Johnson’s platform in every plank. This is the grand result of the proceedings of both conventions, and it is a result of which New York may well be proud. All the other com- ventions in all the other States amount to nothing. We no longer care how they go or where they go or what becomes of them. Andy Johnson is sure of New York, and with the Empire State in his favor he can rely upon sweeping the whole country next year. Better still, the radicals in Congress will not dare move against him. Having lost New York and their heads, they have lost everything. Which- ever party carries this State the triumph of Andy Johnson is the same, since both parties are pledged to his support, Whether the de- moorats or the republicans succeed depends entirely upon John Van If he will summon up -his former wit and eloquence, stump the State on behalf of the democracy, pitch into the politicians right and left and fight it out on that line all through the canvass, his ticket will certainly beat the republicans. Should he decline to do this the re- publicans have . the inside track. Both tickets are headed by generals who have fought brilliantly together through’ the war, and both are Andy Johnson men to the backbone. We want them to come to this city and let the people have a look at them. As they have stood upon the same platform during the war, and stand upon the same po- litical platform now, we want to see them upon the same platform at the Cooper Institute; but not at the Academy of Music, for that is irretrievably damned by fourth-rate Italian artiste, and only fourth-rate candidates would go there, the atmosphere being still polluted by Secesh Seymour’s Fourth of July speech with all the glories of the day left out. Where there is such a unanimity of sentiment in the party resolutions, where both the lead- ing candidates are generals, and where the strength of the parties is so nearly alike, who knows but that the contest may be decided by the good looks or the personal bearing of Slocum and Barlow? At any rate the people ought to see them in order to judge of their capacity as public men. But let all the head- loss politicians keep away from this joint meet- ing. If they are represented at all it ought to be by a basketful of copperheads and another basketful of niggerheads, with which to orna- ment the platform*and signalize the people’s victory over political hucksters. Just at pres ent none of the old politicians dre fit to be seen in public; for the only politics] magnates that are left with heads upon their shoulders are Andy Johnson, John B, Haskin, Dean Rich- mond end the New Yors Heratp. Ima Eaconation axp Famamsu—It fe very likely that the marked decline in Irish immigra- tion for the pase few months, since the close of the war, may be attributed to Fenisnism in Treland and in this country. Quite » large nam- ber of afloers of the Pderal army have cone ‘way from the city of New York, on the At- visit, and our railroad men and fancy stock jobbers are not ® little exercised as to its effects upon certain railroad stocks now in the market, It may relieve these persons of their concern in the premises, if we state what seems to us te be the true meaning of the visit of these foreign railroad princes and cap- italists to this country at this time. In the first place, the necessity of better and more direct,communications from the metropo- lis to the Great West has long been conceded. The pregent railway communications are in- direct, imperfect and insufficient. The Erie road is the most direct avenue to the Western country, and, so far as it goes, it isa splendid road. But this is net all that is required. A double track its entire distance is de- manded. This our foreign visitors express a determination to have laid down as soon as they conclude upon the terms of purchasing the stock and equipment of the entire road, or so much of them as may answer their present purposes. A double track being down upon the Erie, a double track must be laid from Salamanca, at the junction.of the Erie and At- lantic and Great Western road, clear to Cin- cinnati. Thence, on the Ohio and Mississippi road, a double track must be laid to St. Louis, with a branch to Chicago, Detroit and other lake ports—the Atlantic and Great Western already touching the important city of Cleve- land, on Lake Ere. From St. Louis, which thus becomes the metropolis of the Great West, and the starting point to the Great Pacific west, these foreign capitalists propose extend- ing their railroad across the plains, through Colorado, Salt Lake, Nevada, Sacramento, &., to San Francisco, on the Pacific shore. Thus will there be a continuous line of railroad com- munication, most of it double track, all the lantic, to the city of San Francisco, on the Pacific Ocean: 3 These magnificent enterprises are. con- templated by the gentlemen now visit- ing our country investigating the opportu- nities it presents for the investment of the superabundant European capital. Our people should not be jealous of the undertakings of these foreign capitalists upon our soil. We want @ Pacific Railroad, and do not care by whose money it is built. Sir Morton Peto can put fifty thousand men to wérk’on this road in a tew months, with but little more effort than it required him to build the military railway at Balaklava during the Crimean war, and for which enterprise he received from the Queen of Great Britain the honor of knighthood. The Pacific Railroad schemes of Fremont, Halleck, Durant, and others, have proven failures, although great: bounties in land were donated to some of them by Congress. Several lines have been projected, but nothing has been done. Now, these foreign capitalists, we under- stand, propose to build a Pacific road without asking any land, merely the right of way across the continent. This is amost important project, changing, as it will, the course of the bulk of the traffic around the world, and directing it through the great American continent. The next Congress should take up this matter in a liberal and comprehensive spirit whonever it is presented to them. In the meantime, it would be well for these foreign capitalists to bave an agent permanently established in Washington for the especial purpose of look- ing after their interests, and in promoting their designs for the development of the resources of our country. Tas Onarrer Etzcrion.