The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1865, Page 4

ee NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Woman 1N HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Kauxstaiax AND Grumastio Paats—Tax Macic Stator, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hovel—rmiorian SINGING, Dancixa, &0.— Youna Armca on Tue Trareae. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Suta- ina, Dancing, BuRLESQUSS, —Pimasant Neighaox, VANNUCHD’S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movinc Wax Fiqunss or Presipest Lincoun, Jur. Davis, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M. New York, Tuesday, October 3, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Dally Newspapers, OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865, FHIBRALD. ..-...ee ee seeeeeeseteeeeeerers $1,095,000 368,150 Tribune... 252,000 Evening Post. 169,427 World... 100,000 Sun 151,079 Express... 90,548 New Yor Heraro.. «+ $1,095,000 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,220 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the W p must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday © culation among the enterprising mec Jemen throughont t Advert merchants, manufacturers and States. THE NEWS. THE WIRZ ToIAL. In the Wira court martial yesterday several witnesses for the de“ence were examined, but no very important testimony was elicited. Vincent Bardo testified to having been whipped and placed in the chain gang for attempt ing to escape from the prison pon, but said that his punishment was not inflicted by Wirz’s orders, though by whore he could not tell. Other persons testified to the violonce and profanity of the a'cusod, but bad never seen him beat the prisoners. A War Department order releving Goneral Bragg, one of the members of the court, from further service on the commission was read during the day’s proceedings by Judge Advocate Chip- man, and led toa sharp colloquy between the Court and Mr. Baker, one of Wirz’s.counsel. The latter gentleman requested to know the reason for General Bragg's bo ng Tolieved, when the Court very curtly replied: —“ You cannot ascertain. Tt is none of your basiness. Go on with vovr exansination.’ 5. ROPE. The Quobec steamor Belgian touched at Father Pons yeaterday, wth European advices two days iater than those published in yesterday ’s Huraip. Fonianism was still the all absorbing topic. The: dis- covery that the organization exiended even to the ranks of the British army had caused consternation at Cork and brought alo it a run ou one of the banks, The lon- don Hos, & ministerial organ, repeats the assertion that Mr. Seward bas given information of Fenian movements to the British goycrnment, and thanks him with an ex- Ceax of giatitude for bis honorable and ataicable cond:ret. Ja connection with this subject it is stated that the man Murphy, who was arrested in the Lrish Prop’ office, aud subsequently released, isin the employ of the n bondholders had been held at ith a view o° placing the sousd ness of Aricricau finance before foreign Powers in a clearer High: In tho Londow money market, on the 224 ult, United Statos fivo-twenties were quoted at C8.a O83, Ar cotton was Syd. a Ad. higher, with an excited market MILCELLANE Dus. Tho total amocnt of our al tatebtodness at pre wont, as appears from the Treasury Department books, is $3,745,047, n which thy entire interest tu cain and currevey is 6. During the past month the public debt lias been reduced $12,742,000, the interest over $500,000 end the legal te curren y in cireula tion $6,012,000 ‘Tho Treasury Departinent recelpts from internal revo. fou1o for the quarter ending on the 20th ult. are stated at $95,700,425. Tho receipts uf yoxterday alone were ‘neatly Uhree mi‘lions of dollars. ! Secretary of tio Treasury MoCutech bas tasuad a cir- | Gular giving notice to holders of certificates of tndebted nem which mature before the first day of January next, Of compound interest notes, and of one and two year ‘Treasury notes, 0: the reads of the Departinent to | wo for thom, to the extent of fifty millions ax per cent five-twenty year bonds at three per cont promfam, G neral Torry, commanding in Virginia, after a con. with the civil ‘authorities, has issued order Vins nine members of cach branch of the Rich. mond City nei! elected im July last, bat who at the time were ne: permitted by the military authorities to assum) th: iuactions of oMlee, Who are to be alfownd to qualify anit ¢ cers to © on the 12¢h inst a as heen heretofore announced by the telegraph Alabama Convention, whieh adjonrned on last Saturday, vored te submit to the people for ratificat’on or rejection the amendments made hy it to the Btale conatitution. Another despatch, however, from Munt- gomery states that the Convention refused to make this submission A Now Orleans desjateh « Marvin, of F} an election for members to a State Convention to be held ‘on the 2d inst The Reconstriction Convention of North Carolina met fm Ralvigh yesterday and organized, We give a list of | tho delogat ‘s in another column, No details of the pro. credings have reached te Tho oivetion in Connecticut yesterday resulted in the defeat of the negro suffrage constitutional amendment by from three to five thousand majority. A delegation of the democratic party of New Orleans is now on the way to Washington on @ mission whieh is | announced as important, but the precise object of whieh | has not yet been made public, | General Conver returned to Fert Laramie on *atutday } Inst from his Powder river expedition againt the hostile | Indians of the Northwest, and his troops are expected to | Teach the fort in about a week, The expedition was toa | Considerable “xtont sueceseful, bands of Cheyennes, | Sioux and Arapahoes being deteated and routed with | heavy loss in four pitched