The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BMNNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrius N. W. CORNBR OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ——aooaooooeeSSSSSOS Velume XXX.... + Ne, 269 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lonpon Assurance. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Evsersopr's Fuaw>— WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Sunv. Bowery.—Tas Covaims or MEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe eReoannse THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Wouas ix Y TRE, Bowery.—Tam Drass or Faaxcu— J BOWER’ bay ne place.—Tux Bareman VOCAL 4xD Lom. PaRRra. 1, Fourteenth street.—BQussrRian AND orutasn Faatetak Maste Braver, Bc hs 2 472, Broad- ales! MINSTRELS, we anios’ Pye phir Tums ‘WwoopD' IRVING H. bs OxousstaaL ISTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermoriay vs (40.—Lavcuinad Gas—Tum Steanaue— DY. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel -BrmiopiAx ‘Surana, Rasteng, é0.— ‘Youna Argica on rue AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadwav.—Ermorian Muneravisy—Batiers, PAawrominns, BURLESQUER, &0.— ‘Tax Two BoxwycastiEs, TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sina- ina, Daxcinc, Buaixsgues. &c.—Rocuertas oF Tomas. VANNUCHI’S MUSEUM, 6) Broadway.—Movina Wax Frguaas OF PRAMDENT LincOLN, Jurr. Davin, Be. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad: a Open from 10 A. M, tl 10 P.M pee: New York, Tuesday, September 26, 1965. EUROPE. The Montreal Company's steamship Moravian, which left Liverpool on the 14th inst., and Londondorry on the ‘15th inst., arrived off Father Point yesterday. Her ad- vices are five days later than those previously received, Fenianism was still the most prominent topic in both England and Ireland. The London Daily News statos that no time will be lost in représsing the mo¥ement, and that the government programme will soon, be an- nounced. One feature of this programme is probably the stationing of the English Channel ficet off tho const of Treland. The statement that the spread of Fenianism has nothing to do with this significant demonstration, will hardly find general acceptance. The London Times donc es Waddell, of the Shenan- doah, as a pirate, and suggests that the British war ves- sels in the Pacific should be orderea to aid the United States government in capturing the rover. Judah P. Benjamin, revel ex-Secretary of State, anda federal officer, whose name is uot given, were carrying on @ controversy in the London press as to the com- plicity of the rebel authorities in Andersonville atroel- ties. Gladiateur, the French horse which won the English Derby, has followed up his succoss by carrying off the Doncaster St. Leger, another ‘important stake, 'Gladia- teur is nominally the properiy of Count Lagrange, bat {tig asserted that his rcal ownor is the Emperor Napo- Jeon. United States five-twenty bonds remained firm'in Lon- don at 6834. British consols clos mn the 15th at 895; a 89%. At Liverpool there was a dee!ine of one-fourth to one-half of a penny per pound in American cotton. THE NEWS. An extract from a private lettor written by President Lincoln to Goneral Wadsworth, who was killed in tho battle of the Wilderness, has just been made public. In this Mr. Lincoln, in response to queries of the Goneral on the matter, indicated his intention, 80 s06m as tho national arms should have completely subdued the rebel- hon, to srant universal amnesty to the South, and sald that in such an event he could not perceive how, under the circumstances, he could avold “exacting in return anivernal suffrage, or, at least, suffrage on tho basis of tatelligence and military service.” How to. better the condition of the colored race, Mr. Lincoln said, had long attracted his serious and careful attention, and he re. garded his course im the premises cloar and decided. Ho thought it his roligious duty, as the nation’s guardian of these people, to see that those of them who had vindi- cated their manhood and upheid the republic on the bat- Ue feld should enjoy the privilege of the ballot. Govornor Holdev, of North Carolina, in a despatch dated at Raleigh on Saturday last, says that returns of the election for delegates to the convention have been received from one half of the State, and that the results Are very gratifying, men of tho best class having been generally chosen. Colonel Thomas, Assistant Commissioner of the Bare of Refugees, Freodmen ani Abandoned Lands for Mis- sissippi and a part of Loaisiana, has made a report, dated on the Mth inst, Sixty.six thousand acros of abandon d land, sabdi;ided iato two hundred and fifty- one plantations, have been leased by the Bureau in bis department. Of these there lave been leased to whites one hundred and sevonty plantations, ¢om- prising about fifty-three thousand acres, and to negroes eighty-one plantations, or over thirteen thousand acres. Nearly the whole of this pro- perty belongs to citizens who will resume their rights to it In January next, in accordance with a ciraular