—The coming char- ter election will be very interesting as a local struggle. In the grand position of the State— all parties being united on the one issue of supporting Johnson—the State canvass will not be exciting, and all the public interest will centre around the questions to be settled in December. All the factions are ready—the Tammany faction, the Mozart faction, and the Gunther faction of the democracy, and the two factions of the republican party that have not been long enough in existence to have gotten names or received any sort of baptism. The largest of the factions is the Tammany faction, and that is the one that, if it only manages its cards rightly, can carry everything before it. It has the great democratic vote of this city behind it, and it has brought the Regency to acknowledge its patriotic position as the real |" organization’that sustsined the country. The people of the city will sustain Tammany now, for city and State alike are determined to stand by whoever will sustain honestly the Presi- dent's policy of reconstruction. The country is determined to settle its difficulties now, to reconstruct the Union by the admission of Southern representatives in Congress, and 80 to get to work at its legitimate business—to develop our great resources and pay the national debt. Tammany must go ahead honestly in this view and follow the example of all the other conventions in the choice of a man, It must nominate for Mayor soldier with an honorable record—General Dix or General Sickles—and it may be sure of tho victory. 3 ‘Tas Last Kiox or rar Mosant Corrmnuzans.— ‘The copperheads of Mozart are beginning to move—in their mouthpiece, the News—in their chosen hall, and in all their other customary ‘dirty places. Their only sensible move would be to move into thelr tomb, for they must in- evitably go there soon. fof the objects of thelr move ia te seoure of General Blooum, the regular demootatic candidate. But what difference will thet maket The other candidate will be eleoyed, aad as the platforma, re ientionl, the reals will be the seme: sg it is of n0 consequence. Thaw pra main objec? isto make « bargein—with anybody, for any purpove. It is the ruling passion giving direo- tion to ‘be last kick. Their inveterate gambler would bet on any topic—or in any way—it he could only get a bet; and when he fell into the river and wus evidently drowning, he offered with his last gasp « final bet would not be dead in five minutes. It is the same with Mozart, and it signalizes in the'same way its latest hold on oxistence—its last minute of life—by the attempt to make one more bargain. Wanren Lumepiarety—Several tombstones, with appropriate epitaphs, for the large num- ber of politicians ruthlessly slaughtered lately at Albany and Syracuse. The designs and in- | scriptions should be as follows:—Poor Cassidy, the Butcher Boy; Mantiliai Marble, the Man- Milliner of the Shent-per-Shent Demooracy. Another must be inscribed te Horace Greeley, with the representation of # white hat carved upon it; another to Thurlow Weed, with a big coat, and a roll of contracts marked “five per’ cent premium” sticking out of the pocket; one also for Seward, with “his effigy, and five volumes of State papers, five hundred pages each, every page contradicting the preceding one, under his arm. The two Weods and one can be laid under one stone, in s row; in token of their modesty no inscription will ba necessary, None of these monuments to cost more than twenty-five thousand dollars (Mon- treal check). As these works are wanted im- mediately contractors had better send in their specifications at once. The subjects won’, keep long in this hot weather. Waar ws THe Meanno or Tas t—We under stand that many respectable persons who have been appointed by the Police Commissioners to act as inspectors of election have declined to serve in that capacity. If respectable peo- ple, who can be trusted, refuse to act in such offices as the inspectors of election we might aa well have no government at all. Music at the Park. The Park Commissioners announce that, if the weather is fine, there will be music on the Mall at the* Park to-day, commencing at half-past three o'clock P.’ M., by the Park Band, under the leadership of H, B., Dodworth. The following is the programme :— 1.—Overture to Tanoredia... 2.—Quick Step, ‘The Terrace. 3.—Schuzo, from simphonie in A minor... .Mendelasohn. PART SECON! 4.—March, ‘‘Aspinwall.”’... 6.—Grand Overture to Maritana. 6.—Lied Der Hemme! in Thale. 8.—Cricket Polka.......... 9.—Promenade, “La Belle Etti peso and 6 11,—Waltz, “ ‘The Union, General Hooker at the Fair of the Ameri. can Inetitute. A LABGR ATTENDANCE AND A SPRECH FROM TAS GENEBAL, ETO. Palace Garden was crowded last night by those wha Jor GeneralHooker, who had promised to be present upom the occasion. Eight o’clock found the place packed an@ locomotion anything but easy. The various articles om exhibition were examined by all carefully and with inter- est; but many appeared to wish for the coming of some. body, and that individual was Genoral Hooker. The ans, nouncoment had been made that the distinguished gen. tleman would be present; therefore every one expected him momentarily. At nine o'clock the General made appearance. He was escorted through the fair by Briga- ll, of the National and Mr. W. Gunrizuns—I thank you kindly for your toast. If £ live at a mallitary fo 1 assure you tbat the voca- of a farmer—which so many of 3 5 zs from the fair, tn coder (9 the ‘peculiarities him which General Hooker hi mosiScghuee™ About x's eet to Denne or the Astor The French Corvette Roland. Another addition was made to Rear Admiral Didelot’s French squadron yesterday, by the arrival of the corvette Roland, Captain Aliegon, from Sydney, C. ‘This vessel was built at Brest for the French navy, a1 of hor class. ta Bix [gy dy r, mount Kiar of one hundred and City Intelligence. ‘Tax Cacao Vierrons.—The delegation from Chicega, called upon Mayor Gunther early in the forenoon yoster~ day, and wore condueted to the Governor's Room ai ahs thi jh the City Hall, bei wolcom by his Honor, a2 well se by ‘David’. Valentine, sy. was personally ror ‘with several of ti distinguished quests, their interview with th py ‘authorities they started enew, to visit tho pub~ lie utions and take notes of such improvements a® the day a ng know find « vaore pure and oxbilerating amusement than Will sigh at thie Ravel oaqtiniey, a . ‘ ee -