battles, while the General's | own loes was vory trifling | Details of the recent successes of the Mexican im porialists in Chihuahaa, Sonora and other States, here. | | tofore briefly reported, are furnishod us by our city of Moxion correspondent. Tt is “laimed that Pesqueira, the | fepublican Governor of Sonora, afver beimg driven out of Hermositio, the capital, was pursucd, lost wll his war ma | toriel, and bad his foree completely Mepersed, while | In Chibashua, it (2 said, the imperaliate marohed actors the State, routing every deta ent of republicans with wh ob they mot, The imperial troops, a» heretofore an nounced, occupied the city of Cbshuahua on the oth of August. On hig lato visite to interior towns Maxi- milian was received, it is stated, with much enth siaam by the inhabitants, being welcomed fh atfresses by the clergy and working clasves, Decrees, amoug others, bave boon issued by,ihe Emperor's government | appropriating four hundred thousand dollars towards Dysldae @ #biees Failrvad. vrvetaiaiug Mexico vue to iu + | just so Ea } migration from all coantries, and establishing military colonies along the entire route between the capital and Vora Cruz. A uational exhibition of the industry of the country is to.bo held in the city of Mexico in May next Some interesting and important correspondence on Mexican affairs, including despatches which passed be. tween Secretary Seward and Mr. Dayton, our Minister in France, about the time that Maximilian was preparing to inount the Mexjgan throne, and 4 letter from Major Gen- eral Herron, is given in our columns this morning. Mr. Seward’s instructions to Mr Dayton were to the effect that he was not to recognize the then embryo emperor as such in any manner, and the latter took occasion to contra- dict a report that he had held out a prospect that our government would acknowledge the new empire. Gene- ral Herron gave a contradiction to the statement that citizens of the United States and arms from this country for the aid of Presideut Juarez had been allowed to cross the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, The United States gunboat Mercedita, from St. Do- mingo City on the 5th inst, via Key Wost, Fla., arrived here yesterday. On her arrival at St. Domingo the Mer- cedita saluted the Dominican flag, and her commander, accompanied by the American Consul, called on the head of the government, The death penalty for political omtences has been abolished, and it is said that the coun- try has already since the Spanish evacuation made con- s derablo progress in the arte of peace, The Mercedita is among the surplus naval vessels which will shortly be sold at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The naval apprentice ship Sabine arrived here yester- day from New London, Conn. Among other objects of her visit here is the enlistment of apprentices. A special meeting of the Board of Supervisors took place yesterday, A numberof bills wor> passed; but all the papors that came up were of a routine character. ‘The Board adjourned to the 10th inst. At yesterday’s session the Board of Fire Commissioners organized Metropolitan Steam Fire Eugino Gompany No. 10, to be located at No. 437 East Houston street, J. C. Harrison foreman, and a full compliment of oficer: and privates, Thirteen more companies of the volv) 4eer department were notified of disbandment, officers and meu to be honorably dise on the 1st of November. A number of appointments and reinstatements were made, It was resolved that permission be asked of the Police Commissioners to introduce alarm telegraphs into such station houses as may be necessary, Premises No. 3 Dover street, occupied by Hose Company No. 10, is no longer needed for department 180. ‘The examination of the crew of the ship Calhoun, charged with mutiny on the 24th of September last, and vith mutinous conduct on the 2isto! the same month, sumed yesterday before Commissioner Belts. some brief testimony for the dofence, which was y a repetition of what was givea on Saturday, tho ¢ was closed. The Commissioner, in giving his de cision, said that the prosecution had failea to aubstan- tate the charge of m: on the 24th of Soptember, ‘vhe men on that occasion were ted by their fears that the mate and boatswain would escpe, when the tug came alongsido, to roqcést the captain to mako them mote secure tilt delivered over to the authorities on the charge of having killed one of their number during: the previous row on the 21st. The subsequent escap? of the bea swain showed that the suspicions thoy entertained in the matter wore weil founded. The charge of mu- tinous conduct on the 21st ult., when the cook was beuten, was, however, sustained by the evidence, and upon that charge the prisoners were committed for trial Benjamin F. Petit, keeper of a concert saloon, was yesterday breught before United States Commissioner Osborn, charged with passing three’ bogus greeubacks on arcturned soidier. The latter states that he depos- ited two hundred dollars with Petit for safo keeping, aud tiat when returning Bim this sum Petit gave him the three bogus notes, This the accused denies, assorting that he returned the moncy as be received it, The accused is held for examination. The report of Hon. Murray Hofman, referee appointed to determine the amount of money reccived by Mr. George H. Purser during the ime he occupied the posi- | tion of City Tax Comm/ssioner, was rendered yosterday before Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, at cham- bers, The total of principal and interest is fixed at $4,175 52, which sum the Judge decided to confirm. ‘The case of Anne Lorking versus Frederick I. King was concluded yesterday by Judge Barnard, of the Su- preme Court, signing an order in accordancs with his de- clxion rendered last week, directing the defendant to ox- ecule an