recently issued by Genotal Howard, tho Commissioner in Washington. As yet nono of it has been libelled for confiscation. Four thousand two hundred and seventy. eight negroes are receiving government aid, aud two thousand whitos are living on government rations, Colonel Thomas says tho Bureau is constantly growing in usefulncss in his department, and, so far, there has been but lit'le trouble between the freedmen and their employers; but he apprehonds sorious evils from the organization of the Mississippi State militia and the with- drawal of the national troops. The first ses-ion of the United States District Court at Alexandria, Va., since the close of the war was com- menced yesterday. Judge Underwood, the) presiding Magistrate, ordered the dismissal of all suite for th? con- fiseation of property, the own-rs of which}have taken the amnost; cath, unless they Letony to the classes excepted | by the Prosident’s proclamation, and in the cases of such of these as have recoived tho Presidential pardon, Some additional partic s'nra hav been received of the execution in San Salvador, by order of President Duefias, of ox-President Barrios, for alleged complicity in the late revolut on in that republic, os announced in Sunday's Heracp. Barrios met his fate with the most complete rosivnation, Martial law is withdrawn in San Salvador, the government announcing that the rebellion is sup. pressed. This is the day fixed by Governor Fenton for the heads of our city departments to appear before him in Albany and answer the charges against them of maladminiatra, tion in office, and one of the North river boats Iast evon- ing carried up most of these gontiemen and a large aum- hor of other persons interested in the matter. Tae Concord National Bank, at Concord, Masachu- , Was robbed yesterday afternoon of three hundred and dollars in national bonds and monoy. A reward « enty thousand dollars tas been offered for the of the robber or tobbora ro NEW YORK an 45 . } { pa 4 — ‘large amount of jewelry should not be recognized as valid. The decision was reserved. ‘Mra Rosalie A. Harris, formerly Mrs. William Harden- brook, who wag some years ago divorced from her hus- band, to whom at the time the care of their children was given, on account of her not being able to support thom, yesterday made an application before Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, at chambers, to be allowed to assume the support of one of them, she having, by another mar- riage, been placed in circumstances such as to warrant her in taking the charge. The Judge ssid he would con- ‘ult the child’s feelings in the matter, and then give his month, In the case of Anne Lorking versus F. J. King, which was @ motion to compel the defendant, 8 lawyer, to'give ‘up certain bills of exchange belonging to plaintiff and held by him as security for money alleged to be due him as counsel, Judge Barnard yesterday ordered the defend- ant to appear before him this morming and prove bis case. In the case of A. P. Martin versus J. P, Richardson, the Provost Marshal of Oneida county, who was sued for the alleged illegal arrest of plaintiff, an application was yesterday made to Judge Barnard to change the place of trial to that county, for convenience of witnesses. The decision was reserved. 4n the habeas corpus case of Margaret Kerrigan, re- ported in last Sunday’s Henaxp, resulting from the arrest of thé woman on charge of having left a grocery store with articles not bolonging to her, which ‘by some mys- terious means got into her basket, it is sald that the Dis- trict Attorney will move to quash the writ at the Su- preme Court Chambers to-morrow morning. In tho al- lustons to Police Justice Dowling thore was no intention toreflect unfavorably upon that magistrate’s sction in the matter. An action for divorce came up in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Cardozo, yesterday. The parties wero Mrs, Ellen Gillig as plaintiff and Mr. Thomas Gillig as defondont. The former applied for divorce on the ground of habitual cruel treatment by the: husband, whom she accused of assaultiug hor brutally in October last, for which, it is alleged, he was sentenced to sixty days imprisonmont anda, fing of Afty dollera, On tho trial yesterday, it appearing that the plaintiff could not swear to any cruel treatment except such as occurred in the presence of third parties, and the judge ruling that her own testimony to the point, under the circumstances, waa inadmissible, the case was about to be dismissed when the paftios consented to’ afi adjournment to enable the cage to be settied outside the court in an amicable manuer. The only case tried yesterday in the Court of General Sessions was an’ indictment” against James Clark, jointly indicted with James McDonald, charged with being an accessary after the homicide of Harry Lagaras ‘by Bern- ard Friery, on the 3d of last January. It was claimed by the prosecution that Clark violated the ‘statute by giving Friery aid, knowing that he had committed a felony, in order that he might avoid arrest. District At- torney Hall oxamined