assignment to the plaintiff of the drafts olalmed by her, and alleged to have been retained by Mr. King. The October term of the Court of Geueral Scss.ons opened yesterday, Recorder Hoffman presiding. As (hore was not a quorum of Grand Jurors present, an ad- ditional panel was ordered, retcrnable this morning. District Attorney Hall announced that the cases of kd- ward B. Ketchum and Henry 8, Jenkins would be on the calendar next Monday. One thousand petty jurora will be summoned this week in addition to the regular panel ‘ourt, Charles M. Hardy, who was convicted ia of stcaling clothing materals from several drms, ent to the State Prison for three yours and sx tmonths, William Brady, a pickpocket, who stole a watch from a gentleman in the Park, was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for the sare length of time, and Thomas Madigan, who stole a pocketbook from a lady in Broadway, was sent to the State Prison for two y ars and #ix months, Judgment was suspended in the vas: of Charles P. Comer, who accidently caused the death of Patrick Murphy. . : ‘The examination in the case of tho United Seryice Pe troleum Company, which was to bave taken plhce yas- torday at the Jefferson Market Police Court, before Jus. tice Cydge, was further postponed, to be resumed.at three o'clock Unis afternoon, The adjournment was caused by tie abyence of Colonel Mann, im whoso family» d:ath ooenrred. ‘The examination in the ense of Charles Jones, alias Chauncey Johuson, charged with the robbery of twenty- five thousand dollars worth of bonds from the banking oss? of August Belmont & Co., and of sixteca hundred dollars ftom the office of Adams’ Express Company, was resumed and concluded yesterday in the Tombs Police, Court. Considerable testimony wils taken indicating au alibi, which counsel for the accused claimed was proven. The Judge's decision was reserved. The detective police of this city and Philadelphia have ceeded, after much shrewd mancuvring and per- severing iabor, im Minding about fifteen thousand dollars worth of silks stolen on the night of the 18th of Iasi month from the store of Messrs. Louty & Co., in Kighth street, Philadelphia, aud arresting aman named Frank P acock on charge of having committed the robbery. Som + of the goods wore found packed in trunks in the toon Peacock occupied in a hotel in this city, and the remainder were discovored depositod in a tomb in Monu. iment Cometery, Philadelphia, The accused will be sent on to the Quaker City for trial, One of onr Richmond correspondents furnishes some additional very interesting particulars in rd to the alleged robbery on last Friday of the army rma. ter's Departement at Lyachburg, Va, by General J. C. Bricove, It appears that of the stolen funds, reprosont- ing altogether about forty thonsand dollars, all Dut three thousand doliars in gold was worthless paper, which was put in the place whence it was abstracted, as a decoy, after the War Department had learned of the conspiracy to commit the robbery in Mhich It is charged that Gen- oral Briseoe and the satlor Lackey were engaged. The General, who is an Irishman by birth, is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, entered the army at the eom- mencemont of the war asa private in the Fortieth New York rogiment, aad worked his way up to the position of brevet brigatior goneral. He and Lackey are now im- Prisoned in Woshingtom, and the examinat on of the charges against thom will be commenced before a mili- tend | tary commission to day, The fall inspections and parades of our State militia tegiments will take place this month, With the city organizations the ceremony will commence on Thursday of this week, with the First regiment, According to the City Inspector's report, there were 422 deaths in the city during the past week—being a de crease of 85 as.compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 45 Tess than occurred during the corre. sponding woek Inat year. The recapitulation table gives tho following result:Acute diseases, 213; chronic diseases, 169; external cansos, &e., 40. Thore were 278 natives of the United States, 73 of Iveland, 60 of Germany, 7 of England, tof Scotland, @od the balance of variots foreign counteles. Tie stock market was buoyant yout ortay morning, but lower and nsettled in the afternoon. Governments wore heavy. Gold was firm, and ¢losed at M4, ‘There was a fair demand for most kinds of merhan diso yeaterday, and the markets riled buoyant aod fem | a@ a @overal thing, though fhere were some exreptime to the pale, Groceries were Hfimer C@tos was fir with a good demand. Petruleum waa firmer. On ‘Chan broad tulls were in good 1, and gr » firmer Provisions were about Wivisle@y was io Fair de an swe taaud aud yory die TOY Wan NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1865. The Denger: Condition of Eurepe— The Imposing Position of the United States. In Ireland it is high treason (o carry @ ballad in one’s pocket, , Singing the ballad is worse if possible; and for balf a dozen or so of stout fellows to be seon on a moonlight night formed in line, breaking into sections, or wheeling to the right or left, shakes the British empire from one end to the other. Such facts are held to justify wholesale arrests, right and left, the vio- lation of the mails, domiciliary visits of the police and the suspension of a newspaper. All this, too, in a country that we have lately heard of as the asylum of the oppressed, the only home of civil liberty—a country whose press is not yet done with prating over the arbitrary acis of our government, or with its allusions to Mr. Seward’s “little bell.’ This is instructive in two ways. It is instructive, as it shows that there is a possible limit to personal liberty even in that happy land; and instructive as it shows exactly how much confidence the British gov- ernment bas in the stability of its rule in Ire- land. Even yeta part of the English press sneers at what it knows of the Fenians; but if that little, that looks so ridiculous, can endan- ger the British authority, on what sort of a foundation does that authority stand? French papers do not regard the Fonian movement as ridiculous. The Paris Debots considers that the disbandment of our army ne- cossiiates a storm somewhere, and only ques- tions between Mexico and Ireland as to the point at which it may burst. It knows that an army of a million disbanded in Europe would make a revolution, and it considers that they would be also a revolutionary influence here, and expecis to hear of them in Mexico or in Treland. It is probable that it may hear of thom in both places. The Debats is right in regarding the Irish troubles as serious, Conducted as * ge” once were this movement might be as laughubdle as the English papers may please to ‘pic- jure it. But there will be no more risings conducted in the old way. One great example in the world has shown peop’e everywhere how to rebel. The Southern confederacy has tought thai organiastion ig the very spirit of all such attempts. Treland shows that she bas pondered that lesson; and the first that the world hears of hor movement is that she is making soldiers— diligently, quietly and earnestly. There is a practical brain at the bottom; and while Ire- land goes to work in that way is it possible for her to carry on a successfal struggle against Englund? Most assuredly. If she can equip thirty thousand soldiers that is enough. And she can doit. That thirty thousand once in the field will become a hundred thousand by means now actually in Ircland; and England has not the military power to put down a re- bellion sustained by one hundred thousand soldiors. That is the literal truth. England, said the London Times, has not the men for a single campaign conducted on Grant’s princi- ples; and we have secn that a hundred thou- sand men may keep a great Power at bay for more than one campaign. It is quite possible, therefore, for Ireland to maintain this struggle by means now within her borders. We do not believe the imputation of the Lon- don Times that information against the Fenians was furnished by Mr. Seward; but if it was so furnished we presume that Mr. Seward is merely repeating the former réle of Karl Rus- sell, and playing at neutrality. At the proper moment he will doubtless know how to repeat that more important part of the réle in which Russell made his greatest sensation. Mr. Seward has during the war exhibited a wonderful ingenuity. He dis- covered or invented very nice reasons for the relinquishment of the Trent ambassadors, and he discovered good legal reasons for some dozens of not dissimilar occurrences, And perhaps he may use the same ingenuity in find- ing out good reasons to avoid whatever em- barrassment the neutrality laws may cause the Fenians. It will therefore be quite possible for Irishmen to corrupt some of our Ameri- can merchants, just as the rebels corrupted Lindsay and Beresford, and armed vessels may get to sea out of our ports before the govern- ment discovers that they are armed and in- tended to cruise against British commerce. If they do we cannot help it; but we will exprees our regret. And these cruisers will have a splendid time against the British mercantile marine while the whole British navy blockades the Trish coast to keep out arms and Fenians from this side. Irish scrip may perhaps be issued here, and sold in the market as rebel scrip was in London; for it is emi- nently probable that Mr. Seward will find a good reason for recognizing [reland as a hel- ligerent Power. Another event beside the successful rebellion of Ireland is quite within the bounds of proba- bility, and that is the irription of a hundred thousand men from the Soath- ern and Western States across the bor- der into Mexico. The feeling in. those States on the Mexican question is abandantly sufficient to carry such an ent through, and the men could go and ly be missed from the popufation. They would be trained solaies ton, ant it would be easy to predict the result of the sudden appearance in Mexico of a hundred thousand men trained to battle and inured to all the hardships of a soldicr’s life. Thus the Debats might see its anticipated storm rage with sufficient fury at both the pos- sible points. babeine But though all this is possible—though we could break down the Mexienn empire by raising our little finger—and though we could give Fenianism such assistance that its success would be certain, and still do no worse to Eng- land and France than they have done to ns— yot it is our intention to show that we are moved by a very different spirit from that which animates the governments of those countries. We bave a full retribution in our power; but we do not take it, because to do 90 would be to imitate the acts which we have denounced as national outrages. We will keep our national obligations to the least serve peaceful relations with other Powers. dangerous compliertions between the two European governments and our own, and we * see no means 6 avert them butby an inter. national Congrvss that siall pat on a proper basia. as between England, France and the United States, tie affsies of both continenta Ig Skorerany Shwarn a Bertie Sey ?— | The most ex'teordinary chr | the British prose ag sins | that he has even information to Uae govern point, and do what we honorably may to pre- | But even with this spirit we see in the future | } co wok made by | srstary Seward is | ment of England about the Fenian movement. We consider it exceedingly unlikely that the Secretary of State has become a British spy, and we do not believe the allegation of the London newspapers. It is not necessary that any information concerning the Fenians should come from the State Department. All their proceedings in this country are open and above- board. ‘here is no concealment about them. We published the whole history of the move- ment in the columns of the Heraup seme timo ago, and the Fenian “orators” are surely loud- mouthed enough. The London Times laughed at our account of the affuir, and treated it as @ practical joke, It has found out since, how- ever, that there was no joke about it, and it is now as scared as it was facetious a few months ago. The charge against Mr. Seward was probably hinted to some of the attaches of the preas by Lord Palmerston, who always loves a joke, in retaliation for the nice exposé made by the State Department at Washington of the complicity of the English aristocracy with the cause of the rebellion. Y A Tempest in a Glass of Lager Beer. During the thirty yoara that we have spent in establishing a great, powerful and inde- pendent journal we havebeen assailed by various combinations of more or leas strength. Of all these combinations the weakest and the most contemptible ia that composed of some silly managers of this city and led by those two humbugs, the Oily Gammon of the Opera and the Joyce Heth in breeches of the Museum. That ° sociation of men, fo:med to keep down the wages of poor musicians and actors and thus procure cheap artists and cheap art, should presume to attempt to dictate to a journal fike the Herarp, in regard either to its advertisements, its critic ms or its editorials, is roposterous, Still more preposterous is the ides that such an association can cenrpel us to submit to the demands of the managers by the withdrawal ofa portion of our amusement advertisements, We leave out every day, for want of space, advertisements more than equal j to tose controlied by this foolish association; and on the very day that we declined to publish the buucembe of the Museum’ Joyee Heth in breeebes we a!so refused the two thousand dollar advertisement of a better quack doctor, becanse we wanted the columns which the advertisement would occupy to print the news for our rerders. Twenty-ight years ago, when the Herarp wns in its infancy, the brokers of Wall street combined against us on the ground that we veninred to print a brief summary of the mouey market. They withdrew their advertise- ments; they went about denouncing us; all the old fogy journals aided thom and attacked us; but what were the results? Why, we fonght the matter out; we broke down the brokers; the old fogy journals were obliged to print finan- ciat reviews in the very columns that had abused us; and, this failing to save them, they died out, one after the other, and left us master of ihe situation. Are these few silly managers to be compared to the financiers of Wall street? But, in a short time after this battle, we had another with the bench, the bar and the pulpit, because we decided upon publishing the religious anniversary reports and court re- ports, The learned judges hurled the wool- sack at us for our presumption; the eloquent counsel strained their voices and cracked the ceilings in their oratorical denunciations of us, and clergymen put on their gowns, thumped their Bibles and declared that we had no moral right to tell the public what was going on in the courta of law or the religious associations. Again were advertisements with- drawn and the people warned not to pur- chase the only paper that printed the news. But what were the results? Why, the public laughed at the learned judges, the eloquent counsel and the reverend oxhorters, and we kept on printing the law reports and increasing our subscrfption list: Now law reports are a recognized feature of every newspaper, while the judges and lawyers of that day have dropped into obscurity or the grave, and the divines have gone ‘o heaven, we hope, or—as Heory Ward Beecher saya there is no hell—to the next place to that obsolete institution. Are these few silly theatrical managers to be com- pared to a combination that embraced the bench, the har and the pulpit? Some time after this law campaign we offended the whiga by supporting the demo- cratic party, in an independent manner, he- cause we thought it was right. A tremendous slorm ensued. The whigs determined to dc- atroy the Heraip, and combinations were formed to deprive us of all our advertisements, Such an effect did these combinations have that the shipping merchants deserted us, with the exesption of Mr. John J. Boyd and one other, who remained fnithfal to their own business interests. But so soon as one advertiser left 8 dozen others rushed in to take his place, and for every subscriber who was persuaded to withdraw his name we gained a hundred others by the agitation, The results were that we prospered greatly, and coms git of the contest tore powerlul, more popular and more indg- pendent than ever. Can we compare these few silly managers to the great whig party? Or, for that matter, can we compare them with the great democratic party of poor Pierce’s day, with which we had @ similar struggle? It was vaid that the Heraup elected poor Pierce; and, It this Were true, We ure very softy fort ana hope to be forgiven; for he certainly turned ONt very badly, After his election, when we discovered how things were going, we criti- cised him very severely, and demanded, in the name of the people, that his policy should be | changed. Our course aroused a terrible amount | of indignation among the democrats. They, like | the whigs, resolved to put us down. They started other papers here and made the most desperate efforts to draw off our advertise. | ments. More than this, Jeff. Davis, who was | then Secretary of War, wrote a very bitter | letter against us, and denounced us all over which hope to profit by the affair and therefore hound on the managers, cannot make it