Birmingham, the sleigh drivor, who drove the parties from. the scene of the marder; Dwyer, the policeman, who arrested them at Harlem, and Phillip Shailler, bartender of the Park Cottage, who hoard Clark say that Lazarus was killed, and that it was the most horrible murder he ever saw. The defence Proved by Michael McDonald, Who was im Lazafus’ place at the time of tho killing, that Clark told Friery to make Go noise; that they did not come in there for trouble. Council submitted # gumber:of jaw points, which ho desired the Court to chargé specifically. The case was summed up, after which the Court adjourned, Judge Russel wiil charge the jury this moruing. Surrogate ‘Tucker yesterday admitted to probate the contested will of the late Capiain Bernard 8. O'Neill, of the Sixty-ninth NeW York /roximont, who fell ttt front of Potersburg, It leaves small bequests to St. Viticent's Hospital, toFather Willets, chaplain of the S:xty-ninth, and to the brothor and sister of the deceased. The trial of the will of Jamos Hampton ‘fs ‘still on in the Surro- gate’s Court. The investigation of the Porter-Stover cane, before Justice Dodge, which was adjourned from the 28th inst. to yesterday, was again postponed, without any pro- ceedings, to somo time next wook, in consequence, it is understood, of an agreement to that effect between the opposing counsel. The Board of Fire Commissioners at yesterday's meet- ing organized thtee companies and disbanded three or four volunteer organizations, made various appoint- monts, transfers, &c., in companies organized, and took meangures for ¢he alteration of cortain houses. They ad- Journed to Wednesday. A siimly attended convention of the recusauts of tho democratic party, known as the States’ rights or copper- head wing, was held yesterday afternoon. atthe Cooper Institute, Delogatas. were present from Now York, Kings, Suffolk, Westchester and Saratoga countios Mr. Thomas Lawrence acted as chairman and Mr. R. 8. Hor- ton as secretary, Speeches were made and rerol :tions adopted denouncing the Albany Democratic State Con- vention and its platform and tieket as @ betrayal of the party; speaking of General Slooum, the democratic can- didate for Secretary of State, as one who had thtroduced @ personal liberty bill in the New York Legislature, and had recently tried to raise an insurrection among th> negroes of the South; announcing refusal to te gov- ernod by the action of the Albany Convention, and de- clarng that President Johnson's course in dictating to the Southern States what amendments they shall make to their constitutions, is imperial and autocratic. The visiting delegation from St. Louis who arrived ou Saturday night were yesterday busily engage! in secing the sghts of the metropolis, including the Purk. They will eontinue their examination of affuirs in and aroand the city till Thuraday evening; when they will leave for Boston. A srdden Interruption to the trial between the sterm- ers Winooski and Algonquin, at the foot of Delancey street, occurred on Sanday evening, owing to! the burst- ine of the main feed pipe on tho latter vessel, from one of tho assistant engineers turning tho wrong valve. Tt is anid thut the damage is so serious as to require a week for ropaira, Moantime the Winooski“keeps her engines Going steadily, not having yet mado a since the tr al commenced, and it is supposed that will not make one till the full ninety-six hours are completed, which will be soino time to-day. The New York Mail Steamship Company's steam:r Monterey, Captain Furbor, will aail to-day for New Or Jeans, at three P. M., from pier 46 North river. The mails will close Post office at half-past.one P. M. The five mile, four-cared boat race for a stake of two thousand dollars avd the championship of America, bo- twoen the Biglan brothers, of this city, and the Ward brothers, of Newburg, took place yestorday on the Hud- son river, opposite the village of Sing Sing. It was won by the Wards in thirty-two minutes and fifty-nine seo- onds, they beating their opponents by forty ‘five seconds, The following commitments were yesterday made by the police justices:—Jacques Monnajse, a Frenchman of fifty-five, whose name has, herotofore figured in the | police annals, on the complaint of Alderman Norton, | who charges that the prisoner is proprietor, of a house ' kept for the vilest purposes, at 141 Mercer atreet, where toking of testimony in regard to the charges against | + Anderson, of the packet ship Villaftanca, was od yesterday before United States Commissionor , all the remaining witnesses for the defence examined, and some rebutting evidence for the tion béing pat in. The testimony was principally tion of that before olicited. The enmming up of | will be commenced to-day. The passencers lay ‘ vages at five hundred dollars excl, general term of the Sapreme Court yosterday, 1 ‘gos Ingraham, Sutherland and Leonard, argu- rd on ab Appeal from the Judgment of the Gurr te 4 im May, 1863, whereby was re ognized ¢ciatia Of Mary Flood, a servant girl, to nearly twelve 1 ioudand dollars worth of jewelry, which she alleged Lad wen given to her by Mise Mary Cooper, who died | jo .s08, and in whose service the woman Flood for some fine WAR "The appellants In the case declary tliat Mike Co yor, Who was possessed of considerable property, wae fnenne (Or &@ Conalderable time before ber death, and thes baw esore bao alleged gift Wo Lor servant girl of such bad and dvorderly characters of both sexes congregate ; James Martin, of 97 West Houston street, on charge, in company with others who escaped, of assaulting Mr. Aaron H. Borrell, living in 126th street, in the saloon 53 Grand streot, and stealing from him ao watch and chain value! at over one hundred dollars, whioh ‘were recovered; James Cusick, charged with beating John Cunningham, of 101 Cotigresa place, and robbing him of over seven hundred dollars, on Sunday night, in the drinking place 205 Wost Houston strest; John Stroemor, late a clerk in the employ of Mr. Frank A. Thatoher, doing business in First avenue, on charge of robbing his employer of three hundred and thirty dol- ‘and William Bach, alias Thomas Andrews, on com- Int of George E. Miller, of 7604 Grand etreet, who alleges that Bach cheated him ont of two hundred and fifty dollars by means of an advertising dodge and vorbal statements to the effect that for euch a deposit the com- plainant would be secured a good ritnation, which he has not received, and does not now expect to ever receive, throtigh the instrumentality of the prisoner, whom he believes to be a swindler. ‘The German journeymen carvers and varnishers of this city yesterday struck for higher wages. The em- ployers of the former trade generally acceded to the Advance demanded; but the varnishers were not so su0- consful. Meetings to express sorrow for the death of Captain Charles H. Marshall, and to make arrangemotite to attend his faneral, were held yestorday by the Loyal Lengue Club, of which the deceased morchant was Prosidont; the trustees of the Sailoss’ Haug Harbor, in which he took an active interest, and the directors of the Continental National Bank, of which be was Vice President. The funeral services will take piace at the Presbyterian church, corner of Fourteenth street and Second avenue, at half-past three o’clook this afternoon. A portion of the party of European capitalists arrived im Cleveland yesterday evening. Some of them re- mained last night in Buffalo, where they were enter- tained at a banquet. The entire party will reunite in Cleveland to-day, and be entertained by the merchants of that city. ‘The propeller Buckeye, from Ogdensburg for Toledo, struck a sunken rock in the St, Lawrence river on last Sunday morning, and sunk almost immediately, Threo ladies are known to have been drowned, and it is thought that three men shared the same fate. The other passen- gers wore rescued by a passing steamer. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 507 deaths in the city during the past week—being a de- crease of 68 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 10 more than ocourred during the corre- sponding week last year, The recapitulation table gives the following reault:—Acute diseases, 259; chronic diseases, 200; external causes, &0., 48. There were 330. tes of the United States, 121 of Ireland, 34 of Germany, 8 of England, 6of Franco, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘ The stock market was dull yesterday morning, but afterwards it became strong and active, and closed steady. Governments were firm. Gold was strong, and closed at 148%. j ‘There was rather more doing in commercial yesterday; yet business was not active. goods were firm. Cotton was a shade off, in sympathy with tho. Liverpool market. Groceries were firm. Petroleum was higher, On ’Chango flour was 100. higher, wheat was 2c, a 80. better and corn was about 20. lower, Pork was active and higher. Whiskey wag steady, with only a moderate business, “ SS ; The Great Jesue of the Day—Whieh Will Be the. Party of the Future} The progress of events since the surrender of the rebel atmies bave placed’ all the’ politi- cal parties ina perfect muddle, Their con- ventions are striking illustrations: of this fact. The uncertainty and uneasiness manifested by the politicians at those gatherings—on both sides—indicate the sorious anxiety undér which they are laboring, a8 well as their doubt’ and misgivings for the fatyre, ‘The party/organs are_also floundering around near the shore, uncertain whether to set sail or hold fast to the old wrecks. The decided approval of the policy of President Johnson by the masses of the peo- ple has upset all their calculations, destroyed their soundings, buoys and lighthouses, which have heretofore enabled them to navigate the political sea: The channel has changed, and they haye found their old pilots worthless, The rank and file in both parties realizing this fact have set their old leaders one side, in this State at least, and placed new men at the head of their ticket—men identified by their valiant deeda with the progressive events of the coun- try. Recognizing President Johnson, in his‘ measures for the restoration of the South and efforts to. cement the victories of war, as en- deavoring to secure the greatest benefit to the nation, they haye rallied to his support and are now struggling for the political mastery in the fature. The current of public opinion has set in so strong and is rushing with so great velocity towards'Mr. Johnson’s policy, that it has seri- ously disturbed the radicals, Such New Eng- Jand agitators. aa, Sumner, Phillips and Wiison are raving and threatening vengeance, Thad , Stevens harangues the Pennsylvania Dutchmen about confiscation, and almost’ threatens repu- diation if they do not sustain bis faction and array themselves against the Prosident. The Weatern Jacobins ‘follow suit, end manifest the most deplorable forebodings for the future; while Beecher drops his glowing descriptions and arguments about Hell and devotes his Sab- bath ministrations to politics and in praising his black brothers and sisters in the South. The party corfiventions ouiside of the great State of New York are, if anything, in'a wore dilemma, The democracy in New Jersey, from all accounts, are conducting their canvas on issues fifty years old, and appear to be laboving under the impression that thero has been a ¢ eral resurrection of old ‘snes. The rey cans, for a wonder, have obtained a glimpse of what is going on in the outside wor'd at the present time, seem tohave obtained the whip- row upon the democracy, and we sliou!i not be surprised if they carried the Siate at the coming election. In Pennsylvanin oth par- ties ure about half and half. They are astride the fence, and neither appear to know which way tojump. In Ohio the repub! can candidate has come out flatfooled against the radicals and in support of the Pre ‘8 policy, while the democratic candidate bu plan's himself upon the samo plz!%6:m, and is making a valiant fight. Tho Long ta ot HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPT: copperheads openly repudiate him, while the radicals are in doubt about sustaining the ro. publican nominee.» In Wisconsin we find the regular.republican party rallying around the President, while the IJncobin portion indic- nantly call another convention to endorse the progrnmme of Sumner, Stevens and Leecher. The democracy, on the othor band, follow the footsteps of their associates in this State. In Minnesota the republicans have surrendered to the radicals and are fighting ft ont on that negro line, Thus we find the party politicians, outside the State of New. York, twisting and tuning and adopting all manner of make- shifie to bridge over the present, in hopes of deferring the great question as to party policy until some future day. It therefore makes but little difference which side succeeds in the The State of New York appears to be the only State where the parties have kept pace with the events around them. Here they have advanced far ahead of their associates else- where, have dropped the old issues, taken hold of the questions of the living present, and placed bold and valliant men at the head of their tickets. Here is the great political battle field. Here the question is to be. decided, “which shall be the party of the future.” The contest in all the other States is mere outside skirmishing, and oan have no possible offect upon the decision of this question. The great mass of the people thoroughly approve and emphatically endorse the policy marked out for the reorganization of the South. They de- sire a speedy restoration of those States, the early establishment of civil rule in the place of military, and the removal of all batriers toa more complete development and the return of prosperity. In this view, they are watching with great satiefaction and pride the fivorable progress of events in the Southern States under the Prosident’s policy. Both parties in this State, in their platforms and tickets, have re- cognized the existence of this feeling among the great mass of the people, But the republi- can organs, the journals of the party which nominated Mr, Johneon, are hesitating and halt- ing on the very threshhoid of the canvass as if afraid tomove. The democratic papers on the ! ur © other hand are daily increasing im seal in sup- port of President Johnson. Thus we find them at the commencement of the contest thet is to which will'be the party of the future. The platforms are so near alike and the contest 0 close, that it all depends upon the strength fT We : FP mood—share in the general prosperity. the charge agaist us on the score advertising—it is equally nonsensical. whole Italian opera together nover us the tithe of what the Ethiopian opera pays us. But the real blackguardiam in this ia-an aggault uy & poor, artiste, setae gentleman formerly one .of our musical critica, It is,said that the. charge for @resses from the Academy wardrobe refers. to dresses loaned'to Olive Logan for use on the stage, and it is thus insinuated that they have not been returned and that the lady is a swin- dler. We do not believe this to be true, and wo leave thé answer to the lady’s tushapd, Henry Delille. ‘ The stockholders of the Academy ought to con- sider whether their property is not endangered by being in the hands of such a man, and the subscribers to the Opera should reflect how they are dragged from their social position before courts and juries in big bad its, Tt remains to be e66n whether these influences: will not place a man in charge of the Opera who will managé it decently. Our principal theatres are in the hands of gentlemen, men’ of cul- ture and intellect; who seem to restore the cle- gant days of the Old Park. Messrs. Wallack, ‘Wheatley and Stuart and the rest.can manage their business in a business way, and retain their pleasant relations with the press,'and cer- tainly the Academy ought to be im the hands of aman who can do the same. i Unlvert Comstock’s Last Squeak. The old politicians, who were the victims of the recent terrible massactes at Albany and Syrnctise, He about cold and stiff, Greeley and Gay, thé white man and the nigger of the Tribune, utter no sound and show no sign of life. Weed and Raymond, the big jobber and little jobber of the Times, are dumb and numb and pulseless. Mantilini Marble, the man- millinor of the World, and Confidence Cassidy, the butcher boy of the Argus, are, if possible, still more dead; for mortification has set in and their remains are becoming offensive. The Wood ‘brothers, well known ag political jug- glers, are in the same corrupt condition, and ought to be taken out and buried by the City Inspector, at the public expense, in Potter’s Field. Tho headless. trunk of .exGovernor Seymour has been handed over to his friends at Utica for private interment. Dean Richmond and John B. Haskin may fold their arms, like Napoleon at Austerlitz, and proudly survey their bloody work. Mr. Calvert Comstock, of modern Rome, is the only one of their victims that has strength enough left to give a final squeak. His card, which we published yester- day, is in facta dying squeak and confession. Lest'some of our readers may not have heard it—for it was very faint—we propose to briefly recall it to their attention. Mr. Comstock, with a melting moan, says that it would have been better for Mr. Haskin “to have left” the facts about the con- struction of the democratic platform “to the confidential silence with which such proceed- ings are ordinarily supposed to be invested.” Nodoubt it would. have been better for the dying Mr. Comstock’s deceased friends, Man- tilini Marble and Confidence Cassidy; for it would have enabled them to continue their claim, to all tho credit for the work. (‘The ex- piring Comstock forgets in his mortal, agonies that. if there has heen any breach of confi- dence, the late Mantilini Marble and his clique are responsible for it. They provoked Mr.. Haskin to a full explanation of the affair, by their garbled statements in regard to. it; they. broke “the confidential silence” of the committee room, and they placed Mr. Haskin in a position wliere he must either tell the treth and the whole truth, or allow their mis- representations to pass current. Mr.) Haskin wisely chose the former course, and he has annihilated the whole gang. So long as the memory of Montilini Marble and Confidence Cassidy survive, so long will they be asso- cistod with the carpet bags packed with the old editorials which they snent their last mo- ments in carrying up to Albany for the benefit ofa certai partment of the Delevan House. Mr. Comstoek edmi's, with a dismal groan, that he himself submitted to the committee “not only eleven, but several more” resolu- {fons, to say nothing of those prepared by arble, Cassidy, the Woods, Seymour, Tilden others; and og there are only nine resolu- the plalform, we can readily conclude great tho sliughter was, and how plenti- ful waste paper must have been at Albany on the day after the Convention. But before Mr. Calvert Comstock goes to join his frionds in the shades below, let us do him the justice to say that his dying squeak and confession substantiate Mr, Hoskin’s frank and manly sintement in every particular. He owns up squarely that Mr. Haskin “is certainly en- tiled to claim the paternity of the ninth resolu- tion.” He is even willing to “give him a cer- tficate to that effect, if the fact will be useful to him in any quarter,” and if the trembling land of the lamented and death-smitten Com- stock can hold a pom Further than this, the ante-mortem evidence of Mr. Comstock goes to show that he tried to get rid of Mr. Haskin’s resolation; that he thonght it would be in bet- ter taste to consolidate it with the fourth reso- lution; that he made this suggestion in the com- mittee room to Mr. Haskin, who rejected it, and that, not yet despairing of this scheme to place President Johnson, Mr. Haskin and the ninth resolation out in the cold, he repeated the con- solidation suggestion the next morning, but again failed to accomplish his purpose. This is material teatimony, and it more than endorses all that Mr. Haskin bas stated. ‘The ninth resolution declares that, “banishing all minor party considerations and acting in the spirit of an enlarged and generous patriotism,” the democratic party “cordially support President Johnson in the policy which he has avowed” and “in all such constitutional meas- ures as he may inaugarate.” The fourth reso- lution, which Comstock, Marble, Cassidy, Sey- mour, Tilden and Company tried to substitute for this broad, comprehensive and complete endorsement, is simply a cautious and wordy promise to support the President in his plan of reconstruction, if he would take care of State rights and recognize all the recent rebels as electors. This may mean one thing or it may mean another. It is just such a two-faced piece of verbiage as the slaughtered politicians liked to concoct, and it would have condemned the platform before the people if Mr. Haskin had not put in his plank to strengthen it. This may be but odld comfort for the departing Com- stock to carry to his associates who, await him in the spirit land; but it is the comment which our strict regard for truth and our experience of the shent-per-shent abortion adopted at Chi- cago require us to make upon the revelations of his last squeak. Southern Restoration Movoments—The Good Work Going on Finely. South Carolina—there is much yet to boast of in the chivalry of South Carolina—is pro- gressing admirably in her great ‘work of rocon- struction on the broad platform of universal liberty. Our latest reports from her reorganiz- ing State Convention show that she ‘frankly accepts the new condition of things resulting from the war, and is thus honestly preparing to moet its requisitions. id From the propositions introduced in ‘the Convention by leading members and. commit- tees, we expect a State constitution. which will fally recognizé the abolition of slavery, and the commonwealth; the election of the Gover- nor and Presidential electors bythe people, heretofore’ chosen” by the Legislatures; and we expect, too, the concession of the right to the black race to testify in courts of justico—a proposition which but the other day would have been sconted |as a monstrosity from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Charles Macbeth, not long ago tho intractable firo“eating rebel Mayor of Charleston, was the man who intro- duced into the’Convention the resolution giving tho blacks the right to testify. Thus the late leaders of the secession chivalry aro now among the foremost in this great work of Sonthern reorganization, on the platform of liberty, loyalty and the Union. A little patience, a little time to our Southern brethren to realize the advantages of political harmony between whites and blacks, will secure to the latter, in some satisfactory shape, the right of suTrage. “Rome wag not built in a day.” The repeal by this South Carolina ‘Conven- tion of her bloody and disastrous ordinance of secession of 1860 may have been a super- fluous proceeding, that act and all other simi- lar acts being declared by President Johnson null and void; but, still, accepting this repoal simply as a matter of form, we suppose it was rather intended a8 ‘an acceptance of the Presi- dent’s views of the subject than a recognition of the validity of said ordinance. of secession. In this opinion we are sustained by the reso- lation of Mr. Hammond, accepting on the ques- tion of sovereignty the decision of the sword, and endorsing the policy of President Johnson. The meaning of this proposition is, that South Carolina having fought for the principle and lost it, abandons the right of secession and her past ideas of State sovereignty, and recog- nizes the paramount sovereignty of the United States and the indivisibility ofthe Union. —- These remarkable proceedings will afford something of an idea of the wonderful revotu- tion which the results of the war are bringing about in the minds of leading Southern men. Tf they do not see the necessities and dutics of their present situation through the eyes of our Northern abolition reconstructors, it is stfll apparent that they are acting wisely, and may be safely trusted in the work before them. The new relations between Southern whites and blacks resulting from the war impose upon all concerned 4 difficult, délicate and comprehensive reorganization of the Southern that we can ask of the Southern States is a cheerful concurrence in the programme of President Johnson. This concurrence and oo- operation we now have not only in South Caro- lina, but in every State from Virginia to Texas inclusive. Mississippi has neatly accomplished the pre- liminary work of her reorganizing State Con- vention. Alabama is handsomely progress- ing, like South Carolina, in this work; public opinion in Georgia fs fally ripe for the great change demanded of her, and so it is with Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Even in Tennessee, where the eloments of disorder seem most to prevail, they are quietly simmer- ing down. Through all the South the humane, generous and conciliatory policy and proceed- ings of President Johnson are working wonders among the people, and smoothing the way to their restoration to the full benefits of the Union and the constitution. We dare say that by