appear anything else than an endeavor on the part of @ few show people to browbeat a public journal from which they have derived a large portion of their support. For twenty years we labored to establish opera here upon a popular and decent footing, and the Oily Gammon who now conducts it owes every cent he has in the world to our direct influence. We well remember how he used to come to this office, trying to embrace us in his hypocritical style, and orying, “Give us another article; we want a full house to- morrow night. Only another article!” In our dealings with the theatres we have been, if anything, too kind, too lenient, too charitable, good naturedly closing our eyes to their faults upon the promises of the managers that they would be soon corrected, and treating both managers and actors with extreme generosity, knowing how frail their reputations were and how easily they could be crushed at a blow. Thanks to the public, we can afford to laugh at the impotent efforts of these ingrates to injure us; for our benevolent disposition will not suffer us to be seriously angry at gnats that buzz but cannot sting. This tempest in a tea- pot—or rather in a glass of lager beer—may serve for a while to amuse our readers; but it will soon blow over, and then the question will arise, not in regard to the withdrawal of the advertisements, but whether or not we shall allow them to be returned. In the meantime the patrons of this journal will not be deprived of the liberal end independent criticisms upon amusements generally to which they have be- come accustomed, nor of any information in regard to the opera and the theatres which we dcem of interest to the public. The withdrawal of the advertisements is, therefore, of no conse quence to the public or to us, and the jackals of the other papers are welcome to divide among them the stuff that we disdain, Coxrusion AMoNa THES Pourricraxs—Smu- NESS OF THB Party Journats.—The politicians and the perty journals appear to be com- pletely befogged as to their course in the present canvass. The political affairs of the country are in such a condition, and the plat- forms in this State so near alike, that the party which wins this fall has the prestige for the future. Notwithstanding (hig fact nearly all the party journals are so silent that a stranger, in perusing them, would not imagine that there was to be an clection one month henee, The Tribune has not a word to offer on the campaign, but devotes its editorial columna to “Turning Over a New Leaf” down in South Carolina, “Not Much of a Shower” and “New Utilities.” The Times, which pretends to be the leading organ of the new régime inaugurated at Syracuse, is also dumb on the canvass, and is devoted to the philosophy of “Chills and Fever in an Keonomical Point of View.” What that has todo with the approaching ‘election ismore than we are able to see, unless Ray- miond reads in the signs of the times a disas- irous defeat at the polls, which will leave the whole party shaking out in the cold, and de- sires to place the rank and file ina condition that will enable them to shake philosophically. The twenty-five thousand dollar News is trying to curry favor with the theatrical managers by jabbering about the Heracp. Thus it is with the party organs on all sides. Governor Fen- ton is busy smelling around to see if he cannot find corruption among our city officials, which would need no great effort if his own record was cleanor. The politicians and stump speak- ers, with the exception of John Van Buren and one or two others on the democratic side, are afraid to show themselves. The result of all this is that political affairs are in a decided muddle, with a fair prospect that the demo- cratic party, now that it has become revivilicd, will come out ahead in the race. Rxat. Postion of Axprew Jouxsox.—We notice that some of the politicians are going around with the staiement that the President has declared in favor of the democratic ticket in this State, and has directed that the patron- age of the Cusiom House and other govern- meat offices shail not be used to aid the re- publicans, Itis claimed that this much was accomplished by Dean Richmcnd on his recent visit to Washingion. The truth of all tlis is simply that President Johnson informed Dean Rict mond that he is devoting his efforts exciu- sively to the restoration of the Unton, and bed no time to watch the squabbles of the parties. His reorganization policy wos well detined, and he intended to stand by it at.all bazards, He certainly would be gratified to. have all partics support it, and aid in restoring the Uvion in all its glory. But Mr. Johnson did not even allude to patronage. Richmond, no doubt, had considerable to say on that point, to all of which the President, we presume, attentively listened without offering a word in reply. It is impossible to tell what the reault will be in the State, or what may be done hereafter. Cul ene thing may be taken as settled—Andy Johnson is not another Jobn Tyler. If either of the political parties desire to obtain the benefit of prestige before the people they have got to » owe Support. Now that both parties stand essentiaily on the same plaiform, (bat party which is the most efficient and shows itself the most earnest in support of his policy will win the race. This, in the end, will lead directly to the nomination and support of Mr. Johnson for the Presidency in 1868. The party wach does that will rule the country for the nent Garter TH BINARY. = Moc Apo Asovt Norui’—Joyce Heth, in breeches, and Oily Gammon, of ‘he Opera, are making a great fuss because their *dvertise- ments were exehided from the Henarp, On the very anme day that their advertisements— which are only worth a few dollars—were left out, the advertisement of a much better quack doctor than either of them was also refused, at the rate of two thousand dollars for one inser- tion, because we have not room enough for the | daily news which our readers require. the country. Well, the Hxratp never flinched; the opposition papers soon expired, and: an- | other campaign had been won by the people for our side, Now poor Pierce is hiding among the hills of New Hampshire, and Jeff. Davis occupies a dungeon in Fortress Monroe, living Wpon government rations, partly at our ‘ex. pense, since we pay heavy taxes. We have asked whether the few silly mana. | gers belonging to the association tor the en- couragoment of cheap fiddlers and cheap adtora can be Compared to the immense com- binations with which we have formerly had to contend, and we answer No. In all of the | other tends against us there was some dignity, but ia (his (here is none. ‘The other vagers. Personal Intelligences. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, the erlehrated delinen- tors of Ish and Yankee character, commence their fall and winter engagements at Mrs. Jobn Drew's Arch street theatre, Philadetpho, on the 16th inst, Mr, Thadd as 1. ttewer, the well known journalist and literateur, will act we Gheie agent, alone! George W. Palmer, two years connected with the War Department a+ Washington, afterwards Provost Marshal for the Thirty-frst Con; I district inti tho clove of the war, wnd recently ‘Commiary General, wae yore ” Com! General of the State of New York, m place of General Chambariin, rowigned. Mr. Palmer is quite a young man, and was a delegate to the recent State Convention, Our Poris correspondent, writing on the 19th ult., ways: Mr. Jotah P. Benjamin, who arrivod tn Paris inst week, is at present the guest of Mr. Slidell, Jake Thompson stops at the Grand Hotel Governor Andrew an ‘hk College , Oct 2, 1866. ‘The To paerip stitew that Govcruoe Andrew dectines the Presdengy Of An}ooh Collar eee Further Details of the Affair—Who the Several Parties Are—Sketch of General Briscoe, dic. OUR RICHMOND CORRERPONDRNCE. | Ricamon, Va., Sept. 30, 1865. The military authoriues and citizeus bere were pro- foundly astonished this morning upon the announcement of the arrest of Brevet Brigadier General J. C, Briscoe for robbery, having been caught in the act, and placed under arrest within six minutes, at Lynehburg, the scene of the affair. General Briscoe passed through Gordons- ville om last evening's train, and {4 now doubtless com- mitted to the Old Capitol Prison to await trial, — tors were leavii poor, fo. there was no need of his doing Upon ii tring bi etre avoid’ it, the sutler told marae ho inn brother of the Canal of Now+Yoris of that name, that his safe could be by anofMcer of high rank, whom he could and would sonny ee pre ceeds could be divided between the three parties, - Lac! asked Alberger how much aonad, Disca, wae ip, the on an average, and was told } the sum of, thou- sand dollars, Alberger pretended to second of the sutlor heartily, and agreed to enter it He asked who the officer was that would overt act of the robbery, and was:told thas: J.C. Briscoe, with the additional General would undoubtedly be the president of the milita- ry commission to investigate the affair, and that by this means all partios would escape both immediate and final detection. Captain Alberger at once laid all the facts before the War Department, and was duly to co- with the and atthe samo ions of the vil- iains. Briscoe was to rob the safe at aix o’olock last night, by means of false keys, which Lackey, the in- criminated sutler, had caused to be made in Philadelphia; but the sudden arrival of General George 8. Dodge in Lynchburg, upon his tour of inspection of the Quartor- master’s Department, determined the guilty parties to expedite their movements epee | at ove o'clock yesterday afternoon Briscoe entered ‘the room contain- ing, the safc, and, by means of the false koys, fclon- io. sly abstracted therefrom. the packages containing the funds, which subsequently .proved to be guy. money, com ‘of con! notes to the amount of some er thousand dollars—save some threo thousand dol- larsin he belonging to the civil fand of Major General N. M. Curtis, commanding the district. Briscoe, whose movements were being duty watched, bore the Bpokagee containing the money to room in an adjacent part of ho same building; immediately after which hewas tap- ped upon the shoulder by General Curtis, who said to him, “eeneral B T place you under t, agd arn you over t for search and safe kospiny which act will jose to you ths reason of the arrest." General Curtis, much exercised with emotion, thereupon loft the room, but afterwards had a short open inter- view with th used, who desired to state in full his versi wi the melancholy transaction. General Curtis declined this, and directed that the guilty parties sould be at once sent under guard in .rons to Washington, where they arrived this morning. | Lackey, the unprincipled sutler and camp follower, was not present in Lynchburg on the immediate oocasion of the Tobbery, but was arr_stedon his way to the town from tho North, where he bad been to procure additional facilities with which to make the undertaking # sure thing. ANTECEDENTS OF GEN! BRISOOR. General Briscoe is an Irishman by birth, and a graduate ef Trinity College, Dublin. He entered the war early in 1861 as a private soldier in the Fortieth New York Vol- unteers, and rose by merit as a soldier CJ ihe fegkes rants from which he has ing nod ruth: vssly and ignobly . descended. le was Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Penn- sylvacia ~ Volunteers, which was mustered out of this department some weeks since, Goneral Bris- coe having seven days leave of absence 1) which to ac- company the command home and partioipate in ova- tions tendered to'it, He was afterwards made colonel of another remment, and assigned to duty in accordance with his brevet rank. In ap} the accused is tall and slim, not of a really bad cast of count » and doporta himself with, great. soldierly bearing.. I know im well in the old Army of the James, where he was famous for h:s skill, daring and bravery asan officer, and the scattered members of which will deeply deplore his sudden fall from a dazzling position, won after four years of unromittfng toil aad gallantry, General Briscoe to be Tried by Military Commission To-day. ; ‘Wasuiratox, Oot. %, 1865 The Lynchburg safe robbing oase will come up before the military commission of which General Green is Pre- sidont to-morrow. The evidence against Briscoe is of course conclusive; yet he has been studying@ copy of the charges to-day with a view to stubborn defence. An error in Che despatch yesterday located bim in 74 One was Hund-od and Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers. brevetted from the One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pena- aylvania, Onvuric Tomatrx,—Last night there was presented at this theatge the double novelty of a new play and a new actress. Lolah, a arama of novel construction oxtra- ordinary effect, was the name of the one and Miss Rush- ton the name of the othor. There was oaturally a full house, The play bad been loudly trampeted for its ex- traordinary effecta; the artist had been es loudly an- nounced, and both fell tolerably flat, according to the natural law for such cases made and provided. should be open tothe charge of compounding 9 felony {f wo did not freely and fully declare that the play ts atrocious— hopetossly bad in all respects—of the kind that neither the cods in the third tier nor the men in the ofchestra stalls can mit, Where it ini 8 rons it aed Fs leat from’ the Book; where it intends to be witty it. the d'Hcate felicities of Mother act ia in the style of the old Chatham street inelndes one murder and one attempt drunken captain on a lady passenger. “thritiing inetdent” the captain threatens to tt lady's child into the sea if she does. not \ hs wi ") She does not comply, and he through the head. and lady and child fall i together. In tha secon act (fourteen years later) wo seo the ch Id a Lolah onan island, where shets wor- shipped a® a goddess by eighteen Indians. . Thigact, the scenery aside, ta dead waste of dulness—a auc- cession of insipid specches, It is we that ten could be induced to loarm it heart. In the third = act — comes, of the Tetribution, Lolah is restored: to'civilization her island, and her hand is sought by an Rogliah man, who proves to be the blondthirsty of the first act, Tt is aid that Lolaly kilt hit in an new xtvla, Wo-did not stay to.s00, but wo it the story. Having soen:the first and second acts we give it as our deliberate jademont that no man, noteven a prize drama- t conta inecnt anything wo bad at to be out io the'thind act. Mies Raghfon: walled thy “the play with commendable case, and did no more. id noe exhibit any evidence of perticular power or actress, She ts large im porson, inelined to and hasan pleasing face. The sconory is remarkably fine, but excites inevitable regret that any ent shotid have seeh an utter want of taste as to cd much good pa.nt on such a play. Stan Tiearee.--Doring the past three months re- peated aunouncements were made in the Gormaa papers to the @tfet that a cortain Miss Ottilie Genée would s.0n cross the Atlantic Ocean and make hor début at the Stadt theatre, tho said “Miss'’ Genée being represented as an actress of Immense talent. It was stated that Misa Gence bad established a reputation of being an ominent comedienne throughout Europe, that she could not be excelled as a comic actress, and as such had appeared with Immense not only in thy principal German a fae, fembuss, Prague, &c.—but also in St. pean ‘and Paris, where she is sad to have: in tho French vaudeville with equal succoss as in Gor- man comedy, This actress appeared last aight at the, Stadt theatre, which on (ys gegasion, , wae crowded tp Oty . Tt does not hab Miss @tnee las bad the opportunity to make ber déws at any of the royal theatres or at the quctire Imperial. aie ce has been very successful to @ cortain roe deal of favor among the prey ert cot it wa It is probable that she will be equally successful in this city among the masses, as the formance of last jodi |, A Husband of Fitteen m vat A Li ae hah ill a ern re bir h entertains her liar style of comie acti bow “hoe reue"ot Huichelou,. che husband, io ‘aeisa’ wan vengenee in @ rather — style. Hor figure is rather too diminutive for personation of in another ean ass Somer eee Ton jerous scenes ani actr®es Miss Gene. has ‘own style of acting. ‘ginal, but mot always « trne a is Hootey's Mivetrsua,—Since the oponing of Mr. Hooley's new Opera House in Brooklyn it has been doing ‘a business that would surprise most of our establishments in the same line in New York. Im the four weeks com- mencing the 4th of September and ending on Saturday last the acgrogate receipts were $9,941, bop — ever takon in any minstrel hall outside of San Francisco. and is ip e 7 ‘snccess attending the experiment shows ea eadaree only spirit and enterprise to detelop the resources iyn in the amugement line, Awamican Steamer Live to Bona So aNd France. — The well known steamships Argo and Fulton, of the ‘only American steamship line which maintained commu- nication with England and France, having been thor. oughly refitted, are about to resume the servies in which they have won so mach popalarity under the United . The veasels will sail from pier No. 37 North ten het York, for Hi calling at Southampton— the Hest, the Arago, on the 25th of November. Tho pros- ent # a very favorable moment for the resumption of this national fine of stoamors, and wo entertain ao doubt but that it will be liberally 3 ae)