the meoting of Congress the practical re- fults down South of President Jotns6n’s policy w'll bo so satisfactory and so convincing, as to ‘At ‘all of our theatres and other places | storm brewing, as of amusement performances are given | approaching voloanic eruption, every word, ‘The language: of President Johnson to the Brazilian Minister, Mr. Joaquin Marie Mascen- tes de Azambuja, when that om was Presented on Saturday last, was _ same otaracter, if ais ol anetog wit, Bre policy of the United States a to the tions. ie “American gon ent. was we re Sauacial nod ; and the views of the poople, and he availed himself of it He said, “Our policy 's ono which is simple and easily to be understood. ‘We wish to promote ‘the’ progress: of civiliza- tion in this hemisphere, and, for. that. purpose, the development of thaterial resources, the im- provement of commerce, and the introduction, ag fast as possible, of free, intelligent labor ints the virgin flelds of the continent. Instead of weakening néw American States in our vicinity, we wish to impart ‘strength to them by repos- ing in them a generous confidence, rather than by indulging jealonaios of their prosperity, or . @ querulous disposition in regard to tho man- ner in which theit governments are, adminis- tered.. Above’all, we wish to impress them” with the goayigtion that all the mations of Atuerica, if they would contttine to exist, must aspire: to absolute self-sustaining independence, and.toa perfect. political equality with the other nations of the earth.” These words are couched in courteous phraseology, and are very moderate in tone, but no one can mistake their meaning. Ho wishes to impart strength to all these new States of America, in order that they may exist prohibit hereafter, its re-establishment within. political system and Southern society, and all |. in self-sustaining independence and in perfect political equality with the other nations of the earth. That he” considers is their right, and their proper position in the world. Ho looks upon the American system of governments, and the relation of these .governments one to the other, as uniqueyas being detached, from the European system, and as haying international relations apart from and ‘independent of the Qld. World, .. Consequently ot se bed or a bb coils change the , government of any of ‘the States’ on this conti- nent by, European Powers, is a gross usurpa- tion, and. must be regarded ‘as indireotly hos- tile to all, Itig.sm invasion of-and an: assault , upon our American system, and specially aimed at this country, which is the great trolling Power. “The President moans, evidenfly, that the American States must work, out, own destiny, tminfluenced and unin! pted by France, England or any other transatlantic Power; and in giving to this idea he expresses the sentiment of the wholé people. Nor were these words uttered unadvisedly or without an object. , They were intended for others, besides’ the Brazilian Minister, and, in our judgment, are very significant, “Mr. John- son is not @ ‘person to say: things. We think we can tell, the Emperor leon, the British government, and “ whoever else it may concern,” that. they foreshadow a more emphatic, declaration on the same, sabject in . the forthcoming message to Congress. The idea of excluding absolutely European influence on this continent is as fixed and unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. In- deed, it grows daily in the public The offensive interference with Am institu- tions when onr hands were tied rankles deep- ly in the heart of the people. Unless allayed by an early settlement of the Mexican and other difficulties, it will break out in @ manner ‘ that may distarb the peace. of the world. We reiterate, therofore, what we have said before— that the proper way, and, perhaps, (the only peaceablé way of adjusting these questions pertaining to America; is to call»a congress of ‘nations’ in, which the due weight ct the United States should be. felt. profession to Europe, in return for those who - have brought their services to this country, and fn many instances the exported artist has far World. soprano we have had for many aday. She had but little opportanity of displaying her powere here. No doubt she will have many in Europe, and will make a fine reputation there, Harry Sanderson, the pianist, is also betaking himself to a European tour. Sanderson is « musical genius, and cannot fail to make his mark. He waa o« pianist {n his) childhood, played well at an early stage of manhood, although with but a very limited knowledge of the science of music. Several yeats of study, however, have made him not only @ marvel- lous player, but a correct and brilliant com- poser. His four hand pieces on two pianos, with Gottschalk, will be long remembered. Alreddy an American reputation ié'8 passport for the artist to the good will of the European public, Before many years we should not bo surprised to see most of the leading artists on the Buropean stage hailing from this country. —— Fire at Cinot fe TH, Sept, 26, 1965. » oc UGE" ty